Some of us take a two hour nap every day… without the 3 our gig

I've found that nowadays it takes a week to do jobs that used to take a day.   Maybe that 3-hour gig would have taken 25.9 minutes when you were young(er)??      

When hair starts gorwin in funny places... :0/

When my injuries (shoulder and foot) take longer to heal than in the past.

when any yard work looks like a mountain... and anything with a chainsaw is near impossible...

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Originally posted by BG Banjo

You know that you're getting old when you do a three-hour gig on Sunday afternoon and go home feeling pretty proud of yourself that at your age you can still play a whole three hours standing up, then Monday afternoon you take a two-hour nap because your legs are so tired you can hardly walk.

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I'm really impressed if you were holding a heavy bluegrass banjo! 

Rick

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Originally posted by rvrose

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Originally posted by BG Banjo

You know that you're getting old when you do a three-hour gig on Sunday afternoon and go home feeling pretty proud of yourself that at your age you can still play a whole three hours standing up, then Monday afternoon you take a two-hour nap because your legs are so tired you can hardly walk.

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I'm really impressed if you were holding a heavy bluegrass banjo! 

Rick

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That would be something, but it was a Gold Tone Carlin12 open open back with a pickup plugged in. I bought that banjo to learn clawhammer, but when I got into that band and went to the dark side, I put the pickup in the Carlin12 just for that reason. I still felt it the next day.

wife and me putting siding on the garage she had heat stroke at 73 not much fun

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Originally posted by TB327

wife and me putting siding on the garage she had heat stroke at 73 not much fun

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I had that happen to me mowing the lawn six or seven years ago. I passed out and they took me to ER. Ever since then my tolerance to heat is nonexistent.  My body doesn't regulate itself anymore. 

... what at a jam session you call out Foggy Mountain Breakdown and then kick off Rocky Top instead ... geesh ... 

To me I judge the downfall of the world and my falling into massive antiquity and senile idiocy by the Hershey Bar. I am 79. When I was in the first grade the amount of saving I acrued from doing things like helping an "aged" neighbor who was about 15 years younger than I am now with little chores would solidly have one goal, to acrue enough cash for a Hershey Bar with almonds, if possible of the 5 cent size, and on days of severe financial application and other chore money left, the massive 10 cent variety, an opulent luxury, Today I sneak off one of those bars when I go to the Super Market unaccompanied, and those bars cost several dollars each. No wonder today's youth are accused to turn to crime.

As an old time player who started out in the 60s when everyone played SONGS, is bizarre at our local jam that no one else except by dint of my years of calling them knows the major songs of his GREATNESS Charlie Poole. If I call the Baltimore fire and I have not taught that song recently, folks say what. Even if I call John Henry, perhaps one of the most collected and recored old time and bluegrass tunes in history, people stare.

Too many violinists who think music is wordless and obscure fiddle tunes.

At last I am an old grouch