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   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017032200514247372-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > it's what happens to be on the list for first set of upcoming gig.   
      
   But who picks the tunes?   
      
   > yes, but not in ages.   
      
   Mister Bojangles has a nice flow and tells an interesting story, and for   
   some reason isn't performed much, so I'd think it'd be well received.   
      
   > I know most of those, not all.  Over time we've played them.   
      
   Over time, I think just about every band played most of those tunes on our   
   setlist ;)   
      
   > It was written by a friend who is ( was ) a little older than us. So   
   > that's probably why is sounds that way.   
      
   A good song has nothing to do with its age ;)   
      
   > You've heard them all over.  Just not something you'd realize took special   
   > hardware.  One would be to play a triad, B, D above it, G above that. Then   
   > while all three notes are ringing, bend the D to an E then back to a D,   
   > leaving the other two notes alone.   
      
   I tried changing those notes of the G major triad, on the piano and somehow   
   can't imagine a pedal steel being used very much to do that - not dramatic   
   enough ;)   
      
   > Like I said, hard to do on a regular guitar,  impossible on a normal   
   > keyboard.   
      
   A keyboard would have to be able to individually pitch bend each   
   note...that'd be cool!   
   Perhaps a setup which uses the sostenuto pedal  function for those keyboards   
   that have it, might be the way.   
      
   > Use to sing Crocodile rock, and that one about Daniel my brother, then he   
   > went all political and we dropped his material.   
      
   I've never done Crocodile Rock, but have done Daniel, and I'm a big Elton   
   John fan, and would be most honored to meet, and particularly to play with   
   him...but if he ever showed me Any anti Freedom sentiments, I'd tell him, or   
   any other for that matter, right to their faces, that they're excellent at   
   Music and should stick to that because when it comes to politics, THEY   
   SUCK!!!   
      
   > I'm not supporting artists who support political parties that want me   
   > dead.   
      
   I Won't support ANYone who want's my Freedom taken away!!!   
      
   > Even if their support is all feel good crap and they are basically too   
   > stupid to know what the libs end game is.  Poisoning young minds, that's   
   > what one of my lib friends thinks religion does. I think his favorite   
   > politicians actually want people like me dead.   
      
   That's been going on for so long now, all kinds of  poisoning, and the   
   religion that does it the  most is the secular Crackpot Religion of the   
   so-called 'entertainment' 'industry', also part of the Ministry of   
   Propaganda Controlled Media.   
      
   > I've been criticized because of that, so I generally don't.  Unless maybe   
   > in exceptional circumstances.  Either what I have to say stands on it's   
   > own or it doesn't. Who I know or have met or am related too shouldn't come   
   > into most discussions.   
      
   I've got an entire lifetime of experience of not giving a damn about what   
   people 'think' and instead doing my own thinking, which means that I do my   
   own thing ;)   
      
   > A few more details. The Pitot tube had been replaced with a different   
   > model. Heat wasn't wired up because the plane wasn't  certified to fly in   
   > clouds or rain.  I assume major systems weren't moisture proofed. It was a   
   > test bed, after all.  So since the plane wasn't to be in icing conditions,   
   > the mechanics didn't connect the Pitot heater.   
      
   Certainly the possibility of such conditions occurring was known, yet   
   Nothing was done about it, and that's STUPID!   
      
   > Then they did fly it into some light clouds that day.  Pilot saw erratic   
   > airspeed, switched on the Pitot heat. No one told him it wasn't connected.   
   > Some in ground control knew, didn't speak up OVER THE RADIO, although they   
   > did talk about it among themselves.   
      
   Worse than that - no one put an OVERRIDE capability into the computer!   
      
   > Let's see, what else happened. Oh, yeah, the chase plane wasn't hearing   
   > the X31 pilot talk about the Pitot or the erratic airspeed because his   
   > radios were acting up and he couldn't hear the X31 pilot.   
      
   I wonder if the radios were computer controlled too ;)   
      
   > Also, the X-31 had two override modes on the flight control computer, one   
   > of which would have given him total control. A simple switch he could   
   > flip.  He didn't flip it because he didn't know the Pitot was iced up.   
      
   So there was an Override function!   
   Sounds like the pilot wasn't any smarter than the computer!   
   As soon as the  plane didn't respond right, the very first thing should have   
   been to bypass the computer!   
   But of course, it must be remembered that this happened in 1995, and the   
   Dumbing-Down process was well under way.   
   Maybe they should have picked a pilot that made a Regular Practice of   
   THINKING, because if I was flying it, the FIRST thing I'd do is test the   
   computer bypass and then at the very beginning of any problems, not resort   
   to bypassing it!   
      
   > Once the plane flipped up, he bailed. That was protocol.   
      
   It's a lot easier, and far quicker, to flip the switch that bypasses the   
   computer...and the plane might have been saved, assuming there weren't More   
   Stupid things to get in the way of it.   
      
   > That makes sense. We know NOW what went wrong, but at the time they   
   > didn't. So bail out. Who knew all it would have took was to flip a switch   
   > to gain control back. In that instant, for all he knew the tail had broken   
   > off.   
      
   That was the truly Stupid part, not knowing, much less actually Training in   
   flipping a simple switch which could have saved everything...but then again,   
   starting with the Dumbed Down '80s, the Designed NON-Thinking Stupidity had   
   been in place for about 10 years!   
   It didn't make any sense to me! You do what you can First, and then, Only   
   when nothing more can be done, punch out, leaving a multimillion dollar   
   project to crash.   
      
   > The take away for me is that the computer system didn't fail.  It didn't   
   > change the Pitot and leave the heat disconnected.   
      
   The take away was:   
   The RETARD, so-called 'engineers', who forgot that Garbage in=Garbage out.   
   That was Stupid.   
   Then they didn't hook up the heat for the pitot system, which is ALWAYS   
   Important...particularly at higher altitudes!   
   That was Stupid.   
   The pitot heat system should have had an indicator to let the pilot know   
   wether or not it was working, but apparently didn't.   
   That was Stupid.   
   They Obviously didn't brief the pilot, at least not Sufficiently, about the   
   condition of the aircraft.   
   That was Stupid.   
   The pilot didn't have the Presence of Mind to ASK for ALL the details   
   regarding the condition of the aircraft.   
   That was Stupid.   
      
   And who knows how many other Stupid things resulted in this 'comedy of   
   errors', which could have easily ended up being a Tragedy of Stupid   
   errors!!!   
   I'm an engineer because I'm always thinking, and I've put a Lot more   
      
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