I'm lucky, I have 2 excuses:
1. I'm DF'd and have NO desire to go
2. I have a gig that night with my band
bluesbreaker59
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Memorial Dates 2008 and 2009
by WTWizard inthis year, the crapmorial will be after sundown on march 22, a saturday (easter is march 23).
there will, in fact, be a drive to hound people into attending.
and i found from the december 2007 kingdumb misery that the 2009 crapmorial is april 9, a thursday night.. not that i recommend attending either one of those wastefests.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Your Favorite Songs and Albums from Him ?
by flipper inhello folks.
one of my all time favorite blues guitarists - stevie ray !
was wondering how many stevie ray fans there are out there ?
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bluesbreaker59
I love Stevie, I dislike the SRV imitators that think he's the only blues player that mattered in the last 60 years. Have any of these guys ever heard a Freddy King album??? Talk about a head cutter, now THAT GUY was BAD ASS!!!! And if it wasn't for him and Albert King, SRV, wouldn't have been able to do his thang...
Also listen to Jimmie Vaughan, that guy has ice in his veins he's so cool. Totally different style than SRV, but if you listen to early T-Birds stuff, you'll hear who Stevie copied his neck pickup tone from, the song would be "Full Time Lover", and Jimmie had that tone, and then little brother made a career off that same tone.
Favorite SRV song:
The Sky is Crying (written by Elmore James)
The emotion he gets on this song, is nothing short of amazing. I almost hate to play SRV songs at my gigs, because I never want to be thought of as an imitator, I respect the man so much I prefer to just listen to his songs, but I will do "The Sky is Crying" occasionally, just because I know people love Stevie, and he was THE REASON I started listening to blues and discovering all the cool players that I listen to now.
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New lease on life, and new thinking on matters...
by bluesbreaker59 inok, so i haven't been around much lately, i've been focusing on "real life" instead.
i've totally came to terms with my df'ing over the past year.
its easier for me to see dubs than it was.
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bluesbreaker59
Gopher, when the weather gets nice man, you, me and Dave have to get together and grab some beers, BBQ or something??? Got it??? Good...
This place helped me so much when I first left. Now I just don't care, about Dubs, what they're doing, what they're thinking, etc. However I did find out that the damn District Convention is going to be right in the heart of downtown Des Moines this summer, which DOES NOT make me happy. But thankfully I'll be too busy playing my guitar, hanging with friends on the lake, and being with my sweetheart.
I really don't deserve her, she is truly a very special, wonderful woman. She's constantly supportive of me, always doing sweet thoughtful things for me, we laugh together, smile together, cry together, talk about everything, and really focus on our goals, and how our decisions today impact our future(s). This is truly the relationship I've always craved. Usually by this point if someone hung around me this much (almost every night) I'd be running for the hills, if someone tried to cuddle and kiss me this much I'd send them home. With her, I just want her that much more. Its very strange for me.
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New lease on life, and new thinking on matters...
by bluesbreaker59 inok, so i haven't been around much lately, i've been focusing on "real life" instead.
i've totally came to terms with my df'ing over the past year.
its easier for me to see dubs than it was.
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bluesbreaker59
Ok, so I haven't been around much lately, I've been focusing on "real life" instead. I've totally came to terms with my DF'ing over the past year. Its easier for me to see Dubs than it was. Lots of them I pity, for holding on to something because they so badly fear the outside world.
I'm viewing my decision to leave as nothing more than being asked to leave a concert or ballgame, I broke a rule so they asked me to leave their little group, not mad, or anything, just my ideas and theirs weren't the same anymore.
Really, the people you "met" at the hall, or were "friends" with, are most of them REALLY people that you would CHOOSE to hang out with if you weren't forced to??? I'm gonna say 85% of the people I knew or met, I would normally not hang out with, except for the RARE exception, that was also living a double life like me. Most of these people were THE nerds of society, the outcasts, the socially retarted, the power hungry, those that were a little "off", those that needed someone else to tell them how to live. Most of the time I loathed who I was in the congo with. Do I miss them??? NO!!!! Some of my own family, I don't even miss, my grandma is a religious fanatic weirdo, my aunt and uncle are two of the most weak minded people I've ever met. I have a father that I love, my aunt and her little kids that I dearly miss, and a little cousin, that was like a little sister to me. The rest of them, I don't miss, and frankly I never really was "buddies" with. I mean I'd hang with em, I'd drink with em, I'd hear them tell their "bad" stories, but for the most part I kept my mouth shut, and usually thought most of em were real, genuine weirdos and fanatics. There are weird regular folks too, but for the most part I've always found them WAY MORE down to earth and likeable.
My father is talking to me now on a regular basis, we don't "hang out", but I don't know that its totally necessary either. We never discuss religious matters, just talk like we always did. I wished he'd come over for a BBQ or something this spring, but I know that won't happen as long as my stepmom is in the picture, and I don't wish to interfere with them either.
My girlfriend and I are getting pretty serious too, and I started going to services with her on Sunday. I enjoy it because its a "Taize" service at the Presbyterian church, which gives you time for reflection, and using your OWN brain to consider the material. I greatly enjoy the small group and the leaders of the service too. No pressure, just lots of reminders of god's love for us.
I've never had a woman in my life like this, we didn't start all the best, you'll have to read on my other posts to find out that. But we are doing wonderfully, we can't get enough of each other, we're really falling in love with each other and its a beautiful thing. I never thought I would be this lucky, I thank my lucky stars everyday that she is in my life. We've actually been talking about marriage too, which at one point I had totally swore off.
My blues band is getting busy again, and are coming up on our really busy time of the year. Last year in the spring and summer we played ALOT, and it was great to entertain all those people. I'll be playing on at least one cd this spring too, I'm playing all the guitar parts on a young ladies cd.
I lost about 15 lbs over the winter, and need to keep going, my total goal is 60 lbs, and I need to start concentrating on that again. I gave up cigar smoking last year, and have cut my drinking down drastically too (not that it was an issue). This year I'm also planning to go back to college to finish my 4 year degree in Finance.
So I guess, all I'm saying is when they kick you out of their little cult, just know their is a real life out there, real friends to have, a real soul mate, real goals to work towards. I still believe in a higher power, but I believe in a forgiving, loving, caring god, not some angry sky tyrant that you can never live up to their expectations. I just feel very at peace with my decisions these days, and very happy with who I am, no bitterness, no anger or hate, just love and happiness.
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Did you have a dominant family in your congro??
by karter inwas there one family that ruled your congro?.
was it referred to as brother so and so congro?.
if you married into that family were you automatically made an m's or elder?.
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bluesbreaker59
Oh yeah....
There was also a family that had a lot of power. The family tree to the "former family":
Dad - PO (warm, loving, genuine man; I do miss him, he passed years ago)
mom - pioneer and general unpleasant woman
4 - 5 kids if memory serves - both boys Elders in other halls, both daughters stayed in our hall and married, their hubbies were elders
the 2 Boys had tons of kids, most are all out of the religion, there is one kiss ass kid still in, and I believe he's in Bethel
One daughter had a cheating husband that was DF'd and he could never get back in
Other daughter is a huge gossip, her and her husband are long gone
This family gradually died off, moved, etc., and finally a new family replaced them, and my family moved halls to where WE had more family. I went to a hall where my dad and grandpa were elders, my grandma was an aux-pioneer, and I was thought to be one of the best theocratic young men in a long time. I was untouchable in this hall. People left me alone and never questioned me, until I got married, then I became inactive, then I changed halls to a different one, then got divorced and went back to my "family hall". There were 2 large families in the hall, my family (and our friends) and the other family, as soon as I moved back I was again untouchable. It was great for a long time, but I knew since college that I didn't believe it anymore. So eventually I came to terms with the fact that sooner or later I would be DF'd, and last March I finally got it.
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who else joined this site in May 2007
by WT=watchtrouble injust interested to see who joined around the same time as me.
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bluesbreaker59
Me, I read for a little while before I joined and posted. Even now, I read more than anything. I had some anger to get out, and some frustrations to vent and this board helped me do both. These days, I'm kinda in the "moving on" phase. I'm not angry anymore, I'm at peace with myself and my life, some family is starting to speak to me again, I have the woman of my dreams by my side now, I have a great blues band that keeps me really busy, and I'm searching for other means of spirituality.
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It's the little things.
by rolling rock inwhat little things really make you happy?
new socks.
sleeping in my own bed, after i have been working on the road for 6 weeks.
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bluesbreaker59
Spooning with my girlfriend, cuddling by a fire listening to great jazz music or crooners, fresh guitar strings, old tweed tube amps, smelling old guitars, having a clean / organized house, discovering great music for the first time, cooking for others
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Favorite Storytelling Musicians - Harry Chapin, Jim Croce - Who's yours?
by AWAKE&WATCHING ini love john lennon, simon and garfunkle, harry chapin, jim croce and many more.
i love songs that make you imagine real people with real lives.. taxi - harry chapin(genius).
dedicated to noni1974 our forum cabbie .
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bluesbreaker59
Bob Dylan, Greg Brown, Bo Ramsey, David Zollo, Pieta Brown, BeJae Fleming, Marc Ford, The Stones
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Troubling past few weeks...
by bluesbreaker59 ini've been df'd since march of 2007, haven't been to a kingdom hall since memorial, and haven't been to a regular meeting since about nov. 2006. .
my dad's whole side of the family cut me off, my one aunt and my grandma did completely.
my other aunt and my dad are having a harder time with it.
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bluesbreaker59
Oh I've already read C of C, and even exchanged emails with Mr. Franz. That was my summer project. Dad won't be doing anything drastic, at least until my "ultra dub" grandma passes, but she's 73, and not getting any younger...
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Troubling past few weeks...
by bluesbreaker59 ini've been df'd since march of 2007, haven't been to a kingdom hall since memorial, and haven't been to a regular meeting since about nov. 2006. .
my dad's whole side of the family cut me off, my one aunt and my grandma did completely.
my other aunt and my dad are having a harder time with it.
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bluesbreaker59
Ah yes, Mom has been DF'd since I was 5. Her and I have a better relationship now than we ever have, and I never cut her off or limited my association once. Dad knows why I was DF'd, and yeah it was sex, actually I left for my then girlfriend, no surprise there, as the elders wouldn't free me from my ex after 2 years, and her cheating on me.