What are you listening to in the garage?

Wife??????

 

The last few days it's been Belinda Carlisle, House Of Schock and Van Halen exclusively.

Can't explain it, but I do my best work when either Babe (Carlisle), House Of Schock or L7 are playing...got most of my engine and light harness made up and installed this afternoon while running through the "Runaway Horses" and "Belinda" album a couple times!

 

The real king!

 

My deal is that if I play anything I care about, it distracts me from what I'm doing out there. I have the garage radio set on the local NPR station that just plays classical music after 6:00 pm. Yeah, it's close to elevator music, but it's BACKGROUND music that doesn't make me want to stand up and join in. Johnny Cash and Warren Zevon get me concentrating too much on THEM, and not the project at hand.
Besides, it gives my wife and me the perfect out to tell the neighbors "we listen to NPR".

 

in the 5 pot cdplayer-

grateful dead '73 bootleg
grateful dead '76 bootleg
distillers (first album)
nick cave (henry's dream)
jerry garcia band - legion bootleg '75
grateful dead '77 bootleg

 

The Mummies!

 

NPR with click and clack the tappet brothers ,,,,,,,,,,, Norah Jones ,,,,,,,,,,, and Stevie Ray Vaughn playing tin pan alley and others YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS


Geo

 

Cannibal Corpse, Grim Reaper, Celtic Frost, Raw Deal, Chokehold.

 

nine pound hammer
midnight evils
les dirty frnchmen
the sonics
nashville pussy
zeke
hank iii
waylon
the hard feelings
the dirtbombs
ramones
the pegans
and the newbombturks

 

Can't remember if I posted on this thread? hmm. oh well.


I very, A LOT.

Listen to some country, southern rock, punk, metal, etc.
Drive By Truckers
Drag the River
Cash, Hank Williams, etc
Fury 66
800 Octane
Bullets and Octane
Lonely Kings
Chop Tops
Devil Makes 3
Hot Water Music
Fire Sermon
Murder City Devils
Danzig
Misfits
the Sick
Rage Against the Machine
Alkaline Trio
Black Sabbath
Zepplin
Tom Petty
OneManArmy
Social D
STP
Against Me

I'll even pick up the pace with stuff like
Throwdown
the Bled
Evergreen Terrace
SOIA

etc.

 

duprees, skyliners, turbans, bonnevilles, jive five, jive bombers, coasters, five royals, lots of harptones, avons, jesters, danny & the juniors...& whatever doowop i can get my dirty lil paws on.

 

Robert Plant

Def Leopard

ZZ Top

Van Halen

and my panhead

 

SRV.

Hendrix.

Buddy Guy. (Live at The Checkerboard Lounge)

 

The sound of rusting metal.

 

Putting in a little overtime at work today, rocking out to this classic(al)

 

"I'll follow you in my pickup truck"

Paper Tulips

 

"The garage is waiting"?

Paper Tulips

 

My daughter is an avid second hand store shopper, and she knew what daddy wanted for father's day. Some of these are still in plastic.

 

Fat Man Matthews

 

Gee Tee - Hot Rod Juice

 

Last spring, while I was rebuilding my AOD, I listened to Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Michigander and The New Pornographers. This spring, while I am assembling the engine with the transmission and running them in, I'll be looking for something new (Kacey Musgraves?) or go back to playing cassettes of Elvis Costello, James Taylor and Simon and Garfunkle.

 

A while back I said Jazz and old rock n roll. Well we changed our tv/internet provider and low and behold no, I repeat, no music channels. So now I just plug in the old cell phone, press pandora and listen to jazz and old rock n roll. Oh yeah I’m maturing, found some really bitchen old blues. The hundred bucks we saved on the swap has never gotten out here to the shop, stuck someplace in the wife’s domain.

 

Hello,

Talk about putting something off for a later date. It may have come as a shock, but I was sure my build a few months ago was almost bullet proof without adding gobs of glue to hold everything in place. But, it did not think it was going to fall 36 inches to the floor.

This is what I have been seeing sitting in the garage for a month or so. My wife had dropped it in the office and as soon as she brought it to me, I was a little sad. My well thought out project for her at Christmas did not last long. She accidently moved a project she was working on her desk and it made the gazing 55 Chevy ball fall over onto the floor. From desk height the 55 Chevy came apart from the base. It seemed like a simple process and I should have gotten right to it.

I needed to get into the mood to do some repairs to a project I spent many hours creating and doing the detail work before a December deadline. Every time I walked by the lonely project sitting against the counter wall, I kept thinking, I will get to it, tomorrow. I have no idea why I have not just sat down and taken it apart to fix the problem.

So, I told myself that I needed some inspiration in the form of music. Instead of blaring rock music that was used to put it together back in November of 2023, it was now a selection from my collection of jazz music. It was a different way to feel and look at the destruction.

I selected two songs.

“Burma Road” is/was one of my all-time favorite tracks from one of my favorite non rock albums, this one will never get old.


Jnaki

And another one with the same uplifting feeling while working on a difficult project… Paul Hardcastle “Rainforest.”



The rebirth of the 55 Chevy sedan from the OKC days rests again on its platform. The new 55 Chevy sedan was the one that went from Manhattan Beach in So Cal to OKC and back again within a year and a half of residency in OKC. The family finally found the permanent solution to the dad’s job.

Manhattan Beach in So Cal to OKC...

I was able to finish the repair without sacrificing any larger amounts of glue to hold up the base. It just takes the right type of glue and how fast it sets the plastic parts together. I had to leave it open to air dry for a day or two, just to make sure there were no residual fumes. The work was finished in a no rush method listening to three rounds of continuous play of the two songs from above.

“A desktop ( on top of a real desk near the daily computer screen) portable light fixture.” With some family history… YRMV

 

sounds like you have been hanging around in my carport too.

 

Yesterday it was Black Pistol Fire.

 

some cool rock'n'roll stuff from Finland