I Enjoyed this one Too ?

“Paige Long is a world-renowned flutist. She’s also one of a small number of people who can play the three largest flutes in the flute family: the double subcontrabass, the subcontrabass and the contrabass.”

https://youtu.be/ouJDvdg7EZI
3:01

Liked that song as a kid. ‘A steel-drivin’ man.’ As an adult, maybe different connotations.

Amadeus Electric Quartet

Walking Stick Cello – Electric

https://youtu.be/QugLFzedHzkw

It’s called a stand-up Cello, also a walking stick cello in a smaller thinner version. The acoustic version is rather common in ApplachIan folk music use.
The electric type is very interesting in the hands of a lady player. To be very PC. ,—NOT!!

Tuna Guo – world-class player:

https://youtu.be/G0OpnBcB9OQ

It’s interesting to consider this along side John Henry. They have a lot in common.

One of the reasons I loathed “grunge” so much: What the heck are you suburban rich kids whining about?!?!

Reagan through free trade weakened America in a de facto redistribution of wealth that made our enemies stronger. In the 7O’s China had not one private auto. It’s like the party of transgender snail-darter lives matter is TRYING to give the DNC a bad name so that the CHASE banks can slide a Romney in. He opposes infrastructure out of wanting low taxes-but let’s blame the Greens who want to save a darter that has a red spot above one eye instead of a blue spot behind the other like all the rest. Outside of Musk I hate businessmen from personal experience.

Older men who remember 5O’s-7O’s good wages looked with disdain upon libertarian college kids pushing those political test cards like Jack Chick tracts.

When my Dad called them “communist free traders” when I thought that was a contradiction in terms-like a lot of young college kids-I thought my Dad was losing it.

A very, very long time ago…believe it or not…I was one of those Rand worshippers.

What changed?

I grew up.

Not lost on someone who’s family is from the South, and lived there a fair amount, myself. Still, the American Dream is that the progeny will do better than the progenitors. Remember where you came from, but no need to live it.

To this day, Lamar County Alabama is a democratic hold-out except for Trump voting.

Lest any think to red bait them…they wouldn’t know an image of Che’ from a housecat. My parents were from that area which has a lot of elderly folks. Picking cotton with bleeding fingers dunked in kerosene at the end of the day…and how their parents never complained…but they were farmers at least. Their hands were all scars.

Back then it was democrats who filled the pews-when the handful of Republicans were hitting the links: the horse doctor…the sell-out union rep’s kid they used as a caddy…and a spy; the town lawyer, the mayor and his boss-the company owner who might darken the churchhouse door just long enough to hand the barefoot kids candy canes while the parents bit their lips ’till they bled. NOW you know what that song means.