Thread: about deric

I'm happy to be a part of this group. I've always been a little on the nerdy side. I like all areas of science. Especailly cosmology, biology and botany, psychology, physics, math and language science. I have a double BA in psych and human services. I'm a serious guitarist and jazz rock piano player. I recently built an insect condo. ranch, whathaveyou-google it-in the backyard zen garden. I'm obsessed right now with the band we are putting together and my sound/recording studio here at home. I found this forum after hearing the CBS evening new talk about pilots suffering retina damage from $2.98 lazer pointers. I'll post my comment. I know we need to have the news but I don't have much good to say about reporters.

Hello deric, and welcome to the forum. There are plenty of interesting people on this forum and I do not doubt that you will find many topics of interest. I'm looking forward to your posts but have to dash for a bit because I work graveyard shift, hence I keep odd hours and tend not to engage in debates, more of a 'drive by' poster although I am capable of following a dialogue.

Have fun here!

Hey there, cracking introduction. You will probarbly find a few people here with more than a passing interest for playing the guitar and I have no idea what an insect condo is but it sounds cool. Caught your news post about the lazer pointers, seems amazing they can get as far as planes and for less than $3!
You seem to have a wide range of interests and in psychology as well, seems like you'll certainly fit in well, so welcome aboard.

Insect condo?

Any one of these would do me. It's on the list. Insect Hotels

Welcome!! I am a lousy guitar, ukulele and piano player but I can sing, big time and I love doing theatre!

Originally Posted by babe

Welcome!! I am a lousy guitar, ukulele and piano player but I can sing, big time and I love doing theatre!

We should get together!

Originally Posted by adelady

Insect condo?

Any one of these would do me. It's on the list. Insect Hotels

Wow! Those are just awsome! Mine's a work in progress.

Originally Posted by babe

Welcome!! I am a lousy guitar, ukulele and piano player but I can sing, big time and I love doing theatre!

"Many words are written down the pages of time. Words of wisdom rhythm and rhyme. He saves em all up he writes em all down. You know when the skys go dark they're good to have around. His words come so easy. He talks to everyone but when she comes close all his words are gone. How can he tell her, find the words to say..." Put in a melody and or more words and get back to me.

Originally Posted by Ascended

Hey there, cracking introduction. You will probarbly find a few people here with more than a passing interest for playing the guitar and I have no idea what an insect condo is but it sounds cool. Caught your news post about the lazer pointers, seems amazing they can get as far as planes and for less than $3!
You seem to have a wide range of interests and in psychology as well, seems like you'll certainly fit in well, so welcome aboard.

Thanks and that was my point that one of those little cheap things probably aren't even visible from an aircraft. You can buy a lazer that will blind a pilot but for a couple hundred dollars and you can't get them at the corner store.

Originally Posted by deric

Originally Posted by babe

Welcome!! I am a lousy guitar, ukulele and piano player but I can sing, big time and I love doing theatre!

We should get together!

I sing Broadway!! Light Opera stuff.....folk

Originally Posted by deric

Originally Posted by babe

Welcome!! I am a lousy guitar, ukulele and piano player but I can sing, big time and I love doing theatre!

"Many words are written down the pages of time. Words of wisdom rhythm and rhyme. He saves em all up he writes em all down. You know when the skys go dark they're good to have around. His words come so easy. He talks to everyone but when she comes close all his words are gone. How can he tell her, find the words to say..." Put in a melody and or more words and get back to me.

the sun rises each time when you enter my day.

Deric, I used to write a lot of poetry, many years ago....won an award for one. Long time since I have done any of that!

Originally Posted by adelady

Insect condo?

Any one of these would do me. It's on the list. Insect Hotels

Jeez and here I am over here making plans on building bat houses...

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Originally Posted by deric

Originally Posted by babe

Welcome!! We should get together!

I sing Broadway!! Light Opera stuff.....folk

Great lets try to blend some overdriven guitar work with your Broadway (which I love too) or opera (don't know a lot of that), or folk. Can you suggest a song or two? I'll think on it as well.

from deric [QUOTEGreat lets try to blend some overdriven guitar work with your Broadway (which I love too) or opera (don't know a lot of that), or folk. Can you suggest a song or two? I'll think on it as well. ][/QUOTE]



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYmjDSpGmtE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZxmZmBfnU

oops derik....."Gimme Gimme* from "Thoroughly Modern Milly" and "Over the Rainbow" Judy Garland.

Who do you rate as the best singers ever? For me it's Judy, Karen Carpenter, Barbra, Elvis, Jim Morrison. I like to think Judy probably never had a lesson never needed it. She's just perfect naturally. And the angelic Karen C. , words can't express. Another great one is Eric Clapton. It seems he just learned to use his voice as it isn't naturally melodic like these others. Eric Clapton - Somewhere Over The Rainbow HD - YouTube Amy Winehouse - Lullaby Of Birdland(Live) - YouTube What do you think of this? What a great song.

Originally Posted by babe

from deric [QUOTEGreat lets try to blend some overdriven guitar work with your Broadway (which I love too) or opera (don't know a lot of that), or folk. Can you suggest a song or two? I'll think on it as well. ]

Thoroughly Modern Millie "Gimme Gimme" Sutton Foster - YouTube

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz (1/8) Movie CLIP (1939) HD - YouTube[/QUOTE]

Originally Posted by deric

Who do you rate as the best singers ever? For me it's Judy, Karen Carpenter, Barbra, Elvis, Jim Morrison. I like to think Judy probably never had a lesson never needed it. She's just perfect naturally. And the angelic Karen C. , words can't express. Another great one is Eric Clapton. It seems he just learned to use his voice as it isn't naturally melodic like these others. Eric Clapton - Somewhere Over The Rainbow HD - YouTube Amy Winehouse - Lullaby Of Birdland(Live) - YouTube What do you think of this? What a great song.

Originally Posted by babe

from deric [QUOTEGreat lets try to blend some overdriven guitar work with your Broadway (which I love too) or opera (don't know a lot of that), or folk. Can you suggest a song or two? I'll think on it as well. ]

Thoroughly Modern Millie "Gimme Gimme" Sutton Foster - YouTube

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz (1/8) Movie CLIP (1939) HD - YouTube

[/QUOTE] Not a fan of Garland....loved her young work...can't stand Liza's voice. Barbra, Julie Andrews, Marilyn Kahn, Bernadette Peters, Jeanette McDonald, Nelson Eddy, Gordon McCrae, Franco Harris, Andy Williams, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Crosby Stills Nash but not Young (who lives two miles down the road when he's here)....there are a bunch of others. Karen was good...not exceptional...everyone in the 5th dimension....Peter, Paul and Mary....Simon and Garfunkel...*L*

and I LOVE JOE COCKER'S Gravely voice.....Linda Ronstadt is another....Emmylou Harris.....dang don't get me start.....and hell I'm damn good too!

Grown men breakdown in tears when they hear me sing.

Originally Posted by John Galt

Grown men breakdown in tears when they hear me sing.

Mr. John Galt .....ahahahahhaahahha that was funny!

For the forum's information about 3 weeks after joining this forum, I was in a bathroom in CLOVERDALE, California on our way back home to Bayside....and ...I close the door and on the back of my stall wall, was "John Galt was here".

Well, moi, with my sense of humor, shared that in a PM with him, asking him if he had been there recently.....I do NOT think he found the humor in my comment, though it was in jest. He has been remarkedly amicable to not hold this against me!

Mahalo Sir John!

Originally Posted by babe

and I LOVE JOE COCKER'S Gravely voice.....Linda Ronstadt is another....Emmylou Harris.....dang don't get me start.....and hell I'm damn good too!

Speaking of gravely you didn't mention Dylan or Willy Nelson??

Originally Posted by babe

For the forum's information about 3 weeks after joining this forum, I was in a bathroom in CLOVERDALE, California on our way back home to Bayside....and ...I close the door and on the back of my stall wall, was "John Galt was here".

Well, moi, with my sense of humor, shared that in a PM with him, asking him if he had been there recently.....I do NOT think he found the humor in my comment, though it was in jest. He has been remarkedly amicable to not hold this against me!

I would never hold a toilet door against you. It is ungentlemanly.

Originally Posted by John Galt

Grown men breakdown in tears when they hear me sing.

...and dogs howl and babies cry...

Originally Posted by Flick Montana

Originally Posted by John Galt

Grown men breakdown in tears when they hear me sing.

...and dogs howl and babies cry...

and Cthulhu says..."That my cue!"

Originally Posted by MacGyver1968

Originally Posted by Flick Montana

Originally Posted by John Galt

Grown men breakdown in tears when they hear me sing.

...and dogs howl and babies cry...

and Cthulhu says..."That my cue!"

Are you suggesting that the arrival of Cthulu means "it's over" and that JG is, in fact, a fat lady?!

How rude.

[QUOTE=deric;476001]

Originally Posted by babe

and I LOVE JOE COCKER'S Gravely voice.....Linda Ronstadt is another....Emmylou Harris.....dang don't get me start.....and hell I'm damn good too!

Do we try something new, or stick to the tried-and-true? Do we take a risk, or eat what's already on our
dish? Do we ponder a thrilling adventure, or contemplate what's on TV? Do we walk over and
meet that interesting stranger, or do we play it safe? Do we indulge our heart, or cater to our
fear?
The bottom-line question: Do we pursue what we want, or do we do what's comfortable?
For the most part, most people most often choose comfort--the familiar, the time-honored, the
well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left
with the life we
currently have. And it was all of our own choosing.
The Comfort Zone
The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
GLORIA STEINEM

Originally Posted by deric

Originally Posted by babe

and I LOVE JOE COCKER'S Gravely voice.....Linda Ronstadt is another....Emmylou Harris.....dang don't get me start.....and hell I'm damn good too!

Speaking of gravely you didn't mention Dylan or Willy Nelson??

To me they don't have gravely voices....Barry McGuire does.....Dylan mostly moans his songs and Nelson...country croons them!!!

Originally Posted by John Galt

Originally Posted by babe

For the forum's information about 3 weeks after joining this forum, I was in a bathroom in CLOVERDALE, California on our way back home to Bayside....and ...I close the door and on the back of my stall wall, was "John Galt was here".

Well, moi, with my sense of humor, shared that in a PM with him, asking him if he had been there recently.....I do NOT think he found the humor in my comment, though it was in jest. He has been remarkedly amicable to not hold this against me!

I would never hold a toilet door against you. It is ungentlemanly.

You, Sir John Galt, are a gentleman. Many Mahalo's!

Beverly Sills was pretty good.....*chuckle* and so was Kate Smith!! That lady was a belter of music!

[QUOTE=babe;476277][QUOTE=deric;476001]

Originally Posted by babe

and I LOVE JOE COCKER'S Gravely voice.....Linda Ronstadt is another....Emmylou Harris.....dang don't get me start.....and hell I'm damn good too!

Speaking of gravely

I like Keith Richards voice. Unique

[QUOTE=deric;476471][QUOTE=babe;476277]

Originally Posted by deric

Originally Posted by babe

and I LOVE JOE COCKER'S Gravely voice.....Linda Ronstadt is another....Emmylou Harris.....dang don't get me start.....and hell I'm damn good too!

Speaking of gravely

I like Keith Richards voice. Unique

Not a Stone's fan... I like Barry Manilow's voice! *L*

I'm a bit of a closet singer (not in the same way some people at Idol try-outs think they can sing). Can also sing in a few styles, including Opera styles (as long as I don't have to go too high). Few have heard me sing properly before. A friend's mother said I have a "fantastic voice" when I recorded some Radiohead karaoke. Wouldn't go that far though.

Originally Posted by KALSTER

I'm a bit of a closet singer (not in the same way some people at Idol try-outs think they can sing). Can also sing in a few styles, including Opera styles (as long as I don't have to go too high). Few have heard me sing properly before. A friend's mother said I have a "fantastic voice" when I recorded some Radiohead karaoke. Wouldn't go that far though.

Sing for me!! *S* I have taught vocals...and arranged music...and well.....toured, recorded...etc etc etc!! I'd love to hear your voice! You can hear mine on my web page....but there is a variety....some operatic...some not in my best range....

Oh and Kalster...I loved the "Closet Singer"......