Rumor has it ...

[Lin]

It's a proven fact: birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
A little bird told me, that Joe P is celebrating a birthday today.

All the best to you, my friend. Happy Birthday!

Lin

[bob perry]

Happy birthday Joe. Sorry I could not make the party. I hear it was a good one.

[JoeP]

Thanks Lin. It was great to see you and Tim and Kim at the party. I really appreciate your coming. I started on the nibblies after we got home. Mmm, great smoked salmon. Did one of you make it?

Bob, no problem. We'll meet up one of these days. Besides, you had to tend to the spaghetti sauce if I recall.

60 trips around the sun as of today. I should receive my official geezer ID card today in the mail. Oh boy!

[BeauV]

Happy Birthday Joe, I'm one lap 'round the sun ahead of ya and it's working out just fine. BV

[Ish]

Jeez, I'm one lap ahead of Beau and two up on Joe. I'm almost as old as Bob and gaining fast.
Happy birthday, Joe!

[kimbottles]

SWMBO and I had a great time watching Joe turn OLD!!
(Wait a minute, SWMBO and I are both older than he, guess he is still young.)

[cap10ed]

Happy Birthday Joe from the gang north. Skol !

[Tim OConnell]

Thanks Lin. It was great to see you and Tim and Kim at the party. I really appreciate your coming. I started on the nibblies after we got home. Mmm, great smoked salmon. Did one of you make it?

Bob, no problem. We'll meet up one of these days. Besides, you had to tend to the spaghetti sauce if I recall.

60 trips around the sun as of today. I should receive my official geezer ID card today in the mail. Oh boy!

I confess I bought the candied salmon.

[JoeP]

Thanks all. It was a good time with good friends. No matter Tim, the important thing is that it is delicious. Dang it Kim, I thought I confiscated all the cameras at the door!

[GerryH]

Happy birthday to you, Joe!

[Soñadora]

Wow Joe, you don't look a year over 25 in your avatar.

Good job ol' man!

[JoeP]

Thanks Gerry. Thanks Rick.

[bob perry]

Joe:
Ok, now you are old and I am old.
Does this mean we were both kids at Evergreen?

[JoeP]

I was young and you were a rock star in my eyes. Now we are older (not really "old" IMO) and wiser but you are still a rock star.

Here are two shots of the Evergreen 38 I had in the slide show at the B-day party. One is of the boat at it's commisioning in 1981 and one is at the PTWBF with R boats in the background.

Evergreen 38.jpg

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[bob perry]

Listen,,,,Joe?
I'd love to talk to you right now. Really I would.
But Keith Richards and Joe Walsh just rolled up and we are going fishing. That's what Keith calls it.
I'll call ya.
Soon.

[kimbottles]

Listen,,,,Joe?
I'd love to talk to you right now. Really I would.
But Keith Richards and Joe Walsh just rolled up and we are going fishing. That's what Keith calls it.
I'll call ya.
Soon.

Say hi to Joe for me, he is a fellow ham radio operator. Also a Collins collector as I once was.....

[bob perry]

Tom Collins?

[kimbottles]

Tom Collins?

Collins Brand amateur radio gear from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Sold all of my collection several years ago.

[kdh]

Now that you're out of the Collins gear you should take up the bass, Kim.

[kimbottles]

Now that you're out of the Collins gear you should take up the bass, Kim.

Too busy fighting with the pipes.....

[bob perry]

Kim:
No problem. We can use you on pipes to provide some top end.
Check out AC/DC with pipes. It really works quite well. Remarkably.

[Ish]

Don't they make bass bagpipes?

[kdh]

We're going to need some top end. I wonder if Esperanza would play with us. She can be our sexy lead bassist. Sort of the bass version of Gwen Stefani being a sexy lead singer.

[Ish]

Tal Wilkenfeld. If she's good enough for Jeff Beck...



I'd like to be her bass.

[bob perry]

Aaah, I see,,,that's what that notch is for.

[kdh]

That is a great look Tal's got going. She has great hands for bass playing. I know another Tal who is from Israel.

I look at the pictures of these girls and then the picture of Kim with his bagpipes and I think, "a musician like Kim is what they've been missing."

[bob perry]

Come on Keith, dig up that Youtube clip of AC/DC doing the bagpipe thing. It's truly great. We have to get Kim going on this.
Four basses, one bagpiper? How can we miss?
BAGGYWRINKLE and the BALLAST appearing tonight. One show only.

Not sure Kim is going to go for that stage name, Baggywrinkle.

[Lin]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps9LBg-OMAc[/youtube]
This??
Just as I was starting to really enjoy bagpipes....

[BeauV]

Now that you're out of the Collins gear you should take up the bass, Kim.

Too busy fighting with the pipes.....

Kim,

I don't think those pipes are long enough to make that a bass bag pipe. You'll need pipes that are about 18' long at least to get that low growl we bass players demand in the All Base Band.

[kdh]

6 basses including Esperanza and Tal. Think of the foundation Kim will have.