Tough Realization

Allan in NE · Jan 6, 2011

I dunno fellas,

The trouble with old age is that just about every single day ya start finding something else that ya can't do anymore. Sure pizzes' me off! :>)

Was talkin' the other day with a feller about how one's hands start clamping down on ya at about the age of 55 or so. They just don't wanna work anymore.

And to add to it, I simply can't stand a camera pointing at me. I hate it! Just locks me up tight.

Anyway, I never, ever look at these videos that I put up; just lift the goofy things up there and forget 'em. But for some reason, this morning I happened to watch myself trying to crank out a tune..................

It now suddenly dawns on me that I simply have too derned much chicken sh!t in my chicken pickin'. Promise you, it didn't used to be that way.

Crowdin' 70 isn't all it's cracked up to be, boys! :>(

Allan

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0WtyC5b3Co">Yakety Axe</a>

BOBM25 · Jan 6, 2011

Allan, I'm 30 and I can't stand cameras either.

Allan in NE · Jan 6, 2011

Don't know what the heck there is about the silly things, but they just simply paralyze me. :>)

Allan

supergrumpy · Jan 6, 2011

some people claim a camera steals your soul

if you think about it, looking at a picture of yourself could change how you think about yourself, actually start behaving

old age isn't for sissies!

gitrib · Jan 6, 2011

Was getting in sons car Sunday to go see my wife and felt me going to the ground. Do not know what happened. Son and grandson took me by sholders and stood me up. If i new what caused it I would not worry. I have always been sure footed. Do not suppose eighty-one has anything to do with it?
gitrib

Allan in NE · Jan 6, 2011

I talked to a guy on Sunday who is 80(ish).

He looked like he had been in an old-fashioned Nebraska barroom brawl. Black and blue all over his face.

He said the same thing; "Was just getting into my car and that's all I remember". He didn't even remember falling down.

And boy! That feller really looked roughed up!

Allan

rrlund · Jan 6, 2011

Know just what ya mean. We were going through some old videos on Christmas day looking for some stuff of the kids when they were little. Stopped on some stuff of me on stage at the Lions Club Variety Show about 20 years ago. Couldn't hit the stop and reverse fast enough.

Coloken · Jan 6, 2011

Hello. Did some one say 81?
No problems with falling til now. I think it is the eye sight, cause the feet are out of focus.

gitrib · Jan 6, 2011

I know I have gout in my left foot so suspect that might be the problem.
gitrib

El Toro · Jan 6, 2011

Wait til you're crowding 80. My better half will hit that in March. Hal

Paul Shuler · Jan 6, 2011

Your videos have messed me up also. For some reason I always pictured you in my mind looking something like John Wayne and able to leap tall buildings. I guess it"s all those manly tractors and manly post you make. Years ago when Bob M posted a photo of Hugh Mckay he looked just like I had pictured him. Funny how you think you know what folks look like from reading their post.

Stephen Atkins · Jan 6, 2011

Just turned 73. I was dignosed with Parkinson's about 1997. Also have a bad back and bum knee along with arthritis.I officially retired in 2002 from self employed electrician and a small farm operation. Had a sale and moved south to NM. From NE.
I wont bore you with any more details. Just be careful and dont get in a hurry.

Stephen

55 50 Ron · Jan 6, 2011

Allan,

Your playing still sounds fine. Don't be too hard on yourself. On the videos you certainly don't look like your "crowdin'" 70.

I'll be 74 later this month and people tell me I don't look that old. But for the first hour or so everyday after waking I know how OLD I am! It's wonderful what a hot shower can do for the aches and pains.

Rusty wheel · Jan 6, 2011

Allen, you ain't crowdin 70, not by a long shot. I'll be 70 in July. I'm crowdin 70, not you. You don't even look 50 and you play Gooooooood!!!!!!. But I agree with you about the camera. I don't recognize me in pictures anymore.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 6, 2011

Getting old is just plain yucky! Next thing is a multitude of skin tags and warts. Better to stay home in a dark closet than go out and terrify everyone.

bob featherstone · Jan 6, 2011

allan the absolute worst thing i find about gettin old ( 55 here ) is my godd**m fingets going numb anytime i work outside, no matter what i wear on my hands lack of circulation i expect
seems funny now i used to make fun on my wifes dad & uncles when they complained of that years ago, thought it was an old people thing
guess it was
bob

Anonymous-0 · Jan 6, 2011

One of the bennys of getting older, We can enjoy a good lookin gal when she turns 50 and on down to the 20 year olds. Younger guys dont. We may not be able to do much, but???????

Allan in NE · Jan 6, 2011

I know I'm gettin' up there in age 'cause even those ol' gals are startin' to look pretty darned good! :>)

Allan

John T · Jan 6, 2011

Youre a good picker at any age fer as Im concerned. I once told a buddy twenty years my senior I was stiff n sore when I first got up n he said OLD AGE AINT FOR SISSYS GET USED TO IT

John T

Anonymous-0 · Jan 6, 2011

Allan, I find that I have to wear gloves a lot more than I used to. The hands quit working when they are cold.

olddog · Jan 6, 2011

If that's chicken sh!t, keep shoveling!
You seem to like the old favorites that I grew up with. Not too far behind ya, be 66 this yr.
Cousin tol me "gettin' old was not for wusses"; while we were talkin' @ my aunt's funeral.
Danged if we didn't hafta put his box inna ground last month. He was 70.

Allan in NE · Jan 6, 2011

Thanks Pard,

When I was a young man, that tune used to be the gold standard. Either you could play it or ya couldn't.

Nowadays, these youngsters learn that sort of stuff right out of the box and then advance on from there.

It's really amazing what some of the younger guys can do anymore.

Allan

37 chief · Jan 6, 2011

Allan don't let that age thing get you down. Your age is just a date on the calander. You look good for almost 70, I am close myself. My problem is I can't carry a tune in a basket. Keep up the pickin I love it. Stan

larry@stinescorner · Jan 6, 2011

that sounded really good to me! Didnt they play that song on the Benny Hill comedy show at the begining of the show?

Allan in NE · Jan 6, 2011

For sure, same tune.

Boots Randolph had it out first, called Yakety Sax, 'I think'.

Then Chet Atkins absolutely sent the thing into orbit when he played it on that Country Gentleman Gretch guitar.

Just a short little polka tune, but it will sure bring 'em out on the dance floor and get 'em hootin' and hollarin' in a hurry. :>)

Allan

Mike (WA) · Jan 6, 2011

Funny you should mention Chet Atkins.

I was going to post, then thought it might be taken wrong:
Allan: The bad news is, you're not as good as Chet Atkins.
The good news is, neither is anyone else!

Somebody told me that your voice holds up better than your fingers as you age- and I do know that when I get warmed up, can still do a credible job on a song. I remember talking to an old geezer about this after he did a great job singing, and he made a general statement on singing (or playing, I suspect): "I realize I ain't what I once was- so I watch peoples' faces- as long as I can see that it's more pleasure than pain, I'll keep this up. If it gets to where they'd rather be somewhere else, that's when I'll quit."

Yours is still more pleasure than pain- keep on keepin' on!

Got a real kick out of your aversion to the camera- I am the same- because my face is partially paralyzed from surgery, and so my smile is "crooked" and I look pretty ridiculous- its especially embarassing in family pictures, because everybody is good-looking but me. But the kids say, "You gotta be in these, Dad- doesn't matter what you look like, the grandkids love ya and we've gotta have pics with grandpa in them." Guess I might blow it off, but I know what they're talking about- my mother was ashamed of her looks, and managed to gracefully avoid pictures, without any of us realizing what was going on. Its really sad now that she's gone, and we have very few pics of her.

roy prins · Jan 6, 2011

but can you fix a m farmall in your sleep? i can ! but i tried picken 40 years ago and couldnt do it -- jealous!! my fingers didnt fit in where they should- gave it up right after i mastered hang down your head tom dooley

Old Roy · Jan 6, 2011

Sounds good to me Allan !
I couldn't even come that close. not that I was looking for the "free notes" ya may have snuck one in there but I didn't catch it.

I'm the same way for the camera and worse for the mic. (like stickin a gun in my face.)I have to get rid of all the mirrors in the house cause I keep running onto strange looking people.

I do know for a fact I will live a long time cause I swore I wasn't gonna die before I learned the (Auctioneer song ) "$50.00 Bid"

TonyIN · Jan 6, 2011

Nice Job. And making it look effortless too!
Got to see Chet do that one back in "90 at a festival. Couldn"t get a seat and wandered into a front and center standing spot. Spent the concert about 15ft from him.
I"m mainly a bassman, but have done my share of gigs on guitar. Don"t think I picked up my guitar for a while after that.

Allan in NE · Jan 7, 2011

LOL!

Wasn't that man just an absolute monster?!

I read somewhere years ago, that his sole goal in life was to be the absolute best guitar player who ever lived. He was.

I, on the other hand, just wanted to be good enough to catch the eye of that leggy brunette down at the end of the bar. :>)

Allan

Davidj · Jan 7, 2011

You sound good to me. Tunes like that are what gets people up and dancing. Something I have trouble with. Here's me at a Scottish fiddle contest. I was one of the older ones and the ones who placed were all in their early 20's

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

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