I miss making music too... I sold my guitar(s) but still have my bass and keyboard. No amp though. I sure get the urge to jam.

You should post some MP3s!

Things I miss:

My little boys, they are all grown up now, but we had such fun when they were young, even though I know it was a great deal of work. They were just a year apart, and for a while I was awash in bottle and diapers.

Those great cars in the 50's that you could tell one from another. Now they all look alike

The simpler life, when Daddy did know best, mostly. And even when he didn't you knew he loved you.

Any time you have the urge to play, Mitch, I have a feeling all you'd have to do is mention it on your site and you'd have a host of people willing to give it a try also. From Chuck's response, it sounds like you have at least 2 bassists (myself included) who would be willing. Now, ability, on the other hand... not to mention time... well, those are different questions!

When can I drop off my 2-year old?

I was just thinking about your #3 the other day.

Something about the innocense of a toddler, compared to the hormonal rage of adolescence, which I will now spend the next several years 'enjoying'

Flash

At least your teenagers don't keep peeing on the upholstered furniture (please, don't tell me they do, I need to maintain some semblance of optimism). Have you all have forgotten the potty training years? And the evenings dominated by screams and tantrums of overtired toddlers? As I often say: "it's a very good thing you're so cute."

No, I'm not anxious for them to grow up--but beware the rosy hues lent by nostalgia.

I miss sleep. I've got a three week old baby at home. I miss privacy, I've also got a 3, 6 and 9 year old. I miss a clean house, they're all boys, even the three week old. I used to live way out in the boonies, I miss that.

Mostly I miss smoking, MAN do I miss smoking.

Yes, Terry and Eloise, I do remember all that. The tantrums, the writing on the wall with crayons, the playing in the mud puddles, but that's not what I mostly remember these days. I mostly remember the fun times, the camping and exploring and looking under rocks, counting the cows on the road as we drove, stuff like that. The fun.'
I don't remember them peeing on the couch.

On the one hand, I remember pee on the couch.

On the other: I remember leaving my stepson (who's in his twenties now) in the Joovie to teach him a lesson about vandalism.

Hoping for less of both with my 11YO and 13YO.

Mitch-

Steve's right. Say the word, and you'll have all the people you need for a jam session - I'll bring my bass. (3 bass players?!)

A few (okay, 15) years ago, a friend of mine set up a jam session for a bunch of people that only knew each other through the then popular bbs scene. We met someplace in Minneapolis (I can't remember the name now) that used to be a school, so there were several classroom-sized rooms. You could just drift around and listen, or join up with one of the half-dozen jams going on. Maybe we could do this at some community center someplace.

Maybe we could tape pieces of a jam like that for you guys to use as bumpers on the radio show.

-Joe

P.S. Love the list. Several of thoe same items are on mine.

Blog Jam. Hm. Sounds like a potential social occasion. Hmmmmm.

Oh, and technically it's five bass players, since I'm OK on Bass, and it's Ed's instrument. (Maybe we can get Pete from Geekboy and make it six...)

Shawn - Don't tempt me. BTW, twos don't seem to terrible when you get into the threes.

Chuck: I need two things: 1) to learn how to rip from cassette to MP3, and 2), to find an eight-track, half-inch reel to reel machine to mixdown some of my old masters. And THEN learn how to rip to MP3.

Hmmm.... well one way to do it, if you have RCA outs (on the cassette deck, at least) you can plug that into a DV or digital Hi8 video camera - at least some of them. Then you're basically digitizing it, and can get it into a computer to spit out some audio files.

I could bring my camera and laptop to a blog fiesta sometime and push some buttons.

...and from there, I run the audio files through LAME, and bingo, MP3s.

All right. I have to now find a decent cassette copy, and get on it.

I know where all my *four track* masters are...Hmm. Wonder if my four-track cassette still works?

There's a weekend project!

"...technically it's five bass players..."

One more and we'd have a nickel's worth!

Mitch--

Back in the day I was a fairly kick-ass drummer (actually made it to the stage of CBGBs) and boy, do I ever get the itch now and then.

I'm in Wisconsin. Y'all wanna jam some time, just let me know when.