Magnificent muscle memory!

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From: Margo
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 12:38 AM

Twenty five years ago I learned three finger picking on the banjo. I played a scant year and never pursued it. Today, I went to the local instrument store in Portland, picked up a banjo and played like I used to! I couldn't believe it! I bought the banjo and will be learning new songs.

Have any of you had such an experience, picking up where you left off years ago?

Margarita

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 12:46 AM

Yeah, I had sex about 25 years ago, I seem to remember....can't say if I can pick up on it again like you did the banjo, but your story IS encouraging.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Margo
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 01:00 AM

Oh 'Spaw, I'm sure you can rise to the occasion, as it were...

M

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Mudjack
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 01:28 AM

Talented, talented and to come back from that many years and pick up where you left off is a terrific. NO. not you Spaw.
Marg..I'm looking forward to hearing you play and honest, I'll try to loose the judo curtsie image.
Mudjack

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Mudjack
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 01:35 AM

Oh.... I forgot, when I saw the thread title, I thought I was going to find a cure for my loss off memory work. You know, the ability to memorize songs. I swear I learn one and loose two. My learning curve is flat lining. My wife suggested I try Kinko Boba, so I went down town looking and realized our little town dos'nt have any hookers.
Mudjack

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Allan C.
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 08:11 AM

Far too many years ago, I brought my guitar to my 15th highschool reunion. Some friends I used to sing with were there. We took up where we left off and sang the old songs until the wee hours of the morning. I packed up my guitar afterwards and, for reasons I still don't really understand, didn't touch it again until the next reunion five years later. Once again, we sat up all night playing and singing. I never missed a chord! I was amazed. In fact, it seemed as if I played better than before! It was enough to make me want to start playing regularly again. I have hardly put it down since then.

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Banjoman_CO
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 02:28 PM

Yep Margarita, I have found this to be true. I played banjo for quite a while but they laid it down for a good number of years. When I picked it up again I found that I hadn't forgotton much of anything. In fact, I was a little faster and cleaner than I used to be. Amazing isn't it. Just keep on pickin'.

Fred

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Bert
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 03:30 PM

Banjos - yes they do seem to burn brighter if left to dry out for a few years;-)

Bert.

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 03:38 PM

Maybe that's why I can't seem to learn to play fiddle tunes clawhammer style--I practice too much. --seed

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Easy Rider
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 03:44 PM

I had the same thing. I put the guitar away for about twenty years, and, when I picked it up again, last Summer, all my old tunes came back to me, one by one. It was very satisfying.

Don't wait too long, though. A couple of the old songs, that weren't written down, are lost forever!

As for the other thing, that gets worse and worse, no matter how much I practice!

EZR

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From:
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 03:59 PM

the injections do work!

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Margo
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 04:59 PM

There's something lost when you have to explain a joke. Am I the only one who doesn't get the "injections" reference?

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 05:25 PM

I don't get it either. I thought Viagra came as a pill.

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 05:55 PM

The new generic comes both ways...so to speak. It's marketed under the new generic name Mycoxaphalin. Ask your pharmacist.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: campfire
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 06:19 PM

So, Catspaw, when you take it, does it enable you to play a snatch of a song?

campfire

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 07:33 PM

You're sure it's not called Mycoxaphallus? Seems more appropriate. --seed

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 10:28 PM

Well what else would it be? A tubris begonia? I suppose you could use Phallusfalin instead of Mycoxaphalin.....'Course now that I think about it, it MIGHT be a LILY, as in, "I've got to shake the dew off my lily." That's bad though 'cause then you get into ALL the euphemisms like "Drain my lizard," which doesn't conjure up the same beauty..........Wait a minute, where'd this start.....ah, to hell with it.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Bob Dole
Date: 06 Aug 99 - 12:09 AM

Folks, seriously---for some Viagra does not work. The injections (self administered) called EDEX ---have lasted as much as 4 or 5 hours. That's fun when you've got to go outside!? Nobody has ever dared to say anything but I have had some interesting quick glances in my direction. What the hell, 'Liz is happy.

Bob

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Aug 99 - 01:14 AM

Senator Dole, I am so VERY GLAD that you have stopped by here at Mudcat. Several times over the past few months, I have almost contacted you and now, with your presence here, I can speak forthrightly as the loyal and patriotic citizen that I am. I feel it is my duty to report to you a vile plot that was proposed and almost carried out against you to discredit your lovely wife in the eyes of the voting public. You may read about it by clicking here. I hope you will not hold this against Mudcat as a whole.

Catspaw49---Loyal American (& please let the IRS know this)

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 06 Aug 99 - 04:11 AM

I remember eating some magnificient mussels here in Belgium a few years ago.

mcmoo

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Bob Dole
Date: 06 Aug 99 - 09:28 AM

A woody?? Death by slivers aint' no fun.

But seriously folks, Edex is by prescription only. Manufactured by Abbot Laboritories, North Chicago, IL 60064 for Schwarz Pharmaceuricals, Inc, Milwaukee, Wis. (alternate style causes you to develop a "cheesehead"---for better sensation and interesting aroma. Discard unused solution.)

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: DougR
Date: 06 Aug 99 - 01:00 PM

Bob Dole:

You probably mess up a lot of ceilings too, I suspect. DougR

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Margo
Date: 06 Aug 99 - 03:46 PM

Gawd! I never dreamed my thread would go here! Was it the mention of muscle?

Marghie

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: DonMeixner
Date: 06 Aug 99 - 06:01 PM

After my fingers were reattached I was amazed that I vcould play at all. BUt the muscles and the fingers knew what to do. The scar tissue is what keeps me from moving the way I used to. The nerve damage and lack of sensation in my finger tips as more of a problem than muscularity.

As for Catspaw. He's just a show off.

Don

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: DougR
Date: 06 Aug 99 - 06:06 PM

Margarita:

Some of us folks just can't resist. Someone with less than a mind as pure as yours would have to admit though, the name of the thread is kind of an open invitation to folks like us.

DougR

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Margo
Date: 06 Aug 99 - 07:38 PM

Doug, I ought to used to it by now. My husband does the same thing. And if I complain he just tells me not to leave myself open that way. I'm going to have to learn to think twice. No, maybe not. Then you guys wouldn't have so much fun! :o)

Marg

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: DougR
Date: 07 Aug 99 - 12:11 AM

Margarita:

You girls leave us an opening and we're (some of us **grin**)are gonna dive right in!

DougR

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: SandyBob
Date: 07 Aug 99 - 12:30 AM

Bob Dole:

A protocol issue: If the injections last 4-5 hours and your admirers happen to see you in public, would you mind if we returned the salute?

A fan.

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Margo
Date: 07 Aug 99 - 01:37 AM

Well Doug, I geuss you guys have to stand up for something!

M :o)

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: DougR
Date: 07 Aug 99 - 04:45 PM

Margarita:

I'm sure most of us guys do the best we can when the occasion arises.

DougR

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: alison
Date: 08 Aug 99 - 01:09 AM

Can't resist and you've probably heard it before.... but..

why do they give viagra to the old men in nursing homes?

To stop them rolling out of bed...

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Banjer
Date: 08 Aug 99 - 06:12 AM

I has been observed however that Viagra and iron supplements should not be taken together. It causes the patient to point north!

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Banjer
Date: 08 Aug 99 - 06:14 AM

What happens when you give Viagra to a lawyer?

Nothing, he just gets taller!

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 08 Aug 99 - 11:48 AM

And that is why so many are bald. They just grew up through their hair!

Art

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Margo
Date: 08 Aug 99 - 12:04 PM

OOO! Point me north baby! Banjer, those are too funny! I was playing "Cripple Creek" last night from muscle memory, but something came up and I had to go to bed. :o)

Margarita

Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: WyoWoman
Date: 08 Aug 99 - 11:37 PM

And when you get married late in life, you honeymoon in Viagra Falls, I presume?