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Magnificent muscle memory!

05 Aug 99 - 12:38 AM (#102431)
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From: Margo

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


05 Aug 99 - 12:46 AM (#102435)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: catspaw49

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


05 Aug 99 - 01:00 AM (#102439)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Margo

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

M


05 Aug 99 - 01:28 AM (#102449)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Mudjack

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


05 Aug 99 - 01:35 AM (#102451)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Mudjack

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


05 Aug 99 - 08:11 AM (#102492)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Allan C.

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.


05 Aug 99 - 02:28 PM (#102597)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Banjoman_CO

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


05 Aug 99 - 03:30 PM (#102613)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Bert

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

Bert.


05 Aug 99 - 03:38 PM (#102615)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: bseed(charleskratz)

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


05 Aug 99 - 03:44 PM (#102619)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Easy Rider

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


05 Aug 99 - 03:59 PM (#102627)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From:

the injections do work!


05 Aug 99 - 04:59 PM (#102636)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Margo

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


05 Aug 99 - 05:25 PM (#102641)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Jeri

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


05 Aug 99 - 05:55 PM (#102649)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: catspaw49

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

Spaw


05 Aug 99 - 06:19 PM (#102652)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: campfire

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

campfire


05 Aug 99 - 07:33 PM (#102654)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: bseed(charleskratz)

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


05 Aug 99 - 10:28 PM (#102695)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: catspaw49

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


06 Aug 99 - 12:09 AM (#102722)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Bob Dole

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


06 Aug 99 - 01:14 AM (#102731)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: catspaw49

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)


06 Aug 99 - 04:11 AM (#102748)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Lady McMoo

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

mcmoo


06 Aug 99 - 09:28 AM (#102779)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Bob Dole

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.)


06 Aug 99 - 01:00 PM (#102834)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: DougR

Bob Dole:

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


06 Aug 99 - 03:46 PM (#102872)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Margo

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

Marghie


06 Aug 99 - 06:01 PM (#102910)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: DonMeixner

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


06 Aug 99 - 06:06 PM (#102913)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: DougR

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


06 Aug 99 - 07:38 PM (#102923)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Margo

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


07 Aug 99 - 12:11 AM (#102970)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: DougR

Margarita:

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

DougR


07 Aug 99 - 12:30 AM (#102974)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: SandyBob

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.


07 Aug 99 - 01:37 AM (#102981)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Margo

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

M :o)


07 Aug 99 - 04:45 PM (#103039)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: DougR

Margarita:

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

DougR


08 Aug 99 - 01:09 AM (#103105)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: alison

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...


08 Aug 99 - 06:12 AM (#103116)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Banjer

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


08 Aug 99 - 06:14 AM (#103117)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Banjer

What happens when you give Viagra to a lawyer?

Nothing, he just gets taller!


08 Aug 99 - 11:48 AM (#103141)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Art Thieme

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

Art


08 Aug 99 - 12:04 PM (#103145)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: Margo

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


08 Aug 99 - 11:37 PM (#103252)
Subject: RE: Magnificent muscle memory!
From: WyoWoman

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