| Author | Message | ||
| jalevinemd
Junior Username: jalevinemd Post Number: 19 Registered: 12-2003 |
Hello, Once again I find terminology native to this site that is unfamiliar to me, being so new. Paul TBO was grateful enough to shed some light on the whole "stockings" thing. Could someone be so kind as to explain "Senior Management." Are these the wives to whom we're referring or do Alembic owners tend to take their work home with them? I'm assuming it's the former. Where's the Official Alembic Club Dictionary? And is there a secret handshake that some one will teach me one day? Appreciative as always, Jonathan | ||
| keavin
Advanced Member Username: keavin Post Number: 234 Registered: 12-2002 |
hey my friend this is the official alembic dictionary, this very web site is where you can find out anything about alembic and its terminology, history etc,,,read all of the threads & you will be fed all of the alembic food that your brain can handle! | ||
| rogertvr
Advanced Member Username: rogertvr Post Number: 211 Registered: 1-2003 |
I think I started the 'Senior Management' thing! In my case, she's called Jacqueline and a picture of her can be seen in the 'Alembic Basses & Guitars' section, in the thread entitled 'The Day We Went To Holland'. The Dragon's Wing doesn't look too bad on her either ;-) Cheers, Roger | ||
| bracheen
Advanced Member Username: bracheen Post Number: 379 Registered: 11-2003 |
Sorry, you have to have 100 posts before we can trust you with the handshake.  Sam | ||
| jalevinemd
Junior Username: jalevinemd Post Number: 20 Registered: 12-2003 |
Sam...80 and counting! Jonathan | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1275 Registered: 9-2002 |
Brother Jonathan, brother Rog, without being picking on details but Brother Paul the good one came up with that (or Brother David T the loud one) in the early 2003. "Senior Management" is Alembic slang for saying that your wife has something to say in what you do and don't in your life. Especially in buying basses instead of a new dish washer, or painting the walls of the hall, or going on sun-tan trip, or .... well ....you know. Paul the bad one | ||
| alembic76407
Advanced Member Username: alembic76407 Post Number: 279 Registered: 5-2002 |
I can't take credit for "Senior Management" that must have been Brother Paul(TGO) or Rogertvr, but who ever came up with it, it's true, but in my house, I'm the Senior Management, but me wife is the CEO and carries the check book, I really need to get permission to want, but she's been my CEO for 25 years this May and I wouldn't change anything. David T (TLO) | ||
| hollis
Intermediate Member Username: hollis Post Number: 124 Registered: 11-2003 |
My Senior Management (Janet) introduces my Alembic as and I quote,"My new bathroom"......I think I'd better get the pipe wrenches out before we talk about a Further hmmmmmmm? | ||
| lowlife
Junior Username: lowlife Post Number: 38 Registered: 12-2003 |
Senior Management in my house refers to my Alembics as "the other women" in my life. Jeezz, and all this time I thought that she was refering to my mother and my sister. Go figure! "What? You want to buy a fretless? How many basses do you think that you need?" I'm sure she was asking a rhetorical question, right? Brother David (TLO), I share your thoughts. she's been my partner for 26 years, and I wouldn't change a thing!. Ellery (Lowlife) | ||
| bracheen
Advanced Member Username: bracheen Post Number: 381 Registered: 11-2003 |
Hollis, in line with your new bathroom, Debi has been wanting a Lexus RX300 for some time now. I had been looking at Warwick Thumbs so we made a deal, if she gets the Lexus, I get the Warwick. She finally broke down and bought the Lexus. Guess what I have sitting next to my Epic? That's right. The sad, lonely Fenders are in a corner behind the door. I'll agree with everyone else. I never had it so good. We're coming up on 7 years and the only itch I'm feeling is named Gallien-Krueger. Sam | ||
| 811952
Intermediate Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 142 Registered: 10-2003 |
Senior Management of the Ford household once promised that I'd get my airplane (I'm already a pilot) if she could get a kid and a horse. We've got 2 kids, a dog, 4 cats, 8 fish, a frog and two goats, but no horse yet (and consequently no airplane). I keep trying to trick her into getting a horse, but she's not buying it, so to speak. I do have her sold on James Martin's Alembic trade-up policy though, which is a good thing. This is Senior Management's 16th year with the organization and I've got too much resources invested to warrant trying to train a new one.. ;) John (the mid-level manager and motor pool attendant) | ||
| 811952
Intermediate Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 146 Registered: 10-2003 |
OMG, Sunday we take delivery of a pony. It's not a horse, so this means I get to at least *build* an airplane (Pietenpol aircamper?) as soon as I get the garage cleaned out. I'm trying to figure out just exactly where this puts my bass kharma... John | ||
| hollis
Intermediate Member Username: hollis Post Number: 137 Registered: 11-2003 |
Good for you. | ||
| 811952
Intermediate Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 147 Registered: 10-2003 |
Thanks Hollis. We've been patient for 12 or so years. Dropped out of our careers to go back to school and raise a family near our relatives. It's been a long time since we've been able to simply purchase things we want without doing any financial planning. Now we're slowly getting to a point where we can consider buying things for reasons other than pure neccessity. It feels good, but something purely for my enjoyment (a new bass) is still a little farther out than something which can be shared (like a two-seat airplane). The airplane is going to be significantly less expensive too (maybe $5k over 5 years), since I will be doing all the labor. Within a few years the kids will probably be playing my current basses, so it will be MUCH easier then for me to justify getting a new one for myself. By then hopefully I'll have ebayed my way up the chain far enough to not lose sight of the dream.. John the trying to plan like an adult one | ||
| essenceman
Junior Username: essenceman Post Number: 19 Registered: 10-2002 |
My father (God rest his soul) had a wonderful saying about "Senior Management". It went something like this: "I am the head of this family, but your mother is the neck. And wherever the neck turns, the head follows!" After 19 years of marriage, I think I now realise where he was coming from. Be good. Rob | ||
| hollis
Intermediate Member Username: hollis Post Number: 138 Registered: 11-2003 |
John, My wife and I spent this last weekend with our grandkids (12 and 3yrs old). I'm not pushing them in any musical direction...suffice to say the congas and various other percussion instruments got good workouts... The house was a rockin' while our birds (Cockatoos, Makaws, Cockatiels, and a Quaker Parrot)were a squawkin'. We cranked up the PA, invited the neighbors over, a few musician friends (including a bassist who owns a very sweet Rogue)stopped by and the jamming went on late into the night. Grandma blows a bad ass blues harmonica and Grandpa's Skylark blew the place away! The weekend was fun for everyone, most especially the grandkids, moreover, it brought great joy to my wife and me..... Whatever the kids think, they know one thing for sure; Grandma and Grandpa rock! So much time is spent doing things out of necessity, if we don't stop, step back, take a few deep breaths and upon occasion, let loose the purse strings, what's the point of this existence? The airplane sounds like a a fantastic project...New bass? It'll come. From where I sit your bass karma is in good standing. Enjoy! (Message edited by hollis on April 19, 2004) | ||
| jalevinemd
Junior Username: jalevinemd Post Number: 24 Registered: 12-2003 |
Rob, That saying of your father's is one of the best descriptions of husband-wife dynamics I've ever heard...comical, yet all too truthful at the same time. My dad, who recently passed away, would have loved it as well. Thanks for the laugh. Jonathan | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1292 Registered: 9-2002 |
Brother Hollis, my "senior management" (who doen't play an instrument but loves the music I play and is a big fan) and I just read your post and were really amused. "And the whole rhythm section was the birthcage gang" LOL. If you're 50 and you have grandchildren of 12 ...you must have children early of your own. Now I KNOW that is not easy. OTOH for them it is FUN to have those rocking grandparents. GREAT!!!!! And now YOU KNOW what I'm gonna yell: PICTURES-PICTURES-PICTURES of that gig. And don't tell me the story that there were no people with camera's!!! Paul the bad one | ||
| hollis
Intermediate Member Username: hollis Post Number: 139 Registered: 11-2003 |
Brother Paul, Pictures soon. My home computer went the way of all cyborgs...I will be replacing it soon. I'm 51. The grandkids are my "step grandchildren". I'm the only grandpa they've ever known.... Jullia (the 12 yr old), was 6 weeks old when we first met. I held her in my hands and made a promise to her that I would be a constant, positive force in her life. Personally, I think I got the better end of the deal. She's taught me way more than I'll ever be able to return to her....I guess I'll just stay happily in her debt. Now, if you really want to hear about someone starting early, My wife (Janet, the grandkids biological grandmother) will turn 47 in September. She turned a grandmother at age 35. Man! I took a picture of her with 5 living generations.... Quite an amazing sight. Senior management at our house is such a caring, loving woman, I am constantly blown away by my own good fortune. I'm a very lucky man. I love my life. All this, and Alembic too? Unreal! | ||
| 811952
Intermediate Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 151 Registered: 10-2003 |
Hollis, Thanks for the kind and encouraging words. Like Paul, I want to see the pictures! I think one of the things I personally find appealing with this group is that most of the members have lived life enough to have accrued a significant amount of wisdom and experience, and the younger members, to a person, have fresh perspectives while also really wanting to glean what wisdom can be gleaned from us old guys. I guess everybody associated with these fine musical instruments can appreciate that sometimes old is good too. 5 living generations is incredible. I wish my kids had known my grandparents. Very interesting people. At least they know my parents, who are quite interesting as well (my 78 year old dad is a broadcaster from waaaaay back, and used to do consulting work for Sam Phillips, among others). While I never imagined this is how my life would be, like you I love it. And my wife Tracy is my soul mate as well. And I own an Alembic bass... And a pony! ;) John the waxing sentimental one | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1294 Registered: 9-2002 |
Yep ...the "Sentimental journey" ...which is good. Hollis ...that IS beautiful!! As you probably know I grat some guitar from time to time and have a really nice old Yamaha FG580 (25 years this year and aging as a delicate vintage port). The whole family we , my brothers and sister, my parents our childreen went for a weekend and I brought my guitar. When we were outside in the garden of the weekend-house we rented and having an aperitif, my daughter asked me to play some guitar and sing a song. In my guitarcase are only two songtext on paper "Tears in Heaven" -what is about losing a child- and "Teach your Children" (CSN&Y). I picked the last one. Everybody listened. When I finished singing and playing I said this is the song that EVERYONE with children or aiming at having one or liking to go around with childrfen has to learn by heart. Mty father -who was in that time reqally sick already and is even worse now- asked the text and my daughter (you know the Finnish one) gave me an appraisal hug. Well ...not an Alembic story ...but ...hey ...with some music and children (no ...not grandchildren yet) Paul the bad one | ||
| bracheen
Advanced Member Username: bracheen Post Number: 396 Registered: 11-2003 |
That CSN&Y song is a great one. Loving Spoonful did a song about parenting as well but I can't think of the name of it. John, what's cool about this age to me is the fact that my wild oats are long since sown and I'm glad those days are behind me. There's still some reaping of those sown oats, but the peace and life perspective are well worth any minor, residual side effects youthful hooliganism. OK, back on the thread track before I get all misty. One thing that my Senior Manager will do. If I'm working on a new song and she's in another room, she'll call out the name when she recognizes it. It doesn't sound like much but that's pretty incouraging. God bless them all. Sam | ||
| hollis
Intermediate Member Username: hollis Post Number: 143 Registered: 11-2003 |
Sam, Was that the one John Sebastian played at Woodstock? Something about.....and hey pop can I go ride my zoom? That's a great song. Paul, I'm so sorry that your father isn't well. Teach Your Children is one of those timeless songs. I don't think it'll ever go out of style. And it is in keeping with Alembic. They recorded alot of CSN&Y and (I'm sure you already know) Jerry Garcia played that unforgetable pedal steel guitar on Teach Your Children. What's that they call it.... 6 degrees of separation? Whatever it is, this is such a great club. (Message edited by hollis on April 20, 2004) |
