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Thats the 'Breaking' News here in UK at 4.00am in the morning, I am up because I cant sleep as my 92 year old neighbour has fell asleep with his television turned on loudly.. Poor old 'Hubby' thought he was being visited by aliens last night after he took a cocodemol tablet before he went to bed.. It just got me thinking, I wonder if I will be pickin the steel at 92? I know I won't be carrying it about as its getting heavier all the time!

David Hartley

because Bob Haskell still does over here..

DH

do you know for sure that he 'wasn't' being visited by aliens?

No, thats true.. He said they came in through the window, broke a wall down leading to his back yard, knocked down his bird table, moved his chest of drawers on the landing, and then the electric heater he has at the top of his stairs started talking to him! It was all a bit wierd when he came and saw me yesteday morming at 08.00am to tell me.. I went round his house to check it out but nothing was there only tablets on the table whiach he said he took 1 of before he went to bed last night.. This happened to him a year ago when the doctor put him on strong pain tablets for his aches and pains.. I just went outside and looked over his fence, he has turned the telly off now.. I think I better give him a look when it gets daylight over here.. I am sure he is fine.. He just gets haloucinations when he has these things.. Last year I had to go round after he said his table was alive and coal and logs were walking around his house.. He is normally a very sensible old man.. I do keep an eye on him daily.. He is by himself, and we live right in the country with no immediate neighbours.. ET, I mean DH !

Sounds like your neighbor keeps you from getting bored. Looking forward to meeting you in March if your still coming to Dallas.I just started playing late so I'll be ending late.The age of 92 sounds fine to me.

David, Sounds like a "trip in the country"

David,
Sounds just like an ordinary day in the Scottish Highlands. As for playing steel at 92, it will either be that or Harp but most likely stoking fires !!!! See you in Dallas.

A pedal Harp maybe???

David,you could put wheels on the front legs and it could double as a walker at the gigs.

Dave,
Bob Haskell carries on like that without tablets.....
Tony

David, I think you should give him a few blast's of that train whistle you do on OBS in the middle of the night... That should curb his drug use...

92??/!!.. still playing steel??... I can hardly move it at 53.. nah.. No steel for me at 92.. I plan on being seriously decomposed and already with Jesus for several decades on my 92nd birthday... UNLESS, I remain young spry and full of vim and vigor!!!!!.. It won't be worth it unless the chicks dig me... bob

Hopefully I will be picking the steel at 92, but by that time my posts on the forum might only make sense to me. (O.K. please no wise cracks telling me that my current posts don't make sense -- so it won't make any difference).

By the way, I had a restless sleep earlier this week in at the Hampton Inn in Owensboro Kentucky. Something bit my leg hard as I was trying to sleep, then later I had to slug a grelim that jumped up on the bed. Woke up real sore the next morning from all the fighting, I think they (gremlins) ganged up on me. So that alien stuff does not surprise me.

P.S. if you're passing through that town, don't rent room 231, its haunted or something.

HI ALL
Bob haskell surley cant be 92 i thought he was younger than myself at 68
vic uk.

It would be a dream come true at last, for me if I am playing steel at 92 !! Been working at it for years and haven't gotten there yet !!

If I keep practicing, I'll be 92 before I learn this thing.

David-If the Good Lord will give me 6 more years, I'll be still playing my steel. Just for my own amazement! ....al.:):)

Hey Guys I will still be playing my Steel for another 33 years that will make me 104. Thats my goul and I'm sticking to it.
Sam White

Good chance we will. Look at Bobbee Seymour
JP

I was only trying to wind him up... Of course he is not in his 90's.....He is only 77 but looks 92..Come on Bob, where are you.. PS Bob, your band DEFINATLEY has the North Walsham gig in February 2008.. Rondo made a mistake... Its a good job you called me, I would have turned up there without a doubt... COME ON...Reply..and let me know you got this message..

Are you doing SPAIN with BC or me? I need some sun...

David

It's no good Dave, he's hibernating.
When he wakes up, he won't know where he's buried his acorns.....
It's his age you know.

I'll be playing till they pry my cold, dead fingers from the bar.

Hi Guys
What's the fascination about my age then?
I feel quite horned your all taking an interest..
Its all good fun... I'll just point out, that
Tony Smart is OLDER & MADDER than me!!
Thanks for the N/Walsham gig, it would
have been fun for us all to do it.
As far as I know, I'm doing Spain with Bill,
but Stannard cant make it..
The wives are going too, as its a bit of a holiday.
Hope to see yer soon,

Bob.. ( 59 )..

Re. Mr. Haskell
If you believe that, you'll believe anything.
Anyway, people are always telling me to grow up.
I tell them straight, "What do I want to be 11 for?"

I think he ment
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