Greg GuitarBuster

Toni Iordache (December 17, 1942 – February 1988) was a Romani-Romanian lăutar and one of the most famous cimbalom (Romanian: ţambal) players in the world. He was nicknamed the God of the Cimbalom and Paganini of the cimbalom. - Greg GuitarBuster

Uli's original post is gone, maybe Kirsten has a copy. - Greg GuitarBuster

March 2012: Uli and Kirsten, Joe Silence, his wife Chyi, and their daughters, Ha3rvey and his wife, Yolanda and her boyfriend (now husband?), Melinda and I. My apologies for forgotten names....was someone else there? - Greg GuitarBuster

Yes ,there was someone else, someone who worked with Harvey, Huntur - Greg GuitarBuster

from 1982 "And so they sent you to Afghanistan To have you workin' for their master plan I think that it may be for the CIA And when you're through they're gonna put you away They're put you in an institution And put a wire up into your brain Because you know about the revolution That kind of thing'll drive a boy insane" - Greg GuitarBuster

I owe an additional $1500 and have to repay all of the ACA Tax Credit (another $3800) :(((( - Greg GuitarBuster

Thanks, Spidra. I went to one free help session at the library last year. My situation last year was already beyond their level. I'll see what I can find tomorrow. - Greg GuitarBuster

Like any good presidential candidate courting conservative Republican voters, Ted Cruz is a country music fan. In an interview with CBS News Tuesday, Cruz said he grew up listening to classic rock, but became a country fan after 9/11 because of how musicians responded to the attacks. "I actually find this intellectually curious, but on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded, and country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me, and I just have to say just at a gut level, I had an emotional reaction that said these are my people," he said. - Greg GuitarBuster

I'm so glad that he cleared that up, or I would have continued to confuse Ted Cruz with Ted Nugent. - Greg GuitarBuster

Or Mötley Crüe - Spidra Webster

I propose that all federal holidays, election day, and the IRS income tax deadline be combined on a single day, April 1st. - Greg GuitarBuster

Vote and yell, "April Fools" - Greg GuitarBuster

File your income tax return and yell "April Fools". - Greg GuitarBuster

It's that season in Texas when people take pictures of themselves pooping on bluebonnets. - Greg GuitarBuster

:) - ufuk

o_O - John (bird whisperer)

WTF. - Jennifer Dittrich

That is illogical. - Greg GuitarBuster

John Jarnecke, president of the Republic of Texas, at his home in Fredericksburg, Texas on March 4. Ilana Panich-Linsman New York Times - Greg GuitarBuster

For 15 years, a handful of mostly older hobbyists have met regularly, elected each other to offices and passed laws, playing legislature and pretending to be the true Texas Congress. - Greg GuitarBuster

http://thetexasrepublic.com/ - Greg GuitarBuster

Cover of The Purity Journal, Vol. II, Number 9, March 1906, illustrating Fort Worth’s Hell’s Half Acre and the devil watching over the activities there – “Fort Worth: A Modern Sodom.” A hand (The Public) holds a sword with the words "Purity, Temperance, STRIKE!! A few links more and all will be lost." on it. - Greg GuitarBuster

The Berachah Industrial Home for the Redemption of Erring Girls. - Greg GuitarBuster

Inside a distribution center the size of 25 football fields, a six-ton robot called Robo-Stow lifts its metal arm. “That robot you’re seeing there, we think is earth’s largest robot,” says Kelly Cheeseman, a spokeswoman for Seattle-based Amazon. “It lifts pallets 24 feet in the air, directly onto Amazon robots that then take those pallets to be stored within this million square foot building.” - Greg GuitarBuster

Used to be around 8MB, though last year I posted a 13MB MP3. - Big Joe Silenced

I'm trying to decide how to share Melinda's movie, The Acorn People. The MP4 is 1.6GB. I'll probably put it on a free dropbox account for awhile. - Greg GuitarBuster

Benefiting All Star Equestrian - Greg GuitarBuster

I reckon we might aughta be a-goin' to the 1K Fun Run. - Greg GuitarBuster

I doubt that we'll make it to the fun run today. Melinda had another seizure yesterday. - Greg GuitarBuster

April 9-12 - Greg GuitarBuster

Violinist Eric Silberger performs Paganini's 24th Caprice with all variations layered for the first time ever. - Greg GuitarBuster

Nordic version of "Dark was the night" by Blind Willie Johnson with weissernborn slide guitar. - Greg GuitarBuster

Kavaklar is an old Turkish song by Sezen Aksu. Music by Onno Tunc and lyrics by Metin Altiok - Greg GuitarBuster

old turkish song from Asik Veysel played by weissenborn at an open stage night - Greg GuitarBuster

very nice. - scarbo

A decades-long clean-up operation at Yasgur’s Farm, site of the 1969 Woodstock music festival which defiled a generation, came to an end this fall, erasing a nearly 50-year-old cultural taint that many still feel will never fully be cleansed from the nation’s psyche. Although it has taken nearly half a century to rid the site of trash, yogurt containers, granola bar wrappers, drug paraphernalia and socialist literature brought in by the nearly 500,000 hygienically-challenged counter-culturalists who descended upon the small dairy farm located in the upstate New York hamlet known as Bethel, the sanitation operation was much more than a simple trash removal undertaking; for one man, it was personal. - Greg GuitarBuster

Note: National Report is satire. This post was less obvious until you read more. - Greg GuitarBuster

To celebrate their 25th anniversary, acclaimed Rom band Taraf de Haïdouks are revisiting some of the old styles which have enchanted Western audiences on their earlier albums: Gypsy love songs, poignant Romanian ballads and old-school dance tunes, alongside those Turkish-flavoured instrumentals they’ve grown to love. Let’s all join the party! For the first time since the sad demise of their oldest vocalists (Ion Manole, Neculae Neacsu, Cacurica and Ilie Iorga), Taraf de Haïdouks are revisiting some of their ancient styles, and are taking a retrospective look at their career. Some of their former collaborators have been re-enlisted, such as superb vocalists Tsagoi (the son of the legendary, late Neacsu) and Gheorghe Manole (who has mastered the repertoire of his father, the great Ion Manole), as well as the flamboyant Viorica Rudareasa, the woman who sang the band’s iconic song “Dumbala Dumba”. Thus does the Taraf de Haïdouks’ music keep morphing: far from being a fixed, monolithic canon, it has been absorbing and recycling old & new elements. The band was formed back in 1990, by individual musicians who, until then, had only been playing in various combinations at the village’s social rituals (baptisms, weddings, funerals, harvests etc). By then, ‘foreign’ accordions had already found a place amidst the violins and cymbalums, and the repertoire of the lautari (traditional Rom musicians) was peppered with cabaret flavours from the city. Then came Turkish melodies and rhythms and, more recently, the influence of popular urban manele (which actually derives from manea, an old ‘oriental’ lautar style). The harmonies and structures became more complex, the playing more virtuosic, and the balance between vocal and instrumental pieces gradually shifted in favour of the latter. - Greg GuitarBuster

Marcus Bachmann, husband of former Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, unwittingly became the first public face of Indiana’s newly-enacted Religious Freedom Restoration Act, after being refused service at a dress boutique because the store owner assumed he was gay. - Greg GuitarBuster

Please tell me that this isn't satire, that it really happened. - Greg GuitarBuster

Okay, this site has to be satire. - Greg GuitarBuster

Donald Trump Fined After Wig Maker Reveals Use Of Endangered Species’ Hair - Greg GuitarBuster

Surprised to learn that the Association of Computing Machinery will have an awards show on TV next month. - Greg GuitarBuster