Grateful Dead Music Forum

I was pretty active a decade or so ago. I got sidetracked with raising kids, getting kicked out of Corporate America, etc. Didn't play much guitar for several years. Fully retired now, and an empty nester. Just starting to get back into playing, feeling like I am starting all over!

I think I remember you ... those days are hazy now ... regardless, welcome back and NEVER STOP PLAYING!

Awesome! I think I remember you too. Did you use to run road races?

Not I!

Welcome back Mick! I too am a now-retired refugee from Corporate America. After 25 years of glowing reviews, as soon as I turned 55 I got the "boy, you sure had us fooled for all that time- but now you're useless" message. Ha! I changed companies, got another 10 years of splendid reviews, then retired. I'm starting to think it might have been them, not me.

Things are a lot quieter around here these days, but still a good group.

Those chops will come back, dig in!

-Mike

Jon: Sorry, I must be old and confused!

Mike: Thanks! I originally got bounced out of Corporate America at 48 years old in 2012. I consulted for 4 years (loved the work, hated the lifestyle), and went into "semi-retirement" in mid-2016, basically managing the investment properties I had bought along the way. Pandemic hit, and I sold the bigger one in March of 2020. The smaller one just got to be a pain in the ass, and the wife wanted to unload it. Sold it May of 2021, and am trying to be officially retired!

Got back into golf, and did that until it got cold in October. Opened the case on my acoustic, and have been playing it an hour or so 3-4 times per week since. I am starting to feel the tough spots on my fingers again, and can feel my grip on the strings improving. I do feel like I am starting over, but it is coming back more quickly than when I learned it the first time!

I see the board is quieter than it was a decade+ ago. I guess us Deadheads are all starting to get old. Bummer man.

Mick wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 3:33 pm I see the board is quieter than it was a decade+ ago. I guess us Deadheads are all starting to get old. Bummer man.

Speak for yourself. As far as I'm concerned, middle age doesn't even start until about 70!

Bill, tgo

Mick wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 3:33 pm I guess us Deadheads are all starting to get old.

Go to a Dead & Company show some time and you'll marvel at just how untrue that is.

The relative quietness is not due to age.

"These are the halcyon days,
say goodbye to the fights. No malaise.
Less strife, more peace,
Let us give joy its rightful release."

https://soundcloud.com/gratefuljon/halc ... al_sharing

Checking in again 3 years later!

Was playing a lot, and learning a lot! Found the Stitch method, which I think is great! Having a lot of trouble with tendonitis in my left wrist the last several months, but I think I am close to getting over it. Getting ready to go back to playing my acoustic, am fresh out of electric guitars at the moment, want to buy a new one.

When I last was playing a lot, October/November of 2024, I was really grooving on Franklin's Tower and Goin' Down the Road, really starting to figure out how to solo over those two.

Hope to help get some traffic back to this board!!!!

Mick

Forums are so 2000's.... it's all on other channels.... FB, Insta, etc. FB also starting to fade some, but the oldsters seem to like it still. The Dead-Sphere is crazy active.... the country is flooded with GD cover bands. Lotsa kids getting into it.

CrazyFingersHK wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 11:23 am Forums are so 2000's.... it's all on other channels....

I appreciate the irony of your first post here.

Seriously, you're probably right. I don't know how representative I am of anyone else my age as my wife and friends are all on Facebook and/or Instagram. But I have zero interest in those rabbit holes. Guitar forums work for me for my guitar needs; in-person visits, calls, emails, WhatsApp messages, Zoom, and texts for me otherwise.

P.S. Welcome to to RUKIND.

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