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***What Are You Smoking, October 2024?***
Steamworks is one of the great tobaccos I've tasted. Have to be careful with it, only have two tins and can't get any more. I smoke mine in a great little McQueen miniature for a short but excellent 20 minute smoke. Have to guard those rare treasures and stretch their life out any way you can...- gord
- Post #3,429
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, October 2024?***
Well, first day of post break in fast started today. Not suffering in the least. Lotsa good cheap cigars in my drawer, and I still have a pair of Swishers, Colts (hidden behind the jar of "chew", and which I used today while teaching a couple of violin and piano students. They didn't notice...- gord
- Post #3,428
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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What Are You Listening To? - October, 2024
Glad you told us that it's World Opera Day. Don't know Elina Garanca. Since I retired from the profession six or seven years ago, I haven't kept up with current happenings. But I think I shall listen to Carmen and Elina tomorrow. Great opera, played it twice. Thanks!- gord
- Post #365
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Are You Listening To? - October, 2024
Tonight's Classical - 8 minutes, 3 Paganini Caprices with Perlman. You won't believe this stuff!. And I've heard it many times before and my jaw still drops. The bookends of the 24 Caprices, and one in the middle that's absolutely ferocious. Don't know what you'll smoke with it . . . . I was too...- gord
- Post #362
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Are You Listening To? - October, 2024
Yup. Branford Marsalis (brother of Jazz great Wynton on trumpet) made his debut recording on soprano sax. I hung out with a lot of Jazzers in my 7 year stint in the Music Department at UBC, and many of them got their BMus's at Eastman Jazz School. Got to know a lot of inside stuff from them. I...- gord
- Post #360
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Are You Listening To? - October, 2024
yup . . . right. and Marsalis on soprano. But I was referring to Charlie Parker, alto, also known as "The Bird" However, now I have another "Byrd" to get to know. Thanks!!- gord
- Post #354
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Are You Listening To? - October, 2024
Jean-Luc Ponty is incredible. He, while playing in the Orchestre d'Lameroux, won 1st Prize at the Paris Conservatory Violin Competition, and competed in the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium comptetion, and if I remember, he placed. No small feat. One day he substituted for a friend who was busking...- gord
- Post #348
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Are You Listening To? - October, 2024
What? Where's the "Bird?" :rolleyes:- gord
- Post #346
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Are You Listening To? - October, 2024
Trying a little experiment here and about to attempt to upload a couple of mp3 files. Nope, doesn't look like it can be done. Too bad. Would save me a lot of time trying to find appropriate stuff on YouTube. Unless someone can tell me a way to load mp3s onto the forum.- gord
- Post #343
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Are You Listening To? - October, 2024
I'll be doing more of this - maybe even duplicating a post or two in the off subject threads. Explaining, I was not only a professional violinist (Concertmaster of 4 different orchestras), but I was principal conductor of two orchestras and resident composer of three. I had a very rewarding...- gord
- Post #342
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Are You Listening To? - October, 2024
About to go and light up a cigar. I'll be listening to Wagner. Here's two You tube versions of the aria "Notung, Notung . . ." - the first sung Siegfried is sung by a tenor, and the older Karajan recording by a true Heldentenor (bass baritone with a tenor range . . . .much more powerful. But...- gord
- Post #338
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Are You Listening To? - October, 2024
Now, here is a different kettle of fish from the Webern. My favorite Mozart Symphony, the "Haffner." I've performed this with every orchestra I've been a part of, and conducted it in concert with two different orchestras about four times, if I remember correctly. Took it on tour with the...- gord
- Post #336
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Are You Listening To? - October, 2024
Just ran into this thread. Interesting. I'll go back and review it a bit more thoroughly, but here is what I am listening to right now. Yes, it is music! Yes I like it. As a matter of fact, I've played it several times in performance. Haven't conducted it because it is extremely difficult and...- gord
- Post #334
- Forum: General Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, October 2024?***
Well, Success #3 - went as I thought it would. About two smokes away from being "de-mineralized" and smoking as a meer should. The meer-lined bowl is being "ghosted" for rum based tobaccos, especially my favourite in this category, Backwoods Buttered Rum. I'm not inordinately fond of aromatics...- gord
- Post #3,304
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, October 2024?***
Striking pipe!- gord
- Post #3,291
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, October 2024?***
That looks a lot like the Pine Pass area about 100 miles north of here. No leaves - we call this the "dull browns." We're about four or five days behind this - I'm slightly North of Prince George, about 30 miles from Summit Lake, at which point the rivers flow north into the McKenzie and Parsnip...- gord
- Post #3,288
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, October 2024?***
Second Success - My meerschaum is still a touch minerally, but I could now distinguish different notes in the Sunday Picnic, and if I could compare it to a broken-in pipe, I'd say . . . "well, I've had better smokes but I've had worse, too." So I'm not bothering with any more breaking-in angst...- gord
- Post #3,276
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, October 2024?***
Trade ya! Froze last night, and we're due for snow! :ROFLMAO: Used to love the stuff, but I'm 73 now and don't like anything below 68 degrees! Apparently it happens!- gord
- Post #3,236
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, October 2024?***
First Success. Briar Falcon bowl in my Falcon International successfully broken in. Had an excellent 45 minute smoke with my favourite codger blend, Smoker's Pride Whiskey Tobacco. The bowl, pipe and tobacco work so well together I think I'll leave them as a unit and put them in a regular...- gord
- Post #3,214
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Plant Sitting - Need Some Help Here
It's greenhouse stuff up here. We're stuck with an average of 85 frost free days in Prince George, and outside the perimeter, where I live, it's about 75. Limits our gardens to just basics which can be covered or protected. The flowers are tiny - the entire clump is only about an inch in...- gord
- Post #25
- Forum: General Discussion