My daughters pregnancy ran into some complications yesterday so they took the baby with a C section. Everyone is doing very well and I have a grandson. His name is Peter Thomas after his two grandfathers. He is 6 pounds 14 ounces and is 18.5 inches long.

Tom

Congratulations Tom

I am very glad to hear the complications were overcome and everyone is healthy. Now you can start working on growing some gray hair and really look the part of Grandpa.

Eddie

Congratulations

Congratulations on your new arrival Tom!
Glad everyone is doing fine. Well, I guess we know what you'll be doing on your free weekends for the next several years. Babysitting is a great way to share those special moments and when he's old enough - how to play football. I'm sure you're as proud as you can be. Best to you and all the family.

Mike

Way to go Tom! He's probably a soprano now, but that will change.
DonM

Congrats Tommy.....Way To Go!!

Whoo Hooo !

DNJ, you may have entirely too much time on your hands. Perhaps YOU should start a family! Th happy face smiley is the only one I know how to make without going to a lot of trouble.
DonM

Tom.... CONGRATULATIONS !!! ... Glad everything worked out well ... sounds like this is your first ... being a grandparent (4 for me) is the GREATEST!!! ... As I was told "If I knew grandkids would be so great, I would have had them first" .... there is a reason they are called 'grand'children ..
t.

Hey Tom,
I am still in Brazil (my last day here) but I really want to send you my congratulations too!

congrats tom,you know what they say ,is that the reason we take up music is because we were inspired when we were young,so when babysitting you play those lulabies,"another musician is born",mike

Great ! Congradulations Tom .

Congradulations Tom, all the best!
Now your not going to spoil him are you?
It's Great to be a grandaddy!
Nobby

Tom: Congratulations Gramps !
My guess is that, as grandparents this time around, it'll be a lot easier than it was as parents, as you can now have lots of FUN spoiling the tyke and then easily send him to his parents to handle the day to day headaches of child rearing. - Scott

Congratulations!!!

Tom,

Keep him away from Jazz. Raise him to believe that Country Music is the "cats meow". It will go easier for him to find gigs. Get him some cowboy boots and a big cowboy hat.

Make his life easier if you're gonna get him involved in music. OK? Maybe you could get him to take lessons from DonM.

If "you" try to teach him Country, he'll be a laughing stock trying to put all of those IIm7 chords before the V7 chord. And he doesn't need to know any diminished chords. Besides I think there's only 2 or 3 country tunes that use a dim chord and they are very old tunes anyway. He doesn't need to know either one of those 2 or 3 tunes.

I'll be impressed if you can teach him to do the Guitar lick on "Beer For My Horses" exactly like the record. I love that lick. It sounds real simple but try to play it along with the CD. It's a monster. My new ambition in life is to learn this lick.

A granda baby boy would be great. My first wife took all of mine away. Enjoy friend!!

Hey Boo Boo ......
I'm sure you were kidding, but - ever hear of Garth Brooks? He's a "new" country sanger .... (well, not REALLY country, but he's a good actor and a fine ball player I hear)
His tune "Friends in low places (a modest hit ) has a diminished chord right in the begining! The scond chord !Imagine that!
keep layin those bricks and whistlin' Mile Davis tunes ! It's good for the soul!

Boo, go listen to Willie Nelson's "Stardust" album.
DonM

DonM, Dave,

All the trash I've been talking and not a comment from either one of you. I Thought you guy's pasted away.

I don't know how to do the smiley face thing.

I like Walking The floor Over You. I do it with a trio jazz style. It gets to kicking.

Was just trying to wake DonM up Dave. I do Frends In Low Places. I do more Country tunes then you guys think.

How do you do the smiley faces. I'm jealous cause I can't do them?

http://www.handykult.de/menu/menu.php3?mid=smilie


Boo....just click/copy/paste

Boo,
Life's too short to bicker all the time. I have my hands full just pasting a smile on for 4 hours a night at work ..... I don't want to work at it here too.
Nothing you say bothers me, you know that !
I don't need a wake up call ..... I need a vacation, and a rich girlfriend .......... with redhair. (still no word)
Tuesday my girls and I are off to NYC for a 2 day vaca - can't wait !

Have fun Dave. A few days away with the kids will work wonders. And no Boobird.
My family and I are going to South Texas to see my mother next week. We'll be leaving after I get off work Saturday night and coming back in time for work Wednesday night.
It's about a 12 or 13-hour drive.
DonM

Thank you everyone. My daughter and grandson came home from the hospital yesterday. Everything is well. He has long fingers. Maybe he'll grow up to be the next Donny or Eddie. If I want my grandson to grow up poor I'll steer him toward jazz. If he is to be rich and successful like DonM he can do both kinds of music, country and western. In 20 years I'll ship him to Philly to study under the grand master of all music the great U.D. himself.

Just teach him to be the next Tom C. and he'll do fine.
Yeah, I am rich and successful, just don't have any money.
DonM

I know for a fact DonM's made hundreds of dollars at this music stuff.

All we do in Philly is go out to eat and play gigs. (THERE, I said it...the "G" word !)

Dave,

Gig has always been unigue to musicians. It sets musicians apart from bricklayers. I think it's a great discription of a music job!

I still don't understand your reasoning on it, but I'll be the first to say you have every right to your opinion.

I still can't do the smiley faces. When I type the according to the instructions on the "smilies ""legend", that's all I get is the . And the copy and paste from the site Donny gave me doesn't work either.

Boy! I feel as dumb as I must look here! Everyone but me can do a smilie face.

Actually Boo, the reason I DON'T use the "G" word is because it doesn't command the same respect of the situation. In my mind, a "gig" is like jamming in a garage. I support a family and run a small buisness on the income derived from my work. It's really no different from your work as a brick layer. We both sell a service. We both perform in front of the public, and we both need the validation of our client if we are to be paid. To treeat it as less than a "day at the office" just seems like selling short.

I have mnany friends that use the term gig to refer to all sorts of work. Regardless of all the "cool cat" lingo that started the pet name ........ I feel that it diminishes the importance of the work, and makes the performer sound like something "less than" a professional.

I'm sure this is a minority opinion, and I don't expect anyone to change their speech habits to apease me, but that's the way I see it. Just another quirky "artistc" trait, I guess.