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Right Angle: Backstage (06-07-2022)

Right Angle: Backstage (06-07-2022)

A long meeting is a good meeting…said no one ever. But the men of Right Angle have never been hindered by the things that no one ever says.

NOTE: Before listening to the audio under the video, watch the first few minutes of the video for context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-ecT3HSvc

Sultans with Scott Ott Vocal

From Bill Whittle:I got a text this morning from Scott, which included an audio file of him doing a cover of one of my all-time favorite songs, “The Sultans of Swing,” by Dire Straits. Frankly, I thought he had attached the wrong file, because it sounded EXACTLY like the recording I know so well. But no! Here’s the song that Scott used to sing almost four decades ago, re-recorded this morning. Lead vocals by our own Scott Ott, Ladies and Gentlemen…

35 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage (06-07-2022)”

I can appreciate the note encouraging us to watch the beginning of the video before listening to the audio file, but I think that should be reversed.

I’d love to have listened first, wondering if this is Mark Knopfler 35 years on, thinking I really should catch him live next time he passes through town. Then to learn the story of it. Awesome!

Either way, thanks for sharing the song. Thanks for sharing the memories. I’m posting this and listening again.

SoS is on that very short list of songs that cassic rock stations grossly overplay and I still can’t get tired of it

Population density might play into nice-ness, but that might be more history… when you’re not all piled together, it is easier to be nice when you only have to be nice to 5 people, not 50.

Steve, I wouldn’t say Cali is ag, if people in LA have never been out in the country. That just doesn’t affect them.

For farming and tech, the AI and autopilot/GPS available in tractors and use of drones for survey, crop damage evaluation after hail storms, flooding and such would boggle most city-folk. I remember a couple years back, someone at a tech mag covering CES or one of those shows was wondering why a John Deere combine was at the show, ignorant of just how much tech was in the thing. I wondered how they got the machine inside, with tires taller than the person pictured next to it. I suppose there must have been a door wide enough for a semi to haul in the massive amount of stuff that could be in those shows.

My wife was always picking up social cues that I was missing, she would say I’m socially retarded. ( can you say that anymore ?)

Trust me Steve, there’s plenty of us gays who loathe the whole L(K)GBTQ etc. etc. thing, and we know you’re not aiming your fire at us, but at the joyless, sexless stormtroopers of politicised “sexuality”.

Population density is indeed “a” primary cause regarding civility vs hostility within a society. Not the singular cause though. If you retain the Holy Spirit, you can retain your civility regardless of where you are. IMHO.

India would tend to argue otherwise. Of course, I have always argued that their population density made a caste system a virtual necessity.

My ministry partner said there is no politeness anywhere in India, not even in the country. Especially if they find out you’re Christian.

Backstage is favorite part of Bill Whittle’s page. Some weeks, I only watch the Backstage. I know, I know… I do not have a life. 😉

You had to go and bring up old computers. I’ve always ran on computers at least 5 to 10 years out of date. But I built my own usually. I got stuck with all-in-one computers a couple of times. Due to them being what I could afford at the time I needed it. But now, back to building my own…it’s not like it was.
I now have a Lenovo i7 with crappy Intel graphics and a lot of space for RAM and card space for graphics…but no money to buy any of it. lol

I’m about in the same boat. Although I do have the money to buy the parts to rebuilt the computer that just died on me, my secondary is doing well enough for day-to-day tasks that I am loathe to pay the inflated prices for a gaming machine. What I have is also handling a couple older, remade games I bought on Steam so my playing itch is covered, at least for now.

I’ve never really been much of a Dire Straits guy, being a Bluesman mostly, but I can see why you would do their covers Scott. Nicely done! I do a lot with backing tracks myself…but only for practice.

In keeping with the “Musicals Theme”
Oh, there’s nothing halfway,
About the Iowa way to treat you,
When we treat you,
Which we may not do at all!
There’s an Iowa kind,
A kind-a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude,
We’ve never been without that we recall!
We can be cold as the falling
Thermometer in December if you ask about our weather in July.
And we’re so by-gone stubborn, we can
Stand touching noses for a week at a time,
And never see eye-to-eye.
But what the heck!
You’re welcome,
Join us at the picnic.
You can have your fill of all the food you bring yourself.
You really ought to give Iowa a try,
Provided you are contrary.

Outstanding, Scott. As an amateur singer myself, I understand your reticence. I absolutely detest hearing myself on recordings.
This was really good!

Guys the ramblings before the topics are chosen is the best part when we hear what you guys history really was and what you really think.

Yes to this. My favorite part is when they just talk and each of their ADD gets so many topics.

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