Richard 🇺🇸

I'm retired and married. An independent thinker, a classical liberal now considered a far right MAGA extremist by democrats.
Transfixus sed non mortus!

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

This is my bass. There are many like it but this one is mine.

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

@AlanFelyk But the minute you throw it out...

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

@HarmeetKDhillon High energy!

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

@sayitnspinit @judy94509030 I scarcely know who he is...

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

@californiapost What train?

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

@AllenWest @GunRangeMesq They can vote for whatever the hell they want. I'm gonna fall in behind you, pal.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

FACT CHECK ……. TRUE 💯

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

@DeahDipietro They showed up about 30 minutes after they cleared out...

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

Nothing makes me contemplate moving out of the city like coming home with a trunk full of groceries and some inconsiderate troglodyte is blocking my driveway... So I call 311 and wait, while thinking less than admirable thoughts.

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

We bass players seldom work with one another obviously. But we share stories about the acts we back up. One of my pals played bass with Dolly Parton. He never had an unkind thing to say about her. Rest in peace Dolly.

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

@atom_domi @skcLIC @jimiuorio I don't need it I never did
I hated paying into it when I was working

[Binky @TheOnlyGuru]

Isn’t it lovely that upon learning of Dolly Parton’s passing, there is not a negative or uncharitable thing anyone can say about her.

That my friends, is a true legend and true legacy.

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

Speaking of things guys will do when bored AND have access to a JATO rocket. Here is a blast from the past written in good old HTML 1. https://t.co/PW3FhtEG9Y

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

@vodouch2000 They sound so good when paired with nice speakers. Even with not so nice speakers.

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

So sorry to hear of the passing of Dolly Parton. She was an angel, if my pals who worked for her as sidemen are to be believed. Which they are.

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

@cagrown5 They are crafty little buggers. Traps only catch the dumb ones...

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

@dan_bst My former boss...

[Richard 🇺🇸 @Richardw55dblbs]

Well, whaddya know...
Instant karma.
Slightly related, someone in our own government took a look at Somalia, whose primary occupation is Piracy, and said "We need more of THOSE people in the good old USA!" Some in Congress, even...
https://t.co/sePA5p6yAp

[Peter Schweizer @peterschweizer]

I don't believe in Karma, but.... Somali pirates just hijacked...a sanctioned Iranian oil tanker. It's now in a Somali port. https://t.co/jVtx9AjwN5

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸