Today’s the day. I’ve never been put under in my life, so mark this date on your calendar, readers! If all goes well, I’ll update you on how it went! In the meantime we’re on the third and most important song for Teeth Week. It had to be “(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth” by Metallica today. No other song would do it.
This track is an instrumental composed and performed by the late Cliff Burton for Metallica’s debut LP Kill ‘Em All. Surely it has to be one of the most famous bass instrumentals in the history of rock. The fuzzy bass sound is absolutely perfect, as Cliff plays a rhythm melody with tasty bass licks. His technique is insane, with fingers flying and tapping over the fretboard. Lars Ulrich and the rest of Metallica don’t even come in until the halfway point, leaving Cliff to lay down the most awesome of bass songs.
Check out the 1983 studio original, and a live version recorded in Chicago the same year. If I could play bass a fraction as well as Cliff Burton, I’d be happy!
Bring on the anesthesia — here I go. Wish me luck!
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Good luck Mike! Hope it all goes well and that you recover quick
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Thanks man! I hope to update you soon.
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Good luck Sir! You will do fabulous! And hopes for a speedy recovery. Enjoy the 5 days of rest and probably lots of ice cream!!
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Thanks man, I don’t like ice cream but we have freezies. How you are you feeling today?
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Doing better. Going to try and work today see if I can make it all day…didn’t quite make a it a full day yesterday. By afternoon, I start fading fast.
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Understandable. I guess the way they explained it to me was that all the energy your body needs for healing is going to the wrong parts of your body — for driving, for moving, for thinking.
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It makes sense. I am supposed to work from home for two weeks and rest a lot. Plus can’t lift anything more than 10lbs for about a month.
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What happened to you John? I heard nothing of this!
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Had my appendix out. lots of fun.
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You should have told me! We could have showered you with fan mail in your hospital bed!
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That would’ve been great. However, it was out patient. It think I was only in the hospital for like 5 hours.
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Sounds like hot ass. At least everyone’s being extra nice to you, right?
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As nice as they can, I am an ass don’t forget.
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I’d like to shake your hand some day, but then everyone’s telling me to “never meet your heroes.”
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Wasn’t Roy Scheider more the hero guy though? Not Dreyfuss, he was a secondary hero guy.
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You’re right, another reason not to meet him! Also, he looks nothing like Wil Wheaton even though he played him in Stand by Me.
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Oh yeah! Wheaton looks kinda like he’s a recovering addict now. And when you see him on the Trek aftershows, he’s… reeeeeeaally over enthusiastic about the new shows and it’s embarrassing.
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Makes sense that he would love them. Most of them are so bad that they make Wesley Crusher look okay by comparison.
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Yeah and maybe he never really understood Trek anyway.
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He makes it really hard to like him, that’s for sure.
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I’m afraid you’re right. I just unfollowed him actually.
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You lasted longer than about 95% of the planet! O’l Loyal Ladano.
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Lol well he must have fans. I just… I dunno. I don’t wanna be mean. I don’t think I’d wanna hang out with him.
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I think most people do the classic Picard facepalm when they read his Twitter. Then they say, “Shut up, Wesley.”
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Oh I bet he loooooves that.
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Funny you should say that, he actually made a Twitter post years ago saying he was so over “Shut up, Wesley,” that he would instantly block anyone that said it to him, even as a joke.
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Glad I unfollowed then.
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You should tell him to, “Shut up, Wesley,” so you can get blocked too.
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I get blocked enough lol. I may as well quit Twitter. I don’t get any reader hits from there. Anyone on Twitter, I can reach elsewhere.
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It’s a cesspool of negativity and ill will.
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Yeah, it would be a big disappointment!! LOL!
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Don’t be so hard on yourself! You suffered enough having to star in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
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Is that Lenny’s cousin or something?
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Yeah, and he’s gonna go your way.
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My way? That doesn’t sound good!
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He’s gonna make you fly away with him.
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HA!!
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Good luck today dude. As I told u the other day in the long run u will feel better
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I haven’t actually had any tooth pain there in almost a year but I know you can’t just live with rotten teeth in your mouth.
Ultimately I’m just revving to go on my Lego today man. LOL That’s what I am looking forward to.
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I said this everywhere else: You got this, dude. GIVE ‘ER! I’ve been ‘put under’ once in my life, as a kid, I had my tonsils out. I remember them asking me to count backwards from 100 and only making it to roughly 96. And the mask they put over my mouth for the gas smelled like lipstick. Next thing, I woke up in bed, and I could have all the ice cream and popsicles I wanted and Mom and Dad gave me my Boba Fett figure. And my throat was rather sore (go figure).
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May your day be devoid of any unwanted surprises and may your recovery be swift, uneventful and as enjoyable as possible.
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By the time you read this, you’ll probably be out of sugery. So, I hope it went well and that you feel better soon! Also, listen to great music to ease the pain!
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