Pegleg
A pegleg is a prosthesis, or artificial limb, fitted to the remaining stump of a human leg. Its use dates to antiquity.
By the late 19th century, prosthetics vendors would offer peg legs as cheaper alternatives to more intricate lifelike artificial legs. Even as vendors touted advantages of more complicated prostheses over simple peg legs, according to a contemporary surgeon, many patients found a peg leg more comfortable for walking. According to medical reports, some amputees were able to adjust to the use of a peg leg so well that they could walk 10, or even 30, miles in one day.
Nowadays, wooden peg legs have been replaced by more modern materials, though some sports prostheses do have the same form.
Notable peg leg wearers
Historical
Peg Leg (album)
Peg Leg is an album by jazz bassist Ron Carter, originally released on LP in 1978, digitally remastered and released on CD in 1991 by Fantasy Studios.
It was recorded in November 1977 and prominently features Carter on piccolo bass. Often carrying the melody the instrument is a focus of 3 of the albums 6 tracks, while fellow bass player Buster Williams performs the traditional role of the instrument on those tracks. The rhythm section is completed by piano and percussion (on all but 1 track), and guitar on 4 tracks. The standard jazz-ensemble is further augmented, on all 6 tracks, by woodwinds (see below).
Carter uses a piccolo bass tuned a fourth higher than a normal double bass (low to high: A-D-G-C).
Track listing
Podcasts:
Peg-Leg
ALBUMS
- Saving Face released: 2003
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by Journey
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by Robert Plant
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by Tom Cochrane
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by Poi Dog Pondering
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by Boogie Beebies
Back Talk
by: Journey(Steve Perry/Jonathan Cain/Steve Smith)
I work all day to make a livin'
No one needs
Your kind of attitude
Your sharp tongue
It cuts me like a razor
Lip service gets you nowehere
No-no-no
CHORUS
Back talk I don't need it
B-b-b-back talk I don't need it
No-no-no-back talk
Don't want to hear it
Don't give me no back talk
Watch that temper
You watch what you're sayin'
Don't talk to me
With that tone of voice
Your act is pushin' me
To the limit
Can't stand it,
Can't take it anymore
CHORUS
I believe you enjoy
This aggravation
Latelye that's all I get from you
You were born to drive me crazy
Can't take it anymore from you
No, no more
CHORUS
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