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Nice. I almost got one but found my smaller keyboard stand could stand behind my Z stand by configuring it a little differently. Maybe I stood it on it's end, I can't remember. It takes up some floor space but it works.

I’ll add a pair to the HFC count.

Local shop has one, but I believe the one he has was hencho en Mexico. Looks just like the photo. Also, a great number of Fender-Japan guitars have basswood bodies, so that tracks.

so up to 7 not counting Badger's, so likely more than 7 probably some owned by non-HFCers

Well well, I wondered if Fender had ever produced a guitar like I described: 1: RH body, RH trem, RH pick guard, 2: LH pickup array, LH peghead. And, the answer appears to be YES! Hendrix Woodstock white with the large peghead is a big plus unfortunately, I believe the Japan Fender “ST 68” series guitars have basswood bodies (boo) can anyone confirm this? https://reverb.com/item/94978007-fender-st-68-stratocaster-reissue-mij-jimi-hendrix otherwise, this might be in my cart. Watcha think PEEPS?

Kate Hudson 🥰🤪 I think she looks better than ever. Maybe because I'm getting old?? Never even knew I liked her that way. It wasn't what I thought it would be. Great performances all around. I too had a an older sister (by 8 years!) that influenced me through her music collection.

and then what happened? arniez

This popped up this morning.....I know there are a lot of mixed feelings re the Dead. This popped up this morning and made me chuckle, re the time a band that had already disbanded was booked without our knowledge to play at a gig way out in the sticks. Our former lead singer booked us at a place we had played months before. He mentioned the name of our band...."No, we want someone different!" Scott thought a moment and the first name he could come up with was "The Warlocks"...."Cool, book them".......The real Warlocks had been touring the west coast playing anywhere they could. We were most definitely NOT them. Well, we no longer HAD a band and our English lead guitarist (and the only one with any measurable talent) had left for the Navy (Viet Nam era). But we were booked. We got together with a local wunderkid who was 19 but was playing like Jeff Beck. Did not even have a singer. (Drummer: "Our singer has the flu and is home puking his guts out". Drops mic.....) So we just jammed all night. Everything from Green River to Greensleeves. Surreal. We actually DID get paid. Anyway, you might also chuckle.....No, I DID NOT type all that follows! Ron McKernan suggested the band go electric. 1965. Palo Alto, California. A small folk band called Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions was playing acoustic shows around the Bay Area. Their members included a guitarist named Jerry Garcia, a rhythm player named Bob Weir, and a young man on harmonica everyone called Pigpen. Pigpen had grown up on the blues. His father had been an R&B DJ — one of the first white DJs on Black radio stations on the West Coast. The kid had taught himself harmonica and piano listening to his dad's records. Acoustic folk wasn't doing it for him. He wanted electric blues. He wanted volume. He wanted what Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf had. He suggested they plug in. They did. They renamed themselves The Warlocks. Then the Grateful Dead. Eight years later, on March 8, 1973, Pigpen's landlady walked into his apartment in Corte Madera and found him dead on the floor beside his bed. He'd been there for two days. He was 27 years old. The band he had pushed into existence had replaced him a year and a half earlier. The next morning, Jerry Garcia spoke at his funeral. "After Pigpen's death we all knew this was the end of the original Grateful Dead." Here's how he got there. Ronald Charles McKernan was born September 8, 1945. San Bruno, California. Irish-American family. His father Phil was a radio DJ who specialized in blues and R&B. The McKernan house was full of Lightnin' Hopkins records, Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf. Young Ron taught himself harmonica. Then piano. Then a little guitar. At 14, he got a job at Dana Morgan's Music Store in Palo Alto. That's where he met another kid who liked the blues. A guitar nerd named Jerry Garcia. They played in folk bands together. Jug bands. Bluegrass. Ron tried out the name "Blue Ron" for a while. It didn't stick. A girlfriend started calling him "Pigpen" because his approach to hygiene reminded her of the Peanuts character. That name did stick. In 1965, he convinced Garcia to plug in. The folk acoustic band became an electric blues band. The Warlocks. Then the Grateful Dead. In the band's first years, Pigpen was the frontman. Not Garcia. He had the voice. He had the harmonica. He could work a crowd in a way no one else in that band could. Mickey Hart, who joined later as second drummer, said it this way: "Pigpen would come out and he'd get people up. Jerry couldn't do it. Bob couldn't do it. Phil certainly couldn't. But Pigpen could. As soon as Pigpen got up, everybody got up and danced." He sang the songs that drove the early Dead. "Turn On Your Love Light." "Hard to Handle." "Big Boss Man." "Mr. Charlie." Songs that were less about wandering jam-band exploration and more about Saturday night drinking. In 1969, Warner Bros. — the band's label — ran a Pigpen Look-Alike Contest. He was that famous. The biker hat, the leather vest, the mustache. But the band was changing under him. The other members were taking LSD constantly. They were turning into psychedelic explorers. Long jams. Free improvisation. Garcia and bassist Phil Lesh were pulling the music away from the blues and into deep space. Pigpen didn't touch psychedelics. He drank. Whiskey. Cheap fortified wine. He drank like the bluesmen he'd grown up listening to. His role in the band started shrinking. The new music didn't need a blues frontman. It needed a more conventional keyboardist who could keep up with Garcia's guitar. In 1968 they brought in a second keyboardist, Tom Constanten. Pigpen's musical contributions dropped. Then his body started giving out. By his mid-twenties he had liver damage. Cirrhosis. He also developed primary biliary cholangitis — a rare autoimmune liver disease unrelated to drinking. The two together hit him hard. In August 1971, he was hospitalized. Doctors told him to stop touring immediately. The Dead hired Keith Godchaux to replace him. But Pigpen wouldn't disappear. He kept coming back. In December 1971 he rejoined the band to play harmonica, percussion, and organ alongside Godchaux. He toured Europe with them in spring 1972 — the famous Europe '72 tour. He was visibly sick. Pale. Thin. His tour manager Sam Cutler later admitted he kept Pigpen supplied with alcohol on the road, because Pigpen wouldn't get on stage without it. On June 17, 1972, the Grateful Dead played the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Pigpen walked offstage that night and never performed with the band again. He went home to his apartment in Corte Madera, north of San Francisco. A small place. He lived alone. He stopped drinking. The Dead's biographer Blair Jackson said he didn't drink for the last 17 months of his life. It didn't matter. The damage was done. He stayed mostly inside. Read books. Played acoustic guitar and piano to himself — instruments he'd rarely used in the Dead. Some of those recordings would surface later as a bootleg called The Apartment Tapes. He ate almost nothing in his final months. On a day in early March 1973, Pigpen got into bed. He was half-dressed. He started to lie down. A blood vessel near his liver — already destroyed by years of drinking and the autoimmune disease — burst. He bled internally on the floor beside his bed. His landlady came by two days later. She had noticed his car hadn't moved. The lights were on. The back door was open. She walked in and found him. Cause of death: gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Liver failure. Age 27. He joined Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison — all dead by 27 in the previous three years. Pigpen had been close friends with Janis. They had shared a love of whiskey. He was buried at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto. A few miles from the music store where he had first met Jerry Garcia. Here's what makes this story matter. Pigpen wasn't a junkie like Hendrix. He wasn't a poet like Morrison. He didn't have the public meltdown Janis had. He was a quiet, kind, introspective guy who happened to be the only member of the Grateful Dead with any real blues credibility at the start. It was his idea to plug in. It was his voice that drove the early shows. His harmonica that gave the band texture. His friendship with Garcia that made the whole thing possible. Jerry Garcia later said: "Pigpen was the only guy in the band who had any talent when we were starting out." Then the band moved on. They followed the acid and the long jams away from his blues roots. They replaced him with another keyboardist. They kept making records. He kept showing up. Kept singing the songs he could still sing. Kept drinking on tour just to get through the night. Then he died alone in a small California apartment. The Grateful Dead would tour for another 22 years. Sell millions of records. Become a multi-generational institution. Most Deadheads who came along after 1973 don't think about Pigpen at all. But Jerry Garcia did. He said it at the funeral. The original Grateful Dead died with Pigpen. Ron McKernan. Founder. Frontman. Replaced. Forgotten. His crime? Drinking like the bluesmen he loved. His legacy? A band he started that outlived him by half a century and barely mentions his name.

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I don't normally like feel good movies but I caught myself really enjoying this one. For the first half. And just when I said that to myself.......Well....

I don't mind the tool itself, I just hate the major impact these massive data centers are having on our infrastructure... massive usage of water, electricity, producing heat, land, etc... taxing resources, thus raising our utility bills 🤬 "with very little employment after the initial building construction"

That's the story, though, Dave?

Emailed. ETA - Dang, just missed it.

I'm in the minority here, but I absolutely hated this movie. At least the second half of it. I knew nothing about it going in and watched it with my wife on the reccomendation of a friend. We were expecting something entertaining with a good soundtrack. A movie about a Neil Diamond tribute act set in Wisconsin is going to be a fun watch, right? That's how it started, then suddenly, it turned into something completely different. I won't spoil it for others, but 🥵

I ordered one through BCR Greg. IIRC, the specs were satin transparent orange with P-90s and tortoise binding. on the neck and body It was a great guitar and very light, probably 7 lbs at most. Sounded amazing.

Yep, I have a first gen Apple M1 Studio computer. I had always planned to upgrade when the M5 version came out. Was expected this summer. In February people started buying them with 512 gb of Ram to run llms. Then the model with 512 was no longer available. I do a lot of stuff with video and using AI to upscale and clean up old super 8 films. I also use a lot of other special effects video plugins that need a lot of power. And use logic and other music programs. So, when the orders got where there were shipping 4 or 5 months away I ordered what I wanted. M3 Ultra with 256gb ram. I was hoping that the M5 ultra would come out before it shipped and the order would get upgraded to the M5 version. Still do but if it doesn't then I can either keep it or return it in the 14 day return window. I want one really powerful computer to use before I get too old to do the things I like doing now. The crazy thing is the used market for these computers, especially with the 512gb ram is ridiculous. Well over twice the price when purchased new.

I can‘t help but the combination of a bounded fretboard and pretty large dots on the board make the Newport always look a little but cheap… Like a Teisco/sears&roebuck product…? Now: duck and cover.

I have a Cioks DC5, and two Cioks AC10 units, and they are great!

Another Vote for the Mojotone Hot P90 in the Quiet coil series. They got it all and you don't have to stand pointing in a certain direction to keep the noise down. I tried the Lindy no noise...mojotones sounded better!

I’ll take the flanger, Jaye.

Yup, still have it. I put Thorn staple pickups in it and I love it that much more. I have a set of cream ones for sale, if anyone wants them.

That's a mighty pretty Theramin he's playin'.

Truth there. RAM and storage is nuts now. I'm just hoping the AI bubble pops soon.