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Now we need "Come on Eileen" done as "CoVID19" .

My friend had a 73 or 74 Chevy Laguna. Drummer. And I was in that car when a bag full of just-purchased fireworks was accidentally set off in it. We were probably listening to something like this:

I remember that a friend in high school had both that one and Lenny and the Squigtones.

I'm surprised he could spell PRS if he couldn't read Shishkov on the headstock. Any colorful figured wood top guitar that isn't an LP shape must be a PRS, I guess.

Just now is the first time I think I ever saw a Guitar Center commercial on broadcast TV. On the local NBC (no idea how to tell if it was a local buy or the network feed), during the Saturday Night Live Christmas Special, over the air. I don't remember what else they pimped - it took me a moment to realize what was on the screen - but they advertised Ernie Ball guitar strings as great gift items. How does this fit in with the declining guitar-interested demographic, I wonder?

I sold a guitar! It was a Korean import Daytona, and it's going to a middle school-aged young man interested in learning to play. I didn't want to create a Gone Guitar Day post, but I am a little proud of myself for making a baby step in reducing the overstock. Maybe I can move another one or three as we transition to Christmas money/tax refund season.

Slightly too young for that. I'm trying to make peace with what is attainable. Being a guitar owner is attainable. I have attained it. Peace!

If I ever find a t-shirt with the message "World's Okayest Guitar Owner", that's the one I should buy.

https://local.theonion.com/guy-carrying-guitar-case-on-elevator-envied-by-everyone-1819571752?utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Facebook&utm_content=Main

TGP jargon update! Observed on (and copied and pasted from) TGP this morning: "I got three guitars back from my preferred luthier yesterday." We need a new meme.

https://thehardtimes.net/music/1000-reverb-pedal-models-tone-after-big-empty-rooms-your-band-always-plays/

In other words, dude looks like a lady.

I don't think it's beyond me, but it's definitely a hurdle to get over. It's taking me back a few years to when I picked up guitar again after decades off. I know what rhythm is. I know what my hands should be doing. But they, especially the left (I'm right-handed), seem to have what I characterize as "Tourette's of the hand". They misfire independent of my intentions, and off-rhythm, quite often. It decreases with practice, but it's an annoyingly slow process to shed the spasms. I figure I'm at the same point that every musician that performs two independent tasks at once has to get past: piano, drums, singing while playing anything. Just playing guitar, even though the two hands do different things, they are working together to produce a single sound the majority of the time. I should have worked on this in my teens, not my 50's. ETA - I was surprised to find that turning it around and playing the eighths rhythm with my right hand and the quarters scale with my left was almost instantly successful. I speculate that guitar familiarity was responsible.

Piano is kicking my ass. Just trying a straight-eighths left hand and quarter note scale with the right is a disaster. Apparently my left and right hemispheres are fused.

Disap-POINT-ed! https://reverb.com/news/what-is-reverse-reverb-and-how-do-i-use-it I thought it was going to tell me how to ship my excess gear to someone and get them to pay me for it.

^^^ At last, something achievable within the realm of performance that I can aspire to.

Same store, yesterday, playing "Nights in White Satin". While that is in no way my music, I can see a trend. I'll have to think of a nickname for it. Atlanta had a Disco Kroger (and a Pickup Publix) when I lived there.

Like the Spanish Inquisition, no one expects to walk into his local big chain grocery store and hear Slade playing over the PA.