MCChris

If you're speaking of saxon's post, I certainly didn't make it disappear. I wouldn't dream of cleansing a thread I started LOL!

It was Mother of Nutsack.

Using two "tt"s when only one is necessary.

AKA the Waterloo Post. Good one!

$350 Schlabotnik pickups Half a $20 Sharkfin picks Greg invented/inspired everything Hinged POD What else?

All buffoonery is hammered away at relentlessly here. One of my favorite things about the HFC. In fact, I believe I'll start a thread about it.

Too much coffee today, Greg?

The juxtaposition (in his eyes) of ugly and not ugly is probably giving him a migraine.

For me it has to be the Slap Ya Mama spicy seasoning I got from Cajunboy. I put that shit on EVERYTHING! It's so good I haven't even cracked into the multitude of other hot sauces he sent me in return for a bunch of nudie pics he didn't even use to wallpaper the inside of the cabinet he built for Poe. What about you?

Always the more considerate, comfortable way to go.

Believe it or not I have very little beef with GC. Most of my rants come from having worked there and my first-hand experience with some of the behind-the-scenes shenanigans, but that goes on at any company. And it's REALLY hard to make a living there, but maybe that's their way of weeding out the chumps from those who get to dip into the pot of gold. I certainly didn't have what it takes. If I did, I'd have 14 years' seniority right now and would probably be quite wealthy. My store manager lived in a swank high-rise between the lake and Wrigley Field, and when I went to the GC headquarters in Cali I saw nothing but Mercedes in the parking lot. I shop at the one closest to me in Hobart, Indiana quite often. A kid who used to play at the cafe all the time is some sort of manager there and gives me stupid-cheap deals on whatever I want. Not guitars or amps, though, as they have nothing that interests me. My recent purchases have been drum gear like heads and hardware for the kit I keep around for jams.

You gotta be cut from a very specific piece of cloth to rise up in that company. But if you are, you can make some SERIOUS bank with them.

It works, though. All marketing is cheesy bullshit if you think about it, but a lot of people respond to cheesy bullshit. When I worked at Guitar Center they actually switched voice-over guys for their radio spots because the existing guy wanted a big bump in salary. The new guy's voice wasn't nearly as boomy or robust, and sales numbers actually went in the tank for a few months! They paid the previous guy what he wanted and as far as I can tell he's been with them ever since.

Youngest-lookin' 42-year-old I know. I'd card him.

Here's my ghetto board. I'm lovin' all these boxes:

Angelo is the world's fastest HUMAN guitarist. I've seen Impellitteri's instructional video. I'm convinced he's really a robot. No one made of flesh and blood could be that devoid of personality. So the wig really is a gag!

Guitars in general at GC aren't set up properly, and acoustic 12-strings are the worst of the lot. I also believe that manufacturers send their "dogs" to the superstores. Of course, ideally, there should be NO dogs leaving a factory, but we all know that isn't the case, and I think that subpar instruments are intentionally shipped to GC and MF instead of higher end places like Make'n Music here in Chicago.

People pay to see Clapton sing like they pay to watch Billy Joel drive (or play guitar, for that matter*). *Hamer content satisfied. I'd pay to see Billy Joel drive if I could be assured that he'd be pulled from the wreckage Princess Di-style at the end.

Nah, although Duffy probably said something similar to Jerry Cantrell when they put Concrete Vampires together.

Good one. Or Lemmy, Gary Moore, any living member of AC/DC ... I hope to still have my fire into my 50s and beyond. I still got it as I close in on 40; I whipped a guy 10 years my junior into submission last weekend during my audition to be in his Cult tribute band. A quote from his e-mail a day later: Take that, sonny LOL! When Jack Bruce states that the old equipment "didn't work," he didn't mean functionally or tonally ... he meant within the framework of Clapton's contract with Fender. The least he could have done is play a Tonemaster like Townshend does.

Nothing I've heard by the White Stripes interests me in the least but the Loretta Lynn stuff does. It seems like she's moving/being taken in a direction similar to Johnny Cash's toward the end of his career, hooking up with a contemporary rock personality and releasing some truly raw, haunting stuff. Then again I've only heard the one song/video they play on VH1 Country, but that's the impression I get. And hell yes I'm listening to country. Doesn't matter if it's genuine old school or sugary new school, there seems to be some top-flight musicianship there that's missing in other commercial genres. I guess that combined with the fact that I only listen to sports talk radio anymore is an indication of how disgusted I am with rock and rap these days.

Paul Kossoff Brian Robertson Warren Haynes I'd need to have plenty of smack, booze and weed on hand (respectively) for that trio.

Condolences to you, Bill. My mom (who lives with my wife and I now) had a heart attack over the summer and was hospitalized for six weeks. She's better now; in fact today and tomorrow I'm taking her in for stress tests. Still, we almost lost her, and that was hard enough to deal with. You have my sincere sympathy.

You forgot linkage. Can I help it if I have real-world experience with this stuff? Did I just say that?

Yeah. The only thing I've ever bought off a TV ad was that elongated spray nozzle thingy that's supposed to spray gutters clean and eliminate the need to get up on a ladder. I've sat on bidets that put out more pressure than that POS.