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Or the Homer Simpson graphic Cali with the logo that said "Ham."

I just got back from the USPS (mailing three goodie packages to HFCers in fact) and I was drenched by the time I got back to the office, three blocks away. Feels like Freaking Florida! I just made a post office run too, to the depot across the street from my building and it is HOT here. Typical August in the Bayou State. I did my yard yesterday between 3 and 5 p.m. and for a while I thought I was gonna die out there.

Very precious! Congratulations. Now sleep while you can.

As long as it isn't the Jimmie Davis model. I still think the "JD" stood for Jack Daniels.

There was a guitar player for Cyndi Lauper at one time named Bob Davis who had at least one tricked out Jackson Soloist, and its HSS was switched with three mini switches. Considering this has the same name and the same three minis (odd for a Hamer bolt-on), maybe it was his?

No, you get to be "Dawn."

Tony Officiando and Dawn...

Answers found here...

"The Light that Blinds" - Shadow's Fall

My window in Phoenix includes Aug. 15, and that Ratt/Poison show sounds like a winner!

I detect a pattern ... "skimpy school girl outfits" and "skimpy nurse's uniform." Note to self: Google "Phoenix skimpy" and jot detailed notes LOL

I'll be in Scottsdale if it all comes together. I always travel with a rental car and distance/first-time-visitor-finding-his-way-around issues are not a problem (just ask Rechts). I plan to hit Bizarre at some point. I used to have a Bizarre prepro Charvel parts guitar many moons ago. Musical preference is hard rock. Are there a lot of "tribute" bands in Phoenix?

Only me, plus a few thousand other convention delegates. I know it's gonna be hot as all hell but I'm a lifelong Bayou State resident, so I have some tolerance for miserable summer heat.

Looks like I'm gonna be there on bizness middle of next month. So who's there and what's there to occupy my free time musically/gear-wise?

This thread takes too much thought, Willie. I ate this one and the Jefferson Starship post at the same seating. Start a thread like "the first CD you cranked while you got your dick sucked." Encourage pix. Just a thought/advice. The HFC is a lifestyle. Edited to add: "Pretentious" ain't in my vocabulary.

Part of the reason I haven't sought out a Talladega is that 3x3 headstock. I'd personally prefer a righty "SS" headstock 'cause it would look more tele/strat-like and match the tele-esque body better. But I'm confident that idea would never pass for a custom-order. Too 80s-shreddy for 'em. I'd be inclined to get a matching-paint maple veneer on the SS head to make it more traditional looking, but I'm sure that would get flunked too.

One of the guys on another forum pointed out that the neck contraption is a great truss rod alternative...if you are suffering from backbow, just loosen those turnbuckle thingies a little and voila! LOL

This is all IMHO... Spruce makes the attack of notes bloom in a way that sounds great clean but kind of blurred and funky in distorted rock applications. Maple has a nice attack in gain situations but is on the too-bright side clean - the bridge pickup would need some serious use of the tone control to keep it from being spiky sounding. A mahogany top is balanced good and has a nice warmth in both clean and gain applications to my ear. Korina - a variety of mahogany - fits this description too.

Potliquor, from Louisiana. Two late '60s albums of swamp rock at its finest. You'd be surprised, Willie, how many times I still hear locals refer to and reflect on Potliquor in conversations about live music and gigging down this way.

I'd lean towards an Artist Mahogany. I had a black 25th Anniversary Artist Mahogany that could do all you're wanting to do very convincingly. Incredible clean and blues sounds and a throaty, tasteful midrange when you hit it with gain. Your being a Studio junkie would also mean no learning curve to switch over to the Artist Mahogany - same size/dimensions, same archtop, same control layout, same string height relative to the face of the instrument, etc.

Pardon my Cajun French, but FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK! Dayum. I could have really used that and it fit my bottomfeeder budget!

This Sedaka interview was recently in Performing Songwriter magazine (one of my favorite mags). http://www.performingsongwriter.com/vault/...eyboard_101.pdf

As long as it has frets and sounds good, I'm cool. Both of my current electrics have rosewood.

You got something against midrange? LOL

Green stripe Mark III combo w/EV atop a 1x12 Thiele w/Celestion for me. I've used MKIIIs on and off for many moons and I know how to dial 'em just right for my tastes. I run a quartet of 6L6s instead of the EL34/6L6 pairs, to help with dialing in killer cleans. The lead channel still thumps and howls regardless. I had a Mark III back in the 90s that took a five-foot fall in the gear trailer straight on its face. Chipped the head of one knob. Worked perfectly, even the tubes survived. The only downside of my MKIII combo is that it weighs more than I do haha. I've had several Recto series amps (my favorite is the Tremoverb) but I always end up turning them and going back to the Marks. To my ear, the Rectos are harsh compared to the Marks - they are more musical to my ear if that makes sense.