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Menehune

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  1. The Charlottes in my Studio are great. My trans black Monaco came with a set of Sheptone Blue Sky buckers. Very PAF. I kept them.
  2. I can hear the dood as he wielded his cheap chisel and ball peen hammer: "This is gonna be GREAT!"
  3. Brent Jessee Recording & Supply is great. Many years ago I sent a passel of tubes from my parents' estate to him for review and offer, and was paid top dollar for those that had value. The remining were sent back to me, and not at my expense. In retrospect I twinge that I hadn't kept back that Bugle Boy 12AX7, but it was better suited to wind up in some audiophile's precious Hi-Fi tube amp than in one of my crunchy guitar amps.
  4. Grok- or Chat GPT-powered bot? Likely plays guitar better than me. No thanks. 😜 Seriously cute, but no room at Ka Hale o Menehune. And your gift-giver was kind, as could have given this instead:
  5. I need a bass. I don't need to spend money. There was an all-women band named The Slits, but they had broken up before '93. There was a band named Golden Girls that released the album "Kinetic" through the Belgian company R & S Records in '93. I can't find a reference to a bassist named Slit.
  6. I've got many favorites, but those that resonate: Santa Baby as first sung by Eartha Kitt. The lyrics brilliantly reflect a kept woman's dim domain of desires in the face of Christmas's actual meaning, and Kitt delivers them with an ingénue childishness. Coincidentally, Kitt died 15 years ago on December 25th. The Vince Guaraldi Trio's version of "O Tannenbaum" on "A Charlie Brown's Christmas." Nat Cole's German version of "O Tannenbaum" on his 1960 album "The Magic of Christmas." His mixed German/English version is great, too. Any of Cole's versions of "The Christmas Song." And for a bouncy Xmas mood-setter, I suppose I need to throw "Good King Wenceslas" into the mix for its upbeat melody and meter, and for its lyric's reflection on the goodness of the sainted duke.
  7. Steve, does your TA-30 have hum or static in both channels when the reverb/effects loop is turned on? Several years ago I sent my combo chassis to Mesa for amp reiki, and they returned it saying all TSBs had already been applied and the tech added he didn't experience the offending noise. Not a problem at volume, but a royal PITA at spare-the-wife volumes. Powering through a Furman power conditioner makes no difference.
  8. I think Ertha Kitt covered the implication well enough originally with "Santa baby, so hurry down the (my) chimney tonight."
  9. Oh the weather outside is frightful But my Hamer is delightful No matter few tickets were sold Do the show! Do the show! Do the show! Well the patrons are primed and ready And their beers are fresh and heady Now the room is in overflow Do the show! Do the show! Do the Show! As we loaded the van tonight We were told the crowd might be light But the lines are now very long So I hope we have plenty of song Oh the audience sure is rowdy And that makes our band more shouty So louder and louder it goes Do the show! Do the show! Do the show! Do the show! Do the show! Do the show!
  10. My tone tracks tones I decide are needed for particular works in reproduction of others' works and production of my own. All's in service of the listeners' experience of the song. Do I really need this many amps and effects and guitars and playing styles to achieve that? No. But my great joy in life is to wander through thoughtfully constrained possibility spaces to find that which works well. In short, I love fiddling with shit.
  11. Time for the tithe. Thank you for all you do to keep us together and keep us conversing/informing/observing/commenting/philosophizing/bitching/selling/buying/denouncing/apologizing and sharing, Ted.
  12. No guitars in '23, but many (too many) outboard devices - especially Lovepedal/Hermida. Love 'em all, no regrets.
  13. I hope one of you gigging HFCers thrown that song into your end-of-set mix. And guitar makers, make one of those crazy reverse-S body guitars.
  14. Forgotten follow-up: After a third reported delivery attempt, and notification that my parcel was headed back to the sender, I got a notice that the package was out for delivery. The UPS truck arrive that evening, and a UPS guy handed me the parcel. I asked him about the lack of delivery notices. "You mean these things?," he asked, slapping a pad in his side pocket. "Some drivers just burn them." Turns out, too, that the sender's UPS store put his name as the recipient. Shouldn't have made a difference as the delivery address was correct. Sorry to hear your guitar is still MIA, Stike.
  15. I bought Blues for Allah. I enjoyed it. I didn't buy any other Dead albums.
  16. They all suck. UPS claims it's made two delivery attempts for a signature-required package, yet no delivery notices were left. You need a code off a notice in order to re-route delivery to a local UPS Store for pickup. And since UPS customer service is designed to thwart all attempts to resolve corner cases like this (including a voice response system that played 20 Questions with me, none of which were relevant, and mightily resisted connecting with an agent,) it's earned its acronym expansion of Unbelievably Poor Service.
  17. Early Standard, about 43mm thick. And I too prefer the more rounded points of The Standard.
  18. Not even the uilleann pipes or Northumbrian smallpipes? Much as I like the loud Highland pipes in their place (parades, military funerals), I would love to hear the softer, chromatic pipes played at other events.
  19. That Albert King Flying V made by Tom Homes under commission from Billy Gibbons for King's 65th birthday is a special bit of history. And a cool guitar.
  20. https://www.ebay.com/itm/134643751192?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110025%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.COMPOSITELISTINGS%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D253997%26meid%3De306fa66f68c4d599338e4ee002e5205%26pid%3D101506%26rk%3D8%26rkt%3D25%26sd%3D235251572238%26itm%3D134643751192%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D3458402%26algv%3DAlgoIndex5SimRanker%26brand%3DHamer&_trksid=p3458402.c101506.m1851 Got a four-digit itch you're dying to scratch? How about 0196? Pony up $18,360 (excluding $95 shipping) and it's yours. While we're on the topic, when did the rear main control cavity shape change from the elongated oval to a candy corn?
  21. If I didn't already have The Devil's Daytona (serial number starts with 666) I'd have PM'd you. Lovely instrument. Good luck.
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