Steve Haynie

A lot of bass players will have their thumb look like that.

When wildfires were taking a toll on Eastern Tennessee, Dolly donated a million dollars or two to help people in that area. When Hurricane Helene came along in 2024 she donated a million or two out of her own pocket to help people again.

The tortured argument is brought up by Rickey Medlocke himself over and over. He recorded with Skynyrd before they had an album deal. Artimus Pyle was on the albums and played the shows. His band has Barry Lee Harwood who was hanging out with Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1968 onward, and he was the male vocalist and songwriter in the Rossington-Collins Band. Whose band is more original?

I knew that. I should have been more careful about posting something.

The weather was clear and cooler on Sunday morning. It was time to drive two and a half hours to Acworth, Georgia. Everything was great until traffic slowed down because of three lanes being closed on I-85 due to construction. GPS was my friend, a fake friend, but it got me around the traffic problem. Switching lanes on the new route was a bit of a challenge. I swear I did not see the cars on my right, but I think they were using the median to get around other cars. Oh, well. Everyone had brakes. I did not use mine. They had to use theirs. My arrival was shortly after the doors opened. There was no line. I paid my admission and asked where the Vintage Guitar Magazine booth was. I wanted to meet Willie G. Moseley. His tables were right at the entrance to the larger room. Most of my time there was talking guitars, newspapers, and music history with Willie. He spoke. I listened. When other people gathered around to see his display of books, magazines, and guitars it was an opportunity for me to visit the two rooms full of guitars. There were a lot of vintage Gibson and Fender guitars, but not that many of the "expensive" ones. Everything was expensive. The Atlanta Vintage Guitar Show has a warning on its web site for non-vendors coming to the show. I saw two guitars at dealer booths that were clearly identified as Chibson. One was a copy of an Ace Frehley Les Paul. The headstock image looked wrong. The rest of the guitar looked nice. Cool amps, both vintage and new brands, were on display. There was an incredibly clean Fender Deluxe that stood out to me. My credit card was left unharmed. In two large rooms of guitars I saw one B.C. Rich, absolutely no Dean, and one Hamer. Abalone Vintage Guitars had a four digit Standard bass. The owner of Abalone Vintage saw my Hamer Fan Club shirt and that started a really fun conversation about Hamer, Tom Petersson, Peter Green's Les Paul, and fake guitars and parts. He mentioned one guitar he inspected having $40,000.00 of hardware and electronics being replaced. Spotting fakes and authenticating real guitars has become hard to do without having a guitar for a long time. It cannot be done with a quick inspection anymore. After checking one room I made it back to Willie's table and talked some more. He mentioned seeing @Kerry Marchman on Saturday. He quoted Lemmy on advice. There were tales of trips to Atlanta for concerts going back to Cream at Chastain Park. In the smaller room I met Jon Kammerer. He truly loves what he doing. His enthusiasm for his designs of both acoustic and electric immediately came out. Those guitars are nice. I picked up what we have called the Peanut guitar. It plays nice. The body is not that deep, so the volume is not as loud as other acoustics. There is a pickup system installed. The sound is unique in the same way that Ovation does not sound exactly like other acoustic guitars. Jon was pointing out his bridge design on his acoustic guitars do not use traditional bridge pins. I also got to check out the floating top design. If I were to play acoustic all the time this guitar could be fun. Of course, nothing could be more fun than going back to Willie's table and talking to him when he was not discussing guitars, books, and magazines with customers. That was how I ended my day. It was worth the ride down into Georgia.

The neck on my 1982 Sunburst is not thin at all. Think about that as you regret not buying the 1982 Prototype. 😏

$142,487.63 + Shipping Really? They want a shipping charge on top of that price?

What did it sell for in the original auction of Steve Vai's stuff?

ZZ Top songs from Eliminator have been playing more heavily on the radio, and people keep referencing songs from Eliminator. They do not realize those songs were created with a drum machine.

That means screw-ups are to be expected.

I asked @DaveH if he wanted to go, but he has to work. Unless my truck dies on me, my plan is to drive down on Sunday.

A Boogie with three knobs? Unheard of!!!

Tony Franklin's intonation is perfect, too.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2026/08/18/frank-beard-zz-top-dies/91311435007/

Steve Morse would use open D and G strings for the first chord. Blackmore played the first chord it at the fifth fret of the A and D strings.

Classic rock radio overplayed a lot of good music. Those songs can get... um, "tiresome" on the radio. In the context of an album they sound great.

You still need one for a luthier to copy. Just wait. A Scepter will pop up.

Maybe this is closer to what you were thinking.

Notice that he kept is his guitar pick.

Tom knows his Skynyrd inside and out. He gets a pass from me on holding the clip on mic. Lynyrd Skynyrd did not use the Peavey amps on the early albums. Ed King said he used Marshall while he was in the band.

If you have real Tolex try some whitewall cleaner. It works great on old amplifiers.

Get me a plane ticket!