Steve Haynie

As it has been said before... "This thread is worthless without pictures."

A quick cool car story... A friend (and fellow Hamer owner) asked me to follow him when he was moving his drag car from one place to another. At a traffic light there was a woman in a mini-van rolling her eyes and laughing at the hot rod in front of them. Her husband was agreeing with her how ridiculous the car was. I called my friend using our cell phones and told him to put on a show for the whipped guy driving the mini-van. The drag car instantaneously went through the intersection when the light turned green. The woman laughed. The guy was trying to agree with her, but I could see the jealousy and sadness in his face. NEVER STOP ROCKING!!!

I think Glenn Tiption turns 60 this year. He should be our role model.

I'm old. I'm fat. I'm bald. I recognize that I am not going to be visually appealing to anyone on stage. I really do not care if I play in front of people. Practicing with a band was fun. Before my last band started playing in dives we were able to learn songs we liked instead of the "crowd pleasers." Looking at the thousands of dollars paid for my guitars and amps I darn well ought to play music that I like. To buy a guitar or bass that sounds better than anything else and play a song that sounds like crap negates the whole point of buying the instrument in the first place. I want to be that old, fat, and bald guy playing music from his teenage years. It is not about playing for an audience. It is about having fun with a guitar.

So, some sneaky guitar player could change tunings during a song without anyone noticing? Hmmmm....

By the time you can afford a Gibson you ought to know how to tune your own guitar.

No doubt - I was pretty much shut out with Ticketmonster when they went on sale a couple of Fridays ago. We have a reserved box at Verizon Ctr though (corporate), so we're hoping to snake that. That'd be cool, no doubt. I was able to get though with Ticketmaster when they went on sale, but I'll be damed if I was going to pay $150 or so for a ticket that wasn't even on the floor. I decided to just not go, but a bud of mine called to say he had an extra nosebleed ticket for $80 or whatever so I took it. I hope I don't regret it... I was pissed at the Van Hagar reunion show I saw at Verizon a few years back....Eddie was WAY out of it at that point. Those high ticket prices are what has been keeping me away from concerts lately. For $100+ and the cost of parking, getting off work early, etc. there better be a seat in the first ten rows. It is always a gamble. You get three hours of live music with no control over who may be standing in front of you. A guy cannot help being 6'4" or 5'8", but missing a view of concert because you are standing behind a row of basketball players sucks. Sitting in a seat so far away that you have to watch video screens is no way to see a show, either. I have been in the nosebleed seats with different levels of satisfaction over the view of the show. If I can see facial expressions it is OK. I saw the Rolling Stones in a football stadium and could only tell they were walking around.

That is a long set list. I would not expect to hear all of those songs every night of the tour.

Fire Down Under and Narita are two defining albums of high school! I was lucky enough to see Riot twice, once with Rush and again with Black Sabbath on the original Heaven and Hell tour.

One more credit added for you!

It is an armored truck used to move big sums of cash from one bank to another.

Hey, man. Can I borrow your guitar?

BUMP

Chris, send me your phone number. There is a longshot that I may know someone interested.

There are times when all that old music runs together. I watched that and thought, "why not?"

Did the two tone hardware come from the factory or did you do that yourself. It looks good.

Looks like the same grain lines in the top. You are correct.

With that back plate shape you would think that it was possible to get a four knob Special, but nooooo.

Will she play guitar or bass?

I do not see a USA in the logo. That gold color for the logo is something I have never seen before, either. That signature would either have to be handwritten or made a decal made from a signature like the Steve Stevens models. I am wondering if someone had a water slide decal made for a replacement neck. That is a one piece neck rather than a three piece. Did Hamer do one piece necks on any bolt-ons?

Instead of "Supporter" or "HFC Member" in our profiles we need an "Officiando" classification.

I saved the Stew-Mac how-to e-mail on changing rotted tuners. Contact me at stevehaynie (at) mindspring (dawt) com and I will forward it to you. I have a National steel that needs the tuners replaced. I bought the replacements, but have not gotten around to changing them.

Looks like I should check out an issue of Guitarist. I have only seen it at Barnes & Nobles, and I have not been there in a year or two.

In junior high I became aware of Guitar Player and started buying it in high school in the next town over because I could not get it where I live. GP had all kinds of articles-- Craig Anderton's electronic projects, Dan Erlewine's guitar repair columns, and plenty of interviews and useful articles. Guitar World came out when I was in high school and came across more like a rock magazine. Every issue was dedicated to Eddie Van Halen. I think that if Noe the G had a chance to interview Andres Segovia he would have asked Segovia about how he was influenced by Van Halen's playing. Both magazines have changed over the years. The one magazine worth reading today is Vintage Guitar, but I do not buy it as often as I once did. Guitar for the Practicing Musician lost me within its first year when it had a pin-up section featuring Huey Lewis and Boy George among a bunch of guitar players. Someone should have been much more careful about which magazine insert was chosen. A useful magazine was Gig. It was aimed at the small time player, but it had some good advice and how-too information.

That's a great tune. DOO DOO-DO DOO DOO DOO DOOOO DO DO DO-DO-DO! I never liked or disliked the song until I discovered Starz. Now that song sounds better.