Steve Haynie

I never heard these guys until I checked out the website. I think I am going to have to buy an album!

What does "Green Stripe" mean?

Peter Fung is a well known Hamer collector who posts on this message board. He is really a nice guy, but everyone likes to make jokes about him.

Someone needs to inform Jol about this one. Remember what he said about not making old models until the used ones sell for as much as a new one?

There are enough guys having a birthday today to start a band!

So, are you and Hackubus jamming on a purple Hamer today?

Yeah! We can have a party with Cheap Trick and let Rick play the purple guitar before it is given away. I can see all of us with our jaws dropping as that guitar gets nicked and scarred by Rick. :lol: I can even see Rick's expression when someone says something about him scratching the raffle guitar.

I am interested in the Improv style neck heel. Has that been done on any other Hamer besides an Improv?

Happy Birthday to one of the original HFC members!

And your name must be either Steve or Chris.

I wonder if bruce would want an official hfc t-shirt If Jol verifies the story I will buy Bruce an official HFC T-shirt.

We are all going to die if Jol comes here and tells us a story about that guitar.

Bruce, like Jonathan said-- take the $450 offer that you have. You will get back most of what you spent. If the buyer is happy at that price he is getting a nice guitar.

Watch eBay and see what a similar guitar brings in an auction. If you want to advertise your guitar locally you may be able to get $350 to $400 from someone if you are lucky. You have to keep in mind that when someone looks up these guitars in an online search there will be web sites selling a similar looking product for around $300. Those early Korean Hamers were excellent guitars.

Post a photo for a critical evaluation and satisfy our lust for Hamer porn at the same time.

Didn't Mike Love marry a friend's daughter just to spite him?

When we were in junior high and high school some of us had the opportunity to play some cool old guitars. I know I held a few old Fenders in my hands along with some Mosrites. I cannot remember much about them other than my '58 Les Paul Jr. I would not consider the quality of those 50's Strats to be crude at all, even if there were some that slipped through with a variance in tolerance.

The artists will not be paid, but they get some exposure. Hmmm... Free concert? Someone has to pay for the venue, advertisement, etc. Where is that money coming from?

I started with a banjo. Seeing a smoking Les Paul played by a space man made me switch to guitar.

After hearing All The World's A Stage I told people I liked Rush better than KISS. That was nearly fighting words at the time. I, too, bought a Rickenbacker 4001!

Any side of KISS Alive! would do it for me. The straight ahead songs are perfect, and the songs that were drawn out for a concert performance were perfect. If I have to make a choice it would be sides 1 and 3.

That hat killed the look.

What has Patti Smith done? If it were not for an appearance on SNL and seeing her pictures in Creem, I would never have heard of her. Can anyone think of a song she did? How many albums did she sell?

The "lameness" was built in from day one, but it should be more accurately labeled "out-of-dateness." If you look at the list of primary donors to the R&R HOF it includes Jann Wenner (publisher of Rolling Stone Magazine), some big name producers, and half of the Rolling Stones. A Rolling Stone editor has run the museum for years, so there is a heavy influence there. It is a baby boomer view of rock music, so it was started with some knowledge of the early years, but clueless after the point where baby boomers were too old to rock and roll. Think back to the 70's when many of us liked KISS, but the older crowd laughed at them. While the people around thirty were "mellowing out" to the Eagles lighter side they were missing the point. Aerosmith and Ted Nugent were making some really heavy guitar oriented music, but that was for a younger generation than the flower power hippies. Black Sabbath and Judas Priest inspired heavy metal bands to come, but Rolling Stone's contributors were buying Captain and Tennille when those bands were gaining ground. AC/DC and Metallica only got noticed because they sold so many albums and concert tickets. Rolling Stone never actually "got it" with those bands, but they were aware of them because they stood out. If you do not think about the R&R HOF as being anything beyond its limited vision it is a nice place to visit. If you want a place that has recognized greatness everywhere it popped up, forget it. I have my doubts that Nazareth will ever make it into the HOF, but they were the most popular rock group behind the iron curtain in the 70's. Influential? Not really. Enduring? Absolutely. Blue Oyster Cult, Queensryche, Yngwie Malmsteen, etc. are all someone's favorite, but they are irrelevant to people who never listened to them yet get to vote on inductees. I wonder about the people who vote, too. How many of them are industry people with an opportunity to cash in with some renewed sales of artist catalogs or videos?

Ed's ear designed the R&R HOF building. Ed's ear created Chuck Norris, too.