Steve Haynie

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.

i like the sweet, whats that live album called? I have no idea. I am not sure which pile of CDs it is in, either.

KISS Alive! sounded like an entirely different band. Lynyrd Skynyrd's One More From The Road is still an incredible album. I have a live album by The Sweet that is really heavy and has lyrics that would normally not be associated with a pop band.

First post and already assuming the position of our moral leader! Thank you, wildblueyonder, we really needed that.

Until I started reading about all the switching capabilities of the cabinet I thought it was cool. Just like Boogie putting 34 knobs on the front and another 16 on the back of a head, this cabinet is a tweaking nightmare. I would not want to be in a band with someone who had to find the right settings for that cabinet every time we played somewhere, and it would cost a fortune in studio time to find the right spot to mic that cabinet.

Frank has always been nice to everyone. I am sad to hear of this bad news.

Kashank, a "shredder" guitar is one like all the metal guys played in the mid 80's-- thin neck, whammy bar, and either a super-Strat body or a pointy body. Hamer made a bunch of them back then. If you can play any of those shred style licks at all, you can play them on virtually any solid body electric guitar. Randy Rhoads did it on a Les Paul. The Sunburst Archtop Flametop is a well made guitar. Guitarseh is offering you a good deal, and you could sell that guitar here if you find out you do not like it. Right now I cannot afford to jump in, but I would like that guitar.

I have that album. It really gives a good perspective on James Brown's musical point of view. I am glad that I got to see the man perform in concert a few years back.

"All right... all right... we'll play Freebird..."

My experience in collectibles mostly has to do with comic books. There are observations from some comic book dealers and friends that certain collectors' items have a window of value. Those people who grew up with comic books in the 1940's were paying high prices (for the time period) in the 1960's. The same goes for each decade. Right now there are people who have made big bucks that are buying the 60's comics they always wanted. At some point they are going to stop spending that money. The next generation will come in looking for different series to collect. Starting in the 1990's the kids absolutely did not care about what came before the year they started collecting. They also looked at everything as a collectible first, entertainment second. There will be no nostalgia. 90's comics will all be seen as generic collectibles, and some of the "hot" books cannot be sold at any price now. The same goes for comic art. Some collectors paid big bucks for original comic strip art from the early 20th Century, but no one today grew up with those strips. Again, current younger generations do not want to look at what inspired the comics of today. The market for 60's and 70's comic art is big among people in thier 40's and 50's. Who will buy the stuff in 30 years? When my comic book collection was sold the last bit of it went out at a wholesale price, not guide price. If I had been forced to sell out it would have killed me. The sale of my 1951 Gibson L-7C was to raise money, and it felt bad letting it go at a slight loss. Five years later it would have brought double the amount I got. Guitars as collectibles need some nostalgia tied to them. There is a generation of people who grew up playing Les Paul Studios through modeling amps. If you will notice, some people here only like shredders. Selling a $250,000.00 Les Paul is going to be tougher when the market will be dominated by people whose favorite bands never played "vintage" guitars. As an investment, try selling all of your guitars within a week to raise a lot of cash. You will take a bath. You can sell stock or mutual fund shares within a week for their current value. Real estate outside of an area with unusual speculation can be considered sort of secure, and developing real estate can turn a profit. You can borrow money against property, but try getting a bank to lend money because you have a room full of Strats. If there is a severe depression I would rather have property than collectibles that no one will buy for their "book value." Hold onto your guitars because you like them, not because you want to get rich off of them. Trade carefully to avoid regrets. There is a period of time that you will find buyers willing to spend the big bucks. No one knows when it will end.

There is some rift between Quiet Riot and Rudy Sarzo. Sarzo never played on Metal Health, by the way.

Elmer's glue works. You only need a couple of dots.

I am glad that I got to see the original line-up of Foghat. Dave and Rod are gone, but Roger Earl still keeps plugging away with some form of the band. Foghat opened for... Grand Funk with the original three guys! Thought it would never happen. Now Don Brewer has a new Grand Funk, but that is on hold while he backs up Bob Seger. There was a Blackfoot reunion with Bobby Barth and three of the original members. Rick Medlocke and Jakson Spires were talking a month before Jakson died. Blackfoot goes on, but it just will not be the same. Tony Iommi is coming up with another incarnation of Black Sabbath. Some Black Sabbath albums should have been called Iommi albums, but the Sabbath name gets more attention. Iron Maiden's classic line-up +1 is together. I am happy about that. Judas Priest has only had two identifiable drummers. Halford's voice is not going to last forever, either. They were worth seeing on the last tour. Gene Simmons has said that KISS can go on without him. The last show with the original four members was in Charleston, SC back in 2000, I think. I am happy to have been there. The one band that will always last until its singer or guitar player dies is Cheap Trick.

Chris, you should only use a chemical stripper on a guitar finish, not a sander! Once you get a headstock or a neck you could keep a tremolo bridge on there, but please come up with a neater routing job. If you are going to refinish that guitar you need to contact Stike (up in North Carolina) about prepping the wood, etc. At the very least you need to get a book on guitar finishing from Stewart MacDonald.

Welllll... Guess what Premier has just come out with! "Pictures of Lily" kit

The Sweet: Blockbuster Little Willy Fox On The Run Slade: Cum Feel The Noise Burning In The Heat Of Love Bachman Turner Overdrive: Let It Ride Blue Oyster Cult:

The body thickness is different. An SG body is not much thicker than the neck heel itself. It is not just the bevels. SG's are the most inconsistent guitars in the Gibson line. Some play great and sound killer. Some play like crap and never really sing.

Gunther is the funniest thing I have seen on YouTube in a long time.

A band that should have been bigger: Nazareth Not exactly "live" but good: Uriah Heep Starz Alice Cooper

This kid's videos pop up on the Internet, but who is he?

Sensational Alex Harvey Band These guys kicked ass!

A guitar used on a recording likely will not be as easy to resell as a guitar seen in several photographs with an artist. Bid only what you would pay for a similar guitar without provenance related to a rock star.

When a car can get 300,000 miles on it you have no room to laugh at it!

--> QUOTE(David B @ Nov 10 2006, 12:58 PM) ← My 1994 Mustang GT has 221,000 miles on it. Is that considered the old days or new days? New would be roughly within ten years in my opinion, but your Mustang would count as a newer car. My 1990 Taurus was doing great at 220,000 miles. Then it got totalled.