tomteriffic

Dylan's "Positively 4th Street".

Happy Birthdays, guys!

Well Said. +1

One more (small) digression. Besides the rant, my favorite line in that sketch was..... Re: The apartment/slaughterhouse faux pas. Cleese says "Oh, I see. I hadn't divined your attitude toward your guests".

It was!

Rev. Moseley, you are absolutely correct. (bingbing!!) It starts with Cleese presenting an architectural design to some folks who want an apartment building. Touble is, he's designed a slaughterhouse. My favorite bit is at the very end when he whines that he has a second hand apron and would sit in the back and not bother anyone. Something that ol' Eagleye missed evidently. Consider yourself backed up. They did it on the TV show as well. So there.

Am I to take it then, that this was actually the bastard child of Elvis, Spock and Beverly Crusher? Back to your regularly scheluded flaying....

I'm not familiar with the instrument, but from what I've gathered here, this guy's assertions are absolute horseshit. Hamer fret wire is some kind of special alloy and I've never seen anybody's frets wear longer. From what you described in terms of playing time, unless you absolutely toasted the strings and viciously scraped them sideways across the fret tops, they ought to be near-perfect. I've had 70's specials and a sunburst that had been rode hard and put away wet that, although they'd had some work, the frets were still very usable and in great shape given their age and use.

Q: How do you spell pretentious? A: E-L-P How about Y-E-S? Especially after about the 4th album?

Holding onto a pick is the current project I got me a skin condition that leaves my hands as a mixture of thick, slick callus or raw hamburger. So I can't hold on to a flatpick and fingerpicking could get flat-out ugly. Without Gorilla Snot I'd be up a creek. Beyond that, playing over changes, running scales, playing changes and melodies simultaneously.

It was a 'less bling' version of the AK 95 above, there. Maybe the AK 75?

I've had an ES-175, Heritage 535, and an Ibanez AS 73. For a thinline, the Heritage is hard to beat, especially with decent pickemups. The AS 73 (I think that's the model, it's their take on an ES-175) is a phenomenal bang for the buck and a sweet jazzenblues box. The ES-175 I had was magical, sounded phenomenal clean or wound up and the feedback was plentiful but very easily controllable. I bought it new in 1970. It got stolen and I never found another that was that nice. None of 'em was much for acoustic tones but the 175 was the best.

+1 for The Godz. I still have some of their vinyl around here someplace. Which, inexplicably, reminds me of Pearls Before Swine.

I saw them in the spring of 1970 (if the drug haze has cleared enough for me to remember what year in college it was...). The pile of gear onstage would suggest it was probably an Acoustic. The opening band (Stopp, another great one) had the big ol' Great Kaballah 3 x 15" Kustoms, and most of the other stuff interspersed that night was Acoustic IIRC, along with four JBL equipped (plus Voice of the Theater horns) Dual Showmen for PA. Michael was using an Epi thinline as I recall. Somebody had a Vox Phantom bass that night too. Get Rick to dig out both versions of "The Sun Also Rises".

Fever Tree. Did three albums on a label that went bust (third one was a contractual obligaton jobbie) and sank without a trace. Dennis Keller was a fine songwriter as were the producers (somebody and somebody Holzman, IIRC). These guys were out of the Texas psychedelic thing in the late sixties, early seventies. A couple of others from that time that were heralded as innovators but were pretty far under the radar were 50 Foot Hose and Red Crayola. +1 for SCOTS. They were under my radar too until one of my all-time fave guitarists, Will Kimbrough, began occasionally touring and sharing the bill with them.

That's the damnest piece of hillbilly engineering I've ever seen on a guitar. Except maybe Booba Barnes' sticker and duct tape covered Gibby.

.................................. thud.

Have a great one, guys!

All the best, Mr. Ree-shard!

Sweet! What's the mahogany-looking thing that is top dead center? Not the Dean, the one next to it? Anyting you feel the need to lose that Talman, let me know. I never should have let mine go.

I've never met a larger Mesa I really liked. Other than the original Subways, none of them could do that clean-to-crunch on your guitar volume control thing worth a damn. One end of the equation always seemed to sound awful. Clean, yeah, fine, distorto-mundo, yeah, fine. Anywhere in between, fageddabout it. Somebody tell me that the RK, the Roadster or the Stiletto Ace will do that clobbered old Vox thing....

Wow, that's a buncha birfdays! Happyhappy to all!

Damn, that's sad.

Hippo Birdie to the king of the Kidney Bean Bursts!

Yeah Dan, but mine has a rosewood board AND EMG's!!! That could be four figures!!