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  1. Final list was well north of $10K, not sure about the exact number. They started out at $5K, IIRC. What a dumbass way to fill the hole on the pickguard.
  2. Paul's band will most assuredly rawk it up. Those guys really bring it.
  3. Does the General know he has a certifiable lunatic working for him? Not that there's anything wrong with that....
  4. Even among the NR cast and crew when this tune was hot, it was referred to as "Don't Tell Me I'm Ugly".
  5. Play it loud and proud, Jef! By the pic, if it's any worse than when I had it, it's only by the tiniest of smidges.
  6. I don't know how to embed a Facetube video, but here's one of the things the Special did last weekend. Intended to evoke a small church way down south spiritual kinda feel, where the guitar player is going through an amp that is on its last legs because, well, that's what he's got. It's a sneaky protest song, as many of the spirituals of the day were. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10203482037625296
  7. It came out to the gig with us and got used on a couple of songs, an original and KWS's Blue on Black. A few observations: I'd have played it a bunch more if it 1) had had 9's on it 2) didn't have such a seriously, seriously skinny neck. As in narrow. I have small hands and don't mind skinny necks, but the Pirate #5 is the smallest neck I've ever met up with. OTOH, it's got attitude for days and what appears to be an old DiMarzio Super Distortion has a great, great tone. A friend shot a bit of video and hopefully I'll get it soon enough to be worth posting. In the meantime there's this. I was trying to do a gnarly face to match the guitar and my shirt, but it mostly came out looking like I was in some sort of gastric distress. The PA speaker proves that it was gigged, though.
  8. There should be some of my personal and HFC picks in there somewhere from when it made the visit through Maryland! Chris, I've got a couple I can throw in there.
  9. And while I wasn't looking, Most Esteemed Redhead, who triples as our drummist and Goddess of Shameless Self-promotion came up with this for the gig where the pirate flag will fly: Awesome.
  10. I was trying to work out a way to give them all big summer-size drink glasses, but I couldn't get the height right. I'll try a Hamer jacket or T-shirt for a background. Now, about the swag pile... I was particularly pleased to see a schedule for the Ashville, NC Tourists Single A baseball team. So I tossed in a set of our Single A Dayton Dragons' baseball cards. Oh, and DavidB put a bunch of download code cards for Spank's newest album (?) I haven't used mine yet but plan to. The first album was great! Thanks, Dave!
  11. Hmmm, it'd be a weekday and four hours driving at the very least. Could be done unless work actually makes me work. Anyway...... Heya, Cuzzin Bill, Come on in! Kick off yer shoes Relax, you're among friends and family. I've got one Sustain Block but it's a Sunburst. They'll probably get acquainted soon enough, but I wanted to keep it as close a family as possible for openers. Rehearsal photos in a few days, and I'm still looking for a decent black background to lay out the swag so far.
  12. It'll be out the door the Monday after my gig, Jef. It should make it there easily.
  13. It's alive and well and residing in Dayton OH, after its East coast sojourn. Boy, it was waaay overdue for a string change. Tell ya what, Bil, certainly made this one his own. Preliminary pix later, probably today.
  14. Oooh! That's quite an undertaking. But I like mine just fine as is. I put ground rounds on mine and it covers a lot of territory. Doesn't wear out these smallish hands either.
  15. What you saw was not the actual site (different web address, drafts of everything) and was several days before the actual launch. That was the beta test site that was not for public consumption. It was not the real thing at that point and Ted, Chris, Mike and I spent a good bit of time tweaking it and altering content from there. Oh well, it's not the first time I was too quick on the trigger, probably won't be the last
  16. Rats. I saw the initial website ad but was warned off of it and was told that it was just a "placeholder" or a tryout website. I was reaching for my wallet nonetheless. I'm a little steamed at being told it was not the real thing back then. Grrrf.
  17. Noyce! Noyce! Well done, it probably goes without saying that I think the blueburst is the bee's pajamas. Or cat's knees, I forget which.
  18. 1976 or 77. Trying to nail a part after hours at the studio where I worked. It wasn't happening and I put my original Firebird V on the stand, but, evidently, not quite right. Over it went and snapped the headstock right at the body. Pretty amazing for a neck-through Firebird. The break was such that it was like a lock-key combination and it played fine after it was glued back together. That fall wrecked the value though. P.S., I eventually got the part down, through a river of tears, with a Fender Bass VI
  19. Fascinating and a beautiful instrument. A couple of random observations: It appears that, as might be expected, the guitar had not yet achieved it's current design of six single-string courses. The five double-strung courses are reminiscent of it's immediate ancestor, the vihuela. The recordings are all in highly reverberant spaces (I'm assuming that nobody committed the sacrilege of adding reverb). It'd be nice to hear the guitar in a drier environment so as to hear more of the guitar and less of the room. As it is, the recordings are impressive-sounding at first but the overall, static tone of the reverb gets boring. It's probably a function of having tied-on nylon/gut frets, but it doesn't seem to respond well to hammer-ons/pull-offs. Still, it seems to be a sweet-toned guitar and it's good to see it functioning after all these centuries.
  20. Fascinating and a beautiful instrument. A couple of random observations: It appears that, as might be expected, the guitar had not yet achieved it's current design of six single-string courses. The five double-strung courses are reminiscent of it's immediate ancestor, the vihuela. The recordings are all in highly reverberant spaces (I'm assuming that nobody committed the sacrilege of adding reverb). It'd be nice to hear the guitar in a drier environment so as to hear more of the guitar and less of the room. As it is, the recordings are impressive-sounding at first but the overall, static tone of the reverb gets boring. It's probably a function of having tied-on nylon/gut frets, but it doesn't seem to respond well to hammer-ons/pull-offs. Still, it seems to be a sweet-toned guitar and it's good to see it functioning after all these centuries.
  21. As the day has gone on, I've gotten sadder and sadder about this. A random musing passed through my noggin a while ago. That's all it is, a random musing and no offense is intended toward members, builders, etc. It is told that the Chinese accidentally invented barbecue when a farmer's barn burned down with a pig in it. It is also told that they continued to burn down a barn any time they wanted to barbecue. There were almost no barns left in the province before they wised up. I cant help but think that in a similar fashion, this is FMIC's ham-fisted attempt to get both Shishkov brothers under the same roof, not just under the same corporate umbrella? Given their corporate behavior over the past few years, it wouldn't surprise me.
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