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Willie G. Moseley

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  1. Private school prom in Prattville, Alabama. That's a Big Muff Pi alright, and the other is combined footswitch for reverb and tremolo on the Kustom amp. I think we might have been playing our version of Bob Seger's "Night Moves", on which we rocked out pretty hard so folks could dance---slightly faster tempo, power chords, no acoustic instruments. Worked out pretty well.
  2. Hadn't seen this one either for a while (about 47 years). One of the nursing assistants that's caring for the Missus is the daughter of the bass player, and she sent this. This was caused some retrospection and introspection for various reasons. For one thing it was taken around the time my first marriage was imploding. The band was named Sunstorm, and this picutre dates from Spring 1977. Perusing this closely is interesting concerning the gear: Donnie, the lead guitarist, played a Les Paul Deluxe, I played a Gibson L6-S and John the bassist had a Rick 4001 (he was good; he could play "Sailor's Hornpipe" on it). My amp was a undistinguished Kustom 4 X 10. It appears I've got a can of Finger-Ease on the top of the amp, and methinks those are some off-brand/cheap copies of Kalso Earth Shoes (negative heel) with which I have my right foot entangled in the guitar cord. Donnie was also the guitarist in Executive Rock (earlier trio photos posted here); after Sunstorm split he'd played on my demo album and had been pestering me to start performing live again after eight years; Executive Rock cranked up in early '86 and lasted about four years. He died in 2004.
  3. Got to admit that i wasn't aware until relatively recent that "figured mahogany" existed, either as a body wood or top veneer. Some examples look magnificent
  4. ...or, she could kill him with them knittin' needles...
  5. Stevens was great on Joe Cocker's 1990 live album, an excellent slightly-ahead-of-the-curve classic rock presentation.
  6. Found this the other day; it dates from May 1971 and was taken in my dorm room (note the Fillmore reproduction posters). I'd painted an ecology flag on the body and also put stripes on the headstock. It was a sunburst Teisco thinline with a lyre tailpiece and pickup rocker switches---$38 brand new at the time from a Howard's Discount store in Tuscaloosa, so I figured no big deal if I screwed up the finish permanently but I was still careful. Wondering if anyone did something like this to an instrument, and whether or not you regretted your "artwork" action afterwards. Archival photos would be cool to see.
  7. Good call categorizing Tench and St. Holmes together. Derek's one of the good guys. He's been through a lot, personally and band-wise, and keeps smiln'. In the last few years he's been ubiquitous at the Amigos' guitar shows out in Franklin, TN. I managed to view a video of the premier gig some years ago of an all-star band called Big People (the other members were Jeff Carlisi, Pat Travers, Liberty Devito, and Ben Orr). St. Holmes' voice was undiminished over the decades. He could still flat-out wail.
  8. The youngling has some decent chops, but is it just me or are the drums a bit too much upfront in the mix? YMMV
  9. This was given to me in 1997. It was in pretty sad shape but appeared to be a mid-'60s EB-3 with a guitar pickup installed where the smaller treble pickup had been. Original bridge was missing parts. Busted headstock repair that is stable but ugly. Any collector's value was pretty much shot. So I opted to make this a "Frankenstein" utility instrument. It now has a DiMarzio Bass One p'up in the treble position, a modern bridge, a mirror pickguard, and Tele-style knobs. I'd nicknamed it "The Bomber" (pronouncing the second 'B') 'coz that's what it sounds like with that DiMarzio in there. I pulled it out in recent times to noodle around on, and suddenly realized the original control layout was different from a standard EB-3. Introduced in 1961, RB-3s had four knobs, not two, as well as a four position rotary switch instead of a three-way toggle. The knobs are located where the two knobs would be on a single-pickup EB-0, and the toggle switch is where the rotary switch would be on an EB-3.. This appears to have been a factory-original layout with master tone and volume knobs + a simpler pickup selector. The holes for the pots and the electronics cavity appear to be original as well. Anybody else ever see an EB-3 with that kind of electronics set-up? This bass isn't necessarily colllectable but I don't think I've ever seen another like it.
  10. The aging hippie holding the guitar needs a haircut.
  11. Part of a series of "Young People's Concerts" hosted by Bernstein. I remember watching the original broadcast of this on a Sunday morning. Most of the show was taken up by an introduction to a then-new instrument, the Moog synthesizer (about the size of two refrigerators). When it was wheeled onstage, Bernstein greeted it with "Hello, HAL." (RE: 2001: A Space Odyssey) It was cool to see the NYR&RE start with classic instruments then work its way into electric gear (starts at around the 44-minute mark). Pretty innovative for the times. In trying to identify gear, the two guitars are a Gibson ES-330TDC (or maybe an Epiphone equivalent) and a Fender Strat. Bass appears to be an EB-3 but not really sure. And who's ever seen amps like that--straight cabs but tilt-back heads (?!?). I was gonna say Standels but don't recall the tilt-back head feature on that brand. The head appear to be solid state. Any other opinions about the bass and amplifiers?
  12. Peavey TransTube Supreme 100-watt head. Guitar amp specs but I used mine as a bass amp with Hartke speaker cabs (a 2 X 10 and a 4 X 10, which allowed three different setups (either cab or both), depending the size of the venue
  13. And such an incident could manifest itself in the not-too-distant future...
  14. Check out what's engraved on the back plate of his signature Strat. Woody Guthrie is probably smiling instead of turning over in his grave
  15. I'm working on a memorial piece for the magazine, and will be citing this performance. One thing that won't be in the story is my opinion that Tyner's vocals here aren't as powerful as they were on KOTJ.
  16. Then there's this.: https://www.foxnews.com/media/record-label-drops-pink-floyd-co-founder-roger-water-anti-israel-rhetoric-recent-months-report No comment because of board guidelines
  17. RE: the Raspberries tangent, "I Don't Know What I Want" is arguably the greatest Who tribute ever ("Original Song" category). An any song that starts off with the clang of a boxing ringside bell has something going for it before the first note is played:
  18. A few Beatle-esque comparisons were heard and read when they came along, including how Molland looked like McCartney and the song stylings. All four members of the classic lineup were in the ad hoc backing band on The Concert for Bangla Desh Two members deceased; sorrowful circumstances. Molland was proud of a live album that was released many years later, had been tweaked to get the buzzing and other noise out (like Live at Leeds) A few years ago on this forum we discussed the end of Breaking Bad with "Baby Blue" being the, er, dirge for the last scene. I freaked when I watched that--it was right up there with David Naughton's transformation accompanied by "Bad Moon Rising" in An American Werewolf in London. I personally consider them to be among the founders of power pop.
  19. Kudos on retirement; be sure to stay active to enjoy and extend it. My turn was end of 2015. My retirement gift to myself was a bucket list trip that included Tucson (Pima Air & Space Museum), Las Cruces, White Sands National Park, White Sands Missile Base, Alamogordo, the Trinity Site, Truth or Consequences (spaceport), Albuquerque, and Los Alamos. There was a Border Patrol checkpoint between Las Cruces and Alamogordo. Plus, I bought a new car (had the previous one 12 years). Thought about ordering a new guitar as well but that wouldn't make much sense since i started liquidating the bulk of my collection, which had been a type of investment portfolio with pickups and strings.
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