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I was hopeful it would get better when Etsy sold Reverb to a group with affiliations to Fender and Soundcloud but held off on selling some things to see how it would shake out. It sounds like it's gotten worse.

Oh fuck right off...40 years... that really brought home how old I am.

Fedex Ground has no "insurance" cap because they don't really offer insurance, but they've had that $1000 cap on "declared value" reimbursement for at least a dozen years. Of course they continue to allow you to declare and pay for whatever value you feel is appropriate which can offer a warm and fuzzy until you need it. Pirate Ship is great and offers third party coverage per shipment at competitive rates.

They respect requests that a note be added to your account to never call.

It wasn't spectacular, but I loved the active engagement.

Dylan's voice has never been the draw

I was correct on 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7. Of the rest I had five wrong and ten no fucking clues.

What year did they start?

Rob Reiner and his wife both found stabbed to death in their home.

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.” ~ HST

I love buying snake oil. I bought a used GCS SG loaded with Tom Holmes pickups. Sold the pickups and made back a third of my cost for the guitar. Similar story with an American strat loaded with Fender Josefina winds but selling those paid for a little more than half the guitar. For the record, the Holmes pickups in the SG were pure mush potatoes. The set of Gravelins with Al-3s that replaced them were divine. It was a big difference. Some say it was one of the biggest differences ever. It was far and away the most dramatic before and after from any pickup swap in human history.

I would ignore the above advice and simply make a connection between the wire and the tailpiece stud.

This bit is everything.

Did you mean 2410TG? Looks like the pickups were designed to offer something that goes against the grain of what most are looking for in a Gretsch.

Do you know the model? Serial appears to be '06 but it also appears to have 6/32" studs and an ABR.

Looks very much like the '80 Special I used to own. Of all the Hamer's I've owned it's the only one I ever really regretted selling.

Damn. This one kicks my teenage self square in the nuts. Legend.

An elderly guy singing in the throes of Parkinsons whose abuses and addictions to drugs and alcohol for 40+ years have very few rivals? Yeah, I'd say anything he does above ground at this point is at the very fucking least "surprisingly good."

This assumes he wasn’t relishing every moment of it in the same way my new hero, Bill Ward, was. 77, literally letting it all hang out, and behind the kit again as if he was a kid. If my end comes with a similar pathetic spectacle I’ll be thrilled!

The Who were at Woodstock?

Those are very cool guitars and the black ones are the best ones because they don't have the body-color matching Gibson logos like the others. At some point I'm pretty sure my granddaughter will be getting one.

I didn't. I figured you had lost interest when you didn't say anything after:

Larry Corsa, aka: Faber USA

It's roughly 49x19x6. Built like a tank but as light as a truck. I can get some pics later if you're genuinely interested but unless you're non-stop traveling and use no-shit gorillas for roadies it's not at all practical.