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From my vendor of choice for tea (O-Cha.com) who does an incredible job of keeping their website up to date: I think I've got about 300g left in my stash, so hopefully this can get worked out in the next couple of months. But that's tea. Adding 15% to say, a guitar or even a pedal would likely make import infeasible.

What a great set list!

"*WHILE SUPPLY LASTS *ONLY THREE AVAILABLE AT THIS PRICE *ONE CASE PER CUSTOMER" 😆

Had a fraternity brother fired from WalMart for putting a Richard Pryor cassette in ole Teddy. 🤣

Just popped up on my Spotify Music Radar - will Zander age already? He sounds better than ever. Loved the tune.

The great irony is "everyone" hated it, but the only Boss pedal that shipped more units was the DS-1. 😆

I assume it was a (yet another) dig at this one: Am I wrong?

The original was another of the hundreds of examples of the world getting much larger when I went to college. This was a regular in the fraternity house VCR. Saw them live at the Starwood in Nashville on the Break Like the Wind tour in 1992 - Bela Flek jammed with them on "Break Like the Wind." Surreal. The best part was after it was over Derek Smalls reaches into his spandex and pulls out the cucumber, unwraps it and motions to the crowd. Seeing what was about to happen, the crowd parted like the Red Sea as he tossed it into the seats. 🤣

What a cool collection of gear! And what a spacious stage!

Wow! Being quite ig-nert, I learn something every day! 424 GAIN STAGE – JHS Pedals I didn't even know the "424 Sound" was a thing (I just knew my broke-college self couldn't afford one BITD).

Thanks for the heads-up. It was in my My List on Amazon forever, but by the time I got around to it they had taken it off Free With Prime and it was a rental. I have to save these (music documentaries) for the odd occasion I'm home alone. NOBODY will suffer through them with me. 😑

Looks like it's just the 1960 Inspired By, so first fret measurement of 0.80" - pity that. Wildwood has one for $1,100. Epiphone Inspired by Gibson Custom Shop 1960 Les Paul Special Double Cut | Reverb

I used to run spot / setup for acts when I was in college. We were on CT's regular touring circuit along with Molly Hatchet, .38 Special, etc. The stage was always in the "old" fieldhouse against this wall: I would be stationed with a Strong Supertrooper on a riser upstairs opposite the stage (up the bleacher stairs to the right of this photo). They always put on a great show, but the guitar show backstage was always my favorite part. Outside of a (large) music store, I'd never seen so many guitars at one time. He had this new brand I'd only ever seen in magazines. Hammer? Hamer? 😉

Wow! Serious AM radio flashback!

Cool short from that interview popped up in my feed:

Billy Corgan is a very good interviewer FIFY 😉 He did permit Vai to get a few words in toward the end. 😆 Vai's humility and perspective is always refreshing. I cannot imagine the level of hubris I would project if I had even a tenth of his ability. ETA: Only joking. I took Mr. Corgan's soliloquy to be less about Mr. Corgan and more of an attempt to compliment Vai, which Vai (as he always does) deflected.

Priest will always be in my mind the sound of metal. Everything metal is (again, in my mind) compared to them and everything to one degree or another falls short.

Well, why might that be?

Agreed, but the level of effort required (and accomplished)to have pulled this off so successfully doesn't seem feasible. Until recently, these weren't expensive guitars: What would be the odds of finding a shell pink Proto and Special and swapping out the necks? Seeing it person would be helpful, but from the photos the paint fade seems extremely consistent body to neck.

Somebody cleaned out their parts drawer! All kinds of stuff going on there. The surround on the CC pickup is odd, too, being rounded rather than pointed (and given the bevel is consistent it appears it was made that way).

That's bizarre! I for one would absolutely love it were it not for the doubly-ambitious price.

I've been watching that one on Reverb: 1980 Hamer Special - Great Player - Ready For ANY Style! | Reverb Watching because the neck seemed oddly large for the vintage: Weight: 8lb 5oz | Nut: W 1.66 H .89 | 12th: W 1.98 H 0.90 Can't figure out if the finish is solid or translucent. I think I see some curly maple veneer, but it might just be the lighting.

Sorry, not trying to muddy the waters. I ran across that Stike-finished bass immediately after reading your question and made (obviously) incorrect assumptions about the paisley finish.