Random (Music and Guitar Related) Thoughts Thread

[Dave Scepter]

 

[django49]

[django49]

If only those buttons were not so close together......

[specialk]

“I played a Hamer once, but I didn’t like it. I didn’t have time to set my amp right for it,” Brooks said of his first experience with a Hamer. “Then one night, I was on stage and I broke a string. I said to my son, who’s my guitar technician, `Hand me that Hamer.’ Man, my amp must have been set just right because that guitar kicked out and I just went crazy. People were saying, `What’s wrong with him?’ Twenty years came back. I haven’t put down that guitar since.”

-Lonnie Brooks

[velorush]

42 minutes ago, specialk said:

“I played a Hamer once, but I didn’t like it. I didn’t have time to set my amp right for it,” Brooks said of his first experience with a Hamer. “Then one night, I was on stage and I broke a string. I said to my son, who’s my guitar technician, `Hand me that Hamer.’ Man, my amp must have been set just right because that guitar kicked out and I just went crazy. People were saying, `What’s wrong with him?’ Twenty years came back. I haven’t put down that guitar since.”

-Lonnie Brooks

Amazing!  Where'd you find that? 

Murray State University student center was a regular stop for Lonnie Brooks (and son) in the late 80's.  That must have been pre-Hamer as he played a Strat most of the time, occasionally switching out for a Les Paul (both wrapped in those Axe-Sack thingies). His son always played a thinline Telecaster. They were always fantastic.

[specialk]

36 minutes ago, velorush said:

Amazing!  Where'd you find that? 

https://www.hamerfanclub.com/hamer-guitars-stories-from-the-chicago-tribune/

[JGale]

Same energy as the original, eh?

 

[BubbaVO]

On 5/28/2024 at 12:27 PM, django49 said:

If only those buttons were not so close together......

Those are big thumbs not big toes, right? Right?

[JGale]

22 hours ago, specialk said:

https://www.hamerfanclub.com/hamer-guitars-stories-from-the-chicago-tribune/

That’s a great picture of Ted.

[Dave Scepter]

I shouldn't laugh but~

[Steve Haynie]

[django49]

[specialk]

[django49]

[Steve Haynie]

[django49]

Best $3.95 I never spent.

Edited June 5, 2024 by django49

[specialk]

WTF:

[Jimbilly]

17 hours ago, django49 said:

this leads into a twist on an old joke:

a gentleman is someone who can play rock and roll accordian, but doesn't. 

[Cboss]

On 5/28/2024 at 11:25 AM, django49 said:

Looks exactly like my last Charlotte GF!

[bry4321]

I was listening to Diamonds and Rust on Priest Unleashed in the East, then started thinking of other remakes/covers, including Hard to Handle by The Black Crowes, and this random thought hit me like a bolt of lightning: isn’t “Black Crow” redundant? Has anyone ever seen a crow that isn’t black? Or are they talking about something other than the bird?

[Steve Haynie]

"Black crow" is like "hot water heater."

[crunchee]

On 6/3/2024 at 5:32 PM, django49 said:

Weird Al needs to call up some famous friends and release his own version of this album.  

[alantig]

4 hours ago, Steve Haynie said:

"Black crow" is like "hot water heater."

Not quite.  A hot water heater doesn't heat hot water, it heats cold water.  "Hot water heater" is more like "orange juice squeezer".  

[alantig]

5 hours ago, bry4321 said:

this random thought hit me like a bolt of lightning: isn’t “Black Crow” redundant? Has anyone ever seen a crow that isn’t black? Or are they talking about something other than the bird?

Apparently not.  I'd never seen one that wasn't, but...

[Steve Haynie]

9 hours ago, alantig said:

Not quite.  A hot water heater doesn't heat hot water, it heats cold water.  "Hot water heater" is more like "orange juice squeezer".  

Yeah.  I knew that a water heater heats cold water when I posted that.