PSA/EBAY.................Its MILLLER time

[diablo175]

1 hour ago, mc2 said:

 

You should get them to frost some like your guitar finishes 😀😀😀

Nah, the amount of enriched uranium required to get that hue is not good for the digestive system.

[Biz Prof]

33 minutes ago, diablo175 said:

Nah, the amount of enriched uranium required to get that hue is not good for the digestive system.

Perhaps you should have nicknamed that neon-hued single-hum Cali "Yellowcake".

[gorch]

12 hours ago, mc2 said:

I sent a heads-up to the guy I sold my black Hamer Miller pair to.  He's going to try and work something out with the seller if he can for these. He'd be the perfect home. He ONLY collects beer guitars and has 70+ of them hangng on his walls throughtout his house. He's a football coach down in TX.

The guy must have the most super tollerant wife on the planet 😀

70+ BEER GUITARS.....ON THE WALLS.  Imagne that.

He was STOKED to get my black Hamers and said they became the prized possessions of his collection last fall. He said he'd been searching for a set of red Hamers for years and hadn't even known the black Hamer Millers existed before finding mine.

I also told him about Rick Neilsen giving his to Steve Miller at the RnR Hall of Fame and then they jammed with it a couple weeks back. He hadn't heard about that and already pulled the YouTube clip to see it. Flipped.

I hope he manages to snag these. 

I wonder if he is the only guy who solely collects beer guitars? I've never heard of another.

 

 

 

Its a shame the sustain block became a wall hanger now.

[Stike]

21 hours ago, diablo175 said:

Just can't seem to get past the notion of having the logo of some piss water beer emblazoned on a guitar. 

I prefer pisswater.

[diablo175]

6 minutes ago, Stike said:

I prefer pisswater.

Yeah I liked 'em, too... when I was 16.    More power to ya, though.

 

ETA- kinda takes the merit out of your position re: good tequila.

[Stike]

35 minutes ago, diablo175 said:

Yeah I liked 'em, too... when I was 16.    More power to ya, though.

 

ETA- kinda takes the merit out of your position re: good tequila.

Conversely....😄

[mc2]

 Nice job on that Pabst Tele, Stike !!

 

That made me wonder about extinct American beer brands and I found this book:

http://www.beerbooks.com/cgi/ps4.cgi?action=enter&thispage=1417&order_id=!ORDERID!

 

Gorch.....That pair of black Millers I had had their fair share of use over the years.  The bass was owned and played by a longtime bassist for The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Ronni Crooks borrowed the 6-string for some bar gigs because it sort of matched her old Steinberger...and she was no stranger to her fair share of beers during a gig 😀

 

BTW.....I'll bet I'm the only HFC member who actually got asked to write a song for a beer company, to use as a jingle? Genesee Beer heard a talking blues song I did and wanted a jingle like it. Pretty funny -- the "Genesee Cream Ale Blues."  Probably my pennace for going to college in upstate New York.

....and one of our singers used to sing the Michelob Beer commercials. 

[diablo175]

40 minutes ago, Stike said:

Conversely....😄

Touche.  Perhaps why I don't adorn my guitars with mediocre-quality tequila labels/graphics.

[Stike]

19 minutes ago, diablo175 said:

Touche.  Perhaps why I don't adorn my guitars with mediocre-quality tequila labels/graphics.

It could land you a gig in a shitty bro country act maybe?😄

[diablo175]

48 minutes ago, Stike said:

It could land you a gig in a shitty bro country act maybe?😄

 REALLY glad I didn't festoon one of my axes with some mediocre crap beverage labels.

Besides, I wouldn't know the first thing about how to play/write bro country other than following the exact formula laid out by just about every other Bro Country band.

 

 

[cmatthes]

29 minutes ago, diablo175 said:

Besides, I wouldn't know the first thing about how to play/write bro country other than following the exact formula laid out by just about every other Bro Country band.

 

 

Then you'd NAIL it!

[Biz Prof]

3 hours ago, cmatthes said:

Then you'd NAIL it!

Criteria for a Bro Country song:

1. Beer, liquor, etc. a.k.a. "good stuff"

2. A reference to the female gender as "girl"

3. Dirt road(s)

4. Truck(s), meaning pickup truck

5. Moonlight/night

6. A body of water, e.g., "the lake"

7. Aforementioned "girl" wearing tight jeans.

8. Partying (implied as epic in scale or in the way the singer and his posse do it "'round here".

9. Name dropping of one or more '60s or '70s country legends whose anthologies many of the singers probably know little, if any, of.

10. (HONORABLE MENTION): a gratuitous mention of God, Jeeeezus, the "man upstairs", or Christian faith in the same song that shamelessly includes all of the prior criteria. 

 

[mc2]

^^^^^

You forgot.....

1)  America/The Flag

2) Jail/Being arrested

3).Guns

[Biz Prof]

1 minute ago, mc2 said:

^^^^^

You forgot.....

1)  America/The Flag

2) Jail/Being arrested

3).Guns

"I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison..."

[diablo175]

Is this a contender for the biggest derailed thread?

[Biz Prof]

15 minutes ago, diablo175 said:

Is this a contender for the biggest derailed thread?

Yes, but...let's get it back on track. 

The Hamer Miller guitars were a novelty design for which there is a long term appreciation and mild historical significance. 

Bro' Country is an industry-manufactured musical abomination designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator of young miscreants and drunkards. It is unlikely to enjoy any appeal or recognition 10+ years from now. 

Lol...

 

[diablo175]

No arguments towards your take on bro country. Just a mighty tenuous connection to the pisswater Guitars.

[mc2]

10 hours ago, Biz Prof said:

Yes, but...let's get it back on track. 

The Hamer Miller guitars were a novelty design for which there is a long term appreciation and mild historical significance. 

Bro' Country is an industry-manufactured musical abomination designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator of young miscreants and drunkards. It is unlikely to enjoy any appeal or recognition 10+ years from now. 

Lol...

 

 

Bro Country is just the Yin to Rap/Hip Hop's Yang. Two sides of the same coin.

The music industry thrives on churning out product to sell to the "lowest common denominator."

How many disco era songs are remembered that made the industry $$billions$$ ?

It is so much easier to do now with social media/the internet and the MTV/VH-1 machine, etc. The industry can roll out a new turd dressed in gold and sell a million copies and give it awards in a flash....then on to the next turd.

It makes the days of radio airplay payola and paying Dick Clark to let you on American Bandstand seem like cave paintings.

 

BUT....BEER GUITARS....THEY LIVE FOREVER!!!!! Just ask Jol 😀😀

[Michael_B]

10 hours ago, Biz Prof said:

"I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison..."

The perfect country and western song.

[Michael_B]

7 minutes ago, mc2 said:

BUT....BEER GUITARS....THEY LIVE FOREVER!!!!! Just ask Jol 😀😀

[HAMERMAN]

23 hours ago, mc2 said:

Probably my pennace for going to college in upstate New York.

At the risk of further derail:

MC2 - I was recently up in Rochester NY for the first time since going to college at RIT many moons ago. As expected very much has changed. The one place that wasn't a shock to the system was House of Guitars, it was like a time warp back to the 80's. (I didn't make it to Nick Tahou's but I expect that would be exactly the same too.) 

[mc2]

19 minutes ago, HAMERMAN said:

At the risk of further derail:

MC2 - I was recently up in Rochester NY for the first time since going to college at RIT many moons ago. As expected very much has changed. The one place that wasn't a shock to the system was House of Guitars, it was like a time warp back to the 80's. (I didn't make it to Nick Tahou's but I expect that would be exactly the same too.) 

 

Yeah....the Scharbroecks are mad geniuses ar their crazy marketing of the House of Guitars. When I lived there in my radio days and wanted a rare copy of some vinyl I would head ver there. I actually got to experience their basement, where they "stored" overflow vinyl. I remember Andy Babiuk of the Chesterfield Kings (who wrote the Beatles and Stones Gear Books) taking me down i to the dungeaon....and we, literally, stood on like a foot of albums covering the floor as we sifted through them. I remember him saying, "I think there was a copy over this way" as we picked up copies of all sorts of sealed rare vinyl. It was completely nsane.

But even all their vintage guitars was sort of like that, just piled into the showcase laying against each other. Crazy horsetrading too. I had gotten Echoplex (SN0003 I believe) from the electronics repair department downstairs at the radio station I worked at. I swapped it to the HOG for a 1968 Vox Starstream Teardrop 12-string that I still own. Man, they were one of the first guys who had the foresight to stockpile vintage guitars by the truckload from the time they first opened around 1970.....and to master the art of in-store promotions with artists or manufacturers.

Their old TV ads and radio ads were insane. Their HOG Santa Claus was a larger than Leslie West sized real guitar player. (He was actually a shoe repairman at the shop right next doot to the HOG!! I played with him in a project for awhile. The guy was so big that he would nod out at the wheel of his old station wagon frm lack of oxygen while drivng at 60 mph.)

A little know fact....many know that the HOG was started by older brother Aarmon after he got out of jail and that he had his own punky/garage type band and albums. But most do not know that the start-up capital for the store came from selling stolen bicycles!!! No shit. From stolen bicycles to a multi-million dollar MI empire.

Despite the crazy front the brothers put on, they are real sharp businessmen. But, even at NAMM Shows, many almost seemed scared of them. But if they knew you, they were great to hang with. 

Another "strange" music fact about Rochester.....Gibson CEO Henry Juskewicz grew up there. Used to listen to me on the radio!! Maybe all the strange stuff I played from midnght to 6 a.m. made him the man he is today 😀😀😀😀

Nick Tahoe's....man, that sure brings back memories....and Sal's Birdland. Buffalo gets the credit for hot wings but I think it was Rochester that really had the best. I survived many a Garbage Plate at Nick's in the wee hours, both the food and it's location in da hood.

Funny you posted this when you did. Last night I found an old box of recordings and one was from back then of the very first time I played with prog rock electric violinist William Nowik and drummer Mark Miller, who later joined Talas with Billy Sheehan. Nowik recently tracked me down via Facebook and were are working on some stuff. I emailed him a photo of the tape I found.

 

But.....BACK ON TOPIC....I wonder what Beer Guitars the HOG has stashed away? Was there ever a Genesee Beer guitar?

[Toadroller]

On 5/17/2016 at 10:35 AM, mc2 said:

 

Nick Tahoe's....man, that sure brings back memories....and Sal's Birdland. Buffalo gets the credit for hot wings but I think it was Rochester that really had the best. I survived many a Garbage Plate at Nick's in the wee hours, both the food and it's location in da hood.

Nick Tahoe's ... man, that sure should bring back memories, but I was too drunk at the time. Each and every.  That's the point, I think.

I'll need to visit HOG again; I only had twenty minutes while on a business trip.  My brother was down in their basement at some point in the last five years.  He described it exactly the same way.

[Sugartune]

Beer guitars...cool. But what I'm really interested in is food shaped guitars. Potatoes. Yams. Turnips. Watermelons. You name it! Even Doritos.

Great House of Guitars always appealed to me, even before I played. We received the Rochester feeds for the US networks, so we got all the zany local cable commercials (which, I might add was literally a foreign concept. We didn't have much of that on our own local feeds. Like Shapiro & Shapiro & GHOG and all those other yell at the screen while 80's style computer font scrolled by the screen). I've still never been. I do hope to, I just don't want to "go" to Rochester. I'd rather pass through

[mc2]

Funny....last night I happened to find a photo of. Armand and Bruce Scharbroeck I shot at a NAMM show when we were hanging at the Music & Sound Awards in the 90s. They won a dealer award and were stoked.

I found a website about Rochester last night that I was looking through. The guy who runs it had some old poster of Rochester landmarks reprinted, that the site now sells......among all the famous buildings like the Eastman House, Kodak, etc.....the two wacky landmarks on there, sure enough, are Nick Tahoe's and the House of Guitars.

I also saw the Rochester is ranked the #9 best music city in America, which is pretty impressive considering it isn't all that big of a city. But I would have to agree. I always thought Rochester was an unusually good city for music....the Eastman Theater and Philharmonic and having had several great radio stations since like 1970, a long history of many live music venues...and the House of Guitars. Being in the Top Ten is impressive. Rochester has always also been a popular first stop for concert acts on tours, where they can polish their live set before hitting NYC, Philly, Buffalo or Boston.