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hullabelew

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  1. Glad they were able to keep everything together. I really wish the 6666 and Waggoner would do what the King Ranch as done with marketing (Ford and their leather shop). I assume Tio was behind all of that and I think that was a brilliant move on his part.
  2. Had something cool happen last night. Last night was on an aftercare meeting with my treatment center. The guy running the meeting is named Mac. He was a former patient at that same treatment center about 5 years ago. I had checked in on a Wednesday and that Monday I was still assigned to the medical unit and in a valium haze. I don't remember much about those 4-5 days. Hell, I even lost a complete day. But that Monday night, another dude and I wondered in to an 'aftercare' meeting. I later found out it was about 10 patients and 2 guys that I thought were counselors but later learned they were former patients who came back to campus a few times a week for meetings and to give back. I hadn't seen Mac in about 8 months. We just keep missing each other at these meetings. They have 5 a week. There are 30 people in last nights Zoom and Mac starts the meeting. "First I would like to have Hulla start off tonight. I first met him in this very meeting and if my memory serves correctly, he has a two year anniversary this coming Saturday." I still can't believe he even remembers me, much less remember the first time we met, but fuck me...how does he remember my sobriety date. After that first meeting, I would see Mac at Sunday Service an always try to get into his group for Aftercare and I would call him while I was in treatment just to get his ideas on situations. Just a cool, laid back guy who is also a friend of Richard Royer, who wrote "Breathing Underwater". Sorry for the rambling, but I was blown away.
  3. Dammit...I missed Single Pickup Sunday. Will get it when it rolls around again.
  4. Cool story and recut video of Prince on the George Harrison show. https://boingboing.net/2021/05/02/princes-epic-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps-guitar-solo-has-a-new-directors-cut.html
  5. This looks cool. Documentary on the history of guitar pedals. https://www.guitarworld.com/news/watch-reverbcoms-eagerly-anticipated-the-pedal-movie-now
  6. FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC news, @Celery Man. So happy for you guys! Reminded me to post of story about my youngest visiting me at treatment but that can wait. She is such a beauty.
  7. Motherfucker.... I blame you @Litig8r for my lost day. Not only Brian Setzer on guitar but Syd Straw on background vocals. Damn, I still love Syd Straw. She recently did a great project with Jimmer Podrasky from The Rave-Ups. Syd's first solo record is a show stopper.
  8. And @WhatTheBuck. I bought that Wasserman album the day it came out. That Jennifer Warnes duet kills me every time I hear it. I need to pull that out and listen to it again. Thanks for the reminder. And speaking of her, Bruce Robison just did a FANTASTIC interview with Roscoe Beck about his work with Leonard Cohen and later with Jennifer on "Famous Blue Raincoat", still the best sounding album I've ever heard. He did it as part of his "The Next Waltz" project. If it isn't there, you can grab it from the patreon page. Trust me, it is work whatever you want to pay to listen to it.
  9. I still giggle that she and Tom Waits were together for so long. That debut album is just fantastic. I need to pick up that book. I LOVE the groove of "Young Blood" from that album. Her 1984 album, Magazine, is one of my favorites. They sound, the layering, the depth, the writing, the performance.....ALL top notch. "Juke Box Fury" is a great example.
  10. Fucking edit ran out. Parnell doesn't use a pick and Kurtz puts the slide on his pinkie. Still wish he has played that Strat. Good lord, I love that guitar. I was kissed by several angels and the devil.
  11. Love the comments about people arguing who was on the tele. That is Rick Kurtz on that killer slide. That is Kurtz' white Strat on the stand but according to some credits, Lee Roy was on the same ACL show. I found a video with Parnell using the slide on his ring finger and in this clip, it is on his played it.
  12. Hell, he's 80 years old. And a hard 80 years at that.
  13. In Google Earth, search Estancia La Guitarra: This is a cool story. https://mymodernmet.com/argentinian-guitar-forest/
  14. Updates/news is starting to come in. This is just fucking heartbreaking. https://www.ajc.com/news/police-working-to-identify-6-victims-of-deadly-i-85-van-crash/IG475HEC7VBN7C7FPPF6V4AH7M/ https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/family-fiery-van-crash-victims-cope-painful-loss/85-c76fcda8-ba2a-4e81-a95d-d8ed7c1a7c86
  15. Here is Denny on the Flying V with Gary Clark, Jr. in 2013.
  16. This is probably my favorite Delbert song. And Stephen fuckin' Bruton on guitar.
  17. Who was your dad? PM me if you don't want that info out. Reason I ask is I was living in Birmingham in the late 80s and Rick Kurtz (one of my favorite guitarists in the world) toured with Delbert about half of the time. Rick didn't say it but another musician told me that Rick only toured half time with Delbert because no one could hang in for a full year with him so he had to have a team of musicians to make up his touring band. Delbert played one of the best sounding (and looking) Strats I've ever seen.
  18. Even though this thread is 2 years old....this is probably my favorite. I first sought them out seeing Sting wearing on of their t-shirts. This song hooked me.
  19. One of my local meetings just reopened for meetings. Saturday, a van of 16 people (we think all females) were headed to the meeting from their sober living when their van crashed, caught on fire. 6 were killed. At my Sunday morning meeting, we were missing a van of about 8 girls from a sober living house that just recently started coming to that meeting. Still trying to sort out the exact details, trying to find where the other 10 were taken but since the dead haven't been IDed, information is really hard to get right now. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/6-dead-i85-crash-gwinnett/85-38ff09c0-016c-4fad-a5b8-cb20c72ace22
  20. Double fuck. But what a great article about Denny. It's a shame someone has to die before someone takes the time to put something like that together.
  21. Defense doesn't have shit in his closing. He is failing and flailing around throwing shit against any and every wall.
  22. hullabelew

    Songbirds

    I was wondering about Hanseroth's guitar solo on this version. Going back through my Elton John stuff, I found where they put the Mick Ronson version of "Mad Man" on the reissue of "Tumbleweed Connection". Different than what was on the "Mad Man" album. Holy fuckity fuck.
  23. In Atlanta there is an AA clubhouse just across the highway from Guitar Center. Bands are always stopping in that place. There is also another meeting that seems to draw a lot of high profile actors and musicians. With all of the meetings in Atlanta, it is cool how the word gets out among the famous folks about which meetings they like when they are in town.
  24. I checked in to treatment last on a Wednesday. I remember meeting with my doctor...must have been a Friday. On Sundays, they offered a church service or a meditation class. He asked what I was planning. I told him I thought I would check out the meditation. He said, "You ought to go check out the Sunday service. You never can tell who is going to show up to play but I bet you will know more than a couple over your stay." That Sunday I walk in to see Tommy Womack doing a sound check. This is a song about his struggles with trying to stay sober and having one good day with his wife and son. Ironically, this was filmed about 3 months before his arrest and his stay at the same treatment center where he was now playing. If you want a good book to read, his "Dust Bunnies" is a fantastic and funny book.
  25. Holy fuck...Yoakam's drummer. As Tom Waits says, "Someone needs to chain that boy up". WOW
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