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Celery Man

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  1. Interesting - I had seen that he got sober but instead of retiring but has just figured it was more of a… “gave up alcohol for my health” thing rather than a “got treated for alcoholism” thing. He’s a hill country guy, curious if he went to La Ha or somewhere else. Corpus Christi Bay is a great song. Great alcoholic chorus.
  2. just to get some o-15m sounds in here
  3. IMO you get that looked at by the best luthier you can get it too and fix anything that needs to be fixed to keep the guitar healthy. But you leave the patina.
  4. Looks like maybe the same branding as the Guadalajara in The Woodlands. No idea if that place still exists, it’s been 25 years at least, but they had great tortillas.
  5. Early 1942 https://www.martinguitar.com/customer-service-2/support-serial-number-lookup.html
  6. Is there anything stamped on the neck block, should be visible looking up the sound hole? agree that it’s not a ooo. I think it is an O rather than an OO. I am not good at eyeballing sizes but the rectangle bridge I think is a feature of the O and not the OO. The tuners are also interesting - when (apart from starting this year) did the 15M guitars have black plastic tuning knobs? if those discolored bridge pins are the original ones and are discolored because they are ivory, that puts this guitar at least in the 1960s. My wild assed guess would be 1950 plus or minus 5.
  7. Well i failed to track down a .5mm hex key so I have to wait to fix whatever weird shit I did to the height at the bridge when I was 17, but she’s alive. Stopped by Walgreens yesterday and got a bottle of ronsonol, went to work.
  8. I can eat the same thing all the time if I like it (for lunch) and I have no problem skipping breakfast, and my wife (who is nutrition obsessed) cooks dinner every night, so I’m in a decent spot for dieting. Especially since I’ve also given up drinking alcoholically which is orders of magnitude more difficult than Reese’s peanut butter cups. anyways, going well here although I’ve plateaued a bit at 182. I suspect I’ll break through soon but I may have to start actually exercising or more likely ditch butter on the popcorn, which is my evening treat/snack. But, calorically I’m at about 1500-1700 a day so I think I should keep dropping. i should play with this recipe but… lunch most everyday
  9. Celery Man

    Power Pop

    Going back to my early 2000s playlists today, revisiting a lot from The Format. Nate whatever his last name is of course went on to more acclaim with fun. And I feel like the other guy was in Steel Train? Wait scratch that, it was Nate from The Format and some guys from Steel Train that made fun. And I think one of them was dating Maebe Fünke.
  10. When yall have carried on or seen people carry on - still hardshell case? I assume gig bag would fit better in the little coat closet but that’s a dice roll.
  11. Another question I’m dealing with is how to take my p bass back to Austin on a flight. I have my tweed case, I have that old cheaper tkl case pictured with the jazz bass above, I have various gig bags, none of those are ideal for checking a guitar on a plane. I want to avoid collecting additional cases, I’d like to avoid spending $200+ dollars on a case for a single flight to protect a bass with a street value of not much. But that may be what I have to do - maybe I could put some straps on that black case to secure it better and gate check it. I’ll have to call the airline once I book a flight. Has anyone here actually flown with a guitar?
  12. alright, so I think there's a reunion show fairly solidly in the works for my old band, hatchets are attempting to be buried, after a decade+ and my drunk ass is not without blame and what have you, it's good and time and i'm excited about it. I really hadn't even picked up the bass in probably 10 years, not for real anyways. I think I posted earlier where i had pulled out my old Mike Dirnt P and took it in to get back in order. The neck was pretty good out of whack, it was pretty rusty. I had for a while been thinking about pulling some of the parts off of it and putting it on a new body, doing a phoenix bass kinda thing, but I've been running through old songs and it's feeling pretty great. Goddamn I wish the one instrument I ever used this heavily had had a nitro finish instead of this flaky poly but whatever - in the long ago - alive again G650 posted in the Non-Musical Parent thread and it send me down memory lane remembering an important concert I went to and high school, and some pictures from around that time... ....which made me want to go open the case of doom that has been closed forever. I'm going to blame the alcoholism and maybe Houston weather but I have fucked up more than a few guitars and that bass right there is one of them. I think that had less to do with booze and depression and more with being left at my dad's house and getting moved to the enclosed porch for a while. Anyways, maybe I should restore this thing, maybe instead of paying I guy I'll try my hand at this. I said this case has been closed forever - I think I pretty much stopped using this bass once I got the Dirnt P before going to college and leaving this one behind. I played in the church cross section band in high school, and the case still has loose sheet music from 2004 in it crossed my fingers on this one.... expiration date of 2005, a little swollen, but it nothing bad seems to have happened. Replaced the battery, plugged it in - the bass is almost in tune. that's unbelievable. bad crackly output, but it works. I need to figure out the best way to try and clean rust off of the pickups at least. I might should just replace all the screws. and the pickup cover for sure. or maybe i'll just take it to the guy... i should restore this thing though. If i do this I think that'll be the last of my sad case of shame guitars
  13. that was a really cool guild but yeah it was apologizing for not being a hummingbird. i approve
  14. I remember being super excited to go to our music venue (where my band and my friends' bands play!) to see Voodoo Glow Skulls and Rx Bandits in 2003. Pumping Bulletproof by VGS on the way there, thinking that the Rx Bandits were still this band - and then we get there and Rx Bandits play their brand new album which is all... this and in all honesty that may be the best concert I've ever been to. I think for sure the most musically transformative for me, which... feels silly but it's true. I don't even remember the Glow Skulls set. I think the next day we wrote a song ripping off their whole vibe. Also a huge huge deal for me a year or so later opening for Los Skarnales and Super Agent 8. And then 10 years later I spent a month on a tour with Reel Big Fish and didn't catch their set a single time. You have to seize those ska years, they go by quick. lol
  15. They really should have diversified their economy. I mean you’ve got pinwheel steaks and???
  16. I’ve played guitar for 30 years and I promise you I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between your basic set of daddarios, Ernie balls, hell GHS Boomers. I can feel the difference with nickel and probably perceive differences that aren’t there for fancier strings. get the pink pack of Ernie ball super slinkies.
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    Alright

  18. Not being a poor, I use AirPods and they work without issue.
  19. nothing fancy - morton and stork or whatever, I think 12". I could easily buy a nicer pan if that helped out, but I don't think it's likely that I'll get her to stop using the high heat setting on our stove.
  20. I figured the cutting board could serve the purpose of the 2x4 here - put heated pan upside down on flat surface, put cutting board on top, hammer cutting board to flatten out the bottom of the pan? I tried to teach my wife the rules about my wusthof chefs knife, which was the first decent thing I bought when I started my first big boy job in my first apartment, and she could not seem to get it. We fought twice before I told her to pick a knife and I’d buy it for her and she can’t ever touch my knife again. That solved that problem but won’t work for replacing the teflon with carbon steel.
  21. Write something under 300 characters?
  22. it's a bummer not knowing. it ultimately doesn't matter I suppose, but having loved people for a time in your life, and then not knowing the circumstances of their death or just losing touch and not even knowing if they're still around, it's a hard part of recovery. And even more generally the suddenness of it sometimes. I suppose I'm not as well rounded as I like to consider myself to be - I've just made the connection that the little serenity prayer snippet that is so central to how I've been able to manage myself in recovery is essentially the core of stoic philosophy. The dichotomy of control. There was a conversation a while back in a different thread where I was talking about wanting to read some stoic philosophy, I've dipped into it a bit more and taken aback at how much I didn't realize that this is what I've worked so hard to incorporate into my every day. I've added "How to Think Like a Roman Emperor" into my reading list, I'll report back if I find it useful in this context.
  23. Yeah I’m going to use one of those Epicurious cutting boards and a mallet to hammer it out. Problem is going to be if my wife will stop blasting it. I do like it a lot, I’ve found it fairly easy to cook on.
  24. Botch? Happens all the time. my wife got me a carbon steel pan for Christmas. My wife also blasts every pan with high heat on our glass top stove and it is already warped. I otherwise like the pan - any good carbon steel recs that hold their shape a bit better?
  25. Makes people who praise Jesus the loudest with their words serve Satan with their actions every day. Fucked up indeed.
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