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  1. He's in Durham, I can't remember where in NC you went. Its a side deal for him, but I think he'd love for it to turn full. In SF he was pretty busy with it, with some shops sending him regular work, ut he moved to NC during lockdowns and is juat now starting to get a little traction here. Let me know if you're around here, I'd love to put you in touch. Aside from working on guitars, he's a great guy and great drummer. I think you could both use somebody to jam with. He even mixed our record.
  2. Studio room. Every cable is cut to the perfect length and routed and secured perfectly. Again, if its made of wood, he built it. Desk, Mixing board rack, shelves, etc. A true lunatic.
  3. Visiting my friend and former drummer in North Carolina this week. He's a certified luthier from some school in Minnesota. He has the ultimate set of tools. Most anal, organized, perfectionist I ever met. He built everything made of wood in these photos, cabinets, shelves, bench, etc from lumber, down to drilling out all the peg holes for the adjustable shelves.
  4. I think either. I have a Hummingbird, its great. Basically its A j45 with square shoulders and a cool pickguard. I loaned it to a friend a few months ago and he keeps asking to extend the loan, so he must be enjoying it.
  5. I caught that. I mentioned upthread that this was shot a few weeks after I was born. My Mom's always told me that when i was born few came to the hospital because everybody was home with the Hong Kong Flu. It was a big pandemic at that time.
  6. Im team merge threads, but this is a good point. The guitar thread is catch all that seems to move in spurts and a lot of good, specific info gets buried in there with stream of consciousness type posts. On the other hand, the pedal and amp threads get bumped to the top so rarely that I often miss it until it gets bumped up a 2nd or 3rd time.
  7. One of my closest friends is butch lesbian woman, almost 20 years younger than me. I was born a couple weeks before this documentary was filmed (which kinda blows m mind in a different way). We met and bonded over our record collections. Seriously, She was DJing w vinyl 45s and I was like "I have that one, and that one, and that one,... I better go meet this person." She's kind of a big deal, and executive producer at Apple Music. Anyway, a couple of years ago her and I were at a party and ended up getting ride back to my place with another friend we both new, a very young woman who was about 23 at the time. We decide to have a nightcap and ended up discussing and listing to all my Beatles albums until 7am. Not just like, "Sure, i like the Beatles". Completely nerding out on them. Each one of us could name our favorite albums, why it was better than the others, knew track lists, backstories, etc. What a wonderful night of sharing music. Hell, i still have a sketch of myself drawn by the younger woman that she drew that morning and left with a note. So the next day I was telling my friend about it, 20years older than me - A HUGE Beatles fan who got to live through that era. He owns stacks of rare Beatles albums and photographs, including 4 copies of the butcher cover. I said to him, "A 50 year old dude from San Diego, a 34yo lesbian from Ohio, and a 23youyoung lady from the East Bay, and we STILL talking - hell, raving about them 50 years later." There may be a few bands in that stratosphere, but not many.
  8. I've had a few thoughts on this since finishing it. Paul reading and laughing about the headlines that were in pretty much real time. Whoever was leaking the info about them coming to blows and fighting, was obviously someone in the room. They didn't seem concerned with finding the leaker, so I gotta believe was that was all being put out there intentionally to tantalize the press. Then the rooftop concert ends. They are done anyway, but on way off the roof George says something like, "We got footage of the police up here, so we can just tell people they made us stop". No stranger to manipulating the media there. Yesterday I saw part of the Peter Jackson interview with Colbert. He says its not like any of this video was ever lost or anything. The Beatles have been aware of it and been sitting on it intentionally all these years. His guess was that after 50 years the time was right to set the record straight for history. My take away is that they were brilliant at generating controversy, rumors and keeping their name on the tongues; think Paul is dead and all that stories that have been out there. I think they've rode those legends all these years and finally decided to let us in on the joke.
  9. looking back at this page, it looks like I talked SuperHero our of a Les Paul at the top of the page, then JimmyJazz out of a Gretsch in the middle, and now Ive discouraged Nole from buying a Martin. I will go and take a time out and think of what I've done and how I can be a better poster going forward. Seriously though, friends don't let friends buy shitty guitars
  10. Those modifications would scare me away. Why would somebody do that to a beautiful Martin?
  11. You'll probably get a better response in the guitar thread. https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/10-the-guitar-pron-thread/page/273/#comments
  12. Just finished Episode 3. Chills. The day before the rooftop concert George is telling John he wants to do a solo album. Fascinating being there for that conversation.
  13. I dont know much about the Chinese Gretsch's but my impression is that they are junk. A friend ordered a used one from a GC and it arrived with the center block loose and banging around inside. Otherwise i don't think I've ever touched one. The pro-series Greaches are well built in Japan and usually have a model number beginning with 6 (ie G6120).
  14. The only one I played was a dog. Bought it cheap locally, used every trick I know to get it to play half decent, and was happy to be rid of it when it sold on Reverb. Every LP Traditional I've played has been a pleasure, the Traditional Pro not so much.
  15. I got to see a funk show at the Troubadour tonight.
  16. I finished ep 1 and began ep 2 last night. Fascinating. Incredible that this exists. There's audio of a conversation between John and Paul that they didn't know was being recorded. In it John is telling Paul that he pushes too hard as the reason George left. Its not confrontational at all, Paul's totally receptive to what he's being told. Just 2 very old friends having a conversation. Earlier in ep 1 Paul talked about how big the loss of Epstien was. He says something like, "We didn't know what to do. He said put on the suits, so we put on the suits. We haven't had anyone to tell us since." Another conversation about the decline in collaboration writing was Paul & John. Paul says they wrote together alot cause they were always together touring. When the touring stopped, they just weren't together to write often. John seems very happy in all the film so. He's having more fun than any of them. Oh, and at 1:29:25 of ep 1 George's Les Paul falls off a table. Im still having heart palpitations.
  17. The way I see it, John Lennon could have had juat about any woman he wanted and he wanted Yoko. He loved her and he loved her more than he loved the Beatles. He was with her until the day he died. Its a love story. John didn't owe me, you, Ringo, Paul, or George anything. It was his life to do with as he pleased. Im grateful for the music he left behind. He obviously had a lot of dark shit to work out, I like to think she was good for him.
  18. I will throw in that those are great deals from Adorama. Ive bought 2 guitars from them where they've done similar blowouts. An American Deluxe Tele and a pro series Gretsch jet.
  19. This is an album we've been working on for some time, finally complete. I wrote most of it, everything except tracks 2 and 5. Listen to Vary Mary - The Best We've Ever Been by Racer5 #np on #SoundCloud
  20. I said I'd make a decision by the end of October and havent. Im inclined to do it, but I can't yet commit the time to it next year; I'm thinking I will be eitherbe beginning a job search or taking some time off to go travel. I dont want to be in a position where I want to take off, but I'm still waiting for Warmoth to send me a bunch of shit to assemble. Also, if I do commit I have 2 competing visions for it now - ill get a concensus from everybody interested on which to build. The Don Rich inspired double bound classic vs no binding and a pair of TV Jones Classic Filtertrons. There's your update.
  21. Our 1st show tonight. Our drummer just started playing a year or so ago, a lockdown project. A natural. The V was the right call.
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