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  1. Holy hell, I can get an American VIntage strat for $1,300 less that a Casino?
  2. Avatar checks out. The original Bad News Bears is the greatest sports movie of all time.
  3. No way I'm paying 200 pounds for Chicken Shock.
  4. Thanks to this thread, I'm looking at sinks online. What's with the low divider sinks? Seems like it would be awesome in that it would prevent the unnecessary soaking of dishes by others, but useless that one day of the year I want to defrost the Thanksgiving turkey in cold water. I guess I could use a bucket. But when the divider is that low, why do I want a divider at all?
  5. Countertop space is a valuable commodity though.
  6. You pickin' up what I'm layin' down, son!
  7. I got the idea he was a good guy to take along on road trips.
  8. Mine was 100% a Chinese shit box. And it wasn't good (not that I have a similar frame of reference). 335s are a completely different, more tamable animal.
  9. Just to come full circle, this is what I think of when I think of a "great."
  10. That was my experience. It looked like it would be fun to play acoustically, but both my strat and sg were way more acoustically vocal. My 1970 ES335 is the most even guitar I've ever played. The strat took more getting used to after years of playing a tele. It's a partscaster with a wonderful neck, good electronics, and a cheap body. So I wonder if there's more if I should leave well enough alone. The tele wants you to fail, but rewards those lucid intervals of awesome. The Les Paul wants you to be super comfortable playing it until it compresses your spine. The SG wishes you were a viking who could use it as the rock weapon it is.
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    Gumbo

    Photo already is obsolete.
  12. If you want to get it covered by insurance, you'll likely need at least two tests with low or below the range results. Otherwise, the gel runs about $50 per month if prescribed by your doc and picked up in a pharmacy as opposed to a Low-T clinic, while the self injections will run you $10--$15 per month if covered by insurance.
  13. Or an ES330. Honestly, the Casino is the first guitar I've had in decades that I couldn't bond with and sold. It was such a cool guitar - Goldtop. But even after a setup, I felt like it played like a cigar box. The only time I got it to sound good was playing it through a cranked tweed Bassman. But, then, I thought to myself, everything sounds good through a cranked tweed Bassman.
  14. If I had the space, I would. It is the ultimate during the holidays. My parents had two when I was a kid.
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    Jam bands

    Putting in for tickets for Thursday night.
  16. It made sense at the time. Why do I need a big sink to throw crap in the disposal? I need a big sink to soak and scrub. Once it's scrubbed, whatever I pour out easily can be dumped in the small sink disposal. I think I just want it on my right or in the center (for a 3 part sink) because either I'm right handed or to satisfy my OCD. I think a better decision would be never to have gotten something with a small side in the first place. Or maybe something 60/40ish would have been better.
  17. As for my playing, I'd be lucky to be compared to Dickie's.
  18. In that interview, he also said the greatest thing he's done in his career is help raise money for touring musicians during COVID.
  19. And because he's cool and has a variety of weird, cool stuff. But if you watch that interview, it is readily apparent that Joe B. can play the shit out of the guitar. There's even a point where he says that he has apologized to Eric Johnson for basically doing a poor imitation of some of his bits. But then they're talking about SRV in the interview, and he, just turns up the volume and rips the lead-in to Scuttle Buttin' flawlessly. I don't know. Maybe everyone here can play like that, but I sure as hell can't.
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    Jimi

    [CSB] My half brother (hereinafter brother) was very involved in the Houston music scene in the 1960s and early 1970s. Billy Gibbons and the Moving Sidewalks used to rehearse in my dad's backyard pool house. My brother ended up managing and producing the Moving Sidewalks during that time right up to the very early ZZ days. At some point, they booked a gig as an opening act in Fort Worth (IIRC) to open for Jimi and, as a result, my brother got to hang out with Jimi backstage. Decades later, at a family wedding, I was talking to him and asked the dumbest question you possibly could imagine. Me: So what was Hendrix like. H/B: He was pretty cool. [/CSB]
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