DonCarlos Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Hello all. I joined the forum in about 2008 or so, but I am no longer an active posting member. I just wanted to pop in and look around and say Hi. The place still has great conversations and ideas and opinions. . And this, well this is just a fun post to give you a break from the serious Gibson business. And yes you need bone pins, bone saddles and the best of the best strings. I recalled a thread started in 2011 "Post your Old Band picture or your Old Self picture ". The responses on the thread showed us a time when we were young, played the music, and our creativity seemed boundless. And of course, our fashion sense was unequaled....we thought. How wonderful to see faces of people that were feeling pretty confident and cool and bewildered and happy about their music, and just having fun. Great to see the promising Gibson Forum stars, from as early as 1953 through the 60's,70's,80's, 90's, 2000's. Some brooding rebels course, but most showed the faces of happy music makers. I hope many of the past and recent members will get a kick out of it, and I encourage the revival of a similar thread if you so desire. Best wishes and greetings to all. 'Get your ya ya's out' DonCarlos These were the two posts, from the Gibson and Epiphone forums. Gibson forum post: http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/69376-post-your-old-band-picture-or-your-old-self-picture/page__hl__%2Bshow+%2Bus+%2Byour+%2Bearly+%2Bband+%2Bor+%2Bperformance+%2Bpictures Epiphone forum post: http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/69192-post-your-old-band-picture-or-your-old-self-picture/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Davy Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Our drummer and me in Cornwall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Wee - awesome picture. And Don Carlos - thanks for this thread. I love these. Here is my band and posse circa 1986. I am top left, and my drummer is top right.... Yes I am wearing parachute pants. And here is our "band poster" picture: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Double Aught backstage circa 1998. Yep, she's a Walnut '79 SG...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buc McMaster Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Wee - awesome picture. And Don Carlos - thanks for this thread. I love these. And here is our "band poster" picture: Jersey boys..... Still got those ciggies in hand, Sal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Must be great now that you can afford sleeves sal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 The oldest photo I could find.......sometime in the mid-80s at an outdoor night gig. Three piece band, Lefty & the Rights.......a bit of the name visible on the kick drum head. I'm on the Les Paul Goldtop, a '57 reissue thing, plugged into an old brown Fender Concert amp (visible behind the bass player) with a Mesa Boogie Revolver leslie to the left. What a sound that thing could produce! The Gretsch 6120 waits it's turn......... Cool thread! Hard to beat the sound of a Hammond B3 driving a Leslie, but I bet it was pretty cool with your Goldtop as well. Somehow, the electronic imitations of the Leslie never quite match that hair-raising effect of the real thing. It's certainly a signature sound of the late 1960's. Think of TJ and the Shondells, the Rascals, the Band, BS&T, and on and on and on.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buc McMaster Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Didn't the Beatles used to run vocals through one of those Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Didn't the Beatles used to run vocals through one of those "Tomorrow Never Knows" (Revolver) was the first time they did it, to the best of my knowledge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UjvdZm-Tu8&list=RD7UjvdZm-Tu8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 First photo - this guy really enjoyed my band: Piano player and BK: Thanks for the great photos, roadie!: BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Ha.These are all great. I think Sal went on to marry Pinky Tuscadero. A brooding presence from the Wee man...I bet he played a few Who covers. BK's gig looks scary.Like the Stones at Altamont.Glad he made it out alive...there would be a lot of acoustic guitar dealers much the poorer otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Made it out of that gig thanks, FB. Next gig at a bar was close to not leaving intact, with a guy picking up a table and throwing it through the mirror at the bar, before he tore the place to bits as the bouncer had a coffee out in the kitchen.... Photo below is a digital photo I just took of a real photo (scanner is long defunct!), of what I had no idea about at the time, was my last solo gig at a blues dive, can't remember the name, and last gig ever, so far - see why I wear shades normally? BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Two absolutely hip cats - what year, , , and who's U ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Two absolutely hip cats - what year, , , and who's U ? Dig the boots! Right up your alley, Em7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpbiii Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 1962 or 1963 2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Scales Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Wee - awesome picture. And Don Carlos - thanks for this thread. I love these. Here is my band and posse circa 1986. I am top left, and my drummer is top right.... Yes I am wearing parachute pants. And here is our "band poster" picture: whoa, that brings back memories. probably a couple of years before me but stone and acid wash jeans and muscle shirts - oh yeah those were the days! ...and your drummer could have been my twin at 17 or 18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonCarlos Posted December 6, 2016 Author Share Posted December 6, 2016 Oh these are great pics.......feel free to contribute. Don't worry about what family, friends and others think. Here you are stars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonCarlos Posted December 6, 2016 Author Share Posted December 6, 2016 Oh these are great pics.......feel free to contribute. Don't worry about what family, friends and others think. Here you are stars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Davy Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Two absolutely hip cats - what year, , , and who's U ? 1967, it says so on the sign I'm on the right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieSchooner Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 The Congregation, c. 1968. From left, rhythm guitar and vocals (me), drums, lead guitar, bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Hey Prairie - your lead guitarist would fit in perfectly in Williamsburg Brooklyn today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayoubengal1954 Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 The Pacesetters (not to be confused with Gary and the Pacemakers) from Shreveport, Louisiana circa 1966. I'm on the left wearing the cap. Howard (the guy crouching on the right) later switched out his Strat for a Fender bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonCarlos Posted December 6, 2016 Author Share Posted December 6, 2016 The Pacesetters (not to be confused with Gary and the Pacemakers) from Shreveport, Louisiana circa 1966. I'm on the left wearing the cap. Howard (the guy crouching on the right) later switched out his Strat for a Fender bass. Wow I just marvel at what those guitars and that super reverb amp would be worth today? What guitar are you holding and what is that amp behind you, if you remember? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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