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  1. Been the best part of a decade since I last posted here. But I have GAS for a Les Paul. I was going to buy an Epi Standard on the off-chance, online, but then I saw the Smokehouse burst finish on the Studios and thought "Yeah, I like that. Heck, I really like that." Can any owners of such instruments tell me about their experiences with them, good or bad? Thank you in advance for any input/advice. This will be a Sweetwater purchase owing to my location. Whatever shows up at my door, shows up at my door. EDIT: I see Sweetwater has an "exclusive" on this finish in a Standard. FWIW, I prefer the straight grain of the Studio to the book-matching of the Standard, and I can easily live without neck-binding, and $100 less is appealing. For blues (say Peter Green type stuff), what's the deal with "Alnico Classic" v "Probucker." I can mod it if needs be, but if stock will get me closer at the outlay for only a Benjamin more...
  2. Speaking of the 1970s, from the original patent application filed by George Ballas after his experiments with coffee cans with string tied to edgers and lawnmowers. Surprised me, actually, it seems he always imagined it as an electric tool, not a gasoline one. I guess at this point it was a PAF weed-whacker.
  3. 1972 called. It wants its jokes back. I tell you, my mother in law...
  4. Wow, that's a serious piece of kit. I mean, the weeds in Virginia seem never-ending, but that thing you posted looks like its built for rapid deforestation. I'm using a humble 10amp Greenworks corded model - much less impressive, and unlike @ksdaddy I don't even get a carburetor to mess around with. But it functions better than it did before!
  5. I wish to thank whichever genius came with the idea of simply poking bits of trimmer-line through holes, rather than having to wind up a whole spool of the stuff and then spend more time clearing jams than actually laying waste to the weeds. Last night I was about ready to throw the trimmer away and douse the entire yard in weedkiller. $20 at Home Depot this morning and yardwork just became a lot more pleasant. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rino-Tuff-Pivotrim-Universal-Trimmer-Head-17093/206470721 Apologies. And to our friends in the UK, this is, surreally, about strimmers, otherwise known as trimmers in the US, or, amusingly, weed-whackers. Excuse me. Coffee break over. More weeds to whack. Maybe if I get the garden finished she'll let me play my guitar.
  6. Trogley says he's looking for an "origin story." I think that's rather a grandiose term to summarize a Gibson employee who apparently found himself with a hand-drill, a 3/4" spade bit, some oversized inlay dots, no ruler or measuring tape, and no inclination to go in search of other tools or supplies.
  7. I loved that CD back in the day (late '90s) when it was released. I bought a copy again, recently. The Peter Green / Danny Kirwan stuff is beautiful. I have to hit the skip button whenever a Jeremy Spencer track appears. It must have been weird seeing the original incarnation of Fleetwood Mac back in their heyday, a mixture of heavy, brooding blues, punctuated with corny Buddy Holly / Elvis impersonations and an approximation of Elmore James's most famous slide lick repeated endlessly over pretty much all of that "jocular" material. Very odd. I agree with you re: the Mayall album. The Supernatural and Peter's cover of the Stumble. It's all remarkable stuff.
  8. I take your point. In the 1990s I was a college student - someone (I forget who) rather neatly described this as "All of the freedom of adulthood with precisely none of its responsibilities." So yes, rose tinted spectacles. We could argue for some time about the generational lottery. I've always thought that if I could have had my pick I'd have been a British Boomer like my Dad. Once the dreary postwar '50s childhood was out of the way, the world was there to be enjoyed - and, unlike American Boomers, without the specter of the Vietnam lottery hanging over the party. However, I was born in the late '70s, and am glad to have had my youth in the '90s. As the '90s wore to a close, the worst thing to the happen in the west, apparently, was the peccadilloes and infidelities of the US President. And now here we are in 2020. The world changed on 9/11/2001, and the new century, now with one fifth of it gone (so scarcely a new century anymore) has been relentlessly bloody awful ever since. If I could get in the time machine, set the controls for 1996, and wake up somewhere in my knackered 1981 Volvo 244 with a Stone Roses cassette playing in its Alpine stereo, I'd take that deal. Ah, and I appear to have arrived back at nostalgia.
  9. I miss the 1990s. It's been crap ever since.
  10. Just in time to go and buy Neil Young's American Stars n' Bars as it hit the record shops; only I didn't, because I was probably more interested in milk at the time.
  11. @merciful-evans Yes, it's an interesting clip (from the early 1980s). But I suspect it's a bit like listening to a solo Peter Green album (also from the 1980s). It likely doesn't contain the magic that made people excited in the first place. The Youtube comments tend towards pondering which particular drunken fracas might have caused the black eye. If the time machine is available today, I'd prefer to go back to 1964 rather than 1981 to see Mr. Graham, whom I suspect was truly wonderful when on his game. Better than a 1964 BBC studio could capture. Actually, if the time machine is available. I'd prefer to go back to 1964 than 1981, period.
  12. Interesting that the thread began with George Benson. I'd have said the best guitarist of the 1960s was Wes, but then I wasn't born until the mid-70s by which time Wes Montgomery was long since in his grave. Do old records and grainy footage uploaded to Youtube provide enough evidence to make a judgment? London in the 1990s (the place and time where I was young) had a greying, pot-bellied middle-aged geezer in every boozer with a pint of London Pride in his hand telling you about how Davey Graham was the greatest to ever pick up a guitar. Nowadays he's mostly remembered because he was roughly one half of where Jimmy Page nicked it all from - the other 50% being Bert Jansch. I'd like to say these old geezers were right, but all that's left are old records and grainy uploads to Youtube. Besides, I doubt they saw him anyway. Davey Graham is like Nick Drake - long after the event it turns out he'd actually had live audiences of millions, all squeezed into the snug of a folkie pub one wet Wednesday evening.
  13. He took to playing slide as an act of revenge.
  14. "he rarely showered--as his greasy hair, black elbows and strong body odor showed--and his diet consisted mostly of ice cream and other junk food.” "[the] prodigious body odor which preceded him by the room’s length" Greenfield, R. (1996). Dark star: an oral history of Jerry Garcia. NY: Wm Morrow & Co. Of course, there was also famously an attempt (after his death) to use Jerry Garcia as a sort of spectral pitchman in VW adverts. He had never owned a VW bus, nor a Bug. Once the monies from Workingman's Dead began to flow in, he thereafter drove BMWs for the rest of his life. Mountain Girl still has his 1973 3.0CS. Some cliches about the Grateful Dead lifestyle are apparently just that - cliches. But not using deodorant and stinking to high heaven? That one seems to be quite accurate. This product placement sounds a bit misguided. The only ones to get it right were the ice cream salesmen - it seems he actually used their product, abundantly.
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