Brytam

Got a 2 year old dachshund. He panicked when our neighbor set off a lot of loud fireworks last night (He told the neighbors when he was going to shoot them off.) Our dog was curious at first. We were on our back deck watching & then he bolted for the door. We let him in & he ran under our bed petrified! Last year he didn't react like that. Took a few hours for him to calm down. Neighbor did a great fireworks show! Right behind our back yard in big open area he owns. NC doesn't allow fireworks but our neighbor goes to SC & gets the good stuff... (They don't really enforce the ban on fireworks in our area, so our neighbor does a "show" every year.) Happy 4th!!

I had a new leather strap that bled onto the binding of my Rickenbacker 620 guitar. I taped up the finish next to the binding where it was stained & used a Mr. Clean dry eraser to rub the stain out. Seemed to work for me.

Wow! Looks like they pulled out all the stops on this final season.

I have & play a 2012 Les Paul Classic Custom. I love this guitar. I always loved the Les Paul diamond inlay on the headstock, but didn't want to pay the $$$ for a true custom. I found this on E-Bay in 2013 & won the bid for it. Came to my door like new! It is the guitar I always wanted & it is now my main go-to guitar.

2008 Ford Ranger. Just a hauler & boat puller. Had a 2000 Ranger I gave to my son & immediately missed because you never realize how much you need a truck until you don't have one. I could still borrow my old truck from my son when needed until someone rear-ended him & left the scene of the accident! It was totaled. Found this for sale a while later. 2008 was the last year Ford made the Ranger truck until the reissue came out a couple years ago. (My other son just bought a souped up RAM truck with all the bells & whistles used...$40 grand!! For that amount of $, I could buy 6 of mine... )

I have seen that guitar before. It does get your attention! To me, pretty cool! Curious about how it sounds... 1 pickup near the bridge, no tone control? I guess pretty bright. Would have its limitations.

Not a doctor or lawyer but I have 2 Rics: 1974 4001 bass (I bought in 1976) & 2005 620 - both Fireglo. To me, nothing can match the sound of a 4001 Ric bass - played with a pic! I've been eyeing the same 360 Fireglo you have, just haven't come across one I could afford! Congrats!!

🙂 My dad was a great musician. As a kid, I would sit next to him on an old Kimball upright piano we had as he would hand write scores out for each of the members of the big band he was in. He would think & play out the parts on the piano & then write down the notes on a score in pencil. I can read music & have taken some music theory but looking back, that was amazing he could pretty much do all those parts in his head & put them on paper for the band to play as a whole. His trombone is a cool memento to me, since he passed back in 2003.

Thanks. It's a Teac A-3440 I bought back in 1980. Works great when using a DBX unit to cancel out tape noise, especially when bouncing tracks. Getting really difficult to get reel-reel tape nowadays...$$$

I know this is OLD school, but has always worked for me... (Trombone is my dad's. He played & wrote music charts in big bands during that era.) The analog has it's limits, or course but when you know it well, it works well for you!

Stevie Ray Vaughan's version of "Little Wing". The wife captured about 20 seconds of his blazing solo off this song & saved it for my ringtone.

I began on a Fender Mustang bass & in 1977 bought a 1974 Rickenbacker 4001, which has been the only bass I have played on a regular basis. To me , nothing else comes close. I have had the frets done 3 times & it still plays incredibly well. I wouldn't trade it for anything. Me playing the Ric 4001 back in the '70's: (Those were good times!)

I had this happen to my Rickenbacker 620. I had a black leather strap with black foam like edges that I left on the guitar when stored in the case. The strap was folded in half across the front & it left a black smear across the white binding. I was shocked when I opened the case one day (I normally use my Les Paul so the Ric was stored that way for a little bit). The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser did the trick for me. Use some painter's tape to protect the wood finish around the affected area of the binding & use a lot of elbow grease! Did the trick for me. Now I use an old T-shirt I cut to cover the entire neck & body of all my guitars when storing them in the case in order to keep this from happening again, as I try to keep the straps on the guitars. So far, no more incidients!

That is a shame! I have a Walker & Williams strap I bought about 6 months ago. Very happy with it. The best strap I have ever used!

Well, that is a surprise. I am a member of both this & Fender's forum. Like many of you, I check out the Gibson forum frequently & sometimes go to the Fender forum, but it is not as informative or updated as the Gibson forum is for me. I will miss it, but it won't be any great loss...