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That is an impressive collection- do you play all of them regularly? At one time I had 7 Gibson acoustics, ranging from present day back to a 1930s model. I found that I could not find the subtlety and nuance for each due to the number of guitars vs. days of the week. So I let them all go except the one one I play now. That's just me and I say bravo! to your fine collection. Sounds like that piano might have a ghost or two in the machine...👀

I didn't know any of this. great history lesson. thanks. that skit has always cracked me up lol.

That skit was based on a real place in Chicago who's original location in under Michigan avenue very close to the Chicago Tribune building. It's called "The Billy Goat Tavern", at Lower 430 North, Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611. I've been to this location quite a few times. It was the dark and dingy hangout for Newspaper writers from the Trib, and the Chicago Sun Times, which used to be the next building west of the Trib on the Chicago River. Second City writers and comedians, (the original SNL and long time talent feeder to SNL), knew about it because many of them had worked in the newspaper business before writing for Second City. I was fortunate enough to spend some time with Del Close there, (and more than a few nights hanging with him at Old Town Ale House on North Ave. The story behind the first time I met Del is hilarious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Close ). Met Michael Royko Jr. at the "Billy Goat" for the first time as well. Belushi, Ramus, Aykroyd and the Murray brothers were regulars at the Goat during there Second City days. The owners goat, and the Cub's refusal to allow the goat into Wrigley Field, resulted in the famous "Cub's curse". Back in the '80's and early '90's, the Billy Goat was almost exactly how SNL portrayed it to be. Chips, no fries, Pepsi, no Coke, Cheezboyger, cheezeboyger, cheezboyger.

Glossary glos·sa·ry /ˈɡlôsərē,ˈɡläsərē/ adjective a highly polished, mirror like, ultra reflective finish or coating. (e.g. The finish on that Gibson guitar is so glossary that the stage lights reflecting off of it are blinding me!)

A few years ago, I tried to find a hilarious SNL skit with Michael Jordan, George Wendt, and a few other white SNL cast members playing basketball on a late '60's, post integration, high school basketball team. MJ was the only non-white team member (on either team), and the only player who could actually play the game. Sadly, for PC reasons, the skit has been scrubbed from history. (The skit openly exemplified the blatant racism that existed in many southern post integration public schools) The skit was so gut bustingly funny, that MJ and the SNL cast couldn't stop giggling as each offensive line was uttered. My favorite line was delivered by George Wendt, who was portraying one of the 4 white guys begrudgingly playing on court with MJ as their 5th team member. George has the ball, and is trapped in a double team at half court. MJ is obviously open, and he is begging George to pass the ball to him. The rest of the team begins to beg George to pass MJ the ball. George refuses and says, "I ain't passing the ball to no darky." MJ couldn't hide his laughter after George belted out the line, and the other skit members quickly fell apart as well. Apparently Michael Jordan helped write the skit and was all in with the bigoted language. I would love to see that one again! Another favorite, Knock, knock. Who is it? Um, candygram ma'am. Is this the Landshark? Um, no ma'am, um telegram.... Oh, well let me open the door for you.... (landshark eats her.)

Certainly not. But there are forces at work now who would scrub our past of anything that violates their woke dogma. Like the recent brewhaha about the famous photo of George Mendonsa and Greta Friedman. You know the sailor kissing a girl on the streets of New York City. Some VA administrator wanted to remove this from every VA in the USA. Wanker's probably never had a real kiss in her life, let alone a romp in the backseat of her boyfriend's car. This photo certainly didn't bother Greta Friedman and she's publicly stated so. In fact, both Mendonsa and Friedman would show up at patriotic events and sign copies of the photo.

Years ago, before Big Pharma began making pills to enhance male endowment, guys lacking down there got their enhancement advice from locker room "wives' tales". One sad lad eventually asked one of his better built friends what he could do to grow a bit more. His friend told him that he had been told to rub butter on it, which he had done to great effect. A few weeks later, the sad lad complained to the friend who had given him the butter advice, that "it wasn't working". Worse yet, he indicated, "it was having the opposite effect." "I'm really shocked that butter isn't working for you, because it really worked for me.", said the friend. "Well, butter is pretty expensive and my Mom would have noticed if any of the small amount of it we keep in the fridge, went missing. But, since Mom substitutes Crisco for butter, all the time, in her recipes, that's what I've been using.", the sad lad explained. His friend shouted, "You idiot, Crisco is SHORTENING!".

The US certainly wasn't "woke" in 1941.

rushing /ˈrəSHiNG/ noun the act of listening to the band Rush for hours on end. (e.g. Dad's been in the backroom rushing for so long that he's wearing the vinyl out.)

Here are a few of my "definitions", (this post and the next reply), that redefine words into something more fun. Add your own redefinitions to The Gibster's Dictionary! Oxymoron ox·y·mo·ron /ˌäksəˈmôrˌän/ Adjective an individual stupefied from an oxycodone addiction. ( e.g. That moron was so high on Oxy, that he got a DUI on his lawn tractor as he was driving to Taco Bell.)

Tim Shaw made the pickup in my 70th Esquire. Divine. Silent. I have considered others of his because of it. I may, maybe, replace it with something super special, just haven't done it yet. rct

I remember that vividly. As I recall, the announcement came as I bent to pick a dogend. I grew up listening to Tull, and I have always been a big fan. Ian's flute rocking was as unique as it was awesome. When my daughter Alexis decided to play flute in 5th grade, I excitedly played some Tull for her so she could hear what was possible on a flute, beyond the symphony stuff. At that time, I was ok with Metallica, but I had not listened to much of their music, save for what FM radio overplayed. But what I did know, and what anyone with half a brain should have known, was that Metallica was/is Hard Rock/Heavy Metal and Jethro Tull WAS NOT!!!

The ones in my 81 lp custom were not all that impressive. The neck was ok but the bridge sounded thin with no character. I swapped them out back in the early 90s and I was happy. Good luck!!!

Sixty-Tu.... I tend to lean on the sustain pedal a lot so I have time to make my chord changes. I've owned the piano for 48 years.....never a string change since I've owned it. The 3-String area on this piano allow you to tune each string individually, (on many pianos, you tune two strings at once), so you can get it pretty close without breaking strings all over the place! I really like the candle holders..... when the electricity used to go out, (before the home generator) I used to light them and just play in the dark.

Dancing Days - Led Zeppelin

I bought a slide decal off eBay that looked pretty good. I have a'68 J50 that some stripped the head stock. The guitar is in a very well worn state and I did not want it to look too pretty.

Bravo! I didn't think you were going to do the whole song. +1. Were you leaning a bit on the sustain pedal, or does the piano just sound that cavernous ? 'Wonder how many times the strings have been changed in all of those years. 😀 Yes, that is an excellent touch, especially when rooms were lit with oil lamps. My eye went to the retro looking table radio behind the bar- 'had Heathkit radio flashbacks til it looked more like a modern Sangean WR-11.

Great line of squares.

So more of a '58 neck carve, apparently, which IIRC is entering baseball bat territory. Which is confusing to me, because I heard the original was in between a 50s and 60s neck. Well, 58 is numerically, but, you know. Beautiful top though.

Thanks Again I buy StewMac tools all the time.... ya they are pricey, but they have always made projects easier.... especially for a hobbyist like myself that needs all the help they can get

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Most of all my Gibson's have been switched out to the Tim Shaw era pickups. I still have four pairs from my buying spree from 2010 to 2012 where I purchases a total of 20 pairs. Now they are just too expensive. For me they have a nice bitey tone with tons of clarity whether you are distorted or clean. Of all the Gibson pups I have tried, for me the Tim Shaw era pups are by far the best for what I do. See the below video when I first received my Pro Tools Recording program and I recorded a little guitar lick using my VOX AC50 and my 1980 Les Paul Custom.

Metallica had 100,000 copies of the album with "Grammy Award Winners" stickers ready to be shipped. They printed 100,000 stickers that said "Losers" and stuck 'em over the word winners before shipping.

I plan to refinish the neck of my Gibson B-15, and want to replace the headstock decal. I see vinyl die cut decals by Diamond Cut Graphics. Anyone familiar with these? Are they quality? Same font and size? Thanks.

The RRHOF lost me, and my attention, years ago. The Grammys too. Same corporate, clueless kinds of committees. I recall seeing Metallica on stage in 1989 at the awards show, playing their A$$E$ off, and killing a live rock performance. Moments later, they awarded that years "Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Recording" to Jethro Tull. Never paid attention after that. (Well, years later, I watched replay on my computer of the evening when ELO finally got inducted into the Hall. But was miffed when they only included the early lineup of Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan, and Richard Tandy. No respect at all for Hugh McDowell, Melvin Gale, Mik Kaminski, or Kelly Groucutt.) 😐