Sgt. Pepper

I was a squid for 4 years before I joined the CG, so none of the people who gave me c-rap had a clue what they were talking about. My life got so much better after leaving the Navy. Retired with one star on my uniform so, being a Senior Chief did not suck.

I retired from the military although I had to hear for years I was in a fake service cause I was in the Coast Guard after 23 years. I still have to work to be able to survive.

How do you eat lunch with a mask on?

👍 Their Country Boy breakfast ain't no joke. New strings on the 12'er.

What ever you get better be iconic.

Loved his line about the phone. I can't keep up with all the J-45 models. I guess Martin does the same thing. I've always been a Standard model guy. If Jen bought me a J-45 I would cherish it always. My wife bought me my 12'er that is as close as I'm gonna get to a woman buying me a guitar. I play a J-45 every time I get the chance and every-time, it does nothing for me. I was In GC yesterday getting strings, but I was not in the mood to have the helpful clerks unlock the stuff I wanted to play. I think a J-45 was next to the Bird. I wanted to strum a Hummingbird and next to it was a HB Pro 12'er. And there was a Furchs (not sure if I spelled that right and a Martin 1937 D-28 Authentic, that was behind glass. I just wanted to strum it just one time. At 6k or so its gonna stay behind the glass. Aren't the authentic 1937 Martin D-28's the ones that were built in '37 not 2020. No you don't have '37 Martin D-28. You have a 2020 built as best they can to '37 specs.

When I strum my guitars harder they get louder.

Nice stuff. I'd see em live, just not right now.

How hard is it to get a real serial number and re-use it (cause that is what they do). Then when you run it, it comes back as a legit number. Serial number is not the be all do all to determine if real or fake. The Chinese are sneaky. Reading the sentence you just posted about the red one, now I'm suspecting even more that at lest the red Lesters is fake. Double Cuts I know not much about. I've owned a few Lesters in my day, as many here have.

Here they are. I forgot to take a pic of the Giles Martin Deluxe CD White Album set. I also have a CD of it in the car. All the album have the original pics and poster. I framed the ones out of the Japanese pressing as they were the nicest and they hang in my man cave. The top left is the Japanese pressing, next it 2009 Mono, Bottom left the Giles Martin Remix (the one with the white vinyl in front of it) and the 2009 Stereo Remaster. The CD's are a Japanese Mono, 2009 Stereo and The Giles Martin Remix with the Esher Demos. The car has another Giles with Esher Demos and all of the rest of the Beatles CD's too from when they firs t came out on CD. I have every 2009 Remastered CD and lots on vinyl and I am slowly getting all the 2009 on vinyl. I have the huge Sgt Pepper Box (that came with 4 CD's and Giles remix of the vinyl album) and Abbey Road CD Deluxe set too. I got issues.

There seems to be a lot of extra space in between the tail stop and bridge on 2 of the Lester's and the pick guards don't look right on them either. The Truss Rod Cover on the red on looks wrong. The inlay on the red on on the first fret looks off, but it could just be a trick of the light, Take off the back plate and see it it has Gibson pots, and the TRC to see what it looks like. I'm not gonna say fake, but some stuff just looks off.

What's with the weird cutaway does it have a sound port. Congrats.

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Describing how a guitar sound is like describing how it fells to have sex. I am gonna go on record and say all my guitars sound like guitars. I have 4 and none sound the same in any way. 2 have the same body shape but that's it.

Not sure, but I have been watching The Twilight Zone and just learned he played guitar in the original theme. It was on a Tele. If you put 11's on and they drag or you hear that ping when tuning them just hit each one with the appropriate size file for that slot. Don't dig in just widen. Loved those guitars. Alex Lifeson played one the first time I saw Rush on the Moving Pics Tour.

Agreed. No 2 are exactly the same. You could make a guitar out of RW and from the same tree get a stunner or a dud.

I've seen them in and outside. Went to 14 Dead shows and one Jerry show at the Warfield in SF. Nothing like the feeling of The Dead coming on stage then 20000 hippies all get up and start grooving. Bobby hated Tie Dye.

Look I'm not trying to argue with you, just commenting on your statement. I think if I had a guitar that sounded like a pillow was it it. I would dump it. I owned a big old Maple Guild, and it did nothing for me.

I'm not blowing anything out of context. The pillow comment was your statement not mine. I played a SJ-200 in Carters Vintage and at the price they wanted for it, the guitar stayed right on the rack. I played a Thompson D-18 clone right before and at 5k it was the best guitar I ever heard in my life, and at 5k it also stayed right there.

Why would I want to play a guitar that sounds like I stuffed a pillow in it? My all hog D-15M sounds great and at that price for a USA made guitar its a steal, the 000-28 is a different beast and shorter scale, but when I pick up my D-41, its like entering another dimension, it just makes me smile. The 28 and 35 I owned were killer and would love to have both back, but a 41 is next level.

Terrapin and Shakedown were a change. I love Estimated Prophet. Growing up in Cali and hearing it always makes me miss what I will always call home. Love Mars and Wake. Blues For Allah had a nice nugget or two, but is not to good. Beauty and Workingman's could have been their White Album if packaged together as a double. The first album is absolute trash. They are so hopped up on ups. Anthem and Aoxomoxa, never did much for me. A few concert staples on those. I remember after Touch Of Grey went big, all of a sudden there were really young pretty, clean, non smelly girls who shaved their pits at Dead shows, cause it was cool to say you went to see The Dead. Ever see the doc about them on a train going across Canada after Woodstock. Janis, The Band, Buddy Guy and others are in it. I saw it for the first time 2 years ago. Can't remember the name of it. I think the makers of the doc had financial problems and it was delayed a long time before being released.

I absolutely love the 3 Giles Martin remixes. I think they are better than the originals. I remember hearing each one for the first time and almost jumping out of my seat at stuff I never knew was buried way down in the mix. Abbey Road was not as jarring as Pepper and The White Album. I've heard The White Album so many times I know every nuance of it. Me and my cousin used to listen to Rev. #9 over and over, each of listening sitting on front of the left speaker and then the right and then again to hear all the weird stuff that was going on and what they were saying. That was summer '79. I probably listened to The White Album 50 times last year. I have given it a break for a while, but its calling me again. I know everyone raves about mono and if you have originals they are more valuable. I have all the mono versions downloaded and they are a bit different in spots. Well if mono it is so good why is it not the standard anymore. Why do I want to have 2 speakers with the exact same thing coming out of both of them. Come on Giles. I hope you are doing a remix of Let It Be. Can't wait for the new doc. I saw the disaster that is the Let It Be Movie. Have not seen it since a the summer of '79.

I'll bet. I've only seen pics of the Wall.

If you look on line at a pic of JL's, yes it's like that.

I just looked there are about 10 RW Gibsons in the current line up.