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"Hang Fire"- Rolling Stones

It's all good 😊 It's a player's guitar. Anyone who's owned or played a strat or tele would be interested to try a few licks on this to see where exactly it straddles the line regarding sound. It's not valuable, nor will it increase in value (other than the 10¢ I added) but it sure is a joy to play. I love the parallel universe and paranormal series BTW, maybe that's what drew me to this guitar. Nice guitars @Sgt. Pepper

"Let me Roll it"- Paul McCartney

I may be wrong on this but a neck shim would lower the action, I needed to raise the strings to cure some buzzing. Although you may indeed be correct, maybe someone else can weigh in on when to use a shim?

"The Three Sunrises"- U2

Change for a payphone if there were any around. A nickel is the exact width to catch both legs on those brass saddles, I was out of adjustment room trying to cure some fret buzz.

"Beautiful woman"- Toots and the Maytals

"Bad bad Leroy Brown"- Jim Croce

I went to a newer guitar store near me as I'd seen a used Schecter 12 string that I wanted to check out on their website. I played it for a few minutes and decided it wasn't for me, and then asked about a tele "parts-caster" I'd also seen on their website. Now this was an absolute pleasure to play, and had a wonderful sound as well. It's somewhat of a stelecaster as it has a Squier strat neck on a tele style body supposedly cut from a 100 year old piece of oak furniture and the three strat style pickups and controls with a five way switch and a tele top loader bridge. After purchasing it and bringing it home and playing it unplugged I detected some fret buzz on the G B and high E strings. The two saddles that would fix the buzz were already at the limit for height. So I took a pair of nickles and put one each under the D/G and B/E saddles and now it really sings. I can see why many guitarists have a tele in their arsenal, they just beg to have rapid fire open string runs and for some reason those kind of riffs just come natural on a tele. Behold the nickel-caster;

I have a Nighthawk, 2 pup variety. My first thought was similar to yours, a Gibson for those that want the Fender scale length and versatility. I like it a lot, but a few things about it I don't like. It's a bit smaller than a LP......as in feels diminutive. Also as sonically versatile as the pickup configuration is, I just feel the slanted bridge pickup throws off the aesthetics a bit. But holy cow it does have some nice tones, position 3 on mine is neck and bridge, both split. Flip it back to 2 and the bridge humbucker just screams. All that said I'd trade it for an M-III in a heartbeat. So I'm hoping they do a new version of the M series, with the upsidedown Explorer neck.

"Backstreet Girl"- The Rolling Stones

"I Stay Away"- Alice in Chains

There were some decent punk bands following the original era. Camper Van Beethoven, which spawned Cracker. Rancid which had crossover into the Transplants and Tim Armstrong doing solo stuff. Mike Ness of Social Distortion has some good solo stuff . The Kills do a great cover of "linger on your pale blue eyes" from Velvet Underground.

"Son of a preacher man"- Dusty Springfield

"Love can make you Blind"- Every Mother's Nightmare

"Space Lord"- Monster Magnet

"867-5309/Jenny"- Tommy Tutone

"Hey, hey what can I do"- Led Zeppelin

"I Need You"- Paul Carrack

"Funky Kingston"- Toots and the Maytals

Sad to hear this, she was my age 😢

"Kid"- The Pretenders

I was born in Deerfield IL, my dad moved us to a little town called Saugatuck on the Kalamazoo river in west Michigan in '72. Growing up there, both my mom and dad played acoustic guitar, my mom would show me how to do alternate bass lines on the E and A or A and D stings in conjunction with strumming open chords. But it wasn't til after highschool when a couple of friends of mine started up a band and I would watch them learn songs like REM's Driver Eight, or the Cult's She Sells Sanctuary that I really wanted to play electric and do the whole band thing. Christmas '86 my dad bought me a Peavey Patriot dual single coil guitar (still have it). I was able to get a small solid state amp as well, and within five years I bought my LP custom and was lead guitar in an original music band. I still live in the same county, folks have both passed, and all my playing is in my living room, but I've got a ton of happy memories.

"Come on down to my boat"- Every Mother's Son

"Moonlight Drive"- The Doors