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I’ve used an ozone generator on a few smoky cars. Actually guitar cases too. It’s not 100% but it helps a lot.

“Ford sucks!” ”Chevy sucks!”

I am not a concert goer. My wife is always the driving force. We saw Bryan Adams a few years back and the seats were “okay”. Then when we saw Steve Miller I insisted on “better” tickets. Last fall we went to the Grand Ole Opry and sat in the second row. Much better. I will gladly pay the stupid money to get good seats from now on. I only go to a concert every couple years, might as well enjoy it .

Clearly they are not REAL Telecaster players if that's what you encountered.

I’ve been terrified of bears all my life. But one night I thought I heard a noise from our attached garage. The garage door was open and the trash can was just inside the door. I flipped on the light and saw a big BEAR starting to root through our trash. I turned into Strother Martin and bellowed “GET THE F___ OUT OF HERE!” And he promptly did. And then about 30 seconds later, I began breathing again.

Please pass along my hope that with however much time remains, he find peace within himself and to say anything that needs to be said.

The only variation I’ve ever seen was on a ‘94 Dove I flipped. I don’t even remember what the adjustment consisted of but it wasn’t the standard brass nut or any type of hex key. I may have shut it out of my mind because I didn’t get a good vibe from it at the time.

I don't get it.

Close! I named it Sparkle. When I went to Gruhn’s last Oct it was on the wall and I stared at it a lot. I bought that ill fated Versitar, which UPS smashed, was retopped, and I decided I didn’t like after all. Gruhn’s sold it on consignment and I bought Sparkle. I’ve confirmed with Fender it’s the only one the Custom Shop made.

My 1960 NOS Custom Shop:

I was told by Hogeye (who should know!) that there is a core cost for them to build an acoustic. It’s difficult to make much profit on a “cheap” Gibson because the cost of producing any acoustic is high. Just repeating what I was told by someone who was very close to the fire.

Reverb is now the “go to” place to buy and sell guitar stuff. I have no idea of the value; you could search the listings and see what people are ASKING for their stuff, taking into account that their asking price is not always a good indicator of the actual value.

About ten years ago I posted a slide show on YouTube of a horribly abused SG that I restored. I had “Hell’s Bells” playing over the slide show. After several months, YouTube removed the audio portion (the video remains, just mute). I’m certainly not making any money from this video, the music just fit and I wanted to use it. How do others do it? There are thousands of videos on YouTube that were posted by ordinary idiots like me, with no malice intended, that have copyrighted music. Some music historians or record collectors even post videos of the actual records being played. How do they do it? (He asked innocently)

I still dream about work, and it’s never pleasant. Often I dream about a factory I worked at that moved away in 1992. It’s like I walk in thirty years later and there are changes one would expect, but I’m expected to pick up where I left off. If I dream about my gov job, it’s often being assigned a task that I don’t feel qualified to do… which coincidentally is pretty much how I felt during my gov career. I’m considering going back a couple days a week. Not sure how I feel about that. I did it for a year before the heart attack and now I’m basically in a “leave of absence” status.

I wouldn’t have left the island either.