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  1. I owned a new 2007 CJ-165 Rosewood. We just didn't bond. Maybe I didn't break it in. To my ears, it just sounded like a small guitar in all the bad ways, weak and thin. Subjective. And with the caveat that when I sold it 3-4 years later, it had been played a total of about 4 hours.
  2. I’ve got a 1947 L-5. It’s cool to say I own it, and it stinks like an old guitar, but I’ve never warmed up to it. I think they are beautiful, elegant, all that. The tone just isn’t what trips my trigger. I’ve also got a Heritage Super Eagle, which is basically a Super 400. It has two humbuckers, a Bigsby, 4 knobs and a pickup switch so that carved top ain’t doing diddley. The Eagle may depart, mostly because the 18” body is a lot, and the nut is like 1-5/8. I’d like to switch to a newer L-5 CES and just use it as an electric instrument.
  3. Operative word “accidentally “.
  4. Fact. I was never one to push anyone off the swing though. Literally or figuratively. Not sure why (or why not). It hasn’t gotten me anywhere.
  5. In 1987 I had a VIC20 and I was hooked on Omega Race. I’d buy an old VIC20 today just to get that game with the old controller (not joystick). I have a box in the attic with a half dozen old NES consoles. I have one set up in my downstairs office and occasionally play Tetris, Dr Mario, or Wrecking Crew. That’s the extent of my gaming!
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    I started reading one of Willie Nelson’s autobiographies. I believe there are more than one. This one is from 1988. I made it about 10 pages in, then quit. He came across as a Superstar and it was written like someone had just taken a night class in writing. Very flowery. I gave it away in my “last day of the yard sale and everything is free”. I’ve started reading Rhinestone Cowboy. Glen of course. The writing style is more like he’s sitting there telling his story. Too early to tell if his story is going to make me like him or not.
  7. The internet has done that to us. The keyboard has made us brave.
  8. I’ll check the VIN to see where it was made. Granted, mine is hardly a pimpmobile, but compared to all the RAV4 type cars on the road… it is pretty friggin cool.
  9. In the 60s our family bought a new Impala every couple years and traded the old one in before it hit 50,000 miles and “it started falling apart”. 100k used to be the tipping point; beyond that, it was on borrowed time and you were either destitute or trying to prove something. Nowadays 100k is “just getting broken in”. My son in law has a 2011 Sierra that runs and drives as good as any newer truck and it has 280,000 miles. I will state that mileage is a consideration when buying a vehicle, and needless to say I would much prefer to BUY something with less than 100k, but as far as keeping a vehicle on the road, I would never retire an otherwise good running vehicle solely because of mileage. I will further state high mileage has bragging rights.
  10. My main vehicle is a 2011 Impala. It has the 3.5 V-6 and 113k miles. It will rot out underneath before it stops running. My 2010 had 195k when it got rear ended and totaled. The new owner hammered it back out so it was drivable and has about 230k now. My 1988 S-10 Blazer is a rolling junkyard, sheet metal riveted over the rust, refusing to die. It’s “my truck” for now. My father bought it in 1990. I get teased about it…. And my frugality. I sold my ‘57 Chevy to my son in law and bought back a 1949 Oldsmobile I sold in 1992. I don’t know if that will be on the road this year. I also have a 1988 Cadillac Brougham D’Elegance pimpmobile, but that’s not an everyday car.
  11. My last government truck was a 2016 Tradesman 4 door 4x4 with 3.6 V-6. I absolutely loved it. It was the only vehicle I could drive all day in and not get tired or squirmy. I am a fan of traditional pickup styling, so I’d prefer a regular cab and 8 ft box if I can find one. I’m still driving my ‘88 S-10 Blazer and I swear I’m going to buy a new pickup when it dies. To which my wife replied, “so, you’re never getting a new truck!”
  12. I have an honest, earnest, wide eyed question. Since early 2020 I have been told the reason the car lots were empty (and the reason a local dealer bought my 2019 Impala for $2000 more than I paid a year earlier) was because of missing computer chips. It’s 2023. There are more and more 2023 cars and trucks on the lots. Some companies are even offering sale prices and/or financing incentives. All that’s missing is Jan from Toyota. Where are the cars produced in 2020 and 2021? Still in a deserted football stadium in Kenosha? My wife bought a new Bronco in 2021. No missing chips. I’ve threatened to buy a new Ram, if I can find a regular cab, 8 ft box 4x4 with cloth seats that doesn’t require a stepladder. I don’t want to buy one if there will be some kind of market flood of 3 year old pickups with newly installed chips. Someone please speak the truth.
  13. It’s likely a 1973 based on one pot code I could see. I can’t state that it’s 100% original but I also don’t see anything out of place of obviously changed. I won’t comment on value. A quick search of sold 1972-75 SGs on Reverb had a range of anywhere between $700 and $4700. Sometime within the last few days I saw a 1975 advertised for $3000 or $3500. That was in a dealer’s inventory.
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    Books

    Poetic License is is good way to put it. Seems like all of the key players have their own version of the events. One facet of early guitar lore is black n white though. Les did many recordings layering guitar parts while the original recording played at a slower speed, the result being a speeded up and higher pitched accompaniment. His first one was “Lover” in 1948. Merle did the same thing on “Merle’s Boogie Woogie” in 1947. And for that matter, someone in Sheboygan or East Overshoe might have done it earlier than that but never got played on the radio.
  15. A couple mornings this week, we had lots of haze. Made the sun look weird. My wife called it post apocalyptic. Someone commented on Facebook that it was because of some wildfires in Canada.
  16. Roy had a few Teles. I saw one up for sale a few years back but it wasn’t Nancy. I heard Nancy went to a Japanese industrialist. I’m friends with Roy’s daughter. The only keepsake she ended up with was an empty case.
  17. One night in 1974 some fed up residents drew attention to potholes on my road. White paint, arrows, circles, “FIX THIS F________ POT HOLE!!!”. I will plead the Fifth on this one.
  18. If it’s sat since the 70s, it needs to be played to loosen up again. Give it a chance. Imagine if you dug a leather jacket out of storage that hadn’t been worn since the 70s. Not a fair assessment until you wear it for a while, right?
  19. Oh, we make a lot of it up as we go along and nobody dares question us.
  20. Now the spam is showing up in Latin.
  21. They seem to come in waves of 10-20.
  22. Yeah, something like that. But in order to be a member in the first place, a mod or admin had to approve it. I weeded out hundreds before they ever got in the building. Past tense.
  23. It was. Until they changed it. I voiced my objection. It was ignored.
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