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  1. 11 hours ago, kidblast said:

    I can get the attraction of it all, but I don't find it all that practical.  Neck resets, bridge refits, bracing repairs, cracks, et all are all part of what goes into to this kind of purchase.   I have a 1978 Alvarez Yari, that I've had for years now.  It's a  fine guitar (D28 style dreadnaught)  It is holding up well.  But I know it probably needs a bridge reset in the near future which isn't really too bad, but perhaps a neck reset too.   Neither of which at the moment I am planning to do.     It's 100% playable tho, and it sounds really good

    Keep playing it!

  2. 1 hour ago, rbpicker said:

    Thank you all for the nice comments.  I appreciate you taking the time to listen and respond.  One of these days, I’ll stop doing this hobby, but for now it’s still fun after 60 years of playing.  Damn….60 years…I should be a whole lot better than I am.  Still fun though.

    roger

    Roger, if we’re not having fun, we won’t enjoy it.  Music is a blast!  Let’s keep it going.

  3. On 11/19/2022 at 10:21 AM, Whitefang said:

    Ah, you want politically incorrect?  😉

    Why did Gen. Santa Anna  attack the Alamo with 2,000 Mexican soldiers"---

    He only had one car.

    Why do Mexican women wear long skirts?

    To hide the "no-pest" strip.

    What do Polish women and hockey players have in common?

    They wear the same pads for three periods.

     

    What has 100 feet and 50 teeth?

    The front row at a Willie Nelson concert.

    Want to keep black kids from jumping on the bed?

    Put Velcro on the ceiling.

    Bad taste?  Sure.  But comedy always came in a wide variety of flavors.  [wink]

    Whitefang

    Funny stuff!   I wish we could bring back folks like Don Rickles and Joan Rivers, etc.

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  4. Murph, they can be a lot of fun.  I’ve got a Gretch 9220 Bobtail and I fingerpick with it.  Not real loud, but it’s great for folk tunes.  Has a piezo in it if I need a lot of sound.  I’ve learned to play some slide on it in standard tuning.   Just stick with the gbd strings for chords and look for the melody notes on other strings.   You’re a better picker than I am, so I bet you’d sound pretty good.  Got a Bobtail Squareneck too.  I like both, but once I learned how to play a little slide on the roundmeck, I favor the round neck.  However neither has nasty tone of the Recording King I heard last week.

  5. 10 hours ago, Whitefang said:

    Yeah, there were.  Just that I never thought Saget was all that funny.  Ever.

    Did you see the show on which FRANK ZAPPA was the "celebrity" guest?  They couldn't even get him to grin.  😉

    Whitefang

     

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  6. 12 hours ago, Whitefang said:

    Man, that is a shame.  I saw him at Metro Detroit's Royal Oak theater in the early '80's.  Couldn't get front row, but a great time anyway.   I first became aware of him from the late night show "Make Me Laugh".  in the late '70's.   Sure made me laugh.  Lots more that another comic on the show, Bob Saget.  But you know, he rarely, if ever, used his "Sledge-o-matic" shtick  on that show and still cracked everybody up.  

    Good for you.  I never got the idea of getting front row to see Gallagher and cover up with visqueen.  I'd take all that splatter as a badge of honor.  And maybe not wash those shirts ever again.  [wink]

    Whitefang

    “Make Me Laugh” was great.  Gallagher came out with a wide-brimmed hat and had a train or a car running-around it.  Crazy guy!  Several very funny people were on that show.

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  7. A friend of mine recently bought a Recording King brass resonator.  It’s kind of a greenish-antique color and has a nasty tone to it.  I mean  ”nasty” in a good way.  Very bluesy.  Sounds like you need a bottle of Jim Beam at your side.  He plays it in standard tuning and it has a very different tone than a regular guitar.  I need another guitar like I need a hole-in-the-head, but this one has me thinking.  And it IS heavy.

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