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You probably don't understand why you don't get invited to parties, do I have that right? rct

I do miss playing New Years. But I don't, haven't gone out on New Years for quite a long time now. You need to wave a grand under my nose, a grand for me, to get me out on New Years any more. Much more fun hanging with Mrs, champagne and great dinner, some safe fireworks at midnight, watch all the dumb pop bands on tv. Good good times. rct

Nobody can hear what kind of glue holds your guitar together. Nobody. Trust me on this one. rct

Right. It's always been this way, always. You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, right? That's what they told me at 18 years old, when I started at the Shipyard. rct

Yeah, cavalier I guess. I remember well when we didn't have three or four 24 hour weather channels plus a dozen 24 hour news channels with nothing to do but turn a pretty ordinary thing into a massacre of some sort. It's just winter. Just snow. Just cold. If you went to the airport knowing this was coming, if you got on the interstate knowing this was ahead of you, you really should not be upset or shocked, it was right there for an entire week, right in your face, inescapable. Power? Yeah, that's the weather. Look at average power loss times for the lower 48 and compare them to entire countries that, believe it or not, bury the power. But yeah, I get it, the heroic power guys standing by. It's all disaster capitalism looking for a disaster. We've had our share here that the rest of the state didn't even know about. Weather happens. rct

Cold weather in December is just so shocking. Glad I was sitting down for this. rct

Looks to be in good shape. They were made of "Chromite" or some such, a fancy word for light, hollowed out wood of not the usual type of wood Les Pauls are made of. rct

The secondary Gibson market is, as always, pretty good. Unfortunately what you have isn't really a Gibson. rct

I don't know exactly how to play this. I am trying to teach you to get where I am, have been for a very long time. I'll be home on Friday afternoon, get one of them out, and be playing it by dinner. Not the greatest slide form because I don't practice enough, but I'll do it. And if the band wants to do it next week I'll do it right because I'll practice it. Over and over and over again, walking around, singing it. You need to get there, you obviously want to get there. Just listen, abandon for a time all thoughts of chord forms and what is "right", and do what he does. You can do it, you've already got 2/3 of it, the other 1/3 is only as difficult as the first 2/3. Stay with it. After you can duplicate the notes, forget about tabbing it for a while and work on playing it like he did. Them lazy slides up to the chords are delightful and intentional. Is the point of it to tab or to learn the part? If I was your teacher I would be much happier if you and I sat there and went back and forth with it, slides a blazin, chords a compin. rct

1. Don't worry about any chord shapes unless it is an actual chord, the outro he slides down a few, three middle strings, muted. Keep at it. It's just notes. It's good to know the chords behind the notes, that's where you will find most of what he is doing. Include the dominant 7th and the 9th, don't forget them. They add the bluesy thing and the overwhelming major thing, but are often overlooked while poking around for which note it is. B. The banjo is just the skinny E being not quite slid right, he was pushing down just a tad, which is easy to do on that string. Nothing magical, and I'm glad he left things like that. Some guys would take it a hundred times to get something like that gone. rct

Blowin side 2 of One In Every Crowd into the headphones one more time has moved me to tears. Man that stuff was good. The show I saw was more chill than the 461 shows, but the Every Crowd stuff was also balled up with the EC Was Here blooze things. Good times. Thank you for this, I needed it. rct

Oh hell, why not hijack the thread entirely and just finish out that side of a really great record. rct

To this day I can't breathe when I hear this song: My favorite EC record after the Dominoes. rct

You got 2/3 of it, keep at it. There isn't anything way outside of the four notes of any chord behind the solo, he wasn't a complex slide player ever. Most of it on the G and B strings for him. But that was pretty deep in his booze dayz. rct

Give Me Strength is a nice drunken Harrison-y slide romp. That was a great record. I saw that tour and he didn't do that one in Philly. rct

Yeah thanks. I shoulda bought three of them back then. Dammit. rct

mmmm...Select.... rct

Ha! I figured you did. I used to have like, 7. 9 at times. Down to 1, my #1. rct

Yup. Wine/cocktail glass condensation. Between set cigar fingers. Run your left hand through your product'd up hair. rct

I would buy a mandolin just to get onea them cases. That is nice. You need a Tele. Esquire maybe. rct

Customs were "Fretless Wonder"s in the 70's. Skinny low frets. I didn't like them at all. Trade it for a different Les Paul. Somebody wants those low frets and there are lots of guitars without them. Win Win. rct

https://www.lakotaleathers.com/ I use the 3", have the 4 colors. Soft. Been to their res. rct

4 sets a night, one or two nights a week in a crummy bar, plus rehearsals. rct

I have a Hammond XK-1. Does a good enough B3/Leslie that I can spend hours just swirling up giant chords. I'm in heaven. rct

Oh man I stood right in front of it and it was worth every ounce of effort. Nothing like Boston and Kansas with a real B3/Leslie. Holy crap my knees quiver just thinking about it. Sloe Gin Fizz and an ashtray on top of it. lolz rct