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    The Humble Studio...

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    13 minutes ago, DanvillRob said:

    I was never real big on Les Pauls....but for some reason, always liked the SG's.

    I'm sure you know the story of the Gold Top I coulda had if I woulda had $13 in my pocket.

    I love 'em both, that SG is a '79 I found, New Old Stock in 1993, it was 14 years old with the plastic on the pick guard.

    No, tell me the Gold Top story.

     

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    The Humble Studio...

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    My first good guitar (Gibson) was my Melody Maker twin pickup double cut I got in Florida for my 12th birthday. I played the Surfside Lounge in Clearwater with it at the age of 12. My uncle was a Marine and had met the band and arranged for me to "set in" with them. They liked me and I was able to do it many times and the other guitar player would often exit the stage leaving me the only guitar player up there. Scared me the first time.

    By the time I started working clubs for $ in Arizona, my first real gig was playing bass with a country/rock band. 3 nights a week and I was still too young, but looked old enough and learned how the business really worked. The guitar player and myself eventually joined forces, with me back on guitar and my old Melody Maker was, you know, kinda a kids guitar and it was time to get a Les Paul or an SG or switch over to Fenders, and he played a Tele.

    I found my used '72 Les Paul Recording in a pawn shop in Tempe, Az. At that point my reputation was solid, I was legal age, had a van and a p.a. and worked every weekend for years. When I re-located to Louisiana, I had a Peavey Deuce and never missed a beat, going straight to work and eventually forming the first lineup of Double Aught, which I cemented after re-locating to Illinois. The frets were flat on the Les Paul by 1997 and my SG had an issue, and I swapped the Les Paul straight across for a new American Standard Strat because I'd joined a band with hundreds of bookings in the can and needed the single coils and a whammy and a new/dependable rig. I sold the Strat after that project wound down, although it was used a few times on the Double Aught cd.

    When Les Paul died back around 2009, I realized it had been a while since I owned one, and always loved my Les Paul and I looked at my tax numbers for the year and bought a nos 2008 Wine Red Studio. I still have it. It never got worked a whole lot because I had also bought the first year ES-339 and that was my # 1 until I went all acoustic after I quit drinking. But I did gig it enough to appreciate the humble Studio Les Paul. It'll do anything a fancy one will do, but it doesn't cost as much as your Grandaddy's first house. 490R/498T were plenty hot, wide range of tones available, mine was before coil tapping was a thing with Studios. Mine is also chambered which I like. It's louder unplugged than my old one was, and I've read that Les (the man) liked chambered bodies. I never cared about binding, could take it or leave it, my 91 Tele doesn't have binding and everybody digs a Tele, but somehow a Studio doesn't get the respect. Not that it should.

    And that's just not right.

     

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    You know you are getting old when........

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    On 12/12/2023 at 6:44 PM, MissouriPicker said:

    You know you’re getting old when not being able to find a parking space near the door is enough to make you go back home.

    I saw a news report yesterday that Gen Z'ers are too intimidated to order food from a menu and that email stress's them out.

    No wonder the military can't meet its goals.

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    Bee Gees J200

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    11 hours ago, E-minor7 said:

    In my view they are extremely talented. 

    I never said they weren't talented. I just never considered them as serious musicians.

    They would do whatever called upon to make a buck, but with those dollars comes a lack of credibility. 

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    How old will you be on your next birthday?

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    44 minutes ago, DanvillRob said:

    Hard to be miserable in this world.... regardless, each of us has more than the richest person on earth had throughout history.

    Yep.

    We're spoiled, and the following generations are even worse. When I watch documentaries about WW2 and Britain and France and some of the conditions that were normal, even the early 1900's in New York City, New Orleans and such I'm reminded just how tough those people were.

    The reset is going to be hard on some.

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    Bee Gees J200

    in Gibson Acoustic

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    9 hours ago, E-minor7 said:

    The Gibbs, who I liked a lot over the many decades, especially in the early phase, would very hard to figure there. 

    I think their disco decision made them a lot of money, but cost them a lot of respect.

    I never think of them as serious musicians, just a disco act.

    Bee Gees J200

    in Gibson Acoustic

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    11 minutes ago, ksdaddy said:

    As to Norlin,  there are some who believe any Norlin Gibson is trash. Not going to waste my breath defending Norlin. This is not the hill for me to die on. 

    I had a '79 SG that I gigged, recorded and loved for many years. It now belongs to my oldest son.

    It's a killer guitar.

    Interesting Article on the Current Music Industry

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    There is a young man from this area who went viral yodeling Hank Williams in a Walmart.

    They've been "developing" him for several years and he is getting very close to "breaking out" as a slick, good looking, well-rehearsed country music star.

    I know for a positive fact they will take the time to develop talent.

    They will also drop that talent in a flash if they think it's played out or is too hard to work with. Hell, they dropped Johnny Cash moments before some of his greatest work.

    The machine only cares about itself.

    It's always been that way.

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