jaxson50
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Skunk Baxter wrote
Quote"I took my parents on that trip; my Dad was a historian, and was in WWII, and Keith was into those things so they really hit it off. We were making good money for the gigs so I asked Michael if he could find a bunch of kids from an orphanage and we’d take them to Disneyland, Tokyo, to give something back.
"I have two favourite images from that day. One was the 'Ox', John Entwistle, standing there with six kids crawling all over him, and loving it. And the same about Keith: he really spent time with the kids and you could see how much he was into making them happy.
That must have been something those kids will never forget
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I saw ELO once in San Diego, they were amazing,
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I read this article today and found the different stories very entertaining, some great back stories and insights into Emerson's relationship with other great artist. So I just wanted to share.
QuoteHe looked to his Leslie speakers to throw his knives - this guy’s eyes opened wide when he saw the knives fly in his direction. The guy was Jimi Hendrix"
https://www.musicradar.com/news/keith-emerson-tributes-keyboards-knives-hendrix
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Now I'm thinking I should have jumped on the 65 Band Master I saw at the local gitar shop last week.
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Just to show what kind if man Lyle is, a few years ago he did a show here in Boise at a pizza restaurant owned by a man who grew up in Lyles hometown. The owner of the restaurant had just lost his wife to brain cancer after a long battle. This pizza place could seat maybe 25 people. In return, the man gifted Lyle a vintage Huskvarna dirt bike, an exact copy of the one Lyle raced when he was a kid growing up in Texas. Needless to say it that show helped the family cover health care cost.
Sadly the restaurant owner died two years ago. Lyle will always have my respect for playing that gig after doing a show here in Boise.
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He is one of a kind, witty and a great wordsmith.
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9 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
I totally agree. GC should be out of business. I hate that crooked store. But we know and you got one that should have been sold as a used guitar and CG could care less and just wants your $.
Indeed. If you see a 3k dollar guitar displayed at a store with visible cracks, what is your first impression?
Either the builder does crap work or the dealer doesn't take care of guitars when they are damaged or has a flaw. Honestly, that thing hung on the GC Boise stores wall for ever. Nobody who knows anything about guitars wouldn't buy it, but how many sales are lost because of a bad first impression.
I haven't seen anything like this from small shops, impressions and referrals are their lifeblood.
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1 minute ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
I’ve registered at least 3 of my used Martins because the original owners never did.
Those Taylor’s have been paid for and once GC sells them they get there cut back.
That's not my point and frankly, I don't know if your being argumentative with me or not.
It shouldn't be the customers responsibility to police music dealers to ensure they not selling used instruments as new. That should be the factories responsibility. It's that way in every other business, if a dealer pulls funny tricks they get dinged, or dropped by the factory.
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20 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
When I’m ready so spend cash on a Martin I always check the serial number to verify the year, no slide rule necessary or system that changed 3 times today. It’s consecutive. How easy is that?
The fact remains that dealers an restock a previously sold item and sell it as new. Seems to me the easy way to stop this is for the manufacturers to require retailers to register instruments at the time of sale. It would take a few minutes, but once the instrument leaves the store, how many purchasers take the time to register the instrument with the factory?
I still do business with GC, but with caution, I have ordered new guitars from the Martin factory through GC, and have received great discounts this way. You have the right of refusal at time of purchase and still can return it, but it's a good deal for both the dealer and the customer, the guitar isn T going to be hanging on a wall for months, so GC is happy, you get an untouched fresh from the factory guitar that you wanted.
Here is another GC story, at our local GC, there was a very high end Taylor guitar hanging on the wall for years, it was discounted because there was a 1/8 " crack in the fretboard running from the7th fret to the end past the 22nd fret. I asked them why they don't just return it for warranty work?
"Because we do that after it's bought" wasbthe answer.
Does Taylor really want their products displayed when there are cracks in the fret board?
I worked at two music stores years ago, that wouldn't fly at either, it undermines customer confidence.
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Have you gone back to Guitar Center and voice your concerns?
I bought what I thought, and they presented as a brand new Martin from GC about 15 years ago. I took if to a guitar tech who is factory certified Martin and Gibson tech. He called me the next day with some alarming news, the guitar was 5 years old and had been sold by GC several times each time itcwascreturned and put back onto the rack as new. The bridge was not properly installed at the time It was built and would require a neck and bridge reset, the top had also settled ( bridge tilted toward the neck.
The Martin factory rep the tech spoke with told him GC has a history of doing this, they also order large shipments and many times guitars end up in warehouses for long periods of time, apparently with no humidifier, so back it went!
Trust but verify. Guitar Center has a good return policy, use it.
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Guitar Fetish offers guitar kits and numerous pickup configurations
https://www.guitarfetish.com/Fits-Telereg_c_580.html
And
Does anyone have any experience with them?
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On 2/21/2022 at 7:52 PM, sparquelito said:
Is there even a remote chance that an intergalactic meteor struck your guitar, and an alien life form, The Blob, emerged into your Boveda desiccant pack?
And you pulled it out right before it became sentient, and spared yourself, and the entire community from a horrible, monstrous end?
Just thinking out loud.
😬
Happens all the time around here!,
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Red Skelton was great, nice guy to, he lived on a ranch on Tiwilliger Lane, in Anza, Calif. Close to my parents and my older brother, his wife raised horse's and other critters. My brother owned the local septic pumping business and Red was a client. (Insert wise crack here) .
Any ways, Red had the entire family over to his place one the 4th of July one time, he also had an art gallery in Palm Springs, in the 60s we would see him in his 52 Rolls Royce Silver Wraithe , he loved his Rolls! Plural, he had several, two recently came up for auction,
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Alert! Sensory overload!
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I grew up in a navy family, my dad got out when I was two, my two uncles served for 33 years each.
These guys could down a pot of coffee and five minutes later hit the rack and be snoring before the sheets settled!
Uncle E.J. was a cook, his last duty station was San Diego, he ran the bakery at the base, I swear, his coffee was chewable.
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13 hours ago, Retired said:
Thanks Jaxson. And I think Caffein is addictive too isn't it?
It sure is addictive, but it was easier to quit than cigarettes,.
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2 minutes ago, Retired said:
That is probably what I should do then. I do too much caffeine and it also gives me the heart burn I think? But Vertigo is worse.
What do you have to lose? If it helps you that's great! If it doesn't, no harm done.
Hopefully you'll get relief.
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12 hours ago, Whitefang said:
Carrie? Now, THAT would make it interesting!
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Whitefang
Good old spell check, CADDIE
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11 hours ago, Whitefang said:
Kinda seems that way. Would be certain of it if he suggested giving all the players broadswords.
I've long had an idea on how to make football a bit more exciting---
Do away with the "first and 10" nonsense. I mean, the team with the ball has only four downs to get into the end zone or hand over the ball to the other team on wherever the line of scrimmage is. Then THAT team only has four downs. And the "field goal" has to be when someone gets the ball between the goal posts on the first bounce. AFTER he throws it hard on the ground.
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I want to make golf more exciting, I think we could mix NFL & Pro Golf, once the player is squared off over the Tee, the ref blows a whistle and a NFL D'back will charge the player from 15 yards.. The player can't be tackled after he hits the ball off the T. The caddie is allowed to block but can't hold or tackle.
Repeat on each approach until you get on the green, now the D'back lines up opposite the player, Equal distance from the cup, once the player nods he is set, the ref blows the whistle, the D'back waits till he sees the club move forward, then he can tackle, the caddie is allowed to block (caddies line up one yard behind the player on right of left but can't break his stance until he hears the club strike the ball,, caddies must Carrie the bags on their shoulders at all times accept when aiding the player in picking a club)
Maybe mix NASCAR NFL & PGA , caddies could chase D'back`s with golf carts between the T and greens.
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On 2/1/2022 at 12:38 PM, Twang Gang said:
Right now I don't understand why when a team scores their first touchdown you don't just go in there and kill the kicker. Break his leg or his ankle. You're still going to get the ball on the 25 yard line after the touchback, but the kicker won't be available to beat you at the end of the game with a 50 yard field goal.
Really? Kill the kicker? Why not just run a play where a running back kills the ref? Or maybe the other teams coach? Or starting QB?
Why the hate for kicker? I mean, if we are going to declare open season on football players, the QB would be the first to go.
We could break the evil SOBs neck, watch his head flop around and laugh while he is carted off, never to walk again! Man That's A Sport! Maybe we can get real lucky and dismember a few guys! Wouldn't that be a blast!
I have one question, did you grow up playing kill video games?
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The halftime show sucked, over all a boring game, but I'm happy for Stafford,
Congratulations to the LA Rams
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RIP Ian,
Both King Crimson and Foriegner were milestlnes for progressive rock, and we owe you for being instrumental as an early provocateur of that form of rock.
God's Peace.
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2 hours ago, kidblast said:
I'm not watching the olympics. I don't care.. at all. I find it disappointing with the decision to have them held in china,
but that's not why I'm not watching. I just don't care.
I am to the point where I avoid anything China at all costs, it is nearly impossible , but on this, I have a choice, I will not watch these games
25 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said:I think the thing that killed the Olympics is when Pro's (not hookers) started going and competing. Those people are already the best at what they do and get paid well for it and have endorsements, now get medals for doing it.
You remember why pros were finally allowed to participate in the Olympic games don't you?
Because the Russians had Bern paying their athletes since the 1950s and getting away with victory after victory.
The last great winter Olympics were 1980 with the miracle on ice.
But you are correct the use of pros is counter to the ideals of the games.
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2 hours ago, saturn said:
I'm not weighing in on anything one way or the other here. I just think this is funny for funny sake, related to what the video you posted talks about.
In the 88 Presidential primary election, Biden's blatant lying about his education and degrees, ( he even lied about which school he attended) was deemed by the Democrat party leaders as the end to his career.
Even left leaning editors and opinion writers warned other democrats to distance themselves from him.
What saved his career was the Clinton scandals. Biden laid low in the Senate for the next term then when the press was focused on taking Clinton down, he brought forth his crime fighting bill, three strike laws and the move to crush the crack cocaine epidemic that was the main driving force behind street gand violence, laws that are now viewed by Black social justice warriors as the most racist laws on the books.
This is as vile as I get. Reminding others of history.
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Memories of Keith Emerson: Friends pay tribute to Emo
in The Gibson Lounge
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It was a type o, probably this FRIGGING android tablet that thinks it knows what I want to type.
But technically, I saw both ELO and ELP at the place , but on different dates, so maybe it was a cosmic brain fart , or was it the NSA trying the infiltrate the forum and cause civil discontent?
Hmmm