PrairieSchooner

He's better than most, but that's not saying much.

You'll be missed.

RIP.

This probably belongs under forum questions but it doesn't look like anyone ever goes there. I just saw that someone posted a comment on my profile but it says I have opted to approve all comments and I need to go to my profile and manage comments, but I can't see any way to manage comments. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks...

If you look on the bay there are a gazillion Gibsons offered - guitars, banjos, mandos, et al - from Japan. Just wondering how/why/when they all got over there, and why so many from there are for sale? Legit, or scams, or...? Not looking to buy one, just one of those things ya wonder about when there's nothing much else going on.

Bought a new J50 in about '71. Liked it just fine but shortly thereafter I traded it in on a Heritage Custom that I fell in love with.

Another great one gone.

I bought a Regal Duolian on ebay that the previous owner had hot-rodded. Don't play it much but it's fun to have around...

Heck, it starts BEFORE Halloween around here it seems. And if that ain't enough there'll be Christmas in July promotions 😒.

Ah, yeah. That's the one I have.

A Gen-U-Wine slide made by Eris Park, cobalt glass slide from a guy in England whose name I forget, and a John Pearse tapered brass slide. But the one I like best is a very thin one I made from an old 12ga brass shotgun shell...

Thanks Captain Obvious, but I guess I should have looked at the date of the post.

How come I just get a black square that says video unavailable?

Stuff that works, stuff that holds up; the kind of stuff you don't hang on the wall... - Guy Clark

Loved ISB; gonna have to go down to the archives and dig out their LP's for a listen.

Back in the day owning a 40 year-old Martin was strong medicine. So I bought a new one in 1978, and now I have one 😀

You know how that pegboard stuff works; if you hit one of those hooks wrong from the bottom the prong pops out of the hole. Could have been that way for a long time and just decided to take that moment to give way. Was a lousy system for hanging guitars. And yeah, I felt awful, whether I did it or not.

I don't know. Probably pretty easy to bluff a naive college kid into thinking he had to pay for it. As I recall the price was more than a year's tuition.

Here's a J-45 story: must have been '67 or so. I was in college on the cheap and had never owned a good guitar. I was in Hays Music, Hays, Kansas. They had a red J-45 and I was in love. Played it a bit, sighed, and hung it back on the wall. There were several other folks milling around so I think someone else played it after me but I'm not sure. Anyway there was a crash. The hanger (one of those wire pegboard thingies) had come out of the wall and the guitar fell to the floor severely bashing in the lower bout. The store people of course wanted to know who was the last person to hang it up, but nobody owned it, including me. Later the guitar was back on the wall with the worst repair job you've ever seen - just kinda pushed back into shape and sort of glued. Never did know what they priced it at (I was afraid to pick it up again!) and I always wondered what happened to it.

Yeah; it was my error, not Google's. I misread the info. Thanks to all who set me straight. The Sweet song was so bad I'm glad it didn't turn out to be the same song 😀!

Sure sounds like two different songs to me. I listened to the original by a Brit hair band named Sweet and it's hard to believe it's the song that evolved into the Tom T. or bluegrass song we're familiar with. But to tell the truth, I couldn't listen to Sweet's version long enough to tell if it's the same or not. Certainly on a comment on your version though!

Mandos be cool...

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