sparquelito
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I am glad to hear that there are cousins to the mystery guitar out there.
And halfway around the world at that.
I must confess, I sold my Shadow Bridge mystery guitar last December, as I was cleaning out my office, and preparing to retire out for good.
Our Safety Officer was enamored with it, and it looked good on him, so I let him have it for a hundred bucks.
I'll get to see it every now and then, as I am the volunteer musical director for the flight test agency's annual Christmas party in the big hangar (coming up on December 15th).
The fellow who owns the guitar is working on his cowboy chords, and I'll be practicing him up to play on a few songs on the big flatbed stage.
We have ten or more players and singers in the organization, and my goal is to get them all practiced to the point where they are comfortable playing in front of a few hundred coworkers, family, and friends.
Good times.
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If Derek Trucks designed a guitar pickup, would they call it the TruckBucker® ??
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Natural finish, black, or sunburst?
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Nice guitar.
I wouldn't want to wake up with a hangover and have to look at it, but still.
A nice guitar.
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The Les Paul Ultra Light.
Mahogany neck-thru-body design for strength, but nitro-coated balsa wood cap, sides, and back.
5 lbs, 10 ounces average manufactured weight, for old guys with bad back and sore shoulders.
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LPS6G20HDNH3 equates to a Gibson Les Paul Standard 60's model.
Made from 2019 until present day.
Finish is indeed Honey Lemon Burst.
This was the Gibson description for that model: "Features a solid mahogany body with an AA figured maple top, and a SlimTaper™ 60s-style mahogany neck with a rosewood fingerboard and trapezoid inlays. It's equipped with a classic-style Tune-O-Matic™ bridge, aluminum Stop Bar tailpiece, Grover® Rotomatic® "Kidney" tuners, and gold Top Hat knobs with silver reflectors. The 60s Burstbucker™ pickups are loaded with Alnico 5 magnets, audio taper potentiometers, and Orange Drop® capacitors."
22 Medium Jumbo Frets, 12 inch fret board radius.
The examples I can find all look attractive, but I agree with you, there's not much of a 'sunburst' appearance, as in dark around the edges and lighter in the middle.
Still, damned fine guitar!!😃
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Too much bling for me to swing.
Far too much gold for me to hold.
Way too much high-muck-a-muck for me to....
I had better shut up now.
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Fantastic!
Congratulations, and welcome aboard, mate.
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Eh.
It keeps me wondering.
But I ain't wastin' time no more on it.
Reckon I'll go eat a peach.
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Beautiful job.
I love the new speaker cab!!
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23 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
I still ride my mid 90's hard tail Specialized Stumpjumper.
I rode a Nishiki back in the mid 1990's.
Loved that bike.
Have no idea what I did with it.
Probably lost it in the divorce.
Along with my dignity.
And a LOT of money.
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I like that most of the concert proceeds go to help farmers.
There's much goodness in that.
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Happy new bicycle day around here.
A few weeks ago I sold off an elderly mountain bike that was never quite right for me, ergonomically.
And so today I found myself in Sports Authority, looking for some Aguila Super Colibri's. (No luck there, sadly.)Somehow or another I ended up looking at bicycles.
And then so test-riding a bunch of them around the store.Finally came home with this new Mongoose Spire.
27.5" rims, front suspension, and disc brakes front and rear.Just got back from a 45 minute ride, a neighborhood shake-down cruise.
It was nice.
Looking forward to working some bike riding into my cardio routines.
Swimming is great, but I need to branch out.I mounted some battery powered lights on there, made by Bell.
LED headlight and tail light.
Very nice.
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2 hours ago, jdgm said:
Many congrats @sparquelito and @kidblast.
I've only done 2 gigsd this year so am envious - want to get out there again.
Spark - that must have been a marathon....6.45 A.M?
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Thanks, man.
I wake up by 4:00 am every day of the week, seven days a week.
Wish I could sleep in, but I can't.
My body clock is a sadist.
The 06:45 show time was to finalize the set-up and get everything ready for a 08:30 start time.
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4 hours ago, kidblast said:
Friday night Tavern Gig. I love playing here. The room is not easy to mix, the section people play in has a cathedral ceiling which drops to an 8foot flat ceiling towards the back.
I have two Bose S1s on poles left and right of me, my board is behind me. The S1s do a great job filling this room.
Good night too. Room was full from the start (about 30 people). 6 to 9, home by 10! at may age, that's a winnah!
Excellent!
Doesn't get any better than that.
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5 hours ago, Sheepdog1969 said:
Congrats to Heather for nailing her first big audience show, and to you and the rest of the band for a successful gig! I can only imagine the head aches associated with PA/mixer/etc. sharing. Weather looked great for the show, btw!
PS - My daughter just got accepted into The University of Alabama's Aerospace Engineering program. ROLL TIDE!
The weather was indeed great.
60 degrees F when we arrived to the river on Friday morning at 06:45 am, but a toasty 85 degrees when we loaded out in the afternoon at 3:00 pm.
Yeah, Heather was stoked. And her entire family came out at one point to see her play.
They sat out on the grass in lawn chairs, under a pop-up awning that we had set up for them.
Say, do PM me, reference the Alabama-bound daughter.
The Redstone Test Center (the place I just retired from, and the host agency for the big sports fest gig we played yesterday) would be a great place for her to apply for meaningful employment some day.
AND they like to bring engineering students in as paid interns during the summer months.
I would like to assist in getting you guys linked up with the chief engineers who manage the internships.
Most of the intern hires end up coming to RTC to work after they graduate.1 hour ago, 'Scales said:That's impressive!
Heh heh.
The Test Center had one of their logistics guys camp out there on Thursday evening to guard all the equipment and gear.
All of our amps, mic stands, PA heads and mixers were there under tarps, and there were fest tents, tables, chairs, trophies, ice chests, and a variety of support gear that had to be watched over.
A very peaceable and beautiful place to camp out, I reckon.
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Got in late this afternoon from an all-day gig at an outdoor sporting event.
Shared the stage with another band, and traded sets.
A lot of fun, but a LOT of work.
It was a Thursday afternoon load-in and set-up, and an all day Friday playing affair.
We combined forces with the other band, re; PA gear and mixers.
Which brings its own degree of pain, trust me.
Our drummer girl Heather played for the first time ever in front of hundreds of people.
And she did just great!
A few hours after arriving home, I finally got everything put away and the guitars polished and hung up.
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10 minutes ago, merciful-evans said:
He uses picks on his bass?
ok then....
By my observation, bass players who play in rock bands featuring walls of distorted guitars to compete with, and in large arenas no less, require a crisp attack.
Finger plucking can work really well when performing soft jazz or most songs by The Eagles.
But for stuff like this, a plectrum is surely a good idea.
Just thinking aloud.
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Nice axe.
Seven thousand bones is a bit steep though, for my finances.
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I take the wife out to lunch at least once a week.
We also meet her father and his wife for Sunday brunch, after the old man gets out of Catholic Mass.
The ticket for those meals is currently twice or thrice that which I used to pay, before the covid hysteria.
Sucks being on a fixed income in such times.
Am grateful to have my old used Gibsons and Fenders.
I don't plan to buy any new ones, that's for sure.
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Hey, the chick with the huge pick guard is making national news now.
Too awesome.
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How far is it for you to travel to those two towns in Minnesota, or to the impound facility in St Louis County?
Go there.
Make friends with the top officials there.
Tell them your story.
Bring any photos you may have of your father performing.
(Preferably with either of those guitars, and with the amp in the background.)
If you are sincere, humble, and polite, chances are they will give you the gear just to get it off their books.
If they haven't already sold everything off, which is a distinct possibility.
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8 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
I don't even know who that is. Is she in the country, pop, rock , or rap genera?
If young guys make Bro Country, then what are the young females making , Girlfriend Country?
Her name is Maren Morris.
I'll let you look her up on Google, without any sort of commentary from me.
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I must confess that I don't know shiit from shinola about old Gibson acoustics, but that is a great guitar!
I love the addition of the pickup and volume & tone knobs.
Very, very J-160E thing to do, and way cool.
Looks a lot like this one on Reverb.
https://reverb.com/item/4149649-gibson-lg-1-1959-sunburstThe bridge has been changed out on one or the other, but the details all look right.
You look very happy playing her, and the dog approves!
That is important around my house too.
This is my black and white, Simon Peter. He's 12 years old.
In this photo, he thinks he's getting some ice cream.
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Relic-ing (Again), But Not The Process, Or If You Like It Or Not
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It goes against my nature, but I purposely relic'ed a guitar three years ago.
It's a convoluted tale, full of intrigue, frustration, and angst.
And the colorful figure known as Guitar Bob was even involved.
https://www.tdpri.com/threads/ngd-a-metal-guit-no-a-relic.1022039/
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