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I like it. 🙂

August 8, 1988. I remember it well. They only played a few innings against the Phillies, and then the thunderstorms rolled in and ruined the rest of the evening. Game postponed. I reckon the first complete night game under the lights was the next evening, on 9 August. The Cubs beat the Mets in that contest, which was fine by me. 😐

2011 BFG 2007 Crate V18 😑

I have never been a Roger Waters fan. He's always struck me as unnecessarily caustic, smugly-superior, and ****** bag-like. Not a fan. 😐

Fender Jazz basses and Precision basses have a 34 inch scale length. The Fender Mustang, Mustang PJ, the Squier Bronco bass, and the Squier vintage Jaguar bass are all 30 inch scale. 🙂

Reverb dot com carries a lot of vintage/collectible guitars. 🙂

M.R. Did you provide this feedback to Gibson/Kramer customer support? This Gibson web forum isn't guaranteed to be frequented by any Gibson or Kramer executives. But a feedback message directly to the source might help them to ponder some changes in their QC. https://www.kramerguitars.com/en-US/Support/Contact-Us You could also return the guitar under warranty and get your money back. 😑

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/ 🥲

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. 🤔

If Derek Trucks designed a guitar pickup, would they call it the TruckBucker® ?? 😛

Natural finish, black, or sunburst? 🙂

Nice guitar. I wouldn't want to wake up with a hangover and have to look at it, but still. A nice guitar. 🙁

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. 😜

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!! 😃

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. 😗

Fantastic! Congratulations, and welcome aboard, mate. 😃

Eh. It keeps me wondering. But I ain't wastin' time no more on it. Reckon I'll go eat a peach. 🙁

Beautiful job. I love the new speaker cab!! 😉

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. 😑

I like that most of the concert proceeds go to help farmers. There's much goodness in that. 🙂

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. 😃

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. 🥲

Excellent! Doesn't get any better than that. 😃

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. 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.

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. 😙