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This was the Ibanez, the AF71F. An elegant design. Nothing was screwed into the top of the guitar, save the very top (near the neck juncture) pick-guard screw. Swing off tailpiece, violin-style floating bridge, and the Volume and Tone knobs and pots were in the pick-guard, not in the top of the guitar. Alas, I never bonded with her, and she went to go live with someone who coveted her more. Kind of like Pattie Boyd, when you think about it. 😔

I'm studying the design a little closer, and I think it's brilliant. Looks like, in your drawing, there's a floating pickup (mini-humbucker) mounted to the very root of the fingerboard, via two side braces. Much like an Ibanez jazz box that I owned until recently. Or like this Godin depicted below. Love it!! 🙂

Congrats, Butch and good wife. Good times abound! 🙂 A gift. Adrian Belew song about trains. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=adrian+belew+song+about+trains#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:1e031be6,vid:wL6SzVIy_tU

Very nice!! Speaking of old sketches, here's a drawing I did while I was in the Army. This sketch was obviously thirty-something years ago. I was in a communal coin laundry at Grafenwöhr, Germany, waiting for my uniforms and socks to dry. I was having fun with a drawing pad, creating a fictitious guitar magazine cover, featuring my brother's dog Scruffy. I used to write him letters, and enclose absurd cartoon involving his ugly little dog. I guess you had to be there. 🙂 Yes, that's a Steinbarker guitar I invented there. The actually dog, Scruffy.

A few months ago I got an audio CD from Tears For Fears. The Tipping Point. It's pretty good. 🙂

I listen to some of my friends talk about interactive computer gaming (wearing headsets at their home computer, and walking thru zombie houses with their buddies and racking up enormous body counts). It's another world, I tell you. One that I'm not a part of, by some grand design. I have never played a computer game, video game, or arcade game in my life. It all stemmed from whenever I would play a pinball machine in the late 1960's and early 1970's. I sucked at pinball. I was no pinball wizard to be sure. Later on, when guys would play (at the bars in and near our military bases) Pac Man, Tetris, Frogger, (Space Invaders?) and games like that, I would always decline. Years later, when everybody else had home computers, I chose not to have one. And when they would invite me to play some sort of computer game with them, I would decline. I had been embarrassed enough when I was younger over pinball. I was not going to open up a whole new world of embarrassment for myself. When I finally got my first home computer in 2003, it was for job searches, home finances, work, and eventually, guitar web forums. But no games, ever. Not even solitaire. Now, at age almost 64, I am content that computer gaming and video gaming is something that I was never meant to engage in. And life is plenty rich and busy without it, trust me. Do I have any sort of negative opinion of computer gaming, and gamers in general? No, not at all. I love it when people get to do things that they enjoy, and that bring them pleasure. It's just not my thing is all. 🤔

I am re-reading this. For the 3rd time in my life, I imagine. 🙂

No sir, I got it from Portland, Oregon, not the Isle of Portland, UK. So, after owning and playing her for a few days. * Wide, slender neck. I adapted to it immediately, and love it. * The Hipshot locking tuners are seriously tall, but I like how they look and work. The thing stays in tune. * When I first saw the 2015 LP100 headstock logo back in the day, I didn't like it. It has since grown on me, and I'm fond of the holograph of Les himself on the back. * Fantastic P90 tones. Even better than the Yamaha Revstar I sold off in order to get this guitar. And that's saying a lot. * She's got the just-right combination of gorgeous wood finish and some dings and flaws. That means I won't be precious with it, afraid to haul it to gigs for fear of putting fingerprints on it. I really love this guitar. I'm very glad that I found her. 🙂

That's shadier than moss covered trees in a Savannah cemetery. 🤫

I do look forward to Speedo photos, poolside!! 😀

Nice name for a band. Defiantly Related. 🙂

Congrats! A great amplifier, all around. 🙂

Thanks for sharing that!! Never heard it before. Very good. 😀

Bazooka Joe? Well, near the end he was, and he ended up being Veronica's manager after The Archies broke up. It was said that Reggie and Veronica wanted Archie to sign onto a ridiculous contract with Bazooka Joe, and Archie was reluctant. This was after their earlier manager, Pop Tate, passed away. The stress contributed to the band breaking up. That and everyone else in the band being a bit miffed that Hot Dog (Juggie's big furry mutt) was being allowed to hang around the studio. There had always been a "no pets allowed in the studio" rule in effect during the early years, but having Hot Dog hanging around all the time, and sitting on Archie's amp and singing discordant vocal lines no less, that was probably the straw that broke the camel's back. It took many years for Archie to win his back catalog of songs back from Bazooka Joe, who had endeavored to sell them for a small fortune to Donny Osmond. There was a lot of bad blood all around there! 🤨

Sugar Sugar, by The Archies. I tell you, Jughead's drumming was the standout performance to me in this song. I'm not selling Reggie short. He was a competent bass player, and his background vocals were pleasing and on pitch. But Jughead's use of polyrhythms, a booming right foot, and intricate time signatures; just brilliant. I must say that Archie himself was in fine voice on this recording, and the keyboard and tambourine playing by Betty and Veronica were certainly up to session musician standards for the day. (Spring of 1969.) It all comes back to Juggie's eloquence and time sense on the drum kit though. The precise quarter note ride beats. The audacious fills, and the uncanny ability to fall into the pocket with Reggie's bass and Veronica's left hand on the ivories. He was the rock solid glue that held it all together, and guided the other players to a higher plane. I could hear it over and over again, and still not take it all in adequately. I'm glad I'm listening on vinyl, that's for sure. 🙂

I lusted after this exact one for almost a year. Went to pull the trigger on one, brand new, for $1,200 at the time. 2019. They had just sold out at Sweetwater, and everywhere else as it turned out. Nowadays I would have to have to pay twice that price for one, used. 🤨 https://reverb.com/item/60019854-2019-gibson-firebird-i-silver-mist-finish-electric-guitar-w-ohsc

This prompted a web search. And the strangest search result ever!! https://findmyguitar.com/top-lists/best-firebird-shape-guitars.php 🤔

There's this one, from Musician's Friend. 🙂 https://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/gibson-firebird-original-hardshell-case/l85940000001000?cntry=US&cur=USD&cntry=US&cur=USD&utm_content=L85940000001000--Gibson+Firebird+Original+Hardshell+Case+Black&source=3WWRWXGS&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjryjBhD0ARIsAMLvnF8hi51B1uO7dX-CWJTl_045KTZTR6mV8JCGYBlvs9KKEBycv_kTC8IaAq4LEALw_wcB

The seller sent me the original nut and robot G Force Tuners. But it now has Hipshot locking tuners and a tusq nut installed. And I like them a lot. Really liking this guitar. 🤔

And I must be clear; Wherever I was in my life and all my travels, Pink Floyd wasn't a part of my landscape. I knew of them, of course. But I never owned any of their albums. I only know what I heard on AOR radio, and at friend's houses. Over the years, I have probably played more Pink Floyd songs on stage than most working musicians. You can't get by playing old people's high school reunions if you can't crank out Brick In The Wall, Comfortably Numb, Mother, and Wish You Were Here on a moment's notice. But at no time did I ever have fond memories of hearing those songs when I was younger, and when the records were first out there. I was somewhere else, listening to something else, I guess. Kind of like Zappa. I appreciate the man and his music and originality. But at no time in my life was he ever in the center of my musical fixation. I'm gonna shut up now. 😗

Very nice. A good buy. Never heard it, but I plan to get around to it later this year. 🙂

Very sad. Rest in peace, Anna Mae. 🥹

Congrats on the new Gibson Les Paul! Yes, photos please. 🙂

When I was age 15 thru 45, I had to have a wrist watch on. I just felt naked without one. I was known to turn the car around after being 5 km down the Autobahn, just to retrieve and put on the watch I had forgotten. For awhile after that, I was ambivalent about having a watch on. I frequently left the house without one. Finally, about ten or eleven years ago, I found that wrist watches were bothering my wrist, and causing pain and irritation. And I said to myself, "You have your personal cell phone on you all the time now, along with the Army Blackberry. And both tell the time with great accuracy." So I retired all the watches. Haven't worn one since. And since retirement, I am down to one cell phone, and it stays in the wallet drawer or in the car most of the time. Funny. I have seen the Taylor watches. They are good looking. I like them. For somebody else to buy and wear. Not me. 🤔