sparquelito
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What's a jumper?
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Twenty six thousand bones?
My daily driver cost less than that, brand new.
Admittedly, it did not come with a watch.
Speaking of "buy one and you also get" marketing, does anyone else remember this Volkswagen wonderfulness from 16 years ago?
https://www.cars.com/articles/buy-a-vw-get-a-guitar-1420663330505/I owned one of those guitars.
Bought it used from a local pawn shop a couple seasons ago.
It had somebody's VIN for a serial number.
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Oh yeah.
They also paid John Mayer a bit of coin to help advertise it.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=john+mayer+plays+guitar+thru+a+volkswagen#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:79e97303,vid:OrKKwjAGTA0,st:0 -
Man, seventy five hundred bones.
That is so far outside my reasonable price range, we may as well be talking about diamond tiaras or gold-plated Harley Davidson soft-tails.
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Here we have more guitars in Canada with the maple leaf sticker on the back of the headstock.
SG's.
One on 12fret dot com
https://www.12fret.com/no-longer-available/gibson-custom-shop-1961-les-paul-limited-edition/And one on a Canadian guitar forum.
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A very nice acquisition!
I love Electro-Harmonix.
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Oh my God, I am so sorry to hear this!!
Thank you for letting us know, badbluesplayer.
My prayers are up for Trey and his family.
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2 minutes ago, Larsongs said:
Back in the days of Corporal Punishment.
In 6th Grade, my Teacher, Mr. Stammerjohn told me to stay after Class while all the kids were at recess.. He was a terrible Teacher & Human Being.. He got mad at me for being a little bit of a smart *** & said, I’m gonna kick your little ***.. He chased me around the classroom & caught up to me & kicked me in my lower back & laid me out on the floor.. Then he said, if you tell anyone I’ll give you worse.. Shortly thereafter we moved.. I never told, until now..
I'm so sorry that happened to you Lars.
We used to get whipped by the nuns at Catholic School, and by the southern gym coaches later on, but nothing vicious like that!!
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21 minutes ago, DanvillRob said:
We were going to Santa Cruz on our "Senior Cut Day" too.
But I found my brakes went out that morning....so I spent the day fixing my brakes and putting on new pads, (1960 Oldsmobile).
The school called my house....my mom answered and asked if I was home. She said "Yes", they said "Are you SURE?" She said, "Do you want to talk to him?" They said, "No, thanks.).
The seniors all had to do 5 days of detention, or not get their diploma.... 'cept me, and a few nerds!
Wow.
I had a similar experience in high school, only with a darker, more horrible ending.
I was invited to cut-school and drive down to the beach at Panama City, FL with a good friend from JR ROTC.
He was supposed to ride down with some older boys, and spend a day down there having fun.
This was when I was in the 10th grade.
Sure enough, I had to work on the day in question, and I backed out at the last minute.
My spidey sense was telling me not to cut school and go to the beach that day.
I needed the hours at work that afternoon/evening anyway.
We were pretty poor, and all of us Sparkman kids had jobs to help mom pay the bills.
Found out the next day that the car full of teenagers had crashed into a turning semi on their way to the beach.
They were estimated to be doing 100 mph at the time of the collision.
Two boys and one girl killed, and the driver and his brother were badly injured.
I spent years wondering if I was meant to die in that car crash.
Or would I have been the kid who spoke up and asked the driver to slow down a bit, and maybe saved all those lives?
We'll never know.
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Same Junior High, early 1970's.
The Principal used to covet a certain parking spot that was convenient to the side entrance to his office.
He would get onto us hooligan boys for parking our motorcycles in that particular spot.
(In Alabama you could get your motorcycle riding License at age 14.)
Finally, he got the school board to approve a designated parking spot post and sign right on that spot.
School Principal Parking Only it read.
So, the first day he proudly parked his VW Beetle in his spot and strolled into his office, we hatched a plot to pull a prank on him.
The homeroom teacher allowed the entire class to leave class that morning, the very instant that the Principal went down to the conference room for a budget meeting.
We scampered out to the Principal's VW, picked it up, and walked it around to the tree covered field behind the school.
We neatly placed it between two tall pine trees, with the chrome bumpers positioned exactly one inch away from the bark. He couldn't drive away from that trap if he tried.It was a funny prank, in our opinion. We snickered about it all morning.
The best part was when the man strolled out to the parking lot later on and found his vehicle missing.
He quietly and calmly strolled around the parking lot and circumnavigated the grounds until he finally spotted his car back there, snugged up between the two tall pine trees.
A few minutes later, we were all working diligently on our classroom assignments, when the PA speakers across the school grounds and in each classroom gave with a click and a small introductory clearing of the throat, followed by,
"Okay. Move it back. Right now, please."
Grinning ear to ear, all of us hooligans left our classes, trooped on back to the pines, picked up his car, and happily carried it back to the proper parking spot.
Good memories, good times.
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guidru73,
Can you describe the time frame of the acquisition of the Ibanez Les Paul copy?
And whereabouts the general location of the acquiring?
That'll certainly help to narrow down the search parameters.
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Man, that's too young!
Rest in peace, and prayers to her family.
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Miss Susan Ray.
East Gate Junior High.
Ozark, Alabama. Early 1970's.Young, slender, funny, and a really good (albeit brand new) teacher.
She was fresh out of Montevallo University.She was fond of saying, whenever the girls in her class or homeroom were talking loudly over each other,
"Ladies, ladies, please calm down now. And by ladies, please know that I mean to imply the loosest possible definition of that word!"
Always cracked me up.
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Ted does indeed own a PRS or two.
The beat-up camo pattern one there, and a beat-up tiger striped one from his Damned Yankees days.
He's also got 17 Gibson Byrdlands, in a variety of finishes and trims.
Most of them really, really, old.
Ted proudly plays a number of Gibson Les Paul models.
Some from 1958 and 1959.
An American Flag one.
And he has a Gibson Custom Super 400 12-string, of all things.
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Looking forward to warmer (albeit rainier) days ahead.
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4 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
And now you will never need them ever again.
Probably.
But it's like my 17,500 W generator.
I feel better knowing I have it if I need it.
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Marco,
If you have the opportunity to play the Fender Vintera 60, please do.
And play it carefully and thoroughly.
Don't let the seller rush you.
The reality is that any brand or model of electric guitar has a good chance of being a great guitar if it was made on a Wednesday morning, but an equally good chance of being a horrible guitar if made on a Monday morning or Friday afternoon.
Don't make this trade via long-distance, that's what I am saying.
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I ordered these rigs today.
Amazon distribution center a few miles from here, so they'll be here tomorrow.
No use having them this week (the big thaw is beginning already), but I want to have them for the future ice and snow ugliness.
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Did you hear about the cannibal who was late for dinner?
He got the cold shoulder.
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3 minutes ago, Murph said:
Love it.
We had another phrase back in the day, but as teenagers in the Arizona desert we would ride dirt bikes as far as we could go, even carrying spare gas at times. We had old used bikes modded to ride dirt, we were the rat bikers. When we broke down in 110 degree heat we would "MacGyver' all kinds of solutions. Pliers, duct tape, bailing wire and a pocket knife and we would figure out a way to get them home.
It made us better men.
THAT sounds like a great time.
You had an exceptional time of it, and great rat-boy friends to share in the adventures.
Memories for a lifetime, I am sure!
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18 F right now, headed for a low of 8 F tonight.
I spent a few hours today shoveling ice off my driveway.
A lot of the ice on the roads has steadily evaporated lately, and people have been getting out and driving to the grocery/beer store.
Me included.
Slight warming tomorrow, and then more comfortable (toasty) days ahead.
Thank God.
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Ted Nugent-approved!!
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Thanks, Sheepdog 1969.
I put them on and take them back off outside in the garage, on a carpeted surface.
My wife would lose her mind if I tried to walk into the house in these shoes!!
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That is one fine looking guitar!!
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Okay, so the weather has been unusually cold this week, and we have been iced-in since Monday.
(It snowed and sleeted like crazy Sunday night and Monday morning, and a coat of ice has had all the schools and most businesses closed down every since then, due to iced over roads and streets.)Madison County has no snow plows, and very limited de-icing capabilities.
That's how rare we even get snow and ice conditions here.So everybody's been hunkering down at home.
Local law enforcement advised NO DRIVING unless in an Emergency.No worries for me.
I stocked up at the grocery store and the beer store on Sunday, and we haven't really wanted for anything the past few days.Well.
Except for the opportunity to walk the dogs.
The ice on the driveway, sidewalks, streets and roads has been treacherous.Tried to walk them a bit yesterday, and both the dogs and myself were slip-sliding everywhere.
Went out in the evening yesterday to feed the birds and raccoons on the other side of my creek, and slipped and busted my *** but good.
The low temp went down to zero-ish last night, and the high today is in the 20's.So mid-day today, I had a brilliant idea.
I took the sports insoles out of my Avia running shoes (okay, my summer lawn mowing shoes).
I screwed exterior screws thru the soles from the insole area down thru the bottom of the shoes.
Snipped the long sharp ends off with bolt cutters, down to about a quarter inch length.
Lined the insole with duct tape, and re-installed the sports cushion insoles.Voila.
Improvised ice cleat shoes!Walked the dogs in my woods, got them good and worn out, and everybody had a real good time.
Gotta love it.
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Billy Strings and Chris Thile
in The Gibson Lounge
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Ah, thank you.
Jumper = sweater
Biscuits = cookies
Chuffed = very pleased
I'm so chuffed about the on-site education, I'm tempted to bake you some biscuits, whilst wearing my festive jumper.
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