Mr. Natural

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum, bud. I'm a back room hacker myself.

IS NOTHING SACRED?!

Beauty!

I wish I were drunk.

Welcome to the forum!

You know what 667 is don't you? That's the neighbor of the beast.

3 times better!

A bunch of guys are sitting at the bar bragging (exaggerating) about their "manhood". Finally, one guy speaks up and says, "Well, mine not 12 inches long, but it does SMELL like a foot."

When I saw Buddy and BB at the same show in the '90s, BB was still on top of his game, and Buddy played at least one number through a wireless system and walking through the audience. It was very cool.

Buddy Guy was at that same one-day blues festival in Dallas where I saw BB. I still think of him as a "young guy". I guess the oldest blues guys I ever saw were Pinetop Perkins and Papa John Creach. Yeah, it would have been great to have seen guys like Skip James, Sonny & Terry, Son House, etc., etc., etc. And going WAY back, Charley Patton and Robert Johnson. My favorite old blues recording is Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" (actually, I guess that's really a gospel tune.)

I'm a big Wolf fan. He was still working until his auto accident and subsequent death in '75 or '76. Sonny Boy Williamson (the second) recorded with the Animals and the Yardbirds in the '60s. But all of these guys, including Albert King (and with the possible exceptions of Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker) saw their time pretty much over by the end of the '60s. BB King was a little more radio-friendly and younger; he lasted longer. I'm a big BB fan, too. I saw him in Vegas in the '70s and in Dallas in the early '90s.

Yeah, I saw Albert King at the King Biscuit Blues Festival in '90. He was kind of surly and *****ed at his band occasionally, but he still was impressive. He said he was retiring soon and did retire. But, then I heard he had to go back touring and performing because he needed the money.

If Gibson built a lefty, then I could butcher Stairway backwards!

About blues getting radio air play; when I was a little kid (in the mid '50s), I remember hearing Jimmy Reed on the radio fairly often (and I don't remember much of anybody else from back then.) At the time, I didn't know who it was and pretty much forgot about that music. In high school, I "discovered" the blues and got into BB King and John Lee Hooker among others. My best friend found a Jimmy Reed LP and played it for me. It all came back to me the moment I heard the first track. "I remember that guy!" I don't know how old I was when I first heard him, but something about his music and his sound just made a lasting impression on me even though it sort of lay dormant until my high school years. I still listen to him.

Happy belated birthday!

Well, that's a cheery, feel-good message.

Ariana Grande! What a great talent! She killed it in London!

Yes, Jimi was humping his amp, but he had to quit. His couch found out and threatened to cut him off.

... I'm just drinkin'.

Breakfast at Fuzzy's Tacos (coffee with a double shot of Bailey's to start....)

Fleetwood Mac in Chicago 1969

A beautiful guitar! (I wonder if there's a collectables market for peeled-off pickguard plastic?)

That's a nice looking guitar.

Welcome to the forum. The LP Tribute in satin honeyburst is a really nice looking guitar. Most of us will listen. Again, welcome.