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Welcome to this corner of the web @Budkudzu It appears you have the qualifications to fit in quite nicely.

Check out the first post on Rick's thread.

I was seeing a therapist before I went to treatment, but I wasn't being truthful about how much I was drinking. It took me going to detox/treatment where I learned a TON about my early years and how that still continued to impact me. All without me knowing how it was impacting me. That shit imprints on you early and you can't just wipe it off. Then, after I got out of treatment, I started telling my therapist the truth. Damn, she got a lot smarter when I gave her the entire picture. And I've learned to quit letting people run over me. I'm learning to stand up for myself. I'm in the process of getting divorced now and I feel fine about that. In the past, it took me getting drunk before I stood up to bullshit and bullying behavior, but now that I've learned about myself, I can calmly say, "I will not be treated this way." I took 4 years to get to the point. Later is better than never, but it takes what it takes and I'm fucking good with that.

Maury was only 24 when he died. Unbelievable.

I read an article the other day and this song has been in my head since then. Neither of these were his 'hits' but two of my favorites. I LOVE the rhyming structure of the verses. I still play Roller Derby Queen and Dreaming Again. (I LOVE the bridge of that song) Dreaming Again. (In the lemon scented rain... What a great line)

@squib "Dear wife, that is just a bunch of old worthless junk. I'll just take it to goodwill."

That's the coolest find since Sylvester found the prewar guitar and sent it to Gruhn's to have it restored.

Holy shit. The guitar.....is it two separate pieces or one? More pics of both please.

Have you heard Brandi talk about her love of Kim Richey and how she copied Kim's vocal style?

I think we have talked about this but I get chills every time I hear this song. It seems that Brandi and the twins took more from the Mick Ronson version (Tumbleweed Connection) than the Davey Johnstone version from the "Madman" album. She just fucking NAILS this.

Rather than bore you with my interpretations of JR stories, I found something really cool from 2018. (He would KILL me dead if he found out I was doing this.) The first 15 minutes are mostly him talking about the early days of mobile recording. At 17:30, you can see how humble he is. CONSTANTLY giving credit to everyone else. On one Zoom call asks me, "Is that an SR-16 behind you?" I have NO idea what he is talking about. I turn around and on a tray attached to a mic stand is an Alesis drum machine. Model SR-16. I can't believe he could even see it back there, much less know what it was....down to the model number. Throughout this, they talk about the quality of the Chet Atkins and Friends sessions.

I still have a guitar I bought when I lived in a dorm. Bought new in 1982. A 12 string even. Just spend extra for a hard shell case. If he appreciates the guitar, he will take care of it. Plus, the hard shell makes taking it back and forth to the pawn shop a lot easier.

The Martin will offer more flexibility at the pawn shop for when he needs beer and weed money.

A ton of his articles are stored here: Fuck work and send up peaceful thoughts while reading these. https://muckrack.com/geronimolomax/articles

I never realizes M.A.C. was the same guy who sent me a ton of CDs of John Lomax music. This was several iterations of this site...maybe back to the HF site. Dammit. Four years ago, I was in a treatment center. Within 6 months of getting out, 9 of my buddies from there had died. Fuck addiction.

I guess I'll leave this on the guitar thread since most here might get a kick out of it. JR was working on some musical that Dolly Parton was in it. The Gatlin Brothers also had a small part. Dolly gets there and asks JR for the script. It was the first time she had seen it. She takes it back stage and in a couple of hours she gives it back to JR. He tells her she can keep it. She said, "No need honey". JR is watching at they run through the thing for the first time. He said it was evident that not only had she memorized her part but she also knew everyone else's lines. They were all looking to her for prompts. Then a week later, at the first performance as they are about to go on stage and JR is on the board in the back of the auditorium, she tells JR from the stage. "The two Gatlins have the wrong mics. They are were supposed to be blue/left and white/right but someone switched them so you will need to change the tape on your board to match what they have". She not only knew everyone's lines, but she knew the lighting and the sound set up. After reading the script once. JR said she is the smartest person he has ever met. Not only from a business sense but also from a memory angle. I'm guessing he has worked with her probably over 100 times.

I can see that and completely understand. At least from the rehearsal stuff, I thought Carlos Alomar did a good job of blending SRV's sound with Bowie's. In most of the stuff, SRV really stays our of the way and just does the solos...mostly pretty much like the original recordings...just with the SRV tone. SRV knew next to nothing about Bowie's music and in a very short time, he meshed with them. In the recordings, there are couple of times where Carlos really bitches at the Simms brothers and after reading and hearing recordings of what they said, fuck those guys. They can go sit in the corner with Paul Simon. On an aside, I have a buddy who has engineered some of the most famous records every recorded. You have all heard his work. I get to talk to him twice a week. Each time, he tells me a new story. His SRV story: I'll call him JR. JR had recorded SRV at some live gig around the time that he first started playing Superstition. (JR still has the tape and I got to hear it). Again, this is early on. JR sends the tape to Stevie Wonder to let him hear it. Wonder calls JR back and asks how many takes. One. How many guitars? One. Wonder couldn't believe it. He told JR, "I used 11 different keyboards to make that song and he did it with one guitar". He also has great stories about Bowie/Alomar and Dollie Parton. I really should write all of these down that he tells me. It always begins, "You'll appreciate this....." or "You'll love this....."

Start at 4:40 for Cracked Actor: but the lead in Space Oddity if fun as fuck as well.

Serious Moonlight tour started in mid May of that year. Texas Flood was released in Mid June. They were purposely holding off releasing Texas Flood until after the Bowie tour ended in Dec. 83. Different stories on why he left. From what I remember from that time and read afterwards, these seem to be the main two. And fuck those Simms brothers and their bullshit stories. You can go on youtube and listen to the full rehearsals and hear that SRV was doing fantastic in that band. Just listen to Cracked Actor and the way he hits that key change in the middle of that solo. 1. Skipped rehearsal to go to Muddy Waters funeral and didn't tell anyone when/if he would be back. (early May) 2. He wanted to be paid like a headliner, not scale of a touring musician and Bowie's team wasn't budging

SRV got booed at Montreux in 82, but apparently Browne was there and offered the space, then John Hammond heard it and they remastered those to make Texas Flood. Also around that time, Mick Jagger hired SRV and the band to play his birthday party. That is how David Bowie met SRV and asked him to join his band for the Serious Moonlight tour. Bowie was practicing with that band in Los Colinas and Dallas was going nuts about it. (The recordings are a ton of fun to listen to). Texas Flood still hadn't been released and here was the hometown boy about to tour in Bowie's band. Tickets sold out for Bowie's Dallas show VERY quickly, back in the days of having to stand in line at the Ridgmar Mall JC Penneys. Then Muddy Waters dies in May; SRV skips rehearsals; stories differ here but Bowie brought in Earl Slick and left for the tour. A month later, they released Texas Flood. I thought him leaving that band was going to be the end of his career. They held off releasing it because of the tour, then when that didn't happen, I thought the label was going to shit-can that record.

First time most people had seen him after rehab. There was a lot of talk about where he would be able to play again...they whole muscle memory/playing while wasted. Can he do it sober? After the first 2 seconds, it was obvious that question was answered. I still lost my breathe just watching that again. They seem to have removed that most of the performances from Youtube. That version of Pride and Joy.........wow.

Interested to see what that Guild 12 string goes for. To me, that is a very important guitar in music history. SRVs, refreshed and sober, simply destroying a 12 string, acoustic guitar. Solo. I've mentioned before, but that Sunday night, I was sitting on the couch, playing my 12 string and that Unplugged came on. I put that guitar back in the case and didn't touch it for over a year. I mean, what's the fucking point.

I am now officially back into a Lemonhead's free fall.

Did someone mention camping? Evan Dando weighed in a few years ago. Always had a roof above me Always paid the rent But I've never set foot inside a tent Can't build a fire to save my life I lied about being the outdoor type I've never slept out underneath the stars, The closest that I came to that was one time my car Broke down for an hour in the suburbs at night I lied about being the outdoor type . Too scared to let you know you knew what you were looking for I lied until I fit the bill god bless the great indoors I lied about being the outdoor type I've never owned a sleeping bag let alone a mountain bike I can't go away with you on a rock climbing weekend What if somethings on tv and its never shown again Its just as well I'm not invited I'm afraid of heights I lied about being the outdoor type Never learned to swim can't grow a beard or even fight I lied about being the outdoor type

Outstanding! My day is shot now.