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Peaceful thoughts sent your way @immortal13

Damn @Goredho That is beautiful. I LOVE white guitars. On the 12 string front, I told this before, but in the early 82, I bought a 12 string Hohner. I had sold most of my stuff and got guitar hungry. I was looking at a this one, a 12 string Tak and a couple of teles. I think I paid $450 for this. For a couple of years, Hohner made GREAT guitars. Really wood bindings...I've never found any flaw in how this thing was built and it stays in tune better than any guitar I own. I don't play it a lot but when I do, I LOVE it. Several times over the years, I've thought about selling it but none of the used places can find it in their books. All say they could give me $100 which means they think they could sell it for $200. But all agree it is worth between $600-$800 and honestly, I wouldn't take less than $800 for it. It is loud as fuck and gets louder and better sounding each year.

From what I've looked at them, they have been doing a good job but they are hit and miss. I've been looking at the Hummingbirds/J45s as well and the quality varies. I played a new J200 Epi the other day and it was horrible. Not so much in the playing or build quality but in the sound. Others I've played have been very good. And I played a Gibson J45 that had all kinds of quality problems with the frets. Hell, Snider plays the Epi J200 and once he got more well known, Gibson gave him a couple but he sent them back. Said he didn't like they way they played. I'd definitely play it or get it from somewhere you can send back pretty easily. I have an Epi 339 that plays like a dream and only thing not great about it are the pickups. But they are still pretty decent. I know you are talking about acoustics though, but it is really a solid guitar that I payed less than $200 for. I've watched this thing over and over, trying to pull the trigger. It's fairly recent.

Wow. Seeing one that is so close to yours. I'm so glad you took that guitar to Gruhn and not some jackass at Guitar Center in Montgomery. What a great story on that guitar. Have you been playing it much? How do you keep it stored? Have you done any research or did they give you any info on how many of those were made?

Awesome. I know that Warren used to play with them......see that Brian has also played with them. Stumbled upon this. FUCK, I wish people would just shut up and listen to fantastic music.

I've used one of those G7 capos for a few years now. I've used every other style outside of the ones you screw on and I really like this one. I honestly didn't think the clamping part would last when I first got it, but it still holds well on all of my guitars.

"I will match your effort 100% exactly." Thanks for this bit of brilliance. I've been looking for a way to say this to one guy who called me for help, then has been hiding out. I told him, "I'm here where you need me, but I'm not going to chase you down." I like the way you said it.

That fiddle player is Warren Hood. His dad was Champ Hood who was in Uncle Walt's Band and played with just about everyone in Austin in the 70s and 80s.

That lead singer is phenomenal. Here he is again. Looks like my day is shot.

Holy shit.... Country music from the capitol of country music. SWEDEN! That steel player is incredible. And I don't know what kind of guitar that lead guy is playing but I want one. Just fun, fun music. After a short visit to CR, I needed that.

My infatuation with background singers is actually at an unhealthy level and has been for quite sometime.

And THAT'S why I stay off of CR. Thanks for your response.

We deserve a new guitar. Sense has not one fuck to do with this. Let's go buy a new guitar. That D-41 is stunning. Let's buy it!

KEVIN!

Those Blackwater guys got fucked. Originally indicted in 2008, charges dropped in 2009, then Biden went to Baghdad and promised to reopen the case, and he got it done. Without getting in to details on here, I can say that everything we have read and heard on the news is less than correct. I have a good friend who has had to be in many meetings concerning this situation. He told me he would be in meetings then when the news stories come out, they read nothing like what actually occurred in the meetings. He said most times, it was like the reporters were in a completely different meeting. And this is true of both sides of our current "news" media.

On the Pitonyak thing..... All I know is I would rather have him as a neighbor than Laura Hall. He was just a fucked up, frat boy druggie. She is mentally unstable and evil. Watching the trial, when the prosecution said they found a bullet that was shot into the head, AFTER it was decapitated, he almost puked. It looked like the first time he had heard that. What kind of evil fuck does that to an animal, much less a human.

It was truly a great day in the life of Hulla.

My dad trained and showed cutting horses. He also did a lot of judging so I spent a lot of time in arenas on the 6666, the Pitchfork and the Waggoner. We also would go to their yearling sales. Man...when I was about 8-12 years old, I LOVED doing that shit. They would let me run the scores to the tables and even sometimes let me bid at the sales. At the end, I would be covered in dirt and we would wash off in the water tanks. We went to one roping in Guthrie one year. It was some kind of benefit. My old man gave me $10 dollars and said, "Go buy 4 matchbooks and just give them this $10." Sure thing...so I head off to where they were selling matchbooks for $1. With each matchbook, they gave you a frosty Coors. But 12 yr old me ordered 5 matchbooks and drank one on the way back to the our folding chairs on the rail. The Waggoner got bailed out by Kroenke and saved that part of Texas from the Mormons, which would have killed the tax roles in about 4 counties. I haven't talked to the old man about what he knows about the 6666, but hopefully some people can get the $$$ together to keep the horse/cattle and the land all together. The last I talked to someone from Vernon, the cowboys there seemed to be happy with the changes. I don't know about the farming or the oil pieces though. Love this picture of all of these mares.

I've talked about this before, but when The Alarm did that show at UCLA in 1986, I thought it was going to spring them in to super stardom. It was a huge deal with the love broadcast on MTV. What a great show that was. But It just never happened for them. That 3 album stretch of Declaration, Strength and Eye of the Hurricane was as good as any band at the time. This was in the midst of great runs by R.E.M, the end of The Police and U2. Full UCLA show.

My dipshit son-in-law is like that. Even the 7 yr old makes fun of him. Everyone else is eating beautiful medium rare and his are......ugh.

This stays on page 1 until 2020 is over. Let it be said, let it be done.

Are these arches in Waco by chance?

I was a HUGE Whiskeytown fan. Those live shows were either brilliant or a drunk train wreck. And, I likee everything he did as a solo artist and I can separate the artist from their beliefs and generally from their actions. But at some point, treating people like shit, over and over again, just gets to be too much. Emmylou tried to help him early on but when she cut bait with him, I figured something was up. Then when the stories started floating to the top about how he treated female singers, I don't care how prolific he was/is. Fuck him. [/putting my soapbox away]

Oh, and fuck Ryan Adams.

It is about a guy on death row being put to death in an electric chair. Kelly said she did a show at a prison one time and picked that song, not thinking about the content. Yep...the entire world lost when Amy died. Dave Alvin wrote this song about her. Makes me cry every time I hear it. One time I introduced my daughter to Amy. She told my 15 yr old daughter...."Never get married."