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Turning in to a good lookin' hound!

I've been watching it when I can. Some really interesting stuff.

This is so fucking funny. The Catholic Church just has an answer for everything. Wonder if they did this every time a young boy was raped. Hell, they probably charged the parishioners of Pearl River about $100 a head for doing this for them.

I always assumed that was recorded at the Alabama Theater. How were the acoustics in Workplay? Was Alan Hunter a part of that at the time?

But, I want to smell those amps and tubes and really HEAR the buzz.

I would love to sit in that practice room and just watch him play.

But my first under dash didn't have the loud button. But it was exactly like this model. Good, that was a great day when I got that hooked up.

I forgot that I also saw Eddie when he came on stage at Reunion Arena and joined Patty Smyth. She and John Waite were touring together. VH has just run Roth off and were looking for a new lead singer. Eddie apparently was wanting her to join VH so he was showing up at some of the shows. He had just cut his hair short and when he walked out on stage, carrying a very EVH looking Strat......who is this fucking clown. Then he started playing and people realized who it was. Found this MTV 'News' clip.

Did your pioneer supertuner have the green LOUD button or not? Fuck yes it did...but it was more a pale green because that motherfucker stayed on all the time.

No more Eddie Van Halen and the Eddie Van Halen Band. Bummer. Any pothead in high school in early 1978 can tell you exactly where they were when they first heard that music. Usually screaming from a 8 track tape, played thru a Pioneer Supertuner and Jensen speakers. I was in Robbie Hickam's 76 Trans-Am in the high school parking lot. There were about 20 people gathered around her car, listening. No idea how he was doing that but it was fuckin' AWESOME!

Mac Davis really probably deserves his own thread. I had forgotten how many songs he had written. He had TONS of people covering his songs. Stop and Smell The Roses (cowrite with Doc Severinsen) Never knew that In The Ghetto & Little Less Conversation by Elvis The Lonesomest Lonesome by Ray Price Watching Scotty Grow - Bobby Goldsboro Baby Baby Don';t Get Hooked on Me I Believe In Music

Think a Les Paul is heavy? How about a 19 lb concrete Strat.

SRV and Tom Petty for me. SRV because he had gotten his life back on track and Petty.....still hundreds of songs left to write and I was interesting to see what that led. Also, when the Skynyrd plane went down. I was 14 and I had tickets for their NYE show in Ft. Worth that December. Plus, I was REALLY interested to see where Steve Gaines was about to take them. I'm pretty sure Van Zant and Gaines were about to really have an impact on the music together. And High Voltage was probably the first real guitar driven rock album I bought so Bon Scott's death pissed me off and I never really cared for the music after that but for some reason, it didn't have impact on me that the other 3 did. Probably mores because of my age.

Perfect. "Refugee" is awesome. Marti Jones (Don Dixon's brilliantly talented wife) recorded the demo of Egyptian that was taken to the Bangles. I'd love to hear that. She ended recording/releasing another Liam Sternberg song, "The Crusher".

@baboso to the white courtesy phone please. Music Midtown/Ga Tech baseball players story. Mine was probably another Music Midtown event. Deadhead wanna-bes were getting there early for a Leftover Salmon set but I was there to see Peter Case who was about to start. Wife, 6 yr old daughter and I are sitting on our blanket and they start sitting on it, then spreading their shit out, all over our blanket, even moving our stuff off. After several attempts to be nice, I finally fucking lost it. Me: "Dudes. You mind getting your shit and your asses off my blanket?" Fuckheads: "Hey man....we're all here to share what we all have man.....nothing belongs to anyone.....it's all ours." Me: "Well, I'm about to start kicking OUR collective asses." One of the hairy hippie chicks: "Bummer man. Some people shouldn't be allowed to be parents" Me: "Agreed. And I hope for fuck's sake you either don't breed to any of these other stale patchouli-smelling, dirt-weed fucks...or that your Chlamydia makes your sterile" By then a crowd had gathered and security and the cops drug them away.

The interviews with Rick Rubin about the Wildflowers album were really great. When I first heard those, I was hoping this would happen.

Ha. Yep..... That's him. He is a really good player as well. He does the guitars for Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke.

St Mountain address but right at 285 and N. Decatur. His shop is in his garage. But he generally meets me in the parking lot at the Guitar Center on 85 at N. Druid Hills. Call him at 404-904-9970. Let him know you got my number from him. He will likely say, "Who?" Very easy to work with. He told me 3 days on my last one and it was ready the next day. Generally cash. You know... government and all.

Dude who works on my guitars has this amp he posted a picture of. Made me giggle when I saw it. Early 80's 800 cab with the original 65 watt Celestion's. He does great repair work. Facebook:. Dojo Guitar Repair. Check out this work on a 2004 LP with a broken headstock. If you watch Beato's YT stuff, this is Dave Onarato.

Stopped in to check on the thread and it was bumped to page 2. Was at a meeting on Sunday. It is an outdoor meeting right by the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta. Was reminded of something I heard the head of the spiritual leader at my treatment center say a couple of times, then later read in Douglas Hime's book, "Higher Power." Mr. Hime was actually in a small group early in my rehab stay. Former patients come back to the treatment center for different types of meetings. There are about 10 different breakout groups and I just happened to be in his. I didn't know who he was at the time but I got his name and later, in the book store, I recognized his name on the cover of the book. He wasn't at the rehab meeting in any official capacity. Just a former patient coming back to attend a meeting. Anyway, he was talking about the difference between religion and spirituality. Religion is a guy in church, thinking about fishing. Spirituality is a guy fishing, thinking about God. Hope everyone has a great week.

I think that color really helps. That is about the coolest looking amp I've ever seen. Anytime I see anyone playing a Matchless, I think "Damn, that would really be cool if it were only the color of Celery's amp."

My favorite part of these is where they are working through the song, before they do it. Diane Birch is a great one (vocal horn part). This is probably my favorite.

Oh... @Celery Man I must have missed it. OUTSTANDING news! Where is the new gig? Had something happen that I found interesting. While in rehab, I've become much more versed in the opioid situation for a lot of reasons. But a little over a month ago we had a good friend who lost a 21 yr old son. Everyone knew what happened but I was giving them room before I even tried to talk with them. And I never really saw anything to verify what everyone already knew. Ran in to a common friend to check on their status. I learned that the parents had jumped in completely to learn all they never knew and didn't know about opioid addiction. Once I found out that they weren't putting their head in the sand or trying to deny the cause, I contacted her. Then, a week later she posted this brilliant writing about the situation. I mainly wanted them to listen to Stephanie Wittles Wachs' BRILLIANT podcast, "The Last Day". She later told me she had already read her book and just about every other book I knew about. Then we were able to have a really long conversation. One thing she said was, "I posted that because people are going to think what they want about us but I didn't want them to be dragging his name through the mud....but assholes who don't understand are going to do that anyway." She also mentioned several time about what a failure she and her husband felt like. All typical stuff. I just listened and didn't say, "Don't say that. Don't feel that way. You are wrong...you are GREAT parents". I just let her talk. At the end she said, "Thank you so much. You are the first of hundreds of people who hasn't told me not to feel this way." One thing I'm learning through my little trail this past year and 4 months is, "You feel how you feel. Don't try to change it. Just sit with it, realize what it is and move on." The moving on part is the variable.....some things take longer to move on from than others. Moving on from a son dying from an OD will obviously just take a lifetime. I told her that being a Texan, I had to rely on my spiritual roots. The Tao of Willie. I told her the story of Buddy Cannon overhearing Willie Nelson talking to a friend who had just lost her husband. She told Willie, "I don't think I'll ever get over this." Willie told her, "It's not something you get over. It's something you get through."

She is a she. It is apparently what keeps them alive.