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Foggy Notion

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  1. No idea why the notch is there. Regarding the pearloid bottom, I think this is what I remember reading, but I can't find the link now so don't quote me on this. And this was probably speculation as opposed to being confirmed by Fender. In 68, Fender came out with the thinline Tele which had a pearloid pickguard. It was 3-ply with pearloid on top, black in the middle and white on the bottom. The speculation is that Fender bought a bunch of this pickguard material. They used it for pearloid pickguards and then they flipped it over to make all their white pickguards. So the white guards have pearloid bottoms. The 68 and 69 Strat white guards have pearloid bottoms too. Here are some pics of a 68 Thinline that show the front and the back of the pickguard...
  2. Those really are some beautiful guitars, Mr. Fuck. Your daddy has nice taste. I've been staring at the CAR Tele all damn day. Pretty sure that was a custom color in '68. There can't be too many of those around. If you look at the top left corner of the pickguard where it meets the side of the neck, you'll notice a little notch, like the tip of the corner is cut off. You only see that on 68 and 69 Teles. The bottom layer of the pickguard is likely pearloid.
  3. What do you like about this watch in particular? The chronograph dials on the face? The blue accents? The metal band? And what is your price range? I don't think Seiko makes a true automatic chronograph watch that will be anywhere close in price to the watch above. If the chronograph feature is not important, there are plenty of affordable Seiko automatics I and others can recommend. If you really want a chronograph without the hassle of a battery, Seiko's Solar line has some in the $300 range, but they are not true automatic watches.
  4. I might be wrong, but I'm thinking those drums had the wrap taken off of them. I don't recall ever seeing a Rocker kit with a natural finish. If they've had the wrap removed, they don't have much resell value.
  5. I really like the Fender MIM reissues including the road worn series, but I personally wouldn't pay $1k for one. But that's just me. I get why some guys prefer to buy new guitars, but I tend to buy used to get more bang for my buck. You can buy a used American Vintage Reissue 52 for $1100-1300, and it will retain its value if that's a concern.
  6. And he's out. A "benefactor" helped him come up with the $160k. https://www.tmz.com/2019/03/09/r-kelly-pays-child-support-released-jail-cook-county-drea/
  7. This article sums up Trump's dealings with two convicted drug dealers. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-who-talks-about-executing-drug-dealers-vouched-for-two-of-them
  8. While I've never been a big fan of the MIM Standard series, that's a good price and you won't be able to buy a Mexican Fender for that cheap much longer. When Fender discontinued the Standard series last year and replaced it with the Player series, they raised the price too. The new Players feel pretty good, but a new MIM Fender will now set you back about $675. https://reverb.com/news/fender-discontinues-mim-standard-series-replaces-with-the-player-series
  9. It was right after Home Alone. I was talking to my GF about this yesterday. Did Jackson hang around with famous kids like Culkin and Feldman but not do sex stuff with them so they would defend him? Could a predator like Jackson have that much restraint? I don't know, but I think it's more likely that they were victims too. He also played up his shitty childhood and used it to his advantage. In the post doc interview with Oprah, Robson talked about how Jackson had started grooming him and others before he ever met them. The Peter Pan persona, the idea that he wasn't a perv, he was just a weird dude who was robbed of his childhood so it's ok that he likes to have slumber parties with kids. That was calculated on Jackson's part.
  10. Black to match the knobs and fretboard.
  11. If you've gone down the wormhole, you've probably already seen this, but I'll post it anyway. GCJ at the Crossroads Festival in Chicago in 2010. This was him stepping on a big stage for the first time, and doing it in front of dudes like Clapton, BB King, Jeff Beck, Ronnie Wood and Buddy Guy.
  12. Chip Roy. What a fucking embarrassment.
  13. Dena Grayson
  14. I remember seeing this on Austin Music Network shortly after it was recorded. I think he's 16 or 17 in this video.
  15. According to this Houston Chronicle article three days after the raid, HPD identified the powder as cocaine. At this point, Art was still shooting down conspiracy theories and maintaining the story that a confidential informant had bought heroin at the house. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/houston/article/Powder-found-in-police-raid-identified-13578839.php
  16. I think I remember reading it was 18 grams. A little over half an ounce, which is consistent with personal use. No evidence of scales or baggies in the house. These people were not dealers. And yeah, some cancer patients smoke weed. They don't usually do coke and heroin.
  17. That pot and coke could have easily been planted by a cop or cops who didn't get shot first. Cokeheads don't leave a gram and half of coke just laying around. They do the coke. Who buys an eight ball, does half of it and says, "I think I'll save that for later"? Unless they were chopping it up into lines as the cops bust through the door, I'd bet it wasn't theirs.
  18. In the middle of all this, Art is hanging out courtside with a known cokehead. Oscar De La Hoya probably had more coke on him when this pic was taken than was found in the house on Harding Street.
  19. That's my hood. Tanglehood! I am not on Nextdoor and was not aware of this jackassery going on. It ain't me.
  20. Goines might be incapacitated now, but according to this news report that came out the next day, he was well enough to write a note and pass it to Art after being shot. He was still working the cover up while being treated at the hospital. https://abc13.com/hpd-chief-recalls-struggle-that-left-suspects-dead-officers-shot/5110369/ "Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said a senior officer shot while serving a narcotics warrant at a home later passed a note to him at the hospital saying he had to jump in there when other officers were down.... According to Acevedo, once two officers were down and a third was shot, the other officers left their cover positions to pull their fellow officers out of harm's way. The 54-year-old senior officer breached the door when he knew his partners were down. "I had to get in there because I knew my guys were down," the officer later said in a note to Acevedo. "That just speaks volumes as to what this man... just his courage under fire," Acevedo said of the officer. This was the third time in the officer's career that he had been shot. He was shot before in 1992 and 1997."
  21. Speaking of P90s, here's a cross post from the Gary Clark Jr. thread. I've seen him play his signature SG with three P90s. But check out this Flying V with three P90s that he played on SNL.
  22. My daily watch is the same, but I use the two-ring Zulu instead of the Nato style strap. Maratac makes great straps. https://countycomm.com/products/maratac-zulu-watch-straps
  23. Cabo > Freebirds Ain't even close.
  24. I paid $55 for it. Guy said he was moving and didn't have room for a second bass. I need to order a set of flatwounds for it.
  25. Almost kinda, but no. It's a 1980 Hondo II Professional p-bass copy made in Japan at the Tokai factory. It's a pretty close copy of mid-70s Fender made with a solid ash body and nitro finish.
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