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I've had a few thoughts on this since finishing it. Paul reading and laughing about the headlines that were in pretty much real time. Whoever was leaking the info about them coming to blows and fighting, was obviously someone in the room. They didn't seem concerned with finding the leaker, so I gotta believe was that was all being put out there intentionally to tantalize the press. Then the rooftop concert ends. They are done anyway, but on way off the roof George says something like, "We got footage of the police up here, so we can just tell people they made us stop". No stranger to manipulating the media there. Yesterday I saw part of the Peter Jackson interview with Colbert. He says its not like any of this video was ever lost or anything. The Beatles have been aware of it and been sitting on it intentionally all these years. His guess was that after 50 years the time was right to set the record straight for history. My take away is that they were brilliant at generating controversy, rumors and keeping their name on the tongues; think Paul is dead and all that stories that have been out there. I think they've rode those legends all these years and finally decided to let us in on the joke.

looking back at this page, it looks like I talked SuperHero our of a Les Paul at the top of the page, then JimmyJazz out of a Gretsch in the middle, and now Ive discouraged Nole from buying a Martin. I will go and take a time out and think of what I've done and how I can be a better poster going forward. Seriously though, friends don't let friends buy shitty guitars

Those modifications would scare me away. Why would somebody do that to a beautiful Martin?

You'll probably get a better response in the guitar thread. https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/10-the-guitar-pron-thread/page/273/#comments

Just finished Episode 3. Chills. The day before the rooftop concert George is telling John he wants to do a solo album. Fascinating being there for that conversation.

I dont know much about the Chinese Gretsch's but my impression is that they are junk. A friend ordered a used one from a GC and it arrived with the center block loose and banging around inside. Otherwise i don't think I've ever touched one. The pro-series Greaches are well built in Japan and usually have a model number beginning with 6 (ie G6120).

The only one I played was a dog. Bought it cheap locally, used every trick I know to get it to play half decent, and was happy to be rid of it when it sold on Reverb. Every LP Traditional I've played has been a pleasure, the Traditional Pro not so much.

I got to see a funk show at the Troubadour tonight.

I finished ep 1 and began ep 2 last night. Fascinating. Incredible that this exists. There's audio of a conversation between John and Paul that they didn't know was being recorded. In it John is telling Paul that he pushes too hard as the reason George left. Its not confrontational at all, Paul's totally receptive to what he's being told. Just 2 very old friends having a conversation. Earlier in ep 1 Paul talked about how big the loss of Epstien was. He says something like, "We didn't know what to do. He said put on the suits, so we put on the suits. We haven't had anyone to tell us since." Another conversation about the decline in collaboration writing was Paul & John. Paul says they wrote together alot cause they were always together touring. When the touring stopped, they just weren't together to write often. John seems very happy in all the film so. He's having more fun than any of them. Oh, and at 1:29:25 of ep 1 George's Les Paul falls off a table. Im still having heart palpitations.

The way I see it, John Lennon could have had juat about any woman he wanted and he wanted Yoko. He loved her and he loved her more than he loved the Beatles. He was with her until the day he died. Its a love story. John didn't owe me, you, Ringo, Paul, or George anything. It was his life to do with as he pleased. Im grateful for the music he left behind. He obviously had a lot of dark shit to work out, I like to think she was good for him.

I will throw in that those are great deals from Adorama. Ive bought 2 guitars from them where they've done similar blowouts. An American Deluxe Tele and a pro series Gretsch jet.

This is an album we've been working on for some time, finally complete. I wrote most of it, everything except tracks 2 and 5. Listen to Vary Mary - The Best We've Ever Been by Racer5 #np on #SoundCloud

I said I'd make a decision by the end of October and havent. Im inclined to do it, but I can't yet commit the time to it next year; I'm thinking I will be eitherbe beginning a job search or taking some time off to go travel. I dont want to be in a position where I want to take off, but I'm still waiting for Warmoth to send me a bunch of shit to assemble. Also, if I do commit I have 2 competing visions for it now - ill get a concensus from everybody interested on which to build. The Don Rich inspired double bound classic vs no binding and a pair of TV Jones Classic Filtertrons. There's your update.

#teamcombinethethreads

Ahh, the 80's!

Our 1st show tonight. Our drummer just started playing a year or so ago, a lockdown project. A natural. The V was the right call.

My guess is Gary Moore?

Thats a good book, Chad. Ive read ton of musician biography/autobiographies and it was one of the better ones I've read. Im in the middle of Neil Young's "Waging a Heavy Peace" right now. Really well written, he wrote it himself, except he keeps going in to the Pono thing - it was written when he was pushing that.

It actually belongs to my former and future bass player Jessica, but she keeps it here. It's really great little amp and convenient in my bedroom since I can stack a guitar amp on top. Plenty loud and has a line out for the PA if you need more. We rehearse a lot in my bedroom, everybody in the bar downstairs and half the neighborhood probably knows our entire set by now.

Our 1st proper show is this week, a leather daddy gay bar in San Francisco that will be packed. Actually a pretty good venue where I've seen shows but never played. I can't decide between which of these 2 guitars to bring. They both have the same pickups, the V sounds a little fuller in the neck position, but the Jet sounds a lot better in the bridge - I do nearly the whole thing in the neck position.

Came to post this just cause I just stumbled across it randomly, but its timely in that it relates to Buzz's last post here. What is it about those '59 bursts?

Also wondered about the Ric

Concur

This guy had one, it was bigger than he was! Edit - Never noticed what's happening on the side of those amps heads. Are those fans they installed to keep them cool? Brilliant.