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A southern man don't need him around anyhow.

De-testicled that song.

If I buy a guitar, I want the OHSC for the shipping alone. After it gets here safe and sound, the case can go in the garage for all I care. Some cases are special in their own right though. Fender tweed cases are just cool. (Wait till relic tweed cases become a thing. You olds are going to flip your wigs!) And the premium Gibson cases are the business. It's weird - they dont add significant value to the sale, but buying them after costs a ton the rare times they hit the market (ergo selling the case can help subsidize the guitar if you have no soul and breaking up families is a hobby of yours.) The premium Gibson aluminum cases with the wheels? Forgetaboutit.

orly?

Those songs are 5 to 6 different types of awful. RIP, I guess.

Was it Jaime Eason?

Stay outta my google history, JJ.

I love large physical media collections. It's one of my many fetishes.

Get through the talking, the music something else...

Do what now?

Makes you play like Lightin' Hopkins.

Fucking neato.

Baseball team is good for at a least a few wtf bonehead plays a game. Good to get this one out of the way early.

That's the one part of a relic job that even non-relic fans will do to their guitars - sand the neck. Coincidentally, and the reason why that Gibson HP-II SDofD was the worst timed deal and what will no doubt be a life-long regret I will have to bear, I'm talking with the dude over at Wild West about this guitar I was eyeing since seeing it in his shop a month or so ago. He won't move much on it, but I'm warming up to the idea that he won't have to. https://reverb.com/item/3227181-fender-custom-shop-1960-stratocaster-heavy-relic-rosewood-slab-board-olympic-white And the neck feels like warm apple pie.

Sup, Mike.

I doubt Dave would ever be able to do edgy or dangerous by himself. Dude's life is just way too fucking good and he enjoys the hell out of it. Dave has been living his best life, probably everybody's best life, for almost 30 years now.

Word. Exactly like a rat rod. But also similar to any type of art, really.

They are consistently the highest selling premium models Fender produces, so there might be more that like relics than don't.

I remember being angry with Weird Al. We've reconciled since.

Yeah, that deal had zero chance of lasting the time limit. That HP-II was only different from the HPs by having ditched the Tronical tuners, the rest of the guitar is everything Gibson knows about making guitars wrapped up in a modern appearance package (and HP-II's hit the market at $3500 street, not the $3000 MF had stated there). The other deals posted in this thread are good deals, that HP-II one was near robbery. I was scrambling to try and make that work, and I'm not big on that particular fade, but that deal was just too good, the color be damned. But that year Les Paul may go down as the least collectible model year ever, they sold that poorly (hence the market-wide clearances - though none have been as dramatic as that SDofD). However, at that price (MF even followed it up with a Studio HP for the same price, and that's STILL a good deal and that guitar is at least 3 tiers below the LP HP-II!), you'd make money if you ever wanted to sell it, ever. The CASE that guitar comes in will set you back $600 by itself. Stupid deal, indeed.

Holy shit. That's a metric fuck-ton of guitar for that price.

What's up, mirror universe twin me. I hope you relish in the fact that you were of semi-prime age to have lived and experienced the second greatest mainstream musical transition in the history of our species (nothing will probably ever touch the 50s to 60s period). Lucky you, I mean us. (Had you been just a touch older you might have had the benefit of witnessing, if only as a passing tourist, the sub-cultural shift from punk to rap roughly over a half decade prior which might also have informed your further appreciation of the grunge movement that forced even our beloved country music to adapt in fun, new, and interesting ways before dying a slow and painful death, but we can't all have everything. And besides, we had Tool and Korn to see us through.)

The shows in the OP are from the Platinum Age, and it shits all over the Golden Age.

"c1964....John Cale & Lou Reed. In the early days of the Velvet Underground, John Cale & Lou Reed made extra money entertaining at children's party as Batman & Robin."