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If you haven't already and you're a fan of the band, check out the book Runnin' With The Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen by then manager Noel Monk. Highly recommended.

That's a strong point, of course. But I will check out of this threadjack by saying that I think photostatic copies of important pieces of art or photographs engender the same emotional reactions as their original handpainted counterparts. It's the art that matters.

Hagar Van Halen never had the swagger as Roth Van Halen. With Hagar they were a good rock band. With Roth they were dangerous. And musically, for entertainment AND import, nothing in the catalog compares to I, II, and 1984. Nothing.

What about a 2018 model 60s era reissue amp with period correct grille cloth and offset nameplate? Does it feel fake as well? Is that too different a scenario? (I'm open to the idea that's it's too different.) It's going to perform as a 2018 amp but LOOK like a cold war battlehorse...

I just don't see the difference - or a distinction without a difference. Whether your roadie is a bumblefuck and can't be careful or you treat your instrument like a precious artifact (which I do), those nicks and bruises are little different than a factory fresh finish - it's arbitrary. For art, it's the end that matters and less-so the journey (you guitar falling off its stand isn't much of a story, or it's a story that holds as much value as that ding getting there by some craftsman skilled at making dings). And you could play 80 years and no amount of "honest work" is going to wear a modern finish. The only thing that holds true is what the guitar looks like, and in the case of a pre-worn neck, how it plays. "Honest work" doesn't contribute a thing where art is concerned. The only "relic'd" guitars that have value for their relic beyond appearance are guitars owned or played by famous or important musicians at famous or important gigs. Joe Blow's 40 years of "honest work" adds little to no value where art is concerned. And where art is concerned, pristine and relic'd are the exact same thing. But, on the other hand, Rat Rods do nothing for me. I'm complicated.

Bonamassa and Fender have a new amp out and it's a beaut: https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/27167-fender-releases-the-joe-bonamassa-59-twin-amp

I just visited Kevin DuBrow's grave in Newport Beach so this thread hits close to home. Also, Silent Violence.

How are you going to do that with poly finishes?

Guitars are the only thing in existence where I see that aging and this it's gorgeous. It's weird. I'll even eventually pay to have that effect done on purpose. We live in strange times.

I had a bitch of a time finding a replacement for my Marshall. A lot of conflicting info on the net. Seems so silly to me in 2018.

Get out.

The SOE servers that housed SWG are in Austin somewhere. I never found them. Good thing too. I probably would have ended up on the news before ending up on the news was cool.

I still have that white envelop the beta came in. You're right about the marketing though, it wasn't what people were expecting. I think that and the growing pains turned a lot of people off. It's a shame really, because it made money (until WoW came along and showed everyone what making money actually was) and to this day no game approaches the magnitude of its sandbox world. Raph Koster is a legend. John Smedley, not so much.

Yeah, I play the Emu (Basilisk) off and on now, but they just introduced post-pub 9 Jedi. No thanks. Also, the building with all my crafting mats went poof (despite having about 3 years worth of maintenance loaded up) so the fire is dying.

SWG dominated my life in college. Like, stayed up until server reset, farmed Axkva Min, logged off and went to class half dead. #intrepidserverforlife

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Live at the El Mocambo

I hope so.

First one? See 2 and 3 a lot. Used to be a good market for the first one because you could never find it. First one. I picked it up when I was in college because I spent so much time on it when I was in middle school and there wasn't a faithful recreation of MK1 available on home consoles (still isn't). MK2 and on have versions readily available that rock, MK1 not so much. I even picked up an extra MK1 jamma in case mine ever goes down. Took a while to find that extra because all I could find for reasonable money were late BIOS versions, which fixed a lot of stuff I didn't want fixed like multiple fatalities and such.

After much searching, we finally found it. The dumbest thread on the internet. What a load off.

We're in the golden age of entry-to-mid level guitars.

I haven't seen it. I would put it in my top 8.

LTD/ESP does a great job with 5 and 6-string basses and they're priced very aggressively. The D-5 is very popular and is a good looking ax, imo.

Last night I had your mom embed.

The "fuckin Chuckie" bit made it in rather quick, no?

Saw it tonight. We'll always have the book.