Happy Thursday (the new Friday)!
lunch today was brussel sprouts, meatballs, broccoli cheese soup and some salad, cafeteria style.
i noticed while looking at the posts that it's been 10 years since i started hanging around here.
Alot has happened since then. In 2014, Obama was in his second term, corona was a beer not a virus, the Eagles hadn't yet won a super bowl (and many fans thought they probably never would), i had 2 kids in college at the same time and was uncertain if the money tree would be blooming that spring.
Luckily it did and I ordered a G&L Tribute Legacy "scratch and dent" online. There were no scratches or dents but it had a neck bow which was easily fixed with some truss rod tweaking. It turned out to be a heck of a nice gtr, I loved the bridge/tailpiece (always hated the 6 screw bridge/tailpiece i'd had on a couple of strats), was intrigued by the PTB circuit, and loved the CLF-100 p'ups, they sounded so nice. A few months later I picked up a tribute ASAT special with the mahogany body/sunburst/rw board and a pair of those large coil mfd p'ups. that was it, i was hooked, the disease (G&L acquisition syndrome) started. It has been a fun ride. I've worked my way through a bunch of G&L's, old and new, sold some, gave a couple to my kids, kept the ones I really liked. It's a nice variety of high quality instruments that get the sound i was always looking for and are professional quality, unique, a pleasure to play.
Q#1: what's your story, how did you find your way to G&L guitars? do you like old, new or both?
i saw today that the last original musician member of the Moody Blues has passed, may he/they RIP. seems this kind of thing happens alot these days. That band reminds me of the late '60's, early '70's when i was 1st opening my ears and eyes to great music. It was such a great time for that. I have countless musical influences but the Beatles really stoked up that fire for me, early on. Both my parents and both my brothers were musicians and we were always listening to or playing music in my house. For some reason, my mom waited til about 1970, when I was 10, to start bringing home Beatles LP's, one at a time, and in the order they were recorded. She bought the capitol versions so I digested those, and requested more. I started learning guitar in Summer 1974, coming up on 50 years, now.
Q#2: what were your early musical influences that ultimately led you to pick up a guitar?
Q#3: if you were recruited to be on the mission to Mars, and could only take 1 G&L guitar with you to pass the time, which one would it be and why?
I think my choice would be my most recent, the ASAT Classic S (mine's a 2017, alder/old school tobacco burst/bound top/body bevel/maple board). I have always liked T style guitars for reasons that are not always clear to me, but probably shape, feel, simplicity, tone, and that one is an amazing instrument in alot of ways, was a lucky find.
The Today show headlines this morning talked about war in Gaza, hostages, famine, global warming, shootings, fires, drug overdoses, Trump...
Doesn't sound far off from where we were in early 1970's with war in Viet Nam, famine, the gasoline shortage and rationing, shootings, fires, drugs, Nixon and Watergate. After 50 years, seems like we are not doing too much better. I like Extreme's quote from their song on Three Sides to every Story (1993),
"Make love, not war......................or else our world will truly rest in peace."
Q#4: got a quote or saying from the past or present that you'd like to share?
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