POLL - Tour de France
Has anyone been watching Le Tour? I admit that my favourite part is watching the scenery - the race is fantastic too though. I’ve particularly been enjoying the beautiful images of Corsica over the last few days. This time last year the GF and I had planned to have a holiday to that exact part of the world. We ended up abandoning the idea when she changed jobs and was uncertain of where we’d be financially now. Man, I wish we’d just booked it. I can taste the salty air and simple wine… I wonder if wine sales go up worldwide during the tour? I know that I always get the urge to crack open a bottle whenever I'm watching it.
Guitars Of Various Decades
Which guitars, are your favourites of various decades?
‘50s: Telecaster. Stratocaster. Les Paul. It's impossible to pick just one of these.
‘60s: Burns. The guitar a Jazzmaster wanted to be.

‘70s: Yamaha SG1/2000. I’m no Santana fan, but love these.

‘80s: G&L SC2. Yeah, I like the SC shape a LOT! It doesn't really represent the pointy-guitar-with-a-Floyd-Rose look that I'd say would be the lasting image of an '80s guitarist, but it looks good. I'll stop banging on about them now, promise


‘90s: Parker Fly. They’re strange looking, but when I first played one in the mid-90s I was dead impressed by the space-ageyness of its carbon fibre neck and loved the look of them. Even today, I still have soft spot for it.

G&L: The Volvo of the Musical Instrument World.
I’ve been doing some car shopping recently and have decided on a Volvo wagon. In browsing many ads, I have observed several similarities between Volvo and G&L:
- Very well built.
- Poor resale prices. Dunno what the prices are like in your part of the world but the model I’m looking a, a 10 year old V70 in excellent shape, can be had for less than 10% of the cost of a new one.
- Never been the “in” thing. I know this all too well – my first car was a Volvo 240GL belonging to my parents, that I drove to high school when they didn’t need it. The teasing died down eventually. That same car saved my sisters life when she crashed it, drunk, into a power pole.
- Generally pretty heavy.
- Repeat customers. Seems that a lot of people who are selling one Volvo are selling it because they have bought another.
Here’s another photo from the other day. You couldn’t have put the driveway in a better place. It’s been like this for at least a year now, they must be having a nightmare of a time getting the council and power companies to move the pole!
