Today I will not change the text color
Lunch today will be some top-shelf teriyaki at my favorite place near home. There are a bazillion teriyaki joints within a 2 mile radius of where I live but only this place blows my skirt up. And seeing how I’ll be over that way for my doctor appointment I have to eat there.
G&L content: A coworker recently bought a Tribute Legacy with a humbucker and brought it in to show me. It was the first Tribby I’ve actually had in my hands and it seemed pretty solid. I’ve never really given them much thought and kind of dismissed them in that same general pool as all the other overseas side brands. Gotta say, at first glance this one was really nice. I didn’t get to plug it in but it felt smooth all the way up the neck and for the exception of the action on the volume pot it was pretty much impossible to peg this as anything different from the US-made Legacy’s. Any Tribute owners? Can anyone give us the short list on noticeable differences between the Tribs and the US-mades?
Humor: Always loved this one
The Eye Of The Beholder: Pretty is relative, so is ugly. Is it a fine line between unique and just plain weird? A friend sent me a picture of this Swiss Cheese guitar and it got me thinking. There are people who put a lot of time into creating unusual guitar or customizing one nice guitars just to make themselves stand out a little more. Granted most are novelties but there are a few where the owner really thinks they are pretty cool. In early 2000 I was asked to broker a deal to sell Roger Fisher’s highly modified ’67 strat.
He gave me a list of all the mods that had been done to it and I just couldn’t comprehend why anyone would destroy a perfectly good guitar that would certainly hold it’s value down the road. We through it on the open market for a few weeks and just got small nibles, it was clear that even though it was owned by a celebrity and had recorded a few of rock’s classic hits it would have still been worth more stock than bastardized. Where do yall stand on gimmicky and overly modified axes? Here’s a few to gawk at while you make up your minds
This Day in History: In 43 B.C. Marcus Antonius was defeated by Octavian near Modena, Italy. I know most of us weren’t around at the time but I bet it was a pretty big deal to Marcus and his crew, in 1977 Annie opened on Broadway, in 1986 Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone’s vault and made an instant ass out of himself on national TV, Iggy Pop was born in 1947 and Tony Danza was born in 1951, in 1970 Elton John played his first solo concert opening for T-Rex.
Yesterday’s Mystery Guitarist: Joe Pass, nobody had a hard time with that one.
Today’s Mystery Guitarist:
This cat was born in Texas in 1968 and released a top 20 hit at the age of 16 called Beat’s So Lonely. He has played with Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, The Velvet Underground, Keith Richards, Don Henley and Justin Timberlake. In the early 90’s he hooked up with the son of Stevie Ray Vaughn’s writing partner and Double Trouble to write an album that would produce another top 20 single. Last report in 2009 was he was reforming this group (without Shannon) and recording a new album.
Off to the doctor and LUNCH!
I lean to the 7.5 and 12 radius neck versus the 9 on tribbys, but do believe I could take the 9 if it was the right geetar at the right price.
All of that aside, unless I have a specific intent, I keep it like she came.
