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Had to post this, though I probably will not get an answer. Trivia messes with my mind... The question I asked about UK's Salem... It was one song off a four track demo in a record store in NC USA. Grand Funk's Some Kind Of Wonderful. Up beat bad... Stuck in my head... Probably never hear it again, but know it was... Sucks to have Total Recall for for forgotten stuff...

No help... seems I remember things before the net. Will come back to me... always does. Remembered Pink Floyd was once The Megadeaths, GooGoo Dolls were the Sex Maggots... Stupid amount of trivia (useless) in my head. In the 80's I had a 350 watt magnetic drive amp, liniar drive phono, Bose 901's on the chrome mushrooms with an active equalizer, pair of Pioneer 18" sub, 6" mylar dome mids, and 3" x 18" ceramic horn tweeters, ADL studio moniters with dual 8" and horns, and a reverb unit. I had to put the turn table in a remote room... it would pick up a bass note and go nuts other wise. I could listen to things like Hendrix live, and hear the breeze blowing across the mike... Man I miss that...

I'm breaking my own brain right now... In the 80's I was dating a girl that worked for a music store. She gave me things the store was putting away. Gave me an unprinted Pantera 4 song demo once... that would be bucks now! She gave me a Salem album that had a killer cover of a song I knew well. Can Not Remember... Can't find it on the net...but know it exists. I live in small town US, it's a wonder I ever heard the song. Swear it was a power ballad???

Oops... had to correct my 100 mph brain. Gibson Studio! How does China made Gibsons become made by Maestro? They manufactured the very first distortion pedal ever made? Outside of the fact it has a nice neck, rosewood board, smooth fret ends, and a heavy plywood slab body (18 lbs.)... the rest was pure junk!

I guess I made too many left handed notations... I am so right handed it's stupid. I was born artistic, draw, paint, even carve some. One thing that keeps me from just jumping in and learning to play, is thinking... "I can't write my name lefty, what if I don't have enough coordination with that hand to finger the chords"? I'm actually stronger left hand when wrenching, but bust knuckles when I do it. I don't have the pin point control to stop when it breaks loose. I've decided to start trying soon. I have to get a mind set... this I know will take some structured study. I'm not one that dedicates to things randomly, and to my credit, I've never failed at anything I tried... strive to be the best. Hopefully guitar won't be the first thing I can't do. My little brother was dominant lefty, but he was learning right handed... I never got to ask why, he was killed at just shy of 13 years old. I was 21, already moved away to Myrtle Beach when I graduated at 17. I didn't see him often. The guitar on my avitar is the Gibson/Maestro that I did the complete overhaul on. Sound and Action now, it amazes the people that have picked it. One friend brought a Charvell/Jackson and Fender Studio recently to pick with other friends. He looked at mine and said "can I play it like I own it"? 2 1/2 hours later his were still in the car! For a single pickup guitar, it's got some attitude... gotta learn to play it...

Odd I got response from Northern California. I'm originally from Hanford California (cow town mexican at one point). Had a Shetland Pony(evil bitch). Beach Boys did a bunch of charity shows on the coast. Jan and Dean, The Impacts... all just put on music... Dick Dale was the stuff... how do you pick like that? "lefty"... thought though... if you are left handed "like Hendrix"... then you can mirror your mentor! Though Jimmy was self taught... Have watched Stevie play with Dale... he was struggling with it...Papa Chubby is bad... Orinthani, Samantha Fish... how do you choose a direction?

Thats funny... grandpa was a cabinate maker till he got brown-lung. Then he went to work in maintenance at the hospital here.. Built his house on a GI bill... 18 acres. Was a member of the USO.... 6' 4" at 260... did black face comedy in overalls. To look at him, never think he would have a sense of humor. He could play... look up Joe Drye and the Mountain Ramblers on Youtube... no videos, but a few songs... ages ago

I've taken everything ya'll have said seriously. I looked up possible instructors near me. I live in the sticks, eight + miles from any city limits. Concord's the closest shop (Mullis Music, where the Avett Brothers took lessons)... booked solid. Charlotte's 49 is next, 30 miles away. What got me was the cost of training... I worked as a "fixer" in the mill, prodouction pay, on top of hourly. One night my machine sewed, folded, and packaged 2998 single bed Martha Stewart sheets. $24+ an hour... Another night, Royal Velvet queens, $37 an hour. Average pay... $17.79 an hour. Not bad money for small town southern boys with minimal education. So how is it that a dollar plus a minute is accepted for someone that claims to be able to teach guitar? Just going to start asking around about retired players that teach from home. Has to be some... quite a few trophies of my grandfather's were local, multiple from Gold Hill. Has to be people that want to share knowledge... I'm one that does. Buy me a six pack, I'll teach you how to put brakes on on your ride...

I always take forever to reply. My local music shop is where the Avett Brothers took lessons.Like it... don't want to play it. I'm from Rimertown (Rimer, NC now). My grandfather (by second marrige) was a world champion fiddle player. I used to travel over 5 or 6 states with him for conventions, met Roy Clark, Anderson, Flatts and Scruggs, Minnie Pearle, (grandma could care less). He wrote 18 records, never wrote a note, did not know how. I have a few old music books... no score. Played every instrument in the band... he would grab one and say "you do this"... never had a music lesson. Natural talent. I have his best fiddle, 1938 hand-made German thing that can't be traced...no maker sticker in it, it's burned in by the founder of the company. I have many of grandpa's old tools, all German. But the bow is Australian, horse hair, re-strung about 15 years ago. Hangs next to my brother's accoustic Bentley. They started in 83, he was killed in early 86... until four weeks ago it hung with 5 strings loose... I strung it after 30 years. I really would like to play. Grandpa said " boy, I'd teach you how to play... but I don't know how, I just do)! Mom was West Coast Mowtown, "step" Dad was Country, Grandpa Bluegrass, uncle Marine Black Beret... introduced me to Rock.I really enjoy songs about cars, Dick Dale, Hot Rod Lincoln, Mabiline, One Piece at a time...like Justin Johnson, Chris Rodrigues and Abbey the spoon lady (local from Ashville), and Juzzie Smith... I think the most multi-talented individual period?Used to get together under the elm tree at grandpa's... shuck corn, string beans, make lye soap... they would play, we'd cook fish and taters, hand crank ice cream, pitch shoes... miss those days...

Do simple home relation... Kempeaches... who you are, and where you're from.

Please don't laugh... A friend is 60 and I can't make this short. Many months ago he got a Maestro/Gibson LP Jr. off Craigs list. Started trying to re-live the early days of youth when he was hanging with RATT. He was getting better, but the guitar was flat when you toned it down, tuner problems, not much sound. He's bought 3 more fair guitars, and gave that one to me... I don't play yet! I grew up a textile machine/auto mechanic. So I learned how one works, and how to apply that knowledge. New EZ locking 18:1 tuners (don't use them that way, figured out the old-school way). Replaced the heavy brass locking bridge with an aircraft aluminum intoneable G/B unit.Put in a pro series single coil Zebra Alinco V. DiAdario XL's... I have no clue how many hours I have in setting it up. Neck rod, bridge height, string length intonation, and string action. Everyone that has played it, is in awe for a piece of crap china guitar. Now I want to play... but the way my friends do it, don't seem to work so well. How does a majorly mechanical (56 tomorrow) man begin to learn the right way? I don't want to play songs... just guitar... About to forget the most impacting change on it... did a 1950's rewire on the tone capicitor. Took it off the tone ground, and moved it to the vol. out. Turn the tone all the way down... still got mids and highs. Did'nt do the Bumble Bee cap., can't see that kind of $ in a cheap guitar. That thing has a sound...