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Gotta admire that. The only surfing I'm good at is "channel surfing". Whitefang

Much as I like Maynard Ferguson, the big band I really liked was(and still like)................ Whitefang

Kinda slow to respond to this. But really..... When have I ever told anyone how great I am? At what? Your old friend Larry, your "bro Fred" used to often make it a point to call me a "hack" as a guitar player. I had to remind him that the FIRST person to call me a hack in this forum was ME! And in those same posts it was him who would often tell me how great HE was. And between him and all the grief I got from d=half note, it was ME who got banned. But that's all water under a long passed bridge. Life's too short to waste time focusing on horsesh!t That anyone shouldn't dignify by paying much attention to in the first place. And if we're going to focus on anything, let's make it an effort to not create mountainous molehills. Whitefang

Cripes! The only time I saw Canned Heat was in near mid '69 on a bill with Bubble Puppy and Spirit. Henry Vestine was still with them and he had a huge wall of Marshall cabs that must've been 10 feet tall. Talk about loud. Was a shock to see them with so little gear in that clip. Whitefang

If you go 1:31 into this clip you'll see a person, supposedly representing Elvis, in silhouette holding a guitar in the right handed play position. That was an early movie appearance by Dick Dale in the movie "Let's Make Love".('60). Whitefang

I notice Dale didn't "reverse" the strings when playing lefty like Jimi and McCartney did. Whitefang

I'll throw in a welcome too. 🙂 Whitefang

How about some pics? Whitefang

They did a "solo" instrumental number in the movie "The Young Ones" in '61 I was 10 when I saw the movie, and those red Strats took my breath away! Whitefang

There was a segment from that HBO show that I couldn't find a clip of was where one of the cast members, using a kind of play on words, came on to show Pee Wee how he can play his "Flamingo guitar". He was sporting a guitar in the shape(sort of) of a Flamingo, with the neck of the guitar also as the neck of the flamingo, with a flamingo shaped head for the headstock and the pink body of the guitar shaped close to a Flamingo's body. Was a funny looking thing but actually sounded good and the guy sporting it could play really good. Wonder where that ax is now.... Whitefang

Let's not forget that Reubens was more than Pee Wee. But PEE WEE is his iconic creation. Formed while in a Los Angeles based comedy troupe called The Groundlings, he put together his Pee Wee Herman Show stage show in (or around) 1979 after auditioning for the 1980-81 season of Saturday Night Live and getting beat out of the job by Gilbert Gotfried. He also had small parts in movies like "The Blues Brothers" and "Cheech and Chong's Next Movie , and "Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams". In all, Reubens made appearances in 24 films and lent his voice to five others. I first saw Pee Wee on an early '80's HBO special. Blew me away. His "off the left field wall" style of humor was right up my alley. I'll certainly miss him. Whitefang

Also in a blues theme, I dig this harp player. And dig that guitar solo.

That's the way it goes. Several pieces of my childhood and personal history are gone. My elementary school, Goodell school, was torn down in the '70's and became an A&P. By the early '80's it was converted to a Spartan discount supermarket. And in the mid '90's it was torn down and is now a CVS drug store. In the '80's, the Huff Jr, High school I attended was torn down. It took nearly 20 years for them to replace it with a new middle school building Three of the pld car washes I worked at (starting at on all hand wash when I was 14) are all gone. A MacCleen's car wash I worked at closed and became a Quizno's. It's a T-Mobile store now. But at least that building is still there. Unlike the Cadillac main plant on Clark St in Detroit. which was razed a few years after it closed in 1988. And the Livonia GM powertrain plant I transferred to when Cadillac closed is now also gone and razed. So is the Sears shopping center strip mall me and some buddies used to hang out at when we should have been at classes in high school. The Sears store building is still there, but has been closed and empty since my wife died in '18. It's scheduled to be torn down later this year. I also worked there for a while. The Biff's diner that was "kitty-cornered" from Sears and where I also worked during my senior year is also long gone. Along with the Top Hat burger place I worked shortly at. And so are many other old hang-outs I frequented are gone and torn down. Whitefang

Saw this news in other forums for the last couple days. Seems The Eagles now, like Lynyrd Skynyrd, is really more or less a tribute band. But at least they still have a founder still among them. But for how long? Whitefang

Y'know.... My younger daughter told me a few hours after I got offline yesterday of having a similar experience, but not with anything to do with a guitar maker. She engaged the flooring company EMPIRE Flooring to do the floors in her condo. They did good on the living room floors, but botched the kitchen floor and is giving her grief about coming out to straighten it out. Telling her they'll be out on a certain day and time to start work and then not showing up. And customer service giving her the same kind of runaround you seem to be getting. Must be the new "pandemic" affecting many other companies I hear other people gripe about lately. From car repair, home repair and wrong or damaged items being sent to those I know who regularly shop online. Whitefang

I've never had to deal with anything like that with any company. But for me,the only extra money I'd have invested in all this would have been an attorney's retainer. Whitefang

I always liked Tony Bennett better than I did Frank Sinatra. Actually.... CBS evening news, when reporting Bennett's death dug up a quote by Sinatra from an interview he did in the mid '80s' in which he said, "Tony Bennett is the best in the business." So even Frank Sinatra liked Tony Bennett better than he did Frank Sinatra. 😎 Whitefang

Just catching up to this one, I do have all that's listed. Except the 2X4. But I don't use the slide much anymore and only use a capo on my 12 string to bring it up to a "normal" sounding tuning. And I also quit using a strap because of certain physical limitations over the years have left me sedentary for long enough times I've gained a lot of unwanted girth that when I use a strap to stand up and play it looks like I'm playing a guitarron. My tuner is a now 20 year old Boss TU-12H chromatic tuner. Whitefang

I keep seeing on the evening news about the horrifically high temperatures you have to deal with in those areas. I also hear of hospitalizations and even some deaths attributed to the heat. I hope the members here living in those areas(like DBM and Larryz) are taking all precautions to keep safe during what surely must be Hell on Earth. I'm strongly hoping the best for all of you. Whitefang

Actually, I've been catching up on some stuff I haven't listened to for a long time. Like: Whitefang

What's in my eyes? The usual..... Cornea pupil iris crystalline lens aqueous humor vitreous humor retina sclera 👁️ Whitefang

You could play an electric 12 string strung with only six strings. Like this guy. 😄 Whitefang

Seems I replied to a thread like this some years back, but seemingly not all that long ago. So here goes again. The first song I learned to play when my step sister started showing me around the fret board was Duane Eddy's "Rebel Rouser". Then she showed me "Wildwood Flower". But the first "song" I learned to play from start to finish and sing along to was Hank William's "Move It On Over" from an old Hank Williams 78 she had. Sometime in the near mid '60's. Whitefang

Jump Blues? Sure. Chuck also always claimed that Louis Jordan(the king of jump blues) was a major influence. Whitefang

So did Chuck. In his autobiography he did claim that his songs weren't written in "odd" chords like Bb G# and such. It was Leonard Chess who thought the tempos should be faster, therefore(in his way of thinking) more "danceable" for the teens of the day so he sped up the master tapes when making the Master Disc so when some aspiring guitar player tries to learn the song off the record, he finds that the key of A that Chuck originally might have recorded the song in becomes Bb to the aspiring guitarist learning off the record. Whitefang