I started asking questions as soon as I saw the picture. I knew he 'had a couple of guitars', but fuck me.
Gold Top: "My soulmate. A 1980 with maple neck. Had mini-humbuckers but I completely rebuilt the electronics to hot rod it for my high gain addiction."
WTF are Granger amps?: "They are clones hand made by Curt Granger in Birmingham, AL. The left is a JCM800 clone and the other is a Soldano SLO clone. They fuckin' smoke."
Gotta know about that little red V: "Kid guitar by some Gibson sub group. Tuned to open G."
What is the amp with the V logo: "V Boutiuque brand, 112 Cab with old Celestion G12-65 speaker. "
I don't know if it will be heavy enough but Pedal Train sells these boosters to put on a board if you have a pedal you need to elevate. Would this work?
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PedalBoost1--pedaltrain-pt-pb1-pedal-booster-single-3.5-inch-by-5.5-inch?mrkgadid=3331289246&mrkgcl=28&mrkgen=gpla&mrkgbflag=0&mrkgcat=guitars&acctid=21700000001645388&dskeywordid=92700046934877545&lid=92700046934877545&ds_s_kwgid=58700005283398557&ds_s_inventory_feed_id=97700000007215323&dsproductgroupid=373037010929&product_id=PedalBoost1&prodctry=US&prodlang=en&channel=online&storeid=&device=c&network=g&matchtype=&adpos=largenumber&locationid=9010780&creative=332063179833&targetid=aud-842676327969:pla-373037010929&campaignid=1709882817&awsearchcpc=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsLWDBhCmARIsAPSL3_2g8S3MQTIbQglKjRr6X_BgZpRsCP9sGDJjEEbftvWExYq51rXxlj0aAgm7EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
Testify. This one should have been called "The Ashgrove Blues". Got to see him on this tour with Los Straitjackets. Just a fantastic tone on that strat.
That reminds me of another one. Alice wrote this one with Bernie Taupin around Alice's mental health issues. Just a fantastic record. My brother ran in to Bernie Taupin at a radio interview and he said, "Mr. Taupin....I really enjoyed your work with....." Taupin kind of kindly nods and starts to move past him.... "Your work with Alice Cooper on 'Welcome To My Nightmare'." Taupin turns around and talks to my brother for about 20 minutes. What a great album. Davey Johnston and Dee Murray from Elton's band. also play on the record. Plus, Marcy Levy (Clapton's background singer) sings a great duet on "Millie and Billy". I need to pull out that album today.
Merry Clayton was the background singer on Gimme Shelter and Sweet Home Alabama and 100s of great songs and was one of the standouts in 2013 documentary, "20 Feet From Stardom". A year later she was in a car wreck and lost both of her legs.
Check out Rick Rubin's podcast: She grew up with Billy Swan and people like Aretha Franklin and Mahalia Jackson sang in her dad’s church. https://brokenrecordpodcast.com/#/episode-96-merry-clayton/
Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/28/arts/music/merry-clayton-beautiful-scars.html
This has been floating around again this years. Can't remember seeing it posted before.
http://www.equinechronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/snake-photo.jpg
The other day, my wife looked at one guitar on the wall and asked when I got it. I said, "1982, a hell of a lot longer than I've known you." She said, "Just never noticed it before." Hulla sees a window opening..........local guitar shop getting in one of these.
Ha. Not only that, it requires two phone lines to run the phone. Wife has to have it for the closed captioning and that motherfucker types out the messages people leave so I have to hustle over and delete the messages and the call log when Sweetwater calls.
Yep. After hearing a song of hers on an Americana podcast, I ordered a CD from her. She wrote me back a nice note with the CD. That entire record is very, very good.
This is the song that nabbed me.