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I love that picture. No recipes here unless you like fancy Hot Pockets.

Joe, Are you still playing the Hofner Jazzica? Just curious...

Gibsons are highly esteemed by me. but... I do think they have issues with quality control and they are expensive. If you look at guitar prices back in the 50's and 60's they are equivalant to Gibson's Historic series pricing (adjusted for today's dollar value). On the other hand, there are great guitars out there at great prices. Yes, I do think they are expensive and there are very competitive options at better prices. It really comes down to if you really have to have a Gibson. If you have dreamt of a real Les Paul your whole life, a copy won't be as satisfying as the real thing. My biggest issue is with Gibson's management. In the last few months they've gone crazy. They've successfully sued PRS over their Singlecut, they've made the stores that sell Gibson cease showing photos of their guitars on their websites (except a few, Musicians Friend and Elderly, and two others). They are also making longtime dealers get out of the Gibson game by demanding that they have $150,000 worth of inventory and 60% of their guitars on the wall have to be Gibson products. They seem to be heading for a Wal Mart type of superstore only strategy and squeezing their longtime dealers out. A couple of top Gibson dealers have recently stopped carrying Gibson. I know it's their company, but they're losing goodwill by the day and many people are saying they won't buy any new Gibson products.

I'm grateful to the non-American members of this board who abstain from personal attacks upon us based upon our CURRENT President's actions. I think it would only be fair to cease making these kind of comments. It is obviously hurtful and serves no constructive purpose.

You guys have great taste!

That's cool, Scott! I don't know if you're aware of it, but those black DC59's are actually selling used for around twice what they sold for. I've had offers on mine. My guess is because of the Jimmy Page connection.

I hear it's something in the brewing luminous. Don't get any on ya. I will be having a memorial barbecue here. if you bring some brews, you are invited. I'll drink to that! I'll bring the tiki torches! I'll throw on some island music from Poland They have islands in Poland??? is the Vatican an island? think so... does the pope dance to this music? He gets down and shrutis. This needs to stop. We done broke the board once before with this kind of thing, remember? Yeah, but it looks so cool. Too bad we can't have each one a different color. That would be too cool. I really shouldn't, but what the heck...

I agree. The neck on my Rickenbacker 650 Dakota is HUGE. It's the biggest neck I have on any of my guitars, yet the guitar itself is tiny. I remember when they made those Modernes. I think it was around '83. Before that they were just legends of fakes. Pattened, but not produced. I meant, "or fakes" - oops I've seen the old patent drawings of the Moderne, V, and Explorer (futura). Man... Gibson R&D couldn't do anything wrong in the late 50's. Yet, this stuff didn't sell very well and even the Les Paul was replaced by the SG in '61.

I didn't realize he was still playing in recent years. I wish I could have gotten over to Hawaii to see him. It's nice that the mid-90's lounge craze brought him back to the limelight. I have most of his old Liberty lps, but the cd reissues put out by the Scamp label are well done. R.I.P.

It's amazing that it's been two years since the BNBB went Krypton on us. It's been a great two years. Thanks Organissimo and all of you for making this a great place to hang.

Thanks John!

I agree. The neck on my Rickenbacker 650 Dakota is HUGE. It's the biggest neck I have on any of my guitars, yet the guitar itself is tiny. I remember when they made those Modernes. I think it was around '83. Before that they were just legends or fakes.

You are among friends...

I hear it's something in the brewing luminous. Don't get any on ya. I will be having a memorial barbecue here. if you bring some brews, you are invited. I'll drink to that! I'll bring the tiki torches!

Someone said Denny was a hack and Esquival was better. which, when put in that hit and run fashion as it was, amounts to pissing on the grave while it is still open. Some respect and nuance would have been in place. Luckily we didn't get to be informed on how the man used to beat his grandma and molest his children, nor that he actually was a Nazi and worse than you know who. pfff... I guess it doesn't bother me because it is only one person's opinion. I know I enjoyed Denny's music and others did too. That's really what matters to me. It doesn't take away from Denny at all in my book if some people don't like him. It sounds like he lived a great life and I'm sure he's in a much BETTER place now.

That's cool! Actually, I only have about 1/4 of those guitars now. Right after I took those photos in 2002, I started selling, trading, and buying like crazy.

I've never read that. Thank you for posting it.

That Music Man is SWeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeT!!!! To quote Snagglepuss, "Fretless eeevun!"

We're repeating ourselves. That's funny!

Wow! I've got to hear that. I used to listen to a lot of Gamelon music with my old roomates.

It's nice looking. Mine are reissues also. I guess they're (Danelectro) making guitars again (after a couple years of effects only), but I like the reissues of the old models better than their new ones.

Someone said Denny was a hack and Esquival was better. That's as much as I saw. Lurgy...

That's too bad... I've never played a longhorn. I love the look though. Is yours a Danelectro or a Jerry Jones? I couldn't tell. It's sweet though. Here's a picture of my Danelectro: I liked the reissues. I also had the U2 model, but I gave it to my sister.

NICE! I have a late fifties Electro (Rickenbacker) lap steel with legs. In 1996 I did some shows with a couple of techno guys. They'd be doing their keyboards/sequencer/theremin stuff and I had my steel guitar going through looping delays, flanger, phaser, and other pedals. We got a great response at the shows we played and did a live performance for the college radio station. I wish I still had the tape, it was really cool. It was serious outer space music.