This is a blog I've wanted to do for a long time.
Some famous guitarists have used the same old instruments for years. Why... when they could have anything they desire? There is no one answer for this but some guitars have the 'magical' mix that their owner feels that they cannot get with another guitar... even if it's of the same model.
Fender guitars come off an assembly line and technically should be the same for ones made in January to the ones made in July. There are small variances in the materials. The thickness of the neck being the same, but one neck has a slight difference in grain or density of the lumber it was machined from. The same with the body parts. All kiln dried lumber most likely harvested from the same forest. A guitarist trying out 10-15 guitars in a music store wouldn't know if the neck wood came from a tree that faced sunlight or grew in the middle of the forest. He just knew that one of those guitars had a slightly different resonance, enough to make a decision to buy it.
I've seen lots of YouTube video interviews with musicians who discuss their trademark style and sound that comes out different when they play another model.
Players like Joe Bonamassa has a never ending collection of Gibson Les Paul guitars, each special but favors a few that he tours with. I've seen him play a Fender Stratocaster and it's a slightly 'different Joe' with the Fender.
Pink Floyd's guitarist David Gilmour used to play a Fender Telecaster that was lost on his flight to an American tour in 1968, ended up with a black Stratocaster he purchased at the (world famous) Manny's in New York City and kept it for over 40 years.
In the short video David explains some guitars that spawned a few iconic riffs and songs that came about from these guitars. Axes that define your sound.
Boxing legend Leon Spinks died Friday at the age of 67 after a long battle with prostate cancer.
His final years were clouded with physical ailments and in 2017 when inducted to the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame he struggled to walk and was pushed in a wheelchair by his wife Brenda.
In my world, the moon and starts are not in alignment today.
I had a restless night seeking resolutions to seeming never endless issues.
Checking corporate email, a quartz countertop recently installed has a structural crack.
Quartz doesn't crack. Not in any installation I've done.
I'm bidding a $35,000 kitchen renovation and the new client is asking for a menu of options. That's a few hours (extra) work.
My associate has diarrhea this morning and won't be coming in... We've got 3 client meetings scheduled.
22 year old Joe DiMeo survived a car accident but his face and hands were severely burned. Doctors at NYU Langone Health in New York successfully performed a face and double hand transplant in August 2020 and so far there are no signs of rejection.
The surgery lasted more than 20 hours and he must remain on medicine for life for his body to avoid rejecting the transplants.
Note, the video is graphic so you may want to avoid watching if you get queasy with things like this.
Yahoo! picked up the story this morning:
I was listening to a local oldies radio station on the way home from grocery shopping and the Tommy James and the Shondells song Hanky-Panky was playing. Tommy must have repeated Hanky-Panky three hundred times and my better half said "What is Hanky-Panky?"
Knowing thee are several meanings to Hanky-Panky, I told her his girlfriend plays around. It's a slang answer and she wasn't sure what I meant.
I have a language translator app in my phone and see it only gave the word (from English to Chinese) Shouyín that sounds like show-yeen. Usually translations have synonyms to words, especially if they don't have a perfect translation. I was expecting to see something like promiscuous, but Shouyín was the only word and she was very surprised the singer repeated Hanky-Panky so many times!
When I got home I tried the translation into Google and it had the same word Shouyín. But, when I reversed it from Chinese to English, the definition was m**turbation.
Depending on the source several online dictionaries had different meanings.
Fooling around, monkey business, shenanigans, flirtation, questionable or underhanded activity... all but m**turbation.
So, for two decades Tommy's baby did the m**turbation and was naive to the whole thing. Not only me... the censors of the recording industry seemed to have missed it too!
A serious blog today. I don't know who Pete is and I'm guessing his real name is Peter. People have been saying 'For Pete's Sake' easily 4 generations now. That would make Pete more than 100 years old.
Pete gets mentioned in lots of conversations and I'm thinking Pete must have been famous (royalty or something) and possibly had some health or personality issues where people were always concerned about his well being.
There are so many situations where Pete comes into a situation:
"Oh... for Pete's sake, get off the phone!"
"For Pete's sake, would it be asking too much to put the toilet seat down?"
"Didn't your mother teach you how to dress? For Pete's sake, it's a formal affair. Black socks and sandals aren't acceptable."
I could go on, but for Pete's sake there are more important things to do today!
Thursday January 28 brings on a full moon aka Wolf Moon aka Yule Moon.
According to a calendar provided by NASA it's the first full moon in 2021 and will begin at 2:16pm.
Sunset is 6:02pm and I believe it will be bright enough to see somewhere after 5pm.
I see Reuters news service reported that Twitter has permanently suspended the account of 'My Pillow Guy' Mike Lindell for repeated violations to their company policy on election misinformation.
His personal account had nearly half a million followers.
It appears to be a self inflicted wound as QVC shopping channel quietly stopped selling his 'MyPillow' products in June of 2020.
Business 101 states: Never mix business with religion and politics.
This blog is about you.
You are a member of CS.
You come from a country different than mine.
You are here a few times a week.
You sometimes make comments on blogs by other members.
You usually state an opinion that differs from others.
You have been known to post your own blogs.
It's always you... you ... you...
Tell me it ain't so... Mega Million rolled over again and the jackpot has reached a billion dollars. The lure is so great the lottery website is lagging with response.
Personally, having a billion jackpot wouldn't make me want to run to the lottery booth any more than 100 million jackpot.
Legendary TV host and radio personality Larry King has passed on at the age of 87. It's reported he had been hospitalized in December and fighting a v i r u s.
Baseball hall of famer Hank Aaron dead at 86.
The homerun king is gone.
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