Never buy a "Gilled" Guitar

[BobsterMan]

A hookah, you say?? I dunno. But once I used a bong on a whole can-a-bass...

 

[Default]

A hookah, you say?? I dunno. But once I used a bong on a whole can-a-bass...

Really? I've heard that you're prone to open a can-a-bass on people that string you along.

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

I interrupt this fishy program with a musical interlude.

Lobster..., er, uh, Bobster,

Is your Gibson one of those with a folk style long neck (8 frets above the 5th string peg) and a bluegrass tone ring? Like the one John Stewart had in about 1964? I loved the sound of those.

I now return you to your irregular programming.

hf

 

[Default]

More roughage needed in this thread. It's slipperier that a catfish in a jar of Vaseline.

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Krysh,

In English, "vaseline" is what you call "der wienerslicker."

hf

 

[eastcoastbuzz]

Speaking of roughage, I went to an open mike venue last night and observed a most unusual artist. I guess he thought he was "somebody" the way he expected to be pampered prior to his performance. He actually had the nerve to ask for a stool softener. I know - what nerve!! All the other folks had to go up on that little stage and sit on a hard, wooden bar stool.

Well, anyway, he gets up there and starts playing his butt off, gets about halfway through the first song and then - eureka - everybody realizes what he meant by his request. He did a rousing rendition of "Man of Constipation" from the movie "O Crap, Where Art Thou?"

Why is any of this important? He was playing a Gilled!! I got pretty excited about that because I thought he might let me play it a little after he was done with his "business". Didn't happen! At the end of his second song, that crazy dude went ballistic and started smashing his Gilled on the stage. I grimaced as the thing splintered into little fish sticks.

 

[Scratch]

Speaking of roughage, I went to an open mike venue last night and observed a most unusual artist. I guess he thought he was "somebody" the way he expected to be pampered prior to his performance. He actually had the nerve to ask for a stool softener. I know - what nerve!! All the other folks had to go up on that little stage and sit on a hard, wooden bar stool.

Well, anyway, he gets up there and starts playing his butt off, gets about halfway through the first song and then - eureka - everybody realizes what he meant by his request. He did a rousing rendition of "Man of Constipation" from the movie "O Crap, Where Art Thou?"

Why is any of this important? He was playing a Gilled!! I got pretty excited about that because I thought he might let me play it a little after he was done with his "business". Didn't happen! At the end of his second song, that crazy dude went ballistic and started smashing his Gilled on the stage. I grimaced as the thing splintered into little fish sticks.

Get a rope...

 

[BobsterMan]

Is your Gibson one of those with a folk style long neck (8 frets above the 5th string peg) and a bluegrass tone ring? Like the one John Stewart had in about 1964? I loved the sound of those.

Darryl...This is highly unusual... discussing musical instruments... but OK, I will oblige this one time.

The longneck has three additional frets below the standard (yes... total 8 below the 5th string) and it is tuned like a standard, but with a capo on 3. It offers lower keys (E to Gb) if capo-ed down. Unlike a bluegrass banjo, it has no reflector shell on the back, the finger board is not curved, and it is more often flailed rather than plucked. For a clear distinction between flailing and plucking, see default. If you want to know all about being a plicker, ask JerryR.

Pete Seeger plays a Vega longneck. I don't know about John Stewart, but I think Dave Sear does. I like the slurred and drunken bawdy songs he recorded with Oscar Brand. Memorable tunes like "Blinded By Turds" and "Charlotte the Harlot", which address, in very open and honest way, the matters of fairness, justice, and equality in the modern Western world, and all in high-fidelity.

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Oscar Brand was hilarious. We used to play and sing all of his songs back in the 60s when I was in high school. I had a Vega Seeger model back then, and had one of those Gibs later. Now I play Ode banjos--a hard tone like the Gib and great quality for the money.

 

[JerryR]

I interrupt this fishy program with a musical interlude.

Lobster..., er, uh, Bobster,

Is your Gibson one of those with a folk style long neck (8 frets above the 5th string peg) and a bluegrass tone ring? Like the one John Stewart had in about 1964? I loved the sound of those.

I now return you to your irregular programming.

hf

This was a shameless veer :shock: :!:

 

[JerryR]

Speaking of roughage, I went to an open mike venue last night and observed a most unusual artist. I guess he thought he was "somebody" the way he expected to be pampered prior to his performance. He actually had the nerve to ask for a stool softener. I know - what nerve!! All the other folks had to go up on that little stage and sit on a hard, wooden bar stool.

Well, anyway, he gets up there and starts playing his butt off, gets about halfway through the first song and then - eureka - everybody realizes what he meant by his request. He did a rousing rendition of "Man of Constipation" from the movie "O Crap, Where Art Thou?"

Why is any of this important? He was playing a Gilled!! I got pretty excited about that because I thought he might let me play it a little after he was done with his "business". Didn't happen! At the end of his second song, that crazy dude went ballistic and started smashing his Gilled on the stage. I grimaced as the thing splintered into little fish sticks.

Get a rope...

It wasn't his Gilled Guitar - it belonged to a marine mammal called Hugh. Smashing his Gilled was really a crime against Hugh Manatee :roll:

 

[eastcoastbuzz]

JerryR posted
It wasn't his Gilled Guitar - it belonged to a marine mammal called Hugh. Smashing his Gilled was really a crime against Hugh Manatee


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[coastie99]

It wasn't his Gilled Guitar - it belonged to a marine mammal called Hugh. Smashing his Gilled was really a crime against Hugh Manatee :roll:

Jerry, Jerry, Jerry !!

Have you been taking your medication with warm beer again ????

 

[Default]

If he isn't, he should be!

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Jerry,

This might be a good time to veer some more. Why did Brits in WW2 call the Germans "Jerry"?

hf

 

[Default]

Because calling him "Honeybuns" might give the wrong impression?

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Or the right impression, if you've been a P. O. W. long enough.

 

[JerryR]

Jerry,

This might be a good time to veer some more. Why did Brits in WW2 call the Germans "Jerry"?

hf

Not too sure oh hatted one - we also had phrases like 'jerry can' (water canteen) and 'jerry built' (flimsy or ramshakle) but I don't hnow if there is any connection there. Maybe it was originally 'code' for the enemie (e.g. why 'Charlie' for the Vietcong - was it C for Charlie, C for Cong?). I know my mother didn't like me being called Jerry as a baby because it had been the name for the enemy :mrgreen:

 

[Jeff]

Jerry,

This might be a good time to veer some more. Why did Brits in WW2 call the Germans "Jerry"?

hf

Maybe it was originally 'code' for the enemie (e.g. why 'Charlie' for the Vietcong - was it C for Charlie, C for Cong?). I know my mother didn't like me being called Jerry as a baby because it had been the name for the enemy :mrgreen:

I'm guessing Charlie's roots are in the Military phonetic alphabet; A= Alpha, etc, VC = Victor Charlie.

 

[JerryR]

Jerry,

This might be a good time to veer some more. Why did Brits in WW2 call the Germans "Jerry"?

hf

Maybe it was originally 'code' for the enemie (e.g. why 'Charlie' for the Vietcong - was it C for Charlie, C for Cong?). I know my mother didn't like me being called Jerry as a baby because it had been the name for the enemy :mrgreen:

I'm guessing Charlie's roots are in the Military phonetic alphabet; A= Alpha, etc, VC = Victor Charlie.

That was my guess Jeff - BTW we also used the term 'Jerry Can' for a piss pot :wink: