I Want My Candy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

richardp69

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So, I needed a couple Guild gig bags. I went onto Reverb and found a seller that offered them for $85 with free shipping. They arrived yesterday and they are nice, sturdy, well padded gig bags.

I had never dealt with the seller before (or so I thought) but that's ok I buy from lots of folks I've never dealt with before. They arrived yesterday and lo and behold they were actually from Sweetwater although the Reverb listing didn't say that. Maybe they were surplus or something and they sell from a different division or something.

None of all this is important but what is important is that Sweetwater did not include my candy. Dammit, I wany my candy and I want it now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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First time I got something from Sweetwater was also from Ebay. I had no idea it was them, and at the time had no idea that they shipped candy. Well, my kids who were probably 5 and 7 at the time begged me for the candy and I told them no because we don't eat random candy from Ebay strangers.

Apparently that left a mark because they still remind about that.
 

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All of the Faber LP parts I used to get from Deutschland contained lovely Haribo little bear gummies, and parts from Japan sometimes have very nice candy in an expensive container, with a big letter attached, all in Japanese.

You're not supposed to eat the Haribos, but save them as some kind of memento, and then eventually if you get down to the last thing to eat in the bomb shelter, you eat them. It's survival food ;]
 

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Definitely BW here.

I actually watched a lot of the old Star Trek on BW only.

Strangeloves.

I never thought of wearing my bass like that, what were we thinking?
 
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Richard:
Got six sets of strings from Sweetwater in today's mail - three acoustic and three electric plus "Sweets."
 

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I’d take a guess that the seller was Jeff’s Music Gear?

That’s the shop name they use frequently for selling used gear, returns, etc on eBay.
 
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Here's the real deal: Feldman, Goldstein & Gottehrer, the original Strangeloves. They assembled a band to play live dates. That's what you saw in the preceding video.

Same thing happened with The Grass Roots. P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri wrote and recorded a bunch of Dylan-styled folk/rock tunes, and scored a recording deal with Dunhill Records in LA. They released "Where Were You When I Needed You," and it became a hit. Their first album was just Sloan and Barri with session musicians. Then, there became a demand for "The Grass Roots" to play live gigs. It was just Sloan and Barri, neither of whom had any desire to go on the road, so they recruited a San Francisco band called The Bedouins to become The Grass Roots. There were some attempts at recording, but they largely didn't work out, and The Bedouins were fired. Sloan and Barri then hired an LA band called, I believe, the 13th Floor, and added bassist/vocalist Rob Grill to the mix, and that became The Grass Roots, a manufactured band that scored some huge hits.

 
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I told them no because we don't eat random candy from Ebay strangers.

Tough love, right there. Good for you.

The candy from Sweetwater thing has always mystified me. The free pack of white guitar picks from juststrings.com ... that one I can get behind. Those picks are all I use now.
 

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I had to fight strangers with candy off, bank tellers, remember the days of standing in line at the bank?

They'd be like pushing it on my kid and I had to be the Terminator every time and say no.

By the time she was in her 20's, she'd never had a single cavity.

Halloweens were tough too.
 
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