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Lots of great stories here, some familiar ... but most new to me (anyway). I grew up in a family full of story-tellers and odd nicknames, and when we were kids (with a 2-channel, B&W TV) visitors and their stories were standard Saturday night entertainment. That's a part of the past that I miss.

Thanks, everyone ... keep 'em coming!

I like the way you're wired ... people <-> people, without a phone in between.

Here's a real unusual version of AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" ... played hillbilly style:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iN … mp;index=1

Different, weird ... but very good!

Hilarious stuff, BGD ... thanks! Reminds me of Monty Python and The Two Ronnies all wrapped into one.

Tabs are something I only became aware of in the last 10 years or so. I'll admit that they've been useful on a few pieces where I needed some help (especially when learning a solo), but they're not usually my "go to" way of learning a song. For example, I can't imagine how I could have learned the solos in Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" without tabs.

Hi Bill ...

Here in the "Great White North", we also celebrate Labor Day on the first Monday of September, using the more cumbersome spelling of "Labour Day". Apparently, our Canadian roots go back to the 1800's, when some people were jailed for staging a strike, demanding a 9-hour maximum workday. Nowadays, it's just a paid statutory holiday, which many people enjoy as a break between the outgoing summer, and the oncoming Fall season.

Good strategy, TIG ... my wife and I do the same thing for our hobbies. If it's $$$ earned "on the side" it can be spent on guitars, fishing gear, horse tack, kayak stuff, dollhouse miniature supplies, etc., etc., etc. Everyone's happy!

All that aside...

The very notion that our beloved JJJ would turn down a FREE GUITAR has my internal wiring shorting out. Are you well? Do you need to see a doctor? I've always thought that G.A.S. was incurable, but you may have a medical breakthrough that needs a patent!

Glad you guys had good memories of his work. Salvador Dali also comes to mind when thinking of weird artwork. Back in the days of hallucinogens, this was how the world looked sometimes:

This thread has gotten kind of funny (in a cruel, insensitive way).

My Mom and late-Dad were avid bridge players with a group of other seniors. Dad used to say that their conversations were an "organ recital", with everyone talking about their inner health issues. My own contribution is primarily my 19 broken bones (to date). I've played a lot of sports, and went at them all aggressively as if I was Superman. Sometimes I think an opponent had some Kryptonite in their pocket.

One of the things we'd look for in a Roger Dean painting was when / where he chose to use or ignore gravity. There would be pieces of a planet floating in mid-air above the ground, but the waterfalls on them always flowed downwards naturally. Rocks would be floating in the air, but animals would be running in between them with their feet on the ground ... and so on.

Safe to say that Physics wasn't included with his art classes!

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