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I saw ZZ Top after Dusty's passing. They had a new bass player who had his own ZZ style beard.  I forget his name. It was a profoundly country name. Roscoe or something like that. They did tip their hat to Dusty by doing a kind of reverse karaoke wherein the band played live, but they used an isolated vocals track of Dusty singing Tush. They weren't trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes. They were open about doing this and said why they were doing it. Apparently Tush was Dusty's favorite song to sing.     

If there are more than four chords, it's the song-writer's fault.     

Welcome to the new members.

Please tell us a bit about your musical adventure.     

I tracked it down, by contacting the guy who I bought the guitar from, who called the guy that he bought the guitar from, as to what strings were on it when I came into possession.

They were D'Addario flat wound jazz lights (.11-.42, I think). 

So I went the entirely wrong direction.  LOL! That's how we do what we do, I suppose.     

Doctors now don't BELIEVE that she has cancer.

They BELIEVED she had cancer a few days ago and now they don't.

I do wish some facts were available, but given her troublesome health, perhaps this is the best they can do. Scope and fluid tests do not indicate cancer.     

Thanks Uncle Joe. We're still playing it safe here for now. I will take you up on that soon, though.     

Dang it! A broken hip is a bad deal.     

I don't favor the pickled pigs feet myself, but I much prefer the term "trotters" for them.

I have no idea what a cockle is. Is it a rooster with a hard shell?

Not sure what cawl is, but I suspect it's something different than here, as here it refers to a placenta. I would hope you're not eating those in pubs.

I do like curry, but I prefer it made with goat or seafood rather than Welsh. They put up too much of a fight and then they sing you a song about it.     

I also finally finished the Zurf Pbass Model One by putting on lighter gauge strings 0.40-0.95. They're GHS strings that are round wound but with a light buffing to knock down the roughness. I think they call the Brite Lites or something like that. I added a pushy-downy thing above the nut for the D and G strings. With the lighter strings I had to do another setup, but it went smoothly. At some point I'm going to need to route out the area where the bridge goes so that I can get the strings a little lower action. They're all the way down in a Kick-Ass Model 4 and still slightly too high. And I have in the lower inserts.

Anyway, it sounds much more even across the strings now. I can play at and above the 12th fret on the D and G strings for some nice little riffs and it is the same volume and feel as elsewhere, which with bigger standard round wound strings did not sound good.

But more importantly, my fingers aren't torn up by the strings.     

I'm glad you got your power back.

Unintentional randomly scheduled camping at home is no fun at all.     

I would be absolutely delighted to make that happen.  My camper has more or less fallen apart since you were there when that widowmaker branch tore the awning off. I am hoping to purchase a new one relatively soon, and then Zurfapalooza sounds like a great way to break it in.