dragonworks
Banned
59 strat.....
wow ......... way cool! Yep, I lived in Baton Rouge my entire life 'till I moved to Florida a couple years ago.
Who was it that I bought that from ? ..... David Zammit maybe ? ..... no it was ...... oh crap, they had a big TV dealership/repair shop. Crap ..... it's right on the tip of my tongue ........ dammit. man ..... can't come up with it ....
I actually know/knew Guy pretty well. This is cool, to run into someone who was around BR.Was it maybe Guy Schaeffer (the guy who played bass for Potliquor)? I dunno, a lot of brain cells have kicked it since then.
As for the kick in the butt I owe you, I will reciprocate for the very cherry early 60's Melody Maker that I had (also in Baton Rouge, also in the late 60's) that I thought needed "improving" by refinishing and installing humbuckers, tune-o-matic bridge and tailpiece, and tuners.
I actually know/knew Guy pretty well. This is cool, to run into someone who was around BR.
No, I definitely didn't buy it from Guy, I knew and hung with Potliquor and I would have remembered getting it from him.
I think it was Lamonica but to tell the truth ...... that was a LOT of smoking/drinking/snorting ago.
ggunn ..... did you play around BR back then?
Under what name? (You can PM it) ...... I'm thinking I simply MUST have run into you back then.
wow .... I remember Boss Tweed ..... or at least that there was a band by that name.Not a whole lot. I was in a band around LSU in 1968 that we called "Boss Tweed". Other than that I mainly jammed around. I went to LSU from '67 to '71, and then for a couple of semesters '72-'73. I met Guy a couple of times; that was why I was thinking maybe it was him who had that LP bass. Heck, maybe it was you; I had friends in BR and I went back there periodically well into the mid-late 70's when I was living in Lafayette and Lake Chuck.
Potliquor... I digitized Levee Blues from vinyl a couple of years ago and amazed some friends of mine with it. My band got to open for them in '78 or so, but George was long gone by then. I don't remember if Guy was still with them.
Bands around there back then I remember: Potliquor, The War Babies, The Basement Wall, Ivy Peebles Medicine Show, Bill Wray and the Showband Royale, the Luvrakers... The bassist for the Luvrakers was a Phthalidimide baby with very short arms and no thumbs; he played the neck over the top with his little finger hooked behind it.
Crazy days... We used to go down to the Warehouse in Newalins on weekends. I saw some great shows there.
God, I'm old...
Courtney's a TV guy or something like that. Plays with a band called Kicks that plays all these corporate type gigs. They suck .... well .... actually they sound good but they're the kind of band that learns stuff lick for lick like the record and are incapable of stretching beyond that at all ....... white boys playing at music.
Make a lot of money though.
In 1979 I lost a 1965 Guild Starfire V that I owned to my own stupidity for having mentioning (in passing) to my wife (now ex-wife) that I was considering selling the guitar in order to purchase a Les Paul.
I ventured away on a business trip for a couple of days and when I returned she informed me that she sold my Starfire V and she was quite proud that she got $100 for it.
Not a whole lot. I was in a band around LSU in 1968 that we called "Boss Tweed". Other than that I mainly jammed around. I went to LSU from '67 to '71, and then for a couple of semesters '72-'73. I met Guy a couple of times; that was why I was thinking maybe it was him who had that LP bass. Heck, maybe it was you; I had friends in BR and I went back there periodically well into the mid-late 70's when I was living in Lafayette and Lake Chuck.
Potliquor... I digitized Levee Blues from vinyl a couple of years ago and amazed some friends of mine with it. My band got to open for them in '78 or so, but George was long gone by then. I don't remember if Guy was still with them.
Bands around there back then I remember: Potliquor, The War Babies, The Basement Wall, Ivy Peebles Medicine Show, Bill Wray and the Showband Royale, the Luvrakers... The bassist for the Luvrakers was a Phthalidimide baby with very short arms and no thumbs; he played the neck over the top with his little finger hooked behind it.
Crazy days... We used to go down to the Warehouse in Newalins on weekends. I saw some great shows there.
God, I'm old...
I googled Ivy Peeble's Medicine Show, and this thread came up. My mom sang in that band, and it is nice to see people remembering them fondly. ♡
So I yanked out the pretty cool electronics and installed them into a Rickenbacher I had and threw the Les Paul bass away!