LOL I met the first guitarist I ever tried to build a band with at a pizza parlor...Awesome player and we had some fun but never really got anything off the ground other than a few freeby gigs....@ 1973 I was busted for possession of pot was a truly unpleasant and costly experience...it was dropped to a misdemeanor and I got "diversion" whew! Part of that deal was probation and drug n alcohol school..Well the "teacher" was a LA Sheriff...really cool cat and thought that all of us there for pot was bullshit....we had a "field trip" to a pizza parlor where one of the students friends was going to entertain us with his guitar playing....That's where I met Steve Kuehn the aforementioned guitar player...funny how things work out....Live rock bands in pizza parlors were unexpected and quite a treat as most were some of the quietest places around.
Hmmmmm? Reminds of another song that blew me away in 69 Ballad of Dwight Fry I was gone for 14 days...I could have been gone for more
We only came out at night...between 76 and 80 we played a lot of gigs in LA but only one during the daytime and it was inside at a local college...we did do several backyard parties and two big outdoor gigs but always at night....
Enjoyed that one.. but I only got it through the Left channel......
Couldn't find any old videos but found this 2010 video of him playing a reunion gig... skip forward into the video 2 minutes to avoid the history lesson in local rock bands... Steve is the guitar player on the right...Jimmy Ham ( bad ass player too) playing guitar on the left....
My absolute favorite AC song! For some reason, I could always relate to that one. Maybe because I always felt like..."I GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE!"
I've never had money. But, I've never been destitute. I've always had a paycheck. But, I don't have a bank account. I just turned 60 Sunday (I thought I'd be dead before 30). My gift is the ability to get a deal. My first guitar was a Fender Telecaster back in the late 70s (I think I paid $150). Which I could never play. I always wanted a Mick Ronson Les Paul. But, bought the tele because I saw Roy Buchanan play one and the strings were like butter in his hands. What a tragic magnificent guitarist he was.
I drove into a gas station where I knew the attendant and asked "John could you teach me how to play guitar?" He responded "George play bass, there's a thousand guitarists for every bass player." I went to his house that night and he taught me half of the New York Dolls songs. We started a band. He knew I was Johnny Thunders fanatic and traded me my tele for his 57 - 59 (I don't remember the exact year) Les Paul special double cutaway. My girlfriend at the time bought me a Fender Precision bass. I've added 15 or so more guitars including two Bond Electroglides, an 86 Les Paul Standard, the very first Roland guitar synth, all for less than the OP paid for his Ampeg amp. My biggie is an 86 Gibson model double neck (exactly like Page's), My mom picked up at a garage sale a Gretsch Electromatic for $5. I bought a year or two ago a 60s Gibson LG-1 at an antique store for $65. I talked them down from $75. Though I'd have paid the $75. I grabbed that guitar as soon as I saw it, I'm walking around the store and some kid (probably late teens) asks if he can see the guitar. He looks in and starts checking shit on his phone. I'm thinking "It's a Gibson with a $75 price tag. If you don't know to grab it, you certainly don't deserve it."
I love a bargain. The only sad part. I don't really play many of them. I use the 86 Les Paul and Precision to record, and when I was down in Nashville I picked up a Craviola acoustic for $100 that I love. But, most just sit in their cases. An unplayed instrument is like the island of misfit toys.
I'd love to have that LP Special DC! And the doubleneck! What finish is the 86 LP?
August 1969..
I had heard Jimi played his Strat upside down, but never knew for sure if he just flipped a righty and played it upside down, strings and all, or what. Watching him at Woodstock cleared that up. His righty Strat was flipped but strung upside down for a lefty.
(I wasn't there. Saw it on Woodstock : 3 Days That Defined A Generation)
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Rock stars are always more famous and admired when they are dead.