Doing bad things to a Stratocaster version 1

EddieRUKiddingVare

EddieRUKiddingVare

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Cool John. I've built a few bridges and have tried not to experiment too much. Now a water treatment plant experimentation that would be more scarey, I think.

I'm still reading my Eric Burdon book "Please don't let me be Miss-undertood' at present- he has had one messed up life but gotta give him credit for still being out there (in more ways then one) and performing. Just got past the bit where he was locked up in a German prision........

The penal colony talk usually comes from Brits and Kiwi's- these days interestingly it is a mark of honour of a type to have a convict in the family tree, as would made you a very long term aussie background ie 10 or more gens. Alas none in my family tree, where farmers and copper miners from UK.

Friends yep don't believe I've ever watch an episode either

For me it was probably some of hte early Pink Floyd stuff that got me interested in electric guitar, apart from our local Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs.

Ps Its embrassing when you find bits left over at the end of building a bridge- you think should I look where it came from.........
 
teddy

teddy

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That often happens when I build something. I built the extension on my cottage fifteen years ago and am still finding bits. Wall ties, damp proofing, plumbing parts and a pile of Welsh slate` in the garden.

teddy
 
John Watt

John Watt

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Somehow, the thought of finding Welsh slate in the garden would be mystical here.
Is grayflattensplittenrok the Welsh word for that?

I'm still laughing a little at EddieRUKiddingVare's "Miss-understood".
Mr. and Mrs. Mean Mistreater was a good old blues song title,
but I'm seeing a modern song about online titled "Miss Understood",
because everyone can see what she's putting up, as self-serving as it is.

City of Welland engineering:
Here in Welland the city had to pay the region for over $500,000 worth of water
that disappeared through holes in unrepaired pipes,
and while council members travel to Europe and into the disUnited States,
saying they are bringing us back "the better way",
they're not replacing this over ninety year old system.
The City of Welland releases more untreated water through failures
than any other city in Ontario.
When someone representing the Italian mob became mayor,
the first thing he did as part of the recreational waterway,
what was supposed to be turning the old ship canal into aquatic attractions,
was build a new subdivision with his father beside the canal
and put a storm sewer that empties into the canal, browning it up all the time.
That was the first new addition to the canal in over forty years.

By the way, I tried to listen to these videos but they're not allowed for my country.
That's what it said.
 
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EddieRUKiddingVare

EddieRUKiddingVare

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Good to see the management water etc, is as good there as here.....................

So the youtube stuff wont open for you in Canada mmmm, I get that here to with some stuff I can't access in Oz land either - so much for the free world being free!
 
teddy

teddy

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They waste an enormous amount of water over here through leaks. We probably would not have any water shortages if they mended them all. The forty year old plans for a new reservoir outside Canterbury are still doing the rounds. As is talk of a local desalination plant which would make water costs double. Rainwater collection systems for houses would probably ease the situation. But then they would almost certainly charge us for them. No real answers up to now.

teddy
 
John Watt

John Watt

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I've got a hand-blown glass brain that glows blues and pale purples,
with Teslant electronics that emulates synaptic activities.
When you reach toward it the activities react, more when you touch.
Touching it with the tuners when my guitar is plugged in is way better.
Coming soon to a Youtube video near you.

A young woman neighbour bought an almost two foot tall lava lamp for $5,
with pale purple water and yellow globs.
I'm currently, yes a poor play on words, negotiating for it.

And I finally found an old electric motor that goes slow,
so I can get a disco ball going, $1 from Dollarama.

I bought some laser etched, holographic bristleboard, silver mirror background,
$2 each at the Dollarama,
and made a nice little curved stage, with background and roof, for the blue brain,
so it reflects like a few of them and lets the light move around even more.

And teddy, I can see you standing there with your guitar strapped on, and your shirt open,
rubbing an ice cube around your neck, licking it, rubbing it on your chest,
and then using it as a slide on your strings, adding some appropriate glacial tone,
if you're imitating Clapton.
 
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John Watt

John Watt

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Jimi Hendrix sang about "the echoes of glaciers from long ago".
I wondered if he had to spend a lot of time waiting at the end of bars,
for ice.

EddieRUKiddingVare! Your dot pattern is, uh, riveting.

I did a very bad thing to a mint '64 Stratocaster in 1970.
I drilled holes on the left side of the neck as fret guides, and filled them in with white epoxy.
That didn't bother everyone as much as my hacksaw evening of the body scallops.
This was the first Stratocaster sold in the Niagara Peninsula.
A Buddy Holly fan ordered it but traded it in after three months for a set of drums,
and it hung there until I got it in 1970.
 
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John Watt

John Watt

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Yeah, it would be worth a minimum $15,000 if I kept it original, and still had it.
It was worn out, frets as flat as they could go, and I wanted to build a lefty.
So I sold it to another guitarist far away, not wanting to hear someone else play it.

John Mayall? Wow! This is so mid-sixties for me, and why I first didn't get hot for Clapton.
A high school bassist invited me to his house, wanting me to play his guitar,
and he had John Mayall's Bluesbreakers album.
He figured out Crossroads and showed it to me, note for note.
I always think of Clapton as easy to do with just two fingers.
This also didn't motivate me to get my own guitar.
I bought John Mayall's album with Marc-Almond, two jazzy guys, and percussion, no drums.

It's hard for me to buy any recording if I can't jam along with it.
Yeah, I was listening to Jimi, Deep Purple and King Crimson,
but jamming along with my over fifteen John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones albums.
Beethoven is nice to jam along with.
Without demeaning classical musicians, it's amazing what the human mind can become acclimatized to,
enabling you to jam along or improvise your own lyrics.
And you know, almost everyone thinks they can sing like Elvis.
 
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John Watt

John Watt

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Oh.... oh, my head hurts a little.
Why, oh why, am I now compelled to type "Who's on third?"
This can only be a cinematic synapse emerging from my brain,
incapable of exhibiting the visuals, just the audio.
Aaaaaaabbbbbbottttttttt! A bot is right.
 
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teddy

teddy

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We shall have to start calling you Raymond. Now I must go and count my tooth picks

teddy
 
John Watt

John Watt

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I'm going to pick someone long in the tooth,
a local band called "A Foot in Coldwater".
They were one of the first Ontario bands to use a Stratocaster and Marshall stack.
You can see the guitarist and bassist personalized their guitars.
A Toronto club owner put together a house band called Nucleus,
and when they broke up within the year they became "A Foot in Coldwater",
changing members but enduring to this day, or night. or outback twilight.

Their first big hit single, even if the host cuts them off too soon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek_Xf2HTsZo

Lots of songs on their domain:
http://www.afootincoldwater.com/
 
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