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TomFest

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  1. This will be interesting - "Fleetwood Mike".  Lindsey Buckingham has quite a different style than most - all fingerpicking, if I'm not mistaken.  I'm sure Mike can handle the guitar work, and it looks like Neil Finn (Crowded  House) will cover Lindsey's vocals.   I suppose tickets will be a small fortune.  As I recall, Fleetwood Mac were the first to break the $100 barrier. 


  2. Beauty.  I like the headstock design.  Mini-humbuckers is different for a double-neck. I don't think I've seen that before.  Try "Runnin' Down A Dream" on that 6-string neck.  I bet it sounds great.  A double-neck is actually a great idea for covering Tom Petty songs.  It seems like almost every song has a 12 in it.


  3. Pretty guitar.  Did they tell you how much it weighs?  Double-necks are typically quite heavy. 

    Regarding the strings, I know the Beatles used flatwounds back in the day.  A lot of people still use flatwounds on their Rickenbackers.  I tried them once on one of my Rics and didn't really like them much.  Kind of "thuddy", I thought.  I use roundwounds on my 12-string.  Ernie Ball light gauge nickel wound - 9 to 46 on the heavy strings, and 9 to 26 on the light ones.


  4. To say "changed my life" is probably too big a statement for me to commit to, but I was certainly inspired to learn to play guitar by a number of artists - The Beatles and The Rolling Stones not the least among them. But I bought my first guitar after hearing Jim Croce sing and play.  


  5. I just realized that today is the 40th anniversary of one of my all time favorite rock and roll road-trips - down from Seattle to L.A. in my jalopy of a '65 Dodge Dart for Cal Jam 2 at Ontario Motor Speedway.  Aerosmith, Heart, Dave Mason, Foreigner on their first tour, Santana, Terrible Ted, and more.  A great day of music.

    Too bad Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers didn't play that show.  They started a west coast tour about 3 weeks after Cal Jam 2, so it seems like they would have been available.  Probably just not well-known enough quite yet to get into that kind of a show.


  6. 5 hours ago, nobodyinparticular said:

    Kidney stones are legitimately terrifying. There's pictures of them under electron microscopes. Wouldn't recommend looking them up. 

    Yeah, I've had 2 of those over the years.  Absolutely the worst pain I've ever felt......twice.

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