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You can get an A style for 150 bucks and put a little work into it. You'll know if you are meant to play mandolin. Go from there....
John Fogerty was definitely tuned this way for some of his best stuff....

re: Anything good to do in Bogalusa ?

Posted by auggie on 6/2/24 at 1:39 am
You can go let the air out of the tires of the trailers at the box plant, you might get hurt though....
[quote]DavidTheGnome[/quote] When I went to the store tonight, they had stickers on the windows That had gnomes in red white and blue jeeps That said " Gnome Of The Brave" I got a chuckle out off it and thought about you posting here. I love goofy stuff like that....
My favorite too. It's got a really nice brief bridge that works so well....
[quote] Those look amazing. Wouldnt mind a red Gibson 335[/quote] I want everything I see :lol:...

re: Gretsch Jim Dandy Parlor Guitar..

Posted by auggie on 6/1/24 at 11:26 pm
[quote] They have them with pickups. They used to be called the Gin Rickey but now they call them the Jim Dandy Deltoluxe.[/quote] I've seen those too, But I will probably do some cutting and install a splitable mini-humbucker, put a copper plate over the bridge that the strings will run through a...
Beautiful. Congratulations . I want one of those Chet Atkins Orange Gretsch ones really bad....
Beautiful. Congratulations . I want one of those Chet Atkins Orange Gretsch ones really bad....
Beautiful. How are you liking it? In your photo, the bridge pickup doesn't appear to be gold plated, Is that just the lighting?...
That was a hell of a cold front. The next day there were cars all over that froze up because they didn't have antifreeze in them yet....
[quote] Zierdt Strong[/quote] You live on Zierdt now? We did Back then. I was working at Wyle Laboratories....
Me too, I don't know how that song ever got airplay....
Wish I had known about this show before now. LaGrange isn't far from me. I like all of those guys....
It's a great feel good song....

re: Gretsch Jim Dandy Parlor Guitar..

Posted by auggie on 6/1/24 at 7:28 pm
[quote] I do a lot of fingerpicking and the smaller guitars are a lot better for me. I barely touch my dreadnaught anymore.[/quote] Same here. You need a big boomy guitar for some things though. I'm probably going to order an Epiphone J200 soon, or one of the Takamine Jumbos I'm kind of leanin...
That was a bad day and night. I still lived there then. My oldest daughter was 3 weeks old....
[quote]Can I cop metal tones from a telecaster thru an ac-15? I’ll stack a few drive pedals…[/quote] I'm using my Telly with Fret shack's P90 telly set. It sounds awesome. playing out of A minor( would really be F minor now). I'm about to try it on my Telly with the '62 pickups. Probably run it th...
[quote] To a C? I think the lowest I ever knew about was C#. Anthrax has an awesome song called "Keep It in the Family" that's tuned to C#.[/quote] You really couldn't give it any designation like that. Each string would be tuned down 2 whole steps from standard tuning. So playing an A chord wou...