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I think that "Can't wait to see the latest pix of the newbies" is too long a name for a band.

Not even an instrumental number?

Okay, so an album title for a psyche group.

Which of course would lead to the Can't wait to see the latest pix of the newbies tour.

Thankfully, new breakthroughs in communication will enable us to refer to them as CWTSTLPOTN. Think of the time we'll save!

Which of course would lead to them being called Quits 'til pot in.

As with so many psyche bands, I knew there'd be a drug reference in there somewhere.

I thought that was the acronym for the newest Presidential Initiative.

The "S" stands for "silly" and the "T"s all stand for "timewastin'".

Except for one--it stands for "Texas".

The "CW"--well, that's Country and Western, which I understand is neither these days...

The rest is up to us as 'Murkin citizens.

"L" is for larruping.

Can't never ferget larruping. Only with 'lectricity these days, u'course.

...Dean

Hmmm....well, I think the American people could sure use some newbies.

'Specially fer President!

LARPing

A live action role-playing game (LARP or LRP) is a form of role-playing game where the participants perform some or all of the physical actions of the characters they are playing within a pre-determined space for a pre-determined span of time. LARP may be considered a form of improvisational theater.

Or, it could be considered the most massively nerdiest activity ever. Your call.

LARPing could be a new confluence activity. Role playing the Beatles or the Byrds or...

Now LARPing in the can is pushing it.

...Dean

According to Webster's:

lar-rup 1. To flog soundly: whip 2. To defeat decisively: trounce Dialect: to move indolently or clumsily: slouch


Ummmmm.... Was Howard larruping in the can with his Strat a couple of weeks ago? ....I think it looked like he was using too soft a touch for that.... Maybe that's what Paul does to Strats when nobody's looking.... (He suggested that, not me!)

Well then!

Absolutely NO larupping the Rics!! In any of the dictionary forms!

...Dean

The LARRUPING stops here.

It's Glenn Wall's 620/12. A sort of re-creation on the Tom Petty/Mike Campbell "Damn the Torpedoes" cover guitar--the famous 625.

The list of modifications to Glenn's original '79 620/12, which was very, very well-used by the owner before him, is quite extensive.

He insisted that we keep the original tuners, though, so I did.

It was stripped, rebound and re-finished. Refretted, too, of course. The machined triangular inlays were taken out to full width and re-inlaid. (How many 620s have you seen like this?) A special AFG color was mixed and sprayed. Altogether, 12 days were taken to paint this guitar and three to polish it. Late model scatterwound toasters were installed on rubber grommets. The toasters were disassembled and redone with the proper early '60s style truss head screws, and slotted head screws were used wherever possible. New guards were made from a translucent grade of acrylic, and edges were rounded and polished like the old days. A lightly-used trapeze tailpiece was fitted.

We both realize that this is not 100% historically correct, as we did not have the actual instrument in front of us, but it's obvious that we had a lot of fun capturing the look of the original.

Mostly what needs attention are the replacement of the Phillips head screws on the tuners and guards, with proper slotted, nickel plated oval-head screws, but all in due time.

This is why my fingers have been smelling like Zymol lately!!!

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