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That's a shame.
If anyone ventures near Lansing, MI, make sure to take a pilgrimage to Elderly Instruments. The drool factor is very strong there, with amazing new and vintage instruments and many one of a kind buys and great prices. A friend of mine recently bought a bunch of instruments there, at an amazing discount. So much of a discount that he actually gave me a new Martin D-35 as a gift - it was part of a package deal that actually ended up making two D-35's turn out to be free. My Cort, Vantage 12-string and my vintage Giannini 12-string have been sitting idle since I got my hands on the Martin.

Stickers on the pickguard won't harm anything on an accoustic...

Just sayin'

Political reporting boils down to the "horse race", and very seldom about actual issues. Look at the Iraq invasion of 2003. Except for PBS news, no one dared report the inconsistencies of U.S. policy, despite the many voices raising questons. Almost a million people marched in New York City, just prior to the invasion, and I can not recall it being even a sidebar on TV news. It was the largest anti-war demonstration in decades! In Euorlpe, MILLIONS of people in most major capitals also marched, and were not even mentioned, in print or on TV.

No one seems to be asking why NATO intervention was so urgent in Lybia, but a non starter in Syria.

The only U.S. news I watch, from Canada, is PBS, including Bill Moyers, whose voice seems to be the only rational newscaster and commentator in existence, in my eyes.

The reasons for the "lack of news" on television is, simply put, that news broadcasts from the networks are not "national" news anymore, but corporate news. If a story is bad for business, or a discussion points fingers at the growing putocracy, it simply doesn't air.

Sorry for the rant...

Lead wss Harrison.
I believe he was playing a Groetch(sp?) through a Marshall studio amp.
The distortion was probably a simple fuzz pedal.

It is is an outrageously cool song!

I promise pics on the weekend - I will have the camera and cable and download figured out by Saturday night. Once I re-read the picture posting sticky, I will give it a whirl.

I have had the guitar one month, and I swear my playing has improved, immensely. It is my first Martin, and I cannot believe the playability and quick action and most of all the enormous tone. It is a joy to play. My other guitars haven't been touched since I got it.

Does every new Martin owner feel their playing improve that quickly?

Randy

Russians have a long history with RockNRoll. There has been a discussion amongst historians as to the influence of the Beatles on the Soviet boomers, and the Soviet reaction to them. They were banned from legitimate sales in the former USSR until around 1978, but Soviet kids idolized them, bootlegging millions of copies of Beatles songs recorded from Radio Free Europe, and Radio Luxemburg, which were a hot commodity amongst Soviet youth despite severe sanctions for being caught with copies.

I saw a brilliant documentary called "How the Beatles Rocked the Soviet Union", about the phenomenon. Beatlemania was alive and growing in the USSR, fully ten years after the breakup of the band. A lot of the "aged" rockers were from that group that defied Soviet authority by listening to Beatles tunes.

The hypothesis is that this common nose-thumbing at Soviet authority in the mid-sixties to mid-seventies allowed Soviet youth to breathe the fresh air of freedom at a time when freedom was a scarce commodity in that place. Even Gorbachev, the first "next-generation" premier, professed his love of Beatles music, from the time of his youth.

The old guy is one of those Soviet Beatlemaniacs, I am certain.

Without a doubt, "Highway 61"!

Close second, "Subterranean Homesick Blues"

I wouldn't go back to say, 1920's Germany - the temptation to change future history would be too great. Hitler - dead - Stalin - dead, Mao, dead. Wonder where we'd be today with those 3 expunged from history?

Randy

Pete Seeger kept folk musice alive during the McCarthy communist witch hunts of the 1950's, by playing to classrooms, when he couldn't get commercial gigs due to the blacklist. He is the godfather of the folk movement in the late 50's and throught the 60's, still influencing artists.
Happy Birthday, Pete. Keep telling it like it is.

I was amazed at the quality of the singer - the bassist was an actual fill-in for Queen when they were touring. Remarkable voice on the Freddy Mercury vocals, though. He even looked a little like Freddy.
They did great!