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I came home with a nice treat. Topdown let me have the guitar I played all weekend. It's a Takemine with a cutaway and a cedar top. I've already started to learn the extra range for some flatpicking. My computer is down - if some could nab a photo for me from the Chordiestock pictures floating around on Facebook, it's the guitar with the beautiful wood inlay around the sound hole that I was picking all weekend.

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Great looking guitar Zurf looks like your going to have a lot more fun with practice, oh and one more thing nice petal pushers lol

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Thanks Jeff.  I forgot I could use my work computer.  Here's another shot, which conveniently shows my other fashionable new hat.  I think Topdown took this picture.  Either him or Cowboy Keith. 

Yeah Russell, I know those shoes are ugly, but it's like Guy Clark says, "I can work in them all day, and dance all night."  You know, if I danced.  Plus, if you've been following my shoe sagas on Facebook, you'll know that I have a thing for shoes and ugly shoes in particular.  I think I have more shoes than my wife has. 

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Well.  I guess the black hat at night doesn't show so good.  You'll just have to trust that I'm wearing a hat because the flash isn't reflecting off my chrome dome.

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5 Reply by dino48 (edited by dino48 2016-03-22 17:15:26)

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Happy ngd zurf.  That looks a lot like my jg72ae Takamine but my tak is all natural colors. I have that Tak and a tiny tak and I am happy with both of them.

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Hey Zurf,

Was the first pic taken Sunday evening at the Holiday Inn?  I really hated that I missed playing that night as I had promised Tony I'd come and play some of my originals.  Who were the Chordians that showed up and played?

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Dirty Ed - That was at Jimmy Guana's on Sunday night.  Jeff didn't play.  Other than me,  Topdawg, Cowboy Keith, uh...uh...uh....Southpaw of course because it was his gig.  There were a bunch of Topdown's local friends.  The Stanleys, Cristyn did some of her beautiful jazz originals, Ed jumped in with just about everybody and absolutely killed it, I know I'm forgetting a big list of people.  It was a lot of fun and all the music but mine was stellar.  I choked out Distantly In Love, Duncan, Country Road, Cold Day in July and I honestly can't remember whether or not I did Solitary Man.  I had some songs picked out at the beginning of the evening, but given that Southpaw also likes sissified seventies folk/pop, I had to start knocking off songs as his set continued.  :-)

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Nice looking guitar

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Nice. Nothing better than NGDs. Now you need a breadmaker.

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joeyjoeyjoey wrote:

Nice. Nothing better than NGDs. Now you need a breadmaker.

Now I need a breadmaker.

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Congrats, Zurf ... and a high-five to Topdown for his generosity.

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Zurf wrote:
joeyjoeyjoey wrote:

Nice. Nothing better than NGDs. Now you need a breadmaker.

Now I need a breadmaker.

ha ha!

Happy NGD!

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Happy NGD Zurf!!! Nice looking guitar. Did you borrow the short pants and jacket from angus young?haha

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Happy NGD Zurf!!! Nice looking guitar. Did you borrow the short pants and jacket from angus young?haha

Well he said they were on a break from their tour and he didn't need them for a while. 

No.  It's just that it was 58 degrees and blowing like a son of a gun.  So I wore what I called "the heaviest shirt in Florida."  It's corduroy with insulation and a wool flannel liner in the placket.  Perfect for that night, but not so great with shorts or to go over a silk Hawaiian shirt. 

But my hat makes up for a multitude of fashion sins.

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That's not a beret, is it Z? What DO you call that kind of hat? "Porkpie"? You British Chordians could help with that.

If it had been a beret, it would have brought back memories of the works of the great painter Tolouse Lautrec.

Not too many people know this, but he had a tattoo on his right upper arm which read: "Born Tolouse".

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Not a beret, but a cabbie or newsboy depending on who you ask.

Good one on Toulouse.

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Strummerboy Bill wrote:

That's not a beret, is it Z? What DO you call that kind of hat? "Porkpie"? You British Chordians could help with that.

Bill


I would call a 'cap' or a 'flat cap'.

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Since we're in mixed company, I can't say what we call that type of hat here in the south.

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My dad was very attached to a cap like that when I was a kid. I think my dad actually wore a flat cap (I recall tweed, a snap in the brim, and a silky type of lining), but may have referred to it as his Ascot (which looks similar but from what I can see online in descriptions are rather different).  But, he pronounced ascot in a way that sounded little more like ... well... "donkey cap" wink

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We would call that cap a ratter,  I doubt you would want to know why

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Zurf wrote:

Thanks Jeff.  I forgot I could use my work computer.  Here's another shot, which conveniently shows my other fashionable new hat.  I think Topdown took this picture.  Either him or Cowboy Keith. 

Yeah Russell, I know those shoes are ugly, but it's like Guy Clark says, "I can work in them all day, and dance all night."  You know, if I danced.  Plus, if you've been following my shoe sagas on Facebook, you'll know that I have a thing for shoes and ugly shoes in particular.  I think I have more shoes than my wife has. 

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Well.  I guess the black hat at night doesn't show so good.  You'll just have to trust that I'm wearing a hat because the flash isn't reflecting off my chrome dome.

GREAT photo, Zurf! Congrats! smile

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