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Pic taken near Reno - LV Canal.

Shuggie Otis….

Johnny Otis…..

Who’s the father?

Still waiting for SLADE.

I am reading Take Five - The Public And Private Lives Of Paul Desmond. Through this biography I have an increased appreciation of Dave Brubeck’s playing and musical approach, and how he and Desmond, while having vastly different personalities, complemented each other. Paul Desmond was a...

Alvin Lee’s modified Gibson ES 335. Steve Miller’s and Boz Scaggs’s modified guitars on the cover of the Sailor LP. Jack Casady’s and Phil Lesh’s Guild basses. In the late ‘60s a friend swapped out P90s for Humbuckers and added a phase switch his in Les Paul Special. Professionally done...

Folks pay extra for relic’ed instruments.

XFL

Three brothers in my childhood neighborhood were named Harvard, Princeton and Stanford. Aspirational parents. A boy in the same block was named Ajax.

Brilliant mathematician and amazing career.