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Post by FreeRider on Jun 26, 2012 9:42:56 GMT -5
Hopefully, there will be some fresh material soon. And I hope whatever box set he's working on will be worth the wait. I do remember him saying in one interview that he has videos (IIRC) of the Mats that none of the fans have seen and he has possession of them.
But after recently viewing the vid clips of The Craft show, skimming thru Grandpaboy's Last Stand, some of the 3 O'clock Creep stuff, I get a feeling that Paul is done. hearing him talk about how he went through a dry spell on the Craft interviews, the Last Stand concept (which didn't go over well with most everyone), the emptying of the vaults.....I just get a feeling that he's ready to close out a chapter in his life and start a new one, if he hasn't already started doing so now.
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 16, 2012 9:34:56 GMT -5
awesome....
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 14, 2012 11:37:20 GMT -5
walked into that one... What's better than a rose on a piano? Two lips on an organ! (sorry, stupid joke....couldn't resist an organ joke! )
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 11, 2012 13:32:56 GMT -5
very cool and very nice of Chris....maybe he'll get the itch again to do some more music?
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 7, 2012 18:55:33 GMT -5
Someone thought: "Replacements fans! That's an obvious customer base for Louis Vuitton!" ;D
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 7, 2012 11:49:03 GMT -5
ugh, we're getting spammed now?
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 5, 2012 13:18:32 GMT -5
oh yeah, Jer, it amazes me how much time has gone by. I was a sophomore in college and PTMM just kicked high ass over anything else being played in the dorm....I was bombarded with Journey, Foreigner, Van Halen, Michael Jackson, top 40 pop, by the other people in the dorm, and here I was with a CD of a band that nobody had heard of.
In defiance, I proudly played the Mats, as a sonic barrier against all intrusive and unwanted music. And looking back, I can say it was okay that nobody had ever heard of them or that others dismissed them without giving them a chance. I don't say that smugly or with any kind of "hipper than thou" attitude---they were something special and magical to me and probably many a lot of other fans and it encapsulates and evokes a time in my life---hell, in ALL our lives. That nobody else got them is okay because I got them---we got them, and it is a moment in time that nobody but us Mats fan will know about.
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 5, 2012 13:07:40 GMT -5
awesome photos! I've never seen those before....
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 5, 2012 10:14:20 GMT -5
man....it's amazing that stuff came out that long ago. all of it, part of the soundtrack to my youth.
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 4, 2012 13:11:07 GMT -5
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 3, 2012 8:56:19 GMT -5
that is pretty f--ing cool of him to be out there doing that. I guess Tommy still likes performing whereas Paul seems indifferent to it now. Could you imagine Paul doing something like that nowadays, a little street theater? I really can't because it seems like he's just moved beyond that now with where he is in life. Not a knock against him, but it's just where his life has led him.
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 2, 2012 20:10:54 GMT -5
It sure would be nice to have that Paul and Tommy collaboration come out...or hell, just anything from Paul.
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 2, 2012 20:08:07 GMT -5
Oh yeah, found some photos over there that I've never seen before so I thought I'd post them here as sort of a picture library and central repository.
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 2, 2012 20:06:42 GMT -5
You know, a co-worker of mine was jonesin' to get a brand new Gibson and his guitar luthier/repair guy, who also is a collector and trader, told him that Gibson has been resting on its laurels for a long time and that their quality isn't what it used to be. He felt the same way about Fender but had harsher criticisms of Gibson.
He said that if you really wanted to get a good guitar, similar to Gibson, but better made, go get this Korean made guitar called Agile, that make Les Paul style guitars. My co-worker wound up getting one and I played it and the action felt great, the pick ups were fine. And it was way less than what you'd pay for a brand new Les Paul. You could almost get a Gibson sticker and put it on the head stock and you'd almost never know it was any different.
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 1, 2012 8:55:34 GMT -5
I dunno, but hell, doesn't matter if it's been posted, they're all great photos to see!
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 1, 2012 8:53:03 GMT -5
No, but I'd love to see how they sound and feel. Neil Young in his early days had the White Falcoln: And I think I posted a link here to some article on Pete Townshend's sound and it said that he recorded a lot of the studio stuff with a Chet Atkins Gretsch model that Joe Walsh gave to him as a gift. And you're right, they do look cool....especially with those Bigsby tremelo bars.
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Post by FreeRider on May 31, 2012 8:43:22 GMT -5
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Post by FreeRider on May 30, 2012 15:18:34 GMT -5
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Post by FreeRider on May 30, 2012 10:55:21 GMT -5
yeah, and that was expensive back then, wasn't it?
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Post by FreeRider on May 29, 2012 15:36:50 GMT -5
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