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Post by Gypsy Picker on Mar 16, 2024 19:21:52 GMT -5
Good evening all, been a while. Just read a Facebook post from Millring (John Bauman) and his writing made me wistful for the old days of “Fred, meet Ginger”. Googled but couldn’t find it, so slithered in here to see if somehow I could find it. I have not yet, and thought about messaging John directly, but then thought what the hell I should at least say hello to everyone and maybe stick around a bit this time. So again, hello old friends, and greetings to all who don’t remember me. And thanks John for reminding me why I fell in love with the TTT/Soundhole in the first place. And by the way, is the Fred meet Ginger piece still around here anywhere?
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Mar 16, 2024 19:35:36 GMT -5
Welcome back Gypsy. I vaguely remember the Fred, meet Ginger piece, but have no idea how to find it. Maybe John knows.
Mike
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Post by John B on Mar 16, 2024 19:58:18 GMT -5
Hey, GP. I remember you well. Luckily, if "Fred, meet Ginger" isn't around somewhere, John should have a copy.
By the way, all the same arguments are still going on.
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Post by Tamarack on Mar 16, 2024 22:30:27 GMT -5
Lest auld acquaintance be forgot...
Good to see ya Gypsy Picker!
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Post by coachdoc on Mar 16, 2024 22:35:36 GMT -5
Good nom d’net.😏
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Post by Dub on Mar 16, 2024 23:23:49 GMT -5
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Post by PaulKay on Mar 17, 2024 10:05:47 GMT -5
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Post by millring on Mar 17, 2024 10:30:08 GMT -5
Oh my gosh! Hi, Scott. Long time, eh? A year or two on the internet is like a century in real time. You still in the Buffalo area? ...still enjoying your custom Martin? It’s that wire that no one sees but draws us to the magician’s hand.
It’s the true north that mysteriously keeps our needle pointing one way.
One day we hear the jangle, the strum of an E chord, the tip-of-a-hat in a G run, or the one-man-band of a fingerstyle song and we’re never the same. We wander through life with a different song in our mind. We notice everything guitar—of course in sound on the radio and in recording—but also the physical presence of the guitar in the background scenery of a movie set, in a commercial on TV. If we walk into a strange place and there happens to be a guitar in the room, little else occupies our mind. It calls our attention like an overheard conversation that sounds more interesting than the one in which we’re currently engaged...
“Oh, excuse me. Did you say something?”
Maybe it’s the sound that hooks us first but almost simultaneously we’re drawn to the guitar as a work of art. Curiously, in the horizontal position we view it as a practical tool to make our music. But we view it as art in the vertical—resting on its heel, that perfect balance, that anthropomorphic symmetry. Proof? --the guitar tester’s dance-- you know the one. You’ve seen it and you’ve done it. Play a riff, a chord, a song, and as that final strum is cast…we pick it up, left hand still holding the neck, right hand on the end pin…and we do that graceful pirouette ‘til we’re face to face with the guitar and the sound it’s making. Eyes take in the beauty from peg to bridge. Then the grin…
...Fred, meet Ginger.
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Post by coachdoc on Mar 17, 2024 10:34:22 GMT -5
Oh, yea. Captures a lot.
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Post by dradtke on Mar 17, 2024 10:39:31 GMT -5
I found the Fred meet Ginger post. It's up a couple from this one.
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Post by Marshall on Mar 17, 2024 12:28:59 GMT -5
Scot's the reason I have my 1957 J50 and the guitar path I went down afterwards. He came into Evanston for a family affair in 2002, and wanted to hunt some guitar shops. Chicago Bob and I met him and we visited Guitar Works, and Flynn Brothers shops in Evanston. Scot was looking for a Northwoods guitar, if I remember correctly. Flynn Bros carried them. We checked out (raped and pillaged) everything in both stores. Then sitting by itself in the corner on a stand at Flynn was the rebuilt 1957 J50. I finally picked it up, . . . , and the rest is history.
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Post by Shannon on Mar 17, 2024 14:55:42 GMT -5
Hey, GP! Great to hear from you!
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Post by coachdoc on Mar 17, 2024 16:06:17 GMT -5
Now that is a wonderful story John. Once again I am flummoxed and impressed by your talent and sensitivity.
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Post by howard lee on Mar 18, 2024 7:37:21 GMT -5
Howdy, Scott! Welcome back. It has been a while.
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Post by theevan on Mar 18, 2024 8:08:46 GMT -5
Manouche Man!
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