Awesome.
It's really, really easy to go faster than your skill on that track - and parts of the track have pretty much no run-off. So, it'll be easy to chuck the car into the barriers - if you're actually pushing it.
And, well, I'm gonna push it. Otherwise, what's the fucking point? Carbon fiber can be repaired and you're locked into position so you're not gonna get hurt.
Biff says I should tell you that she just bought a Gibson Les Paul Jumbo.
I pointed out that you (almost certainly) have no fucking clue what she's on about, but she still thinks you should know.
It's a very rare (but not all that valuable) acoustic Les Paul - with a pickup and weird buttons including a 'decade' button. She got it at a good price and is steadily building her own collection.
Unfortunately, I play covers - more than anything else.
Exactly nobody played a famous song with a Gibson Les Paul Jumbo. Owning one is pointless for me.
She wants it. It's actually a guitar I don't have in my collection - but that's by choice. Their price is stable and hasn't really changed in years. So, if I want one I can get one any time I want. There's no rush and I don't really want one.
Anyhow, now you know that she spent four figures on a guitar she'll play three times before putting it in a case and never touching it again. 'Tis her money, she can spend it any way she wants.
But, now you know - per her request.
Tell her that she made a great decision and that's a fucking awesome guitar and I am jealous. It's me playing songs that I think Verle knows the words to tonight and its a blast. My girlfriend game home crabby, theres people drinking beer here again and she wasn't expecting that when she came home. I invited her to join us and she declined so i told her whatever, suit yourself, she went to the bedroom and sat there w ahile and now she joined in and is having fun
im playing te music so i got to stop typuing
If I was your girlfriend, I'd probably murder you in your sleep. Ain't no way I'd be putting up with that shit when I came home from work.
And, she made an informed choice. I will say that for her. She knows exactly what she's buying.
I realize you don't know the guitar, but the 'decade' knob was a crazy idea from Les Paul (who had many crazy ideas, including his 'black box') and Gibson. It kinda makes your guitar sound like a sitar. I can think of no good reason to own one.
Hmm... Also, not only is the guitar unknown, you might not know about Les and his 'black box'. All of these things might make good search terms when you sober up tomorrow. I will say that his black box was kinda neat. He invented the looper before there was a looper - and invented a ton of other shit, much of which he crammed into his black box.
But, the Les Paul Jumbo was in the early 70s, as I recall. It was an acoustic electric, but folks tend to think of it as a hollow body electric guitar - which, I suppose, it is. It doesn't even have the normal guitar jack, it requires some adapter. Gibson and Les Paul, recently divorced from Mary Ford, needed money and made more Les Paul guitars - and this was one of 'em.
While I'm here, I will share another topical bit of trivia for you - that you quite likely do not know! The original SG Gibsons were actually also Les Paul models. It was the Les Paul SG - meaning 'solid guitar'. They had the rights to his name and slammed his name on it for like the first three years of production - until the sixties. Les' contract with them expired and he had them take his name off the guitar. Since then, it has just been known as the "SG".
And now you know...
You're welcome!
(Biff thinks that I know 'too much' about guitars. I argue and say that I don't know enough. She thinks I should just play - but to me it's a hobby that's far more involved. I love knowing the lore, the trivia, and the errata from the decades of history the modern guitar has.)
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