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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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It's 90 some degrees here today, I don't know how hot it is there but the heat that is here would not help the brakes cool off.

One of my old friends was messaging me today and he got a package in the mail. It was a CD, a brand new CD, by some Van Halen sounding band from Los Angeles. I guess the guitar player used to be a friend of Edward Van Halen. Anyways, this guy put out a new CD last week and mailed on to my friend. My friend does not have a CD player, but he opened the CD up and was reading the texts printed in the CD and when he got to the special thanks part, he suddenly found his name! hey band put his name on their new CD because he inspired them. How cool is that? He did not even know that it was on there, he was not even expecting to receive the CD in the mail or anything. He is all excited that he has his name on a real major label CD release. That's pretty cool. He doesn't even play, well he tries to play guitar but he sucks shit. I don't know how he inspired them, but that is pretty awesome. Apparently he befriended the guitar player in the band over facebook

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Well, maybe he inspired them by being a bad musician?

I've done some studio work that later ended up on major labels - and had a major label contract (that turned into nothing) in the 70s.

LOL I've been on a lot of CDs that were decidedly not major labels.

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Yeah but you belong on the CDs.

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By the way, I'm hovering around 10 cigarettes a day. My best day was just six cigarettes.

I pretty much smoke when I feel like it still, figuring I'll make an actual attempt to cut down shortly.

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I suppose so...

I don't think I've ever been thanked on an album jacket. I get listed down with the credits, except in a few cases where I was a legit member of the band and not a studio provided gun for hire. As for my studio work, I always opted to get paid a straight fee and not rely on royalties. So, I'm not really 100% sure how far some of the music went. Ah well... I am okay not knowing.

I should probably have been thanked a few times... Again, ah well... Like, I provided a couple of riffs to a band known as Flotsam and Jetsam. I don't even know if they still exist. They were never really all that popular here in the US - but they were popular (in the US) among the skateboarding crowd. Fuck, that'd have been a long time ago...

Also, it was low 80s here today.