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Elduave and I hit a Fantastic Cat show over the weekend (definitely check THEM out - really great live act, solid songwriting and they’re making some waves). The opener was a cool Brooklyn band I’d never heard of before called OK Cowgirl. Fun stuff.

Blocked and deleted yesterday. Thanks, and keep reporting suspicious stuff!

If it was a change from spec, it would be noted on the build certificate though.

Yes. Gunmetal Gray Metallic or something like that (I’ll check). When the clearcoat aged/yellowed, it made the finish look like a metallic Olive Green. I had a Phantom in that color and recall seeing a couple of Prototypes in that finish with black hardware.

I still have the '91 Westerly JF-65-12 that my wife bought me from Gil Southworth's shop (we were dating at the time) for law school graduation. It's PERFECT. The only thing I've had done to it was send it up to New Hartford for some TLC maybe 13-14 years ago, and the always awesome Bob Powers...

For that model, they should be on the Certificate if original.

Ew. No.

I really "got" Richard when I first spun Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend". I had some familiarity with Television at the time, but they were kind of out of my line of sight for a while until I went down the Lloyd/Quine rabbitholes. I've only heard one other guitarist for Matthew Sweet come close...

My band name for the entry on HFC VI will be "Brain Fog"... Thanks SO much for all your hard work and (mostly) unsung efforts in getting this launched, Mike!!!

If you see them, please report them.

That '81 Special is the coolest!

That's where ALL USA-built Guild acoustics were made after they moved the operation/crew to New Hartford from Westerly, RI in 2008.

The Ovation Vipers were built in the Ovation side of the house, not the Hamer side.

Damn. I didn't even know that they were playing 10 minutes away from my house. The band that Elduave and I have been in together for the last nearly quarter century opened for Sponge in the pre-Pandemic era. Super nice and talented gents. I really hope they get their stuff back, but have a...

It's more evil and shit.