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My one run-in with David Cassidy didn't go too well, either. A few years back he wrote a tell-all book called "C'mon, Get Happy" and me and a buddy went to the book signing when he was in D.C. I was quite the P-family fan when I was a little shaver; I humbly admit I even saw Cassidy and Shirley Jones play the Fox Theater in San Diego in 1971, my first concert. Anyhoo, I get up to the signing table, and I say to Cassidy (who is a tiny guy, btw) in obvious jest: "Your music saved me. I had cancer, but listening to the Partridge Family made my leg grow back.".... ..... ..... Cassidy, who is obviously used to being fawned over, drops his jaw and starts stammering at me. The dipshit appeared to be considering if I was serious or not. I am smirking like the idiot I am, but you could see him trying to figure out whether to be flattered, humbled, grateful, or who knows what. He signs my book, and suddenly, he figures out I am just fucking with him. As I am walking away, he calls out at me, "Hey Buddy, I hope you and your family never know the pain of that illness. May you be happy and healthy!" He did not say this with a smile. Sidenote: "I Think I Love You" is a great song to know for karaoke. Chicks dig it.

They didn't fade away, actually. Shad Hills changed the name to Stereo 360, and they put out a great CD in 2002 called Enjoy Your Lfe Poolside (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/stereo360 has some samples) Every song on that CD is fantastic. Here is the one video they did: The first time I met Pam and the Cheap Chick gals, they were opening for Stereo 360 at Spaceland in LA. These guys should have been huge, and their music is just like many of the guitar-pop bands mentioned on this thread that somehow just didn't make it. How "Jimmy eat World" cracked the big time and these guys didn't is a travesty. Shad is a brilliant songwriter and has had many bites at the "big time" apple, but his reputation in the business has been weathered a little bit.

He reads both boards often, Greg. With "access". Here comes October....

He carries them in a breifcase made of human skulls, which is always handcuffed to his wrist.

Peter Fung is a well known Hamer collector who posts on this message board. He is really a nice guy, but everyone likes to make jokes about him. Peter's Hamer collection is extensive and filled with some of the coolest rare models that the company ever produced, many of them "one-offs" constructed for various rock icons of the day. It was rumored for years that he had built a time machine so he could go back and snag them all. Of course, this security video snapshot seemed to refute his denials of that absurd accusation. Look closely, and you can see the gun in his hand, as well as a terrified Sherman entering revealing coordinates into the Wayback machine's computer. Peter is an elusive fellow. The exploits of SNL's "Bill Brasky" were copied right out of Peter's bio, and many of those things you hear on the internet about Chuck Norris' superpowers are actual Fung characteristics.

Didn't Graham Bonnet sing on Michael Schenker's first LP, then get kicked out, then come back to do his 3rd LP and live album? That dude has been bounced all over the place. Isn't he also singing for Deep Purple's "Perfect Strangers"? The drums are recorded GREAT on that LP.

Wow, moved to the main board! How often does THAT happen? I wasn't making fun of alpep, I swear!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKDk-mg1J9Q

If your band is gonna hang around this long, it's probably not a good idea to have one of the significant songs from your early catalog include the line, "Hope I die before I get old".

Yup. This is the civil war of topics. Carry on!

...and those two different situations would be whether I am buying or I am selling. This is the greatest thread ever to appear on this messageboard. Irony so thick you could get lost in it.

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZ100mph3QQhtZ-1 His name is 100mph3 Sorry, my bad. Check out his rating.....

See, my new thing is to use the guitar as a defensive mechanism when the crowd begins to assess my lack of ability. It used to be that I could use the thing as a vegetable shield, but now I realize I can blind them, too, while I take evasive actions until the end of the set. Sort of like the chaff that attack aircraft use as countermeasures after they've engaged the enemy.

TWO knobs? And a SWITCH? Did you go to MIT or something?

Body is from a guy on eBay that does them in his home shop...his handle is "100mph". Highly recommend his work. Pro job at a fraction of the Warmoth price. The paint is rainbow micro metalflake. Looks blue in the pictures, but I think that's because the camera just can't handle the insanity of the pimpsuit explosion when the light hits it. When I took it outside the shop to see it in the sunlight, 2 rescue helicopters zoomed in, and a search party emerged out of nowhere, looking for some retarded boyscout that had wandered away from a jamboree out in El Cajon. PUs are a JB & and OBL. One knob, push-pull. Fred Marotta at the Repair Zone in San Diego did the build for me....his paint guy specializes in metalic finishes. These guys really know their shit, too. They do stuff for major touring acts, guitars by the dozens. The jack is on the side. The setup is liquid. Plays like the shredder it is meant to be. You'd think the neck is scalloped, it's so damn touch sensitive. Can't wait for my next jazz improvision open-mike night.