I almost always say "Soitenly" instead of "certainly" and a lot of people have no clue why. But it points out the cool ones who know.

And also cool--Larry is holding a Mustang. (I do see the pickup switches-so it's not a Music Master & I think I see the bar under his arm there--so it isn't a Duo-Sonic.)

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They might have been Stooges but they knew great gear.I love the Stooges and pick up DVDs whenever I can find them,wifey likes them too but isn't the fanatic I am.Iggy and The Stooges are at the top of my list too.

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I like the Stooges too, thanks for posting those books RR I kind of got away from watching, they were on here in Chi on Fridays at 9pm for a long time, women don't like Married with Children much either.

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

fantastic, I remember going to see Stooges in Outerspace when it first came out, Saturday afternoon cinema, 10 cents.

Love em....

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Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck

Love the Stooges. The ones with Curly are best, but Shemp hold his own (the Curly Joes, not so much).

Big W.C. Fields fan, too. I just like that old humor, when it's dome well. Laurel and Hardy, too.

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Cool to see so many Stooges fans.

And yes, I should probably retract using the work "stupid" humor. I guess all I meant by that was they were meant to just be watched and not analyzed.

Considering that they shot most of their stuff in single takes due to the technology of the time, they were true artists. Great timing, quick thinking, just so entertaining.

The one fall that's most memorable, and my favorite, is in Dizzy Detectives when Moe is standing on the table, and Curly cuts through the intended board and table, when Moe turns around he falls on his head. Just no idea how they weren't hurt more.

I love the 3 Stooges. I wasn't a big fan of Curley Jo.

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2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
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2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

I'm also a big fan of Laurel & Hardy and the Marx Brothers, in case anyone wants to talk about them too.

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

Count me in. Have been when I was a little squart. It's a guy thing I guess.

My Mother seen them perform live on stage at the Hippodrome in Baltimore when she was a teen at that time it was Larry, Curly and Moe

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Marilyn Monroe had a cameo in a Marx Bros movie her look in that cameo and the cartoon chick from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" talk about stooges physical comedy as art.

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

I can remember Officer Joe Boltin when I was a kid, I dont know if it was a NY thing but that is who would present the Stooges shorts in the morning. Was and always will be a huge fan. Just watched them two days ago.

Hands down the best ones are with Curley and if there was no Curley Schemp was great too, and most fans I would believe know Moe, Curley and Schemp were real brothers. But the weak ones are with Curley Jo and Joe Bessa as it was known they did not like to get cracked-yuk yuk

Count me in, don't forget Harold Lyod (sp?) the Keystone Cops were a firm favorite too

I hope you’ll forgive me this indulgence, but I would like to give a brief timeline of my favorite comedy team. I’m doing this from memory, so there may be some slight inaccuracies.

As has already been pointed out, three of the Stooges were brothers: Samuel, Moses, and Jerome Horwitz. The oldest of the three, Samuel, went by the name of Sam. However, his Lithuanian mother’s pronunciation sounded more like “Shemp.” So the name stuck. The middle brother, Moses, naturally went by Moe. The youngest of the family, Jerome, was lovingly known as “Babe.” More on Babe in a little while. There was also an older brother, Irving, but he had no show-biz aspirations. Those who did adopted the surname Howard over the more ethnic-sounding original.

In the vaudeville scene of the late 1920s and early 1930s, everyone had an act. A comedian named Ted Healy decided to build an ensemble cast of actors whom he could use as comic foils or “stooges.” He recruited Shemp and Moe Howard, Bonnie Bonnell and Freddy Sanborn to be part of the team.

Healy also discovered a talented musician and dancer who had an act called The Haney Sisters and Fine. In the act, the two Haney girls would sing while Larry Fine (real name: Louis Feinberg) would play the violin and do a Russian dance. Ted Healy recruited Larry (who married Mabel Fine of the three-piece act), and the new team was complete: Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen.

Meanwhile, young Babe started a solo vaudeville career as a wild-haired comic orchestra conductor whose costume would fall away in pieces as he conducted. The climax came with his trousers falling down.

Ted Healy’s troupe gained renown traveling the country. He soon changed the name to Ted Healy and His Stooges.

Tired of Healy’s dominance and the fact that he grossly underpaid his stooges, Shemp finally left the group. He went on to star in a series of Joe Palooka short films.

Shemp’s departure left the act short one stooge. Moe recommended his little brother, Babe. When Babe auditioned for the group, Healy agreed to hire the younger Howard brother, but only on the condition that he shave off his beautiful mane of wavy hair. Babe reluctantly agreed, but insisted that he henceforth be known as Curly.

The new line-up was even more successful than they had been with Shemp. They even appeared in a few short features and even a couple of full-length movies (e.g. Dancing Lady).

However, all was not well. Healy continued to treat his stooges very poorly. Moe, Larry and Curly left the group and went off to form their own smaller team: Howard, Fine and Howard.

Columbia Pictures caught the Howard, Fine and Howard act and decided to let them star in a two-reel short film. The film, Woman Haters (1934), was entirely in rhyme, and it featured Larry Fine as the main performer. Based on the success of this film, the boys got signed onto a multiple-picture deal as the Three Stooges.

Thus began the “Curly” years of the group. The team’s golden era lasted until the early 1940s, when Curly suffered a minor stroke. His health deteriorated until a second stroke in 1947 left him partially paralyzed. If you watch the short Half-Wit’s Holiday, you’ll notice that Curly disappears about halfway through. It’s because he had the stroke during production.

Moe asked Shemp to return to the group to help them fulfill their contractual obligation. He stayed on until his death from a heart attack in 1955. Once again, the Stooges were contractually obligated to provide more shorts. They did this by recycling a lot of old footage and by filming Shemp stand-ins from behind, a process now referred to in Hollywood as “shemping.”

Moe then turned to Joe Besser to take the role of the third stooge. Joe’s style was far less physical than his predecessors’. For example, he would not allow anyone to hit him. He ultimately left the group in 1958 to take care of his ailing wife.

The Stooges were ready to call it quits. But it was right around this time that their old shorts began appearing on television. This caused a resurgence in their popularity and made them decide to continue. They enlisted Joe DeRita for the part. He named himself “Curly Joe” in an attempt to capture some of the magic of the original Curly. In my opinion, at least, he did not succeed. This final version of the Stooges made no shorts, but they did appear in several feature-length films, including It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Many people don’t know that Moe wanted to continue the group into the 1970s. Larry had quit due to health problems, and Moe began talking with Emil Sitka about replacing Larry. I’m truly glad that never happened.

For my money, the Curly years were the best. But most people don’t realize that Shemp had been a stooge before him—just not as a member of the Three Stooges.

If you have read this far, thank you for your indulgence!

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.