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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:56 pm
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My best guess is that Denmarks biggest store is as big as the smallest GC :lol: So I believe walking into a Guitar Center would be a thrill for me :D Theres 6 million people in denmark to give you an idea of the difference :shock:

I think there's 6 million people on the Freeway between San Bernardino and the Hollywood Guitar Center. Maybe more


I once took CA-60 from Riverside to Hollywood to get to Amoeba Records-at the WRONG time of day. BIG mistake. I used to live in San Diego, and my apartment patio faced a ravine that the 805 ran through. I could just go out on it during drive time and watch the fender (not Fender) benders!

If I had my preference, I'd rather be driving in Denmark!


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Is it a "brush" if my second ex-wife slept with Hootie "AND" The Blowfish?

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OK here are my "brushes" ...
When I was 19, playing in a band at a lounge in the Philly Airport, Art Garfunkel apparently had a stopover and sat at a table in the lounge. Afterwards, he came up to me and complimented me on my singing. I met Bob Hope in an elevator at a hotel we were playing; Kenny Loggins and his band came into the lounge we were playing in S.Jersey -he was three sheets to the wind and started dancing; he left with the two babes from his entourage and his band stayed behind. They jammed with us for an hour- that was very cool. 8)

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I've met and conversed with (sometimes over a couple of drinks): Noel "Paul" Stookey, George Shearing, Al Kooper, George Clinton and Bootsy Collins, David Ossman (Firesign Theater), Mel Lewis, Asleep at the Wheel (back in 1975!), Barbara Mandrell, the woman who wrote "The Joy of Cola," B.B. King (my Pro Reverb blew up while he was playing through it), Jose Feliciano, Craig Anderton (I used to write a column for EQ)... and a bunch of one or two sentence "brushes" with various famous people from Jeff Baxter to Dave Brubeck/.


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This is a non-brush, more of a spark of greatness story. Was over at my friend Eric Jacobsen's house on his birthday. He was an old guy even then who had produced mostly 60's acts, Lovin Spoonful, Tim Hardin, and in the 70's Norman Greenbaum/Spirit in the Sky. At the time he had nothing going at all, semi-retired. He put on a Killing Joke cut. We agreed it was good stuff.

So I say to him, "Hey Eric, I was just down at Mabuhay Gardens (in San Francisco) last night and I saw this great act, Silvertone. The lead singer is amazing, you have to go see him!"

He goes, "Ahhh, I'm too old to go out to clubs! All those friggin punks and psychos! Nawwww, forget it."

So I go, "Okay, listen, you HAVE to go see this guy. You MUST!!!! He's totally handsome, but he's got this great voice and he does all this retro stuff and he's quirky. Exactly your kind of act. Plus he comes with his own band! C'mon!!!"

Eric hemmed and hawed, then relented grudgingly. "Waaaal, ok, but I'm not gonna like it! Do they like, stamp your hand at the door? I hate that!"

Bottom line: 1 month later Erik signed Chris Isaak to Reprise Records which began a fairly lucrative partnership for them both. And in a true-to-life vignette of the music industry, neither guy ever thanked me. That's show biz!


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I've met and conversed with (sometimes over a couple of drinks): Noel "Paul" Stookey, George Shearing, Al Kooper, George Clinton and Bootsy Collins, David Ossman (Firesign Theater), Mel Lewis, Asleep at the Wheel (back in 1975!), Barbara Mandrell, the woman who wrote "The Joy of Cola," B.B. King (my Pro Reverb blew up while he was playing through it), Jose Feliciano, Craig Anderton (I used to write a column for EQ)... and a bunch of one or two sentence "brushes" with various famous people from Jeff Baxter to Dave Brubeck/.


I would love to sit down for an hour or so to talk with and jam with Skunk Baxter. He's always been one of my favs. I felt bad for him when McDonald joined the Bro's and took them in a direction Jeff didn't like at all. Jeff had this tight, fusion thing in his head and McDonald...well, he was as pop as you could get. I wasn't a fan of the McDonald Doobies.

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That's funny, I couldn't stand the Doobies before or after Mike.


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That's funny, I couldn't stand the Doobies before or after Mike.


I alway thought they were a fun jam band, nothin sepcial, but fun. Then came McDonald and hiw psuedo black pop that kinda killed it for them. Dont get me wrong, there's no doubt McDonald is a talented pop song writer with a great bluesy voice...but it wasnt Doobies material.

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Oh the Doobs changed completely under Mike, but to me that was a GOOD thing. But here's the funny part, it's sorta like the Beatles. Once Mike left the Doobs, he resorted back to this horrible, phoney plastic old R&B paradigm and lost all the freshness and immediacy of tunes like Takin It To the Streets, Real Love and Little by Little.

Kinda like McCartney gleefully doing nothing but silly love songs after the breakup, or Lennon doing Primal Scream and insane non-musical stuff with Ono as a solo. Godawful drek.

There's a magic that happens through synergy of just the right elements. You mess with that and it all falls apart.

I like what George Martin said, "One of the Beatles would come into the studio and start messing around, but nothing would happen. Then two, then three. Still nothing. But once all four were in place and running through tracks, that's when the magic would occur. You can't explain it."


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