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Title: Well, now what?
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on April 12, 2020, 09:55:59 PM
Anybody else getting bored?  Racking my brain trying think of diversions - but the best I can come with tonight is , show your favorite old pic of yourself.  I'll kick it off with one from the summer of '84.


Peter (who fears he no longer looks remotely like this....)
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Post by: fmm on April 13, 2020, 05:21:33 AM
This is probably the earliest pic I have of myself playing bass.  Probably 1973.
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Post by: edwardofhuncote on April 13, 2020, 07:06:42 AM
From the Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax, Virginia - 1990. I wonder where the rest of this bunch is today? I only ever hear from the guitar player. I last heard from the banjo player about 5 years ago. 7 or 8 gone by on the mandolin player. Ran into his brother at a festival in Buena Vista last year. Or was it the year before? My, my my... where does the time go? Mountain Legend was the first real working band I played in. We gigged every weekend somewhere... roughneck beer joints, Moose Lodges, parties, you name it. Not all of it was good times, but I wouldn't trade a second of it!
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Post by: adriaan on April 13, 2020, 08:22:14 AM
So who invented this double thumbing stuff? Me ca 1970, riding that low B for all its worth.
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Post by: Glynn on April 13, 2020, 09:11:04 AM
The one with the Jazz is 1969. The other 1973(me second from left).  The jazz was stolen in 2000 but insurance money bought my Orion 4.
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Post by: Glynn on April 13, 2020, 09:13:15 AM
We played upside down then - it sounded better!
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Post by: Glynn on April 13, 2020, 09:14:49 AM
1969 photo.
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Post by: lbpesq on April 13, 2020, 11:47:59 AM
This was around 1980.  It was shot by my cousin  who was a serious amateur photographer at the time.  I call it my "Cat Stevens" picture and planned to use it on the cover of my first album!

Bill, tgo
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Post by: xlrogue6 on April 13, 2020, 01:35:43 PM
Me in 1981, with my G&L L-2000 fretless.
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Post by: hankster on April 13, 2020, 02:37:11 PM
Hard decision, but I  think it has to be this one.  That's me on the left with the white-guard Tele.
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Post by: lbpesq on April 13, 2020, 03:03:15 PM
Any idea what kind of 12 string your bandmate is playing?

Bill, tgo
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Post by: dela217 on April 13, 2020, 03:06:10 PM
Looks like a Vantage.
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Post by: hankster on April 13, 2020, 03:11:01 PM
I was trying to remember that myself.  It was either a Vantage or a Carvin.  Vantage I think. Terry is one of those rare birds for whom the actual guitar just doesn't matter.  He sounds great on anything.
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Post by: edwardofhuncote on April 13, 2020, 03:27:53 PM
Whose banjo? Looks like some upper-end plinkety-plink there...


(it had to be me to ask that...)  ::)
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Post by: hankster on April 13, 2020, 04:06:42 PM
That was Terry’s. We had a serious bunch of strings in that band for sure. More strings than sense.
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Post by: cozmik_cowboy on April 13, 2020, 10:39:19 PM
My money's on Vantage; one of my early (as in work-for-beer-and-weed) roadie gigs, one of the guys had 2 Vantages, a 6 & a bass, and that looks like it would fit right in between them.

Peter
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Post by: gtrguy on April 14, 2020, 09:50:22 AM
"More strings than Sense" Sounds like a band name! Is that your Les Paul Recording? I had one back in the '70's.
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Post by: hankster on April 14, 2020, 06:53:07 PM
It’s not mine but I used it on that gig. It belonged to the bass player. It was a nice guitar for sure. It was in our musical “family “ for a decade or so before Jim sold it.
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Post by: cozmik_cowboy on April 14, 2020, 06:56:50 PM
May I have another turn?
About a year later (June 22, '85) with, David, our youngest, at Alpine Valley; I've always felt bad I let him get to 7 weeks old before I took him to a show.................


Peter