Smartie's Bar & Grill #73

Sweet Goldtop with the open pickups. Doing some Eddie style!

 

Thank you. I cloned (because I can) Slash's guitar from Guns N' Roses from back in the day.
I didn't buy a copy (though I could have); but then that would have came with a Slash signature and serial number to say it was; which isn't what I wanted; I wanted an exact clone/copy. I lucked out last time I went Les Paul shopping and found the correct guitar to start with to have the after market parts fitted to clone this guitar.

The one guitar I coveted the most growing up.

 

Sweet AF. I’m a Jimmy Page junkie myself. Also a Les Paul junkie. Sad I’ll never own a ‘59!

I scored an awesome LP off Ebay about 15y ago.

 

Where' you from?

I ask this because; my original plan was to go shopping for it in the US;
Turns out finding used high end Gibsons wasn't happening for me like it does in my own native market of London's Soho, where I'm only limited by my budget in a sea of used high end guitars.

I bought my Gibson Custom Shop, this Gibson R7 and my Fender Deluxe Stratocaster on this same street Denmark Street (UK's Tin Pan Alley) in and among other Custom Shops or VOSs or Fender Deluxes. I've also frequented this street since I was 13 years old having picked up the guitar when I was 12 and I didn't know what it was called for the longest time (until I was in college); I called it 'Chinatown but instead of China, it's Guitars'; since I knew it from going up the road from Chinatown - which my Grandma used to take me to from Oxford Street as a day out sometimes when she wanted to do her shopping and I got to tag along with her.
My guitar strap(s) (I have 2, they're on my Gibsons) - was handmade near this street and is sold up and down this street and for this Gold Top I got to talk with the man/the legend him self about this guitar strap - that was cool, turned out I wanted a longer guitar strap.

When I went to Amsterdam, I didn't even see any American guitars there.

 

Fortunate enough to live here in Houston TX. Awesome town aside from the weather 3/4 of the year.

 

Good morning, peeps. Got this bubbling away in the crockpot. Love this teleworking.

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/steakhouse-soup/

 

A BB King style guitar.But they are bulky.
Of course some Mexican Bands { Mariachi } use
the Guitarron for Bass.Take off them strings and one
could probably use as a laundry hamper.

 

But I Ain't gots to Peepin' just yet.That comes after breakfast.
Plus Peepin' ain't what's it cracked up to be.
I just as soon look around for better ways.

 

Needs kale.

 

No way Jose.

 

My crawdad raising seems to be impractical. At least the way I tried it. The monsters fight and eat each other. I had 7 left so I put 2 males and 2 females in my plant pond. I am pretty sure it is escape proof. The rest are in separate cells. I caught one wild crayfish and he is in a tank with 3 wild bluegill. My system is going to be run on a vivosun air pump at 35 watts. That's about 3000 gallons on 34 watts. I still have an airline left. During the summer I also use a water pump for my pond waterfall. I am still trying to raise crawdads but I am just going to catch and release in my pond. If I go with native species I can avoid 95% of heating costs.

 

Ya, if you like soup.

 

Time for some permanent change. Here is a suggestion:

 

Go big when you have the enough ingredients. Freeze enough meat sauce for several meals and you only need dried pasta and parmesan for several feasts. Ditto Irish stew, every kind of stew including gumbos and etoufee. For instance:

RECIPE COURTESY OF KURT GUIDRY AND KELLI GUIDRY JORDON
Crawfish Etouffee

Level: Easy
Total: 2 hr
Prep: 1 hr
Inactive: 45 min
Cook: 15 min
Yield: 10 plus servings
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Ingredients
5 large onions, diced
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 pound margarine (recommended: Parkay brand)
1 can cream of celery soup
1 can cream of shrimp soup (to replace crawfish "fat" which is no longer sold)
5 pounds Louisiana crawfish tails, peeled
Creole seasoning (recommended: Tony Chachere Original Creole Seasoning)
Cooked white rice

Good cheap and easy. Of course you and the other doubters will want to substitute shrimp.

 

I own 3 guitars.One Electric { a Peavey Reactor AX } don't laugh it's a really good
guitar with twin humbuckers and nice solid controls.Not plastic crap.
I use it with a peavey 112 Bandit amp { Transtube } which shares duties
with my rather expensive Viscount Solo organ.
I have 2 folk guitar { Washburn Tahoe D-36S } a Dreadnought.
Good value for the money.Has a nice overall tone.
Then my last guitar { around 10 years ago } I got talked
into }. an LAG Folk.The Guitar salesman just handed me the guitar
after another customer was playing.It sounded good.It played
easy and I liked.Plus it wasn't nearly as expensive as a Martin.
They had some Martin in my price range But since I only break out
my Guitars a few times a year,I said OK ... This LAG is only
a few hundred so I ain't gonna fuss.
The Peavey Reactor was new in '95-96 and cost $ 449.oo
The Washburn was used like 10 years later at $ 450.oo
I got the Viscount a few years ago.It was $ 1600.oo

 

Umm...

 

Cream of Shrimp Soup? Who knew there was such a thing?

 

Only use it for this recipe.

 

Don't ever volunteer to open a neighbor's door with a bobby pin. I did and the woman said she didn't feel safe living near me.. I decided if she ever got locked out again she could pick her own lock. The nerve of some people.

 

I still have my crawdad traps out. I want crawdad egg rolls.