Too funny ... was just about to say that there was a guy over on Satwaves that makes these as well
- Good to see you over here as well, it's a great place. You guy's are making me feel a lot better today knowing that I am still a few ticks behind you on the old fart ladder ... Billy, all your mentions and even some of Bill's - When I was a kid and everything was about the Partridge Family, The Osmond's, Jackson 5 and Bobby Sherman we had some neighbors (who were not allowed anywhere near) who used to crank up Zep, Skynyrd, Sabbath, Santana ..etc. So I was indoctrinated at a pretty early age. First 2 records were 24 Carat Purple (Deep Purple) and Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced. Not long after, Montrose and some of the older guy's I hung out with got me educated on real guitar players ala Michael Schenker via UFO and even the very early, early Scorpions - Those guy's had a half a dozen albums long before they ever were noticed over here in the states - The double live album ... wore that thing out. I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 albums and would by one for a riff even if the rest of it was worthless ... I just recently gave my stepsons friend all my old guitar mags, hundreds of them from the main 3 ... It was kind of weird to let them go, but hadn't and still haven't played much in recent years and this kid ... man, he could go somewhere, got natural chops and a dedication at his age ... He sat in my living room one day nailing Eruption and I told him, dude, you want some old guitar mags?
I could go on forever ... Old Rush, all the Hair Metal Bands - The boy's Metallica .. Back to Pagey, Hendrix, Beck even saw John Lee Hooker when he was old
then 20 some odd years ago - Johnny Winter, SRV - Saw Molly Hatchet in a rowdy bar out here ... Those guy's were giants! Figured if things got out of hand I knew where I was heading ... Tons of concerts .. It was my life for many years and my goal to be in a rocking band touring the world . .. Then reality set in and ... Maybe some day Billy like when this gambling stock siri ever hit's I will put in an order for a replica of my baby - It's a black Randy Rhoads V, one of the first hundred made.