That Seedy Table In The Dark Corner Where The Reprobates Gather

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A local bar/new music venue scheduled a gear sell and exchange today. It was the first time they had done this. I was just going to sell a few things as I need some scratch more than I need more stuff. But I got there and there was only one seller, some guys from The Music Room in Knoxville TN. I think the rain really put a damper on the whole event. They had about 10 guitars for sell, a few small amps and some pedals. The guitars weren't bad specimens, an Ernie Ball Albert Lee, an SG, a LP Studio Mahogany, a few acoustics, and a reliced George Lynch. The Lynch was one of the newer less expensive models. They were only asking $200 for it.

I didn't bother bringing any of my stuff in as there was virtually no one there. I played the Ernie Ball and of course the Lynch. I left and as I was driving away, I started thinking about making a trade offer for the Lynch. I turned around and took in a new Alesis Video Recorder and new Gear One head phones. Because of deal matching from Music123 I had $45 in the lot, but the two items are currently $300 combined on Musicians Friend. They went for the trade pretty easily and said that the two pieces would be easier to take home than the guitar. So I ended up with another Lynch model.

It is like new (an oxymoron when talking about a reliced guitar) and has the plastic still on the pickguard an backplate. I set it up and it plays well and sounds good. Here are a few pics I took tonight with my little Canon SD1100 point and shoot. I now have 3 Lynch guitars. Now I need to find a good deal on the skull and snake.

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Congrats Marc! That's quite a deal for $45!

Played a set on the Bo Diddley Community Plaza today, for an early voting awareness rally:

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After our set, I was interviewed by the Alligator (the largest student-run newspaper in the United States, with a daily circulation of 35,000 and readership of over 52,000) and the local television station, ABC affiliate TV 20. Crazy that with all the activists there they bothered to talk to me.

About 8 p.m. a girl that'd been to the event (daughter of a friend from church, her folks both came too) posted on my facebook page that she'd seen me on the 6 o'clock news. Having my usual attention span of a gnat, I'd forgotten to watch. So I made a point of staying up to watch the 11 p.m. re-broadcast, and as they open the show, the first thing all of Gainesville sees is me on my knees playing guitar, having lept off the stage for the solo at the end of our closer.

So then they do a couple headlines and then the piece about the event. They re-show the footage of Crash Pad playing, including a shot from earlier in the set (all 4 of us onstage), then some crowd shots, then they talked to one of the speakers. And then they talked to me, haha. Just a few seconds of course, but a closeup and with my name "Brian Crashpad" on the screen.

Ah, the life of the rockstar. Just hope I didn't come off as too stupid, haha.

Tomorrow someone else is playing guitar in church for the first time in forever since our bassist is out and I'll be subbing for her. That should be interesting. I missed practice today because of the Crash Pad gig. Will just wing it on a pre-service run-through.
 
OK, I would like to take this opportunity to say something, but I have nothing to say, so I am now going to finish laying down the floor...
 
After years of trying to figure out my go-to distortion, i've landed right back at an EHX Big Muff. :)
 
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