Musings

Today I assembled the guitars I’ll be bringing for the Vintage Guitar Museum at the Guitar Geek Festival Show at Viva Las Vegas next weekend.

Had a fun evening in Burbank tonight, I took my daughter Evelyn to go see a sneak preview of the upcoming Lefty Frizzell documentary!

Farewell to Ross “The Boss” Friedman of The Dictators, who passed away yesterday from complications of ALS. He was seventy-two.

I was offered a guest pass to the Nick Lowe/Cactus Blossoms show in Downtown LA tonight and I debated going for quite a while. Should I? The doctor would probably say it’s a bad idea.

Growing up as a child, my Grandma Dickerson had this fiddle that she said was “Charlie Poole’s fiddle.” My dad can fill in some of the details, but here are the basic elements of the story.

Remembering what a treasure-filled suburb Burbank used to be before the internet and eBay and Antiques Roadshow and American Pickers ruined everything.

Thanks to my old pal Porkypine Paton for hipping me to this Bobby Lord TV show episode on YouTube. It’s a guitar geek’s dream!

One of the most iconic Mosrite guitars in rock music history was a white ’66 Ventures model owned by Fred “Sonic” Smith of the MC5.

I feel compelled to share this image and let you know I will never, ever, ever get an Adam’s apple tattoo.

As I began to back up out of the long driveway, we probably hadn’t got more than thirty feet when I looked over at Chris. His pant legs were covered with literally thousands of swarming red ants.