Musings

I stopped in Eastland, Texas, on the way into Fort Worth, to see an old friend: Old Rip!

There’s so many weird and cool parts of El Paso. It’s funky, it’s kind of dangerous, it’s right on the border of Mexico. It’s just a really interesting place.

The original “The Thing” exhibit was one of THE great American roadside attractions. It’s kind of difficult to explain to people who weren’t there just how demented it was.

The Woody Pro amplifier is what the Bob Wills band played through in the 1940s. It was a custom-built, limited-run amp made by Leo Fender for the top professional acts that he sponsored.

This is Tiny Moore’s 1948 Gibson EM-150 electric mandolin. Tiny played with Bob Wills for most of the 1940s, then joined Bob’s youngest brother’s Billy Jack Wills band (based out of Sacramento) for most of the 1950s.

Excited for the gigs next week with Bob Wills’s Texas Playboys! Here are a couple of videos for the guitar players.

People spend STOOOPID money on vintage Fender tweed amps, but tonight I’d like to raise a glass for the mighty Supro Thunderbolt.

Last night at the show in San Francisco, I got to meet my newest fan, ten-year-old Stanley! Stanley has apparently been obsessing over my book The Strat in the Attic, and had lots of questions.

Last year I posted about Farber guitars, a little-known California brand. It’s been a real mystery for me for years. Only a few of them are known to exist.

I’ve posted this before, but I’ll post it again. Here’s the greatest music video of all time! Joi Lansing, singing “Trapped in the Web of Love,” recorded for the Scopitone film company in the early 1960s.