Not a lot of questions today but I am going to do an actual lunch report on what I did for lunch yesterday.
I did not eat lunch after all on Monday. Today I may have that Black Forest ham sandwich and chips. It is 2:30am here and I will need lots of coffee for breakfast with only 3 1/2 hours sleep for the day.
G&L:
I am shopping for another G&L. On Monday I spent my lunch comparing various necks with different shapes and woods.
Only based on my personal experience with 10 specific G&L guitars available to me I made the following observations:
> Birdseye necks are superior to standard hard rock maple fret boards and rosewood fret boards……………superior in the way they feel when the guitar is played.
> There is very little variance between rosewood necks regardless of radius and guitar type (Strat or Tele).
> Within the maple fret board group there is great variance.
> The difference between a 12", 9" and 7.5" neck radius is negligible to me.
> Out of 10 guitars including various ASATs, Legacys and S-500s, the Korina was the heaviest of this group.
> There is a noticeable variance in depth within the "C" shape. (front to back)
> The length of the neck can seem to vary within the ASAT family depending on detectible variances in neck characteristics, meaning a combination of shape, depth, radius, wood, fretting. This must be an illusion but some necks do appear to be longer than others and also feel longer.
> There have been two basic sets or images for the Korina line. The sets are distinguished by the color. One set is greenish and cool while the other is warm leaning towards the orange-ish browns. I was surprised to see that they are actually closer to the greenish tint, beautiful none the less. This one I saw was not the warmer tint like the images on the G&L website.
> ASATs are proportionally smaller than they appear in images compared to Legacys.
> I had a chance to examine the new serial number plates in person and unless the guitar is a 10 I would not buy a guitar with one.
#1. Running through this list what do you think? Do you have differing or similar experiences and opinions?
Non G&L:
In my quest for another guitar I have considered buying used but have been reconsidering new and even ordering custom. When you can only have a small number they need to really count. My number is 2. I could get exactly what I want for a few extra dollars. That has also lead me to consider something like a used PRS Johnny Hiland. I have not played one but I thought it might be something between a Les Paul and something made by G&L. The problem with the PRS is that even used they are more than a new G&L and the affordable PRS are typically player guitars with wear and tear.
Close Encounters:
I listened to a wide variety of music growing up. I enjoyed some of what my parents listened to like Glen Campbell, Paul Mauriat, Andy Williams and The Baja Marimba Band. My oldest sister introduced me to The Beatles and Rolling Stones. At one point she belonged to a TV Guide record club and got a hold of a Grand Funk Railroad album. It was listening to their music that inspired me to play guitar, not that the guitarist/vocalist Mark Farner was that great on lead guitar. It was the music and his vocals I listened for. At that time I did not know good from bad guitar playing and I just liked the music and chose the guitar as an instrument. I was a huge fan up until they began catering to the teeny bopper crowd.
The music industry and the public's taste in music shifted and many bands had to downgrade the venues they played. One benefit was that you could catch a good band in a smaller setting and get much closer than ever before. I was able to see (a pre-mullet) Mark Farner perform with a solo band in a bar. After growing up listening to the music and only seeing the pictures on the albums it was surreal when I reached out and he high fiver me in the crowd years later.
I was in a Target store one Sunday morning and ex-49er quarterback Joe Montana came running in to grab some items and run out as fast as he possibly could without actually being a "shopper" or being noticed by shoppers.
Another time I won tickets to see Peter Frampton at a small club. I was in line to get in and a couple of girls swooned at the person behind me. I turned around and standing in line behind me was Eddie Money. I ran into him a couple of times around the club during the night. He had an umbrella and kept doing a sort of Charlie Chaplin-Inspector Clouseau routine. I never spoke with him. I just thought he seemed approachable and down to Earth being as famous.
My uncle was a professional drummer. He was a real showman on stage. His band released a single that received a little airplay. The band settled in Las Vegas as a casino act. He ended up marrying a woman who used to date Elvis Presley. She had a few stories to tell. **
These are my closest encounters with famous people.
#2. Have you ever had any close encounters with famous people?
I had a couple of ducks as pets when I was in junior high school. At the time I also had a sheltie aka Shetland Sheepdog. The dog liked to herd the ducks like sheep.**
In this video of the Johnny Carson Show Buddy Hackett tells several jokes. The last one involves a farmer and a duck.
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The Farmer and the Duck featuring Chris Thile of Nickle Creek on Mandoleo and Edgar Meyer on Celleo.
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Looks like G&L may be trying to expand their market*:
Thanks again to everyone who read all the way through to this sentence.
Have a great Day!
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**edited to add to duck context and to remove details I did not want to be Googleable forever.
I don't know where her security was? Barack Obama wouldn't be allowed to do that. 
