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Walk, Don't Run – Johnny Smith (the original - and some nice guitar playing)

Honey Bee – Tom Petty

Blinded by the Light – Bruce Springsteen

Living In America – James Brown

It's actually one of my favorite Beatles tunes.

I Wanna – All American Rejects

Parker Dragonfly/Maxxfly DF-522NN (NN for Notes Norton) – a custom shop build before they went belly-up. Contoured and balanced, it's like wearing it instead of holding it Almost straight string path, Sperzel locking tuners, and a Graph-Tech nut. Great tuning stability, it sometimes stays in tune from one gig to the next!! Hardened stainless steel frets, years later, not a bit of wear on them 25.5" scale and 14" Radius, which suits my hands perfectly Master volume and tone, so no matter what pickup selection or combination, making adjustments is quick Duncan P-Rail pickups that give me these sounds: P90, Rail, Series Humbucker and Parallel Humbucker A Piezo under the bridge that can be played alone or mixed with the mag pickups The only downside of this guitar is that it eliminated GAS. I can look at other guitars, admire their beauty, but don't want to buy them. It may be the last guitar I buy (if it doesn't break) My only regret is that I didn't buy two of them. I didn't know they were going to go out of business. Notes ♫

The ones that are left are mostly confined to rocking chairs.

Iamonthemoonandthereisnowheretogetabeer. Thereisnospacebar.

I regret that Freddie, my Fiat 124 Spider died at the 55-mile marker in the Florida Keys, and the mechanic that tried to fix it actually screwed it up by puncturing holes in a lot of the wires trying to figure out why it lost spark. Those holes eventually caused the wires to corrode and the repair bills got to be too much. We towed it home and the problem ended up being a distributor cap.

I Walk The Line – Johnny Cash (We just learned “Folsom” for a regular customer, so this one popped up in my mind first - BTW, I'm not a fan)

lyric association: The Emperor's got no clothes on No clothes? That can't be he's the Emperor … One Small Voice – Carole King

Actually, Conn used to be a fine saxophone, but the one I bought was a student model and it was made as the company was in its downward spiral. BTW unlike the flute and clarinet, the sax is a connical shaped instrument.

Conn 16M tenor sax. My first sax, student model, bad intonation, thin tone. My grandmother chipped in, plus my savings, I bought a used, made in France, Selmer Modele 26. It was an older pro model, but it had better intonation and big tone. I never missed the Conn, but it did serve its purpose. Notes ♫

The Lady Is A Tramp – Buddy Greco I love this arrangement, and the way Buddy accompanies himself on the piano.

Eye yam OK.

Just another example of: This business of music would be great if it weren't for Greedy Club Owners, Sleazy Agents, and Other Musicians (I'm in the 3rd group). But I got lucky. Mrs. Notes and I are self-sufficient, and well mated, that takes care of the other musicians. We mostly book ourselves, so the sleazy agents are out of the picture, but we still have to deal with the club owners. Actually, we have done well with owners, because we work for the house, it's the managers we sometimes have a problem with. Micromanaging idiots who want to hear what they want to hear, not what their customers want, and then blame the band if the customers don't like it. Oh well, back on topic. I have no other gear regrets, other than the one I posted earlier. Notes ♫