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Music Appreciation

ProfessorGAC

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1. These Guys Were Another Band...

Reply to steelyboo (Original post)

Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:48 PM

Monday

...that came through our city to do the 3 band shows every Monday at the hockey rink.
We had backstage passes to every show & I can't remember a time when those guys weren't trashed.
Not surly drunks; still friendly, but wasted.
They used to smash those Gretsch Falcons at every shoe, then one summer we saw a guy gluing them back together.
They were not real Gretsch guitars. The were plywood facsimiles and they'd smash them, then glue them together.
I didn't yet play guitar then, but I noticed they only played those fakes for the last song. They probably weren't goodvenough to use all night.

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These Guys Were Another Band... ProfessorGAC Monday #1

lol, that's great! Rock n Roll Debauchery . . . on a budget! steelyboo Monday #2

Yeah! ProfessorGAC Monday #3