That STP shirt got some use.......

It must've been a favorite. Probably worn so much it was soft as baby clothes.
Mike's first yet again, so he wins a genuine reproduction STP shirt!

I had one...it was one of my favs. My first ex wife was burning it and the rest of my crap one day when I came home from work.
So I got a second ex wife.

Donnah you're just .. just.. peachy.

Damn Starla...were you waiting behind my couch to usurp my second post position ?? Hrmph.

I love Duane's and Dickey's jeans tucked into their boots -- a style that was also popular out west in the 1860's.

csason, though I've never heard it, I found the sheet music a while back for a song I think you'll appreciate: "I Feel Like I'm Talkin' to my Next Ex-wife".

Paco, that wouldn't be a Willie Nelson song, would it? Sure sounds like one. I know he has a ton of exes, some of whom may actually live in Texas. Or am I getting my Willies and Waylons and Hanks confused?
Owen, I wasn't hiding behind your couch, it's dusty back there! I was standing quietly behind a door and you never noticed me when you came in. I was right there, I could have reached right out and tweaked your sleeve! Now I'm going to usurp on some Dr Pepper, wanna sip?

Well, well. Donnah has surprised me once again! This is a new one to me and I love it! Wonder if it was Piedmont Park? Looks like it could be. Owen, you need to be a little more careful with those exs. I hear they can be hell!

Thanks Donnah....your one Peachy gal!

Wail on, Skydog!

No dearest Starla, it wasn't a Willie Nelson song. But you're right, it certainly could have been with that title. It's been so long since I saw that music book I can't remember the writer's name, but I know it was an obscure one.

Regarding Willie and Waylon and Hank, I understand the new film "Crazy Heart", starring Jeff Bridges, is a fine tale modeled on the lives of these music icons. I have to wait until it comes out on DVD to see it, but it looks like a film worth checking out.

Yeah, I've heard it's a good one.
Hmmm, obscure writer, reminiscent of Willie Nelson...ah, I got it! Nellie Wilson!
Bwaaahhhaaaaahaahaa!@ *rimshot*

Must be way in the beginning...I don't see a Les Paul anywhere. Wonder if Gregg was even with 'em yet...

Piedmont Park?

Yea Carl. My Dad would put us all in the car on Sunday afternoons and ride down 14th street and lecture us about "those damned hippies"! We would all be laughing our butts off (under our breath of course) because little did he know just what he had in the back seat!;)

Cindy, you must be from Atlanta and about my age, because we had the same experience there. May even have had the same dad- were you in a '65 Ford Falcon? Granted, I don't recall any sisters at the moment. And ours succeeded (briefly) in making us fear hippies.

No '65 Ford Falcon, I was in the '69 Pontiac Bonneville with the maroon interior. We probably waved at each other. He didn't succeed in scaring me though. I was enthralled. I remember once we got caught at a traffic light and a hippie came to the window and offered my Mom a flower and I thought it must have poison on it the way she jumped back and rolled the window up. Boy are the memories flowing now! Fun stuff. I remember music too...it just might have been the brothers for all I know. Joe I am still right outside of Atlanta. Lived here all my life.

Good eye Dennis -- the lack of Les Pauls in the photo does indeed date it.

Starla: Nellie Wilson -- now your getting silly. That's enough Dr. Pepper for you. (rimshot I'm not touching.)

Rimshot is like a clash of cymbals that sounds when somebody makes a lame joke, like I did with Nellie Wilson. Really, I think Nellie Wilson is pretty funny. Hey, since there's no Les Paul, is he Paul-less?
Anyway, it isn't the Dr Pepper, it's the fine spring that has sprung that's making me giddy and goofy. I've got daffodils and purple crocuses (or is it croci?) blooming next to my front steps, and those have about put me right over the edge.

Starla,
Paul-less, now that's a good one.

I'm glad to hear the spring flowers are out for you. Go with the giddiness -- it has always become you.

Only here could "giddiness becomes you" be taken as a compliment. :)

Darn hippies.

I was the guy that had to convince the Cindy's Dad's of the world that their daughter was safe with my superior escorting skills..and Yes, I began the scheme while a backseat passenger of a 68 DeVille.
It seemed to be an advantage NOT to wear the STP shirt while said convincing was a taking place.

Hippies... its hard to believe they were on par with terrorists at one time. I was there. I actually heard some of the plans the "flat top" boys had in mind for us long haired hard tails...and it tweren't pretty.

Tell it on the mountain, csason.

And by the time I was born, all the hippies were busy turning into either burnouts (what works when you're 19 doesn't work so well at 30, and even less so at 60) or the eighties terrorisgs: yuppies. Then when I was a teenager there were grunge and goth kids, who were basically hippies with no sense of humor or enjoyment for life.

Damn that Richard Nixon!!!!! Why did he have to be such a hardass? Had every flattop man in America scared to death. I never thought of it the way you put it Owen, but you are exactly right, Hippies of the 60's = terrorist of the 00's only the Hippies weren't about killing folks so maybe only the fear is the same. All the flattop fellas wanted to get ahold of ya'll with a good razor.Great weekend to all and have you a real good time!

Something I always noticed about Richard Nixon? Listening to those "secret" tapes, it strikes me that for a Quaker (which he was) he certainly had a foul mouth on him. Or maybe I'm confusing Quakers with Mormons, who actually do say stuff like "golly gosh oh gee whiz holy cow!" even into adulthood. Maybe Quakers aren't bound by those same constraints.

On a more topical note...... I saw another great Allman Brothers show last night. Going to see #4 tonight, and that's it for the 2010 NYC run.

Too bad none of you crackers ever take me up on my offer of dinner and a show. These guys aren't getting any younger.....

Maybe next year.

They're always in Noo Yawk...

That scene in Easy Rider had the hippies freaking like a Beyonce concert next to a Klan rally..

Is that a Gibson S.G. duane is hittin the note with? Looks like a Gibson headstock, but the body looks to thick.

Its prolly that 61 lester weird body that went over so well.
Duane had one..this is likely it.

I think it's the Les Paul Junior that Delaney Bramlett ended up with.

Check this out......

http://www.duaneallman.info/unreleasedtracks.htm

Nobody bitchin yet about the lack o fresh Skydog ?

Damn..