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I'm still officially a Freebird here, right? I couldn't resist this one. Safe European Home on Bass 99.8%

I haven't posted an R&R RIP in a while but... RIP Brian James , original guitarist of The Damned. From the article: "He was hailed as the writer of the first ever UK punk single New Rose."

The last living charter member of the Band has died. RIP Garth Hudson.

RIP Shane McGowan, lead singer of The Pogues. I'll play a few tributes after work. Edit: spelled MacGowan

I've been playing Goo Goo Muck on the hollow archtops that I just built. As a FreeBird, my scores don't matter, but for the Cramps, hollow archtops do. The Guitar - laminated dyed maple archtop. Neck mount pickup was added after this picture was taken The Bass - 25.5" scale hollow birdseye maple laminate archtop Edit - Take THAT FreeBird Police!

I forgot how much I liked Zebra from week 363. It will take some work to get my performance up to snuff, though. The 98.5 is my best from week 363. This time, I'm starting in the mid 90s

I'm surprised by how little of The Band's material has been transcribed to CDLC. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, on bass 99%

And for the record, Knocking on Heaven's Door doesn't count because that was before Bob Dylan hired the Hawks away from Ronnie Hawkins.

Of course, I will have to play Rick Danko's parts.

RIP Robbie Robertson Another giant has gone "somewhere down the lazy river". Freebird hi-jack to follow when I get to my man-cave.

Those are some great scores on Rudy Can't Fail. I had that song in my regular rotation for years (years ago) and never came close to those sight reads. I could never get all of the slides right. Is this a different version than what we played in week 84? I've downloaded this one to compare. Edit - Yup, same version and I still can't get the slides from G# to C at any speed.

I don't normally paly anything that isn't in bass E standard, but my last build was made for D standard with a capo allowance for Eb or E. The Gorillaz show that I went to before Covid was great, so I couldn't resist...

Now I can get to work on a tribute to Tina.

I played this one on Saturday but never got around to posting it: I haven't played this on in a year or two, so I'm working to get back up to speed.