Thanks.

Lox, I assume you mean the old Gibson guitar. It's a 1959 L7-C that I got new as my first "Real guitar". It has a lot of miles on it and shows some wear but it still plays well. It's an acoustic orchestral guitar so there are occasions when I need to amp it for volume. I once asked a luthier about putting a pickup on it but he threatened to shoot me if I put a hole in that guitar so it lives with a 50 year old bolt-on that still works. The other 2 in the videos are a Gibson ES-165, which is something like the L7 but has a pickup and an Alvarez CY-116 classical. It was the L7 I used at the open-mike which just looks strange to round-hole players but you have to play what you have.

Sorry about the latin. I used to have to work around a lot of lawyers.

The basic reasons to open this thread, incidentally, was to give my original supporters a status and to warn anyone going up for the first time to expect the unexpected.

I can't say I live in the middle of nowhere but that's only because no one has surveyed the area to determine the exact middle. I think it's close by. And yes, over here we are envious of the folk clubs and other venues across the pond. One of my first posts on Mudcat was asking if there were any catters around here and the answer was no. So, my options were limited and I took what I could get, traumatic as it was.

Thanks for the kind words.

Bruce