madformac
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Hang in there Al, much love and best wishes dude. :salude
Well you'll miss me when I'm gone.
I know I'm gonna miss you flippin' talented, passionate bastids!!! I love the players here. Believe it or not I click every link I see and I enjoy every flippin one,( even the head scratchin SH vids), always getting something from them. Thank you guys.
Hi, Al
I'll keep changing my links for your and my own entertainment (or torture, depends on your sensibilities) but I have to wonder: Where are YOUR links? I'd love to hear me some BIG AL rockin out. There has to be something you can post/ link to:bigal
"Hol di kregge", as they say back home:jim
. An old bass player from my band, Rambunctious, in Carson City, NV put up some late 70's stuff on youtube I found by accident once.
Found the link and am listening now. I like it! The internet can be a beautiful thing.:2zone
http://youtu.be/uRn5f_Hd-cQ
That's pretty rough demo stuff. I wrote that tune just befor it was recorded and it's a little green. That's over 30 years ago.
Al, you've been dealt a shit hand, and you are fighting it with honor and humor. That's an inspiring thing to me, and I won't ever forget it. Fight on, LPF brother!
Posted this once before but seems appropriate for Big Al's Norlin affection...
The Real Norlin Experience for those that don't get it.......
Last month I had to fly up to Miami for a few days to pick up some items for a new business and I decided on a whim to book a hotel right on Ocean Drive in South Beach. When I wasn't shopping and shipping stuff out, I basically kicked back going bar to bar for live music listening to bands. Lots of awesome old Fenders, the usual parade of modern day shred guitars, and plenty of exotics. As I sat there sipping, eating and thinking that I had seen just heard about every interesting guitar under the sun suddenly a deep, ominous, menacing rumble made everyone stop what they were doing. I turned to see a player on stage with GoldTop Les Paul with a huge headstock, reliced bodywork, pancaked to the wall just swaggering across a stage - like a hulking silverback gorilla, ballz swinging, belching, coughing, pharting and spitting with sheer arrogance and impunity - it sounded like a nitro funny car, shaking the ground and setting off alarms as it rumbled. The sound was hair raising. Everyone, even the custom bikers, stared in uneasy silence and the owners sitting next to the Ferrari and Lambo basking in the adulation quietly turned and looked the other way much like smaller dogs, wise enough not to risk making eye contact with the growling, strutting alpha-male. After the song was done, the player disappeared from view and it was safe again, everything slowly returned to normal, but I was branded with the memory of one of the meanest, nastiest guitars I ever heard on a public street.
THAT is Norlin.
I'm a product of the 70's and 80's and in those 20 years I can't remember a single time I ever heard someone slamming these guitars. Never heard the word Norlin......ever. We just called them Les Pauls and those of us that we're lucky enough to own them held them in high regard.
Here is my 1970 GT. I guess haters can go on and hate. I just don't get it.
That's pretty rough demo stuff. I wrote that tune just befor it was recorded and it's a little green. That's over 30 years ago.
Found the link and am listening now. I like it! The internet can be a beautiful thing.:2zone
http://youtu.be/uRn5f_Hd-cQ