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Chords for this single. The track is Idol Oh Idol by Ady N Jas. A bit challenging but fun. Get your pick ready. Play along:

https://chordyes.com/chord/ady-n-jas-idol-oh-idol

#telecaster #lespaul #indonesian #tongkrongan #malevocalist #acoustic #cover

Just sorted out these chords. Pitching to Couldnt It Be Me by OSTON. Electric or acoustic, this one works. Try the lick. Read more:

https://chordyes.com/chord/oston-couldnt-it-be-me

#telecaster #lespaul #american #femalevocalist #pop #emotional #breakup

Just sorted out these chords. Pitching to Couldnt It Be Me by OSTON. Electric or acoustic, this one works. Try the lick. Read more:

https://chordyes.com/chord/oston-couldnt-it-be-me

#telecaster #lespaul #american #femalevocalist #pop #emotional #breakup

Just sorted out these chords. Pitching to Couldnt It Be Me by OSTON. Electric or acoustic, this one works. Try the lick. Read more:

https://chordyes.com/chord/oston-couldnt-it-be-me

#telecaster #lespaul #american #femalevocalist #pop #emotional #breakup

Just sorted out these chords. Pitching to Couldnt It Be Me by OSTON. Electric or acoustic, this one works. Try the lick. Read more:

https://chordyes.com/chord/oston-couldnt-it-be-me

#telecaster #lespaul #american #femalevocalist #pop #emotional #breakup

Just sorted out these chords. Pitching to Couldnt It Be Me by OSTON. Electric or acoustic, this one works. Try the lick. Read more:

https://chordyes.com/chord/oston-couldnt-it-be-me

#telecaster #lespaul #american #femalevocalist #pop #emotional #breakup

Here's the layout. Following with Dusta Sebuah Cinta by Hadie Elfardie. Sets a great mood. Try the groove. Arrangement:

https://chordyes.com/chord/hadie-elfardie-dusta-sebuah-cinta

#telecaster #lespaul #indonesian #malevocalist #acoustic #chord #heartbreak

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#BestService #Guitar #LesPaul #MusicLab #Rickenbacker #Sale

Ouch

I’m too old for this shit.

Shoveling, I mean. I felt okay when I first came back inside after shoveling, but now that a few hours have passed… Ouch town, population me, bro. Every inch of me is sore, and despite having two of the best nights sleep I’ve had in ages over the last two nights, I am completely exhausted.

I don’t know if I have the energy to do anything other than sit on the couch for the rest of the night. I think we were already planning on ordering out for dinner tonight. Maybe I’ll be able to crawl to the door to bring the delivery in.* I mean, really… that’s asking a lot.

It is a good thing I managed to put rhythm guitar tracks onto two RPM Challenge songs this morning before I shoveled. I don’t know if I will be able to do any more than that tonight, though I really need to. We’ll see how the pain goes. For now though, it’s just couch time. Much needed couch time, believe me.

Here’s a few guitar pictures to hold us over until next time.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316576981/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316806444/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316994390/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316805879/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316805869/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54315686237/in/datetaken/

#365 #365Challenge #365Project #exhaustion #Gibson #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #gibsonday #gibsunday #Guitar #health #LesPaul #Music #Nikon #nikonZ5 #pain #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #Recording #RpmChallenge #rpm2025 #shoveling #shovelingSnow #Sleep #Snow #snowShoveling #SongWriting #sore #soreness #Weather #winter #z5

Friday

It’s Friday. One week from today I am going to be writing about how I only have an eight hour work day standing between me and a full week’s vacation. I am already hyper focusing on it. Crazy.

I just watched the season two finale of Silo. It was very good. I sort of screwed things up though. The show is based on a series of books. A few weeks ago I got tired of waiting to see what was going to happen on the show so I started reading. I’m going to finish the third and final book probably this weekend. When the super confusing twist happened in today’s episode I knew what it was and I knew it was coming. I spoiled myself. I don’t care though because the books are good, the show is good, and the books and the show are just different enough that I can still feel engaged with both.

This week I also watched the season (series?) finale of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew and I am down to the second season (series?) finale of The Alienist which I am enjoying a lot even though it’s creepy as hell. Fortunately season two of Severance came out today. I’ll watch that tonight before bed, I think. Silo is over, but I still have a Friday show to watch out for. That’s nice.

Last night I watched a video on the youtubes. Five Watt World’s Short History of the Les Paul Deluxe. My first “real” guitar was a Les Paul Deluxe. I didn’t learn how to figure out the date on a Les Paul until years later so I have no idea what year it was made. I think it was very late 70’s or very early 80’s. I bought it in 1988 at Russo’s Music in Lowell, MA. All of the knobs had cracked off of it and I never replaced them. I was a kid. I didn’t have the money or even the know how of how to get replacements that would fit. It also had a nasty gash in one of the frets, and I seem to remember that one of the inlays was coming unglued. I didn’t care. I loved that guitar. I adored that guitar.

On a Sunday night/Monday morning in November or December (pretty sure it was December) of 1990 it was stolen out of my car. That was pretty much the end of the world for me. I have never really recovered from the violation of it all. I bought my Les Paul Custom a short time later and that is still my number one guitar… but some days I really find myself missing that Deluxe. I would have loved to have taken it to a good shop and had all of the negatives fixed up. It would have been epic, mini-humbuckers and all.

Watching this video made me feel all the feels. Steve Hackett, Pete Townsend, and me. All of us, Les Paul Deluxe veterans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBWhGc6jxaw

Okay. Time to stop farting around and get ready for work. Happy Friday, everyone. The weekend awaits.

#appleTv_ #dust #fiveWattWorld #Gibson #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #gibsonLesPaulDeluxe #Guitar #LesPaul #lesPaulDeluxe #severance #shift #silo #skeletonCrew #StarWars #starWarsSkeletonCrew #Television #theAlienist #wool #YouTube

#gibsunday with a real burst. This is a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard, named “Louis.” Easily the lightest LP I’ve ever played. Thx to blackmagicguitars for letting me experience it 🤘

Hear it here ⬇️
https://youtu.be/M1fz6aPGEuI

#gibson #gibsonlespaul #gibsonguitars #gibsonguitar #lespaul #1959 #burst #guitarphotography #guitar #guitarist #guitarplayer #guitarpedals #songwriter #musician #music

Is the hashtag supposed to be #GibsonDay or is it #GibSunday? They both work. Should I just use both of them?

I haven’t played today, but I did get a couple of pics for whichever hashtag is the right one. I am so unhip.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53931843078/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53931932694/in/datetaken/

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/08/18/gibson/

#Gibson #GibsonGuitar #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #gibsonLesPaulStandard #gibsonLesPaulStandard50s #gibsonday #gibsunday #Guitar #Hipstamatic #iphoneography #LesPaul #lesPaulStandard #lesPaulStandard50s #photography

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When I die, this sucker is going into the casket with me.

I’m probably taking most of this stuff with me too.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/05/17/taking-it-with-me/

#365 #365Challenge #Gibson #GibsonGuitar #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #GibsonLesPaulCustom #Guitar #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #z5

I managed to sneak in some guitar playing today in between my doctors appointment and punching in to work. The recording project I am trying to work through right now had three songs that needed lead guitar tracks. I finished off all three of them. My playing was poor at best, but who cares. Bad playing is better than no playing, right?

Here’s where things get super nerdy. I had three songs that needed work… and I used a different guitar on each song. My only regret is that I didn’t have a forth song to work on so I didn’t get to use all four of my guitars. Oh well. In further nerd news, I took a picture of each guitar with my Nikon Z5 and… well… nerd… I took a selfie with my iPhone of me playing each guitar too. Thanks, camera app on my Apple Watch that has a timer built into it.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/05/16/sneaky-guitar/

#es335 #es335Pro #Gibson #GibsonGuitar #Guitar #iphoneography #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #lesPaulStandard #Music #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photography #Recording #Songwriting #z5

My staff and I just went out for a group lunch. I ate too fast. It was really good and I got carried away so now my gastric bypass surgery’d stomach is complaining. I am dumb. I am bad at following directions. I am bad at eating in this new stomach pouch kind of world.

Oh well.

Here’s my photo a day challenge pic for today. I took it just after I finished my morning exercise at around 6:00am today. It might end up being the cover of Quarantine Tunes Volume Eight. The jury is still out on that one though.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/04/23/food-fun/

#365 #365Challenge #gastricBypassRecovery #gastricBypassSurgery #Guitar #health #iphoneography #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #weightLossSurgery

My 2000 Les Paul Standard 50’s has new strings. Now if I just had calluses on my finger tips and had the nine songs on my to-do list all practiced up and rehearsal ready. Ugh.

Hipstamatic shake to shuffle to celebrate.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/04/06/new-strings/

#365 #365Challenge #Gibson #gibsonLesPaulStandard #gibsonLesPaulStandard50s #Guitar #Hipstamatic #iphoneography #LesPaul #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #shakeToShuffle

I promised myself I was going to do it on Thursday and then failed to do it. I did not fail on Friday though. I played guitar this morning. I put rhythm guitars onto three songs. Breath that sigh of relief!

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/02/16/friday-morning-guitars/

#365 #365Challenge #GibsonLesPaul #GibsonLesPaulCustom #Guitar #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #Music #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #Recording #RpmChallenge #rpm2024 #SongWriting #z5

I didn’t play guitar at all today, but I did take a few Hipstamatic pic of my #1, my Les Paul Custom. Shake to Shuffle and all that stuff.

HoHoHo

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/12/24/xmas-eve-les-paul/

#1 #GibsonLesPaul #GibsonLesPaulCustom #Guitar #Hipstamatic #iphoneography #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #photography #shakeToShuffle

Oh thank heavens, I played some guitar today. I worked on two songs for Record Every Month. My finger tips are sore as hell, but I played my Les Paul Custom with the new frets and it felt really good. Really good.

I seriously over did the obligatory pics.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/12/23/i-played-guitar-today-2/

#365 #365Challenge #Gibson #GibsonLesPaulCustom #Guitar #iphoneography #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #Music #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #Recording #SongWriting

I went to the guitar shop at lunch. I made excellent time despite a road closure somewhere in Andover, MA.

I played my newly refretted guitar with it’s new bridge and it’s new nut and my first impression is that it still feels pretty good. The frets are a lot higher than I’m used to on this guitar, but not too different than a couple of other guitars. The action is a little higher than it used to be, I think, but it’s still super low the way I like it. It felt good. First impression, again, is that I am really happy.

I took my guitar home!

What do you think, beautiful, eh?

He did mention that a couple of the inlays on the neck popped out while he was removing the old frets. That happens. He fixed them. That’s good. I didn’t see anything and I couldn’t feel any difference during my quick inspection. All in all… happy. Can’t wait to get the band back together so I can play this babie at practice and wind up the volume and let it loose. Anyone know anyone who lives near Haverhill, MA who can sing and wants to join a dad-rock cover band?

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/14/my-guitar-is-home-2/

#GibsonLesPaul #GibsonLesPaulCustom #Guitar #guitarMaintenance #guitarRepairs #guitarShop #iphoneography #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photography #refret #z5

I heard from the guitar shop this morning. My guitar is done! Oh happy day! I am going to head over there at lunch time and pick it up. Please please please no traffic so that I can get there and back before my lunch break is over.

I am so excited!

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/14/it-is-done/

#GibsonLesPaul #GibsonLesPaulCustom #Guitar #guitarMaintenance #guitarRepair #guitarShop #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom

I’ve been spending so much time stressing over my old Les Paul that I thought that today’s photo a day picture should be my new Les Paul. This is the one Jen gave me for my 50th birthday and I love it that much more because of her.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/10/the-new-les-paul/

#365 #365Challenge #gibsonLesPaulStandard #gibsonLesPaulStandard50s #Guitar #LesPaul #lesPaulStandard #lesPaulStandard50s #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #z5

No news on the Les Paul repairs front today. I’ve checked on the shop’s Facebook but the only posts are him working on a sweet Martin acoustic guitar. Based on the photos he posted yesterday, the new frets are in. I didn’t see a new nut yet, and he told me he had to order a new bridge as he didn’t have any gold ones in stock. Hardware on Les Paul Customs should be gold.

I was told I should expect to get it back next week. You know what I should do before then? Practice. I want to be able to play decently well when I pick it up on the off chance he’ll let me plug in and see how it feels before I leave. I don’t want to sound like a rusted over hack if that’s how it plays out. I want to sound like my usual normal hack.

What should be the first thing I play on my newly refretted guitar? “Smoke on the Water”? No… Some Jeff Beck maybe? I think I used to know how to play parts of “Freeway Jam”, that could be fun. No… I’ll probably just noodle over the minor blues scale in E like a typical wannabe. That suits me.

Not much else going on today so far. I’m working in the office. My group is in a big conference room. We’re going to have a group meeting shortly. It’s freakin’ freezing in here. I wore a fall jacket and a fleece when I left the house this morning. I put the fleece back on around the start of lunch and I am currently gazing longingly at the fall jacket wondering if it’s time to put that back on as well. Brrr, babie. Brrr.

Okay, back to work, Robert. Get yourself all prepped for the group meeting.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/08/it-is-quiet-a-little-too-quiet/

#fretJob #GibsonLesPaulCustom #Guitar #guitarRepairs #guitarShop #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #refrets #replacementFrets

My 1978 Les Paul Custom through the years…

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/07/through-the-years/

#GibsonLesPaul #GibsonLesPaulCustom #Guitar #guitarRepairs #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #luthier #refret

Click this link and see if you can see the post…

Whitsett Guitar Works Facebook Post

That is my guitar… on the work bench… you see the old frets, you see it without any frets (yikes!), and you see it with new frets.

I’ll probably steal the photos, but I don’t know if I will be the kind of guy to share them here without permission, and I am not likely to ask permission. Whatevs, right?

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/07/on-the-bench/

#GibsonLesPaul #GibsonLesPaulCustom #Guitar #guitarRepair #guitarShop #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #luthier #refret

RIP Jeff Beck

Remember
(Walking In The Sand)

w/ Imelda May's band
perform singular cover
of the iconic song by
The Shangri-Las
as part of their
'Jeff Beck Honors Les Paul'
at The Iridium Jazz Club NYC
June 2010

https://youtu.be/GUDNPxkh1DQ

#NowListening
#JeffBeck
#ImeldaMay
#LesPaul