some kinda message comes through to you...

now playing: poco, "glorybound"



so i just got off the phone with keith at gruhn guitars...i was considering doing something totally irresponsible with a small financial windfall that'll be coming my way in a few weeks, and they've had four instruments belonging to dan fogelberg for sale on their website for some time now - one of them a vintage 1957 gretsch white penguin. now, that would be completely out of my attainable range if i sold every guitar i had, but they had one specific piece on there that was a little more realistic.

not surprisingly, the instrument was sold...but the distressing tidbit of information gleaned from the call was that they've moved over fifty instruments belonging to dan through the store in the past eight months or so. at present they have a ramirez classical, a washburn acoustic, a banjo, and the white penguin still in stock of the lot that they had. one of them, a roland gr-700 guitar synth, has shown up on ebay and is for sale as we speak.



this is not good. this tells an unspoken story that foreshadows some rather dire straits.



i have to go play now, and i have a rock in the pit of my stomach.



the next time any of you hear me whimpering about this carpal tunnel business, just kick my ungrateful ass.



watching your heroes grow old...and human....sucks.