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Location: south east Michigan | There are many stories in the Naked City...this is one of them....
Once again Kim Keller came up with a guitar for us to commit WHO on. Moody was this years "Pete Townshend" and did the evil deed.
My one gripe is that he did not notify a camera man of his plan so dispite the fact that there were camcorders all over the place, the event itself is lost to history.
For the second time I was asked to act a museum curator for the fractured fretboard. Now my wife wonders if we are going to have a second wrecked guitar on display. Nope...a few pictures of the leftovers and off to the trash it goes.
That being said....BrianT and I were on our way home through upstate New York. Our route take us over the bridge at Niagra Falls so we figured we would stop there and give our legs a streach.
Back up a bit...I have been shooting some odds and ends video clips for Waskel to use in the Tour DVD. Just some little background stuff that he might be able to fit in.
Suddenly the image of the MOB going over Niagra Falls became something that I really wanted to see. Then reality and logic set in. There are warnings all over the place about how people who throw things in the river will be prosecuted. I figured it was not a good idea to toss a bundle about the size of a wrapped up baby into the river at one of the tourist capitals of the world. However I did come up with a compromise and decided that I might just get away with thowing in just the fantasic bright blue top and get away with it.
BrianT operated the camera while I walked 50 yards up stream to do the deed. As innocently as I could, I tossed the top in the river and ran back up to Brian. I got back just in time to see one of two halves of the top go over the brink and plunge to the rocks below.
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Location: closely held secret | Brad, did those warning signs mention anything about a reward for turning people in?
Hey, I was just curious. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | You guys read about the tourist standing on the bow of 'Maid of the Mist' yesterday, who suffered massive head trauma? |
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Location: closely held secret | Yeah, they said there were fragments of what appeared to be a surfboard found on the deck.
So, Brad, about those signs... |
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Location: NJ | Hmmmmm . . . .
If I remember correctly, it was my buddy Brad that "ratted me out" to Nick at GuitarNoise . . .
Anybody know the url for the NiagraFalls ParkPolice???
(confessing on a public Internet site . . . way t'go there, Bradley . . . :-) |
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Location: closely held secret | Hey! I thought of it first! |
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Location: SE Michigan | We decided it was best to send the MOB on it's eternal plunge on the U.S. side of the falls instead of the Canadian, just in case there were any legal complications. Fortunately no one seemed to notice.
My best guess is that pieces of the MOB will wash up on beach somewhere, the floatsam and jetsam of a guitar gone badly wrong. Maybe some beach-comber will find it and surmize that a poor boater-guitar player met his end out on the cold cruel lake.
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Location: Upper Left USA | ...and on to Valhalla for the fallen Warrior, er... Surfer Dude... |
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Location: Keller, TX | FYI, I ended up with the pickup from the MOB. Too bad they had taken the preamp out be ore the ritual sacrifice. I'm gonna try to install it in my daughter's Trekker. Straight thru, without a preamp, into the amp. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Tom,
I think you will need a preamp. I have a few of the rectangular ones and battery boxes if needed.
It escapes me what model they are at the time.
It was nice meeting you and your Wife.
Never did figure out your occupation. Is there a uniform involved? |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | I can see some box geetar snob finding it and thinking "maybe they DON'T make good boat paddles after all!" |
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Location: Keller, TX | Originally posted by MWoody:
Never did figure out your occupation. Is there a uniform involved? I heard there was a contest going on to see if anyone could figure it out. A few people here on the board know. :confused: |
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Location: south east Michigan | I know.
But I'm not tellin'. |
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Location: GA USA | Slippy, that falls pic has got to win the award for "Actual Photo That Looks Like A Bad Photoshop Retouch". Is that the actual photo? |
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Location: Tampa, FL | Capt. LH,
I believe the debris tucked under the "camera man's" arm is a giveaway. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Only the broken top went over the falls.
BrianT's photoshop sure catches the spirit of the moment!!!
Pictures and perhaps even video will be forthcoming. I hope they came out okay. |
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The Booted MOB
