Sad Story...

[matsickma]

Just saw this on eBay. The guy is posting a "new" S100 Deluxe for sale. It was purchased last month by his dad. Unfortunately his dad just passed away.
That sure is hitting home for many of us LTG geezers!
I had two HS friends, guy and a girl, just pass away in the last month.
M

 

[GGJaguar]

Ugh, that's awful.

 

[Cougar]

That sure is hitting home for many of us LTG geezers!
I had two HS friends, guy and a girl, just pass away in the last month.

Uh, yup. My HS has a site where 140 of my graduating class have profiles. 59 of that class are dead already!

 

[HeyMikey]

It is a sad reminder. Enjoy it while you can folks. Try to make every day count.

 

[wileypickett]

"Life is terminal." --Leonard Cohen

 

[dreadnut]

Still on the green side, thank God.

 

[Hammer]

Just saw this on eBay. The guy is posting a "new" S100 Deluxe for sale. It was purchased last month by his dad. Unfortunately his dad just passed away.
That sure is hitting home for many of us LTG geezers!
I had two HS friends, guy and a girl, just pass away in the last month.
M

It may be just me, but...that would make me want to hang onto it even more. *shrug*

 

[fronobulax]

It may be just me, but...that would make me want to hang onto it even more. *shrug*

I held on to my dad's French horn for decades before I realized I would never play it well or seriously. Knowing what I know now I almost wish my mom had sold or given it to someone who knew him and had played with him but I also know why that wasn't an option for my mom at the time.

 

[Uke]

Sometimes it takes a lot of time to let go, on the one hand; and on the other sometimes letting go too quickly is a sort of emotionally reactive "throwing out". Oh, I forgot. This is a guitar forum.

 

[lungimsam]

I didn’t know they came out in green. It an NS?

 

[silverfox103]

When I was in the 2nd grade, I had the idea I wanted to play the violin. My grandmother bought me one. Well playing the violin lasted about a year. So for the next 60 years, I kept it in it's case. Being sentimental I didn't want to find a new home for it.

Then I finally realized how stupid that was. I know someone out there would love to have it. So one day while visiting my son in Atlanta, I was reading the paper. There was a well established organization for teaching young people how to play the violin and related instruments. They were looking for donations of instruments. I thought to myself, this would be perfect. Someone would get use of the instrument. I know this would make my grandmother happy. I wish I figured it out, years before, but there was a happy ending.

Tom

 

[tonepoet]

Sad, yeah. I had an experience this week where I was in a shop and picked up Frank Zappa's Overnight Sensation vinyl album and realized that what I was holding was 50 years old this year. I recall the first time I heard the album in 1973 and caught 2 of the 3 nights Zappa was playing live in Detroit in November of 1973 at the Masonic Auditorium. Good times.

Time passes on but I still feel that the best is yet to come and I keep learning new things. Living is learning and learning is living.

 

[SedanDelivery]

Just saw this on eBay. The guy is posting a "new" S100 Deluxe for sale. It was purchased last month by his dad. Unfortunately his dad just passed away.
That sure is hitting home for many of us LTG geezers!
I had two HS friends, guy and a girl, just pass away in the last month.
M

Sorry for your loss, friend. Stay healthy. Hope you keep playing for a long time.