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Al, the most amazing part of your story is that there was a music book dedicated to "After Bathing At Baxter's"! Sheet music with guitar chords? Hal Leonard?That's a pretty "off the wall" album for that!

walrus
It even had tablature.
In '69.
And also taught me I hated tablature but the chord diagrams were manna from heaven!
AND that there was a lot more to learning how to play a tune than just having the charts.
It turned out of course that my favorite tunes were the hardest to pick up from sheet music without any other assistance, but tunes like "Young Girl Sunday Blues" and "Last Wall of the Castle" were actually somewhat comprehensible to my novice ears.
I loved "Martha" but was clueless about the fingerpicking technique.
What I really wanted to do was play the leads like Jorma, anyway.
:glee:
It had some great pictures, too.
In fact I still have it.
 
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Tabs in '69 were pretty rare, I'd say. I had all sorts of music books, never any tabs in them. And many of them had the chords totally wrong!

That's cool that you still have it!

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Tabs in '69 were pretty rare, I'd say. I had all sorts of music books, never any tabs in them. And many of them had the chords totally wrong!

That's cool that you still have it!

walrus

Periodically I check the 'net to see if anybody's ever uploaded some of those pics, one of which was a perfect example of how things appear under the influence of a sufficient dosage of real LSD-25.
Actually it was simply a double exposure, but obviously somebody knew exactly what it would look like to a "head".
OK, this one's new since the last time I looked:
http://flickriver.com/photos/khiltscher/sets/72157631145515762/
And in my head I'm remembering chord diagrams, but I guess I was having to use the names and look 'em up in a different book.
Had some old folk song collections and other "beginner" stuff.
Ahhh, here's "THE PHOTO"!!!:
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I've never seen a spiral-bound version of it so suspect somebody did that to it after the fact.
Mighta done it myself if it'd been easy, except I also wanted to be able to see a whole tune at once without having to turn pages.
Is there a word for that?
As it is I have a ton of stuff I copied and 3-hole punched for just that reason.
If there were more than 2 pages I taped consecutive sheets together and folded 'em in and out as needed.
 
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Started on the piano in 3rd grade, then added the clarinet, bass clarinet, then the tenor sax in junior high, then inherited my sister's Martin classic nylon guitar in 10th grade(1962), then bought a 12 string in Thailand in 1969 while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in India. Returned to the US in 1971 and bought a Martin D-28 which I kept until three years ago when I branched out to Guilds, and have been expanding my technique and genres ever since. What a life enhancer music is, especially cradling on guitar!
 

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But I was playing Don's Goya (a smaller bodied guitar, and I think made in Sweden?)

Yep, if it was made prior to the late 1970s it's a Swedish guitar, made by the Levin company.

According to an article in the latest issue of the Fretboard Journal, Nick Drake's main steel string was a Levin copy of a Martin dread.

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When I bought my new '76 D-25M, I selected it over a Martin D-18, a Gibson mahogany dread, and this Giannini:

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That "Boy Howdy" beer artwork looks like classic San Francisco underground comix a la R. Crumb.
 

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And one of my favorite photos. I won't post it here...but everyone knows the photo. :witless:

Joe

Yes, forum decorum mandated the link instead of the actual photo.
Interesting note is the blog I found it on is by a guy who first saw it in '75 (he was reading about Kiss in Creem) and doesn't realize it had first appeared much earlier, '70 I think it is, I still have the issue.
For my part I never realized they re-used it.
That "Boy Howdy" beer artwork looks like classic San Francisco underground comix a la R. Crumb.

It is in fact Mr. Crumb's work.
 

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And who didn't have an R. Crumb "Tommy The Toilet" poster in their bathroom in the '70's?

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Yes, forum decorum mandated the link instead of the actual photo.
Interesting note is the blog I found it on is by a guy who first saw it in '75 (he was reading about Kiss in Creem) and doesn't realize it had first appeared much earlier, '70 I think it is, I still have the issue.
For my part I never realized they re-used it.

The mid-'70s reprint must be where I first saw it. Pretty certain my 10-year-old self wasn't looking at Creem in 1970…I was all about Motown back then. Creem was a great rag…where else could you read about the Bay City Rollers, the Sex Pistols and Jonathan Richman in the same issue and realize they were all connected (and that the writers/editors understood this too)? :)

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