Hallmark 60's Custom

[Strat-o-rama]

I'm shocked I get anything done at all. & If I get an idea for a song, forget it! They lost me for a good hour.

Yep. My wife kids me, telling me I should do the music for shows on The Travel Channel. Listen to the background music on Anthony Bourdain's show. Lots of surf, blues, country, punk and good ole rock and roll. Then I get the "The Eye", meaning time to put the guitar back on the stand.
To one side in the living room one will find the red Hallmark 60 Custom, A blonde '57 AVRI Strat, and right now a Gibson ES295, which rotates out with a '52 AVRI Tele and a "The Ventures" Jazzmaster. The Hallmark gets lotsa play time and it really looks good sitting there.
Always keep a guitar within easy reach...you just never know when something pops in your head and you need to get it out.

[GTSP]

Always keep a guitar within easy reach...you just never know when something pops in your head and you need to get it out.

Amen. The other day I came up w/ lyrics while driving. I was writing a song while driving at 75 mph. If I had a guitar in my car, I would've been playing it too.

[Veenture]

I envy you guys being able to write and think up lyrics.

I'm already VERY content when I've managed to just 'conquer' a song by another artist even if it is a cover of an original sometimes, like the Ventures often did i.e. "venturising" a popular song and often making it even better..."Gone Gone Gone" comes to mind

I'm so glad my Hallmark has motivated me to do more Ventures songs because it can duplicate their Mosrite period of sound pretty close.

(BTW did you know that the producers of the Rolling Stones in the beginning locked the boys up and told them to "get writing" and did not let them out until they came up with a composition...it was hard but that's how they got started writing I read somewhere).

[mosman]

I would always get song ideas while I was at work (never at home) and let me tell you that trying to memorise a killer melody in your head for eight hours in a noisy factory ain't easy.
Especially when someone always had other music blaring out of a radio as well.
Needless to say not many of my tunes made it home with me.
Bill.

[GTSP]

I would always get song ideas while I was at work (never at home) and let me tell you that trying to memorise a killer melody in your head for eight hours in a noisy factory ain't easy.
Especially when someone always had other music blaring out of a radio as well.
Needless to say not many of my tunes made it home with me.
Bill.

My job requires me to have a digital recorder with me. Many times I started a melody in my head, maybe lyrics & I recorded it on my digital, got home & put it to real music.

[KRamone27]

What kinda job do you have? I want that job.

[JimPage]

KRamone, you can have GTSP's job, I'll take his guitars, and everybody's happy but GTSP and maybe his employers.

--Jim

[KRamone27]

My job requires me to swing a hammer for 8-12 hours a day and tell people what to do so mine isn't too bad. But I wouldn't mind getting a ramones model though.

[GTSP]

My job requires me to swing a hammer for 8-12 hours a day and tell people what to do so mine isn't too bad. But I wouldn't mind getting a ramones model though.

Mine might go to the chopping block later, so stayed tuned.

[JimPage]

Hey--

Thanks to a very good friend who arranged the sale of one of my seldom-used guitars, I now am the owner of a Hallmark 60 Custom in Fire Sparkle Burst. Gee whiz, is this thing beautiful and does it play well!!!

I will probably post a review in more detail in a few days, but for right now all I want to do is play it and look at it.

My 24-year-old son, also a guitar player, said, "Gee, Dad; with that guitar's finish, you should have kept that old red rolled-and-pleated Kustom amp you used to have! It would have been a beautiful combination."

Hmmm . . .

--Jim