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I just posted a funny video from an old SNL skit about inflation making everyone a millionaire...you brought up party politics.
I don't have time for partisan politics, arguing over who gets to evacuate their alimentary tract on us. As Mark Twain famously said, "If voting made a difference they wouldn't let us do it."
But you are right, it's my lack of hard work that landed me with 4 degrees, including 2 doctorates. If only I had tried harder...the price of being a slacker.
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02-25-2026 02:08 PM
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I've complained about it before, but they will allow any offer to reach you if it is at least 65% of the asking price. You can't set an 'ignore offers below 80%' or anything, which I think a lot of folks would love.
Originally Posted by Jsparr1983
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If the money were still made out of silver instead of paper it seems to me like this would be much less true. And here I was thinking I had overpaid at $22 an ounce, lol. Originally Posted by Stringswinger
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I have a good friend who believes in diversification, and he has always kept a pile of gold bars in a floor safe. I used to chide him about the gold asking him if he ever planned to become a dentist as he would have lots of filling material on hand Originally Posted by DawgBone
. With the recent rise of gold prices, I am beginning to see the wisdom in his portfolio allocation.
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Gold isn't so much of an investment, but rather an insurance policy (with no premiums beyond the purchase price) against the inevitable decline of mismanaged fiat currency. Gold has been "real" money for centuries...it's the only financial asset that has no counter party risk.
One could argue similarly about any hard asset (real estate, even quality guitars) because when the currency is reset or replaced, it will still have value on "the other side". Although I have warned those I know who wish gold would hit super high evaluations (e.g., $20K+ per ounce) to be careful what they wish for, because that will mean really bad things are happening economically/societally.
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That’s not true though. The video has a divisive partisan banner across the top. So you brought party politics into this. Originally Posted by mvp019aa
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It's an almost 50-year old clip that I recall watching back when it aired - only related to the faux millionaire class created by inflationary policies, which are not the purview of either half of the Uniparty. I simply remembered from having seen it in the 1980s, and I was surprised I even found it. Democrats and republicans both basically do the same thing - the biggest difference they have is the spelling. If the Epstein files have shown us anything, it's that the ruling class is the same irrespective of party affiliation.
And I certainly didn't personalize anything, such as accusing someone of not working hard and being jealous of those who have allegedly accomplished more. I have zero jealousy for those people - I respect a crack-house prostitute more than any of them - at least she's open about what the transaction is and provides a "product" that only those who want must pay for. I'd rather be a homeless person than Lindsay Graham, Adam Schiff, or any of their ilk. Why would I be jealous of morally and ethically bankrupt people? And what have they "accomplished" besides figuring out how to leach off society and pander to big donors?
It was just a flipping comic sketch based on the idea that being a millionaire surely isn't what it used to be But take heart haters - I am having open heart surgery tomorrow morning, and if you're lucky, I'll be dead before the weekend, and you can be happy that someone who posted such a vile video is gone...for crissakes.
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I’m sorry you don’t like reality and can’t admit a simple mistake.
But that’s the truth of what happened. It doesn’t seem like you did it intentionally, but you did it either way.
I do hope the surgery goes well.
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My old man always said keep 10% of your investment money in gold and silver. I wish I had bought more of that $22/oz silver. If I had done enough of that I could put in a bid on that T-Bone guitar, LOL. Originally Posted by Stringswinger
I have a good friend who believes in diversification, and he has always kept a pile of gold bars in a floor safe. I used to chide him about the gold asking him if he ever planned to become a dentist as he would have lots of filling material on hand. With the recent rise of gold prices, I am beginning to see the wisdom in his portfolio allocation.
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Oh trust me, I'm sorry. I was only responding to what someone wrote about millionaire being not what it used to be...I know many "middle-class millionaires" based on net asset vlaue. As for a "mistake" - there was none. Unless someone knows where the "archive of 50-year-old SNL bits with no tags on it" - I guess some partisan hack added that tag. I literally didn't see it...like a McDonald's restaurant - I literally don't even notice them because they are functionally invisible to me. If course, it was right after the other comment so I thought the connection was obvious - I forget that some people only "look at the pictures." Originally Posted by AllanAllen
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Well, now that we’ve completely beaten this to death… what else do you want to talk about? Originally Posted by mvp019aa
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Easy for you to say - nobody attacked your character or life accomplishments, nor indicated that you had to apologize for something. Easy to lob a grenade over a wall and act like "What? Me?"
The most expensive guitar ever sold is Kurt Cobain's Martin D-18E, which fetched $6.01 million at a Julien's Auctions event in June 2020. Famous for its use during Nirvana's 1993 MTV Unplugged performance, the guitar was purchased by Peter Freedman, founder of Røde Microphones...so T-Bone has some catching up to do.
Disclaimer: No party affiliation was inferred by that guitar sale fact.
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I always thought it was a Martin that Cobain added a pickup too, but was surprised to learn they came like that.
Don't worry about all that character assassination stuff, we're all a bunch of freaks here. Well adjusted, socially competent people don't end up on hyper-niche internet forums.
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I was surprised that his Martin fetched the highest price ever; I would have thought his Fender Jag-stang would have been the more desirable guitar of his since I perceive it to be the one he's most known for playing.
According to Guitar World:
Top Most Expensive Guitars Sold at Auction:
- Kurt Cobain's 1959 Martin D-18E ($6.01 million): MTV Unplugged performance.
- Kurt Cobain's 1969 Fender Mustang ($4.55 million): "Smells Like Teen Spirit" music video.
- David Gilmour's Black Fender Stratocaster ($3.975 million): Used on many Pink Floyd hits.
- Eddie Van Halen's Kramer "Hot for Teacher" ($3.932 million): Iconic Frankenstrat-style guitar.
- John Lennon's 1962 Framus Hootenanny ($2.857 million): Used on Help!.
- Fender "Reach Out To Asia" Stratocaster ($2.7 million): Signed by numerous rock legends for charity.
- John Lennon's 1962 Gibson J-160E ($2.41 million).
- Jimi Hendrix's 1968 Fender Stratocaster ($2 million): Played at Woodstock.
- Jerry Garcia's "Wolf" ($1.9 million): Custom guitar.
- Kurt Cobain's 1993 Fender Mustang "Sky Stang I" ($1.587 million): In Utero tour.
Also surprised to not see Clapton's/Rundgren's Fool SG in the top 10. Another resource had that at 15th for $1.27 million.
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I think he smashed so many electrics, you don’t think of any of them as “the one.” But there was just that one Martin.
Similar to Pete Townshend’s guitars. He treated them all disposable, so none of them have any magic.
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So....umm....back to T-Bone. He is one of my all time favorites. I'm not sure he really gets enough credit for how much of a pioneer he was. He was putting out electric blues guitar records while Muddy Waters was still living on a plantation in the Delta. He used to play in Chicago frequently during the '40s. The recently late George Freeman talked about being inspired to take up the guitar after seeing T-Bone playing in a club in Chicago around '45. He was playing guitar behind his head and duck walking across the stage decades before Hendrix and Chuck Berry.
I also find it very interesting that before he moved to LA, he briefly lived in Oklahoma in the '30s and was known to play with a teenager by the name of Charlie Christian.
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Among blues guys he's a mega legend right up there next to the Kings, perhaps even exceeding them in terms of clone players presently. A sizable portion of blues players here play in that style, also kind of tied in with the cult of Jimmie Vaughan. Deceptively simple yet intensely swinging blues playing. The same can be said for quite a few guys in the L.A area. Medium slow shuffles and tasty, swinging licks. Medium slow shuffles can be very tough to sound great on but outside of the deep south right now it seems to be the dominant style in terms of popularity. Just my two cents.... Originally Posted by andrew
Him and Charlie Christian are both said to have taken lessons from the same guy. I find that insanely interesting because between the two of them they basically developed all the basic vocabulary that makes up quite a bit of the core of both genres when it comes to guitar. Their teacher must've been a helluva guitarist....
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I am a big fan of T-Bone (and Albert King, SRV etc.) and I think he was one of the giants of our instrument. I would think his guitar would be more valuable than any jazzer's guitar, but not as valuable as the big-time rocker's guitars are. Originally Posted by DawgBone
I guess we will all see.
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It was this cat Calvin Klein, he played a Gibson ES-345. Ended all his songs with “Your kids are gonna love it.” Originally Posted by DawgBone
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Just as an aside, my favorite T-Bone video w the ES-5, from the American Folk and Blues festival in '62
Very slick.....
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Very interesting. Where I’m at, the blues scene is dominated by blues-rockers. I’m one of two guys that I know of in town that are into the T-Bone thing. Originally Posted by DawgBone
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I was going to post this, but you beat me to it! A magical performance, IMHO. Originally Posted by wintermoon
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T-Bone holds the guitar with a similar style to Freddie Green, but standing up.
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Hating no one is a viable option!
Thanks John
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I'd be interested to know what general area you're in if you're willing to share it. We have plenty of blues-rock guys around here in central Texas, a couple of whom run quite a few of the jams but there is quite a strong presence of the old school T-Bone style players left, possibly even outweighing the blues-rock guys thanks to guys like Jimmie Vaughan and Anson Funderburgh having deep roots in the area. There are some great jump blues players circulating in this area. Originally Posted by andrew
I went to Helena AR and Clarksdale MS for some gigs last fall and barely heard a swinging shuffle the whole trip whereas they are part of the job description in TX. The single chord boogie style is most prevalent there right now, in the vein of Junior Kimbrough and some others.
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