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RFR certainly didn't call LCM's teachings, etc., old wine skins, did she? I remember shortly after the Galation tapes (Leadership tapes) in the early 90's, LCM had all the Limbs perge the bookstores of STS that were done by or mentioned people who had left - like Ralph D., John Lynn, etc., and asked them to distroy the tapes and report back that the deed was done. Did anything like this go out when LCM was de-throned? Nope. If memory serves me, they were still showing his class until not too long ago when the local leadership started teaching it live, rather than run the tapes. I can't imagine how they explained that one to new people.... Good grief... But LCM's stuff wasn't deemed to be ol' wineskins, was it? Sorta sick that what VPW did was considered that, but then what King Okie coughed up was considered to be just fine and dandy. I would have thought it was sorta the other way around. I mean, at least with VPW they had some numbers - lots of members - but LCM just chased them all away, in a sense.

Not quite so, Jim... sorry.... Here's a souce... (see bold font, below.) Princeton University is a coeducational private university located on an extensive campus mostly in the Borough of Princeton and partly in the Princeton Township in New Jersey, United States. Both the township and the borough colloquially make up "Princeton, New Jersey." The university also has an exclave in West Windsor Township, New Jersey. Princeton University is self-described as the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States[1] and is one of the eight Ivy League universities. Originally founded at Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, it was relocated to Princeton in 1756 and renamed "Princeton University" in 1896. Princeton has traditionally focused on undergraduate education and academic research, though in recent decades it has increased its focus on graduate education and now offers a large number of top-rated professional Master's degrees and PhD programs in a range of subjects. At over eleven million volumes, its library is among the world's largest university libraries. Among many others, areas of research include anthropology, geophysics, entomology, and robotics, while the Forrestal Campus has special facilities for the study of plasma physics and meteorology. Originally a Presbyterian institution, Princeton is now non-sectarian and makes no religious demands on its students.[2]The university has ties with Princeton Theological Seminary and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University.[3]

WOW - but there's no history on the net about the building, etc. Usually you can find some history about such a building. I found that pic in just about 8 minutes after doing a Google on the town's name and "historic buildings". I thought it was weird that they essentially have the same shot of the building - what looks like a fire escape. VPW's master's degree was from an Ivy League college, wasn't it? (Princeton?) Anyhow - how do you fake that? :blink:

Do you think this is the same building? This pic is from a B&B called The Peacock...

What the heck happened to Pike's Peak Seminary, tho? Anyone know?

YUPPERS! Your turn!

Socks -- Mathman saw your babies pictures on your link - I'd told him about your blue Dragonfly - georgous! But he wants to know if your Tele is a Custom Shop jobby? Enquiring minds, once again...

This is rare Mathman post: ================================================================ I saw Jeff Beck and Carlos Santana at the Tweeter Center in Marshfield, MA. (Used to be called Great Woods) in 1995. After Beck was done there was nothing left for poor ol' Carlos to play. Don't get me wrong - Carlos is great - but Beck had been to the moon and back. He did some of his old stuff off Truth, like "Freeway Jam" and lot of his "Guitar Shop" stuff. It was the most awesome display of rock guitar playing I've ever seen. It culminated with an instrumental, "People Get Ready" that was breathtaking. My number one guitar is a Strat Plus because that's what Beck plays. Another great guitarist I got to see was Buddy Guy at Club Casino at Hampton Beach, NH. I was in the CocaCola Box because one of my former student's dad was an executive with the company. He had his Victoria amp with everything on 10, the way a 16 year old would set his amp. He played with tons of emotion and fire, and was right on the money. He's a great singer, too. Jimmy Vaughn opened for him and I don't even remember what he played, Buddy stole the show.

Oakie's comment just made me remember something --- I remember this one guy in our area who was really into the University of Life series. He was a very smart dude and probably wouldn't have ever gone Way Corps, so for him UOL was IT. We'll call him "Tom" just for the sake of the incident. Well, UOL got discontinued - under the umbrella of being an "ol' wineskin" - again it was something that VPW started, so it just had to go. Tom was in utter disbelief. He didn't want it to end. He started asking a lot of questions and this went on for several fellowships, etc., until finally leadership came down on him with two feet. The guy had some great points and asked valid questions - but never got a straight answer. Leadership threatened to M&A him if he didn't knock it off and said he had to let go of the past, etc., etc. Tom got blasted on a couple of levels because of this. It was Oakie's comment about hostility that made me remember this... I hope Tom is out...

AMEN! SISTA! Especially the part about having hobbies and interests again - good grief! Talk about loosing yourself to something. I felt like I went thru that twice - first when I divorced my husband and a second time when I left TWI. I'd like to add that I went back to having a backbone again, too!

GreasyTech has a lot of it right. The time frame of it was in the early-to-mid nineties, for the most part. I remember hearing a lot about "old wineskins" when I was on the WOW field in 94, so that might help. The thing that probably made me go, "Hey! Wait a minute!" was when I heard they'd gotten rid of the House of His Healing Presence. Good grief. I bet LCM would have taken out the Garden of Living Waters, too, if it didn't happen to also be a cemetary and right outside of Mrs. W.'s window!

I used to work with a guy who said, "The sexiest woman is one who's about three feet tall and has a flat head." I finally asked, "Why the flat head?" His reply: "So I'll have somewhere to sit my beer."

Do you have the box set of his work - Beckology? It's worth getting. When I met Hubby in 2000, I knew little about guitars - I paid very little attention to them. He told me he could play guitar, but I remember thinking, "Uh, yeah. Right..." I'd heard stuff like that before from men who thought I should just swoon when they said it. But Hubby wasn't kidding - the guy has chops. He's taught me a lot about guitar since then, and I've tried (a few times) to teach him more about the "mechanics" of music (especially sheet music - something most guitarists will cringe over!) - like sight reading. At the same time, he turned me on to great guitarists like Beck, Page, and Harrison. Sure, I knew who they were, but didn't have an appreciation for their art. With Beck, since he's been recording since about the same time the earth cooled, I had no idea that he was in some of the groups and stuff that he was in. My favorite Beck song - it's "People Get Ready" - it's got an awesome feel to it, and no one has a better rock and roll voice than Rod Stewart. It's another great example of Brits getting the blues. Reading your post makes me want to break out PhotoShop and see what I can do... This is just too weird to let it slip by...

WOW!.... Got any more of that righteous leaf?

Since it seems like we're now living in the tropics of New Hampshire, as it rains 20 hours a day lately, I figured it was time to take Kristopher to his first movie last weekend. I'm not a movie critic and haven't really been up for seeing the latest and greatest since I was on staff at HQ - but... Cars was a very predictable story (well... if you're at least in your 30's it is... it probably would be for most teenagers, if I can find one who will admit they've been to see it, I'll let you know.) It's about a hot-shot race car named Lightning McQueen, who's well on his way to racing stardom when he gets lost/side-tracked/arrested in the small town of Radiator Springs. The theme is about friendship and values - it's a simply story line. With actors like Paul Newman, Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Bonnie Hunt, Cheek Marin, George Carlin, Bob Costas, The Guys from Car Talk, and Richad Petty as the voices for just some of the characters, you can't help but feel familiar with the characters the moment they open their raidators to talk. Since this is a Pixar animation movie, it's full of lots of flash and glamor - and always very witty both visually and verbally. But somehow, you just KNOW what's going to happen next. The jokes are corney - what do you expect from characters who run on gas? - and the same with the soundtrack. Yup. Been there. Done that. But what makes it good is watching it though the eyes of the kid you bring with you. Since it's rated G it's not hard to find a kid to take to the movie - any age will do. To them, it's fresh, exciting, and fun. It's not the same ol', same ol'. Not yet anyhow. It's worth seeing with the right sort of company - someone who thinks the jokes are great and the soundtrack rocks and wants to go back a second time (uh... there will be a video - I keep promising Kristopher we'll get the video!) On a final note, it was rather appropro, to me at least, that this was Kristopher's first movie. I remember my first movie - also a car theme - it was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Oh. :blink: (Thanks for the explaination, tho...)

NOPE...

I have no clue about the formica - but it sounds cool.... A Hibachi Bass? That sounds cool! Next time that Bass World does a custom bass contest, where they give prizes to the best concept bass that readers come up with, I'll let you know. Guitar World did something like that not too long ago. The winning concept guitar was a Fender Strat design but had the body hallowed out and lava lamp features installed. Very strange. There were some really interesting submissions for that contest - impressive. But do tell about the Hibachi Bass.... :blink: Enquiring minds, ya know....

I'm serious about the pickguard thing - if you end up making one and you're comfortable making another one, perhaps we can do some biz. The custom ones I've found that will fit an RG-550 are all way too expensive for what they do...

I don't get the "Rattle" part.... help! :unsure:

I didn't realize that they had an album after that - I wasn't a big Deadhead - some of their music just all sounded alike after a while... So, here we go... Has my blood pressure got a hold on me Or is this the way love's supposed to be

Correct! That movie was shot just about a hour from my house! Great movie!

Thanks for the note, Danny. But Hubby has a..... Snowball's chance in HELL of getting that axe. That thing is worth more than TWO of our cars put together (and those ain't WOW mobiles - just lots of miles, well maintained.) By the way, Ed Roman RANTS about any guitar that doesn't come from his shop to begin with and if someone crosses the vintage line and buys one off eBay, etc., then ol' Ed really goes around the twist about it. Ed makes great guitars, from what I've read, but he's a snob about it. What Ed doesn't realize is that VINTAGE is now pretty much anything that's 20 years or more older. That means stuff made from 1986 and back are VINTAGE. Now, to me, 1986 wasn't THAT long ago... We've made several eBay purchases and sold some stuff too. My bass was an eBay purchase and it's vintage. We look for sellers who (a) show lots of pics - especially of the serial numbers, headstock, any place on the axe where there's dates, like at the bottom of the neck (Fenders), and the electronics, if any (We always research the numbers to make sure it gels - thanks to the internet there's lots of resources) (b) sound intelligent in their listings - knowledgable of the history of the instrument © have very good feedback and lots of it - I just wouldn't buy from a first-time eBayer (d) PayPal verified (We are, too!) (e) respond to emails with questions - even if we don't have a legit question, I still fire one off to see if anyone's home, if you know what I mean. (f) live in the good ol' USA. (g) have somewhat of a return policy We've always had good experiences - you just gotta be smart about how to do biz. We recently bought - get this - a Porsche 924S - off eBay. Yeah, it's the poor man's Porsche, and it's a mechanic's dream, but it's not going to cost us a lot to get it on the road - less than $1K - and we got it for $600. Good deals can be found - I think it's how you look for them and WHEN you look for them. Just my $0.02... Anywho... the boy is welcome to dream, but he's not pulling the trigger. We have no more room for these things and he's not playing out as much this summer, so he has no excuse for NEEDING something else.... (not to say he won't try.) YES! There is such a thing: Try this Google search for "Custom Pickguard Materials" - I think you'll find some interesting leads there. Hubby wanted one for his Ibanez RG-550. It's cream colored with a black pickguard. He recently dropped new pups in it - there's a Semour Duncan Hum-b, and something else - can't remember - but the pickguard is fugly. Lemme know how you make out - maybe you're onto a new biz! :)

Being a Clapton, Harrison, Gilmore, Trower, Page, Beck, et. al fan as well, I've always noticed something and wondered why... WHY is it that BRITISH guitarist can capture the blues sound sooooo well? Now, I associate the blues with more of the Memphis or Southern Blues sound - sorta like a Spiritual. But yet these guys all pretty much nail the sound and they're from the other side of the pond - I think Page probably has the best handle on things, but that could be another subject all together. At any rate, it's always something that's sorta mystified me.... Any ideas? Keb Mo -- I love his stuff! OMG - great guitarist - he can make it talk, sing, and even swear! I've got a couple of his CD's and it's some of my favorite stuff to listen to - never boring, and always refreshing. Promise you'll post about the show - that's quite a ticket!

Joe - if you're lurkin' or whatever -- GOOD FOR YOU! CONGRATS! It honestly couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!