April 24th, 2007 at 3:50 am
At the beginning of March a guitar that had been owned by Paul McCartney, one that he’d thrown into a crowd during a Beatles concert many years ago, turned up in a school in Montenegro.
McCartney had tossed the Hofner Violin bass guitar into the audience after its neck broke. Milan Dobrilovic, a Montenegrin cameraman, said he had received the guitar from his cousin Dario Persi who was the fan who caught the instrument.
Dobrilovic recently donated the guitar to a music school in Herceg Novi, a tiny town on the country’s Adriatic coast.
The violin-shaped Hofner guitar was made famous by McCartney, who adopted it in 1961 and still uses the same model.
Guitars proven to have been owned by former Beatles members including McCartney and John Lennon have sold at auction for up to 330,000 pounds (640,000 dollars) in recent years.
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April 4th, 2007 at 2:19 am
Wordless Wednesday
Can’t you just hear the wolf dog whistles as this lovely super model cat is paraded by the crowd?
I’m not sure where this photo was taken. I have the feeling that it might have been at some kind of pet show, since the dogs look to be of the same breed and are sitting so obediently as that cool cat walks by. Besides … a cat on a leash? Who does that? Ok ok one of our neighbors does, but she talks to trees and telephone poles too.
If you want to see a kind of funny photo of me you should visit my guitar blog. It’s worth the visit. I’ve got lipstick on my forehead!
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December 27th, 2006 at 2:15 am
So what did all of my readers end up doing for the holidays? Did you get together with your family or friends? We ended up going to my parents place. My oldest sister, her husband and their son came, and so did one of my Aunts so there was eight of us for dinner.
Can you believe we didn’t have turkey for dinner? My mom cooked chicken pieces. Well, we’re going back this weekend when my brother comes up from Chicago and we’ll have a big meal then. I hope my mom makes turkey for that meal or else we’re going to end up missing out. I think Trish might cook a turkey breast tomorrow or sometime this week so we’ll have our own little Christmas dinner, so if she does we’ll get our share of turkey I guess.
I brought two of my guitars to my parents place because my nephew has been learning guitar for the last couple of years. He’s pretty good too. So I brought my Larrivee and my Gibson Ardy Artist and gave him so lessons. He did so well that I ended up lending him my Gibson for a few days. Hopefully I get it back in one piece! Nah he’s a good kid.
That was our Christmas, nothing too exciting but it was nice to see everyone. What did you guys do?
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