While you were reading this post, Joan Baez affixed a Nader/Camejo bumper sticker to her 1968 Gibson LG-12 12-string and tried unsuccessfully to complete her latest protest anthem, stumped as she was for a poetic rhyme to “Bushitler.”
So she said fuck it and ate a big bowl of lentils instead.
Lentils, lightly seasoned with safron. And none of that imitation shit or I’ll have your ass deported back New Mexico or whatever country it is you’re from! Comprende?
Oh man! Not a ‘68 Gibson 12-string.
Talk about making a grown man cry.
Mmmm… lentils…
Hey, I only lent them to her because I thought she’d give them back. I sure don’t want ‘em back now.
Yecch.
Two (more) words: pine nuts.
Gibson LG-12? Big flat top dreadnought? Curves at the waist like an Cuban hooker with lots of bottom? Flame two-piece maple top? Inlaid headstock? Pick that was dropped into the soundhole at Woodstock and been ratllin’ around in there ever since? Natural aroma of the cedar top still smelling slightly of peyote trip in ‘71? THAT Gibson LG-12??
Kelly’s description of the axe just gave me a chubby.
Oh my God! What a fabulous room! Are all these your guitars?
LG-12. Man that stirs up the ghosts. I was just listening to some old tracks I did in the 1990s. I had a Gibson LG-12 at the time. Wrote a lot of songs on that. Wish I still had. Thanks for the memories. Hitting myself in the head now over selling …. to pay the rent naturally!
I have a 1970 Gibson LG-12, built during Gibson’s dark CBS years. Mine has a small to midsize body. Natural top and dark mohogany body. It was rebuilt about five years ago by a great guitar maker in New Castle, Delaware. It would never hold tune, nor did it ever sound like it should have. It was all out of alignment and the bridge had brokem loose and was being held on only by the studs from the adjustable bridge. He took it apart, piece by piece, and rebuilt it from the ground up. Today, it plays better than new, and it is a real sweetheart. It has small hairlines on the top. But, other than that, it is as solid as a Baldwin locomotive.