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Lefty Tele

About Me

Self employed in auto retail and part owner in a restaurant/bar. Also guitarist and vocalist with Whiskey Rain. Five strong players and five vocalists, a very good rocking country band. Very happily married to a wonderful understanding woman, Mary Ann, for 25 years. Being left handed instruments are not easy to come by. A music store with 200 guitars probably has 2 or 3 lefties, and they are usually low end. So the search for tone goes on. I use mostly Teles, though I just picked up a baritone Eastwood Sidejack that is a very cool guitar. That led to another Eastwood the GP Ultra. I'll be using that for a couple songs per night. I recently picked up a Michael Kelly Patriot lefty that is outstanding. My Warmoth custom Teles get the majority of my playing time. As far as amplifiers I have owned and tried most and keep coming back to Fenders. I now use any one of three Silverface Fenders from the seventies, a Princeton reverb, a Deluxe Reverb, and a Vibrolux Reverb depending on venue. Peace.


Snapshot - "Lot Of Leaving Left To Do"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTPj8u4JEc0

Snapshot live at China Grove NC Farmer's Day 2008


Whiskey Rain Band Live Fire on the Mountain Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAW8Hm_H54g
Whiskey Rain Band Live Fire on the Mountain Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVwErb2k5UU
Whiskey Rain Band Live at The Southern Roadhouse, Rockingham NC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a9DsFcoLHw
Whiskey Rain Band Live at the Sundown Saloon in Benson NC Part 1 Mar 14...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZkDVMFAz9g
Whiskey Rain Band Live at The Sundown Saloon Mar 14, 2009 part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji2jAbtkOH4
Whiskey Rain Band Live at the Sundown Saloon mar 14, 2009 part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd2mGX_G5aY

My Interests

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Nice people, nothing like a smile and a kind word.

My Blog

Saving Gas with a Prius

I just finished a consultation with a regular client. He wanted an estimate of his cost if I found him an "07 Toyota Prius versus an '07 Toyota Corolla LE. Based on 15,000 miles per year. The Corolla'...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:53:00 GMT

Left Handed Guitar Availability

It seems most guitar manufacturers think Lefties aren't worth the trouble or expense of tooling up to produce some of their nicer models in left hand. Here's a suggestion, forget trying to duplicate a...
Posted by on Fri, 23 May 2008 10:58:00 GMT