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• Lit the FUSE!

  by Don July 2, 2012
  Playing with a band for the first time in  years really got my adrenaline pumping.  My schedule makes doing that regularly still a bit difficult, but working with those guys did open to me the possibilities. It also lit a fuse. Or more correctly FUSE. As in Fender FUSE -- a software system that allo...

• Entering the 21st Century

  by Don June 17, 2012
  Getting together with a group of very capable musicians for the first time in 40+ years was a joy. Getting to experience the way at least some bands rehearse these days was a shock. Amps? "We don't need no stinking' amps!" Well no one actually said that, but they do live it. Instead of amplifiers...

• SG or Tele?

  by Don June 10, 2012
  As most all of that play electric guitar know, that while there are dozens and dozens of worthy and desirable guitars 'out there' (both past and present), they almost all fall into one of two sound categories: Fender and Gibson; single coil of humbucker.I started out as a Gibson man - something that...
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• Pig Nose!

  by Don June 3, 2012
  A buddy had come by yesterday asking me to spend an evening jamming with his band. Very tempting!  But I've been playing solely acoustic of late and the necessary change over to electric will take a little time.What the hell! Why not give it a try?  So I grabbed an electric out of the music room and...

• Cool Review in "Ugly Things" Magazine

  by Don May 22, 2012
  Got home yesterday and what was in the mailbox but the Spring edition of Ugly Things. Lots of good stuff throughout but I have to admit that I turned immediately to "Echoes of the Vault" hoping to see it and there it was ... right there under the section title ...  UG's review of The Abstracts' "Hey...
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• Being Resurrected Can Be So Much Fun

  by Don May 21, 2012
  "I was sleeping. Now I am awake."  No, I'm not quoting the bible's Lazurus there, but myself. For in a sense I was dead. Dead to something that had once been absolutely central to my life but that is no longer. Let me explain... Like many kids growing up in the fifties and early sixties I felt like...

• The Abstracts on Break-A-Way Records

  by Don May 19, 2012
  Every lover of `60s music that I know is blown away when they first experience a Break-A-Way Records LP. I know I was. Who is this little label hidden away in some city I'd never heard of in Germany?  Should I really expect an unknown company like that to be releasing something special? I didn't mak...

• Record Collector 'Pick of the Month' :)

  by Don May 18, 2012
  This s cool! The Abstracts "Hey, Let's Go Now!" has been chosen as a recommended selection of the month by Britain's Record Collector magazine. I'll post the clipping someone sent me of the mag page in my pix area. :)

• Abstracts FB Page

  by Don May 18, 2012
  Don't know how many here are on Facebook, but for those that are and have the interest, here is The Abstracts Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/147162632022407/  There is recorded in real time the almost (to the band members) impossible thing that has happened to our long thought forgot...