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<p style=”text-align: left;”>Hi Will.</p>
Welcome aboard. Please tell us about yourself.Cheers,
Matt Sarad, proud owner of Dread #97.
I’ve had the strings on my OM since before Covid started. No crust, but I can hear its time to get a new set.
The first Cruz I ever saw was the FTC at Guitar Solo in San Francisco about 22 years ago. It was $1,000.
Everything I composed 20 years ago required 100 reps each. When I take out my Cruz, they must each be played in their entirety.
Sonny defines the term Bad Ass on guitar.
One day Bakersfield had Sonny at a blues festival and Govt Mule at a different venue.
I was on a plane heading to Oktoberfest in Munich and missed them both.
My friend, Don Alder, told me about James May. Don has tried most every pickup available. He met James and NAMM and was knocked out.
Don and I talked at great length about it.
May has a fix for K&K. The 2 KK I have lose sensitivity in the treble range on my guitars. May has figured out how to fix that.
We saw the Dead at Pigpen’s last show.
Hollywood Bowl, June 17, 1972. The night before it was the Mahavishnu Orchestra at the Whisky A Go Go. The week before? Stevie Wonder and the Rolling Stones at the Forum.
Great time to be 16 and free as a bird.
I sold a Larrivee D9 dread to a friend in the 90s. After it was stolen, she was looking for a replacement. The local store had a discounted FS.
She still has it.
Dwarf Rat was a name given to me one night while we drove home after seeing a Grateful Dead movie. We’d been trying to come up with a name for our sloppy Americana train wreck of a band.
It hit me like a bolt if lightning:
Wharf Rat became Dwarf Rat.
We play a mix of Dead from 69-72, Hot Tuna, Merle Haggard, Taj Mahal, Bob Wills, Leon Russell and my originals.
Having a pedal steel player ups the ante.
