Been a while since I last spent some time writing on this blogsite. Anyway things happens all the time and as this is supposed to be a music-site and I´m very much into music all the time lots have been going on.
Some instruments and gadgets have been swapped-sold and some new has come in their place. Our great band "the Görans Garage Band" is going from strenght to strenght. We started off playing covers, and soon became bored to death. The only song that we actually was able to sound good was our very own version of "Ellinor Rigby". So we made a decission to stop playing covers and instead only play our own songs.
As both me self and our keyboardplayer Kjell have written hundreds of songs we have lot´s of songs to choose.
Here we are, at least three of us. Man in bowlerhat- thats me, while Göran then man himself play´s the Burns Double-6
And so the man behind ebony and ivory. The one and only Kjell J.
As both Göran and me self just love´s Burns guitar´s and amplifier´s those is a must in our band. Just the other day, I made a mad deal with the owner of a Chrysler Voyager. The car was parked for the last years and was intended for use by a band in Gothenburg. Well deal went well with me handing over an old Vinyl recordplayer and got the Voyager, that was transported on a trailer home. A few days was spent to get it in order. Somehow there was some nice Drumgadgets found in the car that was in the deal.
Here pictured with a niece weiv, and the Burns logotype on its door´s.
Was also lucky to be the first caller on an advert of a 1952 Levin Royal archtop guitar. Seller sent the guitar in it´s case, but unfortinutly it was badly hurt at arrival! And natuarly the transporter didnt have any kind of responsibility. Still it was a nice old guitar to play and look´d nice.
After consulting a expertise guitar builder decissions was made that I should sell this guitar or maybe exchange it. That problem lasted less then ten minutes and the deal was done on the phone. A couple of days later the buyer arrived with a Burns Marvin 1980.
In the late 70´s Jim Burns did yet another attemt to be back in buisness. He did it with a new line of guitars. The Marvin that was supposed to be a replica of the 60´s famous Marvin guitar´s, the Flyte, the Scorpion and finally the Steer. Those guitars was all considered not to be compared to the earlier Burns guitars regarding quality. Some was really bad, but lucky for some buyers some was really good. The one that I now own is among the later group, even if it dont sound like a Burns guitar in my ears, rather more like a guitar made in USA.
With the same seller we also did a swap where he got a couple of cheap Strat-copies from me and in return I did get the 60´s Akuset mixer and two tubeamp´s.
