January Birthdays 
Got my Gibson "Les Paul Junior" out of lay-away, this afternoon. I don't know how I stumbled on it, but it turns out I've got a Gibson Melody Maker, which accounts for it having both a stop bar tailpiece and a Tune-O-Matic bridge. It certainly sounds much better than the Melody Maker I'd tried out, at the Guitar Center in Indy. Could it be the stop bar/TOM combination that accounts for why what I've got sounds better than the current crop of Melody Makers? Mine looks just like the one in the big picture, on the linked page, until I put my Bigsby B5 vibrato on it.
Now that I've got it home, it won't be long before I fire up my digital recorder, again, and start recording lead and lead/rhythm tracks with the Melody Maker, rhythm tracks with the Les Paul FDC and bass tracks with the Precision Bass. I still need to figure out what I'm going to do for drums, but I'll let available money and opportunity coinciding help me with that decision.
Matt
—Fast Cars & Loud Guitars!
