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As you can guess, my web hosting company has done something stupid. I’m not sure what – but I know it’s not my doing. It says there’s a disk that’s full and it’s shared hosting, so there’s not much I can do to change this.

I should probably move to a VPS, but I really don’t want to. I have enough admin overhead already.

And, I haven’t even opened up a support ticket with the hosting company. I’m not gonna, either. Nope…

Don’t care. I am gonna kind of take today off. That seems like a reasonable idea until they fix it. Someone else will surely send them a support ticket. It’s a shared server and Labor Day weekend. It can stay down all the way until Tuesday, I don’t mind.

But, I figure I’ll at least write something.

So, here’s something…

In yesterday’s post, I included an image of some Stella guitar made in Russia. That got me thinking…

There are guitar models I don’t particularly care for and some that I think aren’t worth the money – with sometimes $0.00 being too great an investment. (If there’s one thing I have besides words, it’s an opinion!)

But, what do other people think is the worst guitar ever made?

I then went on a journey to see what the ‘net had to tell me they felt were the worst guitars ever made for production. I saw a bunch of opinions and no agreement.

Their choices range from Walmart to brands I’ve never even heard of and they didn’t tell me where I could get one. I even saw someone claim there was no such thing as a shitty guitar! (They’re wrong!)

So, what I found was this thread – and it’s glorious. I’m just gonna share that with you today and call it good.

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showthread.php?t=207875

Umm… Until next time?

As you can guess, my web hosting company has done something stupid. I’m not sure what – but I know it’s not my doing. It says there’s a disk that’s full and it’s shared hosting, so there’s not much I can do to change this. I should probably move to a VPS, but I really don’t want to. I have enough admin overhead already. And, I haven’t even opened up a support ticket with the hosting company. I’m not gonna, either. Nope… Don’t care. I am gonna kind of take today off. That seems like a reasonable idea until they fix it. Someone else will surely send them a support ticket. It’s a shared server and Labor Day weekend. It can stay down all the way until Tuesday, I don’t mind. But, I figure I’ll at least write something. So, here’s something… In yesterday’s post, I included an image of some Stella guitar made in Russia. That got me thinking… There are guitar models I don’t particularly care for and some that I think aren’t worth the money – with sometimes $0.00 being too great an investment. (If there’s one thing I have besides words, it’s an opinion!) But, what do other people think is the worst guitar ever made? I then went on a journey to see what the ‘net had to tell me they felt were the worst guitars ever made for production. I saw a bunch of opinions and no agreement. Their choices range from Walmart to brands I’ve never even heard of and they didn’t tell me where I could get one. I even saw someone claim there was no such thing as a shitty guitar! (They’re wrong!) So, what I found was this thread – and it’s glorious. I’m just gonna share that with you today and call it good. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showthread.php?t=207875 Umm… Until next time?

12 comments

[–] PhunkyPlatypus 1 points (+1|-0)

That's quite a neat tale. Thank you for sharing. I ask because my brother was gifted one from my grandpa back in the early 2000's. When he became disinterested shortly there afterwards it sat for several years until I decided to give learning guitar a shot. This particular model has had Floyd Rose locking mechanisms added to it. Which made me do a bit of research on them back in the day. The whole thing weighs about 9 pounds or so. But I've only found a few people who have heard of either the Electra brand or the floyd rose bits.

I've never seen any sort of slot for a cartridge that you're talking about. Perhaps I've totally missed it, and will check again. but I feel like I would have noticed it at some point over the years.

I do play a bit. I'm pretty self taught and never got serious about practicing.

[–] TheBuddha [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

Not all their models have it. It's a slot on the back, under a black (probably) plastic cover. It's large - maybe 4" x 6"? There's a slider on it that lets you open it and close it and the circuitry cartridge goes into that.

Oh, MPC! They're called MPC! Except, I forget what that stood for and Google is a long ways away.

Hmm... You should play me a merry tune, complete with bitchin' solo, on your Electra! I don't care if you're self-taught.

[–] PhunkyPlatypus 0 points (+0|-0)

Huh I had no idea that was a thing. That was all long before my time, but that's cool to see how things have evolved.

Perhaps I will someday. However I'm pretty out of practice. My work requires a lot of dexterity from my hands and I more often than not find myself hampered by that into not playing.

[–] TheBuddha [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

LOL I don't mind if you're not very good and are unpracticed. I just like to hear people playin' the most bitchin' solo they can.

It's my ulterior motive!