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Sunday, April 25, 2010

day 1...Dubai..

So, arrive 5 in the morning...taxi...hotel...and of course your wide awake after all this travel and the clocks have moved 4 hours forwards...it's real dark outside, very unSwedish...bit like a lamp switch, sun up, sun down.

Anyway, I'm still running a fever and feeling bad..throats all to boot and I've stopped counting how many ipren I've dropped as well as strepsils and noskapin..aint no fun waiting round to be a millionaire...or for this shit to bug off!

looking out the window and you get the Mile High building in all its glory..the Deidre Creek in the foreground..
Took a metro train out for a scan...Las Vegas without the rubbish! They have the cast from Pakistan picking up the shit! You could eat your dinner off the marble floors..BUT..imo..its all fake..all concrete jungle build up from a sand dune like Vegas, but with more bling bling and imagination and less casinos!. They seem to have wiped out their old traditions or roots...except for their national costumes, the rest is Applebees, burger king, Pizza Hut, or indoor skiing slopes in a shopping mall to impress...impress who? How do you go skiing in pyjamas and slippers?
And coming from Sweden, it has to be said that the ladies get a pretty bad deal down here..what is the problem? Think about it..wanna build the biggest builders, biggest watches, most expensive toys, watches, on and on..but woman seem to be the biggest threat ever...small dinkys or what?

After around an hour on a metro going now where fast I headed back for some japanese barbq buffet.
Grill yourself in the middle of the table..nice one.
So, its getting late, I've doubled my intake of ipren and still feeling rough as..To finish day one, which has been odd, 2 hours sleep since yesterday 11.00 in the morning, I find myself watching crap on tv, writing on this blog and catching up on mails..So happy I brought my travel guitar though, balcony, 31 degrees, Tascam ON and off we go...if you ever find a Washburn Bantam, buy it. In 83 they cost 1000 dollars and I understand why..

Day 2 and I'm really hoping for some improvement in the health stakes!

4 comments:

Ken C. Mehlenbacher said...

Hey, just happened to stumble onto your blog when looking for info on my washburn bantam headless guitar. I see in your picture yours is the same as mine. Have had mine since 92. very little info about it on the web. How much do you know about them?

Ken C. Mehlenbacher said...

Hey, just happened to stumble onto your blog when looking for info on my washburn bantam headless guitar. I see in your picture yours is the same as mine. Have had mine since 92. very little info about it on the web. How much do you know about them?

"Gonzo" said...

Hi Ken,

Well, its built back in the early 80s.
There are a few Washburn catalogs out there on the web with some info about them.
They were the most expensive Washburn at the time with a cost of 1000 dollars.
You really don't find them coming up that often.I found one other person in Australia who had purchased one from Simple Minds.
They're solid alder (if I recall) and basically bloody well made guitars!
Washburn probably sold more bass versions of the Bantam and most of the info or pictures are of basses and not guitars.However, with a price tag of a grand back then you'll understand they were pretty high level.

"Gonzo" said...

http://www.matsumoku.org/models/washburn/catalogs/bantam.html

here is some info on the bantams.