No Offense, but....

[atomic charvel guy]

I AM THE "SUN" OF GOD.

just wanted to make sure you all knew that still. How's everyones fuckin' summer goin'?
I do hope this finds you all well.

Sincerely,One of your cultural and social leaders,
your pal
Tommy

[straycat]

AT what is up with you these days?

[atomic charvel guy]

beating back adversity with a broom stray. I miss this place. I miss playing guitar so much right now all of a sudden. got into
a serious accident on jan 4th, healing up too slowly, haven't played in 4 years, do you know how sick a thought that sounds like to me now?
i will return though, and when I do, I will be armed with a nice juicy old regular charvel strathead flame throwing delicious missile.

[toejam]

Hey, Titillating Tommy! Get better soon, you crazy fruitbat!

[atomic charvel guy]

CamelToeJamJoe, how's it goin' man?

[Hellbat]

White man speak with the forked tongue!

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[shreddermon]

Tommy, you atomically-pussified-fruitbat. Get well, bro!

[sully]

I miss playing guitar so much right now all of a sudden.

Don't make me mail you one.

[RacerX]

Hi Tommy!

[Cygnus X1]

I knew about the wreck and hope you heal up soon.
But four years?

I hate to ask...WHY?

[toejam]

CamelToeJamJoe, how's it goin' man?

My mind is still goin'... goin'... almost gone...

[kuerbo]

Didn't know about the accident. Keep this thoughts and you should be fully healed and palyng Charvels in less time than you can say paralellogram...
Get well soon!

[thebigz]

beating back adversity with a broom stray. I miss this place. I miss playing guitar so much right now all of a sudden. got into
a serious accident on jan 4th, healing up too slowly, haven't played in 4 years, do you know how sick a thought that sounds like to me now?
i will return though, and when I do, I will be armed with a nice juicy old regular charvel strathead flame throwing delicious missile.

I hear ya. I had a stroke a few weeks ago and can barely play now. It is so frustrating. I look at all my guitars and lust for the days I could use them. I was never that good,but good enough to have fun. Luckily I can bang out a few power chords so I can do something. That progress has only come in the last few days. I can't imagine how much it must suck to have gone 4 years!!

[atomic charvel guy]

Cyg,
I had gotten into some serious trouble back in '08, it did straighten me out at least, but it did force whatever was left at that point of my life
right out the door, not just material things, but a way of thinking and most of all living choices, which i never, ever made good decisions in my entire life,
which is pretty well documented with all of the great years being on this board. The want to play disappeared, and to be brutally honest, after 43 years of living
at a pace that i look back at now as so fucking stupid, I deserved what i got, well, i think i deserved less than what I got, who doesn't right? Now I'm 47, and what keeps me going is that i still think and hope I have enough time to make something truly magic happen, I must before time is up or what will you have to leave behind or to be measured by? I'm not talking music here, I'm at a critical point in life, and the 3 inches after turning my head in utter fear at a split second saved my life as i kept my head from becoming road soup. This is getting a little farther than i wanted, i really just wanted to say hi, but fuck it, I do revere the JCF and the old Charvel Central, and Chucky Bloodsplatters board, and of course Bret D's charvel site, Rob's Jackson board that was an eye popper and many many others that sprung up all over. No matter what was going on, and most of all, in the beginning, the first few years of this place was a madhouse, it had it all. It probably still does, i just don't pay attention much at all to anything but listening to music and watching sports. The golden age of the JCF and Charvel Central were the best time on the internet that I've ever had, and i was a guy who hated computers, but getting to meet all the fans of the best guitars ever crafted, then befriending many, buying and trading, arguing sarcastically, and sometimes in seriousness as well, going through losses of some of our fallen brothers on here in particular Donny and Sam, and most of all stopping in here everyday like it was the local bar and post just about anything that was going on in my twisted brain was a god damn riot. I've met so many friends from here and am the better for it. From 68 guitars to 0 was the slowest burn of all, but in a weird way there's nobody to blame but myself, and I find that oddly soothing if you can believe that, it's not like i had bad luck, (the accident was bad luck, that's all) i just kept pressing on and partying like I was completely out of my mind and that i was never going to die or be subject to consequences, and I had plenty of people around telling me that with what i had gotten away with up to that point in my life that i may just be right. Seriously. It was so sick. Hindsight is 20-20, actually i'd say it's 10-10 in my case, ha haa haa!! Anyway, I'm just starting to come around a little and I'm bored and healing, thus the babbling. Let me tell you all something, listening to music has gotten me through this. A mere 12 notes, in so many different styles of music, it's a drug, maybe the best of drugs, with laughter coming in at a close second. Music has warmed my heart when I'm having a good day or a bad day, be it rock, hard rock, heavy metal ( i still think that is a silly name) motown, blues, classical, jazz, disco, new wave, top 40, movie soundtrack music, I love it all, and have alway kept an open ear as I can find some kind of beauty in almost any piece of music, you have to steal from everybody in order to get your own style in the end, and i never think i had achieved that, maybe the hardest thing to achieve, a sound of your own that doesn't sound like any of your heroes in the end, no matter that you can play the licks of your heroes or not, to truly have your own identity on a guitar, that takes alot more than practice and equipment, that's a fact.

Bigz,
I'm so sorry to hear that. That's a big deal right there, i'm glad you can at least hit those power chords. I actually played for about twenty minutes the other day at my friends house who came to get me out of the house and hang for a while, and he said please play some guitar for me, and i said naaaah i'm toast, but i did anyway. the weird thing is, outside of 20 minutes and my shoulder is just not up for all the sliding up and down the board stuff, is that the rythym part was actually almost still there, after 10 minutes he said you still have it, it's starting to sound better every minute, but as far as lead went, i tried to do a tasty type of Warren de Martini lick that i used to be able to execute no problemo, and it was so far off i was like , man do i have a long road back. I'm not physically up to playing right now, but the most important thing in the world is that the WANT is back, and what's bigger than that? Nothing is bigger, and it's nice to believe in something again, even though it's still down the road. When I get my settlement, I'm buying my son, the magic gold sparkle charvel strat, aptly named" Elvis" back, and that is all I need to live. The greatest guitar that was ever, ever , ever assembled. And I've played lot of them in my life, it's still unparrallelled to anything i've ever played.
Bret D's serial # 1601, i think that was the number anyway , that he was kind enough to sell me came in a pretty close second, a cool guy named James in Mass. owns it now. I got the eye when it comes to picking out a great playing guitar when looking at photos, I have a scary eye for guessing what people's best playing axes were when i would see a collection picture, i always shot real close to the dart board on that stuff.
I think this is enough yapping ain't it? Get Well Bigz, I fucking mean that.
Everyone else, let me extend a good day to you all.

[atomic charvel guy]

White man speak with the forked tongue!

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god damn awesome Batty, I do harbor alot of serious like for you, and that movie kicks so much tail, that there is no instrument, natural or manmade,
to measure just how much ass that movie does kick.
Everyone, do yourself a favor and watch "The Party" starring Peter Sellers. It's in my top 10 movies of all time, and I don't watch crap!!.
Have a good night all.