Jerry Garcia was holding something I'd never seen before... a BLACK Les Paul.
I walked into Manny's late one afternoon (probably for the 100th time) and head-salesman, Manny's son, Henry, almost a second father to me by this point, had gotten a hold of a (GASP!) 1956 black Les Paul Custom..
If you ever see a photo of Jimi playing an upside down black Les Paul... especially if it has that strip of masking tape on it (Jimi wittily kept it on the guitar for awhile) that was supposed to be mine, dammit!
Red-stained oak floors glow beneath the black leather Le Corbusier couch and a slate-colored Eileen Gray love seat in the upstairs living area.
I ditched jazz for artists I thought said more with less: John Lee Hooker, the Shangri-Las, Kool Keith, Black Flag, Le Tigre, Big Freedia.
Soup 'n' fish, tux, penguin suit, black tie, le smoking, call it what you will, the dinner jacket is an indispensable part of any man's holiday wardrobe.
This group includes 14 cod species, including thorny, vermillion rock, black cod, ling cod and more.
In his own caveman way, Neil Young pummeling the living shit out of "Old Black," his Les Paul/weapon of choice, strives for that Grok, too.
The All Blacks and Les Bleus are both in Pool D this year, and their match on September 24th promises to be one of the most entertaining of the opening round.
