One of the first things I thought of with the mention of Linda Ronstadt was a track I stumbled upon a couple years ago. I thought it was called Wedding Bell Blues by her but nope, that's the Fifth Dimension.
If I try to come up with a single favorite LR song, I'll be here the rest of the morning second guessing myself. The first one I ever heard was Different Drum by Michael Nesmith which she recorded it with the Stone Ponies in 1967. I was 12 that year.
I first learned of LR from The Simpsons: I love the Spanish version she does later on in the episode, too.
It speaks to the value of life to many in positions of power. How was I to know she was with the Russians too?
That's the song I was trying to remember but I was way off. It had been a few decades at least since the last time I heard it. I also remembered mention of her singing in another band at around the same time and it was the Stone Ponies.
@Set2Stun recent woes with buying a defective Stratocaster made me want to clean and re-setup my Kelly and PRS. I found some paperwork in my case claiming that the Brazilian rosewood on my PRS fretboard was legally obtained before 1992 when exports became illegal. I knew that part, but in the finer print it stated that Brazilian rosewood is illegal to ship to the EU under any circumstances. So if my guitar can't go, I guess I won't be moving to the EU anytime soon.
It's one of the best tone woods in the world. Been used in instruments for centuries, apparently. The luthers match the woods by tones, matching them in 6ths, I think, but I could be wrong.
My twelve string guitar is made from rosewood. When I moved her from relatively humid sea level to arid 7200 feet elevation Wyoming, she developed a crack in the back wood. Never seemed to affect the tone, but I cried over that crack.
I've heard of sudden temperature differentials causing problems before. Like if you have a guitar shipped in a cold truck in the winter, move it into a warm house, and pop the case without letting it acclimate first, but never physically cracking. A 12 string has quite a bit more tension on it, though, and are notorious for that. Your backboard probably wasn't rosewood. Usually reserved for neck and fingerboard, but it could have been.
you can get specific CITES permission to import musical instruments made from brazillian rosewood prior to 1992
Yeah, I saw that for US only on the paperwork, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was BS. That's PRS marketing itself as a US only distributor for their Custom trim line, which is what you pay for.
It was probably right when the document was issued but they changed the EU rules in 2017 when the entire genus was added to appendix 2 as it stands now musical instruments and certain other articles can be imported for non commercial purposes only via specific application if certified to have been produced prior to 92
It may've been the lack of humidity that caused the crack. When I was in Ireland, I bought my husband a bodhran at Malachy O'Kearns factory in Roundstone right on the Atlantic coast. Spent a lot of time chosing one that had a voice I liked, only to discover (duh) that a 60% drop in humidity and a mile rise in elevation changed that voice considerably. The singer/bodhran guy from Colcannon showed him how to oil and tend the thing to restore it. From the "You Can't Make This Shit Up Department": I shipped the drum to the law firm I was working for back then so it wouldn't end up sitting on my front porch in rain and snow and all the other stuff April can throw at Wyoming. When the box arrived, the office staff was eating lunch in the conference room where they were watching a documentary on Malachy O'Kearn's factory. The office manager said it was one of the most surreal moments of her life to sign for the package and see the logo and return address on it.
Yeah, humidity and wood don't mix. Look what it'll do to a blunt ass door, let alone a precision instrument. And temperature acclimation can be satisfied within hours, while adjusting for humidity takes... I have no idea how long it takes, but it feels insidious. That's why I keep my axes in an air-conditioned, dehumidified room year-round at 72 degrees, flipping the split level unit from AC to heat when necessary. And I still need to adjust the truss when the humidity hits, like it did this week after the mildest Spring we've ever had up here.
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