Double-Guitar - Starman - 23:36 12-11-08
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Michael Angelo Batio claims to have invented the Double-Guitar that he is
famed for, yet I was told an English singer-songwriter named John Otway
actually predated Batio's invention with a similar guitar before Michael's
invention. Any truth to these claims?
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Re: Double-Guitar - White Spirit - 19:40 13-11-08
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Starman wrote:
> Michael Angelo Batio claims to have invented the Double-Guitar that he is
> famed for, yet I was told an English singer-songwriter named John Otway
> actually predated Batio's invention with a similar guitar before Michael's
> invention. Any truth to these claims?
Possibly. We invented pretty much anything worthwhile.
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Re: Double-Guitar - Adams661 - 19:56 13-11-08
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On Nov 13, 4:43=A0pm, White Spirit <wspi...@homechoice.co.uk> wrote:
> Starman wrote:
> > Michael Angelo Batio claims to have invented the Double-Guitar that he =
is
> > famed for, yet I was told an English singer-songwriter named John Otway
> > actually predated Batio's invention with a similar guitar before Michae=
l's
> > invention. Any truth to these claims?
>
> Possibly. =A0We invented pretty much anything worthwhile.
Such as?
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Re: Double-Guitar - Geetar Dave - 19:59 13-11-08
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On Nov 12, 11:36 pm, "Starman" <iknowbutidontk...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Michael Angelo Batio claims to have invented the Double-Guitar that he is
> famed for, yet I was told an English singer-songwriter named John Otway
> actually predated Batio's invention with a similar guitar before Michael's
> invention. Any truth to these claims?
I remember seeing Steve Vai playing a heart-shaped double guitar on a
David Lee Roth video, circa 1988. This was long before I had ever
heard of Michael Angelo Batio, but I have no idea who invented it.
-dave-----:::
www.myspace.com/geetardave
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Re: Double-Guitar - Adams661 - 19:59 13-11-08
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On Nov 12, 8:36=A0pm, "Starman" <iknowbutidontk...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Michael Angelo Batio claims to have invented the Double-Guitar that he is
> famed for, yet I was told an English singer-songwriter named John Otway
> actually predated Batio's invention with a similar guitar before Michael'=
s
> invention. Any truth to these claims?
PS.
I really cant think of anything that the English invented.
The Plague? No they just put it to use I guess?
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Re: Double-Take - The Truth - 20:08 13-11-08
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Adams661 wrote:
> On Nov 12, 8:36 pm, "Starman" <iknowbutidontk...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Michael Angelo Batio claims to have invented the Double-Guitar that he is
>> famed for, yet I was told an English singer-songwriter named John Otway
>> actually predated Batio's invention with a similar guitar before Michael's
>> invention. Any truth to these claims?
>
> PS.
> I really cant think of anything that the English invented.
> The Plague? No they just put it to use I guess?
>
>
Not a wise place to go there Pugsly...
Spain had zippo to do with what became known as "The Spanish Flu" in
1918...that evil bitch was 'Murkin as 'Murka gets:
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It all started on the morning of March 11, 1918 at Camp Funston, Kansas.
A company cook named Albert Mitchell reported to the infirmary with
typical flu-like symptoms - a low-grade fever, mild sore throat, slight
headache, and muscle aches. Bed rest was recommended.
By noon, 107 soldiers were sick.
Within two days, 522 people were sick. Many were gravely ill with severe
pneumonia.
Then reports started coming in from other military bases around the
country.
Thousands of sailors docked off the East Coast were sick.
Within a week, the influenza was hitting isolated places, such as the
island of Alcatraz.
Whatever the cause, it was clearly airborne.
Within seven days, every state in the Union had been infected.
Then it spread across the Atlantic.
By April, French troops and civilians were infected.
By mid-April, the disease had spread to China and Japan.
By May, the virus was spread throughout Africa and South America.
The actual killer was the pneumonia that accompanied the infection.
In Philadelphia, 158 out of every 1000 people died. 148 out of 1000 in
Baltimore. 109 out of 1000 in Washington, D. C..
The good news (if there was any) was that the disease peaked within two
to three weeks after showing up in a given city. It left as quickly as
it arrived.
The United States death toll was a total of 850,000 people, making it an
area of the world that was least devastated by this virus.
Sixty percent of the Eskimo population was wiped out in Nome, Alaska.
80-90% of the Samoan population was infected, many of the survivors
dying from starvation (they lacked the energy to feed themselves).
Luxury ocean liners from Europe would arrive in New York with 7% less
passengers than they embarked with. The confined area of the ship was
especially conducive to the spread of the disease.
In the end, 25 million people had died. Some estimates put the number as
high as 37 million.
Eighteen months after the disease appeared, the flu bug vanished and has
never shown up again.
So what happened?
Until recently, no one was really sure. In March of 1997, the news
broke that researchers at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in
Washington, D. C. had isolated genetic material from the virus.
This was no easy task. The living virus is no longer around. It turns
out that while conducting autopsies in 1918, Army doctors had preserved
some specimens in formaldehyde. One of these jars contained the lungs
of a 21 year old soldier that died on September 26, 1918.
Bingo!
The researchers spent nearly two years extracting just seven percent of
the genetic code, but the evidence gathered has provided a great wealth
of information.
It appears that the virus passed from birds to pigs and then to humans.
These are the deadliest of all viruses. The viruses tend to remain
stable in the birds, but occassionally they infect pigs. Of course, the
pig immune system kicks into action and the virus is forced to mutate to
survive. Both the Asian flu (1957) and the Hong Kong flu (1968), which
were not as deadly, mutated from pig viruses.
The scary part is that it could happen again - and we're not prepared
for it.
http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/bubonic_plague/index.html
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Ah, off to hard exercise / boxing workout for 2 hours. mvm
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Re: Double-Guitar - White Spirit - 05:29 14-11-08
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Adams661 wrote:
> On Nov 13, 4:43 pm, White Spirit <wspi...@homechoice.co.uk> wrote:
>> Starman wrote:
>>> Michael Angelo Batio claims to have invented the Double-Guitar that he is
>>> famed for, yet I was told an English singer-songwriter named John Otway
>>> actually predated Batio's invention with a similar guitar before Michael's
>>> invention. Any truth to these claims?
>> Possibly. We invented pretty much anything worthwhile.
> Such as?
Find a history book and look up the Industrial Revolution.
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Re: Double-Take - White Spirit - 05:30 14-11-08
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The Truth wrote:
>> PS.
>> I really cant think of anything that the English invented.
>> The Plague? No they just put it to use I guess?
> Not a wise place to go there Pugsly...
I knew I'd snare Keith with the one.
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Re: Double-Guitar - AJ - 07:54 14-11-08
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In article <gfihds$rk4$5@feeder.motzarella.org>,
wspirit@homechoice.co.uk says...
> Starman wrote:
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> > Michael Angelo Batio claims to have invented the Double-Guitar that he is
> > famed for, yet I was told an English singer-songwriter named John Otway
> > actually predated Batio's invention with a similar guitar before Michael's
> > invention. Any truth to these claims?
>
> Possibly. We invented pretty much anything worthwhile.
>
Yes you Brits have invented a lot of great stuff, problem is you don't
build stuff for shite ;-) :-)
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Re: Double-Guitar - The Repair Guy - 10:40 14-11-08
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White Spirit <wspirit@homechoice.co.uk> wrote:
>Starman wrote:
>> Michael Angelo Batio claims to have invented the
>> Double-Guitar that he is famed for, yet I was told
>> an English singer-songwriter named John Otway
>> actually predated Batio's invention with a similar
>> guitar before Michael's invention. Any truth to these
>> claims?
>
>Possibly. We invented pretty much anything
>worthwhile.
Hopefully you were kidding...
The Repair Guy
repairguy1993 dot netfirms dot com
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