Mr. Gerald Weber almost left us...LOL

[LeeMo]

[Bear]

The guitar shop above the Continental Club was called One World Music. I bought an Airline Town & Country from there a long time ago.

I thought so. Kind of a semi junk shop vibe the one time I was in there.

[CaseyJones]

The guitar shop above the Continental Club was called One World Music. I bought an Airline Town & Country from there a long time ago.

I thought so. Kind of a semi junk shop vibe the one time I was in there.

All the junk shops became boutique vintage shops. Now they're struggling to find fresh junk, the entire contintent has been picked over.

The next big thing: '80s guitars and genuine MIJ Ibanez.

Just look at vintage Tokai prices.

Hey, Toneslinger came up with some good lines. I think I'll shake it through a strainer to smooth out the lumps. The chorus worlks pretty good. I have to get rid of one redundant "have" in the chorus. The re-worked chorus:

You know when you screw people, they never forget

Biggest con man I ever met

Where's that money you owe me?

Beginning of the reworked first verse:

They say that he's great, I say that he's not

I was there when the tax man came to the shop...

The line about the hookers and blow is pure poetry. And the "life saving" hemorrhoid surgery. Let's consult our resident doctor (who probably has the good sense to leave this one alone): Dr. Hulsey, how bad can a pain in the ass be before it's fatal?

[toneslinger]

I can see ToneSlinger doin' a set at the Continental. Like pre-electric Dylan, just TS, a Martin acoustic and that harmonica rig that allows you to play guitar and wheeze harp. It goes,

Hmm you mean the amp builder who has been building amps since the 60's ?

Thats funny I know for a fact he has not.
I worked there for 2 years in the early days.

Right before the IRS came into the shop
which was an ice cream truck factory
and asked him about the taxes he had not been paying.

Thus the name kendrick which is his wifes maiden name.
He uses that to hide.

I would not let that guy work on a transistor radio.
He burned me out of my last pay check for 500 dollars.

If you had any idea of the people he has taken for
many many dollars you would agree.

How about the trainwrecks he built ?

He took 100 grand of peoples money and had
hemroid surgery and bought hookers and blow.

You know when you screw people they never ever forget
Gerald webber.

He was selling meat and fish out of the trunk of a car
in houston texas before he became the amp builder from the
60s.

Biggest con man I have ever met.

(Takes a break to wheeze through his harmonica)

Chorus:

You know when you screw people they never forget
Gerald webber.

Biggest con man I have ever met
Gerald webber.

(Adjusts his hat. Digs back into his Martin)

Gerald if your on this page where is my 500 dollars ?
and i am not scared of your golden glove boxer threat either.

He was using that gag when i worked there
with chris ramey doing the covering.

Long long before will dyke went to work for him.

Will told me one day everyone including him
got up and quit.

They all quit him.
This was after I gave him the exact same advice
chris ramey gave me upon arriving there to
work.

watch your back.

I learned the hard way what that meant.

I sold about 40 grand in reverb units for him
while i was there and made the deliveries
to ups and was quality control.

When the clients in europe saw my name on the
tube configuration labels they bitched.

Gerald had a cow yelling this is my shop my shop
If anyone should get any credit for building anything here
it should be me.

Yea but Gerald you had sans moonlighting from TI
doing all your soldering so what was it you actually
did ?

oh yea con people out of money all day on the phone
and blow your nose right on the floor.

I sure could use my 500 dollars today.

Chorus:

You know when you screw people they never forget
Gerald webber.

Biggest con man I have ever met
Gerald webber.

(wheezes harp)

I sure could use my 500 dollars today

Too bad it went up your nose and to those hookers.
Did your wife come back ?

He told vintage magazine he had been building since the 60s
and if they would give him free advertising
he would write articles for them...

They bought that lie hook line and sinker.
Nice con artist there.

He would have me come in early to cut the creedence speaker name
off all the boxes so no one could find out where he was getting
the speakers.

When he owed them 100 grand they cut him off.
Those are your kendrick black frames..
He had gold label kendrick stickers made
to cover the creedence labels.

He asked that i come in at 6 am and wanted me there on time.
I said thats great ill make more money...

he burned me countless weeks on pay while having
easily 100 grand in cash on the desk.

But he only wanted postal money orders
for the reverb units.

why ?
no paper trail..
no taxes.

I cant even believe he is still in business much less
claiming he has been building amps since the 60s.

when he was a fish sales man and meat salesman.
come on gerald get real already.

I quit when my wife was pregnant with our child
he is 18 now.

Thanks gerald for taking good care of us
when we really really needed it.

Chorus and reprise:

You know when you screw people they never forget
Gerald webber.

Biggest con man I have ever met
Gerald webber.

He should share a cell with bernie madoff.

Ok something I said ?

All I wanted was some great pictures to show
how happy the panel of experts were going to be
after the massive turnout in A town.

The pure joy of seeing the look on laurel and hardly's
faces there is priceless.

Someone took a great set of pics there.
laurel looks dismayed at the other expert there.
hardly can hardly believe he is at any panel.

classic

Timeless photos capturing the very essence of what I was speaking about.

I bow to the one who shot those photos of the panel of experts.

I have not laughed so hard since when I saw satans guitar for sale on fee bay.

4600 laughed along with me during that auction.
touche' for the great photo.

Almost by the look of those mugs you can tell what kind of questions
they thought might be asked of them.

[Dai H.]

helps explain a lot

Remembered reading this below, which might explain what he was doing on the phone, at least part of the time:

http://www.thdelectronics.com/pdf%20stu ... erview.pdf

I'm guessing he was calling people like Andy Marshall, Ken Fischer, and whomever in order to obtain his 'expertise'.

[azatplayer]

Bugger, i just bought one of his books!

[brewdude]

Is this the same Weber as Weber Speakers?
Or, is that Ted Weber?
Are Ted and Gerald related?

[Dai H.]

No, different guy; same last names are coincidental. Ted (RIP) as I understand was in the Air Force and later worked for an automobile manf. (if memory serves) and was into ham radio as well so he knew his stuff technically speaking. GW seems to have done what some people today on the internet, becoming instant boutique effects and amp builders with the freely avail. info. Difference being that he used the phone. Funny 'cause at one time I used to think him and Torres were like amp ubergurus or something.

[Structo]

What pictures?

[CaseyJones]

Ok something I said ?

All I wanted was some great pictures to show
how happy the panel of experts were going to be
after the massive turnout in A town.

Nuthin' personal. Just me 'n' my abrasive personality. Ya gotta admit, though... it looks like a pretty good ballad, on paper. It's your song, fix some of the little stumbles in the meter, tweak the rhyme and you got a ballad. Ultimate Revenge would be making a million dollar record out of your long gone paycheck.

Five hundred bucks is a cheap education. Some people pay a lot more and learn a lot less.

[Mars Hall]

FWIW, I've learned a lot from his books and videos. At a time in my life I wanted to soak up that type of knowledge, it was the only thing available to me. I hadn't heard of Jack Darr's book until much later.

Albeit, his book are sales pitches for his products, if you get past that there are some good nuggets there to be had. It gave me the confidence to do what I do now, build and repair my own stuff. Those books also introduced me to the true guru Ken Fischer.

[Giter Dunn]

Hey Ronny,

Did you know that Eric Johnson had to change his phone number to keep you from calling him. Yeah Ronny, everybody with a brain, who's ever come in contact with you, knows you're an unstable "wing nut", who lies, just to get attention. What a worthless hunk of crap you are Ron.

Rant on DUMBASS!!!

[Cygnus X1]

Hey Ronny,

Did you know that Eric Johnson had to change his phone number to keep you from calling him. Yeah Ronny, everybody with a brain, who's ever come in contact with you, knows you're an unstable "wing nut", who lies, just to get attention. What a worthless hunk of crap you are Ron.

Rant on DUMBASS!!!

Who is Ronny?

What a soap opera.
Kind of like a car wreck...you know you don't
want to see it, but you just have to look!

Pittman isn't much different.
His amp book exists primarily to sell Groove Tubes.
At least he has an insert by Jack Darr.

Like G Weber has that insert by Ken.

[Giter Dunn]

Ronny is Ron Fry AKA "Toneslinger"

[Structo]

And who is Giter Dunn?