This is my new bass. I put it together from parts I bought on ebay. I also refinished the body. I really like it so far. It is a Precision bass body with a P/J pickup set, wilkinson bridge standard jazz bass wiring and controls. The neck is a standard Jazz bass neck with Schaller tuning machines. I like the gold sparkle/metalflake paint and black pickguard.

Here is the body before. You can see some more before pics and stuff in my flickr account.

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After the Graceland tour we looked for the Stax Records museum but got

lost and decided to go to Sun first since I knew where that was. This

is a shot of me standing inside the studio next to a giant photo of the

Million Dollar Quartet.

The tour included audio clips that told the story of the studio and the

groundbreaking music recorded there. It was pretty moving to hear the

records in the place they were recorded. Even though I consider myself

a big fan I learned a thing or two on the tour.

Apparently this is the drum kit that U2 used when they recorded there. Fascinating.

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We went to Graceland and took the platinum tour. I didn’t get very good photos because they do not allow flash photography.

This is Elvis’white living room.

This is my favorite The Jungle Room. During the tour a set of headphones gave us information about the King’s life.

More jungle room. Jen liked the green shag carpet. I think it was on the ceiling as well.

Here is a shot of a monkey on the coffee table in the TV room. The TV

room had three TVs in the wall because he heard the president watched

all three nightly news broadcasts each night. It was yellow and dark

blue with a lot of mirror panels.

I guess this crazy fur bed was in his dressing or was it undressing

room. I could only think how hard it would be to clean this thing. It

had a stereo built in and I think more mirrors.

Some of his weapons were on display including his turquoise handled Colt 45.

His Karate outfit was also on display and a video told us about his

respect for the artform as well as his pursuit of other aggressive

sports.

This piano is in his racquetball house. The tour told us he played here for a few friends on the morning of the day he died.

Here I am standing by his grave. I actually got a little choked up

during this tour. I always liked Elvis but wasn’t sure if I was a real

fan or sort of kidding.

After the tour of the house we saw a collection of some of his cars.

For some reason they had a Nascar and a funnycar on display here too. I

guess Elvis might like Nascar if he was alive. I can tell you I don’t.

This is the car most people associate with Elvis, the Pink Cadillac. He called it his mother’s car although she never drove.

This car was once owned by Elvis. I guess he only owned it a short

time. A fan eventually bought it and was restoring it at great expense

to give to him as a gift but he died before it was completed.

This car was never owned by The King. It was however once used as a salad bar.

Here I am below the tail of his jet named Lisa Marie.

The bathroom of the jet had a gold plated sink.

Jen and I enjoying some peanut butter and banana sandwiches. We had a

harder time finding a place that made these than I thought we would.

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thought this should be a stop on our tour. Like a lot of the places we

have been it was different than I imagined. It was pretty

commercialized as I imagined but had fewer attractions than I thought

it would. I thought it would be more of a Branson,MO for blues music.

Although I have never been to Branson. It was ironic that all we saw was

tons of white folks in an area that was famous for black

music. Everywhere else we looked they were pretty hard to find.

We ate ribs at the Blues City Cafe. They were pretty good.

Here is a shot of the cook and part of the dining room.

Later we watched Dr Feelgood something or other. He was good but it

made me sad to watch him play for tourists who didn’t know anything

about the blues.

Jen and I laughed and laughed about this guys car. The Praying for You

Haterz looked ridiculous to us. The car was also taxi cab yellow with

22″ chrome rims.

We also thought this street name was funny. It seems we are 12 years old.

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