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	<description>About guitars, the world of music, plus Rat's personal rantings!</description>
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		<title>Teddy Pendergrass dead at 59</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More sad news in the music world was released today as Teddy Pendergrass dies at the young age of 59.  
Pendergrass suffered a spinal cord injury and was paralyzed from the waist down in the 1982 car accident. He spent six months in a hospital but returned to recording the next year with the album [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.guitar-antics.com/blog/?p=84</link>
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		<title>Zac Brown Band politically correct ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been listening to the latest song by the Zac Brown Band called &#8216;Toes&#8217; and it seems there are a few new versions since it originally aired.  It seems this is due to the line &#8220;i got my toes in the water, ass in the Sand,,&#8221; as the new versions say things like &#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.guitar-antics.com/blog/?p=77</link>
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		<title>Recent Happenings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a positive note,  I recently took 5 days off from work and went hiking through the Grayson Highlands where the wild feral ponies live, then over Mount Rogers and Whitetop mountains to Damascus Virginia for a total trek of 34 miles. All I can say is it was strenuous considering I am out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.guitar-antics.com/blog/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Catching up ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is that even possible ? I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been since Nov. 2008 since I last updated this blog but I have been very busy working and doing several other sites, blogs etc. I thought I would post something here just to show that I haven&#8217;t forgotten about this blog ! A lot has happened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.guitar-antics.com/blog/?p=65</link>
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		<title>Hiking the Lone Oak Trail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son Tyler and I recently hiked the Lone Oak Trail to the top of Buffalo Mountain that was burned last summer. You can see the burn photos here: http://www.guitar-antics.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=27&#38;pos=5 There is still a lot of black trees and ground but it is rehabilitating very nicely with hardwoods and was very colorful to hike through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.guitar-antics.com/blog/?p=61</link>
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		<title>Rat News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots happening around the Rat&#8217;s Hole lately. I have been trying a low carb diet since June 17, 2008 and so far it has been 4 months and I have lost 35 lbs ! From 236 down to 201 and I can&#8217;t wait to see under 200 ! No Atkins here, just no bread, sugars, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.guitar-antics.com/blog/?p=53</link>
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		<title>Sometimes the news just sucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sorry it has been awhile since my last post, of course it&#8217;s not like very many people visit this blog, ha ha, but recently the news has just been so depressing it&#8217;s just not easy writing about it. It seems all I hear lately is bad or sad news. Issac Hayes passed away [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.guitar-antics.com/blog/?p=47</link>
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		<title>Hear the RAT here !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally got around to uploading some jams so you can now hear the RAT doin&#8217; his thing! This first track was done about 10 years ago when I was playing locally with a 3 piece band called the Tommy Lyons Band.

The following recording was done very primitively in a basement with no effects simply [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.guitar-antics.com/blog/?p=46</link>
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		<title>Eddy Arnold 1918 &#8211; 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Music legend Eddy Arnold died Thursday, one week before his 90th birthday. He was married and influenced by the same lady (Miss Sally) since 1942 (nearly 66 years) who died only 2 months earlier after hip replacement surgery at age 87. Not many people in this day and time will even know who he is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.guitar-antics.com/blog/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Jeff Healey dies at 41</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sad news came to me today. Blind guitar wizard Jeff Healey of Toronto died Sunday of cancer. He was 41. Arguably one of the most distinctive jazz and blues rock guitar players of our time has left our midst to join that all star band in the great hall of fame in the sky. Healey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.guitar-antics.com/blog/?p=43</link>
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