Well, I neglected to tell you all some cool news. Brian and I, as “The Fabulous Heftones,” are on the front cover of the current Elderly Instruments catalog. I’m holding a very beautiful guitar rather than my usual Heftone Bass… because Elderly sells guitars and doesn’t sell Heftones. But hey, being on the cover allows for some flexibility.

Many people don’t recognize me in this photo. For one thing, I nearly always wear my hair back in a braid when I’m being my normal self. When I’m “Lynn Heftone” I often wear it down, but many people in my regular life have never seen me that way. Also, I’m wearing some earrings that have long white dangles and with the angle of my head it makes my neck look like someone else’s, somehow. Again, I figure Brian looks great and he’s friends with the photographer and catalog production department. They loved the photo because they were looking at the big picture, not whether Lynn would look like Lynn to her friends.

It is pretty cool news, don’t you think? Cover Grrl! I like it.

By the way, if you love music and have never checked out Elderly Instruments, you may want to do so. They are a large mail order house which among other things does a great job with used acoustical stringed instruments and lots of music, mostly of the “unplugged”/acoustical department. They have some great world music (I get middle eastern and african CDs there) as well.

If you either want to be on their mailing list, or want to see the picture larger, go to the Elderly Instruments Catalog Page. If you click on the small photo on that page you will be taken to a very large, 800×600 pixel image of Brian and I… if you are inclined to wait that long. Do seriously consider ordering a catalog… it is full of musical goodies you certainly need to know about!

Elderly is a good karma place, housed in Old Town of Lansing, on Washington Avenue a few blocks North from Oakland. It’s funny, people in other countries know the place sometimes more than people in Lansing. I remember buying guitar capos from them in the late ’70s when they were one room in a basement on Grand River in East Lansing. Now they are in an old Oddfellows hall, a wonderful red brick building with its architectural integrity intact. Check it out. (OK, disclaimer: Brian works there… but I don’t and I’ve been a customer for about 25 years, longer than Brian’s been in Lansing.)

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