Tag Picture Quiz

[Tim Marlow]

Pretty much spot on Jon, except it wasn’t Mary that competed against Buster and Johnny Weissmuller, it was her dad Johnny Ukulele.
Mary was born Mary Ka’aihue. Her father was Johnny Ka’aihue, related to Hawaiian royalty, otherwise known as Johnny Ukulele. He was a gifted swimmer as well as a gifted musician, so When he wasn’t playing he competed against the Olympic gold medalists Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller. They, of course, played Flash Gordon and Tarzan in the thirties.
The Mary Kaye Stratocaster was the first custom guitar, by the way, and she never owned it, only used it for a photo shoot.


Jon, that’s Rory Gallagher strat. Saw him play it at Poole arts center back in the early eighties.....was that your next question, not hard enough mate LOL
Cheers
Tim

 

[Tim Marlow]

Eddie, all Mary Kay’s are the same. They are a semi transparent colour known as “white blonde” which appears as a sort of grey colour...and they have a maple neck and fingerboard and gold hardware....I have seen pictures of Kieth playing one, and Joe Bonamassa plays one as well...amongst many others.

 

[Jakko]

Ah ok... got to be a sci-fi fan to appreciate it!?

Not necessarily

 

[Jon Heptonstall]

Well,Rory's guitar couldn't get rid of the smug look on Tim's face so......
Who might have tried these on and why?
Jon.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Muhammad Ali?
I’m on my phone so the photo isn’t clear, but they look a bit like boxers boots...

 

[Jon Heptonstall]

Morning Tim.
I couldn't enlarge the photo but when you get a better look at it I think you'll have a good idea of what they are.
Jon.

 

[Jon Heptonstall]

P.S. 30 years of hammer that guitar took including being stolen and found in a ditch.

 

[Jakko]

they look a bit like boxers boots...

They’re almost certainly American Vietnam-era jungle boots, the later pattern with ankle reinforcements but the early soles with wide “bands” instead of the later car tyre-like tread. That is to say, this model:

(source that’s stolen my parka for its background image )

And Muhammad Ali would therefore also be my guess, as I can’t really think of many others offhand. Unless of course Jon refers to Jimi Hendrix, who might have ended up in Vietnam if he hadn’t been invalided out of the US Army.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Nice answer Jakko, sounds logical to me....unless it’s Elvis....I was thrown by the sole, I thought the foot was part of the boot....
Returning to Rory’s strat, is that the real one or a custom shop copy? The custom shop stuff is scarily accurate....Rory Gallagher, shirts by Millets, talent by God, tanks a million.....

 

[col68]

Are they the boots trialled by seal teams in Vietnam supposedly to hide the treads by imitating vc footprints

 

[Tim Marlow]

...so the foot is part of the boot.....great answer.....

 

[Jon Heptonstall]

Of course they are Colin. MACV-SOG trialled these boots with the moulded bare foot on the sole for use with special forces, in particular the LRRPs, but I'd guess the Seals and others had input too.Otherwise they are the standard issue jungle boot. Obviously the intention was to mask any traces by leaving only a bare foot-print as a local Vietnamese or Montagnard might.
The official conclusion was more or less that it looked like a print left by someone wearing boots with a foot shape on.
your turn Colin.
Tim- that's a genuine photo of Rory's '61 strat which is now,I think, hanging on a wall in Cork.

 

[col68]

Jon I'm at work at the minute if someone has a picture ready feel free to post it

 

[Jon Heptonstall]

Have a go later Colin.
In the mean time it's up for grabs.

 

[col68]

Ok guys what's this beasty used for

 

[BigGreg]

tank used to extinguish fires... like oil rig fires..

 

[col68]

Sorry greg its not for firefighting

 

[PaulTRose]

its for getting ice off runways

 

[col68]

Sorry paul thats not right either

 

[PaulTRose]

in that case its a very extreme way of getting rid of moles in your lawn