I still solder phone jacks.

Takes only a few minutes. I like Switchcraft brand phone jacks.

XLR Jacks? It depends. Some brands are a major PITA

I also remember when guitarists brought single strings instead of sets.

In my first band, when I was just a kid, the guitarist made his own light gauge set by buying a banjo string for the first, the E was second, B for third, a wound G for 4th, D for 5th and A for 6th. He learned the trick in Nashville. Black Diamond brand strings.

That was before the retailers started selling light gauge sets.

We toured the country in a car with a U-Haul trailer. We rented it for 6 months, and the dealer said just renew the lease wherever you are then. But nobody wanted to renew it. When the license became 2 years old, in the middle of the night, we backed it into a big U-Haul lot and left it there. I suppose the owner had a time trying to figure that one out.

We bought a used trailer for our gear and never painted it. It looked pretty rough on the outside, but we figured it looked like there was nothing valuable inside that way.

Those were fun days for me. Traveling college towns, playing singles bars, before DJs took over that end of the business.

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