Strap locks are devices you can install on your guitar. They lock the strap to the guitar's body so that the guitar can't fall off on stage.

They're just one of countless extremely specific useful instrumental accessories that if you don't play the instrument

you probably never heard of.

Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music. I am your host Kirk Hamilton and I'm so glad you

joined me to talk about guitars with strap locks, guitars without strap locks, and sometimes instruments that aren't even guitars at all.

It's crazy, I know.

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We've come to the end of season 5, which means it's time to take on something a bit bigger

than usual, and what better way to say goodbye to a season than with one of the ultimate musical

good-bys of all time.

The stage is set and there's so much music to hear, so let's bring down the lights,

strike up the band, and get after it. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, 2023 was the year that concert films returned to the public consciousness in a big way that's

thanks largely to a certain world-beating pop superstar but while Taylor was

breaking box office records with her eras film and Beyoncé was preparing to enter the ring with a film of

her own Renaissance tour, beloved classic concert films were also making a return to theaters.

Earlier in the fall, Talking Heads and Jonathan Demi stopped making sense. An incredible

film that got its own Strong Songs episode a couple of years back, returned to theaters. I actually

saw it in theaters and it was so cool. I hope that some of you out there got to see it as well

what a great movie and in addition to stop making sense just a couple of weeks ago

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