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Podcast: The Johnny Beane Podcast
Episode: TALKING GUITARS: Repainted Mini Guitar, Hendrix–Monkees Story & Studio Tour Madness! 11/21/25
Description: We kicked things off by showing our freshly repainted Samick Avion / Greg Bennett mini guitar — HUGE shout-out to Ron! This little beast started life as a black eBay car guitar, but now it’s a champagne flip-flop copper ripper loaded with an Epiphone humbucker, Pure Tone jack, and Grover tuners. We played it, loved it, ROCKED it. 🤘
Then it was music news time — including the wild story Micky Dolenz calls “the worst tour matchup in rock history”:
🎤 The time Jimi Hendrix opened for The Monkees.
Dolenz had seen Hendrix back when he was Jimmy James & the Blue Flames — “the guy who plays guitar wit...