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  1. It's not only vintage guitars that are selling. Here in UK a Gibson Firebird once played by ( yes played by ) Chuck Berry sold for £21000. I could see it if it was a Gibson ES in red and owned by Berry but a Firebird ! the worlds gone mad.
  2. Yes Whitefang James Taylor along with others did play Dreadnought guitars but fashion moves slowly. In the picture you put up James Taylor plays a Dreadnought he also has hair and no beard. He is most likely wearing bell bottom trousers but I'll bet he's not wearing them tonight or playing a Dreadnought guitar!!!.
  3. Styles in guitars move slowly but if you take the acoustic guitars Dreadnoughts were in fashion for a long time from Beatles in the sixties to into the seventies you only saw a Concert shape on the country players just not cool if you were in a rock band. Slowly the Concert shape took over starting with the likes of James Taylor and C S N. Today you never see a Dreadnought, just not cool all players use Concert shape but also Parlour shapes are becoming fashionable thanks to Ed Sheeran. The only fast fashion guitar I can think of was the Ovation, many sound holes and a rounded back, big in the 70s never see one now.
  4. I've just discovered Taylor Goldsmith and his band Dawes. Sort of Dire Straights meets The Eagles with the songwriting of Paul McCartney. Can't ask for better than that!
  5. Fate has introduced me to Taylor Goldsmith. I have their Nothing Is Wrong album which I have enjoyed immensely so if you are a Neil Young fan I'm sure you will too. But if you already know them perhaps you can guild me to their back calalodge. Thanks guys.
  6. Has any member come across a Harpejji, it's a cross between a guitar and a harp, makes a great sound?
  7. The reason your guitar hasn't got a pick guard is because the builder designed it to be without one. The guitar is built for finger picking or light plectrum work. So may me this is the time for you to change your style to fit the guitar rather than changing the guitar to fit you.
  8. Thanks Murph I like it. I think Joni Mitchell had a go at this theme with Furry Sings the Blues.
  9. Keef is the Cockney way of saying Keith. Londoners pronounce th as f. Macca is Scouce , Liverpudlians shorten all names so McCartney becomes Macca.
  10. Hofner is a greatly underrated guitar maker mostly because they were all you could get in UK before 1960. I had a Hofner Verthin like a Gibson 330 but lighter, great guitar, wish I had it now.
  11. Start with alternating bass using your thumb, then add in a treble string finger one then another finger two then a third finger three. Easy! The first twenty years are the worst!
  12. Here in UK second hand car prices are going up and up and the price of new cars is coming down. All supply and demand. Food and clothing prices are up too. The stores blame the pandemic, shortage of supply due to shortage of staff as all the East Europeans have returned home since we came out of the EU. Well the answer is ...with democracy you get the government you deserve. We spent years trying to get into the EU then forty years latter we want to be out. It's our children who will suffer but then they should have got out of bed and voted.
  13. Can any members help me with a boom problem please. I record with Cubase. When listing to one of my tracks I discovered that there was a booming sound on some of the notes that was not there before. This is a voice and guitar recording done about ten years ago. I have discovered that the boom is on my speakers but not when I listen through headphones. The speakers are about six months old. I would be most grateful for any advise.
  14. I was with some other people so we only saw the one set. I remember it wasn't long. He wasn't that big a star in UK then, the fist time I heard him I was in Montreal and he was promoted by the Canadian government.
  15. I saw Neil Young in UK at the BBC he was fantastic and I've been a fan for many years but there's a time to 'get off the stage' for everyone and this is now for Neil. I was, basement studio, BBC Upper Regent Street.
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