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  • Birthday 03/14/1971

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  1. I'm going to be visiting London on August so it's definitely on the agenda. I visited the one in Nashville in May last year along with Third man records. Now this year I want to visit both on London and it looks like they're a 9 minute walk from each other.
  2. Between cash presents and vouchers this year, I had a big vinyl blowout on the 27th. The Cult -Electric The Cult - Under The Midnight Sun Simple Minds - New Gold Dream Live at Paisley Abbey Michael Kiwanuka - Love and Hate R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now Roxy Music - Flesh and Blood INXS - Welcome to Wherever You Are Twas' a great day! 🙂
  3. I must have been a good boy this year as Santa was very kind. Positive grid Spark Go desktop amp. All the effects and amp models in a little powerhouse of an amp. The perfect amp for when you just want to noodle away on the sofa with your guitar. Lime 6 HX One multi effects pedal. The second last piece of the puzzle that is my pedal board. Rather than have multiple delay pedals (or many many more) staged differently, you just need one Marrs' Guitars. Probably the most beautiful coffee table book I've ever seen of all the guitars in my hero;s collection. The Cult Love t-shirt, a nice one from my son of one of my favorite albums.
  4. I'm posting this in a few different places. I've owned a 2003 Custom Shop ES-355 since 2018 and I acquired it in a famous Irish Vintage Guitar dealer, Some Neck Guitars. I've always been interested to understand what specific year it's supposed to be a reissue of or whether it's a one off. It has a fully functional varitone but it's a mono guitar which I've never seen before, usually mono 355 have no varitone switch. It also has OX4 pickups. Guitar has all relevant paperwork etc and is 100% genuine. Any help is greatly appreciated.
  5. I've owned a 2003 Custom Shop ES-355 since 2018 and I acquired it in a famous Irish Vintage Guitar dealer, Some Neck Guitars. I've always been interested to understand what specific year it's supposed to be a reissue of or whether it's a one off. It has a fully functional varitone but it's a mono guitar which I've never seen before, usually mono 355 have no varitone switch. It also has OX4 pickups. Guitar has all relevant paperwork etc and is 100% genuine. Any help is greatly appreciated.
  6. Busy year this one..... May: Bruce Springsteen The Raveonettes June: Depeche Mode Sting & Blondie November: Greta Van Fleet We've also paid for my son and his girlfriend to see Interpol and Arctic Monkeys in June. Ticketmaster has left a sizeable dent in my credit card for this.
  7. I brought it into one of Dublin's best Vintage Guitar dealers to do the work on it and it looks like they bolted it on and then set it up. They'd previously done a bridge pinning, fret dress and setup on a Gretsch Duo Jet for me which was done to the highest standards and now I wouldn't have anyone else but them do this kind of work on my Guitars.
  8. Hi All, I've been planning to get a larger amp for a while now. For the last few years I've made do with a Fender Blues Junior. I'm not a fan of Marshalls so I was looking at a bigger Fender amp or potentially a Vox AC30. A local music store had two Fenders on their website. A Supersonic 22 combo and a Customer Vibrolux Reverb. After Christmas I was planning to pay them a visit, play both and see which would I liked but I was leaning towards the Vibrolux. Another one close by had a Supro Black Magick reverb which had also peaked my interest so last week I planned to set out and playthem all and pull the trigger on one. So, before leaving the house I called the store to double-check that they had both Fender amps. Unfortunately their website hadn’t been updated and they didn’t have either amps. The only Fender tube amp was a Princeton Reverb, a great amp, both not what I was looking for and not much of a change from m,y Blues Junior. So rather than the day being a bust, I drove to the second store to test the Supro Black Magick reverb and I also knew they had a Vox AC30. I picked an American Performer Tele off the wall as I own one myself and proceeded to give the Supro a solid run through. To say I was blown away would be an understatement. The overdriven tones were exactly what I wanted. The tube driven reverb and tremolo was perfection to me. Needless to say I ended up pulling the trigger on it. The Vox wasn't given a second thought. The Supro is a hell of a thing. I was looking for an amp I can plug a guitar straight into and this is the one.
  9. Since 2014 I've been using a Boss GT100 through a Fender Blues Junior. Back then I was gigging. I must admit it took a while to setup the Boss and get all the banks and patches dialed in as I wanted them. Once they were done, they were done. For convenience sake, there's nothing easier than having everything you need for a song with the click of a switch. The only separate pedal I used with the Boss was a Dunlop Cry Baby as the built in wah was terrible. I'd always pick the Boss GT100 over pedals and still have it now. Now that it's been a few years since I've been in a band or even played live, I got a Spark amp last year that I keep in the living room. It's an amp, a Bluetooth speaker, a drum machine and many more things in one amazing package. You can dial all of the effects in on an iPad or directly with the knobs on the amp. The app on the iPad opens up a lot more possibilities for effects and amps. You can tailor jam tracks to solo over or you can connect your iPhone to it and jam over any track in your music catalogue, all through one speaker. You can also plug your bass or acoustic guitar into it as it has settings for all. And it sounds incredible. Real cheap too. They also brought out a smaller one than you can charge up and take with you anywhere.
  10. This is my post that's been quoted. I had the same issue it seems. The trem never returned to it's original position leaving the guitar out of tune. I have some kind of a trem system on all of my guitars as I like to use it. Right now, my SG is away have a Bigsby B7 installed on it. The sideways unit looks amazing but is an unusable piece of garbage and I've given up on it ever working properly. Probably why Gibson changed it for the Maestro so early on.
  11. I pulled the trigger on a new Bigsby B7. Hopefully it will arrive from Germany next week and will then go to my luthier for installation. Might then sell the sideways vibrola. Someone may want a nice looking tailpiece on their SG.
  12. I'm finding it dreadfully dull. It's like a medieval soap opera all about the kings heir. Total bore-fest. The Rings of Power is getting a lot more interesting and now that it's finished introducing the characters and world building. Finding myself now looking forward to a new episode every Friday. I'm giving House of Dragons two more episodes to get its sh*t together or I'm out.
  13. The guitar actually stays in tune if you don't use the vibrato. Blocking it would be unnecessary. My issue is that it cannot be used, one touch of it and the guitar goes out of tune because it doesn't return back to it's original position when you let go of it. I'm a player that likes to use the vibrato arm, whether it's a Bigsby, a Stratocaster, a Jazzmaster or a Gibson. It's part of my playing. The only Guitars in my collection that don't have a trem unit are my Telecaster, a Rickenbacker 12 string electric and my Martin acoustic. I've actually put a Bigsby B7 on my Les Paul Traditional and a Bigsby B3C on my Duo Jet. Both are fantastic and always return to pitch. I have a Custom Shop 355 with a gold maestro that also works perfectly and the Maestro would be the preferred option as it would be a direct drop in replacement for the sideways vibrola and any holes that had to be made would be hidden. The B7 is still a strong contender and I have a luthier that can make it work. Just look at Nick Perri's SG. Whatever one goes on the guitar is staying on the guitar forever, but it has to function.
  14. Check this out! https://store.duesenberg.de/en/tremolo-systems/33/duesenberg-diamond-deluxe-tremola could be the answer!
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