Sgt. Pepper
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1 hour ago, John Shiflet said:
I think you're right about Joe Bonamassa...long ago, he crossed the line from being a guitar collector to being a guitar hoarder. I hear he has a whole wall of '59 LP's. A few folks are still making money off music (and T-shirts!) and Bonamassa is one of them.
He can play, but plays with no soul.
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On 2/5/2023 at 7:36 AM, Karloff said:
Leave one string on, swap out 5. Then replace the 6th ...
Karloff enough with common sense. But yeah that’s one option. Blue painters tape is another. I only have acoustics so mine don’t do that.
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3 hours ago, sparquelito said:
Well, that's certainly the most popular way to play a Fender.
Though I do recall one guy famously using his teeth.
(A method not recommended for kids wearing braces, by the way.)
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He started the whole teeth shredding thing. From there it just flourished.
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E Reed is so insane.
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23 minutes ago, John Shiflet said:
Yeah, that's kind of what I thought. My daughter likes sentimental stuff so maybe I can fob those off to her. I have a friend in northern California who had 16 Bitcoins someone paid him to settle a debt and those, if he had the good sense to cash them out recently, ,could have raised him up to millionaire status for a while. Small wonder the always practical Japanese saw quality American made guitars as good hedges against inflation so they must have bought thousands of them. Type in almost any Gibson model on E-Bay and you'll find a wide variety available from Japan and they always are being offered as "Brand New" in their listing descriptions, The only way that could be true is if they were bought factory fresh, stashed in a vault (never played, of course) and now, for reasons the sellers only know, are being re-offered to American buyers. A fair number appear to be reasonably priced so maybe the phenomenon is dying out.
All good guitars are in Japan or at Joe Bonamassa’s house.
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6 minutes ago, John Shiflet said:
Sgt. Pepper, you're only kidding about the Beanies, right? My late wife, God rest her soul, collected those (can't use those words here) Beanie Babies for years and every time we would go to a flea market she'd dig around and find a rare limited issue "Beanie" while I'd roll my eyes and groan. Now, I'm stuck with a tractor trailer load and I have no practical use for them. Ok, maybe not a tractor trailer load, but for me, even one is too many. How can I unload them and use the proceeds for a Gibson ESS 335? Chicago Music Exchange requoted me $4.5K for their custom shop red 335 model plus taxes and shipping which would still pushes it over $5K and result in too many nights of eating Ramen noodles. Couldn't someone accidentally put an inconspicous scratch on the underside of the neck to bring it into my price range? Anyhow, I'm patient...I waited 31 years to sell my Texas home, 50 years to trade in my SG, so what's another decade or two to wait for my ES 335? I'm only 73 and surely I'll be spry enough to shred when I'm Willie Nelson's age, right?
Yes. Stupidest thing ever. Your gonna get rich from a McDonalds happy meal toy? You’re kidding me right? Some thought they would. Nope.
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1 hour ago, sparquelito said:
A very cool video, and some really nice guitar playing.
Thank you for that, Bottier.
Have you made a video of how one plays a Fender?
😃I played my Fender’s when I owned them with my hands, what do you use Sparky? I hope that was the correct way.
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25 minutes ago, John Shiflet said:
On this saddest of days when the world says goodbye to legendary artist, Dickey Betts, media sources announced a sale of Guess Who guitarist Randy Bachman's guitar collection: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/over-200-randy-bachmans-iconic-140049929.html included in his top tier collection is a '59 Les Paul Randy played while recording some of his greatest hits. Estimates for that holy grail of Gibson's are in the $200,000-400,000 range but that is just a guestimate...in actuality, the price could go far higher at the New York Hard Rock Cafe auction. I hope the LP goes to someone who will play it frequently and not stash it in a vault somewhere never to be played again. If I had a time machine, I would go back to early 1959 and demand that Gibson triple their production of LP's but alas, all we have are those that have survived. They are almost in the same league as Stradivarius Violins and someday could be.
Yeah we all would love to go back and snap up LP’s. Damn if only kept all those Beanie Babies I’d buy myself an island in the Caribbean with the profits.
What is a 2015 LP gonna be worth in 2065? Buy them all now and find out when it’s New Year’s Day 2065.
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This is the norm now. Gilmour, Knoffler, Bernie, and others. It’s either that, or they sell the rights to their music.
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22 hours ago, Strong Heavy said:
This nut is stock, it' s made of Corian.
Best nut is made with Bone, Graph Tech TusqXL nut are very good too, I have an adjustable Graph Tech TusqXL nut on my '15 Gibson SG, very low action and many good vibrations.
2015 was a weird year for Gibson. Hey can someone get my 3 year old scribble on the headstock, the guitar players are gonna eat it up.
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13 minutes ago, DanvillRob said:
That doesn’t seem to be right.
Once you post the link, I put the cursor at the end of it and hit enter and the picture pops up,
If it’s a pic of a black dog, then that is your link.
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It appears we have 2 Dickey threads going. Can a mod combine them?
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1 hour ago, Rabs said:
Well exactly.. Looked what happened to Brian Johnson. Forced to quit AC/DC despite the fact they had a tour coming. He was told if he went back out on stage he would probably go deaf. No one wants that.
The only reason he came back was because someone invented some new in ear technology to stop these issues.
No one wanted Axl Pose either.
Just looked AC/DC are touring. I guess it’s deafness for him.
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Rockin The Fillmore East album.
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45 years of concerts and I worked in Engine Rooms. My hearing is shot. I guess I can save what I got.
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On 4/17/2024 at 10:05 AM, Cougar said:
Nope, never played one until now. Actually, I've been playing mostly 12-strings for the past couple years. Not sure why I succumbed to this purchase.... other than nostalgia and sucked in to a pretty good deal. And it's a gorgeous guitar, of course. But it's hard to put down my 12-strings....
You must have callus’s on your callus’s.
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I just heard. Damn ABB was a killer band and he saved it after Duane passed.
RIP
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1 hour ago, kidblast said:
Gibson -> Hammer!
Fender -> Not a Hammer!
I thought they were guitars or more correctly guitar makers? I wouldn’t doubt Henry J thought about buying a hardware store, he had 18 other stupid things he tried to sell. Now it’s $700 leather duffel bags.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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3 minutes ago, duane v said:
I thought Slash's lead work was better in GNR. I think a better solo could have been laid down... something with a little more phrasing. Sounds a bit plucky is some areas.
I seriously never heard the entire AFD album till about 2007 or so. I heard Jungle, Sweet Child and Paradise City so much when it came out I was sick of them.
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8 hours ago, RBSinTo said:
Currently learning "Blackbird" by that British Invasion group from Liverpool.
It is my present assignment from my music teacher, and the most difficult part (aside from his insisted upon fingering positions) is my badly torn left Rotator Cuff which makes just holding a guitar very painful.
To try and mitigate the discomfort, I'm using my smallest body, a 12-fret Washburn Parlour, instead of my Martin & Gibson Dreadnoughts, or Guild Jumbo. Still hurts like hell, but a boy's gotta do what a boy's gotta do.
RBSinTo
I learned it then forgot it. I’m almost to where I can do the foot tapping again. 1, 2 3 , damn it start over.
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1 hour ago, Posey said:
Well the j- 50 is mine now. Excellent shape .
It is branded promotional not for sale .
Any thoughts on this.
Thanks Posey
I’ve heard of a 2 or Second on the back of the head, but never promo.
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I went to Pioneer High School in San Jose California. It’s a public school, one day my 11th grade history teacher said - everything in the Bible happened and it was real - huh, does the Principal know your saying this. This is not Catholic School.
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I think the ES-335 and others 345, 355 and BB King are the best designs and guitars Gibson ever did. SG’s are thin and light and rock machines. LP’s are what everyone wants and there is a reason. An Explorer is one of the most well balanced guitars ever. F and G changed the rock world. Those two are the most played if we are talking electric guitars.
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1982 Gibson Anniversary Neck / Ron Luczak 1959 Body (Project)
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