DanvillRob
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Just now, Murph said:
I chose the J-45 and J-15 because of scale, as well.
I was "used" to that scale and do a lot of slides, up and down, it's just the way I play.
I'd still like to get a Hummingbird someday.
I"d love to get a Standard 'Bird....but I just can't justify it, (and I have no place to keep it anyway!).
I'll just have to muddle through with what I've got!
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59 minutes ago, Murph said:
The REAL question here is...
Who drew the drawing?
Maybe they farmed it out to India!
I started working for GILLIG in 1981. We had 4-5 Engineers....one VP, one electrical and one mechanical....plus one draftsman and one guy who specialized in hardware.
When I left in 2020 there was 140, plus another 20 we hired in India.
I recently had lunch with my old boss, (who is also retired, but sits on the board of directors) and he said there are now 200 engineers plus about 50 in India!
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Interesting.....I think your theory has merit.
I kind of put a lot of stock in the scale length as a huge difference.
There are songs I perform on the Hummingbird BECAUSE of the short scale, (more "bend" in the strings).
My "practice" guitar, (the old "beater Jubilee) has a short scale, but I use it because of the Bursitis in my right shoulder, (because the body is smaller than a dread).
I hear people compare Doves to Hummingbirds, and they focus on the Hog vs Maple, and never mention the scale length.
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Just now, 10PoundLester said:
Totally agree. I was in 5th grade when the teacher told us to pick an instrument if we wanted to learn how to play one. I chose bass - as in bass with a bow. From that day to this I've been learning to play music. My reading skills aren't as sharp as they once were but I can muddle through a page of easy stuff.
The bonus is that you can do it all the rest of your life..... I'm old and feeble.... can barely hold anything with my hands....no stamina these days.....but.... I still play guitar several hours each morning (while the wife sleeps). Playing right now! I'm far from the oldest guy on here....but I'm also no where near the youngest!
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30 minutes ago, QuestionMark said:
First I defined myself as a fingerpicker, with my right hand technique leasing the way. But, then over the years I became an instrumentalist and while my right hand went on autopilot, just know where to go and what note to hit, my left hand became dominant, knowing what note to hit, what chord and not not hit, what triad to hit, and what made up chord to make up. My right hand instinctively knew what my left hand was doing. 61 years of playing guitar now and it all still keeps amazing me.
QM aka “ Jazzman” Jeff
This is why music should be taught in schools...and kids encouraged to play SOMETHING! I was already playing before The Beatles happened....but they sparked my TOTAL interest...which I've been able to keep for all these years!
Music teaches us MUCH MORE than how to play songs.
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5 minutes ago, PrairieDog said:
I guess thinking about it, the inkwells in our desks were on the right hand side too. didn’t realize what that meant for the poor lefties who had to use them back in the day. Awkward.
How about how the lefties have to drag their palms through what they just wrote! Smeared the pencil marks...or WORSE....the wet ink!
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27 minutes ago, fortyearspickn said:
Maybe because all the pencils were righties.
That's funny....but most of the desks in my schools WERE "Right-Handed" desks.... the tops were extended down closer to the seat on the right side....and the other side was shorter, (and the students got in and out of the desk on the left side).
My old boss wanted to get and learn guitar....he's a "lefty".... I went with him to a friend's guitar store and found him a very nice guitar.....he was no better on a regular guitar than he was on a left-handed one....so I told him him choices would forever be broader if he learned to play right-handed.
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I get the "right vs left" dialog here...but Mike's point is that to make chords, or pick notes, a player's choices are limited....so the "fretting-hand" is "what you play"....while what your "strumming-hand" does is infinite.... I tend to "Palm-mute", (and play the lower notes more) with my right hand.....it's just what "Feels right" to me.
I'm no great player, (and even less of a singer), but after 60+ years of playing...I kinda have my own style.
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7 minutes ago, Buc McMaster said:
I am now the proud owner of a 2003 Gibson J-185 of the sinister persuasion! Coming out of Tennessee, should arrive Friday. Woohoo!
CONGRATZ!
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43 minutes ago, Buc McMaster said:
That's maple for you.........a tighter, more focused bass response. Turns out that by some strange circumstances the guitar is not in Canada but Tennessee......nothing suspicious, just weird. We're very close to a deal that will put an acoustic guitar in my hands after a long stretch without one. I have bought more than one instrument 'sight unseen' and there's always a bit of anxiety associated with such transactions but I have arranged for a disinterested third party to make an in-person, in-hand assessment of the guitar for me............should have decision-making information available within a few hours. Here we go!
I Bought my DIF without ever touching it from GC.... so I could have returned it if it was a dog..... also bought my Hummingbird KOA before I touched it.... I called GC in San Jose from Southern California and bought it over the phone....IF they put it in the case and stored it in the back room until I could get there to pick it up....again, I suspect I could have told them to keep it, but I'd already paid for it in full. My J-50 was a present from my staff when I retired....so never touched it until it was on my doorstep..... I love all three of them....all for different reasons.....but they're special to me.
I wouldn't be afraid to buy a guitar this way....as long as the dealer is reputable.
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1 hour ago, Murph said:
I don't know.
I still play out, but NEVER with electrics and mine are still piled up. Full electric bass rig, several classic tubes amps, a Tele and a Les Paul and an SG, a full p.a. system, monitors.
I've been saying I'm gonna sell that stuff for a decade.
It's still here.
I made the mistake of selling off all my 'stuff' back in the 60's. Fender Jag I gave to my brother.... sold my Bassman Amp, Showman Speakerbox, Jazz Bass, Fender Echo Chamber....even my Shure 545 Mic!
Had to buy new 'stuff' over the rest of my life.
I recommend don't sell..... give to your kids/grandkids/nieces/nephews.
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21 hours ago, Salfromchatham said:
Oh my. That Collings….
i think you need your blue guitar back, this red one, and then find one in… I don’t know… say white.
And join The Buckaroos!
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2 hours ago, lcjones said:
Attaching the bridge today. The old gal had a week of intense re-hydration therapy. Hydration brought her back to about as normal as it will ever be. Jury still out whether or not to replace that old black pick guard or just leave her without one. Anyway, it'll be a couple more days before she's back together.
Me (personally) want to see it with a pickguard.
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DON'T BUY IT! The Pickguard is on upside-down!
JK - It's beautiful!
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4 minutes ago, Murph said:
That would be great, to pass it down, and have it loved and played.
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EXACTLY!
There are three of them.....and because they'll inherit all my 'stuff', I record the videos so they'll be able to see their old grandad playing 'their' guitars!
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On 1/4/2024 at 10:48 AM, merciful-evans said:
I dont often like blue guitars, but this mod shop LP in Seaweed Sunburst looks right (to me anyway).
https://www.gibson.com/en-GB/Electric-Guitar/MOD-RAM022394/Seaweed-Sunburst
In fact I like the finishes on a bunch of the current offerings. Even some of the crazy ones. Or maybe I'm just in a good mood? Not good enough to buy one, just looking.
I like it.... I don't care what someone named it.
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29 minutes ago, Murph said:
I like it, too, Merciful.
I had a Fender bass in the early 80's custom painted by an award winning auto painter in the Phoenix area with a translucent blue, with a fading silver base color that was really a conversation piece.
I dig it.
When I bought my P-Bass back about 1985 or so, it was found by my parents' next door neighbor under the bed in a bedroom of a house he evicted some guys from.
Was black, and beat to death.
I stripped it down completely, had the body painted at work....our DuPont paint salesman got me a quart of "Firemist Blue" (a Cadillac color), laquor. I refinished the Maple neck and bought new decals for it. I paid $100 for it.... got it painted for free.....did have to buy a case....cost me $65. It's the bass I'm playing in my profile photo.
I hope one of my grandkids ends up playing bass.
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11 minutes ago, PrairieDog said:
The school was a bit of a circus, I handled it as best a small, nerdy, creative kid could. But it took me a couple decades to stop and wonder, “umm, where the heck was my mom while her crippled kid limped around for half a year?” Wry smile.
Years before, when I was four, I was going septic from limping around for weeks on piece of sewing needle I stepped on that finally worked its way into the bone. Maybe she just thought “hey, kids limp?” Eye roll. The sadist she finally took me to, first tried to cut it out cold, no novocaine. I accidentally kicked him in the face when I yelled and recoiled from the searing pain. He swore and scolded me, “stop being a baby.” Finally took surgery under general anesthetic to get it out. Apparently, he still held that kick against me when my HMO booked me into his office 12 years later. His horrified nurse who witnessed his treatment of again a very painful appointment asked, after he left, if I wanted to file a complaint. I just got the hell out of there.
That's why they call it "practicing" medicine!
Today I suspect that butcher would have a boat-load of malpractice suits against him!
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39 minutes ago, PrairieDog said:
Nod, it happens. I have arthritis in both my knees that started in my twenties after I smashed my knee cap in Jr high and it was never treated. The wear and tear from dragging the non-functional leg around for six months took out my good knee.
When I broke my hip at 33, the doc recommended I have both knees replaced when she saw how they couldn’t handle the hip PT. If I had done it back then, I’d be on my second set of replacements. I’m still hanging on with the original equipment. My career is a physical job that requires a lot of repetitive crouching. One job, the gal working next to me finally asked to be moved because she couldn’t handle the ripping/tearing noises my knees make with every stoop.
I have the left thumb arthritis from a joint break that got treated too late, again jr. high. Doc told me at the time it would eventually go arthritic by 40-50 unless I had it re-broken and reset and even then he couldn’t guarantee anything. I chose not to, as after all, at 13, that was so far off I expected to be dead by then, chuckle.
Add on just the normal wearing out everything else, and yeah, it’s a hoot growing old. Really hope your helps keep helping. So far, I manage with mind tricks, and gritting my teeth, eye roll.
You must have gone to one hellacious jr. high school!
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13 minutes ago, Murph said:
I'm torn...
Needless to say, I didn't buy any lemonade from her!
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55 minutes ago, Murph said:
I was in Mexicali in 1978 and the buses had old tires mounted on the front to push stuff out of their way.
And the meat was hanging up for sale on the sidewalk.
Good times.
I SWEAR this is true: I was driving in Saigon (1970) and the sides of the road were filled with street vendors selling pretty much anything you could imagine.
I saw a young girl selling (I think) lemonade from what looked like a small aquarium...she was washing her feet in it!
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10 hours ago, PrairieDog said:
Well, probably because there are huge differences in joint pain and their causes. Diet may help with inflammatory related pain, where the joint is otherwise intact, but something is angering it, like an auto-immune disease. Chronic inflammation can lead to permanent damage, so yeah, you want to tamp that down before it gets to that point. However diet can’t do diddly for structural causes like lost cartilage, misalignment, bone spurs, connective tissue tears or mis-healed breaks. All the carrot juice in the world won’t set a broken leg straight, chuckle.
My arthritis started in my left thumb maybe 10-12 years ago. About 3 years ago I finally got an x-ray of my hands and the doctor said, "They're simply worn out". The pain is still manageable, but more and more areas of pain happening now. Middle finger on both hands as well as both thumbs....it's just a matter of time.
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1 hour ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
I swear I’ve been to several 3rd world countries and could swear I saw cars driving around. I never once called Donkey Uber for a lift.
Um . . . Pedro were you aware you and your burro were exceeding the 10 mph donkey/burro/mule speed limit? It’s the Tijuana prison for you.
Don't know why, but this reminded me of the story about the fella who was a recent recruit to the French Foreign Legion.
Only men there....after a couple of weeks he craved some female attention..... went to the Captain and explained his problem. Captain said, "the guys all use the mule out there".....
Fella was disgusted with that prospect and left. After another month or so, he told the Captain he needed to "use" the mule..... he got a stool, and got behind the mule.
After a while the Captain walked out to see what was going on....and spied the new recruit and said, "Most of the guys just ride her into town!
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My son gave me an old show poster from my days with a 10-Piece "Showband" and a pristine program booklet from a show I did, (that I don't even remember), with The Doors.
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What’s your temperature right now?
in The Gibson Lounge
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It's 6:38 on the West Coast.
Here in Danville, it's 45 degrees right now.