dhanners623
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Here's one, played on my '98 J-45:
http://www.youtube.com/user/dhanners23?feature=mhum#p/u/14/btUarzZMJ-w
The song is an original called "Westfield Blues," written about a guy who ran a meth lab outside of Westfield, Ill., which is a little town just north of my hometown. The guy got popped by the feds and is now doing a stretch in prison. As well he should be.
I usually do the song fingerstyle, but I tried strumming it just to see what it'd sound like, so I label this one the "alternative version."
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Does that pickguard light up? That's the only explanation I can think of....
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Gator says the foam in the case is expanded polystyrene (EPS) so I don't know if there's something about it that would absorb moisture. I went to Gator's website and sent them a message asking the question, and I'll post the reply here when I hear it.
The repairman who told me this is a top-flight guy and knows his guitars; he works at a nationally-known shop (and Gibson dealer) in the Twin Cities. So I'm not discounting what he says. I'm just wondering if maybe he was thinking of semi-rigid cases (or even gig bags) made out of other material.
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Here's a question: When it comes to maintaining relative humidity in a guitar, is a rigid foam case any better or worse than the standard run-of-the mill Gibson hardshell?
I've got both for my J-45. It came with the hardshell, but a couple of years ago, when I started going to more festivals and traveling more in the summer, I got a Gator lightweight case for it, too. It is much lighter than the wooden case but still provides very good protection. But a repairman told me that rigid foam cases suck the moisture out of the guitar, particularly here in Minnesota in the winter.
I humidify my guitar with a Kyser soundhole plug humidifier, as well as a sponge in a soap dish for the exterior of the guitar. The soap dish won't fit in the Gater case, though.
I'm wondering if anyone else out there has any thoughts or knowledge on this matter.
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I bought a ToneRite and used it on my three acoustics and it improved all three, in different ways.
And I don't work for ToneRite, I don't know any of their people and paid full price (at least the price they charge on their website) for the device.
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Since 1977 the first and fifth digit will tell you the year. Just punch in your number here:
I knew my guitar was made on the 70th day of 1998' date=' but that website tells me it was built on "March 11st, 1998."
Well, at least it wasn't built on March 32nd. Or rather March [i']32st[/i].
It also says it was built at the "Bozeman Plant, MA, USA." Funny, I thought Bozeman was in Montana ("MT"), but I guess it has been relocated to Massachusetts ("MA").
I always thought my J-45 had a Brahmin accent....
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The important footnote here is the "YMMV." As a guy who owns both a Gibson (a '98 J-45) and an Epiphone (one of the new IB'64 Texans) I think one makes blanket statements at their peril. There are things I like my J-45 better for, and there are things I think the Texan does really well. But, on average, I would expect the Gibson AJ to beat the Masterbilt AJ-500RE.
That said -- and this is just my opinion from years of playing -- Gibsons can be very idiosyncratic, for lack of a better word. You can pick up one and it'll sound like the best guitar you ever heard, and you can pick up the next one and you'll curse Gibson's name for having the gall to charge so much for what can loosely be described as "a guitar." Other people have different opinions, and I respect that. And I do believe that Gibson's quality (and quality control) has gotten orders of magnitude better in the past few years.
But, yes, save up for a Gibson. Play a bunch of them before laying your money down. When you find a good one, you'll know it.
Your Acoustical Performances!!!
in Gibson Acoustic
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Here's my latest YouTube posting:
http://www.youtube.com/user/dhanners23?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/60pEpeLIRmI
It is a cover of "The Wabash Cannonball," with a twist. I was fooling around with the tune and began wondering what it might sound like in a minor key. It just always seemed to sound to "peppy" to me for a train song about hobos. So This was my result.