BluesKing777
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Hey, thanks very much B.T. And Nick!
Much appreciated, really!
(of course, I play a couple of times every day, not just Saturday morning. And I have been doing the same tunes in C on a Saturday morning for a long, long time now. Rest of the week I am all over the place songwise, but limiting myself to this C thing once a week is paying off. Don’t know why, just did it. Maybe I could move to D next?)
Thanks again and sorry to the Better Half and people next door who have heard all the earlier renditions!😃
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5 hours ago, jedzep said:
Yep. UR the best, bro. Another example of what's happened in the era of talent over-saturation, and the odd dilemma of the best in their field not being able to make a solid living at their craft.
Enjoy your private island. I don't know how you slipped through the crack of fame. Very JHammond touch you have, when he isn't being full on frantic. I got to see him play up close when he was hanging around Woodstock in the late 70's. It was 2 bucks to get in and sit 8 feet away.So many good players out there, and much respect to you being in the mix. Thanks for all the clips.
If I was your partner I wouldn't clip my nails either, but I'd want you to teach me lap slide.
Thanks JZ for the kind words!
What’s the old song? “Nobody’s Fault But Mine” for the way things are. Hard to get along with and not wanting to be told what to do by anyone. But I have had a lot of fun, kept practicing a couple of times daily..... and the day job probably pays more for an hour or two than a guitarist here earns in a couple of weeks.
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Below is a link to a recording I just did of a country blues type medley played on my 1937 Gibson L-0........
Sal asked if we were all playing still....well, I sure am!
OK, some background to the track - every Saturday morning, through thick and thin, hard and soft, hot or cold, new guitar, old guitar, new strings, old strings - I do a little practice routine of playing through various materials I have in C. I always put a capo on 3.
Sometimes it is joyous. Sometimes torture. Sometimes I take forever to get through while others I finish in record time.
Anyway, at the end of the session, I will go make a cup of tea and come back and play what comes in to my head - within the form. So that is what is in the recording below.....fully warmed up!
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Just curious....
My partner won’t ever cut her nails and that is the end of it. Unless she learns slide, I suppose.
I saw a movie where the girlfriend taught herself to play (better than the guy) on his acoustic while he was on tour with a band. I thought I better check the boss to see who has been putting marks on my strings, but unless she is a good actor.....nope. I was playing a guitar with a thinner nut width and thought I shouldn’t have bought it and it was probably better for someone with slim fingers and just maybe the boss could learn on it? If she wanted? Nope. Tried to get her to play cowboy C but the 5 string C was ‘hurting’ that finger and her nail was about 3 strings wide!
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Yes, played in my lunch break with my 2002 Gibson J50 and a Baggs M80 in the soundhole run through my Boss VE8 and headphones....felt a bit like Nero fiddling....Better Half working from home to avoid the train, Melbourne Grand Prix cancelled after everyone was here ready to practice for the first race of the season. And of course, the panicking dipshites have emptied ALL the supermarket shelves of toilet paper for the last week....including someone getting tasered in the toilet paper war:
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2 hours ago, Brucebubs said:
Newbie here with my first Gibson on it's way.
New 2020 Gibson Custom Shop Historic Series 1957 SJ-200 in Vintage Sunburst.
I don't know if you've seen any of the clips from 2020NAMM but the work that Gibson have put into this new Historic Series is stunning.
Thermally Aged tops, very thin varnish and 'period correct' hard cases.
I'm in Australia and ETA is 4 to 6 months ... could even be more.
Congratulations and welcome to the Gibson Acoustic forum, Bruce!
Bruce may be a newbie here but has been on the AGF and UMGF for many years.
In a way, one of his postings on AGF about a Lowden guitar with signatures written on the top lead to me buying it! I love that guitar, thanks Bruce, though I think he was canning buying a guitar with sigs? This also lead me to buy my first Maton 808 with the same woods as the Lowden. Bruce is also a big fan of Maton guitars! 😝😜😐
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Thanks Kelly!
For a reason someone else could explain, the Waterloo still sounds good when it is very, very humid weather and some other guitars sound like they have a blocked nose. And it has been really humid here for weeks, a month. Humid or not, Bill C nailed the 30s Kalamazoo type sound.
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Thanks very much!
I should have mentioned that the guitar and mic were run through the Boss VE8's USB out direct to my mixer and then my iMac for the recording, with all EQ settings left flat.
I am really enjoying the VE8 - it is just a superb practice/recording tool and test machine!
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Thanks all!
My version above is in C and sat nicely for me as soon as I played it the first time in that key.
The Chordie.com versions I tried a couple of years back are in A mostly and I never got to the 'high bit' without sounding like an old smoker.
Using the Boss VE8 ( theory says just take the gadget and plug direct to PA), the guitar I was using initially was the evil one but it sounded terrific. Then it hit me: "play Waterloo on the Waterloo! Aha ha ha ha aha." So I grabbed the Waterloo out of its case, tuned it up thinking: "How am I going to get this to sound good in the Boss?" It has a K&K pickup and that usually needs this thing and then that thing and then sounds too plastic and the Boss VE8 generally prefers a guitar with a pickup 'ready to play live' sort of thing....like an Anthem pickup or a Maton pickup, even a Baggs M80 is nice through the Boss VE8...
So I thought to plug it direct to the Boss - you know, to see where things lie. Played it. Thought: "Hmm, why is the Waterloo K&K pickup OK in this and the other 2 guitars I have with K&Ks sound..pfft.????" And then I pressed "Record" and did the version above. Sometimes you don't know how a pickup and gadget will sound until ....you do it! There you go.
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Thanks Em7!
Ethan Hawke sang a version of the song when he played muso Tucker Crowe in the movie “Juliet, Naked”. I thought to myself to come up with a different acoustic version than I previously played from Chordie.com or somewhere with a torturous key.....this one is from Spotify.
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Here is my acoustic/vocal version of The Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset" played on, of course what else could I do but grab the Waterloo (WL_14X)......not quite sunset yet....
Guitar has a K&K and I plugged that direct to my Boss VE8 and only added a splash of reverb. Mic is a Shure SM58...
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5 year old thread! What happened to Jesse, anyone? Someone strangle him?
But Bill, you are probably better to go to a guitar tech that knows his biz - loose saddle and loose pickup can drive you nuts. The pickup ribbon can move and lose contact.....
I would research a nice new pickup plus a new bone saddle for that J45. 2013 model could probably get a new bone nut as well. It won’t hurt.
Grumble time....it is about time Gibson invented a new acoustic guitar pickup, preferably something that sounds like an acoustic! Won’t effect the acousticness, would be good. Maybe the new management can work on it instead of new models.
I am researching pickups for my 2002 pawn shop J50. As soon as my mechanic gives me my car back...and the cost...I will take the J to a luthier for a new nut and saddle and maybe a full Anthem system. (While waiting, I have tried the row of pickups I have bought over the years in the J50......Baggs M80 ok, Baggs M1A ok, Dimarzio Black Angel ok, Seymour Duncan Mag Mic real good.....all these go through a Fishman preamp/EQ/DI. But the most fabulous of the fabulous, not fully acoustic sounding but just a great, great sound - my Sunrise pickup through Sunrise preamp then the Fishman preamp! I have considered installing this permanently but it would be in the way of my Humidipak system.....and I would have to lug all the black boxes around whereas hopefully with an Anthem we are ready to plug direct!!!) Dunno! Dunno! Dunno!
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Saw it through iTunes and enjoyed it! I have watched a couple of benefit concerts recently with multiple artists and everone seemed to be outscreaming each other in bad sound mixes, so this seemed particularly pro and smooth. Nice.
He mentioned the west a bit in the recent Broadway show I also watched through iTunes, and this one seemed to elaborate on that more.
Patti’s bird had a Baggs M1 or M1A pickup, one of Bruce’s SJs had the same and the non pickguard SJ had either a Black Angel Dimarzio or possibly the Baggs M1 painted black......a lot of people were doing that a few years back to make the pickup disappear visually. Unfortunately for Bruce and Patti, the soundman was not their friend and they may not have even been plugged in! Kidding - they were there now and again but obviously the music and THE SONG were more important for us to hear than the guitar. Though it did remind me of a time, or 2, playing in bands and on the way home, the Better Half said the guitar was not loud enough. “Whattttttttttttt???” I reply. “Why didn’t you tell me after the first set?” She said: “I thought you might get shitty”
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I am fortunate to own a Martin OM18 Authentic, production of these Custom Shop models ceased a while back - but the marketing flog initially was the torrefied top and THIN finish combined with exact bracing and other specs would make it sound like a 1933 guitar. I don’t know if it does because I have never played an old Martin OM18 and the chances are slim to zero, but it does sound ‘old’, ‘vintage’ and also SOUNDS and plays fantastic. Can’t ask for more than that!
I also have 2 Waterloo WL-14 ....one X and one ladder braced......and these sound really old! And they DON’T have torrefied tops. But they do have very thin matt finishes. I don’t know what Bill Collings’ secret sauce was.....works though!
If Gibson can achieve a vintage sound with the torrefied tops and thin finishes, great news! Maybe they will one day go the whole way and give us an L.00 with a baseball neck and torrefied top and thin finish! (And a new case, though...don’t want a paper case!😁)
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23 hours ago, BluesKing777 said:
I never knew I wanted one of these!
Ha!
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There is one of these just arrived at Music Villa with a few of the other new models........the SJ already sold! Anyone here buy it?
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I wonder if that price will come down a bit once they get into circulation?
Delivered to my door, if that is even possible anymore, it works out to $AU 8,148.37!!!!
Dunno, dunno, dunno and a last DUNNO! Youtube sent this video to me. Go away.
It is getting towards Lotto win money. I better go play my pawn shop prizes - Dove and J50 - at lunchtime - in one hour's time!
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The Gibson train appears to be back on the rails - hope they can keep the steam up.
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P.S. One of my local Shops still has the older models arriving! What is that about?
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I never knew I wanted one of these!
Ha!
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46 minutes ago, j45nick said:
Mate, I sailed around the world in a 40 foot sailboat. If the ferries are running, I'll be on them.
Ferries are clumsy beasts, however.
Stay away from the trains......😲
Back on the original topic - humidity - FYI: Sydney at 9.15 am is currently 72 degrees and 62% humidity! (at my house currently it is 65 degrees and 73% humidity). Sydney can be a very humid place, but nowhere near as bad as the next city up the coast - Brisbane. I think they call us visiting sweaty Southerners 'Pinkies' (they are all tanned and we are all white) and all this Pinky wanted to do in Brisbane ( currently 84 degrees and 66% humidity) was to have a swim and of course, you can't because they have box jellyfish waiting in the water to sting you. (and the sharks of course). I don't think Sydney get the jellyfish, just the sharks. At a few places on the coast of Sydney, they have rock pools fro shark free swimming and Queensland has a netting system at the some beaches.
https://www.timeout.com/sydney/sport-and-fitness/the-best-ocean-pools-in-sydney
http://travelnq.com/stinger-nets/
and of course - the ferry going through a storm - I may have been on this one!:
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/819373725925811018/BluesKing777.
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5 hours ago, j45nick said:
BK,
I have a 20-minute ferry ride from the hotel on Darling Harbor to my work area on Cockatoo Island. It's appropriate that Cockatoo was a naval shipyard build by convict labor. I feel right at home.
It's a very, very pleasant way to commute to work. Sydney's ferry system is the best local water transport system I've seen.
It is an up and down city, like SF, so there is no shortage of exercise. There are also a lot of street buskers, which is always a good sign for any city.
I went to one guitar shop in Sydney last year, but had little time to really look. For better or worse, all my trips focus on work, so it doesn't much matter if I am in Singapore, Sydney, San Fran, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Auckland, or some wretched stretch of sand punctuated by skyscrapers in the Middle East. As long as I can get a beer or a glass of wine, plus something reasonably recognizable and not wriggling on the plate for dinner, I'm a reasonably satisfied camper.
That, plus high-speed internet access.
Yes, number one - get the forum!
And it is no use going to the guitar shops unless you want a local guitar - the rest come from your place at 10 times the price. You may as well behave yourself and keep away from the shops.
It would be a very nice way to start the day on a ferry to work. (though working at home is even better!). I was on a couple of ferry trips to Manly one time that went wrong - there was a storm with huge swells coming in through the Heads and the ferry captain (driver?) took it straight into the wave to avoid getting sideways and airborne and a crash through the next wave wasn't the normal calm water operating procedure! All the passengers were screaming. Somehow we made it to Manly ferry terminal and I went to the ocean beach and a few of the sites while considering taking the train the very long way back to Sydney. But thinking to myself: "Don't be such a chicken!", I got back on another ferry to go back to Sydney and this time the captain got it sideways to the huge wave/swell halfway across the harbour and people were thrown out of their seats! And lots of screaming and it didn't look like we were getting out of this one!
Something to keep in mind as you are grinning to yourself on your ferry trips to work and back......😁
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On a more cheerful note......do you travel alone to Sydney or with associates? Camp on a smelly boat in the harbour or put up in a decent joint in the city? Kidding Nick, I know they will give you a nice hotel.
Last time I stayed there, the Better Half was doing the company training thing for a few days and on the first morning after she left for work, I took my coffee out on the 20th floor balcony in Clarence and looked straight across at a building site the same height! The serenity! So I showered and hightailed it out of there. Went to all the guitar shops, that took 1/2 hour and I need another guitar to carry home on the plane, not. Wandered the main shopping streets for a bit, boring, walked downhill to the Rocks keeping in mind that I would have to walk all the way back UP later.... (Sydney is up and down like a bit of a San Fran - up down, up down and everyone is thin!) Anyway, as I passed an old, old hotel, the food smell was amazing and next thing, I am sitting alone eating lunch and having a few drinks.
So I was thinking that I can’t just eat and get smashed every afternoon, so I bought a Travel Pass thingy where I could go on the harbour ferries, the train and bus anywhere in Sydney anytime. And I did! Over the next few days, I went on every ferry and hydrafoil on the harbour, trains and buses to the beach tourist spots and the monorail in town (since taken down). Went over the bridge, walked around the Opera House, went to Bondi, went to Manly, went to Watson’s Bay and walked up to the Heads lookout and took a bus down to Bondi beach and back to Bondi Junction and train back to town........even went to the Olympic site up the Parramatta River. I’m sure there are lots of other things to do in Sydney but the harbour has it all!
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I have the Humidipaks in all my guitar cases with sensitive guits. Just a little bit of wishful thinking hoping they keep the inside of a case at 47-48% when outside is 99% (they might just do that in the case, but then it is a bit hard to play them for a hour or so, in the case!).
Nothing matters - it doesn’t last long here normally, the humid stuff, and we are all glad because the dreadful dry and extreme heat that caused half the country to explode seems to be over for now. Now we have storms and humid. I just bought it up because I can’t imagine wanting to play acoustic as much if it was like this all the time, eg, Cairns in northern Australia. Some friends moved there years ago and are always saying for me to come up and play there, lots of possible gigs, nobody ever comes, etc....hmmm, wonder why......all I could do would be to sit in a pool and drink beer.....and I don’t usually drink beer!
And no JZ, I don’t really know exactly how I cricked my neck, may have been a combination of pulling a dripping wet t shirt off badly after shuffling guitar cases with heavy resonators around in a hurry instead of the ‘right way’. But it is way better already and thank the Guitar Fairies I am back playing....couldn’t move anything without going...ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, yesterday and last night was just sickening whimpering from me while everybody and dog snored...... A relative has something like it ALL the time and is going for MORE surgery. Feel for him.
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We have had over 2 weeks of high humidity (95-99% some days) in southern Australia - storms and cyclones hit the coast on the other side of the country 5000 kms away and then seem to unravel and spread unsettled humid conditions all the way across the country - and let me tell you my guitars sound awful - out come the resonators and the ladder braced Waterloo to cut through the soup. It may be over - the StewMac thermo/hydro on my desk says 46%/70 degrees(21 C). I will have to take each guitar out the backyard and wring the water out!
The north part of this country is like this most of the time - their guitars would all sound different if they moved here in normal weather! I'm sure they would have to play harder and with a big pick to get anything. Must be the same in Florida/Gulf Coast in summer.
And while I am whining, I also cricked my neck muscle yesterday - improving today but a little thing like that and everything stops guitar wise!
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5 hours ago, vacamartin said:
I don’t really know, Vaca.....
But the spec list says 12! The same spec list also says the LG2 has 1 11/16” nut. I though Banner LG2s had 1 3/4” nuts? Could be correct or somebody cutting and pasting old copy instead of writing up new copy.
I think the only guitar with 16 would be the Slash model J45.
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22 hours ago, jedzep said:
Shiny and new still doesn't do anything for me, unless it's cars. I'm confident the tone of your old pawn shop guitars has that extra vintage depth not heard in fresh builds.
Besides, for that kind of cash I can finally get my hands on an Ad topped Martin 12 fret 000.
Of course, absolutely true, JZ, but I WANT that new LG2 Banner and the new J45 Banner and they should give a good deal because after I plastered my pawn shoppers 2005 Dove and 2002 J50 photos here in this very forum, someone must have been watching because a few months later and Voila!.......a cherry red Dove AND a J50 appears in the new list.....at 4 times the cost of my slightly destroyed pawnees.
I believe mine may have come from Japan where Gibson Japan have been selling cherry burst Doves and J50s on special order while not selling in the US. So the owner imported luxury Japanese cars and brought back a guitar or two on his travels..... this I have pieced together from things the pawn shop guy told me, may not be true. But I have read something like it before somewhere.
(J50 hasn’t been to my luthier yet, Dove doesn’t need him!)
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Well, the overhype is working, Murph....
While I was having a guitar practice and a morning coffee, a little recording, then later a bit of lunch.....and a spin to the guitar shop to get a box of strings......the zombies have been panicking after our Grand Poobah told everyone there was no need to panic......and have picked the supermarket and bakery bare to the effin bone. First time in my life, no bread at all left. Tomorrow I will line up with the zombies to get bread at bakery opening time!
And still no effin toilet paper. Pure selfish greed and madness.
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