BluesKing777
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In the same frame as the above billing problem......
I as lead guitarist in a band and the singer rang me to say we could do a ‘fill in job’ for a fairly well known band who couldn’t make it, but we had to leave ‘now’ to start on time. I grabbed my stuff, loaded the car and headed off to......the wrong address! The singer gave us all the wrong address! All the others were there! No gig there! Before anyone had phones, so we drove around the main type streets of the area look for a gigworthy establishment. Drove everywhere and FOUND it! Ha haha ...mad laughs...and the sign that the singer had chalked on a board was spelled wrong! What was supposed to be Rhythm and blues band was Rythim or something similarly awful...and of course we were not loved for being so late!
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11 hours ago, billroy said:
reached 50 and the hair dresser asked 'age defiant or age appropriate'...
It gets worse - when he says ‘that ship has sailed’.
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They had 'stage lights' at a local blues jam night - the classic blue light on top of one PA speaker and the red light on top of the other....plus 2 on the floor either side of the foldback wedge. Once you sat down on a chair to play guitar/sing, you could not see a thing except blinding light and the temperature went up to about 140 from the heat of the light on your face....and just as you start dripping blindly, someone took your photo! Good luck seeing your iPad/phone if you had one! Good luck seeing anything really, and you had to be careful not to walk off the edge of the 'stage'.
You want another little story? A blues band I played in for a few months rehearsed at a pub on Monday nights! No hiding our dirty laundry until we perfected a tune or 2 - 'rehearse live'. The pub owner found an old aircraft landing light one day and painted the globe blue and put it in front of the stage. Wow. Talk about getting religion and seeing the light. Anyhows, I got up with my metal Dobro to do my solo set and the reflection of the light on the guitar blinded everyone in the bar, so there were calls to break the light..... Again, good luck with the iPad.
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I also don't believe you should have learning or memory aids on stage - if you haven't leaned the song properly, it is best not to do it. You are supposed to engage the audience with a joke or a smile or a story and some good guitar playing and singing and even a bit of a tap 😲...not stare at a phone. Entertainment it is called. Can you even see a phone or iPad with some of the stage lights being so bright?
That said, I like everything we can do to get the song in my head...sheet music, books, guitar tab, lyrics on paper or on iPad or computer, online video, tab, teacher everything
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Auden guitars in UK are one of the first to use the new Brad Clark supernatural pickup:
http://audenguitars.com/brad-clark-supernatural-pre-amp/
Here is Brad himself explaining (at length):
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Cool!
Hmm...300 watts on 11 would sort out the people next door to my place!
They don't care for my Genz Benz 60 much, depending on what time I play it. 🌛
Mesa should be 300 watts sounding like 900, if it is anything like my face peeler Boogie 22 watt which sounds like ???
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A splash of glue and they'll be good to go! 😠😠
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Isn’t that fantastic?
Have fun.
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Can I ask what the reason for the amp is, Jinder?
Better monitoring for your guitar?
Guitar/vocal gig?
And why the ‘larger and louder’ Domino and Mesa models?
For myself, my Genz B 60 AND my friend’s AER 60 while fabulous for guitar, are a bit disappointing on first hearing your vocal if you are used to the slightly more ‘megolomanic’ vocal in a nice PA with plenty of proximity effect from something like a 58......
I am guessing wanting the amp is to do with hearing yourself more consistently?
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I was given the name BluesKing777 because when younger, I played Slide Bouzouki in a country music band at Vegas. One night while feeling a bit bored, I thought I would try some minor pentatonic scales that I had been experimenting with, and in a group of people talking at the bar in the casino after, a pretty girl said loudly to me while I was playing the pokies: "Hey, you the Blues King and you have a 777!" 😎😎😎
My first Gibson acoustic:
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The benchmark holy grail is a matter of opinion....
Blues fingerpickers - 1932 Gibson L-00 12 fret or 1937 Gibson L-0 14 fret (mine).😀
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Jazz the Wonderdog says: "Powder is going with Dan, so why can't I go with you...and why is that guitar in my spot?" 😣
"Okay, Okay -this is looking more like it! Move on, Driver!"
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11 hours ago, duluthdan said:
2018 F-150 with 6 cylinder Eco Boost, 10 speed transmission, towing capacity 15,000 pounds tows the 4,500 lb 2018 17 foot Winnie Drop 1790 with ease through the mountains. The guitars ride inside the trailer - a D-28 and a J-35 Vintage. Perfect size for one guy and a dog.
Camping rough then, eh?😄
All mod cons plus++++ ! Just look out for Lucy and her rocks.
The roll out awning is a stroke of genius, isn’t it? When I was a kid, we had the old clip on awning - oh no.
Have fun, Dan!
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1 hour ago, BluesKing777 said:
A screw loose? 😁
I have a buzz from my bridge on my HD28v, think it could be a ball end seating problem. We’re going in, doc.
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My buzz is fixed!
I went in with torch and mirror and saw the 1 and 2 string were both hung up on the string join under the pins. The guitar is just back from getting refretted, so the tech must have been rushing to put the strings on. Anyway, I put a capo on the 2, loosened 1 and 2 string, lifted the pins and yanked on the strings, replaced pins, grabbed torch and mirror to check...all good. Tightened the strings, tuned and played the guitar for about an hour. Hooray!
So check your bridge pins/ball ends.
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1 hour ago, blindboygrunt said:
My money once again is on the Jack plug
I've a rattle in my car dashboard, any you guys want to guess what's causing that ?
A screw loose? 😁
I have a buzz from my bridge on my HD28v, think it could be a ball end seating problem. We’re going in, doc.
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Too late, but:
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On 5/28/2019 at 9:12 PM, billroy said:
Hi folks - do people do any exercises for their hands, wrists, arms to keep your body in good playing form?
I've got a sore strumming arm at the elbo, I believe from working on a song with an aggressive strumming pattern - but it affects everything right now so taking a little hiatus. I've also had issues with my fretting arm (forearm) getting sore as well from time to time, so believe it's time to get proactive. Anybody have any tricks to keep father time at bay? Thank you all for any input.
(Moderators - I was hoping the acoustic guys would have opinions on this, but feel free to move to the lounge if needed)
You should probably try to find what is causing the problem and make sure it is guitar playing and not working on a computer or jackhammer too long....we tend to work longer than strum.
If it is something guitar related - you mentioned a sore elbow from strumming too hard, well, don't strum too hard. Try a different approach - strum gently with your index finger only, for example. It is ok if you are playing at home for entertainment, have a rest, but it is the end of the world if you have 2 1/2 more hours to go in a gig.
While there is no one answer, warming up before stretching anything is usually helpful. I 'say hello to the guitar' - I strum an E chord, then play each note/string in the chord, play a gentle E major run that goes up and over the whole fingerboard just using my 1 and then 3 finger on my left hand...then back up. Then the same run with 2 and 4 finger left hand. Then I do an A Major scale at the 5th fret from deep to high and move the whole form up a fret, repeat, move all the way up as far as I can take it. Then I repeat that but play Thirds. Finish off with playing frets 1234 on each string with alternating picking, start at the 1 fret and do all strings and then move to the 5th fret, do all 1234, and then move up to the 8th etc.etc. Then I play a few chords and then an easy blues introduction that even my dog knows. But I have 'said hello to the guitar' and it has said HELLO back. I have warmed up my working bits and also got used to the different guitar/s neck/strings/action/ width......
If I don't do this, everything is wrong and aches later.
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Here is a short track to demo where I am at with my recent purchase - Seymour Duncan Mag Mic - a soundhole magnetic pickup with a mic on the bottom of the pickup and volume controls for mag part and mic part...
I have fiddled around with it for a couple of weeks - this track is on my Waterloo WL-14X with a wide neck (needs re-setting for each guitar I put it in) and I have the pickup attached slightly towards the bridge because I have taken out the pole pieces for strings one and two - those strings get too loud. I really like adding about 75% mic, but unless you wear headphones this would feedback at a gig and most people use about 15 - 30% mic live. (Without the mic sound, it just sounds like any other magnetic pickup - like a Strat.)
So the track has no alterations, no EQ, just the pickup lead run to my Boss VE8 preamp and using ONLY the volume control...no effects. Then direct to record.... I like it but there is always a catch, isn't there - the leads and a 9V battery dangling down the front of my guitar, annoying, and an electronic hiss from either the pickup or the Boss VE8 or a lead...don't know yet. (Another strange thing is if I turn the mic (SM58) on in the Boss VE8, I get a slight phase effect from having the vocal mic AND the guitar mic...
So would I install the pickup permanently?
NOPE! Not until I sort a few things out....
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Don't drill that Legend..ever!
When you say 'gig', is it hoping to go to an open mic now and again or hitting the road full time? The answer depends on that.
Best pickup without altering anything on the guitar is the Sunrise Pickup with the 'Long Wire Jack' to dangle out the front of the guitar/tape down. You also need the Sunrise Buffer Box. Be really quick - they have been out of stock for ever and these just arrived. No affiliation.
https://www.elderly.com/sunrise-long-wire-w-jack.htm
https://www.elderly.com/sunrise-buffer-box-preamp.htm
Try the pickup in your guitar to see if you like it and later if you want to drill, buy the 'Installation Kit'
https://www.elderly.com/sunrise-installation-kit.htm
The pickup won't sound very 'acoustic', it is a magnetic pickup, but it is an unbelievably great sound.
Similar buy cheaper and brighter sounding is the Baggs M80 magnetic pickup available everywhere, which has its own preamp in the pickup, so you don't really need anything else. 70% as good as the Sunrise....
All the other serious pickups need the Drill. Both these pickups above are highly feedback resistant so you could play acoustic in a band if you want. If you are playing solo at a cafe, truest acoustic sound is....a mic.
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It would probably take somene like a Ralph Nader type consumer protection activist to delineate the various ‘custom, custom shop, hand built, limited run, limited edition, vintage, true vintage, authentic’ .........
Like my Cargill Custom 00 deep body is fairly well a one-off customisation of a ‘style’ of guitar he will build on order, but I doubt he cut and built all parts by hand....’Special Order Assembled Mainly By Hand From Machine Cut Components With A Once Only Hand Sprayed Finish’
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I don't know about other people, but I personally don't want a jolly joker anywhere near my expensive acoustics.
Some professions need to keep the joke to themselves - mechanics - no joking, doc - no joking, dentist, cop, judge.....etc.
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Which, of course, is not a problem if you only buy Real Vintage !
And hopefully the House of Fun dude has not been anywhere near it!
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I don’t understand....
Why is this guy doing unauthorised Gibson repair? Warranties null and void.
High action and sharp frets are possibly humidity related and need a month or so of settling with a humidity control system, then check frets and action.
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I’ll have the L-00!
(I guess Bird lovers will have to drawn their own pics on the guard?)
Like this one?
https://www.normansrareguitars.com/product/gibson-h-bird-black-refin/
Sustainable? Not sure about Richlite - how many trees do they burn to make it? Etc. A friend and I were watching a sustainable house built on the TV and he said the most sustainable house is buying a used one.... same with guitars?
So ditch the Richlite and give me some cherry or something....
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Long scale '90s L-00 Blues King...anyone else got one?
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No...but I like my short scale Bubinga Blues King....
Do we have another Sunrise coming Jinder? (Sounds great in my BK!).
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