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"Can't play yer own until you can play everybody elses". Wise words of wisdom, probably the best thing I ever heard come out of Betts pie hole, followed by a great gust of Marlbl haze and Bud fumes. rct

Why you say that? rct

Try the decaff. I don't want to make you look bad or like you don't know anything. I have been around guitars a very long time and it is not very often they go in the case fine and come out "unplayable". If you don't want to touch the parts to make it work, say it. If you want to lover yer guitar, get in there and do something. Gibson doesn't respond to fixing guitars, Gibson dealers do. Take it to your local Gibson guy and start there. You will be a lot happier than waiting around for these guys, who are only going to tell you to take it to your local Gibson dealer. rct

Surrender Cheap Trick, and Day Of The Eagle Trower. rct

Strings that don't sound when played open are sitting on the frets. If it was played a short time and put away, how did that happen? What does the bridge look like? The nut? Are the strings laying on the frets? How does a guitar go from the greatest Explorer ever to unplayable while sitting in a case? Could the pridge posts have been turned accidentally? Can you not turn the bridge posts and lift the strings? Yes, this is the internet. Gripe away and do nothing, or try a few things to ease this "unplayable" condition your guitar has so mysteriously gotten into all by itself. rct

No. I'm saying there are very few things that go wrong with guitars, strings, string heights, action, and playability. The most common one is that wonderful day that a guitar player gets his strings lower than anybody elses. The next day he is in here complaining about a crooked neck or crappy frets or some other thing, and never gets it when people like me tell him that 80% of his problems will go away with a smidge of a lift of the strings. If your guitar went in the case fine and came out not fine, there aren't many things that went wrong, and PLEK isn't one of them. What is unplayable? Is it unplayable all over the neck, up high? All strings, the low ones, the skinny ones? Can't bend? What is unplayable? rct

You do know that strings can only go so low before they are unplayable, right? PLEK'd doesn't mean "low action". "Low action" is what people do to their guitars thinking they are doing someting cool and great when in fact they are not. rct

This past June I was in Milwaukee and cruised Cream City and sat down with three Yankee Breedloves because I don't really get to see them here in cosmopolitan bleeding edge southern New Jerseytuckybama. So they had two used and one new or nearly new. I took each one one at a time up to the sofa room next to the Gretsch wall and tried them. meh. rct

Asking a question that one doesn't want to hear the answer to. The bane of the internet. rct

Guitars are perfect amalgamations of small imperfections, and not just Leo's, all of them. Even Martin. Don't worry about it. rct

It really is! I'm always happy to introduce people to him. rct

I love Ludovico with all my heart, the greatest living composer. When this music plays I can't breathe, the longest yet shortest, most meaningful but humanly simplest 5 minutes ever recorded. This is the first I've ever mentioned it, I'm afraid if others find out it will disappear. I hope at the end this is what is playing as we go. This is why we play. rct

I think if you are practiced it is that you don't notice a difficulty between the two because you are strong enough for the hardest to play. Fender/Gibson players have to be strong enough to maul their Teles, but maintain control and discipline while playing the "easier" Les Paul, they don't notice any difference after a while they are all just guitars. rct

God, wherever he or she is, whatever form he or she takes, damn you for showing me that. It burnses, oh how it burnses. rct

Hey that is not a bad day in my world and I'm not even You! Awesome! rct

I'm not buying one until they have a triple action truss rod. rct

Moving trusses back and forth, filing frets, dodging buzzes all over the neck. All symptoms of YER STRINGS ARE TOO LOW. When you think your strings are perfect, they are usually too low, and most guitar players just can't get through their heads and hands that lifting your strings actually makes it easier to play accurately. rct

No, I don't. If the tuning system of your guitar is leaving it out of tune after tuning with it, I'd suggest it wasn't the weight or any sort of Sonic sponge. I could put a scarf, 4 Marlbls, a Boss clip on tuner, and a capo up there on my skinny neck-ed SG and not have these issues. I'm not breaking your balls as much as I'm trying to prevent future repeating of this as though it were facts we've all known all our lives. They aren't facts, nothing up there that doesn't touch the fingerboard side of the strings does anything at all to the tunedness of a guitar. You must hate string trees and strings though body! rct

More drama than anything else. Barely enough to make it dissonant, so not even like a tremolo bar. Heavy tuners don't make the headstock lash like a fishing rod and they don't cause mushy, out of tune chords, no matter how many times or ways you say it, blaming the tuners is just plain wrong. rct

No, I never bought the FatHead that was popular. I did have a brass nut on a couple of guitars, it did me no good. I would go back to the original post and your original claim that having "heavy" tuners up on the stock cause mushy, out of tune chords. I've never heard anyone say that ever, and I've never had a guitar with heavy tuners cause such a thing. I think you are searching for some kind of thing that is going to net you the best sound ever, and it has to be light. Trust me on this, play until you get sick to your stomach, get sick, play some more. That way you won't care what anything weighs, you'll make everything sound as great as it can. Some of the greatest sounds ever recorded were made on some of the lightest guitars ever made. Some of the rest of the greatest sounds ever recorded were made on bricks. The rest of the sounds were made on something in between. In the end, the weight doesn't matter one bit. rct

I've used the heaviest t00ners money can buy, in fact, in the 70's we liked all that weight up there. In all of my life with guitars I've never heard anyone complain that the machines caused their neck to be like a fishing rod up there and caused mushy out of tune chords. rct

We had a fabulous few days up at Isle Royale, couple days in Copper Harbor, and a really nice drive down the state through some of the great architecture of Detroit and out. rct

A yooper ehy. rct

1. Go with, stay, hold onto. Do NOT let anyone tell you different, go to another vet if they won't let you be with him/her. We held onto Mowgli, our 17 year old Bermudian cat when we had to do that, we wouldn't have it any other way. I could not let these little beings out of this world without knowing we, or one of us, was there. 2. Can't speak for dogs, we are cat peoples. We have an excellent sitter that comes in and gets the mail and all that, and she loves Ichabod and she loved Prudence like we did. We go on stupid long trips around the country, so we have to pay somebody to look after the animals, why not the house too? We can't now, but we know we gotta have some grrrl cat in our lives, if not soon, then immediately after we retire in two years. rct

October 17th last year we lost our darling 10 year old Prudence very suddenly to her weakened, bad from the start heart. We miss that cat to the point of physical sensation, I go to my amps and guitars in their cases on the stands that she would walk across, I reach for her, I listen for her at night. Goddammit we miss her. The silver tri in front: rct