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Yeah man. We used to rock that one up, whole bar doin the whoah whoah whoooooaah... Good times. rct

Taintburst. rct

Nice! That sounds like a hoot. This is our Rams Head. Right around the corner, we'll eat there next week, our 38th. We have a new place up in Philly to go to that Friday so we are just taking it easy for our day, stop at Rams Head on the way home. Service is iffy, food is always good American grub done really well, and they know how to make a cocktail. https://www.ramsheadinn.com/ rct

A night to remember for us. Place was packed when I got there at 6, they didn't start leaving until the end of the 4th set. Really happy crowd, lots of dancing and yelling. Our old drummer was there tonight. He did really great. We've rehearsed a couple times with him last couple weeks and he really brought it. Everyone sang well, only minor train accidents, no trainwrecks. A great night. My award winning world famous photography, set list: The rig. Man. Junky, stock except for straplocks garden variety ordinary Black Mexican Strat White Pearl pickguard one piece maple. Truly a joy to play that thing is. Used it for three, the other is Chris Shiflett Tele Deluxe. Shoreline Gold as you can see from the fabulous color saturation. 12" radius, two buckers, switch up top, two volume, two tone. It's my Goldtop. nyuck nyuck nyuck. rct

I am sorry to hear that jdgm. Discipline. It's more than just a good idea, but really hard to get bandmates to abide by. Conversely, Friday night and Saturday night this weekend, both great great nights. Sang good, played good, they danced and clapped. Scored two for October and November tonight, that was another plus. We'll be off until the end of September, completely. No rehearsing, I'm away a couple weekends in August and then the whole month of September. Really really glad we had such a good playing weekend before we sleep a bit. The winter really picks up in a couple of dives that like us a lot, so we are hoping to be busy. gnight. rct

A good night, 4th Saturday night out in four weeks. Rosewood neck'd Tele into Blues Junior and Fishman Loudbox Mini for the BOSS Acoustic Thrombobulator Machine. Not a big crowd, but a happy head boppin foot stompin dancin a little bit crowd. A full evening of covers, so hate away! rct

I don't have that problem, I just leave them on. rct

I had Lindy Fralin make me a pair for my #1 Tele. Don't pot them I said. Microfonik as fuk. Put them in another Tele and traded it. rct

A well made pickup should not be microphonic at all. You should not be able to talk through it. This stuff can't be off topic! rct

He carefully selected a piece of crap pine he took out of the trash. Leo tried pine and gave up on it, Gibson has not ever used pine that I remember. So no, there was no "design" to his first attempts at stringing and pick upping. In fact, he used a piece of train track rail the first time, the steel part. History usually defies fanboyness, so try to get some perspective on what actually happened once in a while. rct

He uses a few canned beats over and over and a few we set up ourselves over and over, couple different of each in between. We've really had some drummer issues, and now we are back to the guy we fired last year because he was a complete flake out. So we have June 9th, on the patio, of a bar/restaurant that has off track betting. June 9th is The Belmont Stakes, everyone is hoping for a triple crown winner. That place will be friggin mobbed, it'll be a hoot. We need drummer, so we'll do this one with him, he's amenable, seems serious, and seems to have gotten a few things together that he needed to. So we'll work with the drum machine for good now. There's a few places that just don't want loud anymore, and what "loud" is just keeps going down. We are working on the new old drummer to consider a good electronic set, and we'd help out money-wise if needed, hell we could trade a buncha stuff to help out. The new new drummer that just quit was working good on the electronic set, this weekend was going to be the first night out with that. Hopefully we can keep a couple of these places that are paying half decent and can support a full band and do them with electronic drums, and the machine for a couple small places that just don't want full bands and pay accordingly. I used to do the midi tracks with a keyboards guy as a duo and we had a great time, and yes, there is no twirlin the left index in the air to go around again, not with that stuff! I've thought about BandInABox and a decent PA when I retire. A lot. rct

We had a really good night considering. We've been really busy, and in the midst of it all our new drummer we picked up last fall quit on us. Like that. So, tonight it was me and BobBass and Mr. Alessis on drums. If you haven't ever winged your way through 4 sets with a drum machine you haven't lived. We last used one over a decade ago, so it was pretty fun. All trainwrecks were low speed so no casualties. With the volume so under control we sang better and with no drummer fails to worry about we played better and had a ton of fun. They made us come back in July, and we stopped in another bar down the street where we have two more quiet drum machine nights coming up. All in all it was a great time, they loved us, hooted and danced and sang all night. Bought me two shots of something that I left behind my amp, with two glasses of wine I never touched. Great crowd. It was a two Tele night which makes me very happy. Used the Green one all night. The requisite hi-res, super saturated HD photography follows: g'night. rct

Common sense in this bizarre Guitar World is that new, uncured, nitro guitars tend to be static-y for a while. Take it out, use it, play it, bring it home, put it up wet, it'll be fine and soon, I don't know how long that is, you won't even remember the static. It is also true that they sell guitars to anyone these days, and guys in a guitar shop that are unaware of this "problem" are just the guys to sell them to anyone. rct

Ok so same stuff I do. I've been using Les Pauls since 1975 I got my first second hand third rate Custom. I grew up playing that music and still do. I've used Les Pauls through each decade and iteration of Les Paul. My Classic is 18 this year, it's pretty well traveled but in great shape. If you, or anyone you know, is having trouble with pull offs and use of the high E because of binding over frets or the standard LP neck width, you or someone you know needs to practice. No guitar player should, in my experience, have issue with binding over frets or the standard string spacing of the pre-Pontiac Wide Track neck width. All of our favorite records were done with binding over frets, standard LP width/string spacing necks. Them guys had no problems, I learned a lot from them guys and I had and have no problems, you shouldn't either. I'm not hollering at you or scolding. I'm telling you that the frets over binding was cost cutting and the wide neck thing was a solution to a problem that didn't exist for guitar players. Rock on. Get some GFR in that setlist bro. rct

I did ask the guy what kind of music he is playing and got nothing. Engineers. They know everything. Except when they don't. Which is always. rct

What kind of music do you guys do? rct

Nobody can hear your bridge so as usual, no, the "tone gods" are not right. rct

Think only about selling stuff. If they can be allowed to call sapele "mahogany" they can then sell you a "mahogany" guitar that is considerably cheaper to make than an actual mahogany guitar. If they can call bubinga "rosewood" then again, cheaper material same name. My one Taylor was "sapele", which became a couple years later "African Mahogany", which is only one word away from just mahogany, at who knows what percentage less material cost. So if they keep interchanging granadilo and rosewood and keep doing whatever it takes behind the scenes to allow them to call something by a different name, they get to continue using "rosewood" fingerboards that everybody demands for considerably less raw material costs, by using something else. It is selling, marketing, advertising, not making guitars, that's not what matters in this instance. rct

Sorry buddy, but it's been going on for decades now. Constantly trying to re-define the names of things. Look at the history of the use of the words "sapele" and "bubinga" in the guitar world. rct

I never use my stuff when recording. I've never had a recording guy let me use my tuner, we all tune to his at the board in some computer thingy or other. Since the 90's! rct

Same as it ever was. rct

I bought that for Big Bill. rct

I already sing 9 of them, and I'll put the 5ths up top on the Eagles stuff. Every song will be 11 minutes long and we'll end each with the three of us out front like the cover of the Bring It Back Alive record. It'll be awesome. rct

Need a guitar player??? [love] rct

I would use really heavy pots and thick wires to counterweight the neck dive. rct