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Now that is a lot of stuff on one guitar. rct

Good luck jdgm. Our other guitar player completely wigged out on us overnight. We still don't know what happened with him and he hasn't spoken to any of us about in a year and a half now. It was, however, best thing we ever had happen. We didn't know the problems he was causing until he wasn't causing them. rct

I adjust them with my Tone Wrench and my Sustain Gauge. rct

I've lived a long time now not giving a frig about whether it touches or not, I am certain you will too. rct

We've done that like 40 times in the last two months with the new drummer. It's amazing how relaxed, how just diggity fun it is when you don't have to spend most of your time cuing the drummer. He knows this one back to front, and that makes for happy bass player and guitar player. It has again become the joy it once was to romp through. rct

That'll make the gigs go great. rct

I mistook you for the other Chris, my bad, I apologize. But yes, they do have techs at GC. I think we are using the words "set up" for "make playable", which I agree with. Otherwise, my "set up" is definitely not yours and vice versa. They can't "set up" the guitars for every potential buyer that walks in. rct

You head on into GC and ask them to do a "quick set up", let us know how that works out for you. And let us know what happened. We used to have decent conversations with you. You not swallowing all the pills in the little crinkly white cup? rct

The pitch of the note. It occurs between the nut and the saddle and no place else. When you bend you are causing the string to shorten between two fixed points, the nut and the saddle. That shortening of the string at that tension causes the pitch to rise, it is the same as very quickly spinning the t00ner up there, you are raising the pitch by adjusting the tension between two fixed points. The pitch of note One, a fretted note somewhere. The pitch of note Two, the bent fretted note. Both of those pitches require the same string tension no matter what happens past the nut or saddle. You can't have either note without the required tension on the string, it just doesn't happen. Seriously. You can go back and forth with me all we want, what happens between the nut and saddle determines the pitch of the note. A Floyd Rose locked nut and bridge is no harder to bend than any other guitar. If bending strings is "hard", practice fixes that, not raising your tailpiece. rct

The tension on a string is determined by the pitch the string is tuned to, not what happens past the two points, nut and saddle, that it stops. Tune your guitar to pitch with the stop bar all the way down. Raise the stop bar. The pitch will have flattened, depending on how far you raise it. Guess what happens when you tune it back to pitch? rct

It's good to try things. But keep in mind that the stew that is this thing called "sustain" is made up of about 50 ingredients, and the mechanics of the bridge are probably negligible compared to everything else. All the players I learned my legendary sustain from didn't have locking bridges on their Les Pauls and SGs and Explorers. It's more what you do and how you do it than what you do it with. rct

Very Nice! Thank You for that, jdgm. rct

I'm No Angel, Gregg Allman song. I'ma sing Time Has Come Today, that old Chambers Brothers number. rct

We had a pretty good night. New drummer was great! We have been with a guy that plays the drums for the last almost two years, now we have an actual drummer. Good crowd lots of jiggling on the dance floor. Played well, sang well, both of us tuckered out early though, so a little tough towards the end. I took a dozen pictures with my TracFone. All of them were just awful. rct

When we were kids we would play Edmund Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzedmund in bars and we would play one verse for as long as we could get away with it, which was usually a good ten minutes before anyone noticed. rct

Lou Gramm's Midnight Blue and that old nugget from Ozzy Crazy Train. I don't know when we will put them in the sets, we are breaking in a new drummer. rct

No sad. It's how it is. None of us is doing this to get rich. Rock on Brutha. Alla yas. rct

Well that was a good night. Hot, crowded early, thinned out, then picked up again late. Used Tele and Les Paul all night because of new amp, have to have the extensions of myself to wring this thing out and it was a great success. I like it a lot. I forgot to take pictures. Can't You See was the highlight of the evening, them peoples dug the hex out of that. Trower and Hendrix went over big. The crowd was up and sha la la'n so good in Brown Eyed Girl I forgot how to play the chorus and just dropped my arms and sang. It was bliss. Wish we were still at it! rct

There is no crying in RHAWK. rcct

KT Tunstall and her super hawt White Dove. rct

Dickey Betts. rct

Holy crap what a day. Bass player annual back yard party. Us and his kid's band, Isn't It Always. Them kids were spectacular. We were...us. Had a friend with us, him and I always have a great time. Good old rock and roll from us with the requisite singing, great 90's pop punk from the kids, with the requisite singing, three sets each. Beer. Wine. Food. 50 people or so, lots of pool splashin and day drankin. Left at noon, got home about midnight. Yeesh. I took some pictures, maybe tomorrow, today later, I'll get them up here. rct

Why? Physical violence between two guitar players is about as funny a thing as there is to see. rct

Plop plop fizz fizz...

When I was a young man and could tote a 10 pound Les Paul all night(still can), we moaned about how heavy they were and we wished for lighter pieces of mahogany. Now I'm an old man and we are wishing for the solid, heavy bricks we used to not have to even ask for. Your world is a strange and frightening place. rct