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    Back of headstock oddity

    in Gibson Acoustic

    Posted

    Obviously, what happened here was the tuner screwer on'er guy could have simply adjusted those tuners so as to not cover the letters. I mean, they don't REALLY need to be evenly spaced, they could go anywhere. But he chose to cover the stamping.

    \:D/

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    NGD, don't judge me, LOL

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    1 hour ago, ksdaddy said:

    I just bought a bright lime green Squier Esquire for $139 shipped. Pretty amazing guitar for the money. I get what you’re saying about typically needing to spend a good amount of time polishing the frets but I find it to be hit or miss. I won’t need to do much to this one but a Squier Jazzmaster I bought last year had frets that were not only razor sharp but looked like they had been sanded with 240 grit. Luck of the draw. 

    What are you doing with them? 

    Hot-rodding and flipping?

    The Humble Studio...

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    If my memory serves, the Studios were 1249.00 (American) back around 2009. Looks like they're 1699.00 now.

    I'm guessing they will jump up again, pretty soon, with the dollar losing its luster.

    I have no idea what the used market is for electrics anymore.

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    NGD, don't judge me, LOL

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    I played an American Standard mid/late 90's Strat for a few years. Loved it. It sounded thinner than my Gibsons, but surely had it's place on many occasions. Eventually sold it, but I still own a Tele.

    Never owned a Squier, but I knew a guy who gigged all over Nashville with an Epiphone Les Paul that he'd tinkered with. This guy could afford a real one, but he loved that darned Epi until he died. Good picker, too.

    If the scale and intonation are correct you can make any guitar work.

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    The Humble Studio...

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    On 12/18/2023 at 12:06 PM, merciful-evans said:

     Wish I could've started playing that early in life, 

    It was a blessing and a curse. I also started smoking and drinking at a very young age. I was gigging a biker bar in Apache Jct. (Mesa/Phoenix) at age 16, three nights a week while going to High school. And I had other side hustles. I was chatting with my high school English teacher one day and he said "Man, you're making more than I am."

    But those times went by so fast, and the drinking and smoking will age you and kill you. I was still doing it into my late 40's, early 50's and finally had to stop or die.

    The writing was on the wall.

    It had always been on the wall.

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    The Humble Studio...

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    21 hours ago, DanvillRob said:

    I asked Barry about it many years later, (like 40+ years), and he said he sold it for a boat-load of money.

    Who the heck would have thought that stuff would be so valuable in a few decades?

    I owned a Super Reverb 4:10 when I was like 13, swapped it for something else. I could have invested in old Fender amps as a kid and retired a millionaire many times over.

    I bought an old Bassman in a yard sale with no speakers and a dead lizard in it for $15 and sold it for a grand, but by then I knew.

    Back then, I had no freaking idea...

    Jim Ladd... RIP

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted · Edited by Murph

    Jim Ladd, icon of Los Angeles rock radio known as 'The Last DJ,' dead at 75 (msn.com)

     

    Every major market had their best. In Mesa/Phoenix it was Toad Hall on KDKB. Open format radio from the late 60's until the station sold out in 1977. Or perhaps it was Bill Compton. Or Nina Joy, the first woman to rock the Valley.

    The 50's generation had the Wolfman. And Casey Kasum during the 60's.

    I got into radio because of great "jocks" and really enjoyed it, well except for the pay.

    I'd never heard Jim until Sirius/ Deep Tracks, and never was much of a fan even then, but he surely has his place in history because of the time he lived and the knowledge of said time. I'm sure people who grew up in L.A. remember him.

    Godspeed, radio dude.

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