BoSoxBiker
-
Posts
1,373 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
2
Posts posted by BoSoxBiker
-
-
11 hours ago, Dave F said:
I've been anxious to try one of the hog guitars with the thermally aged top. I've had two Gibson's and one Martin with the aged top and was impressed with all three. All three are rosewood back and sides. When I get a new guitar that doesn't impress me, I set it aside for a year or two before deciding on whether it stays or goes unless I absolutely hate it.
Good luck with it.
There is a lot to be said for the changes that happens first couple years of a guitars life. Goes for electric guitars, too. The necks, I guess, on the electrics. 2 of my 4 new electrics from last years reduction and improve initiative have tightened up nicely. (Tele and LP)
I'd like to say that the baked Adi vs baked Sitka topic was much of a factor in my thought process. I didn't really understand what baked Adi could do at the time. I had envisioned a gentleman's strummer and wound up with the opposite. Now I'm beginning to wonder if that was actually a good thing.
-
21 hours ago, fortyearspickn said:
My first thought was also - 'sounds like it's you and not the J45'. I assume you do not have this issue with your SJ200 and Dove... . If they are different tone woods, that could be part of it. Combined with the different body shapes. But I'm more inclined to think you happen to pick up the J45 when you're not inspired. My 'mood' affects which of my 3 I pick up - they are all very different) and if I'm not 'up' , my enjoyment factor suffers. I know it's me, not the guitar - My playing is also not "up'. The J45 is an "Everyman's Guitar". I'd think twice before I traded it in (plus or minus some cash -which does not seem to be your concern. You'd get more for your sale, and pay more for your purchase - an incoming tide raises all boats. ) If you're thinking of a second, albeit different SJ200 - do you enjoy it twice as much as your J45? You already have a long neck with a full body and a maple. If I were me, I'd try putting it under my bed for a couple of months, play the SJ200 twice as much - and see if I missed the J45. G'luck.
Thanks for the time and the food for thought. A lot of good points.
The price rising of the replacement makes this an overall more expensive time to pull off the switch. An option has been to sell now and wait until supply lines improve. That said, I've been more inclined to see how this one turns out. It's definitely improved in it's first 6 months.
I can hear bits and pieces of the Maple SJ-200 when I play either the Dove or the RW SJ-200. Hearing a Maple SJ-200 stopped me in my tracks a few months back when hunting a replacement for this J-45. I may eventually break my rule and get that one additional acoustic. It does depend on how the J-45 turns out.
The 'missing the J-45' factor has entered my mind. There is something about it that I have stumbled upon that made for some exhilarating guitar playing moments. It'd be a shame to figure out that the "it" is after I sold it.
-
1
-
-
20 hours ago, DanvillRob said:
I always like the song....but never envisioned my playing it.... you can do this song using just using 4-5 chords if you don't change keys, but the chord changes really add to the song. As you might imagine, they're the same chords just a half-step up the neck each verse...so it's not as difficult as you might imagine.
The heavy barre chords kill my Arthritis. That's pretty much kept me from doing a couple more classic key change songs like "On Broadway" and "I Walk the Line'". Sadly, that's with easy playing guitars.
-
21 hours ago, DanvillRob said:
Thanks. it is a classic..... Bobby Darin OWNS that song....so every cover is just that.... but made the wife happy!
It's definitely in my top-x old standards favorites list. Hard to believe it's the same guy as "Splish Splash, I Was Taking a Bath" or whatever that song was called.
Best version I had ever heard was some local DJ on a Pop Rock station back in '87-'89 in the DC area. He channeled some sort of Sinatra meets Darin voice that just plain worked. People used to request it despite the station's format. Great songs transcend genre, right?
I agree with 40yearspickn on the chords usage. Dang! Mine is a 4-chord disaster.
-
It was good to write that post out and read it back this morning. This guitar has been front and center of more than it's share of the kind of guitar moments where you feel your playing and performance took a step forward. It's done so on some songs not traditionally used for acoustic play, too. Hopefully it wasn't a moment like the Nun playing R.E.S.P.E.C.T. on the move Airplane.
Perhaps those overtones that reminded me of angry Cicadas for the first four months are either being driven better by the player(me) or maturing in a nice way - or both? Those overtones filled in some empty space quite well on several songs that might become empty sounding on a different guitar. I understand the aversion some have to baked adi. Which brings me to....
21 hours ago, Murph said:I think it's you...
Yup! Very well could be. It's not the guitar's fault if I don't know how to drive it. Even when it is, it's still up to me to adjust. It's in there somewhere. In the spirit of perspective change, I did happen to take out my little Tascam hand-held recorded and tried the Gordon song, complete Capo. It actually sounded nice, and I really am not fond of capos.
20 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:It sounds like you are on the fence about it. Here is the thing, if you sell it and want cash to fund something else, in this day and age prices are stupid out there. If your not happy with the playability and tone, let it go. I've sold stuff for the same reason. I fell out of love with big booming dreads, and sold all mine off except my beater.
You've got a good point on the money aspect. These are selling for $500 more than they were 3 months ago. The flip side is that dealers are doing less discounts these days. Of course, there's not a whole lot to buy ATM if you happen to favor one of the models not being readily available. There was only one on Reverb a few days back. 2 now.
On the 'Dread or not a 'Dread front, some folks have a real aversion to calling the slope shoulder d-sized offerings "dreadnaughts". This is my smallest, most comfortable acoustic to play with exception to a big of thumb pressure with the neck carve.
-
6 hours ago, kwalker201 said:
I was thinking this yesterday when I watched this thinking is he in a hotel hall 😂
I had figured someone forced him into assisted living and thought I'd be reading a "not without my guitars" posting. 😀
-
Probably a rhetorical question.....
So, why is it, every time I get close to admitting defeat on this J-45 that I have some moment with it? Last night was Pink Floyd break-thru night. I figured out a good flow for "The Great Gig In The Sky" (minus the all female skat vocals) as well as "Echoes". Both songs I've tried over a few years and have not gotten far with. Both dynamic in their own way, and both had this baked Adi top just singing last night. Same for "Nobody's Home", and some of the more classic Pink Floyd radio-play songs felt just right, too.
It's not the first time with this J-45, though. A couple months ago while watching amp demos, I saw about 45 seconds of someone doing the Elvin Bishop song, "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" and felt inspired enough to try it. First time out of the gate was with the J-45 I nailed it, and second time was even better. More energy than I thought I could play with and still sound musical. I've not done it that way since. (sigh) The same last week with the Gordon Lightfoot song, "If You Could Read My Mind" and again on Saturday with the Bill Withers song, "Use Me" in yet another completely different style partial palm mute, percussive sort of thing. that has been getting better and better over the last couple of months. It was just cooking with this J-45. A dozen other songs before and after - meh!
Normally I pick up this J-45 and am uninspired by it's somewhat aggressive mid-range tone. Play a few songs and that's it. Done. Uninspired and going through the motions. I move on to the other guitat on the stand that week. Sometimes, though, I grab it and it's on. One short little partial strum and I know it's time to play it. Most of the time, it's as close to being like mundane practice as I get.
My plan for this coming week.again, was to bring it outside for some nice pics when the weather clears and post it up for sale to fund the next decent looking CS HC 1957 SJ-200 that came along. Now I'm not so sure. This has happened at least three times before. It's guitar switch day. Out comes my Rosewood SJ-200 and the Dove - my #1 and #2 guitars. It's actually a bit sad to put up J-45 for the next couple of weeks.
-
I think everything you do that I've heard has such a pure, smooth musical quality to it. Very enjoyable performance.
-
Man, what a classic! Love it. Nice job with it.
-
1 hour ago, Bob J45 said:
Music Villa sold me a new 50s J-45 Original in November. I’m about to change the strings and I’m trying to determine which strings came with it from Bozeman. The gauges are well publicized, but the make and material are not. I suppose Gibson reserves the right to change vendors at will. I’d also assume they use their Gibson strings, but who knows?
Do you have a camera that you can dip down into the guitar or a mechanic's mirror to take some pics of the ball end of the guitars? That will get you/us closer. Alternating silver and gold colored ends would most likely mean that they were the Gibson strings. They've used d'adds and who knows what when supplies ran short. I think two of my three 2020-2021 models came with Gibson strings. The other was restrung.
There's always the chance that MV changed them as part of a pre-shipping inspection and fresh strings procedures that some places do.
Either way, they were likely PB's and not 80/20's.
What Sarge wrote pretty much sums up what a day of research would dig up. I asked the same thing last May regarding my new Dove.
-
Another good one, David! Good all the way around. I especially dig the approach with the tltle and lyrics used to support it. Top notch!
On a side, there's been a few nice originals lately. Three on the opening page ATM.
-
That's a fun listen. Wicked good everything, Murph. Kudos!
-
Why are/were the Legends so expensive?
Yeah, not much in that link in my wheel house, but that '63 'Bird with the maple B&S looks interesting. $10,950, though. Nawp.
-
19 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
That was a Tele is for. Commander Cody was a killer, what would be considered today an Alt. Country act. He's coming to Richmond I should get tix.
I saw him, oh man, maybe 8-10 years ago? Quite a show. A little 3-piece trio with a ton of sound. Good old school roots rock grit stuff.
-
4 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
That's the lead track to Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue album. Good tune. And now it back to a new Slash guitars and J-45's all day long.
And so you don't have to post it - I know "So What?"
Actually, you do not. That's the sad part. All of this, and everything is still just the same as it would have been otherwise.
-
2 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
Do you keep track of how may E chords you play in one day. You guys are funny. That's why I visit this forum. It makes me laugh all the petty stuff we discuss.
Again, so what?
-
Sweetwater has 19 Gibson acoustic models in stock, none priced higher than the Slash J-45 at $3499. Mostly the lower priced entries. I've got no idea if those models are turning inventory over types of just collecting dust.
All the rest of those 86 links on Sweetwater (and similar sites) are are out of stock, notify me when.... kind of links. The higher priced models are around, but in far fewer numbers. Last time I looked, there was a single new 1957 SJ-200 CS HC (a blonde) on Reverb (Fullers) . Not that I'm ready to pull that trigger yet, I still look.
The used prices started to dip for a few weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but shot back up by mid January. I had two places offer me a discount on a couple different brands before I changed direction and got a bow-teek amp. I think I did that in large part to the market being insane at that moment, but also because the guitar I was going to sell to fund the acoustic upgrade started to behave and sound better for me.
-
1 minute ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
What haven't we discussed here 100x over?
So what? Someone asked and I had new, more specific answer than the last few times. And again, so what?
-
I think we talked about this as part of another thread a couple months back, but I can't find it after a cursory look. There might be some additional information in there if you find it.
Mine are varied. I've not used them on my Hummingbird I changed to a more detailed acoustic guitar log. My Hummingbird was averaging just a few weeks of playing time on any non-coated string including Sunbeams, Veritas, La Bella and John Pearse PB's, Martin silked and Martin Flex Cores.
Using my new log system, my J45 had 109 total days last time, 44 days of which were on my stand and played daily. My Dove has similar numbers - 85 days total with 40 of those days on my stand and played every day. So short sample size on my two newest guitars averages out to about 6 weeks of playing days.
-
8 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
I had a 197? USA Tele like the pic above, It was a tri-burst if I remember right. If I only would have kept it I would be a thousandaire. I dug all my Strats and Tele's. If the quality on Collings acoustics, and I only ever played one, is a good as that electric, its definitely top notch.
I came within inches of getting a Collings CJ45 T a couple months ago before my J45 started to fill in (sonically speaking) The difference between the Collings and selling the J-45 turned into a Carr Telstar bow-teek amp. I almost got a smaller watt version of the Swart like Buc (the OP of the thread that got ruined), but went with something that had an attenuator.
My previous 2012-2013 USA Tele & Strat pairing were both bursts, too. I do wish getting the new tele didn't have to cost me a standard issue Tele, but that's life. These 70th anniversary broadcasters are the cat's butt.
BTW, @Buc McMaster, in my picture is a Kemper profiling amplifier. Some people have profiled some Swart amps. That's the closest I've got too one, but what a tone monster that Swart profile is. It's as good as any amp profile as I have in my Kemper. It had me looking at Swarts, too. I mean, Reverb and Temelo, too? Sheeesh.
-
3 hours ago, Sevendaymelee said:
I'll have to try one then, if that's the case. I would love to play something akin to a Strat (not that I don't love Strats, I do) that has a little more meat to it, but not quite what a humbucker provides. If a Telecaster can do that sort of thing, I'd be ecstatic. lol
Ironically enough, I spotted a Fender Mod Shop creation on AGF last night. It was a Hard Tail Strat. Basically a non-trem. No idea if the bridge is just a plate like a Tele or if it's got the big aluminum piece inside the bridge. It is string through like a Tele, though. Regardless, I'll have to try one someday to see if it's closer to a Tele than a Strat just out of curiosity.
This video is one I've had in my y'all tube playlist for some time. You'll recognize the song, of course, but it's after the song ends half way through the video that he(Bill Kirchen) goes through this several minute long tour of Rock & Country tones with his tele. This bit has become a staple for his act. This concept can be applied in some form or another to any guitar out there.
-
The other side of the coin is that releasing to the world this way provides proof that it existed on a specific date and was accessible by one and all. Of course, I'm saying this with little knowledge of the law than what I retain from watching movies. I was a geek, not a lawyer. LOL
-
4 hours ago, Sevendaymelee said:
I'd love to have that guitar! Always wanted to get a Telecaster but had trouble justifying it because I have a Strat. But it's definitely on the list. I'm trying to cover the main bases first (single coil, humbucker, mahogany, rosewood, Marshall, Fender etc.), then I'll start getting into Telecaster territory. I hear they're a tad more beefy sounding than a standard Strat. Do you find that to be true?
The only two descriptors I can conjure up is that the tele feels like it's got a motor going while the Strat has a glassy sound. To me, they're a mile apart. Lots more, in mind, than say a Les Paul, ES-335 and an SG are to each other. (That might start a real fight here. LOL )
-
1
-
-
Bravo, Lars! Man, what a steady and massive amount of vocals improvement over the past few years. Much kudos.
So, Why Is it... ( or dislike/like for my CS HC J-45 Banner 1942 )
in Gibson Acoustic
Posted
The Martin booth at the World of Bluegrass festival had nothing when I asked it they had any 0000 or M style guitars. Maybe this year's will be different.
I played both a J-40(?) and an M-36 a few years ago and liked the comfort of both, but both were pretty weak sounding. Those and a Gibson J-45 Standard in the same sonic shape stayed on that wall up through the first few months of Pandemic supply shortage.