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Long ago (1980) I put a Fender 6-saddle bridge on my Tele. It's still there. I've kept the original.

Not AFAIK. Refinished?

"Let's Twist Again" - Chubby Checker

...When it's 15 months on from your original injury and you are still in constant pain.

"Your Lady" - John Coltrane Quartet

"Fandango" - Steve Miller Band lyrical association - "Dance a light fandango Take me 'round and 'round Dance a light fandango Never let me down" According to some net sources these lyrics were originally written by Manitas De Plata...!

This is kind of a mirror image of the Paul Rodgers album "Muddy Water Blues", his rock tribute to Muddy with guest guitarists on every track. Includes Slash, Buddy Guy, Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Gary Moore et al... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muddy_Water_Blues:_A_Tribute_to_Muddy_Waters Albert King did a great version of "Killing Floor" on "Years Gone By" and the Hendrix BBC sessions version is absolutely blazing, high speed - he opened with it at Monterey. Hearing Slash's 1st chorus of solo on this version I think he has been listening to jazz guitar as he repeatedly plays a chromatic descending lick which definitely comes from jazz players. So there 🎸

From the LP "Sea Shanties", a killer record. I saw this band and the one below at Surrey Uni in ...?..1970? Both completely mindblowing as I was 16 at the time. Great riff:

"Earth Blues" - Jimi Hendrix ('Rainbow Bridge')

Sorry for delay in replying. This was extracted from a cassette which was probably copied from a DAT. So exact BPM...no but I may try putting it in one of my pgms to work that out. I am certain the time will be drifting a little bit anyway.

This is terrible news. My God. I have many, many jazz and 'fusion' albums with Jim Beard on. He was absolutely dependable - could play anyone's music - which is why he got called by so many people for so many recordings. I saw him play live with Wayne Shorter. He was in McLaughlin's band, recorded and played with Scofield, Metheny, both of the Breckers and sax player Bill Evans as well as playing on and producing albums by Mike Stern and Bob Berg. The guy was at the highest level. Unbelievable that he is suddenly no longer with us. A tremendous musician and composer - he will be (and no doubt already is) very much missed. You may like to read this tribute by guitarist Steve Khan; http://www.stevekhan.com/tributes.htm R.I.P. Jim.

Unmissable opportunity! "Jive Samba" - Cannonball Adderley

Thankyou, a great compliment. It was started in the late 90s and (not) finished in the early 2000s. I had a Tascam 38 with JL Cooper PPS100 SMPTE/MIDI rack unit, JL Cooper MSB+ MIDI patchbay (both superb for the time), a Windows PC (by 2000) with a hack of whatever the Cubase version was then, Akai S950, Yamaha DX11, Roland D110, Alesis D4 and I loved my rack fx - Korg SDD2000 and DRV2000, Boss SE50, Yamaha Q2031 and 2020 comp among others. This all went into/through a Studiomaster 24/8/2 mixer and I usually mastered to DAT. The track you hear is mostly sequencing; I was pleased with the bass which is the Akai WAL bass sample, drums are from Keith LeBlanc's 'Beats for Sampling' CD ( did a lot of cutting/pasting) plus samples off the Akai and Alesis. The Akai S950 sampler was brilliantly designed, very well built and IMO a musical instrument even though you needed a keyboard or whatever to trigger the samples. I had a big sample library on disk. And - except for the DX11 - it's ALL gone now; sold for peanuts. The tape machine needed repair, the mixer was crackling on some of the pots and I needed to go digital but didn't have the money or motivation any more. Then - I stored 4 .wav file mixes of this track on CD for me to play and of course on my PC; they were stolen (yes this is TRUE) sometime between 2005-2006 by the person in the Amazon Japan link below who put his vocals over the 1st 2 mixes and left the last 2 for karaoke. I found the software they had used on my PC in 2007 and deleted it; but it was too late, as I dicovered years later looking at the metadata and wondering why and how it was in Japanese....didn't even know about metadata on .wav files when I originally archived it. My heart really sank when I worked out what had happened. https://www-amazon-co-jp.translate.goog/ひとり残されて-村井健二/dp/B001BXTO70?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Incidentally the track and bassline originally came from a long 90s jam; here to prove that is a short edit - the best bit! -with my slide playing. The guitar was straight into the Boss SE50 then to the desk.

Time for some cute baby weasels. Would you like to see a pic of my Tele?

And he was great!

"A Child Is Born" - jazz standard composed by Thad Jones, many versions inc Kenny Burrell

I don't know anything about gibson acoustic pickguards but that looks far too thick to be some sort of pre-purchase protective film.

Yes it certainly gets over-used, because it has become an effect which gets used whether needed or not. Recently I unearthed an old tape of me singing lead in the early 1980s. The only time I 'sang' a whole song doing both lead and backing vocals. Absolutely excruciating - I decided not to digitally archive that one! It's often said that anyone can sing and that may be true but not all of us have a 'good' singing voice. or the ability to carry a tune. But rock, folk and even country music genres all have plenty of room for whining.

So far today - Hendrix "Band Of Gypsies" double CD issue, all of it Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu "Chiaroscuro" (ECM) Wes Montgomery "Full House"

Hi Stevie Joe This is a question for the acoustic section of the forum. Re-post your query there and you may get some answers. Pics are always good but you would need to upload photos to a hosting site (free) then paste the 'direct link' provided into your post. Welcome anyway and good luck!

"Hey Pocky A-Way" - The Meters

I agree there is no best guitarist. So many different genres and 'best' is too vague anyway. But Jimi was the best in his time , which was only 4 years really. No-one else like him. I still remember coming out of school on Sept 18 1970 and reading of his sudden death in the evening paper. He was my absolute hero, my god and I have a pretty good Hendrix collection still (which now includes m-e's old 'Ladyland pt 1' LP). He was the real thing, everything the European blues-rockers wanted to be and more and one of the major progenitors of what became heavy metal. I only saw him at IOW 1970 in a big field on a very cold night at 1a.m. The best version of 'Purple Haze' IMO is from a short CD Live at Clark University. Tuned down to concert D, massive guitar and bass through Marshalls at full bore. I stopped collecting with "Ist Rays" and "South Saturn Delta". If you haven't heard this one, it's a good laugh; he was an excellent rhythm player too. I don't have a 'best' these days. No need.

I used to have that LP...... "Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms" - Traditional, many versions inc. Flatt & Scruggs, Buck Owens, Leon Russell, etc etc, even me as I played it in a band in the 80s

"Let It Roll" - Little Feat