Boyd
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14 hours ago, kidblast said:
Much easier to keep them cased with sound hole and case humidifies.
Thing is, *I* feel much better in a properly humidified room. And the guitars like it too. 😂
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I was a huge Zappa fan, starting from when I was a freshman in college in 1967. Still have all his old albums on vinyl from those days. I think he was a true genius and still smile when I hear one of those old songs, but it's not something I really listen to anymore. Didn't even bother to rip my old vinyl albums to disk when I went digital, one of these days I should do that. Was reading a review of that documentary and it sounded cool, so please do post your impressions.
Who else saw Zappa's "200 Motels" film in a theater? I saw it at an Art House type cinema in St Louis when it first came out. They shot it on video and then printed to film - a technique way ahead of its time for 1971. Unfortunately, even the high end pro video gear was pretty bad when you blew it up to a 40-foot screen, it gave me a headache.
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34 minutes ago, JWG4927 said:
The warm mist/vaporizer type things really are a less risky way to go, as opposed to soundhole humidifiers.
I got one of these two or three years ago and it's really the best small humidifier I've had.
https://www.honeywellpluggedin.com/honeywell/honeywell-warm-mist-humidifier
Went through several of the Ultrasonic ones, after a few months they always fail. I have well water, so maybe that's the problem? Used the kind with the big wick/filters for several years. They worked OK, but those filters are expensive and need replacing every month or so. But this warm mist one has really been trouble-free. Yes, there is a build-up of scale on the heating element but that's easy enough to clean. I have a studio/workspace separated from my bedroom/bath with a partition, total of over 300 square feet. This humidifier can keep it at around 50% humidity while the next room (with my woodstove, which is my primary heat) is 30% or less. In fact - thanks for reminding me, I just ordered another one of these from Amazon ($33) to put in the other room!
I keep my guitars out on open stands in the little studio and haven't had any problems. But, as they say, "your mileage may vary". 🙂
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"If I had rubies and riches and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and I'd change things around"
Or... maybe not. 😂
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Wow. He's a genius and wrote so many great songs, he's certainly entitled to whatever the market will bear. I really admire his early work, but have no interest in him anymore. Guess he needs the money? Wonder if YouTube will get even more aggressive about pulling videos of his songs?
On Monday, the Universal Music Publishing Group announced that it had signed a landmark deal to purchase Dylan’s entire songwriting catalog — including world-changing classics like “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “The Times They Are A-Changin’” and “Like a Rolling Stone” — in what may be the biggest acquisition ever of the music publishing rights of a single songwriter. The deal, which covers Dylan’s entire career, from his earliest tunes to his latest album, “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” was struck directly with Dylan, 79, who has long controlled the vast majority of his own songwriting copyrights The price was not disclosed, but is estimated at more than $300 million.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/arts/music/bob-dylan-universal-music.html?searchResultPosition=1
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Here are some pix of my 1965 J-50, FWIW
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Looks a lot like my 1965 J-50, except for the ugly pickguards. I wonder if they could be removed without doing some damage?
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What they said. Looks fake to me also.
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I'm surprised by how often that commercial still runs around here, I see it several times almost every day. Maybe they think that message doesn't play well in Texas? 🙂
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IMO... wrong. If somebody knew nothing about Pete Seeger, then it would be burned into their brain as "the song from the Volvo commercial".
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Hey, that is very cool - thanks for posting. I got my J-50 Deluxe in 1974 and that price ($350) matches my recollection. 🙂
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I usually do one at a time, so it's close to being in-tune when I'm done. Maybe once a year I take them all off to clean the fretboard. But on my 1965 J-50 ADJ, I think it really is better to only do one at a time. If you remove them all, then the rosewood saddle makes a lot of creaks and pops when I tighten the strings.
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Is it the "Modern Classic" J-50 with the big silver Rotomatic Tuners? They were introduced sometime around 2005 but don't know how long they made them. I have a 2008 J-50 Modern Classic and really like it (I changed the tuners to Kluson vintage 3-on-a-strip though). Paid $1500 for it at Guitar Center (a large US chain store) back in 2012. It originally sold new for $2000 in 2006. The neck is a bit fatter than I prefer, but not so much an issue of the nut width but the "fatness" of the profile. This bothered me for awhile (my hands aren't especially large), but I eventually got used to it.
Gibson made some limited edition J-50's during that time period also, with vintage style tuners instead of the Rotomatics. They were more expensive and I have never seen one in person, not sure if anything in the construction is actually different from my Modern Classic. But there were several years (2012-2016 maybe?) where Gibson didn't have a J-50 in their standard line-up at all.
Here's an archived page from 2009 (courtesy of the "wayback machine") for the J-50 Modern Classic
https://web.archive.org/web/20090107024437/http://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i-GIB-RS50AN-NH
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Good point. In the front view, the base of the headstock is closer to the camera and in the rear view the top is closer, so perspective makes the closest part look bigger.
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"Northcityblues"? LOL 😂
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10 hours ago, j45nick said:
That headstock side flare seems excessive for a '67 roundshoulder J-50.
Does seem pretty extreme, this is my 1965 J-50
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Very interesting, never saw anything like that either. My 1965 J50 ADJ has the 3-on-a-plate style tuners.
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Here's some info and a video of the commercial. This might have been my reaction if they didn't use that Seeger song...
"Here’s a clever little story. It makes you smile with its relatable scenarios about two parents’ everyday “saves” of their twins."
But it's a Swedish production, so maybe they don't quite "get" Seeger... I seriously doubt this is what he was trying to convey when he wrote that song. 😉
"We want to show how the Volvo XC60 and XC90 are the ultimate family cars."
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He actually discusses that incident in an interview I saw somewhere, I think it was "The other side of the mirror" documentary about Dylan in Newport. He said he was just joking and really his only issue was all the distortion from the sound system. 🙂
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Just saw it again (seems to be running a lot) and evidently the connection is that this upscale family's "hardships" of getting the kids off to school in the morning and changing the baby's diapers are the equivalent of "hard times in the mill". And they are indeed fortunate because the Volvo automatically applies the brakes when dad backs out into traffic without looking.
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Just saw a Volvo ad that featured Pete Seeger singing "Hard times in the Mill". Wow, I wonder how he would have felt about that song being used in this way? I'm probably missing something but just don't understand the connection between a song about the hardships of working people with expensive Volvos.
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Maybe he could post a video of himself playing the Lemon Song? 🍋
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15 hours ago, Salfromchatham said:
I would never trust a big box setup.
I understand the sentiment, but it's a little unfair to make such a sweeping generalization. My local Guitar Center had someone very talented doing repairs and setups. My 1974 J-50 became unplayable back in 2013 so I talked to him about it and was convinced he knew his stuff. He avoided a neck reset by planing down the fretboard, doing a re-fret and fixing a few other things. Cost a lot less than I expected and he did a fantastic job, the guitar never sounded that good before - even in 1974 when it was new. Also did a great setup on my 2008 J-50. He had his own business building custom guitars and only worked at Guitar Center for awhile, wish he hadn't left. I would have taken another guitar to him, but his shop is quite far away, in Pennsylvania. Guitar Center must have paid pretty well for him to commute that far.
Haven't checked for awhile, but Guitar Center used to have short "resumes" of their people on the individual store websites. Now I do agree that you shouldn't just blindly trust some guy in a big box store, but don't paint all of them with a broad brush either. 🙂
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On 7/20/2020 at 2:58 PM, TomG76 said:
Look how this same model J-50 seems to change colour in this Don Ruffatto video purely because of studio lights.
The J-50 is a chameleon! I have a 2008 J-50 and the color completely changes depending on the direction of the light and your position relative to both the light source and guitar. Try it sometime, move around the guitar and look from different angles, the color changes drastically. This is most noticeable with a single point source of light. Must have something to do with polarized light. My 1965 J-50 exhibits a similar effect too. I guess this isn't as noticeable on a guitar with a burst finish. Don't know, never owned one of those, I always liked natural finishes. 🙂
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Does this look legit to you guys? 1976 Gibson j 45/50 serial 00171825
in Gibson Acoustic
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Looks a lot like my 1974 J-50 Deluxe. But something is different about the tuners/headstock. Mine has the Kluson-style tuners with the small bushings but that one has big washers around pegs, like rotomatics. Perhaps Gibson changed to different tuners in 1976? Also impossible to tell in that photo, but my headstock has a stained natural finish where you can see the wood grain. This one looks more like a black headstock from that photo. The pickguard also looks much darker (and maybe thicker) than mine, which is thin and reddish-colored. Anyway, I agree with the sentiment that there wouldn't be much profit in faking a '76 J-50.
Here are couple pix of mine. I replaced the tuners, the originals had metal buttons but were the same vintage-type. Looks like the original label inside the soundhole is missing from yours.
Here are my original tuners, FWIW