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    I Ain't Drunk

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    15 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:

    That song is the bomb. 

    Really?  People are still saying that kind of crap?  [confused]  Anyway----

    Collins is an old favorite, and I was pleasantly surprised when my wife dragged me to see some "teen flick" called ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING and this scene came on!  [flapper]

    https://youtu.be/552PLnE61TM

    Whitefang

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    Acoustic bridge pins....is there really a difference,??

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    13 hours ago, bigtim said:

    Well been thinking of replacing the plastic pins on my little Taylor. 

     

    Thought about ebony ones, then read about bone was good ....now I discovered tusq makes them too.

    I am gonna buy something though

    'Bout 15 or so years ago I replaced the plastic pins on my old Epiphone FT-145 with Ebony.  Does sound better than the plastic pins, but can't speak for or against tusq or bone.  Only that at the same time I replaced the old plastic saddle with bone.  HUGE improvement.  

    Whitefang

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    Quick Question

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    3 hours ago, sparquelito said:

    Hmmm........
    Time for a limerick then. 


    An Epiphone versus Gibson Flying V
    a perplexing and vexing quandary
    One was made in China
    The other 200 miles west of North Carolina
    You keep the Epiphone and give the Gibson to me!

    Okay, I'm gonna shut up now. 
    😑
     

    There once was an Epi from China;

    And a Gibson from  near Carolina;

    So, which of the two;

    Sounded better to you ?

    T'was the  Epiphone sounded much fine-ah!  [wink]

    Whitefang

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    The Electric Guitar, a history

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    17 hours ago, jdgm said:

    Please excuse me but T-Bone isn't playing guitar on this track.   A gentleman called Frank Pasley is playing some fine steel guitar.   

     

    Thanks.  I did not know that.  But here's a clip of T-Bone playing in that unusual  style of his.  I once tried holding my guitar in that fashion and got nowhere with it.  [wink]   And he's doing one of my favorite blues tunes from way back.

    Whitefang

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    The Electric Guitar, a history

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    19 hours ago, mihcmac said:

    Johnny B Goode was one early guitar song that I couldn't get out of my head then a little later Tobacco Road going into the early 60's, not to forget Peter Gunn and Pipeline. These were all early electric guitar songs that stood out for some reason. Comparing the early 60's to the late 60's extreme evolution took place, it was the era of electrics I think. Introducing the first power trios, some times with an additional vocalist, for the first time 3 instruments could produce enough sound for permanent ear damage.

    Sorry, but originally, TOBACCO ROAD wasn't an electric guitar tune .  The song's writer, John D. Loudermilk was playing acoustically  on the original 1960 recording, which, thanks to an older step sister, is when I first heard the song..  [wink]  Since then the tune has been covered over 200 times.  Legend has it The Jackson 5 recorded it for an audition tape, but nobody can provide said tape for proof.  But, here originally----

    Incidentally, the first riff I learned to play was DUANE EDDY'S electric guitar riff from "Rebel Rouser".

    Whitefang

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    The Electric Guitar, a history

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    Along with Durham, let's not also forget another pioneer in the use of the electric guitar, and a man who influenced many others, like Chuck Berry, B.B. King and beyond. (I don't think Robert Johnson belongs in an electric guitar discussion. )  

    I give you---- T-Bone Walker.  [biggrin]

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    Inspired By Gibson, Epiphone ES-335

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    14 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:

    I thought it was Epiphone - Bought By Gibson.

    Indeed it was.  In 1957----

    Epiphone began in 1873, in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey), where Greek founder Anastasios Stathopoulos made his own fiddles and lutes (oud, laouto). Stathopoulos moved to the United States in 1903 and continued to make his original instruments, as well as mandolins, from a factory at 35-37 36th Street in Long Island City, Queens, New York. Anastasios died in 1915, and his son, Epaminondas ("Epi"), took over. After two years, the company became known as The House of Stathopoulo.[2] Just after the end of World War I, the company started to make banjos. The company produced its recording line of banjos in 1924 and, four years later, took on the name of the Epiphone Banjo Company. It produced its first guitars in 1928. After Epi died in 1943, control of the company went to his brothers, Orphie and Frixo. In 1951, a four-month-long strike precipitated a relocation of Epiphone from New York City to Philadelphia. In 1957 the company was acquired by Gibson.[2] Since then, the brand has been used for a number of different guitars, some manufactured by Gibson itself in its own factories, and some manufactured by other companies such as Matsumoku under contract to Gibson and marketed under the Epiphone brand.

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    The Electric Guitar, a history

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    Everything I've ever learned about the history of the electric guitar I learned from THIS site more than 20 years ago.   [wink]

    https://www.angelfire.com/music2/myguitar/ggcov.html

    And I'd wish to be ABLE to afford to play JIMI'S strat for just a few minutes.  Along with any of the old Gibson fat 400's used by Chuck Berry, or any old acoustic strummed by Bob Dylan.  [cool]

    And if there's enough money left over, how about that GRETSCH  George Harrison used to ply his trade with?

    Whitefang

    WTH did you do today?

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    Yeah, go figure.  Since my "mini" stroke in '14 my diet has consisted of fat free skim milk, cholesterol free, lite this and that and I  STILL gotta take them damn pills.  [mad]  Hell, I even found fat free half and half  to put in my "half caf" coffee.

    Whitefang

    The Official What Are You Listening To Right Now Thread...

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    "Right now" I'm listening to the noise from the TV set in the other room.  I'm here on this site through my desktop PC.  Never got into putting a disc or music from another source while on the computer.  Wrecks my concentration.  But last night I treated myself to----

    Mussorgsky's PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION,  by The Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by MAX STEINER  followed by.......

    Beethoven's SYMPHONY No. 7 in Amajor by the VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN.

    Whitefang  

    Ever cry while singing/writing your own song?

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    On 8/12/2017 at 5:45 PM, Roach said:

    This happened to me again today, i was just practicing singing and throwing out whatever words came to me, then i jotted down the lyrics and finished them than while playing the new tune, i just started balling like a baby...

    Does this happen to you too?

    Only once.  When a week or so after my wife passed away, I wrote a requiem to her and the waterworks began.  Give you an example.....

     

    REQUIEM FOR LA-LA
    Obsidian eyes that sparkle
    From an inner light that beams;
    And illuminates a harvest moon bright smile;
    Did warm my soul, protecting me;
    From life's icy indifference;
    And convinced me to stay here a while

    Whitefang

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