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I find the GE-7 very useful. And too noisy. I still use it, though. I need all my pedals for our setlist, so I couldn't pick just one. The most fun one is the TC Electronics delay. Highly recommended. You can't run it on batteries though - I thought mine was broken. No, turns out it just drains a 9V battery in a couple hours.

Wow, your OCD is even worse than mine! But I agree that there should be no flaws in a Gibson. They're not cheap. Having said that, CBT did wonders for my Gibson OCD. As in, touring. I went from "isn't this angle 0.00000000000000001 wrong" to "if that fxxker pissed in my bridge pickup again, not only am I gonna sound **** tonight but I'll have to punch his lights out. Again."

Nice un-mod. The less said about the "modded" pickguard, the better. Yikes!

I have a 2017 Tribute that I love, so I'm sure the 2018 is great too.

13. A Jap strat. I was knee-deep in Iron Maiden. I'd also discovered thrash metal, and being a Swede, the death metal explosion was, er, exploding at the time. So singlecoils were perhaps an odd choice. But I did not have any offers from Entombed lined up.

:D

Couldn't afford the bus tickets. They do however plan to rectify the situation until next year by making millions off the 2019 Flying Umlaut model, where you get a neck and two dots for $7999.

Ah! Of course. More extensive weight relief would up the price. Everything else in your post, I agree as usual. The minds of Flying V and Tribute players seem to think alike :) Yeah, I love my 2017 Tribute too. It's excellent.

What type of weight relief is used for the 2019s?

The Gibson Tributes are amazing value for money, though. Worth mentioning. But yeah, beautiful burst!

Sell, sell, sell. And don't feel like a tool... And you're not an idiot, and no one will throw any fruit at you. I guarantee everyone on here that's been here for a while agrees with this: you're not a guitar player until you've acted on an impulse, bought something you regret you bought, and sold it at a considerable loss. At least, that's my justification. So don't sweat it.

...the first time someone calls you "Sir".

LOL!

Nashville. The scrumptyliciousness of the Gibsons I've played with Nashville bridges have convinced me. My tinnitus came with a superpower apart from being able to turn into a spider in pajamas, battling Chibson makers worldwide: a hyper-whatchamacallit condition where I'm sensitive to high frequencies to the point where 19 and 20 kHz are different beasts altogether. This is just my experience, but I believe the tonal difference is, possibly, not even there.

The Nashville pros: more stable (anchored), more room to fiddle with intonation. ABR-1 pros: looks like an ABR-1. YMMV, but given the choice - Nashville. No contest.

Underrated song from the Portland heavyweigts. A no-holds-barred look at addiction in the craggy Northwest. I urge everyone on the planet to look up that band.

When was that from? I remember Izzy left the band early on in the tour for "Illusion", or am I wrong? I believe he had his own bus. He'd just gotten sober, so I can imagine touring with a guitar player and bassist who drank a gallon of vodka a day musta gotten old REAL fast. Add a bipolar singer with Lead Singer Disease, and... Yeah. Excellent guitar player, amazing songwriter. He was the backbone. Having said that, Axl deserves a lot of credit too. I mean... "Coma". Here's a live performance I love of that song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qgnaYyFLCx8 It's stunning.

MichaelT: heh, yeah, I know... If I remember correctly, I asked you a bunch of questions about the 2017 Flying V, which I couldn't afford. Then I bought the Tribute less than a year later.

MichaelT: cool. I had a tape of "Live like a something suicide" just before it came out, and bought their "Chicago sessions" from someone within their circle. Allegedly. (No, not Vicky.) Part of learning the songs, as you well know, is the interplay between Slash and Izzy. It amazes me how young they were to be playing such amazing rock 'n roll. There's so much bluesy interplay there that belies their ages. Loved Izzy's first solo album, too.

I'm on a Slash kick. I was always a fan. (I remember people saying "oh, everyone listens to them,they're mainstream now. 'Don't cry'? That's selling out." Me: "so the demo on it I had on cassette pre-Appetite with Tracii is somehow... new?") But lately I've analyzed his playing more in-depth, and tried to learn from it. Particularly his use of pre-bends. It amazes me how it comes so natural to him.

Best of both worlds, eh? I played my 2017 last night too, and I don't think I'll ever buy another Les Paul (granted, once the world realizes my playing prowess, I'll make millions and they'll throw them at me). Same with the 2017 V.

Oh, I thought "dimension of string slots" was for the nut, not the bridge... I've had 10s on mine ever since I bought it, and it doesn't bind or anything like that, so I figure it's okay.

A kebab. It was in the fridge. Judging by my posts yesterday, I had a little drink or 15 last night. The kebab confirms it.

Megadeth - Back in the day. I like that lyric.

Poison Idea.