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I do so hate a thief. 🤨

Photos of the cheap Squier Strat please!! 😃 (Here is a photo of some 22 LR rounds I have in regular rotation on the land here. Arranged from slowest to fastest in FPS.)

An interesting concept and live comparison! 😃

No, I think this thread will live long and it will prosper, good sir. Deleting the original posts which spoke of heresy and scandal, meh. But carrying on forward and informing the great unwashed masses about the virtues of Mustang saddles and short-scale guitars in general? Pure gold. I approve. 🥲

HARD TO HIDE FROM THE WIFE

If you haven't listened to Todd Rundgren's A Capella album from around 1985, you owe it to yourself to give it a listen. Todd digitally sampled his own voice into the keyboards, and then played all instruments on the album using the sounds, tones, snaps, claps, schwooshes, thumps, and clicks of his own voice. Of course he sang normally for the vocals and the harmonies, but still; It's brilliant.

A limerick, then. Don’t be a party pooper, Pepper Dennis needs encouragement, not a side-stepper So what if he goes in debt? He’ll be happy buying the walnut, I bet And he’ll do it faster than Jesus healing the leper 😃

I look at this as a lawyer's wall hanger. Retirement gift for an attorney (and Led Zep fan) hanging up his spurs, and settling down somewhere near Manassas, Virginia. Can't actually picture a currently gigging musician seeing that for $50K and saying, "That exactly what I need to go on the road with next week." 😗

Hilarious. Walk in, drop a turd in the punch bowl, and then get upset and leave in a huff because people aren't happy with the turd in the punch bowl. 🤔

NGD addendum to the thread. I went on a Telecaster quest over the past few days. Tried every recent-made Tele in two different music shops and three different pawn shops. Couldn't find any interesting old ones. And I tried. Most were Made in Mexico, and two were Japanese builds. One had foil covered single coil pickups. Just like a few months ago, when I tried a variety of Player Series Strats and Teles, eh, *meh*. Good guitars, but there was no Shazaam moment of wonderfulness. So today I armed myself with a Guild Starfire III that I had bought last year and never really properly bonded with, and I went and tried a few Made in Corona, California models, all used, and all from 2023. Shazaam! I loved them all, and really loved an Fender American Performer Hum, in Antique White finish. (actually a custard colour, but whatever) So I made the trade, did really well in the transaction, and came home with it. Played it for the past half hour, running it thru two amps and a variety of pedals. Just lovely. Greasebucket tone circuit. Yosemite® Single-Coil Telecaster® pickup in the bridge. American Performer Double Tap™ Humbucker in the neck position. And the Tone Knob pull-to-activate coil tap actually works. It sounds fantastic, with no drop in volume. Build quality is great, and the neck is of the finest manufacture, with very smooth jumbo fret ends. It's got the three brass saddles instead of the six chrome ones I usually love, but this one is intonated perfectly, so it's fine with me. Loving this guitar. May even go back to that other forum some day. Just to show it off, and to talk politics. 🙂

MikeCT, No need to hide the new guitar. Just tell her, "Look honey, I bought another electric guitar. It's no big deal. I'm the man of the house, and I set the rules around here anyway." And then throw chocolate at her and run away. 😛

Mike, It sounds like the SG is the one guitar you won't be heartbroken to let go of. And I can understand. I have owned a few Gibson SG's, and in the end, never bonded with them. My advice would be to trade the SG in for the Flying V that you crave. It would be best though to play it in person, and put your hands on it first. To make sure it's worth the swap-out. 🫠

I gave this one a listen for the first time in years. THE very definition of fuzz guitar. Harvey Hinsley's 1978 Roland GR500. A wall of fuzz.

I will clarify for anybody who even cares at this point. I started the thread to vent about my being banned from another guitar web forum. Things started to turn absurdly ugly and political here, and I ended up deleting my original posting, and the several that followed, accordingly. So. Here we are with this mixed bag of nonsense, and I truly hope that this thread lives on in perpetual infamy, like some sort of interstellar probe that was only intended to make it out to Jupiter, but ended up flying right on out toward Andromeda. Please leave your kindest regards to Uranus. 😜

Man, they killed that song. Was that Lenny Kravitz on the other guitar? Anyway, great stuff. First thing I have ever heard out of Slash that really turned me on. Don't get me wrong, I respect the guy. A lot. But his playing on GNR and Velvet Revolver always sounded pretty much the same, over and over again. This was wicked-good. 😉

I have really enjoyed watching Peter Frampton interviews over the years, and this is one of the best ones. He's such a lovely and good man, and his passion for playing and performing (and recording, and collecting) with guitars is infectious. I play his instrumental album Fingerprints about once a month. It's brilliant. 🙂

I have had a DVD version of Martin Scorcese's documentary Living In The Material World sitting around here forever. The film was made in 2011, and I acquired the DVD some time later. I haven't watched TV in so long, I kind of shelved it. Years later, I did the same thing with Blade Runner 2049. Bought it, and never watched it. I think I'll dust off the cables and connections, and see if the old DVD player still works, and find out if the television is up for it. I really liked George Harrison a lot. My goal will be to watch the film by this weekend. 😉

I tried it just now on three different guitars. Les Paul Modern Lite Stagg Les Paul Copy Guild Starfire III All three were a) no change at all. I'll check out the rest of the guitars later on, after dog-walking. I tell you what though, I thank you for that exercise, ghost_of_fl. Such a tasty sounding lick/riff there.! I love it. 😃

A virgin LP from 1979. After my swim, I'm going to drop the needle on this baby. A1 Triumph – Blinding Light Show / Moonchild Bass, Keyboards – Mike Levine Drums – Gil Moore Engineer – Brian Bell* Engineer, Mixed By [Remix] – Mark Wright (3) Guitar – "Rocket" Rik Emmett* Mixed By [Remix] – George Semkiw Producer – Doug Hill, Mike Levine 8:42 A2 Starbuck – It Feels So Good Bass – James Cobb Drums – Ken Crysler Engineer – Rodney Mills Guitar – John Fristoe, Johnny Walker (11) Keyboards – Bruce Blackburn*, Dave Shaver* Producer – Bill Lowery, Bruce Blackman, Mike Clark (3) 3:35 A3 Strawbs– Deadly Nightshade Engineer – Andrew Brook Johnson*, Denny Bridges, James Guthrie, Peter Wolsey Producer, Engineer – Jeffrey Lesser 3:56 A4 Rufus / Chaka Khan– Take Time Bass – Bobby Watson Drums – Richard "Moon" Calhoun* Guitar – Tony Maiden Keyboards – David "Hawk" Wolinski Performer – Kevin Murphy (2) Producer – Rufus Producer, Engineer – Roy Halee Vocals – Chaka Khan 3:47 B1 Odyssey – Easy Come, Easy Go / Hold De Mota Down Producer – Charlie Calello Producer, Directed By – Sandy Linzer Tenor Vocals – Bill McEachen* Vocals – Lillian Lopes*, Louise Lopes* 4:27 B2 Omaha Sheriff– What's It All For Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Michael Spencer-Arscott Engineer – Graeme Myhre Guitar, Percussion, Bouzouki – Chris Birkett Performer – Bob Noble, Paul Muggleton Producer – Tony Visconti 4:08 B3 Daryl Hall & John Oates– August Day Bass – Kenny Passarelli Drums – Roger Pope Engineer – Ed Sprigg, Humberto Gatica, Tom Know* Guitar – Caleb Quaye Keyboards – David Kent (6) Producer – David Foster Saxophone – Charlie DeChant 3:03 B4 Harvey Mason– Sho Nuff Groove Engineer – Mike Beireger*, Phil Schier, Rick Smith (2) Producer, Drums – Harvey Mason 3:56 B5 The Alan Parsons Project– Genesis, Chapter 1, Verse 32 Producer, Engineer – Alan Parsons 3:42 😀

The Steve Miller Band. The Orion Amphitheater. May 18th. Looking forward to it. 😉

Yeah, I hear you brother. I have spent years feeding the birds, raccoons, and squirrels on my land. I thought to myself, a few times over the past coupla years, "Eat up, little friends. The day may come where I have to eat you"! 😔

Oh man, what a great looking neck and headstock! Never heard of CoolZ before, but from looking at them on Reverb, they are very nice and desirable guitars. Fujigen always made great stuff. 😀

A limerick in honor of this occasion. There once was a thread with benign intentions and it spawned certain societal tensions Out of nowhere came political fuquery and malicious skullduggery Let's just delete all the contentious contraventions 🤨

A happy ending, all around!! 😀

Welcome, Stevie Joe. Many of the players on this forum are multi-instrumentalists, myself included. I think that being a keyboard player and a guitar player is SO much different than (for instance) playing both the guitar and the bass. Keys and guitars are like apples and oranges. Bass and guitar are like Honey Crisp Apples and Fuji Apples. And playing the drums makes everything else apples and hand grenades. I love all of it, and we look forward to seeing more from you, including photos of your gear. 😉