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I see chip marks on the fret board binding as if the guitar fell forward and maybe resulted in the neck joint lacquer separation on the opposite end....

Now that I’ve had a taste of running the band and playing in another bar band. I prefer to be in charge. The big band is good too, it’s run by a...

The number of syllables in this haiku confirms that you're mad at rhythms.

The people that retire and say they don't know what they will do to fill their time are just sad in my opinion.Hate to sound harsh but it's...

I guess that's the reason I call you Mark. No need for formal last names :)

I was always impressed how our big band leader could sip his pint and rhythmically cue the bones.

I'm retired. I have plenty to do all day, I read a ton, play guitar a bit and like Mark I do day trips. I used to do two week bike trips through the...

Ha - right!

Good recent thread here, too.

Thank you! Yeah the issue is that these archtop Waterloos are next to impossible to find. They are amazing instruments though.

You are correct Sir. I need syllables not words For Haiku structure.

Oops. Sorry.

Rhythms you say? Rhythms Complete Bugs Bower

Adding standard 6th and augmented wouldn’t hurt. I mean, you could go on forever adding features, open voicing, drop 2, specific string set voicings....

I started the thread as a band leader to see what the hired players like and don’t like. So I can do my job better. I started as a band leader, no...

Band form attacking band leaders or anybody in the band. Help, not attack. It's a sign of insecurity and ONLY causes division and ultimately is the...

Someone seriously tell me what beats an L5. AFAIK nothing. Does an L5 plugged into a BF vibrolux count?

cool does the 8 have more bottom or is it just louder

I'll be sucking the walls of her AINY!! 0:45 :smile-new: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg3iQsaDucQ

Unless "it" happens to be an H. :numbness:

I admit I'm mad at rhythms I try to jam with regular notes and soul rhythms and I can't do it Tony traumatized me I need complex notes Mad at...

I just didn't want to sound like an idiot if I call about one lol

When ur mad ur mad.

Looks good. It might be nice to allow showing interval names, replacing note names. A button could allow you to toggle between the two.

And then there's his former apprentice - Dah-KWEES-toe - I've heard it pronounced Dee-ah-KEES-toe, which would make him Spanish instead of...

Bobby Timmons thinks Everyone is mad, but he’s The maddest of all

I wish I’d noticed this post earlier. Years ago I opened up my Jazzkat to look at the layout of the circuit board. As I recall the effect chip was on...

Ha - a very entertaining discussion : ) In "proper" Italian, the correct pronunciation of my last name is Cahm-pehl-LO-neh, with accent on the 3rd...

I ate the whole can The room smells like a bad egg Beans beans magical

That's Greg Ruggiero, who (as I understand it) was instrumental in getting Markku to make a smaller, easily portable version of his TOOB speakers –...

Not to be a party pooper but I think it's fundamentally wrong at least in my experience to talk about bandleaders this way. I've never been one but...

We’re luckier than most guitarists realize. Top quality bows are $50k. Raguse has been making bows for about 50 years. They’re probably L-5 level...

A terrific arrangement – beautiful tone, clear as a bell; and smooth. Plus technique that inspires jealousy...

Panasonic's right, I am definitely not hip :-)

Why I outta.

And don't get me started on bologna

I sold my vintage L5. Damn fine instrument. I bought several 175s , sold them all. Damn fine instruments. I bought 2 1970s oval hole Gibson HRs....

Hip..you say??.. here is the epitomy of it..Blossom Dearie (a very underrated pianist ..but very HIP! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMB5CzzWXMQ

I got in a fight with a bandleader one time. It was a musician fight. Huffing and puffing. A test of strength. I was at fault. That was 40 years ago...

I grew up in Manhattan. It was indeed Cal-Zone Just as the cheese on my Hero sandwich was Prov-Alone. :smile-new:

Much too wordy.... One of haiku’s defining characteristics is its concise structure. If a poem doesn’t follow this structure, it’s not a haiku—at...

Of course it's not all that important. I was just surprised, it didn't seem like the thing we'd call a restart for in a classical performance. But...

I have a friend who goes from his FM9 into 2 of these for stereo, and he swears by that rig. He plays metal though, and I myself haven't heard it.

I've bought a bunch of used guitars from Ishibashi, and one or two from Kurasawa. Usually you pay the exchange rate, and shipping, which is usually...

Where I grew up in the Bronx it was Cal-zone. No ee or ay at the end, but almost all of the last letter vowels were simply not pronounced. Ricott,...

Nice use of harmonics. Yes, that price would be a budget waterloo for me. :smile-new: Waterloo WL-AT Archtop Acoustic Guitar| Waterloo by...

Yes, looks like the exchange rate has dropped.... What are the taxes and/or other import fees on these? Has anyone here bought a guitar from a...

Ive been playing since the '60s also and heard the term commonly to express anyone that could "blow" on any instrument however Im from Jersey where...

I tried it and returned it almost immediately. It was bigger than I realized and not nearly as quietly as I'd like.

About bandleaders? Damn. A bandleader of a girl group on the west coast back in the 80's wanted to rob a bank. One of the other girls was into it...

Wondering if you have any audio clips of this instrument, ideally before/after the pickup replacement? I have a similar S16 build and am considering...

I think you have to be flexible. You might have a bandleader who runs everything. You might have one but everyone has roles to play. There might not...

Sorry, I've got AINY on the brain. It was Alone Together with the godforsaken diminished thing. This is the post: Analyzing So, yes, I'd be...

Try this... e.g., "C4" is middle C for Ab(13)/Gb eight eighth notes even through the measure F5 D5 Bb4 Gb4

I was watching the videos he put out back in the 1960s and he was talking about contrary motion: "Hopefully there's no pregnant women out there...

It practically writes itself...? Jazz forum just intrinsically mad, Dark Winter thoughts follow Fall of theory. Ear remains irrational,...

Yep.. sound like a familiar thread… quick answer- nothing beats a L5. If you begin with the lead in what beats a L5, you have already began the...

We don’t want to give Alan the satisfaction.

No one mentioned Barry Harris method for guitar? Fantastic book.

this thread way more confusing than music theory

The Notated Lick Compendium. A thread for posting and storing notated licks. Here's another classic lick I like:

Mention of James Brown reminded me of a joke-not-a-joke: A guitarist is applying for a job with the Famous Flames, and the band interviewer says,...

If anything we should all be realizing if Frank Vignola can call a do-over at The Birdland, we can call a do-over at our shared tips coffee shop...

Thanks kris. I ought to do it with some improv next time.

Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I'll get on my knees and pray... We don't get fooled again

If you watch videos that exist he seems to be an inch or so shorter than Bing Crosby who was 5' 7

Purchased mine around 2008 from Bill Fender at Legato Guitars. He recommended setting everything flat for a traditional jazz tone. I’ve been very...

It just look a bit like Jonathan wasn't of the same opinion, and I doubt anyone would have realised if Frank had just recovered from that sloppy...

Looks like Frank was still putting the microphone away when they started and he tried to jump in, but it was sloppy so he called a restart. He's a...

OK, then if you say so, if you haven't heard it, it's a "colloquialism". Here ya go, look it up.. jazz slang dictionary

There is no proof of this being anything but a placebo effect :cool:

Cool tool!

long ago at some jam session there was this guy that referred to every instrument like it was a horn and i got a huge kick out of it ”man that...

Toob? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3F5A5Kh3fE

Very nice. Check out this Jaquar Thinline.

I'm still trying with this. All the others were basically using subs, which I thought were more interesting hearing-wise. This one just plays the...

I have three G&Ls. Compared to the round '59 LPs, they are thinner. But they are not close to the Gibson '60's in thinness. A friend sold me a...

From how I remember the NY subway (sauna and/or sardine cans) he was pretty courageous to take 2 valuable instruments on it. One of which was not his...

I did switch to the Beta 8a. Solved the problem but added a lot of weight. Sounded better too. I eventually just got a Bud 6 soon after though.

Most certainly did not. I think it was Alone Together with the whole godforsaken diminished thing. Or shall it be Summertime Thrice?

This beauty sounds as good as it looks !!!!

Better is subjective here. Jazz 12 is a good amp. SS and tube sound and feel differently. Both have been used to create legendary jazz guitar tones....

Lots of people here use Toobs to solve your problem (and no need to buy two - one will do fine!). :encouragement:

Listening to and playing along with reggae tracks (meaning rhythm guitar) is a good lesson for how note length relates to groove and how different...

I understand that. I'm not sure that 'less contrived' isn't still contrived but I hear what you say :-) By the way, I think you said when you got...

Hi, I have the DV Mark Jazz 12, it has a very warm sound! Do you think it would be better with tubes?

Would be nice if you could try plugging your guitar into a nice tube combo like a Princeton Reverb or a Tweed. That would probably have much bigger...

I shook his hand in 1991. Probably I got infected, haha. But joking aside actually before that I was listening to African-American blues for one...

For SS a Mambo head is what I would be looking for. A combo would probably be more portable than the head + cab.

This must've been around 2008 (fisrt video I posted on Youtube). Part noodling/part improvised... with McCoy Tyner in my mind... ...

"Let that boy boogie-woogie, it's in him and it's got to come out!" - John Lee Hooker

Grommet is just another name for a washer, the search term "rubber washer" turns up grommets too. But I just learned that there are female washers...

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That's funny. We had one of those north TX guys at the school who taught jazz 1 but the guy I am referencing was a bone player who came up in...

A state of being over-tired is the easiest starting point for getting into a mental state of flow for me.

If you are playing solo and not rhythm you can even play around consciously with the amount of being behind, before or on top. Or it happens rather...

I took a Holiday... a Billie Holiday that is. God Bless the Child (whose got his own guitar) - in Eb P.S. - I got off-track before the bridge,...

Well depends really. Sometimes you want to be consistently on top, sometimes consistently behind by just the right amount. The main thing as I...

I'm not weird at all. On the contrary.

I'm not weird. Guys with Bigsbies are weird.

I think what it demonstrates to me is it's more the driver, not the car, I think SS likes to say the mechanic, not the tool. Its nice to have a...

I suspect that's because ur question has been answered, bro. Or something :smile-new:

I couldn't agree more and I once had the same belief. In reality, it's more a matter on how the guitar is built than when it's been built. What has...

I played and stayed for ten years in a leaderless rock band of brothers ...

You know, this demonstrates something I notice over and over with peoples's demo videos on this forum. You really only need a vintage guitar to get a...

Thread derailing ahead! :cool: When Pat bought his ES-175, it had only a neck pickup (ES-175, not an ES-175D). In high school woodshop, he cut...

Threads derailed so that the original intent is obscured and buried under extraneous, trivial nonsense? Not here- you must've been searching some...

A 57 year old ES-335 that has only been played seven times? Definitely too good to be true. A post with no photographs, no price, no location...

In Buffalo it was the drug dealer.

Ok. Ok. I take this to another level. I took my tip from Duke Ellington on how to keep a band. Pay them. These days I rarely take a leadership fee....

This thread took a turn!

Thank you kindly!

Lol

I only have stories of sidemen and bad venues since I have mostly been a bandleader since the 90s. Only did a couple gigs as a sideman for a short...

Dude, it’s an Internet forum for jazz, but not even regular jazz, guitar jazz. Of course it’s full of weird behavior, it’s incredibly niche.