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Today, 05:31 AM
There's a Vic Juris version which might be worth a listen with these questions in mind. It's on streaming.
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Today, 04:53 AM
Correct as stated :-)
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Today, 04:37 AM
nice!
great sound!
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Today, 04:36 AM
Yikes – what a beauty!
Was this built as an acoustic, with the pickup added later in Maui?
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Today, 04:25 AM
Pretend? When Trump left office:
The U.S. economy had lost 2.7 million jobs. The unemployment rate increased by 1.7 percentage points to 6.4%.
The...
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Today, 04:18 AM
Cool guitar concept... and beautiful music!
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Today, 04:12 AM
Actually, you are ignoring history. Estate taxes actually have gone down in the past, completely disappearing for a year under... gasp... Obama.
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Today, 03:57 AM
Jazz_fan said he was desperate, does that mean you win a prize? (you should)
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Today, 03:37 AM
You are clearly a smart guy who is entitled to the fruits of your labor. If you like Chinese gear, great. If you think that you might want to buy...
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Today, 03:37 AM
Long Ago and Far Away by Jerome Kern
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Today, 03:22 AM
A couple thoughts,
1 - Are we really going to pretend that the last time he was in office, the economy wasn't really good? We (my decidedly middle...
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Today, 03:21 AM
Thanks! Didn’t cure my GAS though….. want one even more know ;-)
Enjoy the guitar!
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Today, 03:11 AM
Please let me know if this feedback is unwelcome.
You're playing some of the downbeat notes too soon.
It swings better your way but it's not...
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Today, 03:09 AM
Old data but a few years ago about 75% of all guitars and 80% of all violins were made in China. That percentage has probably dropped in the last...
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Today, 02:52 AM
Oh look.. an opportunity to brag. I came from a poor family. I put myself through college working extra jobs and living in cheap housing. I paid...
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Today, 02:50 AM
Problem is, Trump republicans almost always define "costly regulations" strictly in private equity terms, i,e., what it costs the corporation to...
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Today, 02:27 AM
I place mic betwen neck and sound hole.
Thanks
Kris
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Today, 02:11 AM
I like both. Same pigments, different brushes.
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Today, 02:08 AM
2018 Custom Bryant Trenier Archtop Guitar
This is a 2018 custom Bryant Trenier guitar, meticulously crafted with high-quality materials and...
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Today, 02:07 AM
By "side plot" you mean those who want to take on Miss Ann and share their progress are welcome to do so?
I wrote this out so I may as well share...
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Today, 01:55 AM
It appears we’ll be working on Groovin’ High, with a little Miss Ann side plot
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Today, 12:38 AM
The arrow finds the Inj:tape:...archer.
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Today, 12:29 AM
Wow, this is great.
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Today, 12:14 AM
Wait- what's this about a cupid's bow?
I thought I was the only one with a cupid's bow on a guitar!
Martin 00028 that I've owned for nearly 50...
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Today, 12:11 AM
So you have your own blessings. I don't have a degree or a decent paying career. Your life sounds extra swell when I have a 2k dental bill that sets...
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Today, 12:06 AM
Yes, I've finally gotten used to the way it looks, but it's not very attractive! And I'm not too crazy about the 12 pole in gold either.
But form...
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Today, 12:04 AM
My main chinese purchase is egg rolls from down the street (u.s.) as long as that market stays stable Im fine. Might stock up on spicy mustard though.
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Yesterday, 11:57 PM
Yes, very much so. Governmental assistance, scholarships, and the moral support of family are things that made it possible.
Sent from my iPhone...
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Yesterday, 11:56 PM
I take it you've never listened to Bud Powell play swing tunes solo? He focuses on the right hand with sparse left hand comping similar to...
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Yesterday, 11:44 PM
Were you able to get a degree and a good career to support yourself with?
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Yesterday, 11:34 PM
I did get Pell Grants while I was in school. I’m very thankful for those. I also got free lunches in elementary and middle school. I’m very thankful...
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Yesterday, 11:32 PM
Be thankful for what you've been given.
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Yesterday, 11:27 PM
That’s for sure, one of my favorites.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Yesterday, 11:18 PM
Fine guitar playing on that one by Barney
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Yesterday, 11:13 PM
Cry me a river.
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Yesterday, 11:02 PM
Sounds like you have no problem with estate taxes cause you didn't get an inheritance. You should know better. Actually, you do know better. If it's...
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Yesterday, 10:57 PM
hey telephone, nice job and the guitar sounds great. Didn't I see someone list one of these on here a few months back?
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Yesterday, 10:51 PM
It seems like a lot of money until you have 3 brothers and sisters and 11 grand kids to split it between, which is probably why he was up my ass to...
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Yesterday, 10:33 PM
My dad left everything to his second wife. Nothing for me or my brother. My mom is going to leave whatever is left in her estate (not that much) to...
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Yesterday, 10:21 PM
https://youtu.be/7CyB9D6YOSA?si=fa7dvdJaPphn3XUK
feels good to be back on track.
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Yesterday, 10:12 PM
any inheritance I might receive is not going to be anywhere near $3,500,000.
Everything under $3,500,000 is not taxed. That's a lot of money (to...
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Yesterday, 09:57 PM
Don't know who you guys is,if you mean democrat i am not.Just calling it like i see it.
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Yesterday, 09:53 PM
Harris Plans to Dramatically Increase Estate Taxes - Kulzer & DiPadova, P.A.
My old man is a retired CPA and certified financial planner. He...
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Yesterday, 09:51 PM
Jack, I think that tone was better than Jim Hall got with his D'Aquisto on many of his recordings, at least for my tastes. Congratulations on a...
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Yesterday, 09:44 PM
If this takes hold: 4B movement: Liberal women going on sex strike after Trump election win
There may not be a new generation to vote Democrat in...
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Yesterday, 09:44 PM
You had that backwards. The first 13 million weren’t going to be taxed. This was strictly a tax on the ultra-wealthy.
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Yesterday, 09:42 PM
You guys say that every time. $3 gas under the past two democrat presidents says you're wrong.
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Yesterday, 09:41 PM
Look at the bright side, the democrats just lost the house too so in four years they can blame everything on the Republicans, including the price of...
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Yesterday, 09:41 PM
I guarantee it will take only days after Trump is inaugurated before he says we have the greatest economy in the world.Trump benefitted in his first...
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Yesterday, 09:39 PM
The Chips Act has enough pork in it to cause a Dearborn MI Imam to issue a Fatwa! :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 09:33 PM
Let them go out of business. They are a shit company anyways. Their QC sucks, they treat their employees like dogshit, and they are outrageously...
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Yesterday, 09:33 PM
So, as usual, it's not as black-or-white as some choose to see it:
Johnson, who voted against the Chips Act, quickly walked back his remarks and...
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Yesterday, 09:28 PM
Yes, I was going to say, if you think Gibsons are expensive now, wait until they no longer have competition!
The reason that we have products from...
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Yesterday, 09:19 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/speaker-johnson-floats-then-walks-back-repeal-of-bipartisan-chip-law-trump-attacked/ar-AA1totgi
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Yesterday, 09:16 PM
The bottom line for me is democrats wanted to institute an inheritance tax, 55 percent. I have a few bucks coming someday and I would imagine you do...
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Yesterday, 09:07 PM
Source?
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Yesterday, 09:05 PM
The Biden administration passed the Science and Chip act which allows the U.S. to make its own semiconductors so we don't have to be dependent on...
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Yesterday, 08:51 PM
Decoupling from China is YouTube disinformation click bait.
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Yesterday, 08:49 PM
I’m not stumping for China, it’s just not a zero sum game. What I really don’t like are billionaires making decisions that will make my life harder...
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Yesterday, 08:48 PM
If possible, I would prefer to avoid products made in China, Russia, Iran or North Korea. Of course, for tubes that leaves Slovakia.
Somehow, I...
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Yesterday, 08:46 PM
That’s a beautiful back. It seems like our guitars are twin sisters. I had that 12 pole pickup on one of my guitars in the past, and it was probably...
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Yesterday, 08:43 PM
I guess I should have sent a private message. Oh well, at the end of the day it’s nothing fun or interesting like “I’m a ghost hunters”
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Yesterday, 08:43 PM
Sure, of course you are correct.
I was asked here if I thought people should have a right to buy the products from countries they want. Well,...
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Yesterday, 08:33 PM
Sure, it runs great in Russian guns... and there's nothing wrong with loose tolerances; those guns run and run and run. But put that steel-cased crap...
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Yesterday, 08:24 PM
Very nice, and I'll bet that's an excellent pickup. I love the 12 pole, though I'm not crazy about the non-traditional black look. The sound wins out...
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Yesterday, 08:16 PM
I have filled my freezer the past five years using that crap. That crap works damn good in a Kalashnikov and I don't have to police up brass for...
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Yesterday, 07:56 PM
“Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, has made a surprising confession - he has been driving a Chinese-made electric vehicle, and he loves it.
"I don't like...
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Yesterday, 07:54 PM
Ugh!! That stuff is CRAP
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Yesterday, 07:31 PM
I dunno, maybe. I like Blueridge and some of the Recording Kings if we are talking cheap chinese acoustics. The higher level semi hollows from...
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Yesterday, 07:20 PM
Eastman employs a whole bunch of americans in their California factory where a lot of the assembly and final inspection of their guitars are...
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Yesterday, 07:17 PM
Look up the price of an E1OM and see if the initial part of your claim stands. The higher-level instruments cost about what you'd expect if you...
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Yesterday, 07:17 PM
I'm a searcher. It's never over. lol
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Yesterday, 07:13 PM
updated with a video demo, quick run through
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Yesterday, 07:10 PM
The car and appliance thing is tougher but I think it's gonna cause a spike in repair and maintenance people here at home, so, jobs. Yeah, parts will...
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Yesterday, 07:07 PM
AFAIK Eastman are a US company with manufacturing in China, just like e.g. Apple are. I think even their lower-priced instruments like the E1OM are...
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Yesterday, 07:05 PM
So you're cool with us importing cheap steel cased ammo (and guns) from Russia again? Biden didn't give me the choice.....
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Yesterday, 06:57 PM
Re: username: My real name includes a reference to a type of ghost in German and 'Spook' has been a common handle for me (and other members of my...
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Yesterday, 06:54 PM
Hypocrisy is Trumps middle name.In 2018 they found a number illegal aliens working at Mar-a-Lago with full knowledge of the family.Trump is no...
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Yesterday, 06:52 PM
Don’t you think people should have a choice about what they buy and from where?
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Yesterday, 06:49 PM
How about cars? China is the biggest exporter of car parts, and all American cars have some Chinese parts. Appliances?
I have a Korean-made LG TV...
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Yesterday, 06:48 PM
I don't expect to pay less, I expect us to put the hurt on the commie bastards. It's amazing how many people are stumping for the red dragon. We...
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Yesterday, 06:41 PM
Uh if you take China out of the equation you’re going to have less competition, and the other manufacturers can just raise their prices. You can’t...
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Yesterday, 06:30 PM
I haven't worn a shoe made in China since 2008. I buy boots that are Berry compliant. That means made in the USA. The other boots I own are Lucchese...
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Yesterday, 06:21 PM
Manufacturing is a long term investment. How many investors are there who are gonna spend a billion dollars to build a flip-flop factory (or...
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Yesterday, 05:58 PM
Thats sounds really good. Where do you place the mic? Neck, bridge? For better or worse, I place it just behind the bridge with the mic pointing...
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Yesterday, 05:53 PM
The Greenwood Trump God Bless The USA Bible was even made in China... the hypocrisy is right there. If he actually cared about this, he would have...
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Yesterday, 05:47 PM
The problem is, most everything is made there. Underwear, socks, shoes, hell even some frozen food! If you actually tried to never purchase anything...
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Yesterday, 05:46 PM
Started out on the career path decades ago, but realized the gigging lifestyle wasn’t for me. So I quit it and made a living elsewhere (tertiary...
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Yesterday, 05:42 PM
Well Jack Z hopefully your laminate Archtop search is over. Now for solid bodies and thinlines? Lol!
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Yesterday, 05:39 PM
I think there is a certain irony (is that the right word?) about guys who are always shopping 10k archtops and 5k amps whining about paying 20...
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Yesterday, 05:16 PM
Not worth expending more energy on this til things come to pass, but the fact we are having this conversation is disheartening to me.
We all love...
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Yesterday, 05:15 PM
I understand the proposed, across the board tariffs, would likely cost about $1700 per person annually. So, the anti-inflation program is off to a...
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Yesterday, 05:12 PM
That is mercantilism, and basically the way the US functioned in the late 1890s when the US budget was in the tens of millions of dollars.
I am...
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Yesterday, 05:03 PM
I think it's nice if every guitar has a great story attached, and if it doesn't, create it yourself.
The same as every great relationship and...
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Yesterday, 04:58 PM
Love all of Pat's albums--can't think of a "bad" album he's made. He's danced through so many phases.
(See what I did there...)
His first 5-6...
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Yesterday, 04:54 PM
I would say a thread on upcoming government policy is exactly the right place for politics. Especially days after an election where the winner...
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Yesterday, 04:47 PM
Are you able to play these concepts for the left hand?
https://youtu.be/o8Szn1Z0bzE?si=Ldz0E5u6pnKhdQte
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Yesterday, 04:46 PM
update from Steve Holst
Front and back are laminated plates with 6 alternating grain hard maple plates. This is different than gibson who uses 3...
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Yesterday, 04:39 PM
This isn't the place for politics. Though the insights on economics and comparisons to VAT's are interesting and do have a bearing on the future of...
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Yesterday, 04:26 PM
One of the venues I play at regularly for jam sessions is having a Christmas party mid December, so I’m boning up on Christmas tunes, too.
Winter...
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Yesterday, 04:23 PM
A bought a Aria FA archtop guitar about 30 years ago after seeing Jim Mullen play.
He gets a great tone out of his guitar, that I never could,...
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Yesterday, 04:17 PM
Something else. Are you having difficulty developing hand independence? Perhaps you can return to playing a simple blues and developing some...
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Yesterday, 04:15 PM
DK's a fine piano player
singer? meh....
she didn't break this one....:cool:
Meet Me In St. Louis | Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas |...
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Yesterday, 04:13 PM
The expensive imported stuff that you actually need, or things that in aggregate are expensive. You'll have to define "expensive" for yourself.
A...
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Yesterday, 04:11 PM
A huge problem we have is half the country wants the other half to be punished. American politics isn't win or lose. We either win or lose...
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Yesterday, 03:56 PM
your kidding right. This is probably not the best place to have these discussions as we are all more interested in things musical. However there is a...
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Yesterday, 03:50 PM
I'm in the UK. My story is so boring compared to yours but pretty amazing at the same time. My 2005 L5CES was only a half hour drive away!! Totally...
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Yesterday, 03:49 PM
Congratulations! Nice catch!
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Yesterday, 03:47 PM
I nabbed it! would have been happy paying cash but even better he wanted 2 of my UAFx amp pedals (Woodrow and Lion) in a generous partial trade. I'm...
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Yesterday, 03:47 PM
Appreciate you putting yourself out there. I listened to Celia twice. But you’re right, your left hand needs work. Have you watched any Peter Martin...
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Yesterday, 03:46 PM
Never really thought about it.
The only place I’ve really seen triplet rules would be the Barry Harris or David Baker scalar line rules.
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Yesterday, 03:42 PM
Every thread has to turn into a political hate fest now.
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Yesterday, 03:41 PM
Depends on the accenting of the triplet.
ba NA na
BLUE berr y
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Yesterday, 03:35 PM
potus? I propose IMPOTUS or simple POS as more appriopriate and equally laughable acronyms.
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Yesterday, 03:29 PM
Always nice to hear Peggy Lee and / or Dave Barbour. Cool playing, strange lighting!
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Yesterday, 03:26 PM
That's why I said "mostly retired"; he's mainly working for his own pleasure from what he told me last year.
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Yesterday, 03:12 PM
Nicely said, once again.
There's a point at which a guitar becomes too bling-y for me to feel right.
Something about the Super 400 / New...
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Yesterday, 03:11 PM
It does!
:eagerness:
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Yesterday, 03:09 PM
Diana Krall broke the mold with this one
https://youtu.be/pLDAfhN-aIM?feature=shared
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Yesterday, 03:03 PM
Thank you for this..the Zen quality of you playing is much needed these days.
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Yesterday, 03:00 PM
Vinny, that's a great picture! You two sure look lean and youthful! Do you have a picture of the guitar Jimmy built for you? Thanks for posting that...
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Yesterday, 03:00 PM
Yes, this exactly :)
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Yesterday, 02:56 PM
Nice looking guitar! Nitrocellulose finish or polyurethane?
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Yesterday, 02:55 PM
I love firebirds and V's. My old neighbor had a 64 non reverse and it was an amazing instrument and I found it quite comfortable. I am a bigger guy...
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Yesterday, 02:52 PM
Here's a bluesy one....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAPvi9Oe29A
And of course the usual classics:
Ultimate Christmas - Frank Sinatra | Album...
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