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Today, 03:36 PM
I appreciate these thoughts. As I say, I find this kind of discussion to be very interesting, and even central to my own subjective conception of...
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Today, 03:28 PM
Online discussion tends to be dominated by argumentativeness and defensiveness, especially defensiveness about one's own choices and purchases. ...
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Today, 03:18 PM
How did you determine that it was the pickup itself that was the problem?
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Today, 03:14 PM
100%. They try to use words like "sterile" LOL... which really just means ultimate consistency... UNLIKE Fender and Gibson.
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Today, 02:32 PM
Please tell me this was recorded for posterity.
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Today, 02:28 PM
Yes, those low priced south-east built Ibanez guitars are a bang for the buck. Ok, some need a correct set up, and for all it is recommended to...
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Today, 02:13 PM
"Ironically I'm sitting in the car just as the rain has arrived."
Oh my, what have we done? We should have started with But Beautiful. ;)
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Today, 02:06 PM
The Martin is gone and the first of two moderately priced archtops has arrived. I just thought this would feel a lot more at home for me (and so far...
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Today, 01:59 PM
Sure thing, but I need to install my copy of Guitar Pro first so I can post proper charts instead of "x-0-x-0-x-0" gibberish.
Speaking of...
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Today, 01:56 PM
Yea... It can happen ...a couple of ways,
1) Perform with real Jazz Players, what that means is we don't play Jazz Tunes...we play in Jazz Styles....
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Today, 01:56 PM
Interesting viewpoint.
I started playing in the mid-1970s. Jazz (and I could argue American culture generally) was forward-looking. In 1975 the...
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Today, 01:51 PM
Based on this thread, I got Berkman's book.
I'm part way though it and have already learned something that it feels like I should have known for...
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Today, 01:28 PM
The funnies example of this is with David Grisman and the album Dawg Jazz/Dawg Grass. One side of the album had a dog with sunglasses, a man...
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Today, 01:22 PM
That makes sense
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Today, 01:21 PM
I think it's a fundamental skill even though we tend to talk about other things more often.
It develops with time on the instrument, whatever...
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Today, 01:17 PM
Michael (Mike) Danzi playing a rare Pilar archtop at the Scala Theater in Berlin, 1935:
Mike Danzi - Wikipedia
Mike's memories "American...
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Today, 01:17 PM
Here's my favourite rig:
Polytone Mini-Brute
2x12 Cab
Vintage "Lucky Buck" Thinline Telecaster
Pedals on a slightly modified pallet :)
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Today, 01:17 PM
https://fendercustomersupport.microsoftcrmportals.com/en-us/knowledgebase/article/KA-01901
This links to Fender's instructions for setting up a...
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Today, 01:10 PM
The thing i don't get is all the hate on guitar forums for PRS.People complain about guitars from overseas and you have this great builder here in...
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Today, 01:09 PM
In addition to a.m., in case I would have to sell a 63 ES175 here in Germany I would do as following.
The authorities in Germany ask for an...
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Today, 01:07 PM
This is a helpful thread for someone like me, who hasn't sold a guitar since the late 80's. I have one that I'm thinking of letting go and been...
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Today, 01:07 PM
I plugged my Sadowsky into the GenzBenz acoustic amp and it sounded really nice, especially for 4/4 FG-type comping
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Today, 01:01 PM
I have direct experience to say this is basically true. We recorded an album late 70's. We were an eclectic mix of Brazilian, Caribbean, and...
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Today, 12:55 PM
It gets complicated, does the versatility of the Super 400 put offset the size..?
As a couch concert artist, the option just came up..and of course...
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Today, 12:40 PM
To my knowledge a CITES certificate is mandatory for any trading of such an instrument, either abroad or inland. Also, only the seller can ask for a...
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Today, 12:33 PM
I'll trace mine and scan it into a PDF for you.
Are you in Canada ? I'm just curious if a Mann-branded guitar ended up outside of Canada.
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Today, 12:16 PM
I don't think any of my family would want my guitars but they'd enjoy selling them!
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Today, 12:16 PM
I'd be very curious to know your experiences with the Hahl!
I don't think that the energy requirements of the top are dependent on how the...
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Today, 12:14 PM
Good luck. Hopefully you're not asked to play Italian folk songs. (my in-laws always ask me, so I did learn Volare).
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Today, 12:10 PM
This is going to be an amazing project.
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Today, 12:10 PM
The only reason to put a label on something is to assist in the selling of said something. E.g. in the old days, where to find it at a record...
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Today, 12:09 PM
In 2023, I had the opportunity to A/B test a Sadowsky Frank Vignola side-by-side with an Eastman Romeo. I have been very happy with the Romeo since...
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Today, 12:03 PM
I leave it off on my Blu when playing an archtop. But it’s great for chimey Dumble-like tone with a ZenDrive or similar effect, especially with a...
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Today, 12:03 PM
I have decided to commission a guitar with Allen Park, Michigan luthier Gary Zimnicki.
It's All in the Details - Zimnicki Guitars
Gary builds...
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Today, 11:00 AM
The Parker Nylonstring sounds a lot less strident than his models made for steelstrings and I have to give it to the player : his left hand technique...
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Today, 10:41 AM
Perhaps you could upload to YouTube Music. The video wouldn't seem to be that important, considering it was a radio broadcast. You can make the...
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Today, 10:28 AM
I like the adjustable tweeter on my raezers edge cabinet. I keep it on but at a very low output level, just barely enough to add a little air and...
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Today, 10:27 AM
https://youtu.be/P80L_z2QjAk?si=wx7q40GCdzgG4F2V
Some interesting analysis of statements made by PRS.
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Today, 10:24 AM
Most tweeters start putting out usable signal between 1.5 and 2 kHz. You can’t just wire a tweeter in as a second full range driver, so some kind of...
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Today, 10:16 AM
AFAIK, Joe and John Pisano were best friends to the end (at least that is what John Pisano told me). I still think it is sad that Joe's best friend...
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Today, 10:14 AM
Joe's carved D'Aquisto was sold to a rich collector pay for medical bills after his cancer Diagnosis.
Joe's plywood D'Aquisto was in the...
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Today, 10:05 AM
Yes, that was interesting, I hadn't heard of him, which is unusual. He's an associate professor at Berklee, you know :smile-new:
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Today, 09:58 AM
The story of my 175 will haunt me to the grave. I got my first guitar (a United Elitone flattop for $10 new) at 9. By the time I was 11, I’d gotten...
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Today, 09:55 AM
All art will always change. Notwithstanding that, there's no harm in remembering, appreciating, acknowledging and enjoying great periods of art from...
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Today, 09:44 AM
I use the tweeter on my RE Stealth 10ER cabinet. It's just too dark for my taste without some tweeter. It's adjustable, and I tend to run it...
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Today, 09:31 AM
I get it. But then why do archtops sound so much brighter through FRFR?
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Today, 09:28 AM
The search engine is a bit quirky. I typed "Carvin," and while I got the Carvins, I got a bunch of other stuff that begins with C. Celestion,...
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Today, 09:27 AM
Not many, if any, do - certainly private sellers. I've been looking at a lot recently for that purpose.
From your post it sounds to me as though...
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Today, 09:15 AM
Or maybe it's one of the very few that has been recorded properly? Sadly I'm not aware of any recordings at all of the "classical archtops" Alan...
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Today, 09:09 AM
AFAIK he didn‘t record with it but he did make some videos with it.
https://youtu.be/J5wOdikpRu8
He might have played it at some guitar shows...
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Today, 09:08 AM
He had a distinct sound and style. Not sure if you want to put a label on it but I find his music quite moving and has great energy.
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Today, 09:07 AM
I’ve heard that story before. Probably from you LOL.
Were Pisano and Joe on good terms when Joe was near the end of his life? I’m not aware they...
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Today, 08:56 AM
In my experience adjusting the tweeter on my Fishman Artist makes little difference to guitars with magnetic pickups, specifically archtops. I have...
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Today, 08:54 AM
That Dale Unger could be a nice grab. Replace the pickup with your favorite.
Free shipping on a '65 Twin? Yikes.
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Today, 08:43 AM
Dave Tronzo is an interesting musician.
https://youtu.be/i9415x9NZsc?si=ocyo81kmQzPIANff
https://youtu.be/ItSyiMApcRE?si=iXeyMMsGQ9vd0L9F
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Today, 08:39 AM
I tend to ramble so I had to chop a lot out, but here’s something. I’ll get into some weirder stuff soon:
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Today, 08:26 AM
Wonderful tune. Szabo’s music and “Silent Way” sound like they share the same influence. I wonder if some of that because of where the composers were...
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Today, 08:13 AM
For me personally, I handle it quite simple.
I stay away from guitars built with parts of Brazilian Rosewood without mentioning a CITES certificate...
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Today, 08:12 AM
I crashed with a bike some years ago and got an undislocated radius fracture. I too managed to drive the 10 kilometers home on the bike.
And then...
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Today, 07:58 AM
Very well, but not till I've answered the two points you made. First, the line about Derek Bailey was light-hearted. It was a joke. I was trying to...
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Today, 07:41 AM
Welcome here.
To answer your questions, guitar amps with a transistor power amp can usually accept a speaker impedance between 4 - 16 ohms.
Same...
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Today, 07:34 AM
I don't think he cared for the EEJP. Did he ever record with it?
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Today, 07:21 AM
I wouldn't worry about the plexus nerve block - that stuff works, and the chances of closed reduction for many of these "boxer" fractures are good....
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Today, 06:18 AM
That definitely wasn't the case with my Fenix FAE8. It was a duff AZ pickup. A budget Ibanez pickup from an AF84e solved the problem.
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Today, 05:43 AM
That's a great post Mick. I just started a thread for the official study group for the book.
Would you mind posting this post in there? Just to...
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Today, 05:41 AM
This is the official thread for the Jeff Arnold Jazz Ballads book.
You can find the book on Amazon using the link below. For a quick start there's...
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Today, 05:12 AM
You started that poll in 2015. Nobody has commented since March last year. I would not call it current. And the jazz world is a lot wider and a lot...
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Today, 04:51 AM
I think he’s just using very heavy strings. At least 13’s. The sound is though the strings are very high tension.
Peoples idea of these guitars...
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Today, 04:48 AM
You wrote, "I don't know, maybe David Baily went home, put on some Beethoven, breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled the evening away happily." I take...
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Today, 04:42 AM
Were did Joe Pass’s D’aquisto’s go?
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Today, 04:41 AM
Maybe, but it certainly appears the current Forum members know what they like.
If you had to pick one jazz style?
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Today, 04:35 AM
Arnold's rendition is rather tame.
In Barry Galbraith's version, he plays a symmetrical voicing in bar 6th that is cool:
6th Bar:
Am11: ...
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Today, 04:32 AM
Maybe it is too early to say.
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Today, 04:29 AM
It is not a genre, but a characteristic of British films of the sixties.
https://youtu.be/cgJuVOrXv68
https://youtu.be/ugOAEb1Gh-o...
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Today, 04:11 AM
Practice it with a slower metronome?
I find I get rusty at this sort of thjng if I don’t practice it.
I need to warm up. Maybe by playing...
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Today, 03:58 AM
Hi,
I have for sale a 1988 Gibson ES-335 that I am the second owner of from new. Still has original factory tags and checks performed by the...
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Today, 03:33 AM
I’ve done a lot of reading on here, however this is my first post.
Over the past two years I’ve compiled a small collection of Yamaha G series...
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Today, 03:33 AM
I just did a quick take of the arrangement that I wrote out last week.
Forgive me, it's obvious that I didn't warm up etc. It's 2nd take so fairly...
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Today, 03:10 AM
Derek Baileys sound world was influenced by Messiaen and Webern, according to him.
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Today, 03:08 AM
Never seen it!
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Today, 02:47 AM
I had the chance to play two vintage Levin archtops and they impressed me. Vintage isn’t really my thing so I wasn’t tempted, but they were wonderful...
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Today, 01:56 AM
On the contrary, I know quite a lot about Derek Bailey, just got the name wrong (now corrected). He used to play straight jazz as a club, studio...
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Today, 01:47 AM
No, effective setups vary. But the only possibilities are the weak e string is from it being shoddy acoustically, or too far away from the pickup....
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Today, 01:18 AM
I never use the tweeter with an archtop, but I do like them with a Gypsy guitar or my Classical.
I like my archtops to sound "dark" and the...
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Today, 01:18 AM
Wow, I downloaded the PDF to get started quickly (will buy the book too).
Just looked at Rainy Day. I wrote out an arrangement for a student last...
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Today, 12:44 AM
I'm not from the US, but he certainly seemed to have pissed off a lot of white, college trained Jazz enthusiasts over there!
He was (is)...
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Today, 12:04 AM
Is that a different pickup than stock? It has two adjustment screws on the bass side and modern flat black mounting screws.
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Yesterday, 11:37 PM
Excellent. Yeah they're fun.
The Clifford Brown ones I'm tinkering with now are super fun. I'll get around to putting them over here soon.
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Yesterday, 11:31 PM
Doesn't really matter where you start ... should eventually do them wherever and in whatever key.
But the highest note on the page I think is 12th...
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Yesterday, 11:29 PM
Ohhhh I just got it. The DEDC is the root note turn, then it goes down the scale. This will be useful.
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Yesterday, 11:26 PM
If you have an amp with a switchable or adjustable tweeter (Henriksen, etc), do you use it with your archtop? And whether yes or no, why?
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Yesterday, 11:24 PM
I played through your exercises. It’s high on the staff. I don’t think I have those notes on my guitar. So I started at 10th fret e string.
Part...
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Yesterday, 11:20 PM
Was there a premise anywhere?
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Yesterday, 11:03 PM
Maybe they changed it, but a few years ago there was no buyer or seller protection. A Craigslist free for all with the added risk of shipping.
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Yesterday, 11:00 PM
Yeah, it’s a labor of love now. You can’t support yourself on $100 gigs anymore.
A non-insignificant amount of my practice time is looking for...
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Yesterday, 10:59 PM
Zzzzzzz
Can we start talking about turns again?
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Yesterday, 10:55 PM
Not a P-90 party, just a nice, little P-90 get-together. 1948 meets 2020. Great fun and simply as good as it gets.
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Yesterday, 10:36 PM
I'm a long time Sweetwater customer and have listed a few things for sale with little to no luck. If you sell something and just want the cash, they...
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Yesterday, 10:34 PM
I'm with Navdeep. Great guitar, accurate, plays so precisely, stable, stays in tune. Makes me play differently, which is always a good reason to...
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Yesterday, 10:31 PM
Not too many any longer! To be honest at 67 kind of tired of bars , and playing music just for the meager paycheck most gigs offer.
There are no...
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Yesterday, 10:27 PM
Thanks for my first welcome message. Been waiting 14 years!
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Yesterday, 10:23 PM
Listening the themes, old ones, new ones. I can't say there is a best one. Because they all went all-in.
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Yesterday, 10:14 PM
People's perception of Wynton these days is all Ken Burns' fault.
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Yesterday, 10:11 PM
lovely sound!
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Yesterday, 10:09 PM
David Bailey is a photographer. Derek Bailey did not enjoy music that was composed with no space for improvisation. I doubt he would have any time...
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Yesterday, 10:09 PM
Nice job on a great tune, especially liked the short caxixi player! I wanted to comment that as Im reading and listening to this Im playing a '60...
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Yesterday, 09:52 PM
Welcome to the forum.
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Yesterday, 09:46 PM
And, the koa model from Walkin is no more!
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Yesterday, 09:39 PM
That's the beauty of the genre.
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Yesterday, 09:28 PM
Really? I am struggling to remember most of those songs.
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Yesterday, 09:15 PM
Yeah, I haven't shipped a guitar for well over a year or so, maybe nearly two years. I recently did one, and was shocked at how the rates have gone...
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Yesterday, 09:01 PM
It seems this SD JS is a custom design made for the luthier.
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Yesterday, 08:50 PM
Hoo Boy!! Lookie there. Really nice to see something other than maple. Thanks for supporting Van Isl!
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Yesterday, 08:46 PM
Johnny Smith model pickup from Seymour Duncan.
Different people have different opinions on what is a perfect setup, but I think they all involve...
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Yesterday, 08:44 PM
No apologies need Rogue! I was into Gabor back when Silent Way was just out. That was called jazz so I always figured Gabor was too.
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Yesterday, 08:40 PM
In the early 70's we billed ourselves as 'Live Jazz Excorcism'. One of the highlights of my career was having my amp unplugged by someone who...
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Yesterday, 08:30 PM
Thanks everyone for their comments; I haven't had time to make any adjustments but will this weekend.
Is there such a thing as One Proper Setup?...
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Yesterday, 08:30 PM
Thought I would share. Aerodyne Telecaster. Stock pickup replaced with CC in P-90 case and upgraded bridge pickup. Both by Pete Biloft at Vintage...
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Yesterday, 08:17 PM
Determine if it's weak because the string is sounding weak acoustically possibly because of the setup, or because the string is far away from the...
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Yesterday, 08:06 PM
So… no gigs for you then?
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Yesterday, 07:56 PM
This is generally more true the more pretentious the musician is about their “art.”
But people like seeing performers play fast and get into what...
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Yesterday, 07:56 PM
Hey, you can get a Harley Benton copy of a Gretsch archtop used for $100 more than it costs new. What a deal! :stupid:
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Yesterday, 07:36 PM
The joke is only a few musicians and people will take the time to listen to musicians music. Or better put there’s no money above the 3rd fret!
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Yesterday, 07:30 PM
The more I read the more confused I'm getting!
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Yesterday, 07:29 PM
Foofighters "Pretetender" steals from the thing. Makes it it's own. Steals from the "category".
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