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Today, 08:26 PM
Appreciate it, thank you!
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Today, 08:12 PM
No worries, I just measured the top of my Sadowsky Jim Hall it and it's about 3mm. I tried to get a photo with the ruler but I couldn't hold the...
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Today, 08:11 PM
At 86 pounds, my 65 Fender Twin Reverb is a boat anchor but sure sounds great when I play my ES-175 through it, there is nothing quite like it. a...
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Today, 07:52 PM
+1 for the Helix Stomp.
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Today, 07:31 PM
American Standard Stratocaster Plus (John Cruz left his name inside)
Bahama Green (very rare, only about two dozen were shot that color)
Ordinary...
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Today, 07:13 PM
No problem archie. I know I'm slightly in the minority, I rather have a guitar that plays great, sounds great with excellent sustain over the looks....
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Today, 07:02 PM
Wes said he never practiced anything he wouldn't play in performance (because everything you need to know how to do is in the tunes you want to be...
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Today, 06:57 PM
Is that a vintage Fender CS Jeff Beck Stratocaster in aqua? With the big “baseball bat” neck, LSR tuners and rolling nut? Definitely a good strat...
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Today, 06:42 PM
Mel's been gone since '13 but I have some of those discs.
I never really liked him w/ Wes but he's better imo on the later recordings
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Today, 06:39 PM
There is a used Quattro at MF for less than 1/2 price... here
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Today, 06:33 PM
I won’t be able to employ anyone until I can make some money.
I’m hoping to design more manufacturing techniques (like my veneer cutting tools), so...
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Today, 06:30 PM
Interesting, thanks Brian.
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Today, 06:28 PM
I don’t but I’m going to ask Roger Sadowski.
I think I know, that is I suspect, you can make them thinner if you removed the fholes. They make no...
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Today, 06:21 PM
Contributing even more to thread drift (because this is really fun): Compare the original Elmer Bernstein scoring for the title sequence of The Rat...
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Today, 06:21 PM
We have a 3300 at the club in which I play twice a week. With 300 WRMS and a tube preamp, it positively screams.
They used to make bigger ones...
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Today, 06:17 PM
^ I love that combo. It must have been a great show.
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Today, 05:49 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em0LbTF1fpg&t=56s
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Today, 05:32 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVYYb2j_mcc
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Today, 05:31 PM
That's interesting that Gibson supplied the replacement. It always seems that people struggle with Gibson over replacements. Was it because it was to...
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Today, 05:22 PM
https://youtu.be/J1meUGGtYzo
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Today, 05:21 PM
Here it is without the lyrics - well almost - this charted at about the same time as Johnny's version, I much prefer the sound of his ES-335.
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Today, 05:12 PM
I think you could make a case that all three have been massively influential in shaping the sound of cinema whether or not you like their music
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Today, 05:06 PM
Oh Barry did this one as well didn’t he?
https://youtu.be/i2Jw6_Xgszk?si=oCVaAWhgIFFJo1we
Classic score
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Today, 05:06 PM
I should also say that the ES175 and the Fender Princeton Reverb are seriously made for each other.
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Today, 05:05 PM
Absolutely. The ES175 feels like a can-do-anything instrument. It inspires confidence. The L5ces makes me want to play better to somehow be worthy of...
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Today, 05:02 PM
As it happens I saw Peter with Larry Goldings and Bill Stewart here in the UK recently, they sounded great as usual!
Here’s Peter talking and...
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Today, 05:00 PM
I already pm'd Dirk if he can change my name to Bobby Timmons. :cool:
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Today, 04:56 PM
Oh wait! .... "From 1951 to 1954, Jimmy Smith played piano, then organ in Philly R&B bands like Don Gardner and the Sonotones. He switched to organ...
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Today, 04:54 PM
That album was recorded about 30 years ago.
Caracas (album) - Wikipedia
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Today, 04:52 PM
Jonah, the clip in the first post is from of Peter’s early recorded appearances, Lou Donaldson’s 1994 album ‘Caracas’ on the Milestone label.
He...
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Today, 04:48 PM
100% replaced tailpiece.
I just replaced a broken one with a replacement directly from Gibson. That looks exactly correct for a current Gibson...
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Today, 04:18 PM
Very cool
but it sounds like his early playing?
and the tone is different
sax is great too
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Today, 04:17 PM
You got to my favorite part. Looking at wood. Can't go wrong with mahogany or sapele. Even plain, it looks good, sounds great and I think everyone...
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Today, 03:44 PM
The guitar's plugged in sound was great, which is why I didn't really mention it. The Super '58 pickups with Ibanez's stock harness work perfectly...
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Today, 03:44 PM
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here--this is the War Room!
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Today, 03:40 PM
Technically speaking the AMH90 is a semi hollow as it has a big chunk of wood under the TOM style bridge the connects the top and back. It is sort of...
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Today, 03:33 PM
Do you know the thinnest a laminate top can be without deforming under string pressure?
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Today, 03:29 PM
^ Think so? After depreciation maybe. The digital Hammond rig is 13k new which is a ripoff. I could get a nice used amazing upright Kawaii piano for...
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Today, 03:21 PM
looks like a 1 man show at the moment..how many will you employ...dunno ...you might do all the processes yourself...you seem to do everything with a...
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Today, 03:20 PM
The earliest pics I've seen of a zig-zag tailpiece is a 1951 ES-175 with a single P90 pickup. (Edit: But, the tailpiece have been upgraded at...
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Today, 03:19 PM
If I'm not mistaken the Wanamaker organ in Philadelphia is still the largest fully functioning organ in use today.
fascinating history to...
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Today, 03:16 PM
Right you are! I stand corrected. I think the zig-zag came in with the switch to humbucking pickups and the "PAF" era. Maybe 1957? So if someone...
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Today, 03:11 PM
I don't subscribe to that fetish. Especially for jazz (and this is a jazz forum, after all), loud is more often bad than good. I love the way the...
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Today, 03:04 PM
Stop fighting, we have good thing going on here!
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Today, 03:04 PM
Step 1 is getting the changes in your ears.
Step 2 is applying some judicious substitutions to facilitate making the changes at high tempo. It...
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Today, 03:01 PM
But a Leslie cabinet isn't that loud, a small one has a 40 watt tube amp inside, I'm lucky to play gigs with an organ player that uses a real Leslie...
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Today, 02:54 PM
You seem to be the one getting bent out of shape.As far as what the masses like,i couldn't care less.The world also thinks Eric Clapton is a greater...
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Today, 02:53 PM
Interesting to compare the two versions of the UK Danger Man series theme music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL2Jdyoo5tk
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Today, 02:46 PM
Oh, I meant no disrespect to the L5. ‘Tis a classic also. The 175 stands out more to me. It’s an apple to apple comparison though. Both are winners.
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Today, 02:44 PM
Yes, they were the original tailpieces after 1951, but the original Gibson ES-175 from 1949, the first year of issue, didn't have the zig-zag...
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Today, 02:41 PM
Omg :)
edit: wait. Dr. No was 1962, this song was '64 or something.
Well, if something massive happens, there's always this mess.. "who did...
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Today, 02:39 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-yaT6fWTP4
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Today, 02:37 PM
A guitar riff almost as distinctive as the James Bond theme. One of the first things I ever learned to play on an electric guitar! Maybe an example...
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Today, 02:36 PM
The L5 is a classic too, actually produced for a much longer period than the ES175.
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Today, 02:36 PM
I never knew any p/u covers were painted on the inside. I learned something new today.
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Today, 02:33 PM
You can’t lose with that pair. The VOS ‘59 ES-175 gets my vote though. Classics become classic for a reason.
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Today, 02:32 PM
Yeah, what was the thing there?
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Today, 02:31 PM
My favorite PRS color, Dark Cherry. Gorgeous instrument.
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Today, 02:25 PM
Someone put together 3 different Spotify playlists on Peter - blues, ballads, and standards. They include some really obscure (to me) tunes/artists....
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Today, 02:24 PM
Bet this went over alot of heads..
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Today, 02:23 PM
Loud is good. Those who disagree probably haven't experienced it. Or they have a heightened sensory response so it's truly "too" loud for them.
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Today, 02:19 PM
Chillax dude.. I didn't say anything about you being "wrong", I merely stated the fact that John Williams is one of the greatest film composers of...
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Today, 02:19 PM
We like the zigzag on our late '50s/ early '60s 175s. It's just that some are preferred to others. And there's a fundamental difference between the...
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Today, 02:19 PM
The zig-zag is the original ES175 tailpiece, and the main distinction between the original and later imitations of it is that the inward bending...
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Today, 02:17 PM
It makes you realize how overpriced plank guitars are.
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Today, 02:15 PM
John Barry is certainly a genre
https://youtu.be/JI6VPFQw6BU?si=xiNQAylcZ_Z7Qd0_
(although Monty Norman wrote the original Bond theme lest we...
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Today, 02:15 PM
The "film noire" genre developed a kind of music that is associated with jazz because, well, it was the big-band era and big-band music is a solid...
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Today, 02:12 PM
Does Johnny Rivers count?
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Today, 02:10 PM
I think I'm gonna go with your advice on the gig bag! Good call, seems super sturdy and will also be the most expensive gig bag I'll buy, haha!
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Today, 02:08 PM
I regard this as an honorary James Bond song
https://youtu.be/mNoo_rNZQ84?si=vGjOjZmcT5bl2eW3
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Today, 02:08 PM
I agree Ragman.
But the thing that bugs me is that the Bond movies (which itself is not a genre by itself at all.. it is just a mere series), have...
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Today, 02:06 PM
I think it might be 20-24 or 25-28. The tune gets way easier in the last few lines.
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Today, 02:04 PM
The style is ‘melodic minor harmony’
https://youtu.be/3gDboKGn-Sw?si=gDthTgX9gRo2nuF8
And also chromatic mediant
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Today, 02:00 PM
Good progress, 190bpm is nearly 200bpm, wow.
I'm at 130-40bpm.
Does anyone know what bars we are learning this week?
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Today, 01:58 PM
I think I'm old enough to have ear-witnessed the evolution of the movie/TV scoring that includes the Bondian "spy music" material. Mancini was...
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Today, 01:55 PM
That’s a shame.
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Today, 01:54 PM
Traitor! You realize you'll have to change your forum name now? Can't keep that one.
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Today, 01:52 PM
Well you have two measures of rest there, so you could do it twice, or play something else. Most agree it needs to be a C7altered chord of some sort....
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Today, 01:51 PM
Not necessarily, you could chronicle their unwholesome impact on country music... Mama, don't let your babies grow up and and play tele's, have 'em...
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Today, 01:51 PM
I didn't see this before I posted.
'Why Film Music Is Not A Genre
Basically, a genre is a category of music, characterized by a particular...
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Today, 01:50 PM
What's wrong with the original 175 tailpiece?
More robust surely?
I have one on my 1949 Gibson L4C.
New reproductions are available...
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Today, 01:42 PM
Great discussion on a very important topic!
I went through this when I was first gigging and I found it had to do with a few things. Audience and...
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Today, 01:38 PM
Yep no pole P90. Interestingly the cover of those pickups are painted from the inside so they have a sort of 3d look to them in person, it's really...
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Today, 01:37 PM
And I thought dragging a Hammond across the stage was a major hassle. I'll never complain again!
Growing up, I was privileged to be where the...
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Today, 01:37 PM
You like what you like and i'll like what i like if that is ok with you.Sorry but John williams,Hans Zimmer are obviously great composer's but Barry...
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Today, 01:36 PM
That's awesome :smile-new:. I'm nowhere near your level. That chord in the gap..what if you hit it twice?
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Today, 01:32 PM
https://youtu.be/m25Y2Psx4e8
Kinda sorta got it up to 190 bpm, which is a happy start to the week.
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Today, 01:31 PM
That was nice.... Auger will be 95 y/o this year, not many rockers last that long!
Here's a newer interview:
The Brian Auger Interview -...
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Today, 01:21 PM
There are several I love, in fact, I don't have a guitar I don't love. But most of the time I reach, entirely predictably, for my 2015 VOS1959 ES175....
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Today, 01:16 PM
sounds good!
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Today, 01:16 PM
With 124 stops and 8,000 pipes, the new concert organ at the Helsinki Music Centre is the world's largest modern organ. It's also very sculptural,...
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Today, 01:15 PM
Bern is on a lot of the later records from the hard bop legendary guys who are still around. Check out some of the Melvin Rhyne records. Melvin Rhyne...
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Today, 12:58 PM
Hands down.
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Today, 12:16 PM
Me too ... very :)
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Today, 12:14 PM
I'm just saying that Garner's own performances don't uniformly match the "slow tender ballad" description. Even when the tempo is slow, the...
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Today, 12:06 PM
Sam thanks for the tip re: TGP
Hey if I get to make 200, I’ll have exceeded my expectations!
Cheers
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Today, 12:06 PM
Butt Ugly? No way, it's actually pretty cool looking! :cool:
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Today, 12:05 PM
AFAIK it's actual natural rubber; if anything I'd be more concerned of the effect a nitro finish can have on that material! I attach it with the edge...
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Today, 12:01 PM
It tends to make me feel physically uncomfortable when such sound volumes are created by big amps (esp. when driven by a bass guitar under control of...
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Today, 11:54 AM
I had an AF75 that I upgraded with Seymour Duncan Seth Lover pickups, TI Benson 12 strings, Artist-series tuners and a compensated rosewood saddle....
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Today, 11:47 AM
Yeah, buddy.... you can't just cut out the part you don't agree with by tossing in an ellipse. The quote continues to say the ballad feel came after...
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Today, 11:45 AM
With my limited knowledge I would put it in the 1950’s. Mid to late. A Stauffer bolt usually signifies an East German builder. Stauffer bolts were...
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Today, 11:43 AM
hmmm,,,Movie Music ..now we're talkin..
wolf faves ( oh come on..just a couple)
The Long Goodbye..(Altman version)
John Williams meets Johnny...
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Today, 11:43 AM
Uh, what was said was "His own playing of it over the years is far from the tender ballad most of us imagine,,,".
Over the years. (thus not the...
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Today, 11:39 AM
Nice! Bernstein is usually over my head but this is wonderful. He’s doing a guitar camp kind of thing in Germany this October. My teacher is...
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Today, 11:16 AM
I love rekindling old threads!
I came across this on ebay for less than 16GBP. Obviously not genuine but if you squint it seems to be the correct...
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Today, 11:08 AM
yes I believe this one incredible
tune ‘James Bond Theme’
has spawned so many other
distinctive tunes and soundtracks ….
that i think of it as a...
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Today, 11:02 AM
The style is not always the main way to define a genre. With movies, the vibe matters most - like comedy, drama - no style specified.
And Bond...
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Today, 10:57 AM
A working girl. Dig those retro “chicken head” knobs. Very cool.
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Today, 10:53 AM
That is a beautiful spruce top. A nice warm finish to the guitar. She is a looker.
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Today, 10:49 AM
I actually found them and checked all of them. I quite liked the one I initially posted on MintString, which is essentially the same idea of the John...
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Today, 10:48 AM
Ahhhh. Surfing on the sound waves. I believe you are talking about that monstrous groove a B-3 can lay down. Churning up the air electric and laying...
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Today, 10:40 AM
The manufacturer says their armrest is made of "pliable rubber". Any concern with nitro finishes?
Also, Armadillo lists the following competitors:...
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Today, 10:38 AM
my Af120
Bare Knuckles Mule alnico3 neck PU
does everything I need
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Today, 10:33 AM
Not sure about that part. This is the original 1954 release, that's a ballad if I ever heard one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNRyCf87cP0
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Today, 10:25 AM
Can you call the music for J.Bond movies a genre?
No, unless 'film themes' are a genre. Which they are not because they don't have any one style....
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Today, 10:21 AM
Wowwie! That's some sweet sound!
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Today, 10:17 AM
The HX Stomp gets my vote too. I only use mine for amp/cab sim since my gig rig is a Bose S1 and I don't care for effects. It has the pro quality...
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Today, 10:07 AM
Yka59 -
Okay, you're in Czechoslovakia, I understand, so no CM books. Also, do not go for Barry Greene (sorry, alltunes). Barry is an extremely...
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Today, 10:04 AM
You know, people post the letters LOL a lot, but this line really had me smiling for quite a while :)
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Today, 10:02 AM
Current #1 grab for all gigs - Buscarino Starlight
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Today, 09:56 AM
Maestro, who are you trying to reach?
FWIW I enjoy TGP but it's Standard Interweb Crankiness, in contrast to the measured discussions usually...
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Today, 09:55 AM
For chordmelody I think the main thing is, basically, always knowing what interval the melody (top) note forms in relation to the root of the chord...
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Today, 09:52 AM
Still a lot of very fine players have done all sorts of things with this tune, including the composer. I don't know where things like "forbidden"...
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Today, 09:43 AM
I still have my Picoverb, although I rarely use it these days because my gigging amps have reverb. I used to use it for playing through bass amps.
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Today, 09:36 AM
That was my first thought when I heard the video. I was like, "dang, Ed Cherry plays a tele and sounds exactly like Ed Cherry!"
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Today, 09:35 AM
I double on keys and play organ on about a third of the tunes in my blues band’s set lists since we have a second guitarist who’s a fine and well...
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Today, 09:20 AM
Yes, that’s the one for a 165/175 sized guitar. I have the original Mono M80 (what they now call the Classic), and it fits mine perfectly. The ...
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Today, 09:04 AM
Chord Melody books are great for stealing an idea or two here and there but they are a trap. Learning to create your own arrangements is the path to...
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Today, 09:04 AM
Since you've already transcribed 20 solos, one thing to do is to ask yourself which things you like and which things you don't like. Then steal the...
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Today, 09:03 AM
Yes! But it´s not about volume, it´s about sound, the dispersion in the room. It just sound very full with 2x8.
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Today, 09:01 AM
old German archtops are great! A good way to get a hand carved solid wood instrument made by a master instrument builder for not a lot of money. ...
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Today, 08:50 AM
Not surprised at all really...this stuff is pretty "niche." It's our niche, though.
I think the big thing to takeaway here is that any book is...
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Today, 08:37 AM
My favorite jazz artist, Grant Green.
https://youtu.be/-n3VJQIKduU?si=WV9sDGddc4x2Gpje
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Today, 08:11 AM
Mono’s naming convention is inconsistent. The M80-AD is their standard side opening bag. They call it the “dreadnought” model and it’s 16x5x42”...
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