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I had a similar problem on my L6-S. I took it to a luthier, who immediately saw the problem was not the frets but the strings sympathising (is that...

How was playing with your friend, playing without the constraints of the "program"? Important question: Do you think it's changed your playing?

If Lenny Breau can play a Hagstrom 12 string with 6 strings I imagine anything with tone will do! I rather doubt Ron Wood cares much about jazz...

Its a lot easier to criticize than create in the hard knocks road of pro jazz guitar. At least people have heard of Jimmy Ponder in advanced jazz...

Thank you! :smile-new:

I believe he posted on this site at one time. If you do a search you'll probably find it.

"I think that all of the ES-350 cutaway models that I have seen have two P90 pickups." The first yr '47's are one pickup, I have an old blonde one.

There are so many variables. A good guitar tech is the answer there. My suspicion is that the pickups put in that guitar are on the bright side....

Hope you're OK. I haven't followed this trial at all till today. Looks like a mess.

I know this guitar and I've played it. It's an excellent ES-350. And Dan is as honest as they come.

Lorne is a great player- he's got chops, taste, time and groove. I hear him as being a little more aggressive than Ed tended to be but with a similar...

Peluso

Week 20. Day 2. ATTYA in Eb. I actually took a run at this last night. I was totally feeling it last night. Of course, I had been playing all day,...

Week 20. Day 2 Tuesday Suggested Project 4-B ATTY in Eb Speed at the edge of thoughtful awareness. Left and right hand notes, steady eighths and...

Week 20. Day 1 Monday My playing style is really changed with hammer-ons and pull offs and slides. I'm not playing positions much at all, but rather...

He's much more than just a Wes clone. He played with almost all of the great organists and he had a wonderful single note tone and attack all of his...

I have a Bud from a couple of years ago before the models spawned and proliferated. It's an extremely clean amp - as someone else said it's a...

Congrats. You have all the jazz guitar a jazz guitarist ever needs. May she inspire your playing for many years to come. Playing jazz guitar well...

PM me if you want my advice/help.

I pretty much do not need any more guitars in this lifetime. After reading threads like this one, I have to remind myself of that fact. ...

that's not what I'm pointing out. I'm not talking about the BBB rating, i'm talking about their 1 star customer review rating. Out of 60 reviews,...

Excellent! Welcome to the "80's Mahogany bodied ES-175 club!". (See my avatar) Yours looks to be in great condition. Play it in good...

I love his playing. My favorite album of his is a Richard Groove Holmes one, Blues All Day Long! Blues All Day Long by Richard 'Groove' Holmes -...

I have a 1949 ES-350 Sunburst that I just put up for sale. I would be glad to sell it on the forum for less than what I am asking for it at my local...

Welcome aboard. You picked the best instrument to get started on the most prolific Jazz guitar in history. Gibson made the only (somewhat)...

Congrats, can’t go wrong with a 175. Enjoy your new guitar!

BBB: "Customer Reviews are not used in the calculation of BBB Rating" I think a company has to sell you something and not ship it- ie, outright...

Writing audio articles doesn’t pay much, unless one counts the free use of audio gear as payment. Besides, the industry is overwhelmed with writers....

solo jazz requires no musical dialogue between people. I use tracks for senior gigs, because their budgets and spaces do not allow for bands...

Drum machines are the worst right? The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 (Official Music Video) - YouTube

Jimmy Ponder - YouTube

i got this on the giganti del jazz label a long time ago. really takes off at 2:30. Jimmy Ponder..Visions..1975 - YouTube

Ask Stringswinger about it. He lives around there, and knows as much as anyone about D'As.

I never liked ED's tenor playing. It sounds like he's trying to use super-impositions on every chord he plays on. Just doesn't work. He was pretty...

The guy's great. There have been a few posts on him lately, and I don't understand the lack of enthusiasm for him. He's way more than a Wes clone....

Yeah, MDs and even musicians look down on 6 string banjos. I sent my #1 sub on Mame, and the guys in the band said everyone was making fun of him...

I'll second the Deacon's recommendation: Larry Wexer is a gentleman, pro player and trustworthy seller, carrying only quality instruments. And...

Great wainscoting too! The ad says the home is on the “east side”, which has multimillion dollar homes.

i agree, i would like it if these forums empowered users to get good service from organizations like reverb. It's too bad their service has...

Around here, I've never met anybody who started on saxophone playing by ear. Piano lessons for kids means reading. I don't think I know any...

John A, kudos for stepping out of your comfort zone, a few gems in there. The sound out of the Cube had me thinking of your other recordings... ;) By...

"Positive space' is all that is being played and "negative space" is about the possible potential of all that is not presently stated. Ear...

Do you want more and an acoustic archtop or are you simply looking at the sound from the amp. If acoustic sound that means one avenue while the...

Selling guitars is a mug's game. That dream guitar you bought for $8750 you would be lucky to get even 50% back once the dealers take their 25% cut....

If I wanted to buy a great guitar and my budget was up to $10K I'd lower my budget a few hundred dollars and fly to NYC. Lots of great guitars there,...

Wow. I've tried many times to master slide guitar. To do it clean, fluent, and JAZZY like that... my hat's off to you. No sh*t and no giggles,...

I actually would like to see this forum do some sort of a formal process of calling Reverb out on what they do and charge. I believe we could maybe...

I generally use E-9 / F9#11 / (think Night in Tunisia) then Bb9#11 / A7alt. or the sub Eb9#11 I mean we could get into the analysis thing.......

You really need to play them in person to decide. But for me buying a used Campellone if I wanted a Great Gibson. And say the Hopkins Contessa for...

and they are closed. They promised to get back to me again by EOB today. Nothing. I just filed a complaint with BBB, cc company is next.

My last appointment today was cancelled, so I thought I'd work on th ol' swing thing a bit. Warning: roughly edited content.

As for a second guitar your choices are manyfold IMHO : this sumptious ES350 would be very high up on my bucket list : Gibson ES-350P 1947...

Los Angeles is Hollywood! It's only about selling dreams and whatever it takes do to do that IS what matters. When they needed musicians with skills...

While poking around searching for the new Lofsky, I stumbled onto his 2004 session with Joey DeFrancesco and Guido Basso. Basso is on flugelhorn as...

You can let the folks at Gryphon in Palo Alto take a look at your L5 and have them swap out the front pickup (and maybe the pots as well) and/or the...

My mistake. I thought it 4700 CAD

L&M had their NOS 2014 17" blonde Standard ticketed at @USD 4,750K. I'm assuming it sold for less than that.

If you know for sure you want a Johnny Smith, that's probably as low risk as you'll get buying online. I tried one once at a boutique shop, I liked...

Seems to be the going rate for years for a Standard. The one that sold on here in January was last ask of $4250. I think it was like $3800 from...

Thanks, 44Lombard. I bought the album already. :-)

With that much money coming in, some money for a trip to LA be possible? You could audition I’m sure many instruments in that area. I’ll leave the...

:welcome:

It's a steal, that's why I posted.

Is that price right?? Seems low.

Wow!!!

Nice!!

I like it like this x7878x x8789x x10 8 10 10 x x7 11 11 11 x

Lark St has a '70 bird70.jpg (1873×5596) (larkstreetmusic.com)

They are both fine amps. I prefer the Henriksen BLU for no reason other than I like supporting Henriksen.

look at their BBB rating! https://www.bbb.org/us/il/chicago/profile/musical-instrument-supplies-and-accessories/reverbcom-llc-0654-88654144

Their support is beyond atrocious. After promising to get back to me friday, i called this morning and they said they'd get back to me by 5. I didn't...

Yes. I didn't want to go to LA and I didn't want to commercialize rap. I took a 6 month steps gig overseas then left CA. That was a waste of time but...

Another vote for the lj. I didn’t expect much but it gets more playtime then my 74 deluxe reverb (which I love).

I see F#dim is fundamentally C. Not that I mean Lydian C in particular (though it is ine of the derivation of the same idea) This is to me some...

Monday bump!

Re: Lukather I had an epiphany the other day when I realised why I kind of found him a bit of a generic player. It’s cos he was on all the...

Loved his album with Ed.

To me reading, along with ear playing skills is a central plank of what I think of as core musicianship. When you have both of these down, the...

I was going to mention this is a bit of a Fats move, but someone seems to have done this already.

You can see this progression as a relative minor mode interrupted cadence (V-vi) or a substitute for I7#5 (augmented symmetry), probably the latter...

German and English

DV Mark Little Jazz :encouragement:

"Students must have some ability to read of course but I bet being an excellent reader is not a graduation requirement, nevermind being an admission...

Awesome insight, guys, I really appreciate all this. I've seen this for targeting I "indirectly" before... Switching back to "key of C names",...

On the head, E-7b5 works with the A in the melody, but F7#9 is pretty dissonant. I mean it's a sound, and you could certainly do it, but I'm not...

Do you have a link to a sale of one of your guitars. I'm thinking of selling a couple and would like to see how to take pictures.

Cool video Question - is the Peter Croton book in German? That is the only copy I see on the US Amazon

Just 2. Lukather played everything, except for the solo which Eddie Van Halen played. EVH and Luke were close friends. "Prince wannabes"... are...

Lol. This is why I didn't want to go to LA and be an R&B rhythm specialist. He's definitely a great guitar player. He can even polish a turd like...

Balladeering is one of my favorite guitar albums.

And, until you HAVE THE CHOPS to "play fancy", you can still play the songs by doing what JC does in the OP: simplify it back to it's base form. Both...

In elementary school, I played the mandolin and recorder. Playing the recorder always meant reading, but playing the mandolin never involved reading....

I have also noticed that it's sensitive to position. Fortunately, I've been happy with the amp flat on the floor in every case. Others report...

I knew it was....:cool: Yes: I'm aware of him although his stuff is a bit too way out for me... Question to you all:

Serious question: Why does any of this matter. I mean off course .. If you're struggling and in need .. then sure .. I wish the best for you...

Bill Thrasher would sometimes make an extended lesson out of a standard, here are two of the pages on Satin Doll (there were 12 pages in this...

Cool! Have you ever checked out Dave Tronzo? Tronzo - "Fables of Faubus" - Ibeam Brooklyn, 8-10-2019 - YouTube

Interesting thread. I don't know any particular reason why guitarists should not be as proficient at sight reading as any other instrumentalist. It's...

Pretty ironic turning it into one of the most iconic guitars on the forum (Wesmo) makes it a player special. If it plays and sounds great (and no...

More sh*t than giggles, mind :smile-new: That was a joke

Thank you Reg. :smile-new:

Try using a looper or other recording device and lay down a few choruses of comping for yourself. Focus on playing good solid time and then solo...

I can't answer your questions. I expected to put some work into the Gretsches to get them ready to play. New guitars from any factory generally...

LOL that was great, best post... thanks

So most pro orchestral musicians are facing a similar crisis. Why? Because the old money which use to fund them has moved to Sports private boxes....

Thank you so much, Marinero, I really appreciate the detailed and kind comment. I'm doing my best to spread the word, but it can be tough to find the...

Another vote for the Shure SM81, or rather a pair of them. The first pointed at the soundhole, the other at about the 12th fret or higher.

Hi M, Thank you, and allow me to return the compliment. Yes, it seems that your experience is different from mine. After what you wrote, it...

thx....Matt does a great job. incredible details and they play and sound good too.

Just for sh*ts and giggles:

Strings on EUB is a different science project from DB. You will find tons of research in the EUB and Strings topics on the TalkBass DB forum. ...

Well it's not really a dilemma, it's just preference. But you hit the nail on the head: the overall formula (of pickups and pots) has to work...

For what it's worth, Fender sells a volume pot for just such a situation; it has both 500k and 250k on a dual-ganged pot, and might be a good idea...

Sounds great Jim! Also, it has a tummy cut, which looks comfortable.

I thought I bought the idea, to ease my temporary goalness and mild depression... then turned out a usable instrument is between $800 - $2000...

Yea... Triple, not really a challenge, contest or anything like that. I'm here to help guitarist get better. Help you be able to play tunes easier...

I'm planning to do it this week too. I have the pickup already, just waiting for a pre-cut pickguard I ordered from eBay. I'll pay for a tech to do...

A WES conversion wouldn’t be the worst modification in the world if it was done right. Unfortunately, the person who did this didn’t take the time to...

Awesome!

Here's her jazz playlist: JAZZZ - YouTube

$335 shipped is a bargin. Bought mine on Reverb. Dam!!!

Still no resolution on this issue. Apparently, the resolutions team was off-site for team-building on friday so my issue didn't get addressed by the...

A little atmospheric go a long way with me so I can't claim to be an expert of his work, but Balladeering and Time are both very, very good for what...

Being bald helps!

That was really beautiful, lawson! And as for the "Jim Hall" vibe: with the lights down low you even look the part! :smile-new:

Far out, man!

Congrats ! And don't worry too much about double bass strings : they're supposed to last forever (or close to)

Sure, but perhaps an informal challenge. So long as the other participant is posting videos in the virtual jam threads we can watch the progress...