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Today, 08:13 AM
Pingu, it's 5 dB louder and sounds just bigger. The new Jensen Falcon 8 is meant to please the rawk crowd, meaning great overdrive sound for eg....
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Today, 08:00 AM
Grant Green, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins, also I just felt like it.
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Today, 07:51 AM
We are still a long way out from Gary starting this project in earnest next year, but we came up with a headstock inlay design more based on a 1925...
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Today, 07:27 AM
There is a echo twin up on goodwill. Its pickup only up in minnesota. If anyone is going up that way of lives there, you can probably get it for a...
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Today, 07:10 AM
I always hope to remember what key I'm improvising in :redface-new:
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Today, 05:21 AM
I can relate, totally!
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Today, 04:21 AM
Mostly zooby dooby squiddly bop, and buddely dumba da! Da!
It’s pretty embarrassing. Probably I’m doing it wrong.
Sent from my iPhone using...
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Today, 04:09 AM
Haha, love it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlR9xasmhWw
EDIT: When the music coms from deep within people will rather close their eyes...
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Today, 03:03 AM
I see it as a sign of human greatness if it is possible to make mistakes (of course not all the time) and to apologize. No one is perfect. From what...
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Today, 02:49 AM
Well, it's very good, of course, but Alone Together is a slowish ballad!
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Today, 02:33 AM
Back in the 80's I didn't think musicians in San Diego were interested in full time gigs overseas anymore. I don't know why but they needed an out....
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Today, 01:53 AM
(Yeah, Reg, I know that in the end you have to be able to play fast, so you have to bring your chops up to speed but)
I think the Tristano/Marsh...
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Today, 01:39 AM
You have omitted voicings of a few chord types, e.g., Dominant 7th, Sus2 and 6/9 chords.
Sometimes you include the chord tones on the low E string...
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Today, 01:16 AM
It took me many years before I started noticing that if a phrase came into my head that I knew very well (from practicing it hundreds of times), but...
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Today, 12:47 AM
Misplaced phrases.
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Today, 12:39 AM
Being in the moment.
Bird quotes:
"You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get...
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Today, 12:36 AM
what happens less?
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Today, 12:05 AM
Sometimes I think about chords and pull melodies from them, other times it’s let center noodling. Depends on the song and how I’m feeling.
If...
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Today, 12:03 AM
Yeah, I think when I audiate this happens a lot less even if it is just rhythmic syllables and not actual pitches.
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Yesterday, 11:57 PM
On a good day, my hands are on autopilot and I’m just listening. On the best days not to myself.
I think there’s this misconception about how you...
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Yesterday, 11:49 PM
Probably is. But not being able to go inside other's heads, what are other people doing in the moment when improvising?
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Yesterday, 11:49 PM
I don't understand
My pp wants an ainy
And not a male one
:smile-new:
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Yesterday, 11:45 PM
I hate to say it but the problem is probably that whole “thinking of a phrase” thing :nightmare:
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Yesterday, 11:40 PM
I'm the one who originally told pauln he hadn't written a correct haiku when he first posed one. So I know the form of a haiku. Was doing a goofy...
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Yesterday, 11:25 PM
It's not recovering, it's called improvising. I play around with starting and ending phrases early or late all the time.
My recent favorite...
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Yesterday, 11:23 PM
I learn the lyrics and sing the melody while I practice (or try to figure out by ear) the changes. The lyrics are helpful for the phrasing and for...
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Yesterday, 11:19 PM
I find myself thinking of a phrase I want to play and then have a tendency to come in late. This is especially bad if I was envisioning starting on...
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Yesterday, 10:54 PM
What is the best way to memorize melodies and how many keys do you REALLY need to know them in? I'm asking specifically for melody because I'm...
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Yesterday, 10:45 PM
I wonder. If someone posts an NBD (New Bow Day) on a cello forum about their new Douglas Ragusa or Argus T9, do they have to scroll through troll...
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Yesterday, 10:23 PM
I'm retired and not enjoying it much because I've never had a hobby - always been work whether music or art - could never separate them from the...
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Yesterday, 10:06 PM
Alone Together … some really pleasant-to-listen-to muttering in this one. Enjoy.
https://youtu.be/lskOHSMMy3M?si=iSw6-rYp_dKDxK-f
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Yesterday, 09:59 PM
I had pretty much the same symptoms befall my own TomKat model. Took it to my very reliable local tech guy a few months ago, and he couldn't repair...
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Yesterday, 08:42 PM
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....
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Yesterday, 08:34 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 08:00 PM
The number of syllables in this haiku confirms that you're mad at rhythms.
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Yesterday, 07:50 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 07:31 PM
I guess that's the reason I call you Mark. No need for formal last names :)
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Yesterday, 07:21 PM
I was always impressed how our big band leader could sip his pint and rhythmically cue the bones.
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Yesterday, 07:16 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 07:07 PM
Ha - right!
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Yesterday, 07:00 PM
Good recent thread here, too.
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Yesterday, 06:41 PM
Thank you! Yeah the issue is that these archtop Waterloos are next to impossible to find. They are amazing instruments though.
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Yesterday, 06:35 PM
You are correct Sir.
I need syllables not words
For Haiku structure.
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Yesterday, 06:11 PM
Odd question but my guess is most of the regulars here are at least semi-retired and older. I find that I am a homebody at heart. I really don't like...
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Yesterday, 06:05 PM
Oops. Sorry.
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Yesterday, 05:17 PM
Rhythms you say?
Rhythms Complete Bugs Bower
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Yesterday, 05:15 PM
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....
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Yesterday, 05:12 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 05:06 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 04:52 PM
Someone seriously tell me what beats an L5. AFAIK nothing. Does an L5 plugged into a BF vibrolux count?
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Yesterday, 04:50 PM
cool
does the 8 have more bottom
or is it just louder
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Yesterday, 04:15 PM
I'll be sucking the walls of her AINY!!
0:45 :smile-new:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg3iQsaDucQ
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Yesterday, 04:09 PM
Unless "it" happens to be an H. :numbness:
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Yesterday, 03:51 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 03:48 PM
I just didn't want to sound like an idiot if I call about one lol
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Yesterday, 03:48 PM
When ur mad ur mad.
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Yesterday, 03:42 PM
Looks good. It might be nice to allow showing interval names, replacing note names. A button could allow you to toggle between the two.
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Yesterday, 03:34 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 03:27 PM
Bobby Timmons thinks
Everyone is mad, but he’s
The maddest of all
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Yesterday, 03:24 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 03:20 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 03:01 PM
I ate the whole can
The room smells like a bad egg
Beans beans magical
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Yesterday, 02:50 PM
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 –...
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Yesterday, 02:41 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 02:39 PM
A terrific arrangement – beautiful tone, clear as a bell; and smooth. Plus technique that inspires jealousy...
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Yesterday, 02:31 PM
Panasonic's right, I am definitely not hip :-)
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Yesterday, 02:23 PM
Why I outta.
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Yesterday, 02:22 PM
And don't get me started on bologna
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Yesterday, 02:20 PM
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....
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Yesterday, 02:17 PM
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
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Yesterday, 02:11 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 02:10 PM
I grew up in Manhattan. It was indeed Cal-Zone Just as the cheese on my Hero sandwich was Prov-Alone. :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 02:08 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 02:05 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 02:04 PM
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.
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Yesterday, 02:00 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 01:53 PM
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,...
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Yesterday, 01:44 PM
Nice use of harmonics.
Yes, that price would be a budget waterloo for me. :smile-new:
Waterloo WL-AT Archtop Acoustic Guitar| Waterloo by...
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Yesterday, 01:32 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 01:24 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 01:18 PM
I tried it and returned it almost immediately. It was bigger than I realized and not nearly as quietly as I'd like.
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Yesterday, 01:12 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 12:59 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 12:56 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 12:43 PM
Try this...
e.g., "C4" is middle C
for Ab(13)/Gb
eight eighth notes even through the measure
F5
D5
Bb4
Gb4
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Yesterday, 12:38 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 12:19 PM
It practically writes itself...?
Jazz forum just intrinsically mad,
Dark Winter thoughts follow Fall of theory.
Ear remains irrational,...
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Yesterday, 12:07 PM
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...
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Yesterday, 12:06 PM
We don’t want to give Alan the satisfaction.
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Yesterday, 12:02 PM
No one mentioned Barry Harris method for guitar? Fantastic book.
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Yesterday, 11:54 AM
Anyone ever try one of these? Might make a good speaker for a pedalboard preamp.
Headrush frfr-108 mk2 2000 watt speaker - musical instruments -...
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Yesterday, 11:48 AM
this thread way more confusing than music theory
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Yesterday, 11:46 AM
The Notated Lick Compendium.
A thread for posting and storing notated licks.
Here's another classic lick I like:
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Yesterday, 11:02 AM
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,...
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Yesterday, 10:49 AM
Very long time, as I've been busy with other projects (check me out on TrueFire!). Anyway, here's I'm Old Fashioned, I'm pleased to be the featured...
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Yesterday, 10:25 AM
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...
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Yesterday, 10:25 AM
Thanks kris. I ought to do it with some improv next time.
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Yesterday, 10:24 AM
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray... We don't get fooled again
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Yesterday, 10:23 AM
If you watch videos that exist he seems to be an inch or so shorter than Bing Crosby who was 5' 7
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Yesterday, 10:18 AM
Purchased mine around 2008 from Bill Fender at Legato Guitars. He recommended setting everything flat for a traditional jazz tone. I’ve been very...
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Yesterday, 10:10 AM
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...
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Yesterday, 09:56 AM
Even for those times? Those 16" Gibsons look big on him. I did a very little bit of research, but no luck.
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Yesterday, 09:54 AM
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...
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Yesterday, 09:53 AM
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
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Yesterday, 09:43 AM
There is no proof of this being anything but a placebo effect :cool:
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Yesterday, 09:37 AM
Cool tool!
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Yesterday, 09:26 AM
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...
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Yesterday, 09:11 AM
Toob?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3F5A5Kh3fE
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Yesterday, 09:04 AM
Very nice. Check out this Jaquar Thinline.
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Yesterday, 08:16 AM
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...
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Yesterday, 08:03 AM
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...
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Yesterday, 07:57 AM
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...
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Yesterday, 07:21 AM
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.
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Yesterday, 07:17 AM
Most certainly did not. I think it was Alone Together with the whole godforsaken diminished thing.
Or shall it be Summertime Thrice?
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Yesterday, 07:12 AM
This beauty sounds as good as it looks !!!!
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Yesterday, 07:10 AM
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....
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Yesterday, 07:10 AM
Lots of people here use Toobs to solve your problem (and no need to buy two - one will do fine!). :encouragement:
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Yesterday, 06:53 AM
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...
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Yesterday, 06:50 AM
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...
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Yesterday, 06:32 AM
Hi, I have the DV Mark Jazz 12, it has a very warm sound! Do you think it would be better with tubes?
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Yesterday, 06:28 AM
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...
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Yesterday, 06:20 AM
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...
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Yesterday, 06:17 AM
For SS a Mambo head is what I would be looking for.
A combo would probably be more portable than the head + cab.
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