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Mental check on buying a good guitar

Jazz Tones on the Excel SS Soho | D'Angelico...

Charlie Allen (Incognito guitarist) info?

1956 Gibson ES-125

New guitar for Wes?

Me too.

Jazz Tones on the Excel SS Soho | D'Angelico Guitars

Listen to and study Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello”. The music is very “cinematic” in much the same way that most great classical pieces are, imho. The music is full of...

Classical repertoire as a resource in improvisational solo design

Very early in my electric guitar journey I almost bought a Firebird (which sounded great), but the downside was obvious even to clueless teenage me, and I passed. Vees and Explorers never appealed...

Mental check on buying a good guitar

A friend who knows KB personally, told me that was legit, so I too contributed.

Kenny Burrell Trio (1990)

That's Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick, one of the founders of Incognito (to the left of Charlie, playing the wine-colored Tele-like axe through a JC-120) and still with the band now. He ended this session...

Charlie Allen (Incognito guitarist) info?

I'm kind of lucky, I guess. I've never really had much GAS. When I was starting out on the guitar, back in the seventies, I lusted after a Strat. I bought a new one with money from my Saturday job. I...

Mental check on buying a good guitar

I have 21 guitars ranging in value from a low of say $700 (A Warmoth partscaster Strat) to a high of say $18,000 (A Non cut D'Angelico Excel). They all get used on gigs, but I do take into account...

Mental check on buying a good guitar

That Swatch looks kind of cool though. When I was briefly interested in one of the new D'A semi-hollows, which I thought looked really neat and well appointed, a couple of years ago, they seemed a...

Jazz Tones on the Excel SS Soho | D'Angelico Guitars

Hello. There are some valid points made in the video. The only way to be able to come to the conclusions mentioned though, one would have had to suffer years of GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome), which...

Mental check on buying a good guitar

On a big bass amp it sounds "good", a lot of bottom ends. Acoustically it sounds like this. https://youtu.be/2tQgnbNITOs Blended with the piezo and some compression (no amp), it sounds like...

Bass guitar or double bass ? What do you prefer here ?

Never mind, see that you posted it.

Voice Lead Arpeggio Changes

Can you elaborate on this a bit or give an example? I'm trying to come up with more of these. Thanks

Voice Lead Arpeggio Changes

I guess there's been no update since the controversial gofundme a few years ago. I contributed, hope he really needed it.

Kenny Burrell Trio (1990)

Regarding point #1: I can assure you that owning and gigging with a "valuable" 1990 Benedetto Cremona does not suck at all. What I find ironic is this: let's just place a dollar value on my guitar of...

Mental check on buying a good guitar

I saw Tal Farlow with Red Norvo (and Monty Budwick on bass), that same year at Donte's in North Hollowood. It was great seeing them play many of the songs they released in the 50s.

Kenny Burrell Trio (1990)

I-VI7-ii-V7 question

Great swing style players

Which pickup for a Yamaha SA2200?

For the strat haters

what are you wearing right now?...

Questions about a great dichotomy...

I'm mad at rhythm

Any of you seen an ES-175 JS?

Heritage H-575 or Ibanez LGB300?

TC Combo Deluxe 65 part 3

Bemsha Swing from a recent gig

If you were to learn guitar from scratch again what would u do differently?

Need advice on the sound of this Gibson L-5 Wes model..