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Why wouldn't it be, if it's not a Chorgan? I do consider provenance when I buy an instrument, but ultimately sound, characteristics and build quality are why I might want to buy a particular...
Of course, and you also got there one way or another. But apparently the trick is to get the booker to contact you without talking him/her into it shreddin'
Good vanilla is better than most other ice creams in another flavor. Good chocolate is better than most vanilla. And so forth. It’s not necessarily what you do, but how you do it that matters.
I saw those guys well over 100 times. Almost always a good time :)
Is it a Morgan if it's made in China? Should Gibsons be made in China because then they would be cheaper to produce? Some of us consider more than simply "what is the cheapest thing I can buy." As...
I would also add that my experience is that if you want work, folks are looking for. 1. The best hang. 2. The best fit 3. The best player in that order But being a bandleader doesn’t...
Most of these I agree with, but honestly this one doesn’t really bother me. I don’t expect loyalty from folks I’m playing with. Everyone does their own thing and that’s fine. I would replace this...
Somehow this reminded me of a little company making beautiful guitars in a beautiful place: General 1 — Dehradun Guitar Company If someone choses locally-made over anything else regardless of...
It has in many respects—not a good thing. I get it—you like your Chinese guitars. That's fine. And when China becomes too expensive, production will be moved to a poorer country and the cycle...
Don't try to book your band while you're working one of JazzIsGood's gigs.
Around little old Portland, Maine we have a few: Portland Jazz Orchestra (which I play bass in) has about four books, with everything from originals -- six people write for the band -- to the...
Haha go play in a big band then. You'll be begging for ambiguity after two hours of reading charts where the arranger has put the horn arrangement in the chord symbols (pro tip - ignore that stuff.)...
Thanks Joe. Unfortunately, i need to get a pickguard put on it to play it. Otherwise, it puts my pick at a weird angle and I have a problem with accuracy on the bottom strings. But just as important...
I can't play the piano, I don't have the brain for it, I can't coordinate the two hands at all. But my mother was, or used to be, a concert pianist before the war. And, of course, there are all...
Mosaic Select's great remastering of Johnny Smith...
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