I appreciate these thoughts. as I say, I find this kind of discussion to be very interesting, and even central to my own subjective conception of what really happened during the great cultural shift...
Online discussion tends to be dominated by argumentativeness and defensiveness, especially defensiveness about one's own choices and purchases. There are orders of magnitude more Gibson and/or...
How did you determine that it was the pickup itself that was the problem?
100%. They try to use words like "sterile" LOL... which really just means ultimate consistency... UNLIKE Fender and Gibson.
Please tell me this was recorded for posterity.
Yes, those low priced south-east built Ibanez guitars are a bang for the buck. Ok, some need a correct set up, and for all it is recommended to install better pickups. But done this, they are valid...
"Ironically I'm sitting in the car just as the rain has arrived." Oh my, what have we done? We should have started with But Beautiful. ;)
The Martin is gone and the first of two moderately priced archtops has arrived. I just thought this would feel a lot more at home for me (and so far I'm really pleased). Here's a short recording I...
Sure thing, but I need to install my copy of Guitar Pro first so I can post proper charts instead of "x-0-x-0-x-0" gibberish. Speaking of which..... One could do an open D string pedal point...
Yea... It can happen ...a couple of ways, 1) Perform with real Jazz Players, what that means is we don't play Jazz Tunes...we play in Jazz Styles. When you play with jazz players... they will...
Interesting viewpoint. I started playing in the mid-1970s. Jazz (and I could argue American culture generally) was forward-looking. In 1975 the "jazz" tent was big enough to include everything...
Based on this thread, I got Berkman's book. I'm part way though it and have already learned something that it feels like I should have known for years. It took some of the mystery out of...
The funnies example of this is with David Grisman and the album Dawg Jazz/Dawg Grass. One side of the album had a dog with sunglasses, a man smoking a cig in what looks like a smoky bar, and the...
I think it's a fundamental skill even though we tend to talk about other things more often. It develops with time on the instrument, whatever you're playing. I don't know how much it can be...
Ibanez AF95-DA ... A first recording with a cheap...
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