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funny, i was in the crowd this night in '98 !
congrats from France !!
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06-01-2017 01:02 PM
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This thread fills my heart with joy.
Cool man
Enjoy
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Originally Posted by funkychicken70
"I gots to know" as the bank robbing perp says in the open to Dirty Harry...
DO YOU REMEMBER, was he playing Red most of the time or did his switch off to the GB10.
I hope to speak to him in the next few days. I have to look at his schedule to see when he has some down time.
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Thank You Tim !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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your red guitar can do some blues...george b workin it on the old son house -death letter blues
and live at montreux '99...(with different pickups tho)
cheers
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Don't see Alumitones there. Hmm.
I looked carefully because it don't sound like an Alumitone.
Originally Posted by neatomic
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That right there is your Jazz Master guitar stank-face! Originally Posted by Gitfiddler
@BigMikeInNJ , it looks like the Maestro personally dug your guitar. At the point this pic was taken the guitar was nine years old and yet, "Trip abroad? I'll grab the Testa Rossa!" Enjoy, man!Last edited by Sam Sherry; 06-02-2017 at 03:09 PM.
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Yeah last Friday night he told me that was his favorite guitar for a long time, a total one off. I like the Alumitone pickups and am leaving them on (Sam, gonna hold onto them too if I ever do change it out, but I doubt I will). I also got SureGrip III knobs even before I won the guitar (pretty cheeky huh) and I'm gonna leave the speed knobs on it that he had on it. No desecration of The Champ's guitar by me... It's truly bad ass...
Have a great weekend fellas.
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He changed the pickups to Alumitones after those videos were shot. They are weird looking but doggone they are nice sounding. The Man knows what he's doing that is for sure. Hate to say this but I'd like being in Jersey about a half hour so I could crank my Princeton Reverb and pimp out on this beast. Got me a Zoom pedal with a bunch of amp simulators so plan on going with some good headphones (I know perish the thought)...
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This story is ridiculously awesome! I smile every time I read it. Benson is THE MAN. We all read this because we all love him!
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After Ted got his Mortoro guitar he found some stuff in the case pocket. Tonight I decided to look and mine had a giant baggie with the original Sure Grip knobs, the case key and some George Benson picks. Further double checking the guitar IS stuff with foam with the thin ebony like veneers giving it a classier look. Looking around on YouTube he toured with it from 1998 through 2013, held up pretty well. It's on stage with him here.
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Could you describe how the ebony inserts
/foam thing works ... ?
Don't worry if you don't wanna move things around ... I understand
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Well I've had this thing such a short amount of time I'm humbled just looking at it.
Here's a shot of the bass side f-hole, where I pushed the ebony veneer (it is about the thickness of a medium pick). Underneath that is a dense foam like what UPS might use to pad a guitar box with. As is it is dead quiet, like playing a Les Paul unlugged. But plugged in it's great.
All the GB models are working man's guitars, built to be played on stages and loud without the usual feedback you'd get from an arch top. As I said at his Chicago gig he played just his GB10 but had the f-holes taped. Amazing guitars.
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Thanks for the pics
I use that soft foam inside my jazz box too
(only the upper bouts now , as a compromise
I fully stuffed it originally but I think I overdid it so
I removed the lower half ....
it keeps some acoustics going on in there
Hey I'm British , its a compromise innit
I used a piece of black vinyl type upholstery
material beneath the upper f hole to cover/disguise it
It works great for eliminating the feedback
and plugged in you still get the warm jazz box sound
Result !
The ebony probably works/looks even better
I wonder how he got the ebony strips in there ?
I had to do a fair bit of messing around to get mine to look right
Love that red ibz man ...
Play on !Last edited by pingu; 06-15-2017 at 11:24 AM.
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A little off topic but I've never seen a GB10 with "set in" pickups like the one in the clip! Originally Posted by BigMikeinNJ
Looks and sounds great.
Have you ever seen one like that before Big Mike?
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