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And it seems to me that "Made in Japan" guitars are going down the same path as "Made in the USA" guitars. When I look into an affordable "Japanese" guitar it's usually not actually made in Japan...
Real books are fine, the burn your real book crowd is just parroting guys from 50 years ago when every bridge either went IV iv ii V(Ellington), iii VI ii V(Rhythm Changes), or Honeysuckle Rose.
Yikes! Sounds to me like another instance of good intentions paving the road to heck. California seems to be good at that. Maybe Fender should move their manufacturing to Tennessee, too....
It’s not as great a difference as it used to be either… when I was shopping it was around 2000gbp for a Japanese semi hollow and 2500-2700gbp for a US one. The gap is closing. In the end I opted...
The best advice I got for learning from recordings that use multiple instruments was to listen to the bass line. Youtube seems to have nearly everything and it is easy enough to download an MP3...
Ok here it is the original 1000 no polepieces and the reissue again no polepieces. Here is the specs Reissue on Gibson 1938. This guitar is set up with roundwounds and essentially very close the...
Well if you colonials will insist on using surnames as given names, this exact confusion will arise. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I guess "typical" GC shoppers don't look for Super 400's!!! You guys are so lucky. I bought my L5 CES at the NYC store. Tbeltrans: I agree with you. GC recently had some Gibson 335's and a...
Since we are discussing the gig bags of noted guitarists, I thought I would provide one of my favorite stories from Steve Wallace about Ed Bickert and his gig bag: (The Madeline mentioned here is...
Oh how could I forget All By Myself - the greatest verse in popular music stolen directly from the Rach-meister. It sees DOWR and Mars and raises it a major minor modal interchange on an F pedal. ...
I find GC to still be a decent online shopping experience. I've been using mostly Mark Bass products for my bass gigs and GC is the only US source. The guitar player in my bands is using their...
Contrary to election results and news echo chambers. I've found that if you get about 15 miles away from Chicago, Illinois is hard MAGA. Not sure where OP lives, but it might not be much of a...
I will add that I do have a couple of other books that have been very helpful for me: - Robert Conti "Assembly Line" and "The Formula" along with some of the chord melody arrangements that clearly...
The Dearmond 1000 original vs the 1000 Reissue...
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