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Well You Needn’t from a recent gig

How does your Atchtop play compared to SB?

My Christmas Song

Late 1970s Ibanez hollow-body quality?

A different Autumn in New York

Between a dick and someone who can pull off a miniskirt, I think I know what I'd prefer to see when I'm treating my ears... Technically easy to play doesn't mean it has to be musically simple...

Too late to be a great jazz guitarist starting at 26 years old?

Thanks for your performance, JazzPad. Another killer rendition of this tune is from Irene Kral's album, Where I Love? with Alan Broadbent on piano:

Spring can really hang you up the most

Ditto for me, I have the 1970's Japanese ES-175 copy discussed in this video, the binding and neck are good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj2b6aibtf0

Late 1970s Ibanez hollow-body quality?

More weirdness. Well You Needn’t - YouTube

Well You Needn’t from a recent gig

All my guitars have about the same action (between 4 and 5/64” bass and between 3 and 4/64 treble) and relief ~.06”). My semi and my solidbodies (Les Paul and Strat) are strung with roundwound or...

How does your Atchtop play compared to SB?

The lightest strings I use on my solid-body are 11's and I use 12's on my archtop so no real difference, and the action is similar on both - but I don't like really low action. However, on my old...

How does your Atchtop play compared to SB?

no nothing weird in the alto high end. The speaker sim in the tc keeps everything below 5K

Short clip of my Holst and my TC Combo Deluxe going through Alto pa cab

I suppose one test of the effectiveness of a music-generating theory/system would be (assuming the programming is feasible) what kind of work would be produced by a computer program employing it. In...

What do you prefer in music, originality or tradition?

There are several factors to consider here, Mark. I go from fat neck 7 string archtops to thinner and narrower neck 7 string solid bodies daily and on many gigs. My default gigging archtop (an...

How does your Atchtop play compared to SB?

Agreed, there is simple music, which some people fool themselves into thinking they can play. But to play at the level where you really reach people is not easy in any genre.

Too late to be a great jazz guitarist starting at 26 years old?

My 2022 Trenier Jazz Special.

The best LOOKING guitar you own......

Bro, you did that guitar way more justice than I ever could. And so many more people enjoyed the sound of it, thanks to you. JD

The best LOOKING guitar you own......

Try A-Ab-A instead of G-Gb-G bassline: C/A Am7) | 5-x-5-5-5-x | > Ab7#5 | 4-x-4-5-5-x | Or Make Someone Happy changes: C(Maj7)| x-3-2-0-(0)-x | > C+ | x-3-2-1-1-x | > Am(add 9) | x-3-2-2-(0)-x |

6th Diminished - Thomas Echols

I do not own a solid body guitar, and I do work on them, but it leaves me with a question for those of you who switch between them often. My archtops all have fairly low action by acoustic standards....

How does your Atchtop play compared to SB?

My mid 1970s 2355 was pretty well built, but off just a little. Nothing I could not fix: Pots too high value, measured 1k-> new electronics installed Pickup off center -> re-drilled holes and...

Late 1970s Ibanez hollow-body quality?

The official mad-at-JC thread

What is your primary reference for practicing improvisation?

6th Diminished - Thomas Echols

The best LOOKING guitar you own......

How did the greats learn how to play?

Presentation is more important than improvisation? - Hal Galper

Chord Shapes as a basis for Improv

One octave scales - VIDEO

Experimental/free etc music

Talk me out of buying a Gibson ES-335

... But does it Jazz ??

Tonex One vs. TC Combo Deluxe '65

Anyone tried a compensated nut?