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thats a fact around here the giggs pay less the half of what i was getting 30, 40 years ago.
AFIAK the only jazz musicians Barry had unqualified admiration for were Bud and Bird (Bird recorded with the original changes on With Strings.) So that tracks. To him what Jarrett and or Evans were...
It's not a state (CA) law, it's a federal law: Made in USA | Federal Trade Commission
The M-1's cover plate is a single unit with the T-shaped saddle cover* welded to the cover plate, which in turn is secured by lots of screws (16, I think). Whatever it's called, it makes some kinds...
Chicago is now another world. I used to love to go to the City 40 years ago and see the guitar stores. Do you remember Wooden Music. Went to my first real guitar show there in 1979. Hung out a little...
Thanks for this. I've been waffling about just soldering the 57 into the Emperor's original harness. With two handsome hollowbodies plus the ES125 in need of electronics attention I think it's time I...
It's high time you were up in this debate. 'Bud Powell and Barry Harris played Bb dim7. But most jazz artists since the time of Miles Davis play the Eø A7b9, including Bill Evans and Keith ...
I like the idea of learning jazz being more like learning Allman Brothers when I was in a high school jam band than like learning Villa Lobos when I was in college
Well the good news is there more guitars available both new and used,cheap and bespoke than at any time in history. The real problem is there not a lot of good paying gigs to play any longer!
57 Classics will work fine and while you’re in there, replace the pots, caps, jack, and switch with better stuff. You could even wire it up 50s style too. Good luck.
The case against is that it’s not how the music was really learned or played. I don’t have anything against fake books at all and most normal people only have but so much bandwidth for learning by...
The phat cat sounds like a cool idea for the Zephyr. The 57 Classic arrived today and I was thinking about putting that in the Emperor and using the underwound 57 in the Zephyr instead of the Seth...
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.
The Dearmond 1000 original vs the 1000 Reissue...
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