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Who the hell is "Rick Neilson"?

I might have come close, but never the cigar for me. Wife and I arrived in Toronto on Wednesday before an Iron Maiden show on Saturday. Rush was playing in Detroit on Friday, and had played there a couple of days before and I saw something in my social feed about a motorcade from the arena to the airport and a private jet flying from there to YYZ, so maybe our feet and their feet were on the same airport property on the same day, but I have no doubt that they didn't leave from the same Uber zone. So we were in the same vicinity, presumably. After check-in wife and I rode up in the elevator with a chatty guy, saying something about how it's disorienting staying in a procession of hotels. Wife comes from a no-small talk culture, and I'm more reticent when not on home turf, so I responded politely but didn't really engage. Turns out we're on the same floor, and he even trails us down the hall - we're in the last room, he's next door. He observes this, and I respond "I hope you don't mind loud parties." He chuckled, said he didn't, and that was that. BUT - I spot more than one Iron Maiden t-shirt in the lobby. And the next couple of mornings we ride down in the elevator with burly-ish men with British accents, aforementioned Iron Maiden shirts and tool belts and bags with Iron Maiden laminated tour passes hanging from them, chatting among themselves about whether to walk to the jobsite and how well the IMAX setup was going. It was about this time that I checked and found that Iron Maiden was to play Toronto on Saturday night. I have zero confidence in my ability to identify any of them mixing with the muggles in the hotel lobby, etc., and besides I figured that they would be hopping over to Detroit to see Rush on Friday since they had the night off, so odds were low to spot the talent during our elevator trips. And from the pic it looks like that's what might have happened, unless they got together in Toronto.

I'm in love!

Gator 6 space rack with three 2 space drawers (one locking). $150 or best offer.

There's a local brewery around the corner as well 🍺

Dang! Steve Harris looks so young since he stopped dying his hair gray.

Thanks, Hammerhead! As I said to Jef, that Alden is a sneaky surprise, a real monster. Incredible effortless player, cool looking, and tonally the mahogany setneck and Godwoods make it a true LP (the good years) killer. And the Duesy can take you from a Bigsby flutter to a Floydy bomber. It's the bargain of the lot. And on that subject- I am open to offers from folks on the board.

Beautiful Hamer USA Artist Custom in excellent condition and completely original. These Hamer USA guitars are highly regarded for their exceptional build quality, materials, and attention to detail. One-piece mahogany body, two-piece carved flame maple top, mahogany neck, rosewood fretboard with Victory inlays, and Seymour Duncan Seth Lover pickups. Frets show only minimal wear and playability is excellent. Asking $2,400 shipped, Includes the original hard case, COA, owner’s manual/warranty card, Hamer tool set, store hanger tag, and original congratulations letter. A very complete and special Hamer package.

Wow, that looks like a lot of fun! Might be worth stuffing my car full of rekkids/guitars and trekking down the I-5.

Scary stuff and he IS such an Integral part of the band Cheap Trick who w/o Rick is..................not "Cheap Trick". Breathlessness.................that could be quite a few things, all of them bad. I hope they are able to find out just what the issue is and he is going to be A-OK. Must have been awful for his son when that happened. Get well ASAP Rick!

That's so cool. Also cool that you have enough people to actually have such a thing attended. And $25 for an exhibition table? Wow!

Dat’s some nice hog, mon.

Gorgeous guitar, and I’ve no doubt that the tuners are original but they read Schaller.

The thing about the AM4 was that it was just odd. Four blocks, but then tons of videos about how to basically work around that it's 4 blocks. They said it has about half the power of the AxeFX III, but then only 4 blocks? To me, it was just confusing. I never liked their interface on device or the editor.

Terrible to hear. Get well, Rick!

Honestly, if you only need a few, Tonex One with the Mvave chocolate plus 4 button MIDI switch is a good, inexpensive combo. Hell, if you only need 2 sounds, the original Tonex One used and just put the two sounds on it and switch between them. One driven but can clean up with volume roll down and a lead.

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Oh boy, hopefully he gets proper and complete medical care STAT. Even much younger people can be done in by severe respiratory infections.

The Fireflys get good reviews all over. No, they'll never be a Hamer or Shishkov. But that's not their thing. My BillyBo was a couple hundred bucks and is a fun guitar to bash around without worrying about dings or dents. And it plays and sounds really good for what it is. I had one of their Teles to be used for experiments, but my great-nephew got that for a graduation present. But it was again really well done and he loves it. I'm waiting for their RDs and Baritones to come back because, you know.....I really need another couple of cheap guitars lying around. The guy I got the Tele from removed the logo. Apparently it didn't have 'The Look'.

I sure hope Rick's alright!

Very kind of you, sir! And yes, it's all relative. Relatively speaking, based on the amount of time I've spent trying to become more kickass on guitar, I should be less awful. But I suppose we're all our own harshest critics. So we perhaps should endeavor to move the goal posts, shift our paradigm and aim for having fun instead.

I for one always enjoy your videos - definitely kickass. There's a reason you've never seen a video posted by me! It's all relative. 😉

https://therockrevival.com/rock-news/cheap-trick-guitarist-rick-nielsen-leaves-the-stage-for-apparent-medical-issue/

I managed to move from analog tube and solid state amps to Fractal but I have somehow avoided going down the rabbit hole of all the various new iterations of modelers for the same reason I avoided running down the perfect tone in a traditional amp: Too much work, $$ and really cornfusing. I would rather spend my time becoming a little less awful at guitar. Besides, in addition to the drain on my sanity and bank account, there's the consideration of putting pearls on a swine. A really kickass sounding modeler or amp is still not gonna make my playing sound kickass.