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I never started an official post here. https://reverb.com/item/93657352-hamer-artist-custom-2000 No longer for sale plus shipping to supporting known HFC members. thanks

It didn't work when I got it, but with the help of fellow HFC'rs everything is working great now. I alway's wanted a 3 Hole DuoTone! Now I have one!! And it's beautiful!!

Damn. Bun could really bring the thunder. Funny how the audience sits on their hands until Robin steps up, and they realize what song they're doing.

If it doesn’t work out for you drop me a line I have the correct black Hamer tuner. Peter

I have the powertron plus in my Chilly Bo. Love it.

Our first look at Rush with Anika Nilles.

Agree, Madonna has a hard time drumming asymmetrical, irrational and/ or composite time signatures. When she subbed for Mike Portnoy in Dream Theater she also was lagging behind the beat constantly having the band members look at each other while playing, wondering if the material girl was the correct choice! 😉 😁😃

I’ve seen people online defending Geddy Lee’s vocals here. I wish I could agree.

Oh, what an insult!!!

I will asume your guitar is USA made cause a can see a cero stamped , This kind of tuners are originaly schaller ( the masters tell me if im wrong please ) , so if u cant find a hamer logo replacement , a good option can be buy 6 schaller tuners may be? Cherrs

It wasn't meant as a dig... I was just expressing that she looked just like her "to me" in that photo

I saw a photo of her and at first thought it was Madonna 🤣

Thanks! Yes, these were made by Schaller. I’ve already found and ordered single schaller tuner on eBay (used). I’ll replace the part with Hamer logo, so in the end there should be no difference at all

No. Again. The Diablo Hamer didn’t leave the factory anything like that. Also, Gibson built Rick 3 Explorers and 3 Flying Vs several years ago, after the demise of Hamer. Rick gave (or sold/traded) one of those to the guy who found the Tour prop Eye. It wasn’t a Gibson copy of a Hamer, just a checkerboard finished, off the line Flying V. I’m not sure Diablo cares to know the truth if it would mess up their sale.

Best way to tell if there IS a difference.....Play them side by side. An advantage of rolling my own is the ability to make cabs that are essentially identical, one bare wood, another clad in vinyl or tweed. Your ears may differ and you may prefer the look of one over the other. ("Snakeskin" is always an attention getter!) If anyone is interested enough, and gets close enough to play thru them in person to decide for yourself, just let me know when. This particular pair are in the Forte 3D style, each a 1 x 12.

So true! Here I am playing in my full checkered outfit. It takes awhile to get everything perfectly lined up, but you can barely see me. 😝😄

I just put a Powertron Plus (a hotter Powertron, the Billy Gibbons sig pup) in my Ibby, had one in a Gibson Midtown awhile back, it's my fave bridge pup.

Rest Well Noble Warrior of Rock N Roll! I forget some of the Manowar catalog but what is that long epic one Into Glory Ride? If someone can post it that would be great

High Fade is great, but GH was doing this decades ago.

No, the whole point is to bang the drummer without the other members knowing it 🤷

Gotcha. I thought maybe we had another Hamer bro in the area.

I saw High Fade in a small club last year, those dudes are tight af and Harry Valentino is a beast of a guitar player.

Premise: Rush is my favorite band. Period. With that, I saw the OP video last night and was planning to come here this morning and post it in the "vocalists who need to hang it up" thread from a few months ago. Painful. There's no shame in tuning down. Please. And I love Ged. He can still sing (ref: Clockwork Angels album), just in a (much) different register. Robin Zander notwithstanding, a man in his 70's can't be expected to sing in the same register as in his twenties (again, unless you're Robin Zander). No comment on Ms. Nilles as "Finding My Way" (or most any Rutsey-era / first album song) isn't an adequate vehicle for demonstration of true Rush competency (Peartuosity?). I'll reserve comment - not that it carries any weight - until I hear Strangiato or Natural Science or YYZ or... That said, they do appear to be having a blast.

I did a review of Pirate ship. It's the only site I now use for shipping. From small pedals to amps, they are always the cheapest.

For Ross: All hail the ridiculousness!

Make sure you get the pants, they are a must!

Yes, the autograph and picture from "The Ultimate" book.

Ha! No, that’s Mark’s shop and one of his cabs.

Thanks,Chris, great pics! Question: Rick's cab? Asking for a friend

No. Rick didn’t give somebody a checkerboard Hamer V. He gave them one of the three checkerboard Flying Vs that Gibson gave him close to a decade ago. He never really played any of those - live or otherwise, and although I’ve seen him show up at a Rock’n Vodka event a time or two wit one of the marching checkerboard Explorers that Gibson also gave him at the same time, I can’t say that I’ve ever seen him playing any of those onstage either. Although he hasn’t bashed them, the fact that he won’t play them, but has given a few away kind of speaks volumes about how they aren’t his Hamers. Rick does have a dead on copy of his Checkerboard Hamer V that was built by Mark Grant in the fall of 2022 (along with a second one built for Michael Adamany), and he’s been playing that live a good bit and it shows up regularly in his stage rack. It was built using his original V as a template and for measurements. His original hasn’t been onstage since the very early ‘80s. It currently resides at the Rockford Hard Rock Casino. The Reverb one has long been confirmed as a conversion by two of the people who would know (one is actually named “Hamer”), and I remember seeing it listed for sale in a VG classified in the ‘90s. It’s really cool, but not one of Rick’s and it didn’t leave the factory like that,

I'll go with the Dictators' cover of "Search and Destroy" on Manifest Destiny. Methinks it had canned crowd noise and the guitar solo ain't long but 50 years ago it burned into my brain like a laser.

Madness, you say!?

And if all else fails, you can always start a Ska band.

Aw, crap. One of my all-time faves. Dictators: Too ahead of their time Manowar: Talk about commitment to a bit! Killer metal with a stupidly OTT image. MWK: "If ya lost some weight, ya might get LAID!" Wisdom for the ages. RIP, Ross.

There's one in Chico I keep not driving out to get: https://chico.craigslist.org/msg/d/chico-80s-hammer-guitar/7917988800.html#

Without a doubt! It’s of little news to most people here that I’m a big ol’ TVJ fan, and although I don’t have an application for one of these boys just yet, no doubt I will.