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There's a portrait in his attic.

I heard 7 from a pretty reliable inside source, but that also a couple of end-of-days custom orders may not have been counted. …and yours is the original catalog guitar. I am dumb, but also a nice guy.

Rumor has it that he eats babies 👶

Okay, so I purchased the Spark Reactor amplifier and the wireless foot controller. I buy stuff from Sweetwater, so it's on back order. It's less than $600, so the cash outlay isn't massive. What I think is "massive" is a product that uses AI to craft the sound I'm looking for. Now, never misunderstand. The Galien Krueger 250-ML was the greatest solid state amp with effects that would power two 4x12 cabinets, and it was ground breaking. I remember going to see Michael Bolton at Tom's Point After in Orlando after band practice on a Sunday night. The venue could hold about three hundred fifty (according to a girl I dated for a few months that worked there). There were seven at our table and about ten other people in the venue, when the show was to start. A guy came out and said that the band was all set up to play and they would play a one hour set, if we wanted them to. If not, they would refund our money and head to Fort Lauderdale early for their gig the next night. I had both of Michael's first two albums and they were great. His song Fool's Game was a hit on MTV and Everybody's Crazy was the latest MTV video at the time. We opted for "the show". The guitarist, some guy named Bruce Kulick, came out and did the sound check. It was one of the most phenomenal guitar sounds I'd ever heard. He was playing this little box on top of two Marshal 4x12 cabs. The drummer was Chuck Burgi. He was from Rainbow. The show was epic. Michael Bolton was one of the best singers I've ever seen. I know. I know. It was Michael Bolton. If you've never listened to his first two albums, you don't understand. And he played for about twenty people that night, if you count the staff. They played a version of Turn the Page that was extremely memorable. Kulick did the sax parts on guitar. I think some pretender band called Metallica covered it too, but it was nothing like this. Michael, if I'm honest, is one of the top five singers I've ever seen. Freddie, Paul (the one from Bad Co), Lou, and Steve (from the mid-west) were the others. But the guitar sound was the star that night. I bought one and played it in stereo for about two years. It gave way to great rig I had that was three 2x12 Boogie slant cabs with a Simul-Class Mark III in the middle and the 250-ML in stereo on either side of the stage. In closing, I'm going to query the AI App on the reactor to capture the lead guitar sound on Gary Moore's Still Got the Blues, Carlos' Santana on Europa (live from Moonflower), Robben Ford's tone on the "Talk to Your Daughter" album and Eric Johnson's tone on A Via Musicom. If it isn't close, I'm sending it back to Matt Masek at Sweetwater for a refund. My point is that all the technological advancements that have occurred during my tenure with the same band for 48 years have been amazing. There's also that thing called a cell phone. Some day, your phone and your amplifier will replace everything that's come before. I'm a Kemper guy, but I think the only redeeming quality of AI in my life will come from having a rig that creates every sound in my head. I might not live long enough. But the technological advancements in my life have been epic. If this amp, at $379, is the new GK amp, I'm going to have fun.

He looks better without a shirt than Phil Collen or Iggy Pop.

I don't know, man. It looked like he struggled a bit to get that fridge door open.

I believe it's a totally different app. They have pretty good reviews on YouTube. It's super easy. The AI thing just fascinates me. It's real time "profiling" which I think will get much better, if it catches on. I sold my Spark at the Sarasota show for $150. I thought I made out like a bandit.

This is how:

It took me years to find one. Still happy with it.

@santellavision Hey Arnie: I seem to recall that you had one of these on order, if so, did you receive it? Thoughts? Thanks I’ve been thinking about these since your earlier post, if I was to order one of these, I think I’d go with something close to the black one in the picture, keeping the LH peg,head, trem and pickup orientation but also keep a conventional RH pickguard. color TBD.

Guy's gotta be on True Blood or Compound V. 76 years old. Looks 45.

Nine out, two and a half in over the past six weeks or so. Not a bad ratio, but hard to keep up because it was all low-hanging fruit. Sold 5 great condition non-Hamers, and donated 4 not-worth-muches in good condition to a local charitable make-those-kids-play-guitar effort. All the Hamers still here, plus a new-to-me 12ver Eclipse. On the lookout for a Duotone, but I guess I have competition on that front 'round these here parts. A nice Les Paul Standard 50's is the other part of the two. The half is a Fender baritone conversion neck to attach to a nice lightweight Tele-type body I had lying around, so now they are joined together and I am in the very slow process of trying to set it up. The slimming down and refocusing also entails a Boss WAZA reactive amp expander that will not only let me attenuate my tube amps (and therefore let me get the most out of them that I can, considering the neighbors) but will also be a way to hear whatever modeler I end up with, without resorting to headphones. The drought was lengthy, but now things are greening up.

Hey man, there's nothing wrong with sharing 1 of many of my personal "Hunks with junk" wallpaper photos 🤣

And that, ladies and gentlemen, was how the HFC was tricked into posting beefcake photos. 🤣

It probably does, along with the reverse headstock, which results in shorter plain strings and longer wound strings. The latter definitely effects feel, which will effect sound, IMO (especially if you agree with the "tone is in the fingers" saying).

I've often wondered about the effects of the treble-forward Hendrix orientation of the bridge pickup (whether it made much difference). Somewhere in my ridiculous stack of Strat pickguards I have one with that orientation for the bridge pickup. I should slap a Strat together and see if it makes a difference. Hmmm. I have a Gilmour set (the Fender/Duncan set, not the EMG set) in a drawer... love that SSL-5. Might have to try this out.

Adding: I guess the configuration I mentioned above would resemble a Fender SRV Strat, plus A LH peghead and LH pickup orientation, YEAH!

I heard 13, but no idea if that is right.

Haha. True blood or Compund V…. 😂😂

If you keep on dancing you’ll never grow old. If he has been playing like that all these years (minus too much party), maybe it’s kept him in shape. It’s still uncanny.

No, I switched to the Helix Floor in 2015 and have stuck with it.

Goat placenta and Santeria, too.

@bry4321

That would be a great, “Outer Limits”, episode. Suicidal guitarists (who can’t quite pull the trigger) purchase poorly-made gig bags knowing they’ll have but a year to live.

...but I learned that in the video, lol. I'd never heard that until I watched it. I don't think the script and voice were AI. At least one of the images might have been. It was definitely a little thrown together in places though.

Nice score, Arnie! I've finally started gigging mine over the past year:

I bought this for a couple of things, and it works pretty well overall. The reverb is great, and both channels do a ton of classic Marshally things. However, I think I would prefer something with more gain. I went with this over a Friedman IR-X or IR-JEL because I thought I wanted reverb and the XLR out. Turns out, I'm using a delay pedal anyway and the XLR is less a big deal for what I'm doing than what I thought it would be. I'm going to ask $500 shipped CONUS PP F&F or Venmo to sell it, but what I would really be interested in is a straight trade for a Friedman IR Jake E. Lee. I'd be willing to discuss trading for an IR-X. I still have the box and everything it came with. It has two minor scuffs from riding in my Mono Tick to Italy and back.

RIP, sir, and thanks for the toe-tapping tunes!

If it ever goes anywhere, you'll be the first to know. Well, the second, 'cause i would know first...

Yes to all that

Ain’t You gon hafta rout the body for the LH PICKUP orientation ? Maybe not if you have a swimming pool route on the body.

I confess a guilty pleasure during college, this was on constant rotation. I found the guitars (Tim Pierce, IIRC), production and vocals to be absolutely amazing. I still listen when I think about it. My kids were going off about 80's haircuts the other day, "mullet this" and "mullet that." I told them I never heard the word "mullet" until later in the '90's. We always called that haircut the "Rick Springfield" and it was never taken to the extremes of a, say, Joe Dirt. It was a tasteful take - more like longer hair with short sides. [/musings]

Gator sells on 'lifetime warranty' which is great if you only live a year or so.

This might help confuse you.

Seeing their preference for the Tung-Sol tubes reminds me of something I saw in the manual for my ToneBone pedal (it may have been on their web site). Someone asked, "What brand of tube do you recommend to make the pedal sound better?" They replied, "If we thought a different tube made it sound better, don't you think we'd have used it?"

This was my entrance to the Hamer world in 2013. Sold it a few years later to Saki. Regret it. It was the most resonating guitar I ever had.

Absolutely beautiful!

Walter Parazaider, a co-founding member of Chicago who was with the band from its start in 1967 through his retirement in 2017, died Wednesday, family members announced. He had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for six years. Parazaider played reed instruments in the band for that 50-year run, and may be most easily recognized for his flute solo in “Colour My World,” though he was more often found on the saxophone. In the band’s earliest conception, he was the only horn player, and he is often credited as the one whose idea it was to bring an entire horn section in as full members of a rock band, a radical idea when Chicago Transit Authority was being founded in ’67, and still a rare concept to this day.

Hi everyone, wonderful guitar, but I'm not playing it, so I decided to sell it. It's listed here: https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/1978-hamer-sunburst/3421441880-74-2091 It has had changed tuners, now back to original 70s Grovers but not original to this particular guitar. HFC deal for EUR 3.000,- excluding any fees, potential shipping etc. I'm not crazy about shipping this guitar so if anyone interested here has the chance to pick it up in person that would be great (Dusseldorf, Germany), but I can and will ship in the EU, have done it before, should be fine. Shipping to the US is impossible at the moment for me (wouldn't now how to insure it properly, super expensive etc), sorry! Medium neck, frets still great, no breaks/ repairs, original case with red plush, later 1978 already with the sustain block (which I love). Cheers C.