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A close friend of mine kept one my Standards for a while, so he adjusted it and tuned it to his tastes. Now, this is new to me: The high E, the B and the G strings are now wound “the wrong way”, so the machine heads turn clockwise to rise the pitch, and counterclockwise to lower it. So weird! Of course, I have seen and played many guitars featuring six-in-line headstocks, but this is the first time I see the strings configured this way. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Is this something some of you guys also do?

Awesome! I moved from Montreal to Florida three years ago, but Canada remains a great place —both cool and cold 🥶 Wish you guys a happy new home.

Bumping it once again, to give just another chance to the opportunistic sellers around to make some cash on my GAS attack. 😜 By the way, a couple of gems have popped here, but for me it’s a must to have a bound body, no floating tremolo (no Khaler, no Floyd) and no pickguard. For the rest, I don’t care much —dot, block, trapeze, boomerang inlays… I don’t mind! Bound or unbound neck, I don’t mind! TOM with stoptail or string-through-body, sustainblock… I don’t mind! Year… well, I prefer 2K, 90’s and then the older ones, in that order, but I don’t mind much either. Just PM me if you have one. You won’t regret it! 😛

Well, I just mean that a GAS attack for a Hamer cannot be treated by buying something else, no matter how good or how similar to a Hamer that “something else” might be. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m not unhappy with them, but I barely play them and they don’t feel either like “collector items”. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Doesn’t look bad at all, and I know how playable the imports are. Yet, I’m looking for an American Hamer. 😉

I don’t dislike this one, but would prefer bound body and no pickguard. In addition, signed by Nielsen should make it expensive, right? I guess I will wait a little, at least for now.

Let’s bump this. You owners of black 2000’s Standards may take advantage of my current GAS as of right now. I don’t know how long it will last, so sell me yours NOW! 😜

I love the look, but my next purchase will be a black Hamer Standard, preferably from the 2K’s. After compulsively buying two guitars from Paolo Salcuni, I realized that it’s not worth the money if what one wants it’s a Hamer and nothing else.

Crowned? Nah, I don’t care. Dot inlays, unbound neck and unbound headstock are okay. Just bound body is preferable to me… though I generally dislike pickguards. Yet, is this baby FS? What year?

Older bones dislike colder weather. 😜

Yeah, I know you guys are attached to your guitars, but it’s always worth trying, so here we go: I want a Black Standard, preferably from the most recent models. I you have one for sale, please PM me. I live in Florida, in the Fort-Lauderdale area. Thanks in advance! PS: No Floyd or Kahler, please.

Can I contribute and ask to include a newcomer in the OC? It’s like tipping the lap dancer, you know. 😜 Do I PayPal ted_martin@hikarate.com?

Looks like another great individual of our Hamer family is gone, once again, too early. My deepest condolences to her relatives and friends.

Just "old stuff" here. These days I'm back to my roots, listening to the bands I used to love when I was younger: King Diamond, Annihilator, Queensryche, Crimson Glory, Yngwie Malmsteen, Helloween and Fates Warning. I've realized we tend to enjoy much more what influenced us during our formative years. We do evolve later, develop new tastes and so on, but our core remains the same --well, at least for me.

This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jtfvW1A9kU Some serious guitar playing there, though I'm not into country at all. BTW, the guy can sing too.

Great acquisition. I love the shape and look of those guitars, though the Floyds are a big turn-off for me. But if you like having fun with the bar, that was a score. Congrats, man!

Now I need one more pedal in my rig -or to replace my Liverpool by this one. Damn, gorch!

The guitarist has a lot of stamina. His constant shredding and vibrator-like tremolo picking skills are just insane. I can rip it up to some extent, but even in my shredding years, when I practiced 4 or 5 hours a day, I was way below that speed. Back then I quickly began compensating with vibrato and phrasing, as soon as I understood I lacked the discipline to become a true shredder. I wasn't willing to spend so much time practicing, so began faking it. But this guy also has great vibrato, phrasing and bending skills, don't you think?

It's Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I can appreciate it, but I'm not a fan. I find it unnecessarily fancy. In addition, I mentally associate it with binding, which I don't like very much. But of course, I have NOTHING against beauty, so I do understand those who dig fancy tops.

In my case, my first exposure to them was "Taken By Force". I used to play that one with my friends over and over. That's how I noticed Urlich Roth. Eventually that "Gold Ballads" EP (or whatever its title was -now I'm lazy to Google it) also fell into my hands. Those two, plus the omnipresent "Winds Of Change" on the radio, it was almost everything I knew about the Scorps for a long time. But now of course I own their entire discography. I tend however to overlook Matthias Jabs' work in favor of Uli's. I guess then it's time for me to have a closer look to Matthias' playing, as he definitively is a great rock guitarist.

OK guys, you asked for it, so I uploaded it to FileDropper and here's the link: Scorpions Live 1979 in Tokyo, with Matthias Jabs. When the page above will show, just click on the "Download This File" button, then enter the asked characters and finally click on the "Download Now" button. I tried it and it's pretty fast. Please let me know if you get it properly. PS: Edited to fix the link.

...and boy he never ceases to amaze me. He nails Uli Jon Roth's stuff perfectly, and then some. What a great player! Well, I had already praised him here several years ago, when I watched the Scorpions show at Wacken with Uli and Michael Schenker. He shone on his own in spite of sharing the stage with those other two monsters. But now I'm getting even more convinced about his greatness. What a competent rock guitarist Matthias Jabs is! WOW!

Yeah, I was actually going to say that as far as they keep their Heritage religion for themselves, speak English and contribute to the development of the HFC, they're more than welcome.