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  1. The “Living Room” may look familiar in this video, even though it was filmed several months later in the dead of winter:
  2. Not as of the other day when I chatted with Stike last…
  3. Aztec Gold. This is a ‘95 in Aztec Gold: This is a ‘95 in Vintage Orange:
  4. Except that Gibson NEVER referred to their humbucking pickups as “PAFs”, and not even “Patent Applied For” in the 1950s, 1960s nor the 1970s. They were simply, “Powerful Humbucking Pickups”. “Patent Applied For” is a generic placeholder, and was never intended, nor advertised, to be the name of the Humbuckers Gibson fitted from 1957 through mid 1962, when the patent number was applied. “Patent Applied For” is stuck on, engraved, stamped or carved into tons of products and accessories/parts from that era. Nobody is claiming that name for a Bigsby… “PAF” was NEVER Gibson’s way of referring to the pickups, as that was collector slang - In the Norlin era of the ‘70s, Gibson didn’t give a shit about vintage stuff and they certainly weren’t trying to relive the Golden Era - they were cranking out units and watching their sales/profits. As both Paul Hamer and Jol D. have related, if your pickup from a 1950s Gibson crapped out, Gibson simply yanked it out, tossed it in a box or the dumpster, and you got a shiny new Gibson HUMBUCKER. Larry DiMarzio may be a prick for trying to patent air, but he named a pickup model meant to recreate a Gibson 50’s era humbucker and called it “PAF”. HE did that, not Gibson. I think Gibson’s naming argument is fundamentally flawed. The whole Double Cream debacle is something else entirely. Gibson never had any intention to produce pickups with exposed coils, and in fact, their intent was to have double black coils UNDER A COVER. Players yanked off the covers to expose coils in the ‘60s and ‘70s, but Gibson didn’t catch on until the very late ‘70s, when Larry D. was already well on his way. Larry trying to own that color scheme is still fucking ridiculous.
  5. Here’s an even better deal… 😂 https://goodhrissk.life/product_details/57479094.html
  6. I’d recognize those fingers anywhere!
  7. “Ambitiously Priced” Maybe the seller is trying to recoup all the money he lost on last night’s Igggles loss to the Cowboys?
  8. I’ve got an ‘84 for sale (the one from the Hamer Book), but it’s Ferrari Red like the one Nikki Sixx played. There weren’t too many B&W Zebra graphics made, honestly! Photo by Bill O’Leary:
  9. Pretty sure that’s a refin - it’s been discussed before…
  10. I’ve played a lot of both. The Korina Standards are awesome…BUT I’ve played 5-6 that were ridiculously heavy. There are absolutely no heavy Shishkov Ultimates.
  11. In my personal opinion, this is THE BEST non-artist Prototype out there. I’ve played it, I’ve listed after it, and I’ve regretted not buying it when I could have gotten it years ago. Timing isn’t at all good for me, but somebody here NEEDS this one!
  12. Not sure if you’d be interested at all, but I’ve got a new, unused Floyd RailTail that I don’t see myself getting on any one of my 10,000 projects any time soon. It’s a really great unit and non-locking.
  13. I’ve seen him with JBLZE 2-4 times as well. He IS Zep-era Page. The character assumption is unreal. I’ve not been able to find any showings of the movie within 2-3 hours of me though, which is weird, since I live in a major metro area. I hope to catch that flick some day. Until then, here are a couple snaps I took at a JBLZE/Peter Frampton show a few years back. Our friends who joined us both saw Zep in the ‘70s and were just floored at how close the tribute band was.
  14. I saw them maybe 15 years ago - mind-blowingly great. Honestly though, as dead-on as the Robert and Jimmy were, the JPJ guy blew me away. The real JPJ was the quiet linchpin of the band.
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