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Looks orange in that exposure. Knowing how Willcutt cranks up the lighting in their photo shoots, I wonder what it looks like in real life. EDITED TO ADD: According to the Willcutt website, that color is 'crimson' which should be a dark red in real life.

Whatever comes stock in the G&L Legacy Special is excellent.

Hamer has two classifications for special order colors. They make stock guitars in a limited range of colors, but they have other colors that they will use for zero upcharge. Those would include trans black, indigo, trans red, and some others. Then there are true custom colors that need to be mixed to customer specs. Those would be an upcharge, it used to be $100, but I don''t know what it is now. I would expect that 'aquaburst' to be an upcharge, some other nonstandard bursts, and colors like purple. People here have had good success at supplying Hamer a color sample and having them match it closely.

Yep, new Ebay feature that we should all be using to bid $350 on this guitar.

I thought it was going to be "Poltergeist IV"

Wasn't there a lot of delay and chorus in the 'Love' album stuff?

I have one of these but I haven't used it in a long time. Doesn't sound good in my current rig, needs an intensity control. I would rather use a Motion Sound speaker.

The only effect I use now is a Fulltone Fat Boost. I run a two channel set up - mild crunch and drive, with a volume boost for leads. The Fat Boost gives my mild crunch channel a bit more drive for leads, and my drive channel a real kick. I would like to add a wah pedal if I can find one that doesn't color the sound (I have a 12 year old Vox wah that really affects the tone) and a delay for certain songs.

Not necessary, I just wanted to understand the rules better. Thanks for the explanation.

Me and JohnnyB agree on something! Way too "busy" on the drums. Seems he could hardly go more than two measures without a fill, which is a major groove-buster, IMO. Willie G. has a good point in that they were entering a new realm. Were they the first big "power trio"? I'm a bit too young to remember. They were probably the first popular power trio, not sure of the timing of the Hendrix Experience. Ginger Baker really held a grudge against Led Zep because he felt he was far better than John Bonham but John had a higher status. This was the case as late as '94, don't know if he ever got over it. Baker was a schooled technical drummer, Bonzo was a feel guy.

Jack Bruce's bass sounded like it was coming through a subwoofer. Just tons of low low end, no sparkle.

Music content. There are music content posts all over the Outer Circle. King Diamond thread? I guess I am still unclear on the posting rules. Hamer content guitar posts - main board No Hamer content guitar posts - outer circle Music related posts with no Hamer content - ????? Non music related posts, except for non Hamer guitar posts - outer circle.

I'm sure it did, now that I think of it. But nothing would have fired up the ol' Cream magic like an SG through a couple of Bluesbreakers. EDITED TO ADD: Why did this get moved to the main board? No Hamer content.

Not the DVD itself, it looks great, it was free of annoying split second edits that infest some productions. Although there was one gratuitous shot of Jude Law and Sienna Miller in the audience. But I guess I was expecting something different from the performance. I have no idea why Clapton chose the Strat/Tweed Twin combo for playing Cream. It made the band sound like Clapton circa '75. And Bruce's bass had no midrange to speak of, which left holes in the sound spectrum that weren't there in early Cream performances. Had they gone with their vintage rigs, Marshalls and Gibsons instead of Fenders, it might have brought back some of the aggressiveness. But not much, because they have really mellowed with age and gave a really layed back performance overall.

I develop for rich people that don't know what they are doing or are too busy. I take the lead development role. I perform financial analysis and feasability, obtain entitelments (rights to build), obtain financing to do the project, hire an architect to draw the building, hire a contractor to build it, hire a broker to lease it and manage the whole process through leaseup and/or sale. A better term for my role would be "fee developer". Sounds cool. I was a project manager for multimillon $$$ construction projects and I always wondered if there was any way to roll that into a consultant job. But I never had to worry about land acquisition, licensing, etc.

Do they make you carry their gear?

What is the role of a 'real estate consultant' in this process? Is it like a project management role?

Looks like Aztec Gold to me.

Me no like: cherryburst tobaccoburst dreamsickleburst opaque finishes cherry trans

THAT'S the Neil Young pickup I was talking about. What is it? Alnico what? 2? 5?

Am I the only one who finds no joy in this guitar design?

Nope, didn't have anything in mind. I've got a Lollar in my BCR Jr. Just curious as to what different people's opinions are about whose the best. It doesn't have to be the best, just interested in the opinion. Based on what I've read here the traditional vintage P-90 tone preferences seem to lie with Lollars. If you read the Harmony Central reviews, you'll see over and over again people say that they sound like 'very fat telecaster pickups.' No one has spoken up for Fralins in this thread but I know some folks use and like them too.

That's all you had to say, Sandy. Thanks, I think?

Not looking for anything specific. Just interested in what people think. You know the drill. Some people say "Lollars are the best P-90, period", or "Harmonic Designs kick Lollars' ass". As it is, I've heard both of the above comments several times. Unless you have something in mind, then, I don't think anyone can answer your question. As BadgerDave says, there are several different signature P-90 tones, and different models have different strengths and weaknesses. My bias is against any P-90 that sounds twangy or doesn't have a resonant peak in the midrange. That eliminates a lot of them right there, because I prefer the 'bad to the bone' fatness that you'd get from Leslie West/Neil Young/George Thorogood. Unfortunately, though, that has limited my options to Seymour Duncans, as they are the only ones who are winding them hot and fat enough for me. I would like a less hot, less muddy alternative but it seems there's a big gap between, say, 8.5 kohms and 14 kohms in the market. I tried the Harmonic Designs and they were too hi-fi, and I tried the Rio Grandes but they didn't have enough midrange waaaaah for me.

I have been thinking about the old Gibson P-90s like on Neil Young's Les Paul. Instead of adjustable polepieces that have these inverted U shaped ones. I wonder if these have anything to do with the extremely fat, non-twangy tone that Neil gets.