Disturber

Congrats. Wish Fender would have just licensed you the right to use the name "Hamer" for free. Bastards.

I'm going totally backwards. My bad luck I guess, always doing everything the opposite way of everyone else.

His playing is flawless. I was discussing his tone On the Dio albums he had a nice warm crunchy 80s Marshall tone. I love it. In this clip he's got a much colder, shriller tone. Guess it's the difference between German perfection and flawlessness, the Engl Wagner opera tone - meets the Brittish "hey lad, fancy a pint" soulful Marshall tone. Again, just a matter of taste.

I watched the clip now that I got home. Yes, he still rips. Can't say that I like his tone better now though. I think his tone back in the day was really special. Now he sounds just like any old schmuck with a high gain amp. Can't beat 80's tone!

He was good with Dio, and Dio made his two best albums with him. So, as much as he was good, so was the songs he played on. It was a win win. As for Leppard, I have no opinion, as they started to really suck when he came aboard. So, he might still be good, but the albums he played on with Leppard sucks.

There are some serious pinches 20 minutes in to this live clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuH8QZIAo-w

Very interesting. Where this line of Slammer pickups the same as the ones used in the US Hamer's? That is, were they OEM, wound by Dimarzio USA? Then I'd take it they are very good pickups. Love to try them out.

Depends on how much effort and resources they want to devote to swatting a fly. But yes, if the lawyer gets greedy, he's toast. WCM have inhouse lawyers. They are p.r.e.t.t.y. good at fighting these things. It's not like they turn up once a year.... They have about 1.5 million songs in their catalogue. Imagine how many times a year they get claims like this on songs they currently have on the charts, from every other kind of weirdo. They are experts at intellectual property.

Doubt they will settle anything. The Warner/Chappell lawyers will tear them to shreads. I'd love to read the correspondance. Lolz.

As a music publisher I say the case is extremely weak. They are makin' fools out of themselves. Then again, I'd hardly ever heard of the band Spirit. So the publicity they create by this may well generate some income for them when people are listening in on Youtube and Spotify etc. In the limelight again after 40 years, for fifteen minutes - then forgotten again.

The one big thing I hate about Strats. They are so sensitive to what pickups are in it, and you just can't mag swap them either. Changing pickups is a pain in the butt. And on the T62 it's even worse with all the little wires to the HEQ cirquit. I've changed them twice. Won't do it again.

What are those pickups? I had Antiquity Surfers in my T62, Texas Hot at the bridge. Never got them to sound right. Changed them recently to Texas Hot Ants in all three positions. Much better. Now it sounds like a strat should. No ice pick, just smooth smoky groove, with an edge when needed.

Seriously, we should do it.

Tone is not in your fingers, it's in your wallet. You want to sound like Hendrix, you must have this one. It's 50s tone after all: http://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/topic/65203-psa-nik-huber-rietbergen/

Sad but glorious at the same time. A huge congrats. The last new "Hamer congrats" I will ever write I guess........

This one goes out to the bastids at FMC:

F*ck. That sucks big time. Now someone has to bend the Hamer brand out of Fenders hands and start small scale production agan. You guys could do it.

I got a mail from Mitch way over a month ago that he had sent me a package. I even forgot about it, as nothing showed up. Then he sent me an inquiry about the package and I was a bit worried, as nothing had arrived. Turns out he found my old address somewhere and sent it there, so of it went - back to the sender. He was gracious enough to post it a second time, and it turned up today. Ain't HFC the best place! I've been really low since February due to family reasons. Anything that can shear me up is something I value dearly. This package that arrived today put a smile on my face. Such a nice thing to do. It's already been mounted on the MIII, now officially named "The Disturber". Cool, ain't it! I even feel better for playing like absolute shit yesterday when we tried to record some new material. I might be a hack, but I'm now a hack with style! Can't touch that.

I watched it without turning the sound on. Looks like she was knitting or something. Bet there was a lot of medely medely mees in there. As Coolfeel said, she looked boored.

Ha, ha. I thought this was dead funny. "Limits". Well not if you are in the zone where is sounds sweet and great. Who thinks Dimebag had good tone? It's a damn chainsaw. Use all the pedals you want for that. Cheez, want more gain than a JCM800 can deliver and you'r in Korn country, or pantera for that matter. Who wants to go there? It's just as bad as wearing shorts on stage. Oh, wait he did. Lolz. Just kidding.... Modern metal music sucks! edit: what I mean is that a great sounding amp that has the power tubes distorting usually sounds way sweet. More gain and it, to my ears, becomes kinda over the top, and most of the time has to rely on pre amp gain (which I usually don't like) or a pedal of some kind. But you can use a tube screamer to goose the preamp section in to distorting the power tubes. That can be really sweet. Or a treble booster type of pedal. For singlecoil guitars a tube screamer, or vintage RAT, can be great to boost things up. Just not to much of the hot sauce. A strat has the tendency to sound a little thin through a Marshall anyways, so a pedal often makes sense. But what the hell do I know. Use all the pedals you want. Personally I use my old Fulldrive when I play my Newport or T62. And the great Fulltone Catalyst pedal for gnarly fuzz tones. Mighty close to cork sniffery, there, Disturber. That, and a "Get off my lawn" kind of elderly perspective But you underscore a valid point- that it's all in the ear of the beholder, i.e. very subjective. Yeah, I was just takin' the piss. As I wrote, what do I know...? The Swedish band ENTOMBED used the dreadfull BOSS HM2 for their classic guitarsound on their first albums, perhaps still does. Bands in this genre pay big bucks for this (stinkin') pedal. Although I think they are a cool band, when it comes to guitar tone.... ...it kinda sucks. It fits the music though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsdWLtPAVqM And the Swedish band Meshuggah used Line 6 modules for their sound 10 years ago. I think they use them FX modellers now. For that kinda sound, who needs tubes. Its just buzzing anyways, lolz.

Ha, ha. I thought this was dead funny. "Limits". Well not if you are in the zone where is sounds sweet and great. Who thinks Dimebag had good tone? It's a damn chainsaw. Use all the pedals you want for that. Cheez, want more gain than a JCM800 can deliver and you'r in Korn country, or pantera for that matter. Who wants to go there? It's just as bad as wearing shorts on stage. Oh, wait he did. Lolz. Just kidding.... Modern metal music sucks! edit: what I mean is that a great sounding amp that has the power tubes distorting usually sounds way sweet. More gain and it, to my ears, becomes kinda over the top, and most of the time has to rely on pre amp gain (which I usually don't like) or a pedal of some kind. But you can use a tube screamer to goose the preamp section in to distorting the power tubes. That can be really sweet. Or a treble booster type of pedal. For singlecoil guitars a tube screamer, or vintage RAT, can be great to boost things up. Just not to much of the hot sauce. A strat has the tendency to sound a little thin through a Marshall anyways, so a pedal often makes sense. But what the hell do I know. Use all the pedals you want. Personally I use my old Fulldrive when I play my Newport or T62. And the great Fulltone Catalyst pedal for gnarly fuzz tones.

Nice!

I think they should let these clowns perform instead. No one will know the difference anyway.

I'll do even better, I'll post something that is funky. It's Friday after all. Chilipeppers in 1990, with Frusciante; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79I3tYxBuOg&list=WLBUu6pXVbHdDfGjvjo44t9Q07z-pRMKEO

Was she dressed or un-dressed?