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Has anyone ever gone on one of these before? Line up... I'm not really a big autograph/fan boi/oh look a celebrity type of person but it could be fun to see a lot of band performances up close. Are they fun? Lame? What say ye?

Yes, very effective demonstration vid! I was surprised to hear Alanis Morisette being played about midway through, nice job.

Nice summary! My '89 chaparral custom isn't flame top but solid 2 piece flame maple body with set neck. I thought it came with SD pus; JB and 2 SSLs which I switched to a tone zone and 2 old Dim. Slammer single coils (my fav single coils!). I'm about to swap out the tz for an old Slammer HB. Anyway, I like the shorter scale ones a lot. I think their proportions might look the best overall to me, but I tend to like the longer scale for a shredder guitar.

I always preferred the more extreme angle of those headstocks than the others. YMMV

Hamer Standard story from Rick

Last TV I took in to fix was in 1985. Yep, use to be a thing! I remember my mom buying an Amana Radarange microwave oven from the newly opened microwave store! Times have changed for sure!

Loving you Sunday Morning, Scorpions. My ring tone on my wife's phone

I always stop at Goodwill to peruse their records but almost always walk away disappointed; just how many Davis Soul, Engelbert Humperdinck, Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass albums did they press, and why are they all at my Goodwill? I even played trumpet for years but enough is enough! Some of the vinyl that looked a little promising was in such bad shape I would not play them on my equipment. Anyway, the other day I found a near mint SOR: 20 STUDIES FOR GUITAR JOHN WILLIAMS record for a buck so I finally bought one there! I'll continue my quest.

It sounds like you just need to woodshed on your picking. Start the correct picking stokes slowly and avoid the temptation to go fast. You'll lose your form and will probably be playing with sloppy technique as you're just not there yet. No use to practice anything the wrong way no matter how fast or slow it's played. When you have the right technique down the speed will come with practice. Use a metronome and your playing will sound better when playing in time and give you motivation as you see your speed increase. The only advice opposing this is what John Petrucci uses in developing speed. He says he will try a new run or lick at say 140BPM with perfect technique, but then he'll just kill himself trying at say 180BPM. Then when he comes back down to 140BPM it's easier because the speed seems like slow motion now compared to 180. Although, I probably wouldn't try that yet until your basic picking is solid. Our own Kevin Dillard (I think he's still around but haven't heard from him lately - if so say hi Kevin!) wrote a book called Intelli-shred which helped me visualize the board in a more vertical way than just the horizontal boxes. He also had another book after that about arpeggios but I don't have that one. Fretboard logic has helped me visualize the fretboard as well. The SE version has books one and two together. I tried the Grimoire series like Jettster used before (still uses?) But, I sold them because I couldn't memorize every page, scale, mode etc. to memory like Rodney did!! And finally, it might be good to practice a run from a song like "Love Gun" that's just a didley-didley run but may make practice more enjoyable. Good luck!!!

Riot also rocked!!

Started when I heard Lovedrive in high school. They use to let us bring these big ass cassette players (some were about 2'x2'!) fully cranked at lunch and between classes in CA. It was "Lovin' you Sunday Morning" Then it was the Animal Magetism album then the rest of the older Uli stuff. I held on for several more albums then the newer stuff didn't do it for me although some of it was good. They are still my fav band I've seen live. The energy that they exude on stage makes me think of a traveling gypsy show where they are playing for whatever tips they can get...weird I know!

PM'd ya! I love Mathias!

I also use an old credit card to remove stuff near the fret w/o scratching. I finish up with 2 grades of synthetic steel wool w/o iron in it. to polish things up.

Does anyone know who's coming up tonight and Friday? I've DVR'd both.

Do the new vinyls have any better qualities that the old ones had...such as less surface noise due to better (new?) materials? Just wondering.

I still have my Sansui turntable that's about 32 years old(!!)and still works great! I think I replaced a belt once. It has an EMprie cartridge that's still going strong. I had the stock one and possibly a Shure in there at other times. I also still have all my old vinyl. So, many memories!

Guy in between the two could be a roadie, or a typical guitarist with his arms crossed thinking he could play it better, or both! Nice rhythm parts and solo! I remember when I first heard that solo and said WTF!

Yeah, but I bet she'll score higher in her SAT test than you did! Man, some of these young guitarist coming up...scary.

That girl is so cute. More power to her!!

Weirdest thing; I JUST looked up Topo Gigio yesterday because my sis in law named her dog that...interesting!

For both, if he's doing it right! I home-brew. I have 2 kits to brew but just haven't had the time lately.

Thanks for all the info! I checked on my cheapie and it's a Hohner Old standby in C ...so I guess I could cross it to play in G. It was only like 10 bucks or so and it included a booklet and DVD. Good enough for where I'm at, especially since I haven't actually "played" it yet!

What does the cross harp actually mean? Why select A for playing in E? I bought a cheapy from MF awhile back and haven't learned a thing. It had basic instructions but ...any tips? What about blowing separate notes?...any tips appreciated!!! I'm, not going to invest too much time on this so I'll probably always suck but what's the fastest way to sound like you sorta know what you're doing?!

OK, back on target. The work you did on the cab is top notch - you could sell these things! Also, I wish I kept my EV but needed (probably just wanted) the money at the time.

OK, makes sense. It's like (I believe) the proper pronunciation for Porsche is Por-sha as that's what the guys name was...Ferdinand Porsche. So, I hate when people call it Porsh. If I'm wrong I apologize and please correct me! It's kind of like how Walther guns (which I own) are pronounced like you think it should be Wal-Ther but the correct pronunciation is Val-ter because there's no TH sound in German (at least that's what I've been told). But, everyone's Americanized it and calls it Wal-ther...even me. Not sure why the Por-sha thing bothers me so much!