MCChris

DiNizio was a customer at the Chicago GC when I worked there. He was one of the first in line for the new EBMM EVH models. I remember him being something of a surly cock. Probably due to the fact that we charged him full retail because everyone was paying that price for those when they first came out.

Just using your word - not implying that you were high. I just meant that you're older now and not as impressed by these random events. I dunno. There's something about being in the same room as EVH that will always be impressive.

That was a loooonnng time ago. I doubt you's be as "misted" now if that happened again. No, I was stone sober then, as I was working (not that I never worked a shift there wasted, but not that night). Now the time I was at a Houston icehouse and offered a simple "What's up" when realized I was sitting next to Billy F'ing Gibbons, I was completely shitfaced lol.

I must say I misted up a bit when I met Eddie Van Halen at the Hard Rock Cafe in Chicago. I was working there at a reception for a bunch of musicians who played at a Jason Becker benefit show in town. Billy Sheehan, Steve Lukather, Rod Morgenstein and a bunch of other guys like that were there. Toward the end of the night it was me, one of the restaurant managers (Boz Scaggs' brother, actually) and EVH in a back office where Eddie was signing some memorabilia on his way out the back door. I gave him one of my band's CDs and he was very gracious and cool about it. I got a little emotional because I flashed back to the first time I'd ever heard VHII as a kid, one of my all-time greatest musical memories. The whole thing was beyond surreal.

Such a horseshit nickel-and-dime tactic. How can a seller predict how a buyer will like the way a guitar plays and have it set up accordingly? Hell, even taking your own guitar to someone yourself for a set-up won't guarantee you get it back the way you like it. eBay sucks.

I like those elements of your description. You'll get pushback from the inclusion of the word "soul," but generally that means a human element to the playing. The knock on a lot of shredders is that they're too mechanical, precise, and robotic. Thus, little or no human element.

"I enjoy simple pleasures like butter in my ass and lollipops in my mouth."http://youtu.be/cH0kOWNtLFo

Ultimately it boils down to what impresses you about music and guitar playing.

Must be the same guys who have their personal techs/luthiers give the instrument a once-over before the sale.

That upper horn fits perfectly. Explains why the trem bar is sticking straight up. Lame jokes aside, she has a very cool lead style! Not just a retread of the Shrapnel Records legato playing and tone.

Sucks to be you. Don't forget to bring the goalie mask.

Gonna wait for the weather forecast to see if there's a debilitating blizzard I can drive into the teeth of.

I wish! Would have made a lot more money, played for bigger crowds and crashed in much nicer hotels!

'81 Prototype, purchased used in '93, I believe:

Could be a very long wait........................................................... http://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/topic/57908-2013-buy-no-guitars-challenge-sign-up-here/?p=610876

I vote that such a thing be allowed. Wouldn't want the likes of Stike or murkat to be deprived of business due to this idiocy.

The premise of this thread ain't exactly incentive for Hamer to re-enter the marketplace. Just sayin' lol.

Sign me up.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4154

Well, for starters, the $85K price tag, one based squarely on the fascination of an affluent generation's males with the likes of SRV, Mayer, Landreth and the other guys mentioned in this thread. For a hobbyist/collector/hero worshipper with money to burn, owning a Dumble has nothing to do with tone. A working musician will get that tone with a Menatone Howie pedal into a Fender combo set clean, and won't have to pay the price of a well-equipped Mercedes Benz to get it.

The only way those signatures might move the needle would be if they were in the lower right hand corner of deposit checks in the amount of several thousand dollars each. Which isn't gonna happen, so the point is moot. http://hark.com/clips/mtcqmtqjyl-money-talks-and-bullshit-walks

That was the only thing I remembered about him, but he was pretty non-douchey to me this time. Maybe it was a good day. Either that or he's been humbled. Life has a funny way of doing that to world class dicks.

Sounds like Douche LaRouche is sitting on an amp that fewer and fewer people give a shit about anymore, certainly not enough to pay money for that would be better spent on arthritis specialists and association fees for the golf-course communities in which they live. Sucks to be him!

Those Alltone speakers they put out for a while were the best bang-for-the-buck going at the time. I had a couple in a Peavey Classic 50 that sounded great.

And there, in a nutshell, is another big reason why Hamer went kaput. Consumers don't accept it when something that was made once won't be made again, seemingly on a whim, even when said consumer is willing to pay for the privilege. They simply take their business elsewhere and put the brand that rebuked them in the archives.