MCChris

Condolences to you, Bill. My mom (who lives with my wife and I now) had a heart attack over the summer and was hospitalized for six weeks. She's better now; in fact today and tomorrow I'm taking her in for stress tests. Still, we almost lost her, and that was hard enough to deal with. You have my sincere sympathy.

You forgot linkage. Can I help it if I have real-world experience with this stuff? Did I just say that?

Yeah. The only thing I've ever bought off a TV ad was that elongated spray nozzle thingy that's supposed to spray gutters clean and eliminate the need to get up on a ladder. I've sat on bidets that put out more pressure than that POS.

I've heard that Cold Heat thing is totally worthless for musical instrument applications. Can anyone confirm?

+1. When the wife's in the car we'll tune to one of these "formatless" stations that are all over the Chicago airwaves now. I try not to drive around with her very often.

I think everyone who's heard you play can agree that YOUR distorted tone sucks.

Great post.

The perfect closing statement.

Don't pull threads. Lock more threads, with the final post being from a moderator explaining the reason. That way, whatever led up to the locking won't be some cryptic mystery and everyone can make their own judgments about the posts.

It's a sustain block.

Digging the Rios, are ya?

GIMME BACK MY SON!

Whichever one is loudest.

Which one and why? Chords without a sharp, flat or number in them are not allowed. Nor are chords that don't exist.

Probably somewhere being wishy washy.

OK let's not LIE to the man ... The one on the Willcutt's site looks like it's just an image they're using to illustrate the category. Doesn't look like they have one with P90s available, although they do have a humbucker version.

I'm open to moving this one along to someone who appreciates P90s more than I do:

Good. Now I can post what I wanted to all along: The first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was Mel Gibson in "Ransom": GIMME BACK MY SON! That and Harrison Ford's "Get off my plane!" from "Air Force One" are right up there with the "Road House" quotes.

Thanks for that.

How's this one for ya? I found the HFC through the Hamer website! Remember the circling eyeball around the import T51? So, had it not been for Hamer, I'd have never known about the HFC LOL!

"I think it means he can't have kids!" -- Archie Bunker

I disagree with what I feel is a very myopic and self-centered view of the situation.

You seem to be implying that internet message boards are what kept Hamer afloat for the past 10 years or so. I contend that such an implication is simply asinine and gives WAY too much credit to the HFC and places like it. Hamer's own marketing/advertising efforts and the work of their dealers DWARF what we do here in terms of exposing the brand to the public.

Unfortunately they've been notoriously bad at this for as long as I can remember. Their site now is LIGHT YEARS ahead of what it used to be, though.

I totally agree. We represent a small (albeit very loyal) minority of not only the guitar buying public but the potential Hamer buying public. Sure they sell some custom orders to us, but how many of them actually appear on big stages and thus increase the brand's visibility? Plus, we do more horse trading of used Hamers around here which benefits their bottom line not a whit. My theory is that they're trying to expand their reach a little bit. And based on the tone of some of the posts here already, can you blame 'em for not disrupting the factory for a day and buying lunch for the same bunch of dudes every year?