MCChris

^^^ Exactly. No one who's ever gotten what they asked for can say they were ripped off. Nor would I say someone who finds a $1000 Les Paul in their attic and is happy to get $200 for it because it's $200 more than they would have had otherwise was ripped off. Hell, I'll even apply that same scenario to a real '59 flame top. It's not a business owner's responsibility to educate a customer unless they ask to be educated. "Never talk your way out of a sale," incoming or outgoing, is Sales 101.

As it should be. Yet, entitled assholes still take that as a personal affront.

Vastly skewed toward entitled assholery on the part of the customer, in my experience. Not close to a one-to-one ratio.

So, an entitled asshole.

And others are entitled assholes. When I worked at GC (over 20 years ago now, oy) I dreaded dealing with any sort of trade-in or street buy.

Mirage II.

^^^ Pitch it into the drink. If it comes back after that, then something truly weird is going on.

This won't sit well with serial or BadgerDave, but a Line 6 Duoverb. Sounded so awful that i probably had it hooked up to the cabinet wrong (used the direct out or something, who knows). But then I played through Dave's, which I assume was hooked up right, and it sounded a little better, but not much.

GAH! This is a helluva deal!

Great guy, great prices on three unique pieces.

^^^^ Agreed. Almost done with September, the month I bought the MCC last year. The unfortunate but understandable lack of a Chicago Hamer event this year should make October a little easier to get through. Then comes December, my birthday month. It ain't over yet.

HAHAHAHA! Matthes' rants on this subject are on par with my anti-eBay/ELO diatribes.

Hahaha yep. The second someone drops the L word, you know you're dealing with a wannabe poseur asshole. As sure a thing as when someone opens or closes a story with "true story" or "I swear to God this is true," said story is bullshit.

HAHAHAHAHA!

Do I even need to say it?

LOL

More Slash:

Also, if you do iTunes, there's a live iTunes Session with Slash, Myles and their current band. They do the two songs they did together on Slash's previous solo album plus Zep, GnR and Velvet Revolver covers. Pretty good.

HAHAHAHA! That's exactly what I was fixin' to do when I saw the thread title and the author! Nothing else to add other than yes, I'm a big Slash fan. The "Sweet Child O' Mine" solo is as finely executed a rock lead as I can think of.

You know it's a cool piece when Steve reacts this way.

Botched marketing opportunity? Seems FMIC was destined to acquire Hamer.

Starcaster Bass is way cool.

Fucking awesome. Saw them live once and the guitarists had the Page tones NAILED through a pair of Fender Champs.

"Puzzle Time" just came up on shuffle. This is good shit, folks. Get thee a copy.

Agreed on all counts. Chris is a great guy and his new CD is excellent.