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Love Henry Vestine's two guitar solos, start about 4:30 mark. The fuzz tone is so dry and cool - especially the second solo where the fuzz is feeding back and getting half-gated/spitty at the same time (insert fist-pump icon here).

WTF is Shlabtniks?? Extremely hard to find pickups wound by a crazed Eastern European madman/evil genius who is also noteworthy for discovering the lost chord and possibly inventing Kielbasa sausage.

Let's see now: A Weber Silver Bell for my JMP's matching oversized 2X12 so I can take one of the Creambacks out and put it in my Phaez combo. New set of headphones for my Pono player and a Kimber Kable to connect it to my car's aux input. Some quality time with my wife and two sons home safely for the Holidays. Yeah, that oughta do it!!

61 years young today. Enjoy yer birfday man!!

It all started for me in the late '70's after seeing so many pros putting DiMarzio's in their guitars. Although I was only playing Japanese LP copies at the time, I just had to try them, so got myself a set of DiMarzio PAF and Distortion pu's and put them in my Northern brand sunburst LP copy (the made for Canada mkt ones w/maple leaf fret markers). Think I also put Grovers on it too, IIRC. Wish I had that guitar back actually - was a pretty decent sounding/playing LP actually. I don't always change pu's however - only if I feel the end result will justify the cost/bother of swapping out.

That's some hard work. I've never had to change my shirt once, let alone four times. ^^^ That made me laugh! Reminded me of my youngest son when he was about 5-6 - had to take his shirt off to have a crap every single time. Not sure why, but it was f'n hilarious...

OUCH!! Do feel your pain there... '69 Plexi for a grand - what was the catch? Fire sale? Someone didn't know what they had? Beater?....

^^^ Nice! A good Artist can cover a lot of ground - very versatile and looks classy to boot.

I've always used the Korg clip-ons. Was so impressed by the first one or two I bought, I went back and bought enough for each guitar/bass case my son and I have so we're never lacking one when we need it. Threw a spare battery in there as well as they're just wafer-sized...

He has the same bloated features that Gene does! Too much brisket, booze and soft living...

Thanks for getting the weight, but that takes me outta the running unfortunately. GLWTS all the same!

Last Standard had to have been in the 9.5+ range. Aging shoulder could only handle it for one set and that was it... If this one's reasonable, I might dive back in the Standard "pool" once again.

Sugartune - you have a chance to weigh that beasty yet? Enquiring minds gots ta know...

Gene - he mentioned he replaced them in the OP along with the pickups...

It just needs a cream pickguard to go with the cream surrounds and a guy would be set.

How much does that slab of mahogany delight weigh?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Christ NO!!!!!!! Gotta love Brit humour. Good one Ben...

Not his guitar really - he plays a Gibson LP Goldtop. Suspect a good chunk of the problem is with his signal chain - a ten pedal board wired in series routed thru a generic multi-effects pedal into a SS Marshall combo (MG50 or some such). Yikes!

Yep, I'm going to bring my Zoom out to the next session and maybe we can get some time to review the results afterwards over some beers. We've dashed off quickly afterwards before with everyone so damn busy it seems. I suspect the problem lies in his learning guitar at home playing alone. Guitar tones that "work" well at home routinely don't sound good in a full band mix. He's uploaded some demoes online with simple drum tracks/bass lines, so possibly that's why he thinks he needs such a thick stew of effects/gain. His stuff is all blues/blues-rock, so certainly doesn't warrant the tons of saturated gain he slathers on. I can't rule out that he might be compensating a bit for his playing with all the distortion, consciously or not.

Some great input here - many thanks guys. Can always count on the HFC for some no BS collective wisdom. This place rocks!!