Steve Haynie

Nah. Next... Hmmm... try this: Kiss My Ass -- Look What I Got! How's that?

It would be nice to see the outline of the Ultimate on top of the outline of the Standard. If that waste is a little more narrow, that is cool. The shape of the Hamer Rick Nielsen model looked too radical for some people, but it was more comfortable to play when sitting down. So, do the Ultimates feel different enough to notice when sitting while playing?

That is a beautiful guitar, but now it really makes that play it & ding it vs. babying it thread a little more interesting. Play it.

Put little stickers of fish on that deep blue finish and you have a winner!

Is the upper "horn" a little different than a Standard?

Well then prove it. Add some wings and throw it across the room to see if it flies like a paper airplane.

At the store where I worked we had a problem with Music Man necks having the fret ends slightly sticking out a tiny amount due to wood shrinkage. It was because of where they were displayed in the store more than anything because there was an HVAC vent near that section of the wall. We did not have that problem with other brands. At home my guitars do not have humidity problems. Year round it is humid around here. AC is nice in the summer. When I was a kid we sweated eleven months out of the year.

DSL is 4 you? The car driver sold Internet services?

Now that medical marijuana is getting legalized everywhere you would think that some rock stars or rappers would be getting endorsement contracts. George Clinton was on the game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! proudly letting the audience know he has his marijuana card.

Early on quilted maple seemed to be associated with high end basses rather than guitars.

When the animated cartoons of the 30's and 40's cameos of the likenesses of contemporary celebrities no one complained. It was always one time use, and no one thought much about it. There is a point at which someone starts making a lot of money off of person's image, and that is where there is a need to step in with intellectual rights to the image. If Michael Jackson's image could be used freely under public domain there would be endless use of his image to sell thousands of products. The public image of a person is every bit as marketable as a copyrighted image or a trademarked image. Charlie Brown and Snoopy are not even real, but they have sold a lot of toys, lunchboxes, and clothing. KISS is a group of real people who sell toys, lunchboxes, and clothing. It is the same thing.

Two fancy maple tops were bought in the 90's, and they suit me just fine. One is a Les Paul and the other is my 8 string Chaparral bass. murkat reveneered a Sunburst for me a couple of years ago with a nice flame, and the look of that guitar is just right. Not too flamey. Not too plain. My three korina Hamers are all natural and look good, too. Of the three instruments, none come to mind because of the looks. Instead it is all about the feel. If I ever order a Shishkov, the great looking maple tops are tempting, but a solid black or white finish will work just as well.

You suck.

10 minutes into the regular ticket sales and there are no seats coming up in the front three sections except for one on the last row of a side section. What comes up most are seats more than a football field's length away from the stage, mostly on the outside sections. Those seats in the back are $113 plus fees each. If I have to pay $140 or so to watch a giant video screen I can do that at home with a DVD and not have to spend 45 minutes waiting to get out of a parking lot when it is over. By the way, the Ticketbastard fees go up in price with the ticket prices. There is no difference in the transaction other than seat location. No human's time is used. No extra computer processing is used.

Those might have come out mid to late 80's with a list price of $1500 to $1700. They were limited to 500 in the original signed and numbered run. I think that is correct, but others will make corrections if necessary. That price is high.

Steve Morse and Albert Lee were snapped up by Music Man in the mid 80's. Glenn Tipton remained loyal to Hamer from that time forward as well. Somewhere in the 80's Fender was floundering and the company was bought cheap.

Yup. There was a seat number. On Tuesday there is a Citicard presale. Maybe something decent will come up. Whether or not I go to the show depends on getting within 10 rows of the stage for the price they are asking.

Today's presale is just for the VIP packages. $300 or $400. Just to see what would come up, there was 5 rows back in the center for $400. That is more than I can afford. The seat would be nice, though.

$166 for the good seats in Alpharetta! For that much my seat better be within ten rows!

Rush has never been a band to run around and jump onstage. They will be playing into their 70's.

Well... let's see if a good seat pops up for Alpharetta. There should have been a Charlotte show, too.

Les Paul's recordings had notes played in the dogs and dolphins range. He got that effect by recording at half speed and then getting the effect of the notes sounding an octave higher when played back at normal speed. That sounded unique, but when I heard some Homer and Jethro recordings that were basically jazz mandolin Les Paul's recordings sounded very contemporary for their time. The Virtuoso ought to put guitar players in that same tonal range.

That is cool at the beginning. Ted Nugent's bass player, Greg Brown, was the first person I can recall to use a Go-Pro onstage. Your band looks like everyone is having a good time playing. The audience sure did. Wyldbil rocks on!

Alex got his own signature amp from Hughes & Kettner. If he goes with the Axe FX what is point of the amps? Just sample all the amps you want and you have them in one unit. Why buy a Slash or Kerry King model Marshall? This whole modeling thing could kill of some royalties from the sale of signature model amps. They NEED those amps on stage. FWIW murkat let me play through his Axe FX. My playing level is not so great, but my hearing is OK. The Axe FX really is amazing at how real it sounds. If I were able to play loud, I would want to have a real amp just for smell of hot tubes and all the quirks. That is my preference. If I was in a touring band and responsible for my own gear, an Axe FX would be a good option. If there is a crew to load in a ton of gear and keep it all running, there would be no need to care what is there as long as it works.