Steve Haynie

This has been an interesting thread so far. Thank you, Brent.

+1! I don't know if you blame everybody else for changing everything around over the years and turning music into crap, but I sure do. Edited to add: My message to youth: Get off my lawn!

In my 20's and 30's all that old music was collected and consumed. It was possible to listen to Megadeth one day and Woody Herman the next. Keely Smith is better than Lita Ford. Les Paul was cool long before Jimi Hendrix.

Of my friends, I am the only one listening to Coheed & Cambria. After hating Cookie Monster vocals for so long, Amon Amarth has been surprisingly good. There is a point where new bands go in a different direction than what has come before them. If they are good, they are good.

That girl can sing! The band is good, too.

One day you need to add a first generation Cruise Bass to your collection. ...and then a 12 string of some kind. Blitz Basses are cool.

The '59 is color more people are used to. If you should ever sell or trade your Shiskov it will be easier with a '59 burst. As Chris and Sugartune have said, part of the pricing is the same color for everyone. Having to mix/spray/clean up for a different finish costs more time. If you know you are going to keep the guitar forever, pay an upcharge and go with the green and let it be an extension of your personality. The Shiskov is not going to be like your shredders, so is it what you really want to play all the time or just occasionally?

Do we assume this just ain't happenin'?

Big deal. A monkey grip body and a 5 + 1 headstock will keep away the trademark police, and no one will really notice those changes.

That's some funny stuff right ther. And makes the things I asked for seem more reasonable... But if Rick Nielsen wants it... Oh, wait, different guitar company.

"Wow!" again!

Although it shouldn't need to be said, the aforementioned item is NOT an available option. Well... That is a deal breaker for me.

Ooohhh... We usually complain when someone talks about a double standard. In this case double Standards are a good thing!

That tour came through here in the last week or so. Having seen Styx so often in the last few years along with knowing Mick Jones might not be with Foreigner turned me off from buying a ticket. On Friday 38 Special is playing a show, and my ticket is on the front row. The thing about all these bands is that you can go to a show and every song they play will be recognizable from airplay or albums that were the top sellers of their day. Very little can be considered "music for insiders" with these bands.

Yeah, but did you play it LOUD and IN SOMEBODY'S FACE? That guitar is made for rock and roll!

Metal Church - Generation Nothing

Robert Johnson The Complete Recordings

Tell me where to Paypal $20 toward that.

That Dolly Parton song sounds like a cross between Stairway To Heaven and House Of The Rising Sun, IF you try to think of what other songs sound similar. The song stands on its own.

A lawyer has gone fishing. 40+ years after the fact is too long to be taken seriously.

conorb, you should get new truss rod covers. One can say "Ooooohh" and the other can say "Aaaaahh."

Yes. It is so cool that the last Hamer went to someone on this message board, AND someone who was buying Hamers 30 years ago. Let's hope Gibson does not sue over the bell shaped truss rod cover. It might get Hamer shut down. What a subtle way to give the flying finger at the end.

You suck.

That guitar has a 70's look. Somehow, it gives the feeling that it would have been one of those guitars wished for all during high school. Does it feel like an old friend?

Are other guitar manufacturers offering jobs yet? Surely the reputation of all of the Hamer crew would have been known to people at other companies.