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Getting off the PURE topic - but this is the HFC after all - there are/were some players who can/could so an awful lot with a few notes though brevity, phrasig, taste. BB King as notedMiles Davis. I don't think he had the pure CHOPS of, say, Gillespie but man just listen to how he solos. His first solo in "So What" off Kind of Blue is famous for the clam about 14 bars in but it's a great example of how to say a lot by saying littleAhmad Jamal. The man can play the piano but is a fierce minimalist. "Poinciana" live off But Not For Me he has a couple choruses with just a note or two, and the beauty is in making you WANT that next oneNot a lot of minimalist rockers.

The Scheithauer Custom Bo Diddley Charlie Christian is without doubt one of the odder but cooler instruments I've seen.

For shows: the PRS CE24. It gets a lot of sounds, won't break if I drop it, and stays in tune for a whole set. Around the house? Been playing the Koa Studio a lot. "New toy" buzz.

+1. I kinda thought GnR was an Aerosmith tribute band when they got big, except I couldn't stand Axl's thin, nasal, caterwauling falsetto whine. Like Ethel Merman in a helium tank. Dug Slash's playing right away. He has a great sense of phrasing and melody, musicality.

Man, a pretty Studio with wrap tail, belly cut and SD Antiquities... add in the Koa and the weird provenance... I had to save you from buying it. Also my wife thought it looked good.

PMd ya, hectorp

That HACL speaks to me. What is that top made outta? Nice color. Standard medium-ish 90s neck I'd guess? JB and 59 or something special under the hood?

+1 on getting it fixed. But when I bought an '81 Special with NO pickups in it I got Dimarzio 36th in both positions and was very happy. The bridge in particular kills: really clear but aggressive, just how I hear a "rawk" tone in my head. The neck is quite nice too, though I'm not the biggest fan of neck humbuckers this one isn't too bassy.

I liked Rick Springfield doing "Oh Well" best. A very talented dude.

Interesting stories. Me: hacked at it a little at age 9. Took a few after school lessons at age 11, then studied alto sax for two years. After that it was just learning from other guys in bands I was in, asking questions. My brother was a huge help. He also studied alto sax, but "legit" in music school at Florida State, which had a pretty tough woodwind program. He helped me a lot with theory and phrasing and listening to a wide range of music. I still mostly learn from peers, though that "Accelerate your Guitar Playing" DVD was useful. Trouble with playing originals is no one in the bands typically reads or even knows jack shit about theory so I can't sight read at all now.

Yes. I do owe it to myself to try one or a few. I like the made-in-USA angle, the fact that they kind of do their own thing. But the website is hideous. 3D type, explosions, hype like the "rapid play neck assures the best possible string action..." all add up to an "as seen on TV, act now, not sold in stores" vibe that scares me away. I know this is about the guitars not their marketing but their image isn't very appealing to me. Compare to the Hamer site or the Suhr site, which come across as quietly high quality. But I'm old fashioned.

I had a guitar with an EMG 60 and I liked it.

I'm pretty prolific (not gonna say it's the highest QUALITY) in writing. Have a couple hundred songs recorded and probably a couple hundred riffs and ideas and half-finished demos recorded too. When I was single several years back I'd write and demo a song every weekday night. I think it's like a lot of authors or the Nashville pros: you sit down with a set time block to write and you work it out. You can't count on inspiration. You basically decide you're gonna a do a (choose one: party, breakup, love, political, drinkin') song in the vein of (AC/DC, Sugarland, The xxx, Sigur Ros) and the hook or chorus will be (a punny one-liner, a mysterious phrase, the thing you overheard at the grocery store that day) and you... just. do. it.

It has what - IMHO (In My Hack Opinion) - makes him special. Chops sure, out the wazoo. But his playing sounds FUN, at least when he's having fun. It swings and bounces and jumps and dances.

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Here in Atlanta at our HRC there's a Sunburst that is labeled as having belonged to Eddie Van Halen. Highly dubious... Ha. When I think of "She's Tight," I think of a very attractive friend who became very good pals with Jon Brandt after CT played here... Ha.

Yes. Every city has a small brewery or two making good stuff. The beer from the big guys - Coors, Bud, Miller, etc - is unremarkable. It's like Swedish beer, like Falcon. Hop water. Great Lakes Brewing Company makes good beer in that part of the country. Here in Atlanta we must have a dozen little breweries, with Sweetwater the most prominent. Rogue is huge in the northwest, and yeah Dead Guy Ale is great. Try to seek out Highland Brewing Company. Their Gaelic Ale is fantastic, and I designed their logo, packaging, poster, and did their slogan "Just a Wee Bit Different"

Say no more. The master of the "wow" brief solo. I'd say the one from "Shake it Up" says more in eight bars than most players do in 32.

I love it! Wow, you are one lucky and determined SOB. Bet it plays great, too. Enjoy.

Finished this last night. Lyt pedalboard in "flight"case (sturdy but they exaggerate about this being ATA-level) Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 under the riser Planet Waves connector cables Signal: Guitar > Vox wah (off the board) > Korg Pitchblack > MXR Dual Loop Box > amp input Loop A > MXR Custom Badass 78 Distortion > Cusack Tap-a-Whirl > Ibanez DE-7 Loop B > ZVex Fuzz Factory > Korg KP3 Kaoss pad (controlled by XY MIDI pad built into guitar)The Dual Loop Box lets you pick one or both loops... or neither, so you send the unaffected signal to the amp. It's handy for keeping the KP3 out of the signal chain. The Kaoss Pad is a pretty wacky unit, so I also keep the Fuzz Factory switched on in this B "crazy shit" loop. The KP3 uses RCA ins and outs which are "consumer" line level of -10dB. I was worried I'd have trouble with unbalanced high-impedence instrument level going in and out of it, but you can adjust the input level of the KP3 so the level is fine. Hosa makes a stereo splitter: dual male RCA to male TRS (NOT stereo, so you don't lose half the signal) so it all worked out fine. I'm considering routing the cables under the board but they're pretty neatly bundled with Velcro ties so it's probably not worth it as it'd take a buttload of drilling that I might later regret..

I got a kid who's excited to spend a weekend at the cabin with her dad, goofin' around, singing songs, splashing in creeks and climbing mountains.

Much interest, no confirmed sale.

Sperzels do need an additional teensy retaining hole. They come with a template and it's a 3-minute job.

Bumpity-bump

Haven't even gotten 'em out of the box. Was gonna hot rod my Slammer Series Daytona then decided to sell it instead. Fiddy bucks, includes USPS shipping to the US.