kenjones

Do you have a photo of the headstock on the Edwards?

Depends on the band. In a two guitar band I only use a clean boost and a tuner. If I'm the only guitar player I use a more to add some variety and to "fill out" the sound - delay, compressor, overdrive, tremolo, tuner.

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!

Wow - I saw that too! They also played "Thela Hun Ginjeet" which REALLY freaked me out!

Wow - John Cusack was in your band?? He loves the comparison to John Cusack BTW. He's now a radio DJ here in Houston: http://www.fmnewschannel975.com/images/savage.htm

Ooh, ooh... I can play twice! Typed letter from Hamer: Old publicity photo:

Paging Robin Expert Kenny Jones.... Made in Japan c.1985 by ESP. Body is ash. More info here: http://www.robinguitars.com/1985-2.html Here's mine:

My wife is always asking if I could play "Far, Far Away". Does anybody know where I can find the tab for that one?

Mine and Kiz's hanging out together:

I bought my special new in 1981. I had my "senior picture" taken with it. Click on my name to the left to see me and it in 1982.

You know, I can read these political discussions on here all day and not get irritated. I don't care if you are on the left or on the right. I just hope that a person considers both sides of an issue before they start spewing their point of view. But now when you start saying one of my favorite bands SUCKS - now that pisses me off. Granted, the Boomtown Rats music may not be for everyone, but all of their CDs were recently re-issued (including the never released on CD first album) and I have been getting a kick out of listening to them. Your post reminds me of when I was in high school (79-82) and I was constantly given shit because of the bands I listened to - such as The Police, Elvis Costello, The Clash, U2, Joe Jackson, XTC, The Sex Pistols, etc. - and all those paint-huffing, burnt-out at 15-years-old twerps wearing metal t-shirts would go out of their way to tell me that my favorite bands SUCKED. I could continue but I might start getting really rude...

"Freebird" My old band (The Missiles) had a "Freebird" rule. Whenever somebody would yell out "Freebird" or any other song of that ilk, one of us would say "OK, we'll play it, but YOU have to sing it!". If the loudmouth actually took us up on this, we would begin playing the song. The drunk guy would come up on stage, look out at the audience at his friends with a big "look at me!" grin, and begin to sing the song: "If I leave here tomorrow... would you still remember me... 'cause I'm... must.. be... traveling on... (long pause while drunk guy realizes that he doesn't know any more of the words) whoa, whoa, whoa... (shoots a look at the band to get us to "catch up" to where he's at in the song) And this bird you cannot change... whoa, whoa, whoa... We'd wrap up the song quickly, say "How 'bout a hand for our guest vocalist!", and continue on with our set. This must have happened a dozen times in the 200 or so gigs we played over 3-4 years and the vocalist/drunk NEVER knew the words and would always skip to the chorus/hook and expect us to follow him! "Karaoke" We played a bunch of frat parties at one point. We quickly discovered that we should play the material we wanted to play in first set (before the frat boys got loaded). The rest of the night was spent as "The Missiles Karaoke Band". The audience had a great time and we got to play a bunch of stuff we didn't know.

Great design. Simple, classic, derivative of the brand. Simple designs are the best IMO. 1 XL black for me! How's about using shirts without the huge, itchy tags?

I've never had a USPS MO lost (yet!). One thing I have noticed, when it takes forever to receive a MO for an eBay auction, I always get emails from the buyer that say things like "My mom (girlfriend, uncle Larry, probation officer, etc.) says she (he) mailed it last week." Then, after several emails from me asking if it was ever sent, I finally receive it in the mail weeks later, and notice that the postmark is dated 1-3 days before the day I received it! The last guy that did this gave me a story about his kidney dialysis and how his girlfriend had promised she would mail it but couldn't find the time to do so...

I played through a Mesa MKIIC+ for years and experienced the same thing - I would never get a noticeable increase in volume using my TC Electronics Booster. Once I got my Marshall JCM800 (2203), I noticed a BIG difference. The Marshall has a LOT more "headroom". The Marshall actually gets louder, the Boogie gets more saturated. When I was using the Boogie, the other guitar player had a Marshall combo and we never had any problem hearing his solos. My BF Deluxe Reverb is somewhere between the two - not as saturated as the Boogie, but not as much headroom as the Marshall. BTW - I own and have tried the following for boost: Sparkledrive, Fulltone Fatboost, Tube Screamer, Fulltone Fulldrive 2. I've ended up using the Sparkledrive, Tube Screamer, and FD2 for overdrive; the Fatboost and TC Booster for boost.

Dave's Guitars always has the largest booth at the Dallas and Arlington guitar shows. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Hamers he brings with him to Dallas in April. I don't ever remember him having ANY Hamers at previous shows. I've made a few deals with him over the years and he's always treated me fairly.