Bloozguy

Actually about the first 50 seconds...but when I saw this concert I was absolutely blown away http://youtu.be/27zqYMa3r_M

I usually listen to some really dark blues stuff... http://youtu.be/MPNi-y_j0I4 Always helps me to hear about somebody who's got it worse than I think I do.

Mine shipped yesterday too! Can't wait!

I ordered a copy from Schiffer but they have not shipped yet. Maybe I should just have them ship it to you...

I can pretty much take or leave the remainder of the song, but the first 30 seconds nails it for me.

Now you're being a tease...

I must be living in the 80’s ‘cause both of my favorite “short” solos are from 1980 releases… 17 seconds from Dave Edmunds in the song “Heart” from the 1980 Rockpile album “Seconds Of Pleasure.” 15 seconds from James Honeyman Scott in the song “Kid” from the 1980 Pretenders album “Pretenders.”

Christine McVie!!!

I killed a gopher with a stick once...

Apple has a long history of making very innovative, very “cool” products along with an equally long history of turning their backs on the majority of the business community. In the mid-eighties I began working for a company that manufactured precision measuring equipment. Most of our competition used DEC or HP hardware and very cryptic, command based software. We had an intuitive, easy to use software product that ran on the Apple II and IIe and it sold like wildfire. We were pretty excited when Apple introduced the Macintosh until we discovered that, unlike the Apple II and IIe, the Macintosh was a “closed” system with which we could not interface our hardware. They even went so far as to contractually prevent Torx, the manufacturer of the screws which held the Macintosh case together, from selling a driver long enough to reach the case screws. A couple of cuts and a couple of welds and we had a driver long enough to get us in there…only to find out that there was no way we would be able to interface with the Mac hardware. We ported our software to the PC and never looked back. Even when the more open Macs of the late 80’s and early 90’s were introduced our customer base was not interested. When my 28-year-old son was in elementary school there were no computers other than Macs in any of his classrooms. By the time he finished high school at least half of the computers were Windows PCs. When my 20-year-old daughter was in high school every computer was a Windows PC other than perhaps a few in the art department. When I asked why (a question to which I already knew the answer), I was told that the Windows machines were there because that was what students would move on to when they entered the workforce. I have no idea why Apple chose the direction they did. It is not likely that I will ever buy any sort of Macintosh because a) they will not run much of the software that I use; and they are ferociously expensive for what they do. I am not thrilled with my iPhone and especially not happy with the way it interfaces to my Windows PC. My next phone will probably be a Blackberry 10. I am not in love with iTunes but I am in love with my iPod and I hope it lives forever! But overall I still love Apple! Why? Because their innovation has forced software developers, particularly Windows software developers, to work really hard at putting out a product that was elegant, functional and intuitive. Without Apple, Windows would probably still be the piece of crap that it was back in the 3.11 days!

Must be something in the water

I'm not really a Microsoft or Apple fan, but I have to agree with this. If every Apple product disappeared tomorrow the world would keep turning. If every Microsoft product disappeared we would be in a world of hurt. For example, everything Fender designs and builds starts out in SolidWorks CAD software running on Windows machines...ditto for Harley-Davidson, Ducati, etc.

Very well said, Mr. Haynie. I'll have to use that one at home...

Here’s the real (according to The Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary) definition of “greed”: “a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (as money) than is needed” And here’s the politically-correct (according to Wikipedia) definition: “Greed is the inordinate desire to possess wealth, goods, or objects of abstract value with the intention to keep it for one's self, far beyond the dictates of basic survival and comfort. It is applied to a markedly high desire for and pursuit of wealth, status, and power. As a secular psychological concept, greed is, similarly, an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. It is typically used to criticize those who seek excessive material wealth, although it may apply to the need to feel more excessively moral, social, or otherwise better than someone else.” I suppose having more than one guitar, amp, car, motorcycle, etc. puts a person “far beyond the dictates of basic survival and comfort.” I don’t think Leo Fender or Steve Jobs had aspirations of merely “basic survival and comfort.” I don’t and I don’t know anyone else who does either. Have we drifted off topic or what…

There's also a natural finish SuperPro at Lavonne Music in Savage for $1800. I'm pretty sure it's NOS.

In all honesty I never looked at the price. They're way out of line with this one. They do always seem to have quite a bit of "wiggle room" in their pricing.

There is a 2007 Amberburst SuperPro at Willie's in Saint Paul...http://www.williesguitars.com/index.cfm/misc/29/inventory/14

I didn't get a chance to run it through my good monitors but even through the little computer speakers I tend to agree with silentman. It sounds really good but almost mono. That can easily happen when you're running nearly everything direct. You lose the "wash" that live drums, live amps and live mikes bring to the table. Panning is a delicate thing, though...there's a real fine line between not enough and way too much. Spread things out a little and it will open up and give you a nicer overall sound "picture."

Count me in. Any of those dates will work for me, but my preference would be January 19.

Seems to me there should be an exemption for a "one in, one out" trade scenario...

I like the tortoise shell pickups against the pickguard

"1999" is one of his classics. Other than some of the guitar work on "Little Red Corvette" done by Dez Dickerson, Prince played every instrument on the album.

I think the case Hamer used for the Daytona was a TKL 8830 but as polara says...any Strat case will do.

You could just get one of these http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2011/Apr/RS_Guitarworks_TeeVee_Custom_Electric_Guitar_Review.aspx

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