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tommy p

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  1. I have this one's twin, not too far off on the serial number. I bought it online and the shop thought it was not chambered, but mine weighs 7.5 lbs so I'm going to guess they were wrong. Still looks, sounds, and plays great.
  2. Uh oh. Why do I feel a nagging tug on my wallet?
  3. Playing tonight at SJ's Lakeside Tavern in Richmond, VA. We play again 7/2 and then once a month for the rest of the year. I'm having a hell of a time getting other gigs though. Isn't Dave moving to VA? If so, where?
  4. That Zandard taunts me with continued availability, and it will haunt me once it sells.
  5. Well, you know I'm interested in the Zandard if your 2 previous owners pass.
  6. *sigh* I wish my band had a schedule like jisham's. We're only playing once this month on 6/19. We may record a new demo so that will take my mind off it a little. It's very discouraging that my town is THE worst for getting into new places. When I do manage to wrangle us into a gig, we get tons of compliments and we're always been asked but getting that first one in a new place is a bitch! Any advice on salesmanship would be appreciated.
  7. I did a double-take on this photo: Here's one of mine, but my pic's not as good:
  8. A testament to Greg's abilities, for sure, but I'll bet Ace isn't doing any 200+ gigs a year!
  9. I'll try to find this out from other sources or reviews, but if anyone gets one of these I'd like to know how well it reads homemade DVD's in various formats, and if it can read DVD's with different Region Codes.
  10. A USA Standard, trans yellow, bound and crowned. Covered pickups and inlaid logo preferred but not a dealbreaker. Just look at this picture. OOF!
  11. I'm one who started with Eliminator, although I knew their previous hits. I think the next thing I bought was the ZZ Top 6-pack. Having never heard the original full albums, I didn't know if they were different. Having heard them since I think the biggest thing you'd notice is that all the drum tracks were beefed up considerably on the 6-pack versions. Oh, and then I bought Deguello which became my favorite ZZ album.
  12. http://richmond.craigslist.org/muc/1606117789.html
  13. Weird goings on. He had several bids and it was up to $4400 yesterday. Today all bids are gone and it's back down at $4100. Did he reject all the previous bidders or did they all cancel their bids? Either way, something doesn't smell right.
  14. Here's mine. I really got it for its graphic, but I can't play guitars with trems worth a damn. If anyone wants to take it off my hands, make an offer.
  15. I'll be interested to see the last 15 minutes of the auction.
  16. A list exists, it's officialness is subject to "the wind" as it's a company only document, and one of the reasons for that is due to the length of the list (pages, and pages, and pages, and pages...). What is this, 1972? It doesn't matter how many pages it is, I'm sure that 'list' is in electronic form, and could be edited and sent out fresh to their dealers every day if it changed that often. From what I've read, even the folks here (who are here because they love these guitars), are frustrated that they can't get a straight answer on what's available or they get a "no" when someone else gets a "yes" for the same thing. It behooves Hamer to be a little more customer-oriented if they want, uh... customers! That one little improvement would seem to be a no-brainer and good for business.
  17. I'm with you bro. It's a part of why I like Hamer, they're not into endorsements. One quick note ... anyone in advertising here? I believe endorsements (like advertising) are more about brand recognition than it is directly influencing someone to buy. I think endorsements have been VERY effective at times. I don't remember Kramers flying out the door until this guy started endorsing them. Next thing you know, everybody wants some!
  18. I passed a link to this thread along to my bass player (major Kiss-head) but he wasn't bold enough to be the God of Thunder. I'm sure they'll get plenty of these sold at that price.
  19. Around '84 or '85, a little second junk/consignment shop opened in the town where I was in school. They had a 60-something cherry doublecut LP Special for $150. I went in and looked at that thing every week for months, trying to talk the guy down to $100. I never got him down, and I never could pull the trigger at $150 because it didn't look enough like an SG and I was (still am) a huge AC/DC fan. I eventually got a cherry singlecut and a TV yellow doublecut so it worked out OK but those were the 90's models.
  20. As a guy looking for his first Standard, I'm speechless. I am without speech.
  21. For those with this situation, that's a case in point for keeping your previous DVD player in the system as well-- for the DVD-Rs and imports--if you have the shelf space and I/Os available. Otherwise, the Oppo would be the smarter move. Universal compatibility is a primary Oppo performance value. The problem is when your old DVD player dies and you decide to take the plunge on a Blu-ray only to find out you have disks that won't play.
  22. The only problem with the Panasonics is they're finicky as hell about what they'll play. They say they'll do pretty much anything, but I have a stack of about 15-20 home-recorded and/or imports that used to play fine on my old Sony and won't play at all on the Panasonic.
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