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On its way to DavidB in NC! UPS says he should have it tomorrow.
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I don't think he's still playing, but Lindy and his brother had a band here for years. A friend of mine works for him now winding those oh-so-famous pickups. I got an awesome humbucker from him a few years back for next to nothing because my repair guy knows him really well.
To add to the touristy things Al already mentioned, there's also the Metro Richmond Zoo. That's in Chesterfield County probably less than 30 minutes from Chesterfield. You will become very familiar with Rt. 288. It's a bypass on the Western side of Richmond that makes it super-easy to get somewhere fast; essential for driving to Charlottesville.
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Welcome to the neighborhood! I live in Midlothian, VA which is in Chesterfield County 15 minutes away from Chesterfield the town and have lived around Richmond since 1987. Al hit a lot of the highlights but if there's anything else you want to know when you get here or before, just PM me.
The house we've been building should be completed within a couple of months so I will be moving to the Eastern edge of Goochland County. The Short Pump Field Day of the Past Al mentioned will be walking distance from my house.
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Guy, sorry about this but I'm late getting the guitar out. I spent all day yesterday in bed sick until I had to go to the ER for a fever of 102. I know that sounds ridiculous but as a kidney recipient I have to call the post-transplant clinic if I have a fever over 100 and that combined with all my other symptoms gave them (and consequently, me) reason to worry. I'm back home now.
I have it packed it up. I'll post again when it's shipped and send DavidB a PM with the tracking info.
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Saturday's show was up and down but still turned out fun.
The first set was very poorly attended because of the NASCAR race but that turned out to be a good thing. We had major PA problems and my wireless was acting up. The whole band was just not clicking either. I got California Man on video playing WyldBil but that was in the midst of all the problems and I haven't looked at it yet. If it's halfway decent, I'll post it. My 50th birthday was actually 4/13 but my wife had a custom cake made so we could celebrate at this gig. We dug into that between the first and second sets. Got some cool pics of that too.
I'll be packing the guitar up tonight and shipping it to DavidB tomorrow. I'll send him the tracking number as soon as I get it.
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A beauty for sure, and to me somehow appropriate that the last Hamer should be a Standard. Congrats on getting a piece of history.
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Your skills and experience increase the likelihood of all of you guys landing on your feet. Thank you for all the amazing instruments you've built in the past, and best wishes that you will be building more again soon.
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Congratulations! Nice score.
Add me to the list of people who didn't know they made electrics.
Me too. BTW, cool avatar, RichF!
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Ha! Cool "secret" message to Cynic.
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The guitar has safely arrived in Midlothian, VA to be played at my next 2 gigs 4/19 and 4/26! I played it unamped for a while last night to get used to the feel - no problems there! Pics and possibly video to follow.
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Sorry I haven't been here to comment, but I'm glad this worked out.
I left last Tuesday for a week in the Florida Keys for my 50th birthday and Thursday my uncle died. I had to scramble to get a flight home and cut the vacation short by a day to make it back for his funeral. We had just celebrated his 91st birthday with him last month, but I can assure you he was NOT an old man - he could still go sailing and went to the gym regularly so it was actually a terrible surprise. He had some pain, went to the doctor, found he had cancer and died in less than a week.
Gene, thanks for asking about the benefit show for the family affected by the house fire. Here are some links with everything you'd ever want to know:
My band Rockslide's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rockslide/60874067665
Link to the event announcement: https://www.facebook.com/events/469532973147411/
Link to a page accepting donations for the family: http://www.gofundme.com/7mqgso
You can also donate through PayPal directly to me at [email protected] if you'd like. Just mark it "benefit" somewhere. I will remove this information Monday 4/21.
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Not trying to break in line here but I think I've been lost in the shuffle. I spoke with Gene about a week ago about this.
I'm trying to get the Wyldbil for a 2-fer. My band is hosting a 5-band benefit gig 4/19 for a family of 6 that lost their home and both vehicles to a fire, and I have a regular gig on 4/26. I'm just outside of Richmond, VA and could get the guitar back down to NC or up to the DC/MD guys on 4/27 by car, or ship it anywhere on 4/28. I felt like playing it for the benefit gig would be kind of a cool thing, and I could send it back out after that and forget the 4/26 gig if timing is an issue.
I think Steve Haynie is waiting on the guitar right now and I'm sending him my shipping info to try to get it in time for these gigs. If someone else has it and could ship it directly to me, let me know. I'll ship it or drive it wherever it needs to go next.
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Where is the Wyldbil guitar now and is it spoken for next?
On 4/19 my band is hosting a 5-band benefit show for a family of 6 that lost their house (a rental), everything in it, and both vehicles to a house fire. They barely made it out with their lives. It would be pretty special to play it at a gig like that. I also have a gig 4/26 so it would defiinitely see double-duty if I can get it in time, and it could go from me to the DC/MD area peeps next really easily.
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Sa-weet!
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I'm in.
I live just about halfway between Chris Matthes and Tommy P, so I can be the method it gets from one to the other.
Nathan just bought my Classic 30 so we have a tested transfer method, right Nathan?
When I get it, I'll keep it only long enough to play one gig. I think it should make a live appearance if it's going to travel all this way.
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I'm definitely in. I'm just outside of Richmond, VA.
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I definitely am. I'm right in the middle of VA so I could easily get it up to the DC area if anyone there wants to participate.
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Count me in!
I did a similar thing a few years ago. A friend of a friend was in a coma after an accident and he loved music. His favorite bands are Kiss, Thin Lizzy, and Cheap Trick. He loved the "more cowbell" sketch from SNL so our mutual friend bought a cowbell that traveled the country getting pics taken at touristy spots in the places it visited. When I had it, I got Bun E. to autograph it and thought that was pretty good, but later someone had a video of Satch with a personal message to the guy!
The good news he got better.
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Isn't it true that Angus Young barely used anything other than a little volume gain from his amp. A little overdrive sound, no effects at all, and a dam good guitar and cranked up amp?
True, but he dimes all the tone pots or either dimes bass and treble and puts the mids on half. Can't remember which.
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The best part of the Kiss announcement: no possibility of Dave Grohl horning in on the performance in any way.
Didn't need fixing - I said Lick It Up on purpose. Vinne definitely raised the bar talent-wise and wrote some great songs on Creatures, but that was their worst-selling tour and album up to that point (and probably still is). They also chose to downplay Vinnie's involvement at the time by using Ace's picture on the cover. However, on Lick It Up Vinnie was fully acknowledged as a member of the band and that was the album that put them back on the map and for better or worse, MTV.
In and of themselves, record sales do not equate to quality. If they did, we all better start worshipping at the altar of One Direction. Similarly, speed does not equate to talent on the guitar. Creatures is the better album, and Ace is the better guitar player. Vinnie 's true talent is in hard rock songwriting.
The only reason LIU put them back on the map is because they removed the makeup.
Hey, I like Creatures better than Lick It Up too! I assume when you say Creatures was a better album than Lick It Up that you know Vinnie played on Creatures as well? I think Vinnie is a far better player than Ace and not just for speed although that's certainly part of it. Vinnie could play fast cleanly and with a variety of licks and runs. When Ace played tried to exhibit speed it was just pulloffs and even then sloppy 95% of the time. I saw Kiss live with Ace twice and Ace solo once and live his playing was just awful. The Kiss fans I went to these concerts with even thought Ace was a joke.
It's been my experience that folks who think Ace is a good player were Kiss fans from way back, whereas I didn't start listening to them until fairly recently as I said in my earlier post. I listened to every album they did, in order, and there was a big jump in good guitar playing in general and imaginative lead guitar in particular after Ace left.
Sorry if I'm offending anyone by not rating Ace. His solo album was by far my favorite of the 4 simultaneously-released albums, and I actually have Anomaly and a Frehley's Comet album too. I think he's funny as hell and his rogue spirit against Gene and Paul back in the day (Tom Snyder interview, anyone?) was a thing of beauty. Highly influential? Yes. Great guitar player? No. Right guy for the right band at the right time? Undoubtedly.
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To me, Vinnie Vincent is as important as some of the later players. He was brought in when they were at their absolute bottom and helped them climb back up with Creatures of the Night.
Fixed.
Paul had some good comments in the Classic Rock Magazine interview regarding which band members get inducted, citing the Chili Peppers bringing up their first drummer who was in the band before anyone knew who they were. They also excluded Navarro, which I found odd. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to it. If the Hall makes that call, why would they exclude a guy who was in Jane's Addiction, a darling to the Rolling Stone brass? And if the band makes the call, why isn't Eric Carr, a beloved member of KISS, going in?
So far we've only heard Ace and Peter's side; I wonder if/when we'll hear a response from Gene or Paul. Regardless, none of this is surprising. We have another CCR situation brewing here, where the other two living members were allowed onstage for the acceptance but excluded from the musical portion, during which they walked out of the theater (I think I'm remembering that correctly).
It's all very childish (as is gossiping about them, or worse, doing a Podcast about them) but I guess none of us plebes will ever fully understand the rock star ego. Which is probably for the best.
Edit: it just occurred to me that the Hall probably wants Navarro to go in first with Jane's, thus the Chili Peppers exclusion.
Didn't need fixing - I said Lick It Up on purpose. Vinne definitely raised the bar talent-wise and wrote some great songs on Creatures, but that was their worst-selling tour and album up to that point (and probably still is). They also chose to downplay Vinnie's involvement at the time by using Ace's picture on the cover. However, on Lick It Up Vinnie was fully acknowledged as a member of the band and that was the album that put them back on the map and for better or worse, MTV. As for the HoF's decision not to induct the later band members, that seems to like a backward way of acknowleding that the Ace/Peter era had the sales, popularity, and influence that the later lineups didn't.
Tried listening to some Kiss the other day and failed miserably. But 40 years ago I liked it.
I'm the opposite. I hated them when I was young and only started listening to them a few years ago.
How long have Thayer and Singer been with the band? How long were Frehley and Criss there (I mean actually with Kiss)? I lost interest in Kiss 35 years ago so I don't know those answers... But I'm guessing it has been at least equal length stints in the band, and maybe longer for Thayer and Singer(?). That would explain a lot about the exclusions/inclusions to me.
Same deal with AC/DC. Some people say it isn't AC/DC without Bon Scott... Well, yes it is, and in many ways it rises above. Both are excellent lineups, but the truth is Bon was there what, 6 or 7 years? Johnson is going on 34 years as front man.
Off topic rant: At the end of the day, Kiss (Gene and Paul) is still all about image, fame, and money... Not about making great music, and they don't get ANY of my money. AC/DC totally blows Kiss out of the water in every single respect. AC/DC IS rock n roll.
Mark Evans should have been inducted with AC/DC!
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To me, Vinnie Vincent is as important as some of the later players. He was brought in when they were at their absolute bottom and helped them climb back up with Lick It Up.
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Interested but can't see the pics at work. Will check this out as soon as I get home.