Crimsontider

Someone on a youtube thread called the intro a "rif"......it's not a riff, whole lotta love is a riff. It has so many variable that I equate it to hacking a 20 character password, like 12345678910-, 1123456789- and so on and so on for the rest of your life. Let's say Taurus had a computer on tour with Zep, and they gave the computer to Page, and it had a 20 character password to log on. Page was able to log on, what are the chances that he was told the password as compared to randomly figuring it out?

Wow, and she didn't know the story. I wonder if some people might be a little based towards Zep This biggest rip off all time is the Partridge family usurping the Cowsills, over exposing them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9sXoUhXobE&html5=1

It is strange that you can make a million different sounding songs with 5 chords, using different rhythms and picking. What I look for in these cases is how important the part in question is too the song. If it's a bridge or something, no big deal, but if it is the theme of the song? It's no different than someone trying to patent something that has already been patented, he may not have known, but someone already owns it. Ice Ice Baby is a perfect example of a stolen piece being the most important element in the song. Ice tried to down play the significances, but that bass beat is what was appealing to people with those huge car sub woofers back in the day. In that song, he changed the stolen verse bass line and made a into a intro bridge or something. But the song was shallow if you took that out.

Yeah this one wins the prize.

They just picked the wrong Zep song! Plant: "Jimmy, we are going to have to change it up a little more" Page: "The Song Remains the Same!"

There is probably some struggling musician on here with one guitar and one amp that can smoke the lot of us Anyway, the question was "What is the value of the most expensive guitar you own". I hope no one answer's "Someone's life, I just had to have that guitar!"

The Beatnix were so ahead of their time that they woke up in 1990 and looked like a tribute band.

In a 3 piece basic rock band, I find the bass easier to play when singing, but adding another guitarist takes a huge load off and you can pepper around or just stick to the main chords. The bass has been severely dumb down that pass few decades. As with other types of music, the bass used to play scales or modes, like John Paul Jones, but at some point it became an extension of the bass drum. No way I could sing and play bass to a Rush, Led Zep or The Who song. But I can very easily to a lot of American metal, rock and country. Steve Harris from Maiden is the exception these days. Have never seen a 3 piece Rush tribute band, which says a lot about Geddy Lee.

My three favorite bands of all time had a bass playing lead singing, so I must like melodies and songs that evolve around the bass with melody and sync to the vocals. Rush The Church Type O Negative I love my metal, but too many of my favorites had short life spans.

Geddy Lee Roger Waters Lemmy Sting Peter Steele - Type O Negative Steve Kilbey - The Church Aimee Mann - With til tuesday These are my favorites.

Keeping the Bakersfield sound alive, and I very much like Dwight. Anyone else think he did a great job in Sledgehammer? Sure Billy Bob coached him a little, but he nailed the obnoxious country boy southerner, with that sly, passive aggressive, sarcastic disposition. The kid in the movie used to live down the road from me and still does character acting in a couple of movies a year. Just to keep it rolling, my mother dated Hank Williams Jr for 4 years in the late 70's. He and Merle Kilgore would take me and Merle's son fishing, too many times to remember. Hank wrote a son "Angels are hard to find" for my mother on his Bosephus" album. He fell off the mountain, and we never saw him again.

I was drunk the other night and looked at six guitars. I looked again with one eye, and then slump to the couch yearning for the three no longer there.

It would seem that more companies would provide the neck spec's, I think Washburn does. There is more than one hand variable for neck comfort for sure. You can have big hands with long slender finger's( IWISH), that can play smaller width guitars without a problem. Maybe it's the thickness of your fingers that steers people towards wider necks, hand strength, health and type of music are variables. I have an average sized hand, can palm a basketball for a second, and I am fine with anything once I get used to it. The most comfortable neck I ever played was on an Ibanez Jem, but that was about all I liked for the price. More important to me is low action and somewhat slim, and all the Hamer Strat bodied guitars seem to have that if set up properly.

You didn't mention a neck preference, and since all the USA strat Hamer's have good necks, action, and are top quality, it cancels itself out, and redefines your question. What neck you like the best can be about your hands more than which is better, unless you are just asking which Hamer SuperStrat flat out has the best specs. And even that can be subjective And is price a consideration? If very specific neck type overrides other things like pup's, wood etc. you need some specs. Whish I had that, just have a generic catalog without neck dimension. I personally like thin, standard strat width maple neck's. But I bought a Diablo with sound and price in mind, with my own personal monetary situation. Others would have gotten the maple neck, but might not have a kid in college at the time

If you want a La Metal sounding Superstrat on a budget get a Diablo. It has the Hamer USA tone timbre just like the others and is made of alder, like 90% of strats. It is not as pretty as the double the cost Californian's etc. but it's half the price or more with the same top notch parts, they gave this thing away. It is imo the best guitar for the buck period for Lynch, Lee, DiMartini, Adrian Smith..........and it plays blues on the neck pup like a stratocaster. Here is one up against up against a top end Ibanez Jem 7. is the reason I finally got a buddy to sell me his.

Starting playing a chromatic to warm up when I read your post and it has helped. It stretches your hands and is unmelodious. After playing back and forth until fluid, my fingers are stretched and mind is ready for melody. Assuming this is standard. A - 5th-8th E - 4th-7th A - 3rd-6th G- 2nd-5th B- 2nd-5th A -1st-4th

Multi-tasking makes your brain smaller Grey matter shrinks if we do too much at once This may have something to do with it. I do boat loads of multi-tasking working every day, doing three or four things at the same time because they are so ingrained in my memory, up to four hour stretches. When I finally get a chance to play my mind cannot focus on one thing, it's still going 90 miles an hour. I think I need to sit in a quite room and meditate for about 15 minutes before I play. I going to try this in addition to starting out with some disciplined chromatic scales. This will probably work in my case.

Great post's, with good humor as always. That would be a good dissertation, one of those pseudoscience papers that can't really be absolutely disproved! Dr. Crimsontider.

Yeah, your overall mood can play a big part. Sometimes I can get to the point where I spend all my time trying to find the right sound, the next day it sounds perfect. Your advice to set it down, if possible, is the best thing to do. Maybe listen to something that kick starts your creativeness. If you're not inspired, you aren't going to get inspired listening to yourself! And yes, with a chromatic you can get your chops and ear back (all those semitones).

This is my out there post of the week. Right brain mainly controls left hand coordination and visa versa. Right brain is spacial, left is communication and more disciplined tasks among other things. I am a lefty that plays right handed, but the right hand is the backbone of your overall playing. It controls the rhythm and feel. If I spend the day socializing and doing left brain activities, I have total control over my right hand when I play later than night. If I spend it mainly doing computer related tasks (job) that requires rapid fire multitasking subconscious activities, when I play at night, I have much less control with my right hand (my off hand). I did very little left brain activity and it being so important to playing, and it also being my weaker hand leads me to believe that I have a varying degree of communication with it, which can become somewhat disconnected if I let it This may sound crazy but it's true. And I would think it would effect lefties who play right more because of how important the right hand is when playing, My left hand is always consistent, just the right varies. So if I was a righty that played right, then I would just start out slow, but if your right hand is like a brick, what can you do? I set it down. Just food for thought. Any comments other than I am nutts appreciated. Edit: wanted to add that people have varying degrees of flow between the hemispheres, many to the point where none of this would apply.

Are all the guitars o.k

Zoomed it looks like it leads down the side too.

That's what I thought, that the early model's from the 70's are the treasure. I personally would have a hard time convincing my buddies how rare this one is, at least for $9,000. But that is Hamer's most bad ass guitar imo, I certainly would love to have one, and it sounds like a $3000+ guitar no doubt.