LucSulla Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 I like posting this stuff from time to time and don't see a reason for making a new thread every time I do. So, in the spirit of my "random thoughts" thread, I thought I'd make a thread for stuff I say on the web - from the questionable to sublimely ridiculous. Anyone else should feel free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted January 13, 2020 Author Share Posted January 13, 2020 88 San Dimas, huh. From China, with a serial number in the 7800s... seems legit. And is that ad title racist?https://www.ebay.com/itm/jackson-custom-shop-1988-DINK-USA-san-dimas/184025869241?hash=item2ad8cbebb9%3Ag%3AGugAAOSwvCpdw45Y&LH_ItemCondition=3000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCChris Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Since I'm banned from TGP but can't resist checking that forum for stupid bullshit, maybe this thread can be a dumping ground for my findings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCChris Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 10 minutes ago, Ed Rechts said: "How do you get 86'd from a place that doesn't even serve alcohol?" -Muse Cafe Chris Lathrop, circa 2003 Guilty as charged, although my banning says as much about the place as it does about me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizanski Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 43 minutes ago, Ed Rechts said: Please tell me you waterloo'd with a "I'VE BEEN THROWN OFF OF BETTER MESSAGEBOARDS THAN THIS" final post from a sock puppet account LOL they didn't give him the chance. And the mods don't ever reconsider their decisions, regardless of how hastily they may have made them. And they're assholes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCChris Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Let's start with this thread: a bunch of jackasses complaining about taxes on Reverb sales and alleging that no one is using the platform anymore because of them, yet the whole premise of the thread is that nothing is selling privately and everything is selling on Reverb:https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/say-what-you-will-about-reverb.2112228/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted January 13, 2020 Author Share Posted January 13, 2020 5 hours ago, MCChris said: Let's start with this thread: a bunch of jackasses complaining about taxes on Reverb sales and alleging that no one is using the platform anymore because of them, yet the whole premise of the thread is that nothing is selling privately and everything is selling on Reverb:https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/say-what-you-will-about-reverb.2112228/ TGP threads sometime remind me of when I used to listen to Alex Jones' show when it was just local in Austin back around 2007. Starts off with a perfectly interesting premise - hypothetically say like is the State of Texas abusing the ability of CPS to take children away from families without possibly enough due process. OK, interesting topic, might be something to that. I suppose I would worry about that myself. But then just as you think there may be a cogent point, it goes totally off the rails. "The real game here is taking these kids to use them in experiments in creating reptilian hybrids for the illuminati!" I like seeing how many posts you can get in before the TGP equivalent of lizard people shows up. But yeah, post that stuff here all you want. I'd love to have a catalog of greatest hits to thumb through from time to time, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killerteddybear Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 24 minutes ago, LucSulla said: I'd love to have a catalog of greatest shits to thumb through from time to time, haha. Fify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablo175 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 19 hours ago, LucSulla said: 88 San Dimas, huh. From China, with a serial number in the 7800s... seems legit. And is that ad title racist?https://www.ebay.com/itm/jackson-custom-shop-1988-DINK-USA-san-dimas/184025869241?hash=item2ad8cbebb9%3Ag%3AGugAAOSwvCpdw45Y&LH_ItemCondition=3000 A consonant off but we still have a winner! Love the adhesive fret markers. and the chees-olah tuners. $2500. Sure. Uh huh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted January 14, 2020 Author Share Posted January 14, 2020 This guitar has been on Reverb for three years. Even after all that time, everything about it pisses me off. If it's actually real, it's the ugliest custom order that I've ever seen. https://reverb.com/item/3401569-jackson-usa-custom-shop-vinnie-vincent-style-4-winged-king-flying-v-natural Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killerteddybear Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 On 1/12/2020 at 6:48 PM, LucSulla said: 88 San Dimas, huh. From China, with a serial number in the 7800s... seems legit. And is that ad title racist?https://www.ebay.com/itm/jackson-custom-shop-1988-DINK-USA-san-dimas/184025869241?hash=item2ad8cbebb9%3Ag%3AGugAAOSwvCpdw45Y&LH_ItemCondition=3000 Where/when I grew up, a 'dink' was slang for a penis. Or a jerky guy: you know, a dick. Later it became a way to demean yuppies who had Double Income, No Kids. I'm not aware of a racist angle, but someone please PM me before I unknowingly piss off some ethnicity! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigolsparky Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 I once got in a discussion with a TGP hamhead who stated "in a battle of tones a Les Paul always beats a PRS". I don't think there is much point in a response, especially since I have never attended a tone battle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana_V Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 14 hours ago, LucSulla said: This guitar has been on Reverb for three years. Even after all that time, everything about it pisses me off. If it's actually real, it's the ugliest custom order that I've ever seen. https://reverb.com/item/3401569-jackson-usa-custom-shop-vinnie-vincent-style-4-winged-king-flying-v-natural It kind of looks like somebody's not-quite-finished woodshop project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cynic Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted January 14, 2020 Author Share Posted January 14, 2020 ^Brutal I wish I had had the money to buy that back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted January 14, 2020 Author Share Posted January 14, 2020 1 hour ago, bigolsparky said: I once got in a discussion with a TGP hamhead who stated "in a battle of tones a Les Paul always beats a PRS". I don't think there is much point in a response, especially since I have never attended a tone battle. When running through the same rig, the older I get the more I start to think your hands, the way you attack the guitar, is maybe 75% of anyone's tone. Whether it is a single coil or humbucker is the next 15%. That last little bit is whatever combo of scale, type, etc. I have a run of the mill American strat that can sound quite a bit different than say an LP when I really want that strat twang for this or that. However, when playing lead, once I get it through my board with boost, verb, and a little delay into the lead channel of either the Budda or Friedman, roll the tone back a little bit, and start playing, it sounds a lot more like everything else I play than it sounds different. Sure, there are things that humbuckers make easier and vice versa, and it does feel somewhat different trying to wrangle the same sort of lead tone to out of different axes to varying degrees. Regardless, I think the actual outcome to the vast majority who come and see us play is a lead tone that sounds pretty consistently the same from guitar to guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cynic Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 35 minutes ago, LucSulla said: ^Brutal I wish I had had the money to buy that back then. Someone was going to post it eventually. All in good fun...If I needed a V with a trem it would be high on the list, but don't tell @diablo175 that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studio Custom Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 2 hours ago, Dana_V said: It kind of looks like somebody's not-quite-finished woodshop project. Are we still talking about the guitar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablo175 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 3 hours ago, LucSulla said: ^Brutal I wish I had had the money to buy that back then. That would have been brutal... back when it was remotely relevant. What was it, 4 years ago? 5? Glad it's still getting good mileage. These zombie topics are resilient buggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixesandsevens Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 19 hours ago, LucSulla said: This guitar has been on Reverb for three years. Even after all that time, everything about it pisses me off. If it's actually real, it's the ugliest custom order that I've ever seen. https://reverb.com/item/3401569-jackson-usa-custom-shop-vinnie-vincent-style-4-winged-king-flying-v-natural "You know those guitars, that are like ... double guitars?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted January 14, 2020 Author Share Posted January 14, 2020 25 minutes ago, diablo175 said: That would have been brutal... back when it was remotely relevant. What was it, 4 years ago? 5? Glad it's still getting good mileage. These zombie topics are resilient buggers. The internet never forgets, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjamiam Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 7 hours ago, bigolsparky said: I once got in a discussion with a TGP hamhead who stated "in a battle of tones a Les Paul always beats a PRS". I don't think there is much point in a response, especially since I have never attended a tone battle. I imagine it would be like the walk off in Zoolander. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOE_CPWE Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 On 1/12/2020 at 8:48 PM, LucSulla said: 88 San Dimas, huh. From China, with a serial number in the 7800s... seems legit. And is that ad title racist?https://www.ebay.com/itm/jackson-custom-shop-1988-DINK-USA-san-dimas/184025869241?hash=item2ad8cbebb9%3Ag%3AGugAAOSwvCpdw45Y&LH_ItemCondition=3000 On 1/14/2020 at 1:54 AM, killerteddybear said: Where/when I grew up, a 'dink' was slang for a penis. Or a jerky guy: you know, a dick. Later it became a way to demean yuppies who had Double Income, No Kids. I'm not aware of a racist angle, but someone please PM me before I unknowingly piss off some ethnicity! Not sure what you guys are seeing as racist...the word dink? My first thought seeing the ad was Jackson / Charvel , dinky guitars. Been around a long time. https://www.jacksonguitars.com/gear/shape/dinky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted January 15, 2020 Author Share Posted January 15, 2020 50 minutes ago, JOE_CPWE said: Not sure what you guys are seeing as racist...the word dink? My first thought seeing the ad was Jackson / Charvel , dinky guitars. Been around a long time. https://www.jacksonguitars.com/gear/shape/dinky That bit was a joke. I certainly don't think that any of it is racist in actuality as much as a funny, inopportune typo. Dinky is a bolt-on Jackson. The other word was (and still is in some places) a slur against the Vietnamese that Americans soldiers and marines sometimes used during the Vietnam War. Third definition: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dink Brief history of the term: http://www.rsdb.org/slur/dink I certainly heard it used a a pejorative more than a few times growing up in Mississippi. However, I don't want to get all serious here. Like I said, I don't think the person selling that guitar is a racist, but I did think it was a pretty amusing typo or possibly unfortunate shortening of a term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixesandsevens Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Wow, this thread sure hasn't panned out like you thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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