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My only real strat shortly after buying it in 1993. It was a 1973 USA something or other with Seymour Duncan active pickups and Kahler tremolo installed by the owner before the guy I bought it off. Very quiet for recording, very stable tuning. The tone often seemed less dynamic than I would have pre...

I just wish they had vox valvetronic amps in 1980.

Acoustic is a 1976 or 7 Riviera nylon. Electric is a Jem 77vbk. I was going to say that I'm firmly in the modern camp when it comes to guitars, but the jems and other superstrat variations are getting on these days too. I've also been playing a new Hagstrom super swede, but. It is heavy, and not as ...

Nice one! Thanks.

hjelmsk wrote:At the moment, I'm really pleased with a 2005 Peavey Classic 30 that I've just picked up...plenty of power and not too heavy to lug around

And mine has a great country blues sound too. But I still like the Vt20+ for the cleans.

I've been frustrated musically in several respects lately, one being that I have started and abandoned about a dozen ideas (still available on my computer for future return, but for now I'm blocked). The following blog item discusses the remedy which I thought it might be helpful to someone else too...

Vince wrote:

jeremyb wrote:He's got an awesome collection of teles, I do find a lot of his stuff a bit too country shred for my liking, but talented nonetheless!

teles, country shred... how do you feel about Johnny Hiland?

Never heard of him before but I enjoyed this thanks.

Now, to me, that's ALL wank. edit- the last clip has some merit, but I think you could substitute stagecraft for technical musicianship and the statement would still hold true. Horrible, calculated crap IMO (emphasis on the O). Also not entirely representative of his work. This is my fave track of ...

I should have disclosed that I haven't been to an audition since 1992. I believe that John 5 owns a B-Bender. And I'm fairly sure I've seen a picture of him in Guitar World or a similar magazine in a check shirt, though none are on sale in the following link. http://john-5.com/store/ Having said tha...

What audition?

Here is Kraftwerk improvising over Autobahn in 1974 (sound quality not the best, musical interest high):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNjwJLDic3o[/youtube]

DM indirectly brings something up that I find more and more difficult to understand in the modern musical landscape - the categorization of music to the extent that even though I have a reasonably good ear I can't tell the difference between the various offshoots in metal, jazz and, for want of a be...

Yes Rog, my wife has a similar emotional response to music she doesn't like, but I've been lucky because she's turned me on to a number of different people I hadn't listened to before (John Hiatt most notably but many others) and she has been very supportive of my writing approach over the years as ...

I really dislike overly intellectualised music in general and Jazz (and quite a bit of metal TBH) has some pretty horrendous offenders as a genre. Indeed!!! A lot of people dislike jazz because of these kinds of issues. But also, to a lot of people improvisation sounds like elevator music, which I ...

I've been looking forward all week to coming back to this thread and watching all of the clips undisturbed on the cheap internet rates.

Had breakfast, fired up the computer and what a feast it was!

Thanks for posting them people.