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Post by mitchfit on Mar 24, 2024 19:09:03 GMT
what MM said in suchuva a far sighted overview. well stated.
would only add that his words also apply to ANY venue of music/entertainment one cares to explore. as long as the market allows the for-profit-only industry to define that subdivision for them.
could go on and on and on about that, but find it more logical to offer his corrective countermeasures instead.
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 20, 2024 2:07:15 GMT
pete1951, you could just paint "No Leo" on the front? or "Es-Squire" to avoid legal issues? or just "Squire", don't they all actually mean the same thing? before anyone takes offense, i openly admit that i have two older MIM strats. please don't kill the messenger, not implying anything. but back then, the nationality is marked in places that can't be seen from the front. would that make them worth more than ones marked on the front? guit collecting is hard to understand for me. to muddy the water up even more-- i have a late 1990s MIJ electric XII copy of the mid 1960s strat 12. clearly not the vintage model as it lacks the "hockey stick" head stock of the original. between the tuning pegs on the front it says: squire [copy right R in circle] venus [copy right R in circle] by fender [copy right R in circle] vista [copy right R in circle] www.istockphoto.com/illustrations/register-trademarkcan you tell me who actually owns this design? a trick question. below from WIKI: ..."A man named Tim George of the short-lived Mercury Guitar Company (of Atlanta, GA) has claimed to be the actual designer of the guitar, along with his company co-founder Danny Babbitt.[3] According to George, Babbitt snuck backstage at a Nirvana concert in Atlanta in November 1993 and sold the original custom metallic-green Mercury guitar on which the Venus design was eventually based to Love. Love played this guitar in public extensively over the next several years, and it is the guitar she played in the music video for Hole's song Violet.[4] The 6-string Venus model is virtually identical to Love's Mercury guitar, except with a Fender Stratocaster-like headstock. Hole's song Violet.[4] The 6-string Venus model is virtually identical to Love's Mercury guitar, except with a Fender Stratocaster-like headstock."... EVEN MORE ABSTRACT-would one that was owned by Noel Redding be worth $6,612.16? reverb.com/item/74961842-noel-redding-jimi-hendrix-experience-incredibly-rare-squier-venus-12-stringso really, who cares? the most important spec to me is the squire has a 42.9 mm nut and the original Fender had a 41.3 mm nut. serious consideration on a 12 string. any body who was a collector would likely sense that a Tele neck wasn't OEM on a Burns body anyway? so much for collector value. list neck as a fake, the honesty may impress a possible player/buyer. mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 16, 2024 23:54:57 GMT
PS---
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 16, 2024 23:26:30 GMT
Eric gets a chance to reminisce also
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 16, 2024 16:23:12 GMT
they also played feel good music
and public service drug use announcements
Cheech and Chong liked this one
and still made good music even after allowing an Animal among their ranks
they were indeed a great band,
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 15, 2024 21:33:46 GMT
posted here to avoid polluting the water in archtopeddy's thread "Tricone opinions appreciated..."
"how earth friendly of me", he boasted and proceeded to dislocate his shoulder patting himself on the back?
if there were any truth in advertising, would atmosphere be known to cause cancer in California? recall when MM had to prove his guit wouldn't cause any non-repairable damage to humans just to get it through customs into the USA.
where it was being quarantined due to safety issues at that time.
the whole saturation reminds me of a story i heard about a terrified kid who was fresh out of high school being sent to the Lennox County Reality Maintenance Center charged with section 11357 PHSC. to wit, read: "excessive pleasure in a no freedom zone". please don't ask how that number is still remembered well over a half century later...
upon being greeted by the friendly night shift welcoming committee staff, the new guests were addressed by a tall lanky attendant who was slapping the palm of his left hand with a broomstick wrapped in many layers of masking tape and a leather retention strap through it around his right wrist. the guy who told me this woe begotten story noted that he looked a pale grey color like one who hadn't been out in the sunlight for decades.
yet the 8th amendment to the United States Constitution bans both cruel and unusual punishment for those being held or convicted.
he also noted the intimidation representative wasn't really the perp in this story, saying that the actual infraction was the loudspeaker system in the processing center playing War's "Four Cornered Room".
perhaps the more rules allowed, the less chance there is of them not conflicting with each other? as non-empirical proof for that theory, consider the SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. they SHOULD represent the best legal minds available? yet very rare are the times all of them agree about any single issue.
whining again,
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 8, 2024 22:05:54 GMT
i wonder if a suitable metal could be used for neck replacement. problem is there are so few of these still around as to preclude the trial and error R and D that would be required.
before dissing that thought, consider that the most amazing sounding banjo i've ever heard, or was lucky enough to play a little bit was a brass rimmed Deering belonging to a friend in Alaska.
will openly admit all of that weight beyond the body would be as handy as a twenty pound golf club.
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 8, 2024 21:41:42 GMT
tomgiemza,
perhaps Sir Davies can look back and take solace in the fact that he was not singled out for any extra disdain than most world governments now hold for those who allowed them their power, yet dare to disagree with anything at all they promote?
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 7, 2024 20:02:00 GMT
pete1951, hoping that show gets across the pond. seems odd how so many musical careers get stymied by something as discordant as politics?
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 3, 2024 22:10:19 GMT
<zero familiarity with the brand names you mentioned. doubt you would find what i use here at a store near you either.
glad to have helped, mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 3, 2024 22:03:53 GMT
^^^^ thanks for the heads up MM. hadn't even heard of that album release. [needs to get out more?] recall you saying you really liked the guit sound in song, "Unknown Legend". after many viewings of the video for "Break The Chain", behind him are two amps. a fender silverface super reverb with 4 ten inch speakers close mic'ed on the two bottom speakers. the main difference between the black and silver face supers were the later was designed to make cleans that could emulsify ear drums at three hundred yards distance. is worrisome that nobody in the video appears to have hearing protection on. to the left of that amp is Neil's 5E3 tweed with his amp tech's "whizzer" sitting on top that saves and restores all three knob locations when the chosen switch is hit on enormous red pedal in front of him. they are that sensitive to slight knob changes. the same ragged looking amp has his tech's "Fukushima" mod, replacing of 6V6 pair with 6L6 for output stage. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT-- DON'T TRY THIS TRICK AT HOME!!! back to Unknown Legend, am >guessing< the super makes the clean reverbs combined with the 5E3 "sizzle" at note volume decay from the Gretsch white falcon he bought as a kid when playing in Buffalo Springfield in 1966. just short of a miracle it has survived all of the touring to this day: s24335.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/GettyImages-108144110-credit.jpgthe above information is guarandamnteed to be worth every cent you paid for it, mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 1, 2024 20:06:35 GMT
as i get older, it seems hard to understand the syndicated re-runs of deceased friends and even family members who spend their life building walls around themselves yet are amazed at the loneliness that engulfs them on their death beds. we can do better with what little time that is allotted to us?
"Round And Round And Round"
Round and round and round we spin, To weave a wall to hem us in, It won't be long. It won't be long.
How slow and slow and slow it goes, To mend the tear that always shows. It won't be long. It won't be long.
It's hard enough losin' the paper illusion you've hidden inside, Without the confusion of findin' you're usin' the crutch of a lie To shelter your eye when you cry.
Round and round and round we spin, To weave a wall to hem you in. It won't be long. It won't be long.
How slow and slow and slow it goes, To mend the tear that always shows. It won't be long. It won't be long.
Now you're movin' too slow and wherever you go there's another beside. It's so hard to say no to yourself and it shows that you're losing inside, When you step on your pride and you cry.
Round and round and round we spin, To weave a wall to hem us in. It won't be long. It won't be long.
How slow and slow and slow it goes, To mend the tear that always shows. It won't be long. It won't be long.
How the hours will bend through the time that you spend till you turn to your eyes, And you see your best friend looking over the end and you turn to see why, And he looks in your eyes and he cries.
Round and round and round we spin, To weave a wall to hem us in, It won't be long. It won't be long.
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 1, 2024 19:35:49 GMT
looks like the wires have braided cloth insulation on them. electric contact cleaner will not hurt that. would select a brand with lubricant included, and remove pot from mount plate to avoid any chances of a chemical reaction with same.
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Post by mitchfit on Feb 18, 2024 22:42:00 GMT
still just getting familiar with my '36. compared to my 1133 National it is much more audible when i go banging around playing with a brass slide and a heavy handed technique. even compared to an electric with magnetic PUPs, as they tend to amplify just the strings alone. the "aluminum speaker" seated on an acoustic chamber hears all that i need to hide.
message--both alternative instruments lessen the acoustically obvious heavy brass slide collisions.
were i unashamed to admit i don't know everything, i'd allow the need to learn some more left hand finesse will be required from the player...
the good news is MM generously included a much lighter glass slide and a second set of newtone strings to carry me through the learning process.
IMHO, the neck length would be less of an issue to overcome than the string spacing is when learning to finger pick a different guit.
can only say mine sounds great, mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Feb 16, 2024 23:07:01 GMT
PD,
"...they don't understand y'know."
it may have been easier to sell that alibi if you hadn't had your finger picks on and a purdy guit sitting in your lap.
just saying, mitchfitt
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