Robben Ford Discussion

[Bluelobster]

Maybe we can elaborate a moratorium about peninsulas. Cyrano got one.

[JohnnyZ]

[Bluelobster]

[Millibobs]

tasteful perversion is where you make love to a sheep but buy it dinner first

[JohnnyZ]

[Millibobs]

'Look into my ewes, you are falling into a deep sheep......' Sheepnotherapy.

On a more serious note - I am near a UK Taylor dealer tomorrow and may pop in to see if they have the offending article. I have no money to buy it, but I can wear the frets down a bit and practice my faux blues style. People always look round when the fat twit with the suit on rips off some killer licks and then waddles casually out of the store. I am the fat Clint Eastwood of the guitar, the man with no name, cue Sergio Leonne music, lights cigarillo, coughs heavily and falls down steps into piano department.........

[frank0936]

Don't forget the squinty eye closeups.

[Millibobs]

I didn't, that's how I fell down the steps into the piano department.

Plans changed and missed the opportunity to go window shopping today. Just as well, I have most of what I need and going in the shop transforms me from a rational, thinking person, into a drooling idiot who needs more guitars, more guitars......

[Michael]

Nothing wrong with collecting guitars - I refer to them as usable art.

Taylor 810 from Lemon Grove
PRS Custom
Charvel Strat
Gibson ES 335
Fender Telecaster
Fender Concert 60 Watt
Fender Twin
Zen Overdrive
Carl Martin Compressor
Line 6 POD
Line 6 UX2
Sonar 6 Producer Edition
Edirol Controller
Roland RD 300 Digital Grand
Trombone
Flugel Horn 4 Valve
Reynolds Professional Trumpet
Martin Uke - Soprano, Alto, Tenor Guitar

Could someone get me some help?

[JohnnyZ]

re: Charvel Strat

Now there's a brand name I haven't seen in a long time- Charvel. I seem to recall Charvel guitars being very popular, perhaps in the 80s and 90s?

[Millibobs]

Michael

I could help you out with storage.......I can probably make a little room for the Fender amps and the PRS Custom.......

[Michael]

You are correct - early 80's on the Charvel. I bought it with the Fender Concert as my first electric. It's got a rosewood fret board. I've had some work done on it at Hidden Valley Guitars - mostly setup stuff - and it's fun to play.

The PRS actually sets up real well with the zen. Perhaps it the pickups. The Gibson I bought years ago was used. Garth convinced me to alter the pickups. Essentially disabled the toggle switch - now with a volume control I can blend both pickups in any proportion. This gives a whole new range of uses and tones. Garth uses such on his Fender.

The Fender Concert - cannot give that one up. It too is early 80's and other than a tube change - stock. The clean channel sounds great and is capable of some warm sweet sounding tones.

I was lucky to get a zen from Alphonso. I sent him a Banzai Fireball II from Olaf to audition. He was very interested in checking it out.

[Daved]

I remember that during the late 80's/early 90's a popular pickup setup, particularly in the 'metal' genre, was to wire the pickups essentially straight to the selector switch/volume/output jack, bypassing all tone/eq pots/adjusts.

I know a couple of artists I worked for wanted the PU actually wired straight to the output jack, using volume pedals/stomp boxes/and rack processors for any and all audio tampering.

At the time we techs called that "hot-wiring" the pickups.

Haven't run across much of that sort of thing in recent years.
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[FatTeleTom]