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Early Beatles, to another version of the song You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - nicely done, check it out till the end ... It definitely shows that some guitar manufacturers owe a huge debt to the Beatles - Gretchs, Hofner and Rickenbacher's - the classic Beatles lineup.

Thanks T-Bone! It's an early version of a draft of a rendering, but hopefully it will take shape. waysider, the jams sound nice. There is an etiquette to jamming, as you say. Local customs are always a factor too, and generally the idea is to be cool, be there and bring some courtesy along. :) Nothing worse than everybody walking all over each other every time there's an open bar. Tom, you read my mind. :) Thus offering solid proof - it's there, pistons - well pistoning. Or something. There's so many Beatles tunes.I was thinking it would be nice to redo some in ways that expound on the feeling that reconstructs, and let the music flow towards that. We'll see. Any requests? That tune is on Youtube.com by the way, from the movie Help HERE - check it out! Enjoy that puppy! As the little guy said "Ad hoc, ad loc, quid pro quo! So little time, so much to know!" And to play! Welcome Mssr. polar bear! Orchestra hey? Very nice. While this is a Guitar thread, as you'll see it careens off into adjacent real estate frequently. Feel free to contribute and please do, often! dmiller is right. Someone's gotta go "boom chuck boom chuck". Which reminds me, I've always had a thing for "country" sounds, the sounds that populate the country and bluegrass musics. Yet, I don't really like most popular "country" music and often feel that Bluegrass is like bad jazz, when it impersonates Bebop and goes "beedle deedle beedle deedle beedle deedle bop. De bop a bop. Bop." over and over in the same scale. Yet I do like a lot of the music that comes out of those genres. I was just thinking of Vince Gill, a not-so-typical country crooner. Love his stuff and he's an electric guitarist of rare sensitivity and taste. Or to my ear anyway, y'know. It's the scales, and the various tunings used I really like - the 6ths and 9ths, the "add 2's" where the A is added to an open G chord, or right above the root in a tight clustered triad. Those are beautiful tones, sweet sounds that hold the root in little pillowy cradles, floating. Or sumpin. They can sound really strong too. But those puppies bark in these woods. Mixed with the blues minor 3rd and 7ths - killer alternating sounds. Killhahs! But you're weeding in my patch with the Beach Boys "Wouldn't It be Nice". Great tune, and it would be, nice. That and "Don't Worry Baby" - classic stuff.

A la, I haven't in awhile, but thank you - there's parcels there! Thank you. I am. Do you believe in lightning striking in a clear sky? I read once it happened somewhere, can't recall the actual location. This is as good a place as any though. Tom, thank you for asking. The Girl has become a Woman before my very eyes. I guess I never saw it coming, or didn't want to for some reason, sometimes. It's weird with kids though - they never get bigger than that little wad of life that's the first time you see them. She was really influenced by her teachers, two in particular. M.I.'s filled with gun-slingers, 6 stringers itchin' for the next show down. The instructors fight that to a degree, to get students to drop the chops and listen, think. Hear. Daughter really responded to that message and is becoming a very thoughtful musican. Clear, she's clear. She likes a munchy tone, but one that's naturally clear and naturally complex, not over effected and beefed up. Biggest influence was learning so close to experts that the feeling comes from the hands, not the equipment. She struggles, same as me, but she's knows The Path now and it's very very very wonderfully nice to be on it with her. We are working on a couple tunes, she's got one that's a killah, she wrote while in school. The other is one of mine I posted here, Caress and she's working up the bass for it. Latest is the Beatles song "Hide Your Love Away". That - wow, that is a beautiful song. We've got a bunch of ideas for it, some of them are roughed out here. - Hide Your Love Away - 2 guitars and a dub There's a sound we're trying to get on it, this has way too many notes wandering around, but the essence of the idea is there.

Yeah, two outta 3 would have been nice, but no takers I see. Everyone plays the innocent when they're a kid, usually the parents pay for lessons, but so often it's set aside and ends up in a closet or garage, usually after a first Report Card, or that first date. I'd bet good money, actual cash dollars, USD, that right now there's an innocent or two gathering dust in many a closet right here. I'll have to rustle mine up, see if I can remember anything on it. I tried to take it up but the fingerings - whooo! Scarey! Didn't know that, Tom, there's stuff for sale alright. Guit's and Amps and all manner of strung things. More space to peruse...Thanks! I've enjoyed the recounts and photos of the Texas Gathering. Happy looking peops, all. If I'd been able to make the journey it would have been fun, no doubt! Where did ChattyKathy get off to? What kind of mischief is afoot? Played most of yesterday evening with the Girl. Fun pickin'. :)

Hey - you both could play innocent. would anyone believe it?

Wanna hear some, dM! Spank that catgut! I'm not all that familiar with the various styles of bluegrass dmiller, but what I'm hearing in your description is familiar to me in other forms I think. Sounds good!

Aaah yes! Like that guitar, what a nice finish! Family pics are in order, yes. Guilds have some serious tone. I'm enjoying reading up on them, only knew a little bit about them. (Im' getting some weird cha-cha on the 'net - locking up...must be GAS!) But the tremelo - I've read they're good, stable, keep a true tone. How's it sound on yours Chas? Ah, dancing aside, strings! Strings are probably the most under rated component on a guitar, dmiller and nothing brings it on like a new set. I'm fussy about strings, and have found for guitar - regardless what you pay - you gotta be discerning to get a perfect set. Modern winding technology puts out a more consistent string but there are mishaps that seem to get through Quality Control, enough that I've learned to check. On average, any set will do and sound good once broken in. But I've found faults in every brand I've ever bought, so I buy several sets at once and for my two main guitars, the Fernandes Dragonfly and the Telecaster I examine them as I put them on and trade out a bum dinged string if it appears. Or if I'm in a hurry, y'know, what the heck. I know what you mean though - a set of sweets on my Telecaster and it just seems to play so nice! Been messing around, making a rhythm track for a student, of Norah Jones' "Lonestar". It's a nice tune. The CD cut is very slow and hangs elegantly in slow motion through the whole song. I've got a couple other live cuts where she does it a bit faster, and live she did it at a faster clip too. It works as a 3/4 waltz, or a 2/4 march-y kind of thing. Country or pop. It's a very flexible tune. Key of C, lots of voicing possibilites, and open string chimey sounds. It's easy to wander around with and not get lost.

Y'know I might check them out closer Chas, was doing some reading on them. (It cracks me up that some reviews by buyers describe it as not being good for "heavy metal" type styles. Slap a sticker on those dudes and ship "Duh" rate ) But it sounds like it has nice range. So many guitars, so many guitars....so many....

List mo or last mo'? I wonder... I've got G.A.S. Chas. GAS for days, and need a fix. Actually, I am moderately fixated on a semi-slender semi-hollowbody F-hole electric, with a nice medium scale comfy neck. That Guild had me goin'. Acquisition, careful playing, resell, to an earlier "Savoy" model eventually, or a reasonably priced Gibson 175. It bugs me that Gibsons are so overly priced for their 175's, with the Reissue running around 3 grand. I can't help but think that half that price would be closer to the value. So now I'm thinking of heading for Guitar Center later this month and checking out the Epiphone Regent line, I've played a couple and liked a lot for the overall sound. They're long scale (25 1/2 inches string length) and would prefer a medium scale length, somewhat shorter and with a little looser feel to them, but the Regents do play well and are very responsive and the neck is right up my hand-alley. So....we'll see....eBay may still channel my meager dollars though, never know... Just saw your post Chas. Yes, Wildkat's look nice! So how is the neck on it? I need a slightly smaller neck, to feel comfortable moving around above the 7th fret. Depending on the neck I avoid certain kinds of things, even keys, which is sort of a pain. My Tele is the most consistent overall, in fact it's really doing everything I want in standard playing, but I'd like to be able to instantly have the fuller chordal sound that a semi or full body guitar gets. Another alternative I'm exploring is putting a floating mini-Humbucking pickup on my Takamine, if I can get it to fit right. I have no pickup guard on it now so that might be a problem, and I don't want to do any drilling. It has a Piezo pickup setup now.

Outbid at the list mo'.... <_< ... next time.... :)

That's the one. :) It's got an hour left. I like it - the price was 460.00 yesterday and going up now. I wrote the seller and he doesn't have a year of manufacture. It's fairly recent though, since 1999. The made in Corona/Fender's factory refers to Guild being bought by Fender and them making them in their factory now. So, he's right in the eBay reference, that these will be the collectibles of the future, but only because that's where they're being made now, sort of a gimme really. My interest isn't the vintage status as much as the sound - they're full sounding guitars, well made from what I've read, and have a slightly slimmer neck than most. I was hoping it would stay closer to the 500.00 buck range though and I might just slip on in at the end and give it a nudge. :)

Wunnerful! Sounds like a good time. I'm in an out right now but will check back in. Sounds like Amos was in a good mood, hey? Be back.... P.S. there's a Guild X-150 on eBay - pretty good price........

Nice question, a short answer would be that life has broadened for me. Over time my "faith" contributes a sense of the world I see and live in that's informed by teh part of it I can't, that's usually referred to as "spiritual". The one is completely involved with the other, the physical stuff and the spiritual stuff. The most concrete way to describe this is that it's time-based. Physical stuff has a shelf life, a life cyle and life span. The spirtual side of life does too, in that it's "eternal" and is the part of life that will go on "forever". Christianity presents a life cycle and span that's longer than this phsical lifetime, that will go on after the body dies. Which isn't to say I'm in it for the promise of a long future, but rather that I believe that's going to be the case, that our lives and who we are now will extend into an "eternal" life cycle and span that's longer than this present life. Christianity - the teachings and the life of Jesus puts a "face" on God and how life should be lived correctly. Each day I can attempt to live in a way that reflects that. The more I consider living that way and try to understand life as Jesus taught and lived it the more I feel "right", in tune and in harmony with myself and others, regardless of whether they "believe" how I do - it doesn't matter overall in the bigger picture whether others do or not, as I live as if we're all working under the same condions of life, to varying and very personal degress of understanding. This is very specific when it comes to dealing with other people, for instance how I view judgment and justice in this life. Ultimately - this bigger eternal picture - judgment and how any one of us stacks up in life, isn't up to me. That's not my domain of activity. By the basic standards of what Jesus synthesized in his teaching I can determine a "Christian" view of right and wrong and what to expect or require of others but it doesn't fall to me to come to a judgment over their entire lives and where they stand in the big picture of an eternal life cycle. I'm concerned with this one, but there's more at stake from my view, than that and I don't make judgment on that. So, it puts me very much at peace, and makes it much easier for me to deal with the vast inequities and "injustices" of this persent life. I do believe that God and Jesus Christ are presently involved in life, in a direct meaningful way but individually, in the realm of my/our lives, in each one of "us". Collectively we presently run the world and do what we do with that. This life is how it is, based largely on how we make it with what we've got and what we do. The basic materials are here and function the way they do. We can make good out of it, or we can tank. So I do view faith as a personal matter and very important for each of us as the more we try to live as Jesus Christ taught, witih each other and in our own faith toward God, the better we can make our world today.

Hey Chatty, yes, Ted Greene could be difficult to watch, but his music is exquisite, IMO. His touch is initmate, fully engaged with the instrument. The Guild he's playing looks like a Guild Manhattan, not sure. I'm checking around on it. It has a nice sound with his "finger style" technique. I copied these videos to study over time. I've got several of Greene's books, from the 70's, and revisit them for study. He filled his instructional books with so much material and examples you could take a small piece of a part in a chapter and learn and use it musically, which really says it all as to how I view him, he was uniquely in love with music. Greene was reclusive to be sure and it shows when he'd perform, never comfortable in front of an audiience. (I never saw him live but have heard about performances from several people). The movement of his hands and fingers reminds me of a Segovia, who had big hands and fingers and often didn't appear as elegant as the music he played. Johnny Smith, another, slump shouldered and hunkered over the guitar. I love how he renders the little counter melody on the last part of the verse to the Mendelssohn piece, against the "Hark the Herald" lyrics, it's the last 4 lines. He gets movement and again, his execution is so natural sounding the music lays out over any awareness of the execution, which is visible watching him play it. Greene ends it with a nice little figure of Americana, with just a hint of an American blues sound, which I think adds a poignant air to the song, bringing it home.

Give it minute or two in the beginning as he changes guitars - it's worth it. :)

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I'm sure you'll figure out something you do like then, y'know?

"Tastes like chicken"

Knopfler sounds great, Chas. Thanks! I do remember Big Country, yes. I would have liked to have seen them more popular here. I thought their first release had a nice sound. Come for the tricks, stay for the treats! Hally Happoween!

Yeeeeeeees......? Soup's on - actual chicken noodle, with assorted stuff in there with the chicken. Simmering....

I'm sure the Seikos have swank-factor to burn! That's it dmiller. It's stomp proof, alright. Is stomp another from of "stamp" I wonder? I've heard of stampedes, but never stompedes. Hmmm. Maybe stompede is British for stampede. Hmmm. "Stomp boxes" have really proliferated. (I'm stuck on that word, it's just so - so usable!) There's a stomp box for everything, I'm sure there's one that will get the sound of a fly screaming it's last will and testament as it plunges to the earth, propelled by a plastic flyswatter. With settings for "newspaper" and adjustments for mulitple flies and even bees. Wouldn't surprise me. chatty, what kind is it? I looked at the kind that clamps on the guitar headstock which actually looked to be pretty accurate and troublefree.

Well I don't know about you but I just read the whole thread again and I'M sorry!

Check it out jardnero... "precarious".... Yes, we are ChattyKathy! It's amazing! Well, this topic has been beaten to the point of no-return. Or has it...? Even now there are Moderators sleeping sound in their beds Hands neatly tucked up under their heads. Safe and assured that, another day done, Dreams will arrive softly, dreams, one by one! Dreams of a GreaseSpot with posts piling high! Higher than high, all the way to the sky! And people all eating while putting on skates Made out of glassine and papier-macplates! Spinning and twirling, in dreams falling down To a restful night's sleep. And nary a frown. And after the sleep come a dawning new day Precariously perched on the words... "Now what shall I say... ...Today!?"

That's good stuff. Jorma is an interesting player. Of the S.F. history of eclectic players he's stayed consistent and seems genuine. Well, got my tuner but ended up buying the Boss Chromatic. Got it for the same price as the Korg, and it was more spensive, so the buy was good. I found it to be a little more durable, at least that's the hope.