some cities have events where the schoolkids paint an old piano for fundraising
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
does it come with vomit residue
― calstars, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
"what's this stain?"
That is a lot of painstaking workmanship to make a guitar look like steaming garbage
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
I can imagine ripping your fingers up on those soda cap knobs.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
lol
https://reverb.com/item/36188512-the-metrocaster-new-york-stratocaster
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
wow that seller.. the Back To The Future Mustang…
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
the license plate in the middle just deeply bothers me, the rest of it is terrible but that puts me over the edge
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
maybe because nothing says NYC like cars
What I love is the juxtaposition of graffiti art and pictures of boomboxes and shit with The Late Show with David Letterman and ticket stubs from Hamilton and shit.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
and shit
i hate license plates used in any kind of "art"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
the snl fret is just awful
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:13 (one year ago) link
lol the builder is in Dallas
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:15 (one year ago) link
The Back to the Future guitars should have had built in Plasma Drives.
https://vintageking.com/media/catalog/product/cache/c8660c81d7196df55c33284290821786/g/a/gamechanger-plasma-drive-euro_114918_1.jpg
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
and it’s a Jazzmaster if anything, find me a single Jag feature.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 16 February 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
https://eddiesguitars.com/product/electric/electric-guitar-categories/solid-body-electric-guitars/fender-american-vintage-ii-1966-jazzmaster-3-color-sunburst/
Looks like Fender got the memo about using the wrong headstock on the new AVII Jazzmasters
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 22:12 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/JzTKIAn.jpgWhat model is this?
― calstars, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 23:25 (one year ago) link
I think a B C Rich Mockingbird?
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 23:45 (one year ago) link
Ah BC rich sounds right. I guess I’ve only seen the later models but the shape is distinctive
― calstars, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 23:46 (one year ago) link
definitely a Mockingbird
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 March 2023 02:36 (one year ago) link
glad someone knew "looks like an Ibanez Iceman but pointier" was not returning results on Google
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 March 2023 04:57 (one year ago) link
https://i.redd.it/sfk2mjco95o01.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 23 March 2023 05:37 (one year ago) link
A thing I am not going to say out loud: the pointier your guitar is, the less I want to hear your music
But I am certainly thinking it
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 March 2023 13:40 (one year ago) link
This is something I think about sometimes: there must be someone somewhere who uses a pointy shredder guitar to make decidedly non-shredder music, right? But it seems to just not ever happen.
― mirostones, Thursday, 23 March 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
Sleigh Bells?
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
I feel like a trv shredder guitar is a slightly pointier super strat with a Floyd Rose type whammy and a HSS pickup configuration
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/RG550DY--ibanez-genesis-collection-rg550-desert-sun-yellow
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
This is something I think about sometimes: there must be someone somewhere who uses a pointy shredder guitar to make decidedly non-shredder music, right? But it seems to just not ever happen
Didn't Rosetta Tharpe play a Flying V? Or Explorer or SG. Maybe I am misremembering. I have a vague memory of someone from that era with a pointy guitar.
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link
She played an SG which seems kinda weird but I think mostly cuz of Iommi and Angus Young
Albert King played a Flying V as did Neil Young for a particularly sleazy period
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
i believe ilx user albert broccoli also has this jag!― call all destroyer, Sunday, May 30, 2021 2:01 PM (one year ago)
― call all destroyer, Sunday, May 30, 2021 2:01 PM (one year ago)
He did but he traded it for a early 00s 1966 MIJ replica JM in sonic blue. :`(
The pickup sound on the Jaguar was a bit thin/tinny in comparison and he prefers the longer neck when it all came down to it.
It's also frustrating to have a legit 66 JM with big headstock and a 66 replica without (different neckshape too but oh well).
Mary Ford played an SG, she was one of the earlier champions of the model iirc.https://i.imgur.com/W6LLAIn.jpg
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link
oh yeah albert king, that's who i was trying to think of.
i think the flying v is kind of grandfathered in as being more than a pointy guitar
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
I saw Jeff Tweedy with a Flying V at a Wilco/Sonic Youth show in maybe 2003, not sure whether that counts
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 March 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
Also i don't think of early U2 as being "shreddy," but very few guitarists are more associated with the Explorer than the Edgester
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 March 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link
feel like the V and Explorer are proto pointy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 March 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
oooh pretty
https://i.imgur.com/pq0rDDf.jpg
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 March 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
oh my
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 23 March 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link
There's a guy in Texas building Marauders - they are relics but they're real pretty
https://www.instagram.com/p/CmM4zSju9ah/
I'm not sure if those big switches on the lower horn would end up getting in the way of strumming through - not accurate to the '60s Marauder prototypes but I think I'd rather just have Jag switches there.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:06 (one year ago) link
Lonnie Mack was an early adopter of the original Flying V.
Firebird came a few years later but it is one with an auto design, similar variation to Explorer (and later RG) shape.
The weird and totally rare one is the Futura.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:24 (one year ago) link
Jay Reatard was a Flying V guy. I would LOVE a pointy guitar but couldn't shred my way out of a paper bag. Someday I'll buy a Dean Razorback. Preferably this one:
https://www.njuskalo.hr/image-w920x690/elektricne-gitare/dean-razorback-slimebolt-slika-26667996.jpg
― peace, man, Friday, 24 March 2023 00:22 (one year ago) link
Futura...I think it is pretty cool. The Moderne or the Corvus not so much.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2696/4455874542_4e2c0e7829_o.jpg
― earlnash, Friday, 24 March 2023 01:01 (one year ago) link
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, March 23, 2023 3:27 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
hey, nothing wrong with that trade! did the jag have stock pickups or aftermarket? mine has duncan antiquities and they *seem* right as far as thin vs.full but i haven't compared to a similar JM.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 24 March 2023 01:02 (one year ago) link
Yeah they were just the stock pickups, no mods at all (not even the bridge!)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 24 March 2023 04:36 (one year ago) link
The ideal combo would be Jazzmaster scale/pickups with the Jaguar switching and strangle switch IMO (blooz lawyers with Strats are missing out on combining their $800 Fuzz Face clones with the strangle switch and neck pickup)
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 March 2023 05:16 (one year ago) link
this modded old Kawai/Decca guitar is pretty sweet, but the scale looks sub-24"
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0573/7260/6632/products/DSC07759.jpg?v=1664142932
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 March 2023 05:19 (one year ago) link
https://www.thunderroadguitars.com/store/use-decca-ronin-mod-shop
Looking at a Squire jazz bass. Anyone have opinions on squire vs fender basses at a low price point?
― calstars, Friday, 24 March 2023 12:14 (one year ago) link
can't see a link but Squier has gotten really good, esp the Classic Vibe stuff - Spottie has some good insight I believe in this thread or another
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 24 March 2023 12:20 (one year ago) link
Squire has a reputation of being pretty reliable. I have a Classic Vibe p-bass. It's been solid. I've heard that even their Affinity (low budget) line is pretty good these days, although I haven't played one. Definitely worth checking out if you're on a budget.
― peace, man, Friday, 24 March 2023 12:28 (one year ago) link
I got an Affinity PJ bass. The build quality is good but the pickups weren't great, you'll probably want to swap them out if you get an Affinity. I'm personally not mad about the feel of the thick finishes on the necks but a lot of modern Fenders have this same feel as well. I have a Squier strat that was like this but I sanded the back of the neck and put some danish oil on, I prefer it this way. Of course, some people probably like these thick finishes so it's highly subjective.
― mirostones, Friday, 24 March 2023 12:50 (one year ago) link
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/JBassCV70Nat--squier-classic-vibe-70s-jazz-bass-naturalThis is the one I came across
― calstars, Friday, 24 March 2023 12:55 (one year ago) link