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These work great. No need to change anything:

ken_j wrote: Maybe a signature Rick is in the making.

I don't know about that, he seems to be kinda liking these ... can't say I disagree with him.

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Manuel, tell me more about what Fogerty smashed backstage..... Little Rock, Arkansas, 1 August 1998 in his "Premonition" tour. Smashed his acoustic right after "Have You Ever Seen The rain". Apparently it was giving him trouble so he decided to fix it. The point being, if it's y...

There is always going to be someone going to dance to the beating of stretched skins with a cow femur, under the spring moonlight , after a hefty partaking of the nectar.

It's in the genes.

Some try to give "the system" the finger and some integrity I guess, but they have some influence ... but then, their efforts are given a back seat as compared to other acquiescent "artists" that will play ball:

It's a guitar, people, not a Picasso. Yes, it is what it is to be done with as one pleases - it's a wood and steel thing made by imperfect machines and imperfect men, that one usually pays disposable money to acquire, and by the waning yens of fleeting fancy, sometimes gets dumped into the trash ca...

Hmm, I've had Gibsons since '72, yes, the quality of finish today is hit and miss but even back then in the Norlin period, compared to other electrics they were still the ants pants. Although quality of finish has been up and down all over the place since the '80's, I have never struck one that was ...

"Mandonna"

admin wrote: If John Forgety signs on, will we accept a non-traditional bridge pickup.

Together with a non-traditional TRC? Come to think of it, wasn't that an "ACME" that he played with the "non-traditional" bridge p/up?

antipodean wrote:Hasn't this topic been "Done to Death" ?

Not by a long shock.

I'm amazed it's still there after all this time.

Is it???

It wasn't "right" either for Pete Townshend to smash "a perfectly good guitar", but there you go. Come to think of it, John Fogerty did the same thing one night as he walked behind the back of the stage, smashed it to pieces. Bet the person that did that felt like they had someth...

Originality is in very short supply. Any musician that today is able to digest and synthesise influences and comes up with interesting new twists will have my vote of approval anytime (which means nothing to anyone else, but a little to me), no matter what particular market segment. The amazing leap...

How memory fades. Has everyone forgotten that The Beatles wrote their music and performed it without a reference? That equates to a bit of talent right there. Now, the Rolling Stones, just for the shear sake of longevity, are ok by me, but the likes of Robert Johnson and countless blues players, not...

I can only reiterate what leftyguitars and johnallg have already said - it could be static electricity (check the soles of your shoes if they are synthetic and the carpeting at the venue) or it could be a ground fault with the venue's wiring (in which case other members of the band are likely to exp...