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Appreciation!

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When I click on the "youtube" link, I do not get an "=" sign.

Thanks though.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaPlKTFnXz4

I guess I don't remember how to post videos. I used the youtube link, but no dice.

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Van Halen with Roth was fantastic.

Rick bass or not, what a band!!!!!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaPlKTFnXz4[/youtube]

What is supposed to be most important is the "music," not the "gear." If I hear a tribute band, or "anyone" playing "She's a Woman In Love," my fave Heartbreakers' song, I would not care if the dude playing the melody was using a B.C. Rich B-ch. It's just gear...

It's the "aroma" from old gear, and old cases!

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To get "200 people to come see you play on a Friday night," these days? Ha, that would be awesome! PBuck, one of my top-two favorite guitar players ever, side-by-side with JMarr. I never believed anyone would ever surpass Ace Frehley and Mick Ronson to me, but Peter and Johnny did it! ...w...

I'm perplexed! I've been in enough Rickenbacker forums, and in them long enough, to believe it was against "Rick-Law" to change or modify a Rickenbacker. I'm shocked this topic has any legs...pleasantly shocked. Addendum: I see guitars as "tools," not "idols," therefore...

I had heard and love plenty of music from the 60s and 70s that had Rickenbackers in it. Most of my guitar heroes played Gibson Les Pauls, and I'm still crazy about all of them, and the Les Paul. However, it was Peter Buck and early REM that sent me over the top for Rickenbackers. I have never heard ...

'81, and a blonde 360.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w24VhMok-EE

The best part about the entirety of this Peter Buck and "gear" topic is that like all albums recorded, musicians use whatever gear is available to get whatever sounds/tones that satisfy their "ears on that day." Then gear nuts like us, years later, question and dissect, than sali...

Cease and desist?

I'll take two of them!

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Yes, everything is "opinion," and my opinion is that the entirety of "Reckoning" is greatness, not just 5 of the 10 songs, and "Document," mediocre or the worst of the IRS catalogue, hardly. "The Finest Worksong" is anthem'ish, just like "Begin the Begin,...

I just clicked the link again, and reread the text... Stipe says he hates "nostalgia, hates the idea of looking in the rear view mirror," so what is the thing to do? Hey, let's do a Reissue and talk about it! As stated REM is my favorite band of all-time, and Stipe is my least favorite mem...

Not to argue, but I wouldn't call putting a Bigsby on a Rickenbacker an "upgrade." On a Gibson 335, yes, it could be considered an added bonus, but on a Rickenbacker, I don't see it. To each his own, regardless, after all, they are only guitars, meaning they are only wood, plastic and a bi...