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leftyguitars wrote:

Mateybob wrote:Can I also say that you and Malcolm playing "Chocolate Salty Balls" on Prime time radio was the work of genius!

I'm still laughing about it 2 days later.

I dedicated it to Joey Vas(ectomy)co. We expected a bollocking from the station manager but I think he had taken his medication and was asleep at his desk and missed it!

Marvellous!

Mateybob wrote:

I don't think I'd call Jimi Hendrix, SRV, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Dick Dale, David Gilmour, Mark Knopfler, etc, etc, etc bland...

Hendrix = God like.
Harrison = Well, let's just blame it on the drugs.
SRV = Bland.
Clapton = Blander.
Dale = ZZZzzz.
Gilmour = ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz.
Knopfler = Yawn......

Apart from the top two, it's all elevator music, innit?

Yeah, Rob...I would like you to tell that to Dick Dale's face, standing in an elevator! AND if you've ever heard him in person--a 71-year-old guy who is as fit as an 18-year-old, and who ROCKS, mercilessly, and deals out serious assault to both our ears and his Strats, you'd think otherwise.

Or maybe not. Some people just can't get it...

Here's a bitta nutz:

Ask Aitch what I said after playing my MK Strat for about ten minutes through my new VOX...

****** marketing of ****** ideas by Fender aside.....The Stratocaster is the most versatile guitar ever built. Three single coil pups and a five way switch gets you killer blues at the neck..tele twang at the bridge and on the forth position that strat quack...nothing else tonewise like that! Blues, rock, surf, psych, country, metal and jazz tones can be pulled up..try that with a Les Paul (love them but they don't have an equal tone range). Aside from that (and I know it's in the eye of the beholder), a strat is the sexiest axe ever made...a freekin 57 Chevy with a wang bar...
Jimi
Eric
SRV
Knoppfler
Buddy Guy
Robert Cray
Malsteem
Beck
Dick Dale
Blackmore
Gilmore
Hank Marvin
Maybe..a few other boring guys

Mateybob wrote:

leftyguitars wrote:Rob, you're not being a naughty boy and winding people up are you?

I think my days are numbered.

The Fender fanboys are a' gathering and the torches have been lit.

I've never owned a Fender in my life.

Never mind our Rob, he's a bit of a s*it disturber at times.......eh Rob?

He likes to bait the trap and then see people rise to the occasion. Me, I am not falling for it. You probably all know what I play................mostly and so does he.

winston wrote: You probably all know what I play................mostly and so does he.

Im trying to push away the first thought that sprang to my mind Erm..........Hide and seek!

Ask Aitch what I said after playing my MK Strat for about ten minutes through my new VOX...

Not suitable for a public forum but it was positive in the extreme!!

Bloody awesome is all I'll say.............

Everyone has their faves, and anti-faves; I love my USVRI Strats, and I've never owned a Gibson!

Paul W; what's an "MK" Strat? I'm sure it's obvious, but it escapes me at the moment. Mark Knopfler maybe? I didn't know he had a signature model if so.

Mary Kaye?

You rang?

Oh, right, yes, a Mary Kaye Strat. A looker, and a screamer...remember those?

Don't forget Pete Townshend...

jingle_jangle wrote:

Mateybob wrote:

I don't think I'd call Jimi Hendrix, SRV, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Dick Dale, David Gilmour, Mark Knopfler, etc, etc, etc bland...

Hendrix = God like.
Harrison = Well, let's just blame it on the drugs.
SRV = Bland.
Clapton = Blander.
Dale = ZZZzzz.
Gilmour = ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz.
Knopfler = Yawn......

Apart from the top two, it's all elevator music, innit?

Yeah, Rob...I would like you to tell that to Dick Dale's face, standing in an elevator! AND if you've ever heard him in person--a 71-year-old guy who is as fit as an 18-year-old, and who ROCKS, mercilessly, and deals out serious assault to both our ears and his Strats, you'd think otherwise.

Or maybe not. Some people just can't get it...

Here's a bitta nutz:

Ask Aitch what I said after playing my MK Strat for about ten minutes through my new VOX...

Wind ups aside.............

Wait untill you here my vintage strat through the little marshall amp I have here in the house.

Coming to "Name that tune" very soon!

winston wrote:Never mind our Rob, he's a bit of a s*it disturber at times.......eh Rob?

Qui, Moi?

In light of all the "Strat Bashing", time to fess up and admit to owning one (if you do). I have a 2005 MIM Midnight Wine and one 2008 black American Standard (on the way.)

Yeah, yeah. I've got an old Squier Strat.