TapperMike

Women are complex it's not as easy to get a desired response from the,,,that's the joke. Back in the Early 60's before Hendrix crossed the pond, Clapton reigned supreme. He was able to carve up a wide variety (for the time) of different guitar tones with what I would call a "Primitive" setup. The most sought after sound that separated him from guitarists was his famous "Woman Tone" Jump to the 1:45 marker Since then all sorts of names for various tone settings have come along. I recall back in the 70's when I was looking for a guitar amp. The sales man pluged a guitar into the amp and handed me the guitar. I looked at him with disgust. "Is that the way it's supposed to sound?" He reached over and adjusted all the knobs and said try it now. The heavens opened up as far as I was concerned. It was a magical tone to my ears. He then gave me a very long lecture about why different amps sound different ahd what I could do to carve out a "closer to" tone for songs. Needless to say I bought the amp and the salesman became a lifelong friend. Through the years I've become a connoisseur of guitar tone. http://forums.songstuff.com/blog/159/entry-1484-review-yamaha-thr10c-the-little-amp-that-can/

If you are not seeing the Gretsch logo clear as day on the headstock it may just be a knock off. A lot of japanese companies did this in the 50's/60's/70's And a lot of Americans faked the fakes close enough so that the unsuspecting would fall for it. As quality increased overseas EU and American companies brought suit upon japanese makers. These became known as Lawsuit guitars. Current Gretsch guitars are made in Korea by Peerless. Prior to that they were made in japan at one of the fujiGen factories. Several years back both Fender and Gibson started buying up other guitar brands. FMIC (Fender) has owned Gretsch since 2002

Green Earrings - Steely Dan

She got the Goldmine (I got the shaft) - Jerry Reed

Dirty Work - Steely Dan

Lady Madonna - The Beatles

Bump I've written a review in my blog. http://forums.songstuff.com/blog/159/entry-1484-review-yamaha-thr10c-the-little-amp-that-can/

Re maple fretboards because they look better. I get that but sometimes it doesn't get me. My newest tele is the straightest maple fretboard neck I've ever own. I've gone through dozens of maple neck guitars only to be disappointed. The reason why I choose rosewood for my strat many years back is that I just didn't trust the one piece maple neck due to all the bad experiences I'd had in the past. That didn't stop me from loving the look of a maple fretboard on a tele or strat. Maple fretboards are just sexier on electric guitars. I'm really glad my tele has one.

Ship of Fools - Robert Plant

I too enjoyed Back & Forth While I love hulu there are quite a few "rockumentaries" that I thought were quite badly done. Most notably the eric clapton one. If you want a real history lesson check out Jazz by Ken Burns http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Film-By-Ken-Burns/dp/B000BITUEI/ref=tmm_dvd_title_0 http://www.pbs.org/jazz/index.htm I remember really really enjoying the show when it originally aired. Somebody put the PBS Rock and Roll documentary from PBS online https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL390141A638523E5F While I was less then pleased with the treatment of metal the rest of the documentary is great.

What we perceive and what we think the audience perceives may be entirely different. Elvis had stunt doubles in his movies to play the guitar for him. The monkees weren't allowed to actually play their instruments during the filming of the show..it was all overdubs (though later they could actually play them irl in reunion concerts. I used to be in "The Bobby Cole Quartet" Bobby was an arse and a hack. He could sing okay and was a mediocre piano player but was an extremely handsome older guy and he had a cult following from playing the same house since the 50's (this was back in the eighties. Anyway I used to show up with my Les Paul for trad (music between WWI and WWII) jazz. I took it because it was a paying gig and wanted to pay my dues as a jazz guitarist. We'd have these photo op's for local papers and Bobby would push me out of frame. I carried his arse we all did but he was the fair haired boy. Anyway I decided to get my long hair cut and bought a Gibson Byrdland. I'm there in a suit nice jazz box in hand and... MTV on the Beach shows up (this was when I was living in florida and the gig was at Fort Myers Beach. I'm having a great set the crowd is loving me...MTV camera's come in and Bobby being true to form tells me to sit out the next set. I'm furious but I'm not going to call him out in his house. So I sit out the set MTV films and leaves. Bobby calls me back for the last set of the night ( I won't get paid if I don't take the show to the end) The local paper follows MTV in and starts taking candid band shots.... The guy takes one of me that hid's Bobby behind me (because I've got a very pretty guitar) At the end of the night after all the cash is sorted I tell Bobby I quit. MTV never shows footage of that night but my face is plastered on the front page of the Mullet Wrapper (Fort Myers Beach newspaper). One would figure that I could parlay that cover photo as a means to get into another jazz combo or get jazz gigs elsewhere in Florida. Never happened. But I did get positive comments from people I knew about the photo op. A similar situation happened when I moved back to Michigan. I sat in with a Jazz trio during a jam trying to make a name for myself. The upright bass player was amazing. I was so mesmerized by his playing I could barely keep up. He was a very very heavy man and it was his trio (Hans Muer) Great guy a true gentleman, gentile giant and extremely gifted. Anyway we had a photo op for the local paper and they cut him out (and trust me he was the act) but not me. I felt sorry for the guy. But this time the photo op was good for me as it allowed me to meet up with other professional jazz players and get more paying gigs. In short a great deal of it comes down to situation. Some people who come to a show are less concerned with the music then just being seen in that type of setting. A great show and to the listener it may as well be background music. I've noticed watching crowds at folk shows...If you have a young attractive singer....forget the band all eyes and ears focus on the singer. Rudi- You are tall compared to me I'm 5'6" and shrinking. atleast you have meat on your bones. I'm 110 lbs

It's a spaceship in a canyon. OMG it's an ovation guitar one of those roundbacks, Nah it's a bass.

I'm Your Captain/ Closer to Home - Grand Funk Railroad

Yeah, It was a combination of wanting to meet girls (that worked much better then track where even win you win your throwing up crossing the finish line.) And.... my best friends were a drummer and a singer who talked me into it.

Umm,,, the embarrassing album covers are more amusing to me, However most are not suitable for public consumption, so I'll spare any links.

Two of my favorite threads borrowed from elsewhere.... Your Next Guitar (what are you thinking of purchasing next) The Guitar Show (show your guitars) Another thing might be ... How to get that woman tone.

Someone is going to kill me for saying this. Band in a box - http://pgmusic.com I always right from the chord progression first. I do a quick draft by laying down the chord names then pick a style that may not be exactly what I want but still close enough. Once I get the general idea down I'll import it into real band (which is included in biab) or Mixcraft and lay down new parts more closely aligned with my initial concept. A lot of times the band in a box arrangement is so good I'll just drop in a few guitar parts and something for the melody.

When I'm trying to learn a song. I always focus on the bass first to figure out the chord progression. It's easier for me to find the root and from there I turn to figuring out all the rest (major minor etc) The hardest thing I've ever tried was playing bass and singing at the same time.

Good for you Jan. If you enjoy what you are doing then follow your bliss. The world needs more bass players. Bass was always fun for me, never work. But I always feared that if I played bass often enough in a live situation I'd be relegated to playing bass permanently. It happened once in my early years of playing in groups (or just with other guitarists) I like playing bass but I've always considered myself a guitar player first and foremost. I've known a lot of guys who had to pay their bills playing music for a living and they played many instruments but the ones that always got them more gigs was bass playing. Eventually they'd settle in and make a career out of playing bass even if their heart wasn't fully into it. I could never do that. Even now when playing bass on the ztar it's mostly about a fun alternative or a needed thing to complete a song. It's never about me striving to be a better bassist. I play well enough to make me happy and that's all that matters. And I can still put down the bass and pick up a guitar. This isn't intended as a slap in the face to bass players. I respect what they do and appreciate their efforts, it's just not something I want to go full conversion on myself.

The jagged edge of a broken heart - Bering Strait How's that I looped the title from one and the artist name from the one before that. Nice little country band from russia that should have gotten greater recognition then they did.

I love Chet Baker's stuff although it sounds like he had a cold when he sung that one Gerry Raferty -Baker{/b]Street

As we've seen many of these video's time and time again in this thread I figured I'd spice things up by reaching for the obscure but not too obscure.

Moon Zappa - Valley Girl

Chicago - Beginnings

As some of you know I've been singing praises over my Yamaha all in one THR10c. It's a practice amp with amazingly accurate amp simulations, it's a portable stereo amplifier for mp3 players, It's an external sound card for computers and it's got some great firmware to access features one can't get from the physical panel. I'm starting to believe it was a collaboration project from Yamaha and Line6. I only just recently found out about Yamaha aquiring line6. I'm guessing a few jobs will be lost in the process. While most of the time I have less then favorable opinions of aquisitions and mergers this may be a really good thing for Yamaha. Yamaha makes some amazing mixers for TV, Movie, radio and houses of worship. The problem has been. They are rather quirky pieces of machinery that are hard to get used to working with. They have been losing ground to presounus and other companies with easier to manage ui's and greater versatility. Having something like the Line6 StageScape technology could be a real feather in Yamaha's pocket and return some of ground they have been losing in the mixer realm. I really really hope they have a hands on approach to the Variax. Even though the Tylers have faster processors then previous verions Line6 hasn't broadened the number of guitar sims through the years. Yamaha not really been seen as a leader in the guitar world could really use Variaz to beef up it's under appreciated electric guitar field. As well Guitarists who prefer all in one guitars really need an all in one guitar that embodies more then the current fair which line6 provides. Would it be so bad if variax had a few ibanez, bc rich, parker, prs or other notable guitars taht have made their mark on the industry post 1980.