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Gibson Basses / Re: The Rickie Hinrichsen Collection from Gibson
« on: March 23, 2024, 03:49:23 PM »
Quote from: Pilgrim on March 23, 2024, 10:08:45 AM
Looks to me like someone in design found a leftover box of specially treated sugar cubes from the 60s and has been using them in their coffee.


It's just faux-worldly tat for the deep-pocketed arriviste boomers that Gibson are increasingly trying to wring dollars out of.


You hitchhiked to Marrakech the gap year before you started grinding at Lockheed Martin/JP Morgan? Boy do we have a tastelessly appointed Les Paul Jr for you!

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 23, 2024, 02:55:35 PM »
Was Graham Bonnet called Graham Hood in America?

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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Music videos that feature Rics
« on: March 23, 2024, 02:53:56 AM »
Like David Gilmour's black Strat, you wouldn't give that bass a second glance in a pawnshop if it wasn't priced crazily low.

I think I've seen that bass in London when Pink Floyd had their 'mortal remains' exhibition. There was one heavily used black on black P Bass with a maple neck. It had definitely seen some action.

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Gibson Basses / Re: The Rickie Hinrichsen Collection from Gibson
« on: March 22, 2024, 03:26:36 PM »
The Mediterranean Mosaic guitar gives Greek Restaurant Bathroom vibes. Gone a bit heavy on the dolmades and Mythos.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Cleanest 1969 EB-3 at Norm's (+demo)
« on: March 22, 2024, 03:22:31 PM »
They love getting those vintage instruments out their cases in a really cramped store room with wooden shelves. Just the place to put a Gibson headstock through its paces!

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 21, 2024, 03:15:10 PM »
Batio’s career is hilariously lacking any pointe or tastefulness.

https://youtu.be/aGf5NxLQoEo?si=DKxa496J8AEUwz3o

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 21, 2024, 11:12:41 AM »
Quote from: wellREDman on March 21, 2024, 12:22:01 AM
Melody Cristea from Liliac getting to play with some of her heroes



Everywhere they tour, sales of men's shaggy black wigs goes up 300%. Some dodgy barnets in that band!

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 20, 2024, 03:26:06 PM »
The 1997 version sounds like they chucked compression and smiley-face EQs on everything. The Dweezil version sounds more honest, somehow.

It reminds me of the handful of prog albums (mostly Gentle Giant) I own that Steve Wilson remixed and remastered. They are the old albums, but on a good day! Still plenty of dynamics and headroom, but instrument separation is better and the overall balance of the instruments is better.

The worst remix/remastering I've heard is the version of Obscured by Clouds slung into the Pink Floyd 'Early Years' box set. I like the original album as it is a bit of grace under pressure; recorded quickly as a soundtrack to a weird art house movie. It is somewhere between archaic space rock Floyd and a tough first draft of Dark Side. For the remix, David Gilmour added way to much of that slushy, modulated and compressed latter-day Floyd sound. Too glossy, too warm and bloated in the mids. They also did something ugly to the soundtrack to Live at Pompeii in the same box set. It is like they discovered Spatial Audio plugins like Izotope and set them all to 100%, matched with a brittle EQ that causes ear fatigue. All to try and 'rectify' something recorded on a mobile recording setup in 1971 using grimy European electricity, spliced cables, ground hums and crackles.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 20, 2024, 03:45:16 AM »
My guitarist buddy was having a clear out of his CDs, looking to remove duplicate copies of albums. I've ended up with a 1995 issue of Who's Next. I'm guessing other copies I've owned or borrowed have been remasters, as this is quite a warm, soft-sounding version of the album. I quite like it, as it beds the slightly turgid Lifehouse songs in the middle into the overall soundscape of the album. On remastered versions, Baba O'Riley and Won't get Fooled surge out the speakers, while tracks like Going Mobile seemed a bit toothless. The obvious difference with this older edition of the album is that the drums seem to become a bit of an anonymous blur and clatter in the mix.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 12, 2024, 02:20:03 PM »
Slash really has enjoyed a long, comfortable tail on his career! How many albums of pointless covers and awkward collaborations has he done?

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Gibson Basses / Re: Glenn Cornick bass timeline pre-JT through Wild Turkey and Paris - updated
« on: March 11, 2024, 05:11:07 PM »
Who was Neil Clark? Did he make the black pickguard for the TBII seen in the Tull footage from 1970?

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 10, 2024, 10:11:29 AM »
Quote from: doombass on March 07, 2024, 10:35:26 AM
:mrgreen: Yup, that worked fairly well 30+ years ago and Alan might have been interpreted as being a bit more complimentary. Or......?? I wonder what a bald, wild, creek living beaver looks like? Hmm, well maybe something like this:



Jesus! I know we are a bit pale and pasty in Scotland and all!

For the record, my wife was fully clothed!

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Sam Ash on the decline
« on: March 08, 2024, 12:13:11 AM »
Covid-related lockdown was probably the last time there will ever be a surge in guitar sales for these big, generic retailers with physical stores. Guitar 'culture' seems increasingly irrelevant and at odds with the direction popular music is taking. Coverage of NAMM from thus year looked especially desolate, with several major manufactures notable in their absence. Increasingly, guitar culture is becoming akin to baseball card collecting, with a smaller pool of hobbyists with deep pockets determining the discourse. $600 boutique overdrive pedals that never leave the 'man cave', etc.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 05, 2024, 04:54:55 PM »
Quote from: uwe on March 04, 2024, 03:27:37 PM
Alan has a track record of being misunderstood notwithstanding his best intentions that permeate all his communication, be it oral or in writing. Tragic.

I shall savour this lingering ambiguity.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 04, 2024, 11:28:48 AM »
I was once holding a ladder for my wife and started singing "I saw the whole of the moon" as she started descending it, and it didn't go down well.

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