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Gibson Basses / Re: Incoming Vintage Pro Epi 'bird
« on: April 01, 2024, 09:21:20 AM »Set to land Tuesday. Now I need to order a "Gibson" TRC and some black reflector knobs.
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Set to land Tuesday. Now I need to order a "Gibson" TRC and some black reflector knobs.
Thanks, I figured I could explain this one as somewhat of an investment, particularly in white. It does have Wilkinson tuners. The case kind of sealed the deal for me.
Now that is interesting, those guys were really great and quirky, I like the theatrics of the singer and his voice. What a find!
Steve Harley would have no doubt been chuffed too. He never meant a dime in the US and then there is all of the sudden this US band covering (very well) one of his freak arrangements of a Harrison song for which he caught an incredible amount of flak when it was released in the UK. It was deemed a lèse-majesty and the NME riled that "Harley has massacred all the song's inherent charm with his awful version". (To me it was what a good rearrangement should do, I love both the original and his version of it.) Harley had been a rock journalist himself before he formed Cockney Rebel - there were frequent barbs against him by his former ilk and he gave as good as he got.
Hey, we're just catching up to the rest of the cool kids around here. I don't envy the youth when it comes to what they're looking at for buying a house now. Fifty isn't really such a huge number. Just fifty thousand bucks gets you that new Jimmy Page double neck. What a deal!
Sigh. I don't have the energy to pursue this topic any longer, discuss amongst yourselves if you desire. I am just baffled how they could take something as near perfect as the Vintage Pro and F it up. I need to lie down it's making my head hurt.
Since it was a slow work day I decided to summarize the issue at hand
The control cavity would always be a dead giveaway.
I know. He and The Band were booed at some gigs of their later UK tour too - folk fans couldn't handle it, any rock'n'roll element was perceived as intellectually lightweight and not authentic, an escapist passing fad. It must have bee akin to Led Zep performing in, say, 1974 with a dance troupe and horns during Stairway To Heaven.
Which would have given that song some entertainment value for once.
Well, in that case that SG is now exactly where it belongs, namely in a collection of 20th century cultural artifacts. In essence, a bunch of rock'n'roll Stradivaris. A good home. You don't really want guitars like that to be continued to be played until they need a refin, a refret or new pups - they need to be preserved in the state they were used to write rock history.
I agree with his assessment of the Dylan Strat btw. Dylan was no Chuck Berry or Jimi Hendrix in a musical sense, but he brought the power of social commentary into rock music.
My Stepfather grew up in very rural Arkansas, he said that they ate possum, squirrels etc. often. It was during the depression and WWII, they were poor, when he was old enough to learn to shoot, his father taught him how, and he would hunt for critters. He said possum was greasy and gamey, squirrel was gamey. Fish anyone?
All ownership has to start somewhere, legal documentation or even the cultural ability to keep written records about it is irrelevant.