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  2. Great tale from Steve Vai on FB tonight. Reminds me a little of the Peter Frampton Les Paul, though less dramatic. "Reunited, and it feels so good. Oddly enough, after going missing 36 and a half years ago, my custom Joe Despagni “Swiss Cheese” guitar was finally returned to me. This guitar was custom built for me by Joe Despagni. Joe was my best friend in life growing up and he made me some of the wildest guitars I ever laid my fingers on such as the Flame guitar, the Lightning Bolt, this Swiss Cheese guitar, ZNG ZNG, and his final piece that he made for me before he passed away, Theadolite. He worked with his brother Rob on many of these guitars. I used “Swiss Cheese” in the original Yankee Rose video while I was with David Lee Roth, and stretched it out in rehearsals and was planning on touring with it, but this guitar, along with 3 others, was stolen in Pasadena CA at Perkins Palace during rehearsals for the Eat Em and Smile tour. It is officially the first guitar to receive a “monkey” grip” handle, and the first one Joe made with a handle at my request. The guitar was discovered by young Iván Gonzáles Acosta in the attic of his grandparents home in Tijuana, Mexico not too long ago. It seems the people that lived in his grandparents house before them purchased the guitar somewhere along the way and it was just stuck in the attic only to be discovered recently when they were reorganizing things. When Ivan discovered this guitar, he posted some images online and they came on the trusty radar of our very own Mike Mesker. Mike is THE authority on the history and specifics of all my guitars. Mike started reaching out to Ivan and after some time he was able to arrange a drop off where Ivan was met by Mike, Doug MacArthur and myself. Thanks to Mike for his solid vigilance in bringing this guitar home. The condition of the guitar when I saw it was a shocker. It’s as if it was put in the case and never played for 36 years. The colors are still vibrant and the neck is in great shape. Thank you Ivan for your kind consideration and for reuniting me with this piece of my history. Receiving this guitar feels like an old friend has returned home after so many years to jam with me. I believe that we will make a wonderful Ham and Swiss sandwich together. Photo by Mike Mesker"
  3. I struggled and didn't think inwas ever gonna get it. Wordle 574 4/6* [emoji834]🟨[emoji834][emoji834][emoji834] [emoji834]🟨🟨🟨[emoji834] 🟨🟨[emoji834]🟨[emoji834] 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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  6. AnotherUTFan

    Jeff Beck RIP

    Just heard this news. A monster of a player and put both Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood on the map.
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  11. There's one song I do in drop D, World on a String by Neil Young. It's fun and I ought to do more.
  12. This is, by far, the best tuner pedal on the market. I can't remember who pointed it to me to it when Vary Mary was playing regularly, I thought it was here. Best pedal I ever bought. Its Poly, so you can strum all 6 strings at once and 6 red lights go across the top with green lights above and below that show if any are out of tune and roughly by how much. So you see the G string is a little sharp, it's always the G string, and when you pick just that string, the big, bright G shows on the display and you have multiple options for how you want it to indicate the tuning - including strobe. On top of all that it has a built in buffer, which you should have at the beginning of any chain of 3 or more pedals anyway, and it's form factor is smaller than most other tuner pedals.this replaced both a bigger Poly tuner I had and a buffer, and does a better job at both. I do use mine as a big on/off switch. It's true bypass. You do want it. I have a lot more guitars (13-ish) than I do basses (2), but the tuner pedal plays great w all of them. Edit - it's green lights for in tune in Poly mode, like this.
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  14. You really need to upgrade your tuner pedal to this one, especially with that many pedals after it. Trust me.
  15. Well, that's too bad. By the time we got a response from our drummer, the spot was filled. That's 2 good gigs we've lost that way, plus we nearly blew the Psycho thing becuase our singer doesnt know how to read his email. At least our band name checks out. I'll try to go check them out anyway.
  16. Any of you Austin guys know a band called the Hickoids? We've been asked to play with them when they come through town next month. What i saw on YouTube kinda looks like a punky, parody cover band.
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  22. All 3 of them are, but Dave, along with Steve Harris on bass, is the one who carries that rhythm in that band. The other two guys add some power chords to thicken it up and play solos, but Dave's holding it down. Then when takes his solo's, it's next level shit. Guy is crazy good. He's also been in that band longer than anybody but Steve. He seems to not have an ego about it. I've seen them live from the front rows several times, including this last Sept. I never realized it till I got an up close look at what they do. Janick came on when Bruce and Adrian quit in the early '90's, and he stayed on when they came back in 2000 (bye bye Blaze). I get the sense that he's a super sweet guy and they love having him around. He's a fun entertainer to watch. I saw them play that 1st tour back together in 2000. Metal was dead at the time and Maiden forgotten. They played a 3000 person auditorium on the UM campus in Minneapolis.. They had the huge stage, giant Eddie, Bruce's costumes and flags,, etc. It all barely fit in the room. I don't even think it was sold out. /csb
  23. I through Dave Murray into that mix too, he gets buried being in a band w 2 other guitar players.
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  25. I find you press a lot lighter if you have hard, solid calluses built up. I play 10's on everything except 11's w a wound G on the big orange Gretsch. I find the extra pressure on the bridge helps it resonate more.
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