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My Les Paul is the best guitar I own from a playability standpoint. Custombuckers or not, it would be the last of my electrics I'd ever part with. That one, my 000-18, and the 68 Deluxe Reverb.

These are the 2 I'm A/B-ing. Also notice that the Les Paul's neck position sounds closer to the Gretsch's bridge position than its bridge does - so the closest they sound is as they are pictured. The 5150 has a knob on the back called "Resonance", thats hard to describe what it does, but its very useful. Kind of like to opposite of whatever a Presence knob does. Instead of more bite its more gutteral. Its exactly the knob the LP needs to sound like the Gretsch. In fact, I dimed it and get pretty close. The LP is louder, ive always said that guitar sounds like Thor's hammer.

Now you made me pull out the R8. 1st time I plugged it into the 5150. It sounds great and I'm still super high on that amp, but the Gretsch's still sound better. Its close enough that noone but me would notice, but boy do I notice. I wish I had the word to describe the element that's missing, maybe throatiness - or more organic.

They make a set that's a drop in for a Gibson route. I have them in my V. Which also begs the question, how many guitars do I need that sound like a Gretsch? Then again, i like playing them all and I have a sound im after.

The CustomBuckers in my R8 are hands down the best sounding of all my Gibson's and its not close. That said, im still tempted to replace them with Filtertrons and already would have by now if it weren't a custom shop guitar. I love the way that guitar plays and wish it sounded like a Gretsch.

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I saw them just a few months ago and they were great. They just did 2 sold out nights at the Greek in Berkeley that I missed, but friends who went said it was tremendous and that they played for nearly 3 hours.

King Gizzard is awesome live.

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And fuck. Held these tickets nearly 3 years. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rage-against-machine-cancels-entire-041203434.html

Speaking of punks, down the street from me is one of the coolest things in local music that I dont take nearly enough advantage of. We have this coop, non-profit record store that is mostly punk, but there's all kinds of records there. Its kind of the local punk HQ though. The door on the left is sometines open, and when it is you wanna walk through it. It leads to the backyard where you'll find a bunch of kids in their punk uniforms drinking cans of beer from 12 packs they bought at the 7-11 next door. Mostly a bunch of misfits. Fat kids, dorky kids, socially awkward kids, etc. Im not saying that in a disparaging way. Always friendly and welcoming. I only know a handful of them, the ones that come in the bar. The real treat is that, from there, you can enter the grimy, low ceiling basement where they put on regular free punk shows. Many of times I've just been walking past, heard live music drifting through the street and ran back there to catch a random show. Sometimes even touring bands passing through. The store itself is a converted house, there used to be random shows in what had been the kitchen, but a few years ago they blew that put for more record space. I dont take too many pictures there because the key to being accepted as an old guy in those crowds is to not be creepy, and an old guy taking a bunch of photos is kinda creepy. I will try to get one of the bands because I try to get a picture of every band I see, but the ceiling is so low its hard to get a decent pic in there. /csb

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Coming up through the 80s, thats was my initial reaction and why I was very gracious about it in the moment. But with the current generation of punks, it's very uncharacteristic. They are really like the sweetest kids ever. In fact, this one kind trans kid came and handed me a fresh beer shortly after, commenting that I'd lost most of mine during the fall.

This weekend was our annual free concert weekend in Golden Gate Park, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. On Friday i saw Asleep at the Wheel and Charlie Crockett. Both were fantstic. Saturday I arrived late and saw a horrible sounding Elvis Costello show. Then Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew of Talking Heads put on an incredible performance of the Remain in Light album. I skipped the festival Sunday and wound up at an outdoor punk show where some kid came flying out of the mosh pit and took me out hard. Completely blindsided by the fucker. Capped of the weekend with a Bluegrass set at one of my local spots.

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I recommend the book "Twenty Thousand Roads". Pretty fascinating.

I went down that rabbit hole hard a few years ago. Even read the biography. When you get full of Angel, you'll get into Flying Burrito Brothers Gilded Palace of Sin, Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo, and finally The International Submarine Band. Quite a treasure of work he pissed away.

Fuck cancer. I love his playing on Grievous Angel. "Pick it for me, James!"

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