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Paul Wesley

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  1. 17 minutes ago, TexasBeta said:

    1979 -- AC-DC, El Paso Coliseum, Highway to Hell Tour w/ Bon Scott. Molly Hatchet opened for them

    Molly Hatchet or Pat Travers opened for seemingly every hard rock group around then.

    Seeing a live show w Bon Scott is pretty cool

  2. clapton -  my first real concert, so everything was amazing.  wall of sound, lighters calling for encores, the smell of weed.  a world previously unknown to me

    Prince - purple rain tour.  monster show.  One of the geniuses of our generation at the height of the mania.  I didn't realize all those moves were stolen from James Brown, but wouldn't have cared 

    U2 - Joshua tree tour.  their musical peak 

    lindsey buckingham - he played that lecture hall on UT campus about 15 years ago.  shockingly easy to get seats.  one of rock's all time greats in a small venue. 

    tragically hip - fully completely tour.  small venue.  that's how you rock a nightclub, people.   

    ben folds with y music - at bass concert hall... maybe my favorite show of past few years

    tom petty - southern accents, all my high school friends went.  captures an era of my life 

    billy joel and elton john.  on their solo piano tour in mid 90's.  somehow even in the corrupt world of ticketmaster, I scored 7th row center seats at the Citrus Bowl.  

    the who in royal albert hall

     

    those are the shows that come immediately to mind as making an emotional impact.  

     

     

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

    I'm more concerned as to your cutting up a nice Fender.  Why not preserve the value of that guitar by getting yourself some Warmoth bits - routed to your specs - and have a new guitar?

    http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/Jazzmaster/Jazzcaster/

    Yeah, I hear you about hacking on a nice guitar, but here's the thing:  This guitar was going to be my "Tele," but in the many months I spent ordering it and waiting for it, I found *my* Tele (I've posted pics of that one... it's a super legit instrument from the early years of the Custom Shop, and it's a magnificent war horse that got relic'ed the old fashioned way).  

    So sort of like how couples spend years trying to get pregnant, and then the day they finally adopt, BOOM, guess who's expecting?  Really, a lot like that.  I borrowed, demo'ed, and sent back numerous instruments in my years-long search for *my* Tele... I went a decade on a Tele search and then ended up with two of them in a matter of a couple months.  

    So while this Telemaster is pretty much ideal to me in terms of shape, cosmetics, neck profile, etc., it's sonically a bit inferior in terms of sounding like I think a Tele ought to sound, so it never gets played.  Last week, I listed it on Reverb.com for about half a day, before thinking, "Shit, I love this guitar.   Why am I selling it?"  And decided to mod it in order to fill the Jazzmaster lane (it's already halfway there), so that is going to require a little nip and tuck.  I think it can end up in a great place... thinking about getting black Jazzmaster pickups and gun metal black hardware.  Might look bad ass, I think.

    Pron as pron develops...

  4. OK.  Seeking the Shag's advice.  I've really done very little modding of guitars... only swapped out pickups once or twice, so not tons of experience here.  

    So I've got a Tele that sounds gloriously like a Tele should.  I've also got this offset that is a Tele in every way except the shape of the body.  The offset is going to get a mod.  I've already ordered a half bridge so as to make room for new pickups (I realize that it will likely also require routing the body and cutting the pick guard).  

    The guitar (BTW, AUTF, I think that Make N Music in Chicago is making another run of these with a hum bucker.  I'm just saying'):

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    Old bridge:

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    New bridge (en route) to make room for the jazzmaster-size:

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    So the new pickups are going to be Jazzmaster-sized, but P90 flavored.  Three options.  This is where you guys come in, especially those of you who build guitars (I'm looking at you, chad and jimmyjazz).

    1)  Lollar P90 Jazzmaster.  It's a known quantity.  High quality and I know what I'd be getting.  I have an SG with Lollar P90 and they sound great.

    http://www.lollarguitars.com/lollar-p-90-pickups/p-90-jazzmaster

    2)  Curtis Novak JM-180.  Basically, two P90's with a coil tap.  Advantage:  available hum bucker at the bridge.  Disadvantage:  someone has to wire this shit up once it arrives, and it introduces a new layer of wiring issues/hardware replacement to this mod.  Also, if I really wanted a hum bucker there, then I'd just put one in.  Traded emails with Curtis, and he seems like a good dude.  

    http://curtisnovak.com/pickups/jm-180.shtml

     

    3)  Kinman noiseless jazzmaster fatmaster.  Also a P90.  Advantage:  intriguing.  Found a few clips online that sound pretty great.  Seems like the sound I'm looking for.  Disadvantage: I'm on record as "let the damn things hum."  I have briefly owned two Teles with "noiseless" pickups (first and then fourth generation noiseless) and was disappointed in both.  Sold the first a year or two later.  Sent the second ("Fender Elite") back a week later.   So I am kind of twice-bitten on the noiseless thing.  To be fair, the previous noiseless failed to sound like a vintage Tele (to my ears), and that's not at all what I'm looking for with this modded offset.  I just want a great-sounding P90, not too hot, and these seem like they're a good sonic match. 

    https://kinman.com/model-products.php?pid=1&products=Jazzmaster&linegroup=yes&modelid=34&model=FatMaster&group=Single Pickups

     

     

    Thoughts?

     

  5. 8 hours ago, HornGrandioso said:

    I wonder which one of us has the most Stupid Deal of the Day $299.00 guitars in their closet. 

    I think my Epi acoustic was a 299 SDOTD.  

    It's OK.  Not great.... just OK.  

    But if it gets crushed by the airline (it's my travel guitar) or stolen out of my trunk, I'm only going to be $299 worth of sad.  

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