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  1. An old acquaintance had a pair of Blues Deluxe amps.  He let me take one home under the auspices that he'd sell it to me if I liked it. Didn't take me long to say yes, and then he got cold feet. Fuck that guy.
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  2. I saw RP in Tahoe last month with the Space Shifters. Great show. His keyboard player used to be with Portishead and someone else, Mazzy Star maybe. Anyway, get ready for some unique arrangements of some old classics. I loved them.

     

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  3. In most cases I think blocking is unnecessary. Just install five springs, and maybe tighten up the claw a little if you still need it. If you still have tuning problems I would try eliminating other possibilities, the nut, shitty tuners, a rough spot on saddles, before blocking the bridge.
    The bridges on my Strats usually don't budge since I don't whammy. I keep them tight and flat against the guitar, and usually only three springs. Tuning issues are likely to be elsewhere unless every string is going out of tune at the same time.

    This is how mine is.
  4. 2nd time I’ve played one and honestly, I didn’t totally love it. Maybe because it was at GC and it’s hard to get a read on anything in that God forsaken place. I’d really like to try it out at home with some peace and quiet with my own rig. Seems like somehow that ought to be possible at the $2k level.

     

    But like I said, I did kind of dig the Gretsch.

     

  5. So do you guys just by cheap squires and gut them and put better parts in? Instead of buying high end guitars

    I have done this. I have an Indonesian squire strat. I replaced everything except the body because I liked the graphic. It’s a great player but it still doesn’t have the vibe that my am std strat does. Some of that could have been my choice of replacement pickups and neck, but I think some of it is the wood too.
  6. To clarify, even though I wasn’t around for Jimi it seems like he definitely broke more new ground than probably anyone before him and maybe since.

    And I love Jimi, but I think Stevie was the better player.

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  7. So I have what could be a ngd occasion coming up. If I do it, I’m thinking about something with different pickups than my standard humbuckers and single coils.

     

    So, today I played a les Paul classic with p90s, a Duesenberg Star Player TV, and a $400 Chinese Gretsch Jet.

     

    I couldn’t get the cheap Gretsch in tune very well but I came away digging it a lot more than I expected. In looking online I think I need to go check out a Players Edition Jet or a Vintage Select Duo Jet. But basically I know very little about Gretsch Jets. Can someone learn me smart on the ins and outs of them?

     

     

  8. So I'm drunk...
    I wanted to start a tell me a about thread for him. I watched the concert of his from the old concert thread. I know nothing other than my family enjoyed the music and he is from oak Cliff. Please tell me how badass he was

    Go listen to some of his playing. Then go listen to any or every other blues guitarist play. No one before or after could duplicate his chops, intensity, phrasing, or tone. Go look at some of the tribute stuff where a bunch of famous dudes play his shit - none of them can do it right.

    He really was one of one. It was like he was an open channel from whatever spirit he drew from. Just insanely good.
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