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  1. Related to this, if anyone wants a Burstbucker 1 pickup, let me know.
  2. So I'm not sure if I posted before about the PAF my old man has had since '72. It came out of an old parts bin at a local music shop here the same time he got the Melody Maker husk I have, during an era when PAFs went bad they were thrown away. So anyways sat in his junk drawer for about 50 years until a couple years ago he gave it to me in hopes someone in the family would eventually fix the fucking thing. I took it to my guy a few months back to diagnose and repair, and in the course of going through parts he had on hand, we just discovered today that one if his old Patent # pickups was essentially identical to my PAF. My initial plan was to put the PAF in the neck, and switch the bridge magnet out with a vintage Patent # one, but since we found that the Patent # is an early which are functionally identical to PAFs, we put both in together. Playing this through the Tremolux, wow, I'm stunned with the sound.
  3. Lowkey best Tele year, 1988. But you have all the usual suspects, 54 Blackguard, late 60's maple cap, etc..
  4. Yeah, it's going to be great. Ziff has been collecting these things since '87. Apparently at one point he had almost 300 bursts!! When I bought my Super Dragon amp I got to speak to Perry Margouleff a bit (he was coordinating the sales), and I got the feeling that this collection had been his biggest work. Good dude btw.
  5. Man it's been that way for years. The CR hasn't got shit on the football board.
  6. Godspeed
  7. I expect much Zep to be played
  8. I named 4 because I knew I'd forget someone, and indeed I forgot Patsy Cline.
  9. I mean, that's all fair and I'm not trying to dissuade you from what you like, it's all subjective. My only point is that it's objective that all the things you like about the Stones never would have existed if Brian hadn't been there in the first place. I agree with you on the last bit btw, it had run it's course and there was no coming back. I will say you are definitely in the minority on Under My Thumb though, almost everyone involved has admitted the song wouldn't have even come out if it wasn't for Brian's addition. Also weaving with Keith came from him btw. Somewhat of a tangent, but my honest belief is when people say they enjoy the 4 album run, they are really saying they like Jimmy Miller. Because Beggar's and Let it Bleed are much more like Aftermath and Sticky Fingers and Exile are more like what followed. I really had an epiphany when I read the All the Songs book I mentioned earlier when as I said it dawned on me that all of my very top Stones songs predated Mick Taylor, and what I realized is the Stones really lost their edge by the time Sticky Fingers came out. And I don't attribute this to not having Brian Jones fwiw. It's just understandable they had reached a level of comfort at that point, their relationship with straight society was totally inverted and you feel it in their music. The earlier stuff through Let it Bleed was just so much harder. Paint It Black, Mother's Little Helper, Jumping Jack Flash, Sympathy, are all just straight up evil ass songs. And a big reason Some Girls was a return to form is they actually recaptured some of that edge with all the tumult going on.
  10. Well I would say my other voices would be Chris Stapleton, Charlie Rich and Vern Godsin. Not necessarily my favorite artists other than Stapleton, but voices.
  11. A good read at the intersection of Rolling Stones fans and recording nerds is the All the Songs book. I first stumbled on to this series with the Pink Floyd one, but the one for the Stones is super long obviously. Has every location, player and instrument for every song, as best as could be tracked down. Pretty fun to check out https://www.amazon.com/Rolling-Stones-All-Songs-Behind/dp/0316317748
  12. No Don Williams yet?
  13. He was, and I think the situation exacerbated that. I just think that joining the Foo Fighters would be profoundly damaging to that kid, and I'll leave it at that.
  14. That's the least of my concern. It's the negative impact on his life. Look what it did to his dad. He totally should be a drummer if he wants, just not in the Foo Fighters. Jason and Zak are prime examples how to go about it, wonderful careers in great bands.
  15. I would 100% not wish that upon him whatsoever.
  16. G650

    Led Zeppelin

    Look at who you are responding to.
  17. I thought he retired.
  18. No such thing.
  19. I'm listening to the US version of Out of Our Heads right now, such a hard album. The Last Time back to back with a titanic cover of That's How Strong My Love is.
  20. This is pretty absurd to even write given he was the one that steered them away from that. After Satanic Majesties he was the one that said they need to go back to basics. His talent and vision not only out stripped the others by a big margin, but the songs we all know would not exist without him. His marimba on Under My Thumb makes the song, it was literally dead in the water before that, and the Sitar on Paint It Black is absolute perfection. The recorder on Ruby Tuesday (a song which he actually wrote), the dulcimer on Lady Jane, the harpiscord on Play With Fire. The list is insane without even getting into his guitar work, like the riff for The Last Time or the slide on Little Red Rooster. He was wildly troubled, as genius tends to be, but his contributions can't be undersold. Can't say if it would been any different if Oldham hadn't frozen him out and bullied him, but regardless his influence even lived on well past him in the Stones. Even at the end he was impacting beyond his playing, the most important instrument in Gimme Shelter is the guiro, it's what takes the song up to the level of greatest rock song of all time, the atmosphere of violence and fear that song instills, and that is directly from Brian Jones. Same thing with the samba beat for Sympathy, his musical sensibility was imprinted on all the rest of the group, that's where all those ideas came from. Probably the single most defining aesthetic of the Stones has been their instrumentation, they have texture none of the other hard rock and blues bands ever did. If you love the 4 album run through Exile, then you love Brian Jones. Even the Stones themselves will tell you this. "He formed the band. He chose the members. He named the band. He chose the music we played. He got us gigs. ... he was very influential, very important, and then slowly lost it and blew it all away." - Bill Wyman He was one of those people who are so beautiful in one way, and such an asshole in another.’ Keith had once said to Brian: ‘You’ll never make thirty, man.’ Sadly, Brian’s reply was simple: 'I know.’ A lot of Stones records were built of riffs, and Brian invariably played those riffs.- Glyn Johns ‘If Keith and Mick were the mind and body of the Stones, Brian was clearly the soul.’ - Rolling Stone
  21. Beast of Burden is an all timer, no question. In my mind, Some Girls did two things. One it was a huge return to form, and second showed the versatility. As you say they could even make a song with a disco beat cutting as hell. Plus the album sounded amazing, the had a great run of recording a Pathe Marconi. And it actually have begat what may be the best known Stones song ever, Start Me Up (thanks Windows '95) which was cut during these sessions.
  22. I know that this is conventional wisdom and all, but I've come to admit in my old age that I actually prefer Brian Jones era Stones to Mick Taylor. Zero of my favorite Stones songs have Mick on them excepting All Down the Line. And I say that as a huge Mick Taylor fan. They just lost something when Brian flamed out. Aftermath is probably my favorite Stones album, though Exile certainly has a case. Some Girls is number 3 just to really muddy the waters.
  23. I think it's just dry. When I leveled my R7 it was that color till I oiled it.
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