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  1. Got most of the bends roughly in tune! Would have like to have gotten the rakes up to the big E string bends a little better but what are ya gonna do.
  2. So I was sharing this with @Goredho but though the pedal guys might be into this. Boss just released the RT-2 rotary sim recently and being a sucker for all thing GIlmour I had to get one. The old RT 20, while not great for Leslie, was the pedal for doing a Doppola emulation. This one seems like it can do that thing, plus the Leslie is much more convincing. In a continuing series of me mangling Gilmour solos, I did a quick pass on Mother last night. The one drawback is there is no mix knob on this, because of the small form factor they ran out of room. So my take is it's pretty right on for live Gilmour, bhut a bit to wet for the studio. I think running a blender pedal with it you could get extremely close though. https://samply.app/p/RD3BA6HhsgoLW5rIKkh9
  3. Sacrilege, but the fact I have my old melody maker is keeping me from getting a single cut Special right now. Damn you Jimmy.
  4. Good work all around guys, well done.
  5. Where you think you are at homie.
  6. Yeah its not something I personally can say one way or another, but just something I've heard the vintage Junior nuts discuss. I really want a vintage special single cut. One of these days.
  7. It does, I have come to really love the old Junior/Special sound. See edit above though, I meant junior not special. I always reverse them. There's a line of thinking the Juniors sound better with the single P90, I think because the single route maybe? I'm not sure, there's some reason though.
  8. Single cut Junior.* Sorry Jimmy, was too quick on the draw
  9. I cannot deny this.
  10. The nights I've played for my bar tab are numerous.
  11. Yeah GG are my dad's all time favorite, so I got a heavy dose as a kid. Funny story, one of my best friends text me a couple of years ago, 'hey have you ever heard a band called Wishbone Ash?' My response was some along the lines of oh buddy you done fucked up now, hope you got several days on your hands to discuss lol. I texted my dad as that conversation was going on.
  12. I'll preface this by emphasizing I'm someone who listens to Gentle Giant, Wishbone Ash and the like, the problem with early Genesis and Peter Gabriel is the shit was just half baked. They got a lot better at what they did later. It wasn't really commercial vs non commercial.
  13. Both Genesis and Peter Gabriel did waaay better separate than they did together. Mike Rutherford was the only one that was equivalent in and out of the band.
  14. I dunno homie, Walking into Clarksdale sounds pretty good, and Plant personally wanted Albini.
  15. Oh damn, I want in on that.
  16. Albini's greatest talent was making y'all mad, clearly.
  17. Yeah, beyond just the talent, an objective pair of ears is so, so huge. I struggle mightily with beating stuff to death, simply because I'm too close to it.
  18. Well I can't sing either, so I got that going for me.
  19. I'm pretty sure they will be a pretty big flop.
  20. Oh, 100% man, me too. I've come to realize two things, first, like you say, the payoff to me is expression and creation. The second is as much as I'd like to write epic stuff, I naturally tend to create hooks and acerbic/nihilistic lyrics, and I'm best when I do that. When I try to force other things it's really apparent, at least to me. Also I guess a third thing is I need a live band to play worth a shit. The interplay is critical to me, and also doing the engineering myself as I'm trying to track really throws me off. It's kind of wild really, because when I started playing guitar, I quickly joined a band we named after the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd ( I am sure I've told this story before), who along with Led Zeppelin, made up the Holy Trinity. And I'd even say that Floyd and Zep were the ones we geeked out on the most, though we played more Stones songs in our set by a long shot. I actually don't recall playing a Floyd song live with that group to be honest which is strange as we were crazy into them. There was talk of doing Dogs but I don't think we ever did it. But one asterisk is I've always had that sort of duality with classic rock and modern. My best friend from Junior High on started a band, and was totally a contemporary style (both of these bands, mine and his were originals bands, not cover groups), and they went for about a year as a trio before the really wanted a second guitarist, and tried a few dudes out to not a lot of success. After awhile the rhythm section were leaning on my buddy to get me to come over, and he was resistant for a couple reasons, most of which is not asking me to leave my other band. The other group kind of imploded right about that time though so the rest is history as they say. We ended up playing through most of us going to college, cutting a couple EPs, and all that mess. Our songs were definitely a bit more involved than what my actual songwriting voice was, they tended to my buddies tastes somewhat as he was the main writer, and honestly I was still finding it at that point anyway. So somehow through all that, I stumbled onto Social Distortion, and it was like a bolt of lightning in terms of me knowing, A) what I wanted to say and B) the fact I was way more into songwriting than playing an instrument. I had listened to some punk rock before (I was actually a punk rocker for Halloween in 4th grade somehow, this is in the 80's), I remember hearing Pennywise's first album in like '91 maybe? but when I first heard Social D it all changed and I had a clarity that was not there before. So this post clearly got away from me, wow, but I guess the short short version is I love to geek out on Gilmour stuff, and my style of leads is completely a derivative of his, but the songwriting stuff is 3 chords and the truth all the way.
  21. Yeah but that's just because you are actually good.
  22. That's what Jimmy Page said, he deals in emotions.
  23. G650

    RIP Terry Reid

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/aug/05/terry-reid-british-musician-championed-by-the-rolling-stones-jimmy-page-and-more-dies-aged-75
  24. G650

    Pink Floyd

    I will not sleep tonight knowing I missed one note on the F# arpeggio that leads up to the higher part of the solo... ETA: Listening back I rushed a couple spots pretty bad too. Sumbitch But anyhoo, all the Gilmour solos are great bend practice. Time is a good one for long bends and pitch stability. The really high C# and the 1 1/2 step bend to D near the end are definitely ones that take strength. And it has several that you really have to hit well, the F# just before the part I flubbed in particular rings a loong time. The lower C# bends too.
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