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23 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Put the guitar in your seat, check yourself in the baggage hold.  What could go wrong?

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2 hours ago, AnotherUTFan said:

Do not check your guitars. By law the airline has to let you carry it on. Ive been preaching this for years and at this point have little sympathy for anybody who's guitar gets damaged after they were dumb enough to check it. 

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2 hours ago, tbone_ said:

My extensive legal analysis (ChatGPT) of 49 U.S. Code § 41724 and its implementing rule, 14 CFR Part 251 says that this rule is subject to there being space on the plane for it to fit. Also says not all airline personnel understand this and implementation may vary so be prepared to raise hell if you have to and make sure you get on early.

Ya. I once had a gate agent push back with the "there's no space". I politely asked if a flight attendant could check. The flight attendant put it in the  closet.

Even if not, they going to end up gate checking it and it will be the last thing loaded and the 1st out. 

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Yeah I think you can mitigate a lot of the risk by gate checking. It’s a PITA in security and probably worth trying to just carry on even if they’re difficult about it, but that takes a lot of the opportunities for it to get banged up out of the mix. Worked well for me 

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8 hours ago, Celery Man said:

Yeah I think you can mitigate a lot of the risk by gate checking. It’s a PITA in security and probably worth trying to just carry on even if they’re difficult about it, but that takes a lot of the opportunities for it to get banged up out of the mix. Worked well for me 

gate checked luggage gets put on the jetway slide down to the ground. 

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Almost came home from vacation with a new acoustic. Just got back from visiting my wife's best friend in Colorado. Her dad passed about a month ago and one of the things she brought back from his house was a very good condition 1998 Taylor 710-CE (similar one pictured below). I played it a bunch while there and asked what she was planning to do with it. She didn't know yet or have any idea what it was worth. I showed her the make and model number on the tag inside the body and sent her a bunch of links to what they sell for in stores. Followed up with what I considered a very fair offer, which was significantly higher than 2 lowball offers she'd already received.

She's gonna take some time to think about it, but she told my wife she'll probably end up selling it to me. Fingers crossed. 

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1 hour ago, Storm the Field said:

Almost came home from vacation with a new acoustic. Just got back from visiting my wife's best friend in Colorado. Her dad passed about a month ago and one of the things she brought back from his house was a very good condition 1998 Taylor 710-CE (similar one pictured below). I played it a bunch while there and asked what she was planning to do with it. She didn't know yet or have any idea what it was worth. I showed her the make and model number on the tag inside the body and sent her a bunch of links to what they sell for in stores. Followed up with what I considered a very fair offer, which was significantly higher than 2 lowball offers she'd already received.

She's gonna take some time to think about it, but she told my wife she'll probably end up selling it to me. Fingers crossed. 

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I like that you offered.  It takes care of something she would need to find a home for, it returns some funds to the estate or her, and the guitar goes to someone she knows who is going to give that guitar the proper honor it deserves by creating music with it. 
 

Everybody wins. 

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11 minutes ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

I like that you offered.  It takes care of something she would need to find a home for, it returns some funds to the estate or her, and the guitar goes to someone she knows who is going to give that guitar the proper honor it deserves by creating music with it. 
 

Everybody wins. 

And he plays it just right, threesome with the wife and her friend. 

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1 hour ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

Dude has 53 sales on Reverb.  Only one of this group has this much gear!

Of course, y’all claim to never part with gear so maybe I’m off track  

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Ok I have a question for you actual musicians…

 

So I’m working through the Dixie Chicks tune Tonight the Heartache’s on Me. Basically a 1 4 5 recorded in F major. In the chorus on the line “bartender pour the wine” there’s an awesome change from the root F to A7 on the word wine.

 

A would be the 3 chord in F major, but should be minor.  But this tune plays the 3 7, not minor. And it’s a glorious change. Just curious if anyone know why it works because I don’t think that chord should even be in this key.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

Ok I have a question for you actual musicians…

 

So I’m working through the Dixie Chicks tune Tonight the Heartache’s on Me. Basically a 1 4 5 recorded in F major. In the chorus on the line “bartender pour the wine” there’s an awesome change from the root F to A7 on the word wine.

 

A would be the 3 chord in F major, but should be minor.  But this tune plays the 3 7, not minor. And it’s a glorious change. Just curious if anyone know why it works because I don’t think that chord should even be in this key.

 

 

I've always thought that they (and/or their producers) did some really clever stuff.  I'll give it another listen tonight and see if I can even understand your question.  

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Well, if you want to be strict about it, I suppose you could argue that the A7 should be Am, since that's the minor 3rd of the 5 chord, but a major 3rd is a classic country (and pop) trick.  They just turned the A to an A7.  I think it totally belongs.

I love how country chord progressions CAN be much more sophisticated than your average rock progression.  "Friends in Low Places" is a great example.

Another way of looking at it is that 1-3-4, while less common than 1-4-5, is plenty popular.  This is just sort of a passing version of that.

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29 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

Ok I have a question for you actual musicians…

 

So I’m working through the Dixie Chicks tune Tonight the Heartache’s on Me. Basically a 1 4 5 recorded in F major. In the chorus on the line “bartender pour the wine” there’s an awesome change from the root F to A7 on the word wine.

 

A would be the 3 chord in F major, but should be minor.  But this tune plays the 3 7, not minor. And it’s a glorious change. Just curious if anyone know why it works because I don’t think that chord should even be in this key.

 

 

 

It can get fairly esoteric but the TL;DR is that it's the underlying harmonic structure and not the key, you can play a major chord on any scale degree if the rest of the instruments and vocal aren't hitting a minor third while you are playing it.

 

Related, it's very common to have something like a flat 7 chord in a major key in rock.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

 

I love how country chord progressions CAN be much more sophisticated than your average rock progression.  "Friends in Low Places" is a great example

I always chock that up to Nashville session cats.

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Just now, G650 said:

I always chock that up to Nashville session cats.

I sure hope whoever it was who wrote "Friends In Low Places" did that augmented-whatever-the-hell-it-is chord and that it wasn't a session creation.

But, that song also used the minor 2 liberally.  It's just a great song.  TERRIBLE recording (in my opinion).

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4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I sure hope whoever it was who wrote "Friends In Low Places" did that augmented-whatever-the-hell-it-is chord and that it wasn't a session creation.

But, that song also used the minor 2 liberally.  It's just a great song.  TERRIBLE recording (in my opinion).

 

Oh it definitely is. 

 

The writers and session dudes are so entwined there who knows. But the thing that always blows me away is that like every one of them has the knowledge of a piano player. The way they arrange parts and build ludicrous harmonies never ceases to baffle my luddite rocker ass.

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