| Author | Message | ||
     Jerry_haughton |
very nice, Paul, i'm only slightly jealous. regarding the Gibson: gotta love a guitar with kidney bean tuners...  | ||
| Bertman |
Very nice Paul! I'm really envious on the Custom. Look at this! 390+ posts and Jerry still has not hurt his fingers yet! | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
...and Jerry still has not hurt his fingers yet! soon, very soon. | ||
| Pdxs3t |
Jerry...I am guessing that tonight will be very little sleep for you. You will be tossing and turning, counting the minutes by until you can pickup the phone and give the green light for the Garrison to be sent on its way, to your anxiously awaiting hands. Very cool stuff this is, it’s a start of a new un-traveled road that will lead you through many twists and turns along the way and will bring you many years of enjoyment and satisfaction. I think this will be yet another epic journey for you and you won’t even have to leave the house. | ||
| Kevyn |
In a moment of synchronicity...  and of course, a link http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0118502767 (Message edited by Kevyn on February 03, 2006) | ||
| Djkaplan |
The only blonde I never quite got over... | ||
| Jb2 |
they're all doing their thing on an acoustic guitar Maybe now you can appreciate Lou Usher's CD. It's pretty amazing to hear someone play the acoustic line and lead line together on the same guitar. Mississippi John Hurt was also an accomplished picker but he might not be quite your style. Thanks for the nod on Richard Thompson but I have to admit it was first a gift from Rocket. I too was taken by the song. I played it over and over and over and still it shivered me timbers. Thanks Rocket. | ||
| Whodom |
wow, what a group of artists on the Ferrington CD! i have a feeling this will become one of my all-time favorites, especially considering they're all doing their thing on an acoustic guitar. I do believe there is an electric number or two on there. Danny has also built electrics. Looked through the book last night for the first time in a few years. I had forgotten about his "baritone" guitars; they're tuned an octave lower, but played like a normal guitar. Some are acoustic; some electric. Ry Cooder's electric in the book is baritone on the 2 bottom strings (E & A) and standard tuning on the rest. The fingerboard is split into 2 different scale lengths and the bridge is even split and in two locations. It is one weird axe. Danny isn't afraid to try stuff. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Jerry...I am guessing that tonight will be very little sleep for you. i slept ok last night, thanks. TONIGHT might be different, tho... ...on accounta i pulled the trigger a few minutes ago and this lovely little beauty is now FINALLY on it's way to the ThunderDome:  yep, tonight i might be a little restless. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Maybe now you can appreciate Lou Usher's CD. for you, my friend, i will give him another shot. Staintune'd. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
"31 Motorcycle Songs", from the studios of JB2:     not available in stores. | ||
| Jb2 |
NOT FOR SALE ANYWHERE! PRODUCED ONLY AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR FRIENDS! as you can see I only had twelve friends at the time Okay Ferris I got nothing to throw backatchya so I'm outta here for the weekend. Going to Richmond, VA to pick up the dash for the '48. I commissioned a folk artist and guitar picker named Wes Freed to paint something really cool on the dash. No, I don't know what he painted. We did it in the tradition of "Manny's Hat Song" (Jerry Jeff Walker)so I feel like a kid at Christmas. See ya in fourteen-hundred miles and two days! (Message edited by jb2 on February 03, 2006) | ||
| Captpete |
NOT FOR SALE ANYWHERE! PRODUCED ONLY AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR FRIENDS! Unbelievable how slow the mail is out here! | ||
| Captpete |
NOT FOR SALE ANYWHERE! PRODUCED ONLY AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR FRIENDS! Unbelievable how slow the mail is out here! | ||
| Captpete |
Maton builds some nice looking guitars, Paul. Aussie walnut & spruce? I’ve got a little black walnut & spruce guitar that sounds great. You ever make it to Newfoundland in your extensive world travels? Good opportunity coming up next year. I’d sure like to hear that Maton. I’ve got most of that bottle of Bundy Black sitting on the shelf. I bet if we broke that out one night up there they’d both sound pretty good.  Capt. Pete | ||
| Captpete |
Newfie, a perfect example of my comment about cameras not doing waves very well. Strange design for my mind, those off shore supply vessels. Twin screw with Kort nozzles. They must need the maneuverability around the platforms, but they sacrifice a lot getting there with those shallow ass-ends. The nozzles are a lot more efficient, but I know a single one around the dock is a bitch to drive. But it sure stays in the water better. In that picture, it looks like they have a line overboard, or maybe wound up in the starboard wheel. Is she disabled and laying side-to? And you can have all the ice you want. That’s just nuts! But a great picture. I’m happy being a sissy southern fisherman, anchored up in a little cove tucked into the lee side of the island for the last night before I start figuring out how to get the Twin Disk gear out of the teeny engine room for a rebuild:  “Oh, there’s a nice little sandy patch right there,” looking over the side through 60’ of water. “I’ll drop the anchor right in the middle of it and then the drift will pull it right into the coral where it’ll fetch up and we’ll be good for the night.”  | ||
| Captpete |
NOT FOR SALE ANYWHERE! PRODUCED ONLY AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR FRIENDS! Unbelievable how slow the mail is out here! | ||
| Jb2 |
Capt., I will call the post office soon as I return from Virginia.  | ||
| Captpete |
No need. It'll get here. I was just makin' sure I was one of the dozen other fruitcakes. As a matter of fact, my friend, who's mailing addres I use out here, told me yesterday something had arrived other than bills. He'll probably deliver my mail tomorrow. Now I'm all excited, knowing what's coming.  | ||
| Court |
>>>Jim, I don't know if Elixir makes flat wound strings for electrics. They do. I picked some up today. Intersting strings in that they have a jacket on them. Erog, you break an Eliir string on an electric, you pretty much must replace it with an Elixir. Quite interesting. About twice the price of "normal" strings. . . but top quality stuff. Everytime I listen to Capt. Pete I learn something. | ||
| Newfie_buell |
Well Capt. About that twin disk gearbox/transmission, I don't suppose you can cut a small access hole in the deck of the vessel, winch it out, then put in some kind of a watertight hatch for future access? | ||
| Captpete |
Quite interesting. About twice the price of "normal" strings. . . but top quality stuff. Twice the price, but half the cost, for they’ll last 4 times as long. Have you strung ‘em up and tried them yet? I’m interested to hear your report. Everytime I listen to Capt. Pete I learn something. Ah, yes, Capt. Pete, the old sage. Have you tried that training under a coconut palm yet? That might work for you as well. About that twin disk gearbox/transmission, I don't suppose you can cut a small access hole in the deck of the vessel, winch it out, then put in some kind of a watertight hatch for future access? Newfie… That would be tough on this little girl. There is already a quasi hatch built above the engine, which is right in the center of the deckhouse floor. I haven’t quite figured out how it works, though. The deck in the house is plywood over steel, and you can see the seam where the plywood comes up. But looking at it from beneath,it’s steel with a rectangle of probably 3/16 plate that’s about six inches wide that appears to cover the seam around the hatch. It is screwed to something above and held in place that way. I suspect that a steel plate drops onto the resultant shelf and then the whole mess is covered with plywood. The plywood seam, seen from above, doesn’t exactly match the rectangle below. Anyway, there is a 3/8 x 2” ‘deck beam’ just behind that hatch, and not enough room between it and the engine room aft bulkhead to cut a hole big enough for the gear to fit through. And it won’t come out that engine room hatch because the engine is in the way – too close to the deck. (The gear is a MG 514, the same as I had in my last boat, which had three times the horsepower. I swear, they should have named this thing “Overkill.”) This would be the perfect time to yank them both out and do a double overhaul, but that just ain’t gonna happen. I’m just going to have to keep pouring oil in that engine until I find a way to make some money. “Alpine Green” I hate ‘em, but the things do keep on running when they’re tired. But if we strike, the hell with an overhaul… I’m going to change the color to yellow. (If it ain’t a Cat, it must be a dog.) Turn her into a 10-knot wave maker! Give that 514 something to do. I spent the weekend just getting the coupling apart and am now trying to figure out how to jack that rusty shaft back far enough to pull the gear. This steel shaft is out of place, compared to the rest of the boat. I can’t imagine not fitting her with a stainless one from day one. I dove overboard today to double-check how much room I had between the shaft and the rudder, and I can jack it back until the coupling is two-blocked with the stuffing box, so it’s just a matter of figuring how to apply enough force to get it to where I need it. But I’m going to need a spool of flax & wax on standby when I mate it back to the gear. | ||
| Captpete |
Doggone it, I got my integers wrong again. That's a 509 instead of a 514. (I'm sure everyone's relieved.) It's still a big sumbitch. (And btw, it's still a D28.) | ||
| Court |
>>>Have you tried that training under a coconut palm yet? Actually not, but I have kind of an equivalent "rocked back in a chair" protocol. I hope, when I mentioned instructor, I didn't sound pompous. Lots of folks learn different things in very different ways. Long ago I learned chords, actually got paid to play in a band and some of the folks we played with, in high school, actually took that stuff pretty far. You've likely heard by high school bandie Kerry Livgren....who I still tease about having written the "most played elevator song in history". My son, the oldest one, is in that same school. Never took a lesson, rejected, citing the "I don wanna practice" thing until the day some sweet young thing dumped him....he went in his room, with his 40th Anniversary Strat and came out about 6 months later....simply amazing. Two years ago he was selected to do a Patsy Kline review. When I asked him about playing C&W, he snapped back, "a REAL musician can play anything". He goes fluidly and effortlessly from jazz fusion, to heavy metal, to Govt Mule, to religious, to blues to C&W. My chagrin is that there is no genetic trace of where his talent came from in me. Spin ahead. . . . and I'm sitting here looking one day. I have a couple guitars from the "good old days" and I am sitting smack dab in the middle of the capital of the music world. My personal meter, at present, gets quickly swung by jazz improv and blues with a handful of 60's classics tossed in as part fun, part revenge and part to remind me of the old days when I was playing Holiday Inn bars with a Gibson Melody Maker. Another element, for me personally, is that I find I work better setting weekly goals. I suspect some of the folks here on Badweb who engage personal trainers know full well how to do 50 sit ups and so forth. But, again just a personal bent, it's easier for me knowing I'll have to answer to someone once a week. In addition, I've got this thing about math and music, as you well know, is nothing more than mathematics expressed in 13 notes. A great deal of my ongoing frustration is that I can work out things on paper, but have to work really hard to translate them to a fret board. I've got scales written everywhere and carry a copy of the natural scale above the visor for "traffic reading" in NYC. Just now stuff like the circle of 5th and chord structure is becoming meaningful...next step, likely about 5 years out, is for it to become intuitive and effortless. My motivation is that I happen, within the circle of dear friends, to have a disproportionate number of REALLY good, some famous and professional you'd likely know, guitar players. I get the same excitement watching them play as I do riding a motorcycle and I want to enjoy that. In addition.....looking ahead.....I really like having something REALLY challenging on my plate that allows me to see, if ever so slowly, results. I may never spend my nights sitting atop the Williamsburg Bridge, ala Sonny Rollins, but I am having a hoot! I sent Ferris a "musical care package" and have another one started. I wanted him to have a Mel Bay book of BIG chords and a metronome at the git-go. If he digs in and learns, as you said C-G-D...AND learns to do it in time...you and I can take him anywhere from The Stones' "this may be the last time" (Got Live if you want it) to Cat Stephens "Father & Son". I totally dig this stuff.....off to practice....Sunday is a 4-hour day.  | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
I sent Ferris a "musical care package"... thank you, Court, looking forward to it. | ||
| Captpete |
I’m just having fun, Court. In no way was anything I’ve written intended to be demeaning. You should already know that. I respect anyone who has the self-discipline to work hard at learning anything. I am a little envious of the dose of musical genes that you have and I don’t, but you may feel the same way about your son. As I said before, it’s all relative, and when you listen to him play, you can honestly say, “I don’t know anything.” But when I hear it, standing down here on my lower ladder rung, I have to chuckle. “If he only knew.” But I don’t begrudge you one iota for your gift. We all get a parcel of gifts when we are created, some small and others greater. I feel I got more than my share, and I’m thankful for them all. Musical aptitude just happens to be one of the smaller ones, but heck, I could have been born tone deaf, so I ain’t complaining. I do the best I can with what I’ve got to work with, too. The difference is that my hours of practice are spent learning how to play and sing one simple song. For me, it’s all memorization. But I’ll match my level of enjoyment and satisfaction with you anytime, and I think that’s what it’s really all about.  That thing about training under a coconut palm just tickled me when it popped into my head. I liked the play on words. Any inference was more about me than you. The next time we’re together, by Jeezee, you’re gonna get up and play, too! But if it’s that jazz stuff, I won’t understand a bit of it, and will probably figure you never practiced a day of your life and that you are just making notes randomly. (That’s all my brain lets me hear.) | ||
| Jimduncan69 |
how cool is this. finding a post about my first love...playing guitar. i love reading and learning all kinds of stuff on hear about buells. now reading about people that love buells and guitar. how cool is that!? i have been playing for 18yrs and tought myself how to do it. the more i learn the more i realize how much i don't know. i just love to play music. i have been in bands and gigging out in bars since i was 16. although i play much heavier music than what you guy's play there is still deffinetly the common thread of the love of music. i have a set of the elixers on my alvares and i love them they are the best acoustic strings i have ever used! i put S.I.T. on my paul reed smith's. they are bright sounding. but they don't last very long. witch is ok because i change my electric string's before every show. i play abeusivly hard and tend to break them if i don't. oh well thats rock n roll for ya! | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Jim/Gary, thanks for climbing aboard. i just ordered one of your CD's - i'm betting your music is a little "edgier" than the stuff i normally listen to, but it's nice to stand up and stretch once and a while, right?  Sometimes 5 i'd love to hear more about your Alvarez. Ferris | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
speaking of the gift of music: Court, is any of Colin's work available on CD??? | ||
| Pdxs3t |
A couple of shots from a photo shoot I had on Saturday night. Both of these men have very different playing styles but both can do some amazing things their guitars!  Dan Bates - Crazy Train  Vik Eden - Knock Out John |
