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11-18-2011, 03:26 PM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | Another Roscoe sixer? Yup.
'Heads...how am everybody?
You ever have that situation where everything falls into place...where someone rescues you from a crummy situation, and turns it into a positive? Well...that happened to me last week. The bottom line is that I now own yet another Roscoe sixer. I'm just addicted to these things!
I'll bore ya' with the whole story later, but our man, Greg @ Rocket, took me out of a nightmare trade situation, and put me into a very positive transaction. He had a Roscoe in stock that just called out to me. Awesome ash body, amazingly gorgeous XQM top, and get this...a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard. And, in full compliance with Meyer Directive #R-410, it even has black hardware.  Needless to say, I couldn't pass it up. Typical amazing service and care from Greg, and this afternoon I was greeted with the delivery of a big box. Woo hoo!
I know, I know... on to the pics, right? Okay, here goes...
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Check out this great looking headstock! 
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Wait. Is there something goofy with that headstock? The tuners look a bit undersized. And those strings are downright flimsy! Oh yeah....I guess I shoulda' mentioned, I bought a gee-tar!
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Here's another shot, although I neglected to correct the white balance, so the color is way off... 
I know less about guitar than I do about bass, so I've got a huge learning curve ahead of me. Nonetheless, this thing seems awesome...plays and looks like a Roscoe, for sho. Schawing! |
11-18-2011, 03:39 PM
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Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | Dood! 
Major shrinkage! 
God Bless, Ray
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11-18-2011, 03:46 PM
|  | Supporting Reggae Music | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: MEXICANADAMERICA | | somehow,... i feel violated! 
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11-18-2011, 04:55 PM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | And guitar for dummies lesson #1. Locking tuners. (Butt-Head) Whoa. (/Butt-Head). |
11-18-2011, 04:58 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Gorgeous looking axe. Congrats.
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11-18-2011, 05:02 PM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by VroomVroom  And guitar for dummies lesson #1. Locking tuners. (Butt-Head) Whoa. (/Butt-Head). | I think that qualifies as Lesson #2 ("huh-huh, he said #2"). Lesson #1 was succesfully getting that whammy bar out of the bridge! Good on ya for figuring that one out!
I can't wait to hear you start wailing in some recordings with it, Jerry. Where will you go first? Eddie Van Halen? Joe Pass? John Lee Hooker? George Thorogood? Wes Montgomery? |
11-18-2011, 05:16 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by VroomVroom And guitar for dummies lesson #1. Locking tuners. (Butt-Head) Whoa. (/Butt-Head). | ...I'm still sitting here chuckling about that...best thing that happened all week. 
Jerry was b#$%^ing me out on FB about how poorly the strings were installed...then I realized what the problem was... 
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11-18-2011, 05:21 PM
|  | Well, Ahoy Paloi | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Cape Cod, MA | | | Congrats Jerry, I am happy to see you "came out of the closet" on the whole guitar is a sixer, not a bass-thingy."
We are all here to support you! Now, where is my Tele or Martin acoustic...? |
11-18-2011, 06:26 PM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | I love youse guys. I think I'll have Gard laughing for a week or so. "What...no windings around the posts? What gives? And....HEY....that damn string broke with a piece in the post!" I are just a neanderthal bass player.
Here's my first project: Eddie Van Halen Shreds - YouTube |
11-18-2011, 06:40 PM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | |
Awesome Jerry! Now I really am jealous! Now your just not the envy of all bassists but guitarist as well!
That guitar looks awesome! I love the sea of quilt!
You beat me to the punch. I've really been thinking about going for one of those baby Roscoe 6'ers for a while now.
Now, I'd like to hear the rest of the story ... crummy situation and all ..... |
11-19-2011, 08:18 AM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | They best some reverb gettin' up in that guitahs grill, naw'mean?!
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11-19-2011, 12:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dallas | | | wow, that is beautiful! really great-looking guitar, i'm very curious about the details, will have to check the rocket page for some specs
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11-19-2011, 11:44 PM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | Ok, so two bits of background. First, I've been mulling over the idea of owning a nice guitar for about two years now. Not so much to become a guitarist, but to more easily work on harmony, composition, and hopefully...melody. I've got an acoustic guitar, but...well, it's not the same. And then, more recently, I found myself looking at this nice boutique J bass I bought when I had a little too much money in my pocket...and asking myself why I never gigged it. (That answer: ahem, Mike Lull's basses. Between them and my Roscoes, all of my live & session needs are covered.)
So, last week, those two bits of background collided into what I thought was a perfect storm...a fellow here on TB posted in the classifieds that he wanted to trade his Suhr guitar for a bass. Learning that the guitar was sold new by our man Greg @ Rocket Music, only a few months back...had me salivating. Looked like a guitar that I would spec in a custom order, and I was anxious to sample a Suhr. The trade deal was consummated...my bass plus some Samolians, and I shipped out the bass. Three hours later I got a phone call from the other fellow, telling me that he damaged the guitar while adjusting the neck.
Boom. His call: trade off the books. Many argumentative hours with UPS later, and I was finally able to retrieve the bass, at somewhat reasonable expense. (Lesson learned for me...only deal with people you know and trust on the classifieds. I'll spare you the details, but this SUCKED.) I brought Greg up to speed on things, and we began chatting about the guitar you see above.... Rocket Music - Roscoe S-1000 (XQM/Braz RW) **SOLD** in Roscoe Guitars (In Stock)
A day later, deal done, instruments shipped. A week later (this past Friday), and I now have an amazing guitar. How amazing? Yep...it's a Roscoe. I've spent about four hours playing this thing, and it's crazy...it actually makes me sound like I know what I'm doing!
There's the story. Wake up now, and proceed with your regularly scheduled programming.
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11-20-2011, 12:03 AM
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Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by VroomVroom Ok, so two bits of background. First, I've been mulling over the idea of owning a nice guitar for about two years now. Not so much to become a guitarist, but to more easily work on harmony, composition, and hopefully...melody. I've got an acoustic guitar, but...well, it's not the same. And then, more recently, I found myself looking at this nice boutique J bass I bought when I had a little too much money in my pocket...and asking myself why I never gigged it. (That answer: ahem, Mike Lull's basses. Between them and my Roscoes, all of my live & session needs are covered.)
So, last week, those two bits of background collided into what I thought was a perfect storm...a fellow here on TB posted in the classifieds that he wanted to trade his Suhr guitar for a bass. Learning that the guitar was sold new by our man Greg @ Rocket Music, only a few months back...had me salivating. Looked like a guitar that I would spec in a custom order, and I was anxious to sample a Suhr. The trade deal was consummated...my bass plus some Samolians, and I shipped out the bass. Three hours later I got a phone call from the other fellow, telling me that he damaged the guitar while adjusting the neck.
Boom. His call: trade off the books. Many argumentative hours with UPS later, and I was finally able to retrieve the bass, at somewhat reasonable expense. (Lesson learned for me...only deal with people you know and trust on the classifieds. I'll spare you the details, but this SUCKED.) I brought Greg up to speed on things, and we began chatting about the guitar you see above.... Rocket Music - Roscoe S-1000 (XQM/Braz RW) **SOLD** in Roscoe Guitars (In Stock)
A day later, deal done, instruments shipped. A week later (this past Friday), and I now have an amazing guitar. How amazing? Yep...it's a Roscoe. I've spent about four hours playing this thing, and it's crazy...it actually makes me sound like I know what I'm doing!
There's the story. Wake up now, and proceed with your regularly scheduled programming. | NICE! And I am awake.
God Bless, Ray
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11-20-2011, 04:56 AM
| | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | |
Awesome how things can seem to be totally falling apart and in the end work out even better than originally expected.
I guess that the saying "all's well that ends well" definitely applies here! |
11-20-2011, 05:56 AM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Wow, talk about turning bad luck into great.
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