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5StringBlues said:
When I was a fresh faced lad in early highschool, a friend had the Guitar Player compilation book of interviews from the 70's.


I made a point of finding records from most of the artists in the book.


So yeah, Kessel, Joe Pass, Julian Frickin' Bream...........
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5StringBlues said:
Ah, I must amend this by saying I was prodded into checking out these players because of Steve Howe name checking them in interviews.


Been a big YES fan since I was 7.
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And two more pieces of the puzzle fall into place... ;)
 
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PillO said:
And two more pieces of the puzzle fall into place... ;)
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To explain it all:


My earliest memory is being under a grand piano in a little crib as my mother teaches classical piano lessons.

In 1970, when I was 5, she had 70 students and my sister had 50. Piano lessons in my house from 3pm to 8pm every weekday, 9am to 5pm on Saturdays.


Never learned piano myself but was quite the little music snob by the age of 12. :roflmao:
 
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JIO said:
I knew a guy who had one - same bike has been made for decades and many sold in India.
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yes, defunct in the UK but production continued in India. They sell them here now as well but you don’t see many.

Same with the old Morris Oxford car from the 1950s (by its look); that continued in India as the Hindustan Ambassador until about 10 years ago.
mid you watch any tv show or movie that has an Indian city scene you are likely to see them, a lot became taxis.
 
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dagrev said:
No silks. At least not the set I have. I might have an early set. It's been years since I've played their Powerwounds, but these DEs seem bright compared to other NPS I have tried. Close to steels. Well, in between steels and NPS might be more accurate. They are not as stiff as the same set in steel. They were $14 shipped, so I thought why not. They were OK on the NR, but great on the Jazz.


Yes, steel or NPS. I think they have a smaller outer winding (I think) and feel pretty nice. I've seen conflicting descriptions of them so I'm not sure sure what is true. SIT really should hire someone who knows how to use words to describe their produces. Some of their descriptions are (should be), embarrassingly simple and unhelpful. There are new fusion wound sets.

Description from their store but not the product page:
"These SIT David Ellefson Signature Series nickel strings were specifically selected and gauged by David Ellefson for his professional touring and recording needs. They offer a super smooth, slinky feel as wellas [sic] anoticeable [sic] upper mid-range punch not found in other strings."
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I’m waiting for the fission strings. For atomic sound.
 
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dagrev said:
Not sleeping well some recent nights and been listening to some SRV. A couple hardly known songs that really stuck out. The first isn't great sound quality. The second shows a very different mellow side.

I still remember the first time I saw him after the first album. I was in awe and when leaving I was thinking, "What just happened?" I have still never seen anything like it. The second time I saw him he was just a good. Took my not yet wife and even she was blown away. This guy was special.



Something mellow....
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Two excellent songs. I've been known to put Riviera Paradise on repeat for hours. I never got to see him; I didn't even know who he was until just a year before he died about a year before I moved to Austin. About a decade later, I heard one of the local radio djs reminisce about how Stevie would play a gig like Antone's, and after most of the crowd left, come back out and sit on the edge of the stage with the lights down low and play Riviera Paradise. Then the dj played a live version of it. It was 2am and I was coming home after one of many loooong days in a hellish month. I had to get off the highway and just listen, it felt so intense.
 
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