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#234,081
GonePlaid said:
Of course, the most important thing is that the Embassy now has purple silks instead of red.:smug:
EDIT: Spent a little more time f---ing* around with the Embassy-slightly past 10(oops!). Really liking the sound with the EBCFs and these are old ones. I might order another set of the SIT Power Flats(significantly cheaper), but damn these things sound and feel great. Looking forward to using it Saturday night on the gig. May shock the rest o' the group seeing as how I hadn't told them about this purchase.:thumbsup:
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Glad to hear you are taking to the Embassy. Those EBCFs do sound good, no doubt about it.
For the gig, wear matching burgundy lipstick if you want to go for shock. Just a thought.
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
how can anyone not like these guys?........that's some honkys seriously GETTING DOWN!....:bassist::bassist:
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I honestly think some (not all by any means), of it is because they were poor kids from the south that mostly grew up together and did it their way. But I get that everyone likes diff music. They were a live band that recorded. Some of their first albums didn't sound good at all. The playing was good, but not the sound. Their live album is their best by far and most haven't heard cuts from it. Mixed better, sound quality is better and captures them kickin' musical butt. Live, they sizzled like few could--not by antics but by playing.
 
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stlrocker said:
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First time with the new project tonight went well. No vocals tonight. Just guitar, drums, bass. Next week we'll have vocals and get to work on writing some songs. Just ran through some covers tonight to get a feel for playing together.

Got to play through a kustom 200 the guitarist has. I've known a few people with them before but first time Ive used one. Didn't fiddle with knobs too much, just had to turn up the treble. Sounded pretty good.
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I friend had one that I got to use a few times. I still like them. Tone is in the sparkles baby!!
 
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MCF said:
You guys are killing me. My flight attendant daughter, who is “stuck” at the TWA Hotel due to the FAA system crashing today, reminded me that I can get out to see you all pretty easily (when the FAA gets it’s s**t together) for free. Either one of you want to take in a game at Yankee Stadium? And I’ve got to see Ken at a show. Something to try and make happen this year.
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I plan to get east sometime this year. Road Trip!
 
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dagrev said:
I friend had one that I got to use a few times. I still like them. Tone is in the sparkles baby!!
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Y'all may remember I have a Kasino model 252(2x15, 200W), which is Kustom 'guts' in a Tolex covered cab. Got it in 70 and it still kicks serious @$$-including mine when I try to move it.
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dagrev said:
I friend had one that I got to use a few times. I still like them. Tone is in the sparkles baby!!
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As a thoroughly shallow person, I want a blue sparkle tuck 'n' roll stack. But alas, I have an original Acoustic 360 stack instead. The chorus of tiny violins is deafening.
 
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Gaolee said:
As a thoroughly shallow person, I want a blue sparkle tuck 'n' roll stack. But alas, I have an original Acoustic 360 stack instead. The chorus of tiny violins is deafening.
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Due to advancing age, I've gone with all lightweight gear(Rumble amp, JBL Eon PA) these days. Especially because all our gigs are get there ~1 hour before, set up, play, pack up, and beat feet. But a few years ago, I looked longingly at a Gold Sparkle Kustom head/cab at a shop in Orlando.:drool:
 
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MCF said:
If you’re offering to help, accepted! I’m thinking I want you to also help with a clear guard for the ‘13 NR. I swear the Bach will be it for this year and the focus will be on making everything else the way I want them. I know, famous last words…
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I’m thinking along the same lines - work on and refine what I have…
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
sheer genius and a total natural…huge influence in defining the electric guitarist imho….should be knighted …”Sir Geoffrey Arnold Beck”…..yup..
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I would have added John McLaughlin to my short list of Hendrix & Beck, but it would be with the caveat that JM came from jazz, not rock. They all converged/overlapped in the late '60s, early '70s as fearless innovators of the electric guitar.

 
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JIO said:
Nels Cline posted this today on his FB page:

As a "senior", a "Boomer", a guitarist and lover of sound, I have weathered my grief as so many great artists whom I admire have died and, not being a genuine "social media" participant, have been silent. So many. So sad, yet so inevitable, yes... But I must, with all my heart, express my deep love and respect for the great Jeff Beck on this evening, upon learning of his passing. Jeff Beck LIT ME UP when I was in my early teens and he was in The Yardbirds, then beyond with his early Groups, all his various and varied projects. He represented true excitement on guitar, with sound, with tone, with The Blues, with ROCK. An ORIGINAL and outstanding voice that always straddled gritty/greasy/sexy and SUBLIME. As he progressed (important word here), he eschewed major rock stardom and instead embraced primarily instrumental, improvisational music (okay, some call it "fusion") and - crucially - never stopped growing, exploring. He, unlike any of his generation that I can think of, grew and grew and grew and developed a PROFOUND LANGUAGE on the guitar that is/was all his own. Jaw-dropping, inspiring, soaring forever forever forever.... Just had to say. I am so, so sad right now, but also want to scream JEFF BECK RULES!!! as loud as I can. All possible love to his family, friends, and fans.

Long Live Jeff Beck
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He also did more to bring along promising musicians than almost anyone else. Mad respect.
 
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