Recent content by stubhead

Quite a hefty demographic chunk of Americans, and people (there IS some overlap), don't really know WHY they find themselves gravitating to the "hobby" of working on their own guitars, maybe pick up a pickup, say, paint an ugly old P.O.S. of a guitar (Whast a loverly P.O.S. you have!) and then...

Old Powers waken.  :dontknow: Shadows stir.  :cool01: An age of Terror and Wonders  :hello2: will soon be upon us - an age for Gods and Heroes.  :occasion14: :dontknow: :cool01: :hello2:  :occasion14:

I guess this could go in "Pickups", "The Rig"... "General Discussion", "Hardware"... https://reverb.com/item/563382-grass-roots-by-esp-gr-lp-30c-m-mini-les-paul-built-in-amplifier-speaker-white http://www.ebay.com/itm/381261845208?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT It...

Every once in a while your past sneaks up on you or something, and you realize some things really WERE that great. I got bushwhacked somehow by the Police, their last two real albums, "Ghost in a Machine" and especially "Synchronicity." That's one you just stick in the CD player and not have to...

Maybe Eric hadn't eaten his daily dose of battery?

Wow! About 2:06 is the best I ever heard Bonamassa play. SLOW. Under normal circumstances he sounds like a Lick Regurgitation Module. And he KNOWS it, he just hasn't broke the machine yet. Where's Patti Boyd when you need her...

I managed to watch a whole 'nother 12 minutes or so. And Rhonda Rousey showed up and she and Hollywood's favorite (and ONLY?) scruffy street Latino girl were kicking each other through walls and stuff (speaking of "stuff" I was surprised at what great martial arts uniforms those satin evening...

Firstly, I don't mean anything disparaging about the term "retarded", why some of my best friends etc.... And I could actually probably justify including this post here, as I can convince myself that this sort of thing is inevitably-paired with what could best be described as "Totally Retarded...

I don't get sad when old people die, Americans seem kinda weird to me about death. I'm quite sure you can say that he spent a HUGE proportion of his life doing exactly what he loved best. THAT counts the most, IMO. I mean, congrats, dude! Sad seems almost greedy - what else do you want him to...

I was living in Austin at the time that both SRV and Eric Johnson blew big, and it was quite a lovey squirmfest for a while there. And Billy Gibbons, and Johnny Winter etc.... you could go out to some rathole with the distinct urges only to shoot pool & imbibe, and there'd be some genius just...

Weirdly or not: "The conventions" by definition imply derivation. My brain wasn't on from the first 1965, 67-ish Clapton/Beck/Hendrix explosion, but it arose to catch the tailwinds of individual tone: Three notes, and you could quite easily pick out Garcia, Allman, Santana, Hendrix, the early...

Hendrix had a baby! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHTzf1qPS4I around 4:23, the training wheels come off- holy moly!

The pickups are usually screwed direct to the body, and the height is regulated with some rubber/vinyl tubing that slides over the screws holding them. To run the wiring, for sure you're going to want to pick up a long drill bit, they call them "aircraft" bits. 1/8" X 12" would do nicely. Then...

Yeah I gotta go with Mr. Fly. Learn a new song (poorly) every day for a week; then go back and start picking apart the solos, especially the IDEAS behind the solos. How's the ol' reading? Consider that EVERYTHING you need to know to play this is all written down just a-waiting your brain &...

I kinda get jaded over the next, newest, "improved" take on a Tube Screamer circuit; I mean, you can't buy a pedal that can actually make old Stevie Ray Vaughan tracks sound worse! There are some that just add a few neat adjustments to one, like the Voodoo "Sparkle Drive" lets you blend in any...