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I seriously doubt that Mr. Head has a problem with you. I've been reading his posts for some years now, and I'm sure he's just poking in fun. He's never been malicious toward any member, even when such would be deserved. If anything, the fact that he remembers who you are and has a sense of your proclivities shows that you're a well-known member in good standing. I certainly see you that way, and I'm sure many others do as well.
No, not at ALL, Mr. Orpheo. Really, in the contrary. There NEEDS to be people who really drill down on a mahogany 24.75" (24.625" in some cases?) scale guitar with maple cap and two humbuckers. I can get monstrously, ridiculously obsessed with trying to HEAR a very particular little something(s) myself - and one of the larger, underacknowledged, and (I think) truly dangerous aspect of modern guitarland is: fudging Mp3's have apparently DESTROYED the standard of excellence that is now, perhaps, becoming the province of... ONLY the elderly-n-gettin'-thar guitarists? I'm busting in a new small crop of students this summer, and at 14 and 15 - they CAN'T HEAR THINGS. When I was that age, I was clamped down under the fearsome Koss Pro-4's from midnight to dawn - I could, and did, do schoolwork in my sleep. And the subtleties of Hendrix - playing almost Chet Atkins, Venturey-clean on the Strat->Twin Reverb combination on "The Cry of Love", a really great directional switch, maybe maybe even his best album - no Fuzzface, no wah, just a big fat cord rolling his Strat's resonant peak down 1.6K's to 2k. Layla, the first four Santanas, Live at the Fillmore - frick. Oddly enough, as much as I revered Duane & Carlos's SOUND - I found very early, I needed bite for ME to get closer to that? Some things just are, and bolted neck, and a Lawrence L500 in the bridge and a “Little Winger” in the neck just... DOES ME.*
Back to real-life horror - I can summon up each and every one of those stunning tones on YouTube in seconds - only they ain't stunning. Mp3's, on the average, transmit about 1/7th of the info that been recorded. It's like the shadow of the sound, the edges and spikes. Music.... it's getting torched alive by bite-misers. My TV's thankfully been in the closet for six years, Hallelooo, jah! But towards the end, 2006, 2007 - I just could not BELIEVE what American Idol SOUNDED like! Not the song choice, cutesyness etc., the SOUND! Granted, FOX is a greedy bunch, and here in Eastern MD, the signals are further adulterated by the stingy toilet-soiled minds of the Sinclair Broadcasting network.
The result was, every singer was apparently mining their inner Joe Cocker, every guitar part might as well have been through a cranked Big Muff (from the bad years, but nobody can agree which those ones were. Just not mine!) Holographs are the visual goal corresponding to the attempted hoodwinkery the sound thieves are trying to pass, but most of the time - no. ALL OF IT - the visual analogue is when a TV signal breaks up into squiggly little squares.
*(Boom boom: sounding like YOURSELF was a near-fanatic obsession among jazz artists, from the 1940's right up to the Berklee/UofMiami/North Texas State/GIT Clone Factory Wars. WHO does Joe Bonnamassa sound like? WHO does John Mayer sound like? At least they picked great models... I LIKE them both, they seem like good people (I'm weird) but
they don't sound like anything, they sound like... everything.
It's fun to get a few yuckles out of Eric Johnson's battery brand hoedown, BUT - it is symptomatic of the rather obvious fact that he might HEAR al-most everything - all the things - better than 999.000% of yon yokels, BECAUSE HE'S TRYING!
Miles Davis & John Coltrane went so far as to dump vibrato from their playing! It was shocking! It was almost... WRONG; and, you could recognize David & Coltrane from ONE FUCKIN NOTE! My Boy John McLaughlin REFUSES to sound normal. And like everyone else like that, he's laid a few eggs that just sound awful to me. And everyone else. Carlos Santana has even criticized his great friend in print, saying he wishes McLaughlin would dump the “laptop amp” and just play guitar->cord>tube amp to “get his tone together.” But when you get up every morning, pick up your guitar, and jump off a cliff every single day of your life, sometimes you fly, sometimes you splat. Santana's greatest work of the last forty years?
So, WE NEED the Orpheos to listen to Les Pauls, I'm glad he's here and I meant absolutely NO disrespect. Maybe, someday... I've been told that Pauls make OK slide guitars... meanwhile, I have a just-super idea! Orf can kidnap Joe Bonnamassa, throw all his overdrives and... Soldanos? Bogners? Whatever the heck Boney's using to play all his sensitive sloooooooooooooooooooow blues, all his sensitive medium blues, all his Clapton licks, all his E. Johnson licks, well that kinda covers it! Throw that shit into the fjord! Whatever he's doing to play each and every single thing with a howling Death Metal/Metal Zone/definitely bad-year Muff; SHUT THE fudge UP! And work on sounding exactly the way I tell you to! It's like, "Cannibal Corpse plays Ry Cooder", :icon_scratch: Boney the guy owns FOUR
FOUR
'57 to '59 +$200,000 Gibson Les Pauls;
FOUR OF THEM. And the obvious question - WHY BOTHER?
A $200 Ibanez can sound just like that too.
ORPHEO's TASK: deprogramming, then, reprogramming, THAT Boney kid. There's like this totally embarrassing vid on YouTube. Eric Johnson “jams” with J.B. Besides sounding the usual godawful (lufwadog?) crap BonePhoneTone - Bonamassa is intent on BLOWING ERIC JOHNSON OFF THE STAGE!!! dear god (dograed?) Besides turning Johnson's amps way down in the PA, playing his heroic superfast fuzzblowin' OVER Johnson's turn at a solo - HE'S SHOWING HIS TEETH AND SNARLING. AT ERIC JOHNSON.
Can even a PATB foil this madman? Hep me Rhonda...
P.S. (Weirdly enough, that “Crimson” guy who tortured Orpheo so a fey years back sunka big 'ol article in Premier Git about installing a KAOSS on a carved top... redemption does trickle down once in awhile?).
Back to real-life horror - I can summon up each and every one of those stunning tones on YouTube in seconds - only they ain't stunning. Mp3's, on the average, transmit about 1/7th of the info that been recorded. It's like the shadow of the sound, the edges and spikes. Music.... it's getting torched alive by bite-misers. My TV's thankfully been in the closet for six years, Hallelooo, jah! But towards the end, 2006, 2007 - I just could not BELIEVE what American Idol SOUNDED like! Not the song choice, cutesyness etc., the SOUND! Granted, FOX is a greedy bunch, and here in Eastern MD, the signals are further adulterated by the stingy toilet-soiled minds of the Sinclair Broadcasting network.
The result was, every singer was apparently mining their inner Joe Cocker, every guitar part might as well have been through a cranked Big Muff (from the bad years, but nobody can agree which those ones were. Just not mine!) Holographs are the visual goal corresponding to the attempted hoodwinkery the sound thieves are trying to pass, but most of the time - no. ALL OF IT - the visual analogue is when a TV signal breaks up into squiggly little squares.
*(Boom boom: sounding like YOURSELF was a near-fanatic obsession among jazz artists, from the 1940's right up to the Berklee/UofMiami/North Texas State/GIT Clone Factory Wars. WHO does Joe Bonnamassa sound like? WHO does John Mayer sound like? At least they picked great models... I LIKE them both, they seem like good people (I'm weird) but
they don't sound like anything, they sound like... everything.
It's fun to get a few yuckles out of Eric Johnson's battery brand hoedown, BUT - it is symptomatic of the rather obvious fact that he might HEAR al-most everything - all the things - better than 999.000% of yon yokels, BECAUSE HE'S TRYING!
Miles Davis & John Coltrane went so far as to dump vibrato from their playing! It was shocking! It was almost... WRONG; and, you could recognize David & Coltrane from ONE FUCKIN NOTE! My Boy John McLaughlin REFUSES to sound normal. And like everyone else like that, he's laid a few eggs that just sound awful to me. And everyone else. Carlos Santana has even criticized his great friend in print, saying he wishes McLaughlin would dump the “laptop amp” and just play guitar->cord>tube amp to “get his tone together.” But when you get up every morning, pick up your guitar, and jump off a cliff every single day of your life, sometimes you fly, sometimes you splat. Santana's greatest work of the last forty years?
Meanwhile; ahem; gotta let the little guy out for a run now and then, what might happen if he remains caged?; meanwhile, NOT being a mahogany 24.75" (24.625" in some cases?) scale guitar with maple cap and two humbuckers-kind-of-guy, I don't know if I could hear staples/squarey pickups as distinct from the great morass of PAFland! Discription-wise they actually sound as though they'd be a HB I'd like, if I can love an L500 with the volume at 3 or 5 AS WELL AS 10 - inane warning, going knobless is like playing three strings only. I even have a S-S-HB 7/8 Strat bod around here, eventually to be festooned with something or another. But my $1730 to $2330 teeth-capping project wipes out all spending, I HATE to owe anything or anybody, ramen noodles and peanut b&honey on WW, here we go til I'm OUTTA THERE. Debt-free AND interest-free since 1998, aw frick.
So, WE NEED the Orpheos to listen to Les Pauls, I'm glad he's here and I meant absolutely NO disrespect. Maybe, someday... I've been told that Pauls make OK slide guitars... meanwhile, I have a just-super idea! Orf can kidnap Joe Bonnamassa, throw all his overdrives and... Soldanos? Bogners? Whatever the heck Boney's using to play all his sensitive sloooooooooooooooooooow blues, all his sensitive medium blues, all his Clapton licks, all his E. Johnson licks, well that kinda covers it! Throw that shit into the fjord! Whatever he's doing to play each and every single thing with a howling Death Metal/Metal Zone/definitely bad-year Muff; SHUT THE fudge UP! And work on sounding exactly the way I tell you to! It's like, "Cannibal Corpse plays Ry Cooder", :icon_scratch: Boney the guy owns FOUR
FOUR
'57 to '59 +$200,000 Gibson Les Pauls;
FOUR OF THEM. And the obvious question - WHY BOTHER?
A $200 Ibanez can sound just like that too.
ORPHEO's TASK: deprogramming, then, reprogramming, THAT Boney kid. There's like this totally embarrassing vid on YouTube. Eric Johnson “jams” with J.B. Besides sounding the usual godawful (lufwadog?) crap BonePhoneTone - Bonamassa is intent on BLOWING ERIC JOHNSON OFF THE STAGE!!! dear god (dograed?) Besides turning Johnson's amps way down in the PA, playing his heroic superfast fuzzblowin' OVER Johnson's turn at a solo - HE'S SHOWING HIS TEETH AND SNARLING. AT ERIC JOHNSON.
Can even a PATB foil this madman? Hep me Rhonda...
P.S. (Weirdly enough, that “Crimson” guy who tortured Orpheo so a fey years back sunka big 'ol article in Premier Git about installing a KAOSS on a carved top... redemption does trickle down once in awhile?).
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Orpheo said:
I immediately saw it as a compliment to your attention to detail.
I've learned a lot from reading your posts.
ok, thanks guys for the explanation 
I just got a lot of flack concerning just that, that I listen too closely and too intensely and have invested too much time and $$ in LP's. Fortunately I get the final laugh since my own les pauls sound so, so damn amazing. Thanks for the pick'n'cheer'me'up!
I just got a lot of flack concerning just that, that I listen too closely and too intensely and have invested too much time and $$ in LP's. Fortunately I get the final laugh since my own les pauls sound so, so damn amazing. Thanks for the pick'n'cheer'me'up!Similar threads
