Just don't ever play a reverse Flying V while saying, "Live long and prosper," or, God forbid, "Shazbot, Nanu Nanu."

The kiddies will not get it.

What model Charvel is that?

Sad news. I'm glad I got to live in a time when music row in NYC was still a thing. As a young man I was a bike messenger for a time, and whenever I had a chance in my daily travels I'd linger on 48th Street and drool over the amazing guitars in the windows of Sam Ash, Manny's, Rudy's, and 48th Stre...

Sort of on topic, but yesterday I discovered that "One Night In Bangkok" was written by the guys in ABBA. Did not know that. That's a revelation, though not really surprising either. The chorus has that kind of quirky, 80s Euro pop, elegantly cheesy, super catchy vibe which many ABBA song...

Why would ANYONE buy guitars, amps and pedals from GC? I agree with what you're saying, but to play Devil's advocate, let me justify some recent purchases from Guitar Denter: * Guitar cords . Initially I got some because I needed them right now. But then I realized that by buying Guitar Denter's ho...

Does this mean we'll get to enjoy some 16 year old shredding on a $6000 Dusenberg thru a Fender Champion 20 in the stores ? :lol: It might. Just make sure you experience it before GC's final bankruptcy. I guess I'm confused and pardon me because I haven't been to GC in about 10 years. But didn't th...

'Just a snippet of the song. My membership to the forum would be revoked if I sang. I took some liberties with the chord changes to speed things up a little. https://youtu.be/I5KeLWtEQLo The real version by Widespread panic. I would like my band to try it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f57QlAlMty...

They're tough little buggers. After the nukes fall all that will be left is them, cockroaches, water bears, and Keith Richards. By the way, how are you going to repair the hole? I'm guessing that an extraordinarily handy guy like you can probably weld on top of all your other skills. If it was me I...

They're tough little buggers. After the nukes fall all that will be left is them, cockroaches, water bears, and Keith Richards. By the way, how are you going to repair the hole? I'm guessing that an extraordinarily handy guy like you can probably weld on top of all your other skills. If it was me I ...

"These are a few of my favorite things . . . "

That list includes @RedLesPaul posting a new song on AGF.

In Canada doesn't the government cover the cost of shimming your nuts if they start buzzing in your G string? Asking for a friend. ;) But seriously, try running a nut file through the slot of the B string to make a back angle running downwards from the fretboard side towards the headstock. Don't low...

Assuming you're serious . . . .

It looks like there's forty three tuning posts on that thing. Maybe a quad of whatever is on the ten string guitar below, set up side by side.

Absolutely. I remember my band covering the song Peace Sells back in 1987 and the audience going nuts banging their heads and moshing. What model Agile AL do you guys suppose Chris Poland is holding in that pic? The photo is grainy, but it looks like single binding on the body and headstock, rosewoo...

Wasn't hey joe a cover when Jimi did it? Yes, this is true. There is some dispute over who actually wrote it, though a guy named Billy Roberts registered a copyright on it in 1962. However, like a lot of old blues songs, it was being performed as a public domain song long before this, and long befo...

Tasty! Nice artwork, too. It took me a second to see it. What gear did you use and what was the recording process like? The guitar was a 2001 American Series Strat with Van Zandt pickups. I used the my 65 Amps London on the Marshall input, mic'd with a Shure 57. No pedals, the guitar is going strai...

This weekend I'm going to watch Dirty Dancing as a tribute to Eric Carmen.

God bless Mr Tufts. He looks awesome. Nice playing for him. He was truly awesome. Even in that pic from a month ago Tufts exemplifies such dignity, grace, and fortitude . . . in spite of the fact that he was seriously ill. If I can show just a fraction of that courage in the face of my own demise t...

Maybe at a later date I'll develop this into a longer composition, but for now it's just a brief and intense outpouring of emotion for a friend that just erupted out of me.

I have never owned one but when I was not happy with the Slug P90 pups in my anniversary Melody Maker and bought a set of OEM Firebird mini hums and installed them. I am not 100% happy with them. I am considering another set of P90's with A5 magnets to replace the mini hums. I will probably go with...

Playing a Firebird sitting down is no problem for me. However, being not particularly tall at 5' 8", I find some slight ergonomic issues playing the guitar standing up. I encounter some of these same troubles with a Jazzmaster, though to a lesser extent. The neck of the Firebird somehow feels l...

I've been sitting on this one for a couple of years. The music was done but I just couldn't come up with anything vocally. I shared it with a couple singers I know and they fiddled around with it, though I was still never able to bring it to completion. Going into this past weekend I made a pact wit...

Don't mean to drift this thread, though the question I'm posing is directly related to stainless steel frets. I'm aware that EVH used stainless frets on many of his later, signature model guitars. But at what point did Eddie switch from using regular nickel frets to stainless frets? Was it during th...

I own an Agile AL-3101M from 2014. As @nomadh mentioned, when played unplugged the stainless frets make a somewhat annoying ping, though I don't notice it when the guitar is amplified.

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