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I saw a Rockabilly band at my local pub one weekend, they sounded ok and it was a pretty fun set. Two weeks later I walk in and hear the same stuff, only this time I came in the back door so I didn't see the band, I went to the bar and ordered a pint and said "These guys back already?". "Nah", he replied, "That was Hot Rod 55, this is class of '59" I've never heard two bands sound so alike, it was uncanny. Bass player in the second band had bitchin' sideburns, that was the only way I could tell them apart, fuckers even dressed the same.
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White Dog Eggs posted:I have green rainbow glitter. Customer wanted it for his headstock. It's vile. I think you have the perfect material then. 
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Sep 8, 2014 00:43
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White Dog Eggs posted:I saw a Rockabilly band at my local pub one weekend, they sounded ok and it was a pretty fun set. Lol this can also be applied to any amateur math rock, punk or emo band imo (as well as a lot of dubstep producers)
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Sep 8, 2014 00:44
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I like Brian Setzer, but he would probably have done amazing things in any genre. And while there are a lot of bands that sound the same, I'm always amazed by the number that manage to find new and surprising ways to sound bad. There was a band in Vancouver years ago called Model of Consciousness that sounded vaguely like if Godsmack brought on a live guinea pig as an additional vocalist. It was worse than actual Godsmack.
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Sep 8, 2014 01:55
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Music is bad and people who make music should feel bad.
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Sep 8, 2014 06:56
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gently caress Your Website posted:Music is bad and people who make music should feel bad. Why, hello sunshine.
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Sep 8, 2014 07:17
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gently caress Your Website posted:Music is bad and people who make music should feel bad. Don't worry, we do. 
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Sep 8, 2014 07:50
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Look at those blues dads go, they all look so happy.
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Sep 8, 2014 07:55
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Is that a Tone ladder?
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Sep 8, 2014 08:05
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gently caress Your Website posted:Music is bad and people who make music should feel bad. I need drugs to cope with the pain.
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Sep 8, 2014 08:07
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Fumble posted:Look at those blues dads go, they all look so happy. Looks like the DVDA scene from Orgazmo.
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Sep 8, 2014 11:06
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Ferrous Wheel posted:It was worse than actual Godsmack. that seems like it would take some real effort to accomplish
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Sep 8, 2014 11:28
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Quickscope420dad posted:These kinda guitars have come up already in the thread surely: Sometimes the ads that come up in YouTube are appropriate: 
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Sep 8, 2014 13:08
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Actuary X posted:Sometimes the ads that come up in YouTube are appropriate: Well that's made my day!
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Sep 8, 2014 13:11
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Quickscope420dad posted:I actually ended up compiling a list of all the videos when the replies stopped coming so if anyone wants that, lemme know Yes please, I wanna link the whole god drat thread to a buddy of mine (who doesn't have an account), and that seems like an easy way to do it.
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Sep 8, 2014 13:43
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thank you, you are doing the lords work.
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Sep 8, 2014 14:39
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Quickscope420dad posted:Due to the necessary fashion obligations, instrumentation and style, is rockabilly perhaps the most limited and creatively stagnant of all genres? I saw a rockabilly cover band do a cover of James Blunts "Beautiful" the other week.
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Sep 8, 2014 17:53
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massive spider posted:I saw a rockabilly cover band do a cover of James Blunts "Beautiful" the other week. so yes?
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Sep 8, 2014 17:58
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I didn't manage to get anything done with the gbs-caster today, been a bit bogged under. However....  Free super-strat! My friend found it in the back of their kids cupboard, apparently it's been there at least 9 years (it had pickups, they were just filthy so I took them off for cleaning, turns out they are DiMarzio's and probably worth more that the guitar itself. Victim number 2?
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Sep 8, 2014 20:19
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White Dog Eggs posted:I didn't manage to get anything done with the gbs-caster today, been a bit bogged under. holy poo poo okay first things first, gotta lose the yamaha logo on the head and replace it with a crude dick drawn in tipex
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Sep 8, 2014 20:21
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Make it a face guitar. You need really tacky fur for the hair. Also the mouth should be a speaker.
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White Dog Eggs posted:I didn't manage to get anything done with the gbs-caster today, been a bit bogged under. That might actually be an awesome guitar with a decent setup. Yamaha makes some pretty nice higher end guitars, and you don't really see them anywhere. When I lived in Dallas I found a Yamaha tele style guitar that had 3 Dimarzio p90 sized super distortions in it just sitting in a trash pile near I house I was looking to rent. Took it home and cleaned it up and it was a pretty awesome guitar. Looked terrible though. It was like metallic pink and had a Khaler locking them. Ended up selling it for 500 bucks. Dirt fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Sep 8, 2014 |
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Sep 8, 2014 20:33
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If you scrub off that baller Yamaha logo for GBS I'm going to have a mental break
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Acquire Currency! posted:If you scrub off that baller Yamaha logo for GBS I'm going to have a mental break That sounds like a challenge.
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White Dog Eggs posted:I have green rainbow glitter. Customer wanted it for his headstock. It's vile. I'll need you to channel 'This guitar will be played for people with $70k trucks hauling $35k bass boats in front of their $10k house trailers' when you do this please. Bass boats glitter. It's what they do.  loving hell, we're doing a showcase later this month, there's a part of me that wishes it would be ready in time for this. All I've told my bandmates is that 'I have a custom guitar on the way'. They're all excited because they've seen me gig most of my collection and because I'm being so quiet about it. I'm not letting them see poo poo until I step on stage with it. When the lights hit, I want this loving thing to confuse everyone in a 4 block radius. Words can't even explain my excitement here.
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Quickscope420dad posted:holy poo poo Acquire Currency! posted:If you scrub off that baller Yamaha logo for GBS I'm going to have a mental break Yea, I like that Yamaha Logo, it's 80's as gently caress so I'm going to keep it. Plenty of room on the truss rod cover for something stupid though. Dirt posted:That might actually be an awesome guitar with a decent setup. Yamaha makes some pretty nice higher end guitars, and you don't really see them anywhere. Considering that this was apparently a budget model (RGX112), it's pretty good! The neck pocket is tight as a nuns rear end, the neck is one of those skinny-ibanez types that everyone except me thinks is awesome, the routs are shielded and grounded and the body isn't too heavy. The tuners and pots are loving terrible though.
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Sep 8, 2014 22:15
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iostream.h posted:I live in Alabama. Wait until you see the whammy I'm working on......
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Sep 8, 2014 22:22
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Yamaha really raised the bar about 10 years ago with their budget models those 112's could pass for a medium bracket guitar at the time.
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Sep 8, 2014 22:23
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I was visiting my parents last week and dug a long unfinished project out of the shed. I was working on 3 scratch built Telecasters all at the same time and this one ran into some finish issues so I hung it up. It's now nearly 3 years later and I decided I would just polish out the finish as is and finish it up.  Thinking about re-routing the bridge for a high out put humbucker, slapping an esquire pickguard (no neck pick-up) on and having it be a shredder Tele. Open to other ideas though 
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Thumposaurus posted:I was visiting my parents last week and dug a long unfinished project out of the shed. Haha, yesssssssssss. It spreads!! Use a normal pickguard but put some clear plastic on the underside of it, fill the neck rout with LED's and/or your favourite candy.
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White Dog Eggs posted:Wait until you see the whammy I'm working on...... So, how tricky is it to attach a light n' spin rampant rabbit to a whammy bar?
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White Dog Eggs posted:Haha, yesssssssssss. It spreads!! 
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Sep 8, 2014 23:34
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Zipties make everything easy. Guitars and vibrators make funny noises. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFEdt7smdDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJs4i1h4PTA
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unlawfulsoup posted:Make it a face guitar. I missed this first time around. This is the funniest loving thing. I'm going to get some vinyl stickers made and put them on the next JEM I work on. Fumble posted:Yamaha really raised the bar about 10 years ago with their budget models those 112's could pass for a medium bracket guitar at the time. According to the serial number this guitar was either built in 1967, 1977, 1987, 1997 or 2007 (Yamaha recycle their serial numbers every decade for some stupid reason). The style of tuners, type of pots and the font on the headstock make me think it's from 1987. The guitar is loving FILTHY too, it smells almost putrid and every conceivable crevice is full of cat-hair. The fretboard is grimy as gently caress, it's been well played at some point and it's just oozing finger-grease.
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White Dog Eggs posted:The guitar is loving FILTHY too, it smells almost putrid and every conceivable crevice is full of cat-hair. The fretboard is grimy as gently caress, it's been well played at some point and it's just oozing finger-grease. This reminds me, Febreze wouldn't hurt a poly finish on cheap guitars right?
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White Dog Eggs posted:I missed this first time around. This is the funniest loving thing. I'm going to get some vinyl stickers made and put them on the next JEM I work on. get some giant googly eyes instead
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Since you've got your workshop back, you can do more elaborate fuckery. Have you thought about making your own JEM with monkey grip and the drapes of your choice glued onto it? The Yamaha GEM.
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Thumposaurus posted:Zipties make everything easy. Unironic post here - the second video is why I get apathetic and pessimistic about writing rock music. The first is why i still have hope for the guitar as a viable modern instrument.
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Need to make one of those f-hole decals of a monkey grip/dick hole. Worst musical equipment? Allow me to introduce you to the loving Floyd Rose Tremolo:  See how the intonation adjusting screws are under the strings? That simple, obvious and easy to fix design flaw makes the difference between a guitar being a half hour to one hour set-up to it being at least two usually three. In the thirty seven years since coming up with the guitar tremolo system made by guitar techs for guitar techs have they addressed it at all? Nope they have been far to busy on more important development issues: http://www.floydrose.com/news/frx-tremolo-system-approved-and-in-production http://www.floydrose.com/news/floyd-rose-distributes-stone-tone-rock-blocks It's also worth point out design flaw number two. The place where the locking nut attaches on most guitars is right at that vulnerable neck volute point. A place were less material is clearly a cunning plan. And this is all to fix what amounts to a non-problem:  See that MiJ Squire strat? It has the absolute shitiest ever produced Fender tremolo system. With a little bit of pencil work on the nut, proper installation of the strings (minimum number of wraps to prevent reseating issues) and a simple quick setup to balance the string pull properly, zero problems even with strings flapping dive bombs. Blackmore (etc) have been using these systems for decades with no fuss and no significant problems. t  you Floyd Rose.People paying close attention may have noticed that the strat in the picture above has three volume knobs. That's one for each PU! A standard five way switch is actually a make before break DPTT. The second pole is usually used to switch the tone circuits but can also be used to select more/other PUs. This way you can have all your PUs on, use the switch like you would on a Les Paul to swap between lead and rhythm levels or other bizarre stuff. Haven't seen this:  monstrosity yet.  Pete Townsend has always been know for impeccable taste (Rick from Cheap Trick has one too). Makes me wonder whether White Dogs Eggs used to work for Guild. There seems to be a point where the country crowd can out cluster gently caress even the most obnoxious hair metal players or blues dad's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miQiaHYhb_o
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