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Okay catchup time:Dr. Faustus posted:C) Is there a C? I recommended the Pacifica to Gnarly based on his preferences with a couple caveats: lovely stock pickups, and string-spacing. I did not go into Squires, Teles, or any form of (Gibson) 24 and 3/4" scale guitars because the quality is really hit-or-miss and I don't like the short scale at all. My biggest complaint by far would be the limitation on aftermarket parts, as the spec is different to fender. quote:Lastly, Sleepflower said something about this guitar growing on him and you guys spoiled it. Well, that isn't fair. pfs Write posted:
Dr. Faustus posted:I am the best poster I can be, even here. muike posted:it's a really good album but i just think of the niggerstomper manifesto every time it comes up quote:im permabanned poster niggerstomper58. i first started reading fyad when i was about 12. by 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "irony" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "friend of the family balls" and "i love making GBS threads inside friend of the family assholes" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing things in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on antipsychotics. i always wondered what the kind of "ironic" style of fyad humor was all about; i think it's the unconscious leaking in to the conscious, what jungian theory considered to be the cause of schizophrenic and schizotypal syptoms. i would advise all people who "get" fyad to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace. White Dog Eggs posted:Quilted Maple. 34 Frets. Stupid inlays. Urggggahhh. Nostalgic Pushead fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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Dr. Faustus posted:Just got back from the mountains a little while ago. I'm sorry I didn't keep up with the thread but I wanted to have a hatred-free experience for a few days. i made your guitar playable:  also please tell me that sheet music on the wall is the upcoming thomas the tank engine composition you're working on Hefty Leftist fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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ThePutty posted:i made your guitar playable: 
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Sleepflower posted:Scariest post in the thread. I don't expect you to like something that bothers you. It's just that this is and has always been a hate-gently caress thread. You're pretty cool. I'll never get the pants thing but I'm not a fan of whatever the gently caress that stupid as hell poo poo's from. Some worn-the-gently caress-out GBS check-box poll option that means nothing to me. bunky posted:fautist, did you actually get laid for once on your dumb vacation because you're feisty as gently caress. also i have no loving clue what youre talking about There's no Pot:Kettle:Black problem for you because you are, in fact, blacker than both the Pot and the Kettle; and you should know better than to weep about it by now. If you knew better than to speak up you'd not be wondering about anything; but such contemplation is beyond you. You should never be confused about this. Just lie flat and roll in it. Wallow in it like the loving languid weak sow you are. Make the most of it. Couple with ThePutty as you were meant to. (this of course is a monologue from the evil Mirror Universe Dr. Faustus from page 259) Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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Dr. Faustus posted:There's no Pot:Kettle:Black problem for you because you are, in fact, blacker than both the Pot and the Kettle; and you should know better than to weep about it by now. this sounds really racist fyi
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Dr. Faustus posted:You should never be confused about this. Just lie flat and roll in it. Wallow in it like the loving languid weak sow you are. Make the most of it. Couple with ThePutty as you were meant to. i think he's telling us to make out do you want to make out with me, bunky
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ThePutty posted:i think he's telling us to make out i mean yes, but not because he told us to or anything
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Hey Dr. Faustus, do you like Mystery Science Theatre 3000? I hope you do, because I love it. The main reason I'm posting about it because of this one line in their opening theme song that they have never changed in over 10 years: "Repeat to yourself it's just a show, I should really just relax" I think this could apply to you and this thread. I'm not saying don't post in it, but rather just stop engaging with the trolls and ignore them. You have a lot to offer, a lot of guitar experience, that's for sure. But don't let these trolls derail you. Focus on your guitar posting and don't worry about the bunkys. Also, thank you for responding to my PMs and being very nice and helpful.
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Hey Dr faustus, your goofy soliloquy might sound brooding and important if not for the fact that you are a harmless 50 year old dork with too many guitars and not enough brain cells.
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Doctor Faustus is the protagonist and tragic hero of Marlowe’s play. He is a contradictory character, capable of tremendous eloquence and possessing awesome ambition, yet prone to a strange, almost willful blindness and a willingness to waste powers that he has gained at great cost. When we first meet Faustus, he is just preparing to embark on his career as a magician, and while we already anticipate that things will turn out badly (the Chorus’s introduction, if nothing else, prepares us), there is nonetheless a grandeur to Faustus as he contemplates all the marvels that his magical powers will produce. He imagines piling up wealth from the four corners of the globe, reshaping the map of Europe (both politically and physically), and gaining access to every scrap of knowledge about the universe. He is an arrogant, self-aggrandizing man, but his ambitions are so grand that we cannot help being impressed, and we even feel sympathetic toward him. He represents the spirit of the Renaissance, with its rejection of the medieval, God-centered universe, and its embrace of human possibility. Faustus, at least early on in his acquisition of magic, is the personification of possibility. But Faustus also possesses an obtuseness that becomes apparent during his bargaining sessions with Mephastophilis. Having decided that a pact with the devil is the only way to fulfill his ambitions, Faustus then blinds himself happily to what such a pact actually means. Sometimes he tells himself that hell is not so bad and that one needs only “fortitude”; at other times, even while conversing with Mephastophilis, he remarks to the disbelieving demon that he does not actually believe hell exists. Meanwhile, despite his lack of concern about the prospect of eternal damnation, -Faustus is also beset with doubts from the beginning, setting a pattern for the play in which he repeatedly approaches repentance only to pull back at the last moment. Why he fails to repent is unclear: -sometimes it seems a matter of pride and continuing ambition, sometimes a conviction that God will not hear his plea. Other times, it seems that Mephastophilis simply bullies him away from repenting. Bullying Faustus is less difficult than it might seem, because Marlowe, after setting his protagonist up as a grandly tragic figure of sweeping visions and immense ambitions, spends the middle scenes revealing Faustus’s true, petty nature. Once Faustus gains his long-desired powers, he does not know what to do with them. Marlowe suggests that this uncertainty stems, in part, from the fact that desire for knowledge leads inexorably toward God, whom Faustus has renounced. But, more generally, absolute power corrupts Faustus: once he can do everything, he no longer wants to do anything. Instead, he traipses around Europe, playing tricks on yokels and performing conjuring acts to impress various heads of state. He uses his incredible gifts for what is essentially trifling entertainment. The fields of possibility narrow gradually, as he visits ever more minor nobles and performs ever more unimportant magic tricks, until the Faustus of the first few scenes is entirely swallowed up in mediocrity. Only in the final scene is Faustus rescued from mediocrity, as the knowledge of his impending doom restores his earlier gift of powerful rhetoric, and he regains his sweeping sense of vision. Now, however, the vision that he sees is of hell looming up to swallow him. Marlowe uses much of his finest poetry to describe Faustus’s final hours, during which Faustus’s desire for repentance finally wins out, although too late. Still, Faustus is restored to his earlier grandeur in his closing speech, with its hurried rush from idea to idea and its despairing, Renaissance-renouncing last line, “I’ll burn my books!” He becomes once again a tragic hero, a great man undone because his ambitions have butted up against the law of God.
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Who has the goofier-looking keytar: Lady Gaga or the dude from Dream Theater?  Bonus homemade wooden-sword keytar: 
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 It's hard to not look cool with a keytar, or hell just holding a keyboard like a guitar. I am not kidding, I want one. 
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unlawfulsoup posted:It's hard to not look cool with a keytar, or hell just holding a keyboard like a guitar. You can order this shirt on Zazzle 
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Nov 4, 2014 07:36
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 how about this alicia keys key-shaped keytar that actually owns a whole lot now that i think about it
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tacodaemon posted:You can order this shirt on Zazzle I swear to god keytars will have their day again. I may be dead when it happens, but it will. Also keytars are stupidly expensive, this is the kind of item one should find at a garage sale/flea market for like $20 not $200+.
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Here's another one that Lady Gaga presumably brought back from her Fortress of Solitude
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that's right I got a lot cooler ON drugs!
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tacodaemon posted:Here's another one that Lady Gaga presumably brought back from her Fortress of Solitude oh god a keytar i sort of like my life is a lie
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tacodaemon posted:Here's another one that Lady Gaga presumably brought back from her Fortress of Solitude Nice Star Destroyer
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the fact lady gaga's costumes and whatnot are made by a member of gwar tells me there is in fact some sort of sense in this universe
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tacodaemon posted:Who has the goofier-looking keytar: Lady Gaga or the dude from Dream Theater?
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Dr. Faustus posted:I totally agree with part of that. If you get lucky (and get a real MIJ RG) you might have the makings of decent guitar. You'll still need pickups and probably a fretjob; but you'll still have a run-of-the-mill RG that could be great or could be poo poo. I've played a thousand. Some had fret-ends that would slice your fingers open. Some weigh a ton, some have dead spots and loose truss rods, some just need a little work and some electronics. None came with very good pickups. Except it isn't a huge difference at all, JEMs are just as susceptible to needing a fret dress, setup, replacing electronics etc as the rest of the MIJ ibanezes because they are made in the same loving factory. You're right that they come with the dimarzios instead of ibbys standard lovely stock pups, but thats not really a huge thing is it when you can just buy those pickups for a fraction of the cost difference between an RG and a JEM and just drop them in, never mind if you have no interest in dimarzios and would like something different. The best tone wood is laughable. Even if we take that tone wood is important, the JEMs are just loving basswood bodies like the RGs, with a couple of alder/basswood models for the 7v series. Woo! And never mind that the JEM that keeps coming up here that you own is the SFG, and indonesian model with a premium neck which retails for £1k. Beyond all of this though, is the fact that the korean and indo models are solid and cheap, and for the price of a setup, new pups and electronics you are still coming in at a price point far far far below a JEM and getting a guitar that is just as playable and solidly made. And that applies to basically any of the non fender/gibson brands. Stux fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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nevermind either that the 2550 and the 5xx/7xx series are basically just cheaper JEMs lmao gently caress i mean the 2550 retails for less than the 70v, and is actually a MIJ model
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whoa now, did faustus actually use tonewood as an argument? i was coming around on you buddy roe, but you have done hosed up
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E: Oops, missed this!Sleepflower posted:Oh they're adjustable? I actually really, really like that idea. Are there more breakage issues with brass? There shouldn't be any breakage issues in theory, but if anyone can gently caress stuff up, it's Gibson. I guess we shall see. I've got a soft spot for shiny, shiny brass nuts, everyone except me seems to be indifferent to them though. I'm going to treat you all as a focus group now.... I noticed that a few people here seem to have a craving for a three p-90 guitar. What sort of neck would everyone prefer on such a thing (ie. Scale length, headstock style, neck/fretboard wood, binding etc) and what sort of body type? Barnaby Rudge fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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Dr. Faustus posted:Exactly. I was 16 when I lusted after this NEW kind of real superstrat back in 1987. I finally owned one in 1989. Who do you think was in the scene then who was playing tasteful looking guitars and wearing biker clothes back then, smart person? That's why your loving pointy guitars are worthy of contempt. They represent the nadir of the American music industry.
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Irradiation posted:Nice Star Destroyer a keytar built into an actual bigass model of a Star Destroyer would be awesome, and go really well with that Millennium Falcon bass from a while back I mean, I could photoshop/mspaint a prototype, but instead I did this 
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Fair Hallion posted:a keytar built into an actual bigass model of a Star Destroyer would be awesome, and go really well with that Millennium Falcon bass from a while back  can we turn this thread into 'photoshop the dr. faustus guitar'
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Faustus, please tell me: what are the best tonewoods on a modern electric guitar?
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AchtungBaby posted:Faustus, please tell me: what are the best tonewoods on a modern electric guitar? I am curious too.
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White Dog Eggs posted:
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The best thing about that guitar is that it's from one of my personal favorite guitar players, Uli Jon Roth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scco-tm2OwU
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AchtungBaby posted:The best thing about that guitar is that it's from one of my personal favorite guitar players, Uli Jon Roth. That's... pretty much exactly what I expected the owner to look like really. Also, it's now warmer here and as a result my Gibson Eye is now miraculously playable again. Aaaaand it doesn't play nearly as well as the relatively low end '91 Greco Mint Collection LP Custom that I paid like $500 for. Gibson r gr8 Nostalgic Pushead fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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Fair Hallion posted:a keytar built into an actual bigass model of a Star Destroyer would be awesome, and go really well with that Millennium Falcon bass from a while back i dunno if its just me but i think bigsby tailpieces are dumb as poo poo. theyre just so big and chunky and look out of place on anything that isn't a big hollowbody guitar.
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shiksa posted:i dunno if its just me but i think bigsby tailpieces are dumb as poo poo. theyre just so big and chunky and look out of place on anything that isn't a big hollowbody guitar. I think they look neat but apparently they don't keep tune well. Then again, there are modified versions with low friction bearings and stuff.
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White Dog Eggs posted:I'm going to treat you all as a focus group now.... I noticed that a few people here seem to have a craving for a three p-90 guitar. What sort of neck would everyone prefer on such a thing (ie. Scale length, headstock style, neck/fretboard wood, binding etc) and what sort of body type? 24" scale, rosewood fingerboard, solid or semihollow. Individual pickup switches with the ability to run them in or out of phase. I would be all over that like white on rice. gently caress it give me a varitone and 1 meg pots while we're in wishing territory.
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Sleepflower posted:I think they look neat but apparently they don't keep tune well. Then again, there are modified versions with low friction bearings and stuff. Mine does an alright job of staying in tune, but I dunno what specific hardware is involved.
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