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Back when i was young, we didn't take perfectly nice guitars and screw them up with shoepolish and belt sanders. We took guitars that looked like they'd been gone over with shoe polish and belt sanders and make them look new again. I bought my late 80s blue '62 re-issue stratocaster new on...

I mentioned that i bought an Epiphone ES-295, which came with what I believe to be a Bigsbly "licensed" B3 tremelo (EDIT: it's actually a B7). It works, but if a real one is less than $120, is it worth getting the real thing? Also, this is my first guitar with a tunomatic bridge. This one...

I keep jumping in every time someone gets on the subject because I think these things are highly under-utilized. Even the shittiest one would be cool to me. Especially if they can do THIS: Can you set a kit so that all pads are on one MIDI channel, and one pad on a different channel? Or...

I know it sounds like spam. It is. My new 3-piece funk band "FUNKOPOLIS" is playing our first gig tonight at Oldfield's on North High Street tonight in Columbus, OH. All new material. New guitars. Very far outside my safety zone. Exciting to be me. If you find yourself in the Capital...

I suppose it could. I'm pretty sure that one of the coils isn't working in one of the pickups in my new crummy guitar. It has 3 wires. White Black and uninsulated ground. I assume I have to disconnect it to test it, right? I have a simple multimeter. Should I measure resistance between...

there's this guy at work, who I've known a while and known to be weird. Don't get the wrong idea. I think weird is good. Today, he said something about having a bunch of old four-tracks. I asked what he played and he said keyboards. When I asked him what kind of stuff he had, he said "Oh...

The point of the other thread was pretty much that you don't NEED any of them, do you? Such is this question I am pondering. I am playing saturday at this halloween party thing. I normally take out the jambolin and use it alone all night, with my strat sitting there with shitty old strings...

I built the guitar that I gig with for one of my bands. I got this idea to make a double neck, so i bought one of those squier minis and another junk guitar for parts. I kinda like the mini as is and I really love the chinese squier strat i bought after i changed out all the crap. These...

I did some googling but am subject to content filtering here at work. I am trying to find something that my old drummer used to call a "MIDI converter". It had 6 or 8 1/4" inputs which you plugged sensors into. When you applied signal to that input, it triggered a midi note that you could...

This guy was a hero of mine. He played up till he died at 82. I don't know if there is reason why they need the money, but I thought maybe someone in pittsburgh would see something worth the drive. The last time I saw Howard, he was playing at the Moose or Legion or something on Jefferson...

This is the one that is mounted to a 4x8 speaker cabinet. Is $500 way too much for one of these? How do you tune them? Do they go out of tune? I always wanted to have one of these in the house in lieu of an acoustic piano. So cool.

No poll. Polls are gay. They keep getting bumped to the top even though no one posted anything. Anyway, I don't like much country. I detest what passes for country these days for sure. I grew up in appalachia, so I always rebelled against it. Now I sort of embrace it - at least the old...

I was wondering what is the common setting for pitch bend range. As a guitar player, I know that most guitar solo type bends are one whole step, and sax players and harmonica players bend even less most of the time. I figured that keyboard guys set theirs to a whole step. But I have been...

Squire mini strat: I always see these in the GC/SA junkmail and played them a couple times. They always played like crap. I liked the novelty aspect since I am kind of a big dude and thought it'd be kinda cute to play out with on a song or 2. Yesterday I was at SA and picked one up. It...

I am messing around with adding some really inappropriate songs to our setlist and was thinking it'd be cool to have some vocoder stuff live. I don't think I've ever seen anyone use a vocoder live - at least not a local band. Anyone ever use one on a gig? I have a Boss SE50 that has a vocoder...

I have a '62 ri strat that I bought in like 1988 that has 100,000 miles on it. I haven't used it much in the past few years because of my gimmick homemade thing, but I am shitcanning the recyclo-caster for a while and need to get my strat sorted out again. I have one issue that I am unsure...

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FARM USE is playing the Voodoo @ 2222 Henderson RD Saturday night 9:00 - NO COVER. MAP

What the hell. My band FARM USE is playing at FATS on Hayden Run Rd Friday night June 2. Link to a google map @ farmuse.us If you can't make it, we are playing saturday June 10 at Voodoo lounge on Henderson. Map forthcoming. We play rock and roll. I front and play lead pickle barrel lid.

I guess I am wondering whether an Epi is worth $750. I got the latest Music123 junk mail and there is this really cool (looking) ES 295 in there. Do they make them in the same factories on the same lines as the $250 les pauls? Or do they have some kind of third world almost custom shop where...