The Musical Instrument Thread

HecticArt said:
There's some great film from Fenders original factory.
Amazing 1950s Footage From Inside the Fender Factory — Video – Forgotten Guitar
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Those damn Mexicans were stealing jobs from Americans 60 years ago!

I kid.

Those are real craftspeople--cutting bodies and necks by hand, winding pickups manually, sanding and spraying nitrocellulose with no ventilation or masks (the one lady sneezes about 4:54 in). With the knowledge those folks have, they could run a boutique guitar shop today and totally KILL it.

Also, that's some fine single coil strat shimmer in the background.
 
Reverend took Best in Show at NAMM for the Billy Corgan Signature model.
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Have you ever seen any of the videos with Rob Chapman and "The Captain," filmed at Anderton Music in the UK? They do some pretty interesting and occasionally funny comparison videos, reviews, challenges, etc. Chapman's distorted heavy metal wanking gets old, but he's clearly got fast fingers.

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Only a guitar guy will appreciate the technical aspects of Joe Walsh's talk here, but it's very funny nonetheless. He is such a dork, and so burnt. Great player too. It's in six short parts, so you'll need to keep clicking the watch the whole thing.

 
That never should have left the factory.

I did a renovation at a church once, and grain on one of the doors looked looked the devil.
We called the supplier over to take a look. He walked up to it, blinked once, and said we'd have a new door by the end of the week. I had a picture of it, but don't know where it is.
 
So what are you guys up to these days? My blues band is still kicking, in that no one is dead yet...alive and kicking, I should say. We have a gig in June. :roflmao: I think our fearless leader had bigger plans for us than he has the time or organizational skills to accomplish, but that's fine.

Tonight I got to wondering how people piece together pop rock solos. Huey Lewis and the News are coming to town in April (we get all the current acts) and I was noodling around with the intro to "If This Is It." I figured out it was mostly the G major scale in the fourth position, with a few odd notes for creative license.

Do you think these guys like Chris Hayes of the News get these tunes in their head first and then figure them out on their guitars, or noodle around until they find something cool, or both, or what?

Sunday night I was messing around with the riff from "Sanctuary" by the Cult. You can play it high up the neck in one position, or like on the record--melody on the G string with the D droning the whole time. It sounds cooler to play it like the record, but you have to get from the second fret to the 12th in one beat, so there's a little territory to cover. Sort of like this:

 
I saw Huey & Whatnot back in 80 something. I think Robert Cray opened. Cray was the shiz. Huey sounded really good too. It was a tight band, and Chris is a solid guitar player. I think solos come half from imagination, half from trial and error, and half from luck.

We're back to playing every other week again. Mostly trying to get back up to speed on the songs we used to play. A few new ones mixed in, but not many. We're talking about playing a party this summer, but haven't committed yet.
 
When I was a sixth grader, I asked my mom if she'd take me to see Huey Lewis if they came to Roanoke (we lived about 40 miles away in Blacksburg, VA, home of Virginia Tech). Huey came, but mom didn't take me. Now he's coming to our downtown amphitheater and 33 years later, I'm not missing the chance to fulfill a childhood wish.

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