The biggest improvement in gear over my lifetime would be the profit margins of the gear makers exporting all production to nations who welcome sweat shops and corner cutting on part and build...
I have a complicated relationship with upstrokes. Comes from being told I was playing "le pompe" wrong by some hack gypsy jazz player who had some cred for some reason. Guy was a big dick about it,...
Heh, I made the same mistake as you did. Except I decided to check for snakes under the grass before posting ;)
Personally I do prefer the avant-gardiste look of the National tricone design (but...
Are you implying that there's a continuum here? (In which case surf music really cannot have anything to do with the BeeGees except maybe their jammering :cool:)
Isn't bluegrass often looked...
Very clean 1996 MiniBrute with reverb, 15" speaker and the wonderful (?) sonic circuit. 100 watts, 29 lbs. Everything works as it should, no case damage. $300 plus US shipping. Just trying to...
I started playing around with recording in the 1980s with a 4 track cassette tape unit, the Aria R504. I don't remember how much it cost, but in todays dollars adjusted for inflation I'm sure it was...
Off the top of my head
- Lightweight amps - makes playing around town so much easier.
- Clip on polyphonic tuner
- Wireless dongles (AMAZING for education and pretty nice for just playing around...
This one may be odd, but from 2010 onward, I'd say "YouTube Backing Tracks"
I have my mixing board setup so I can play with YouTube backing tracks. I never get board, there are so many and...
I wouldn't say nobody, but it was less focused. Even now, without cheap goods from China and the rest of Asia, the western world would be a far less wealthy place. Better or worse, I don't know,...
Au contraire friend. Yours is a National Tricone. Mine is a Mule Tricone. Matt Eich builds his tricones like the original tricone designed by the John Dopyera. Same f holes and cover plate as a...
Polytone MiniBrute IV
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