This is my first visit so please bear with me on any goofs I make finding my way around.

Newbie,

looks like yr post came through ok, I am a newbie running on a couple years now haha. This is a good place to hangout, enjoy

Hello Bill,

I'm a Baton Rouge/New Orleans guy (really in the Bayou). Welcome.

Hey, yeah, welcome to the GPF, Bill! Cool avatar!

Welcome aboard, Bill. It's a good place to be.

Glad to have ya!

Welcome aboard the SS GP Bill, yea cool avatar.

Hi there. Grab a beer and list your gear.

My car broke down and it's going to cost $1500 to fix! now ..I feel better.

Custom Shop Strat
Ibanez George Benson 100
Alverez Yari Classical electric
Fender Folk
Fender fretless Jzz bass
Rosas Spanish Classical
Marshall AVT 275
Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe
Roland EXR keyboard

Be back in a little while I just got a call to come pick up my car. Thanks for the welcome! I didn't expect that.

The timing on this couldn't be worse. No more brownies, pies, or extras for a while.

My sister lives in Robert. Hidden Oaks Campground. Ever been there?

Ouch! Sorry about your car and the bill...

Glad you've got some nice axes to woodshed on while it's being fixed!

Ibanez George Benson 100, Alverez Yari Classical electric, Fender fretless Jazz Bass- some particularly nice axes there!

I actually go from one to the next doing warm-ups for that particular guitar/bass/keys every morning. It takes me 1 1/2 hours but I do it religiously everyday. The rest of the day I work on repertoire as I get the chance. Being a guitar player I always want another one. I'd like to get a vintage SG but I could use a guitar with a reliable tremolo. My strat goes out of tune too easy.

Maybe your Strat could use a little set-up and lube? Perhaps a few new parts, maybe even some Graph-Tech parts?

I see these fixed bridges like the Satriani Ibanez that looks practical. I watched and talked to Tommy Bolan at a demo for Boss effects about his guitar. Forgive my ignorance here, Floyd Rose? A fixed bridge may be what I need.

Welcome aboard Bayou....

I've been through it, or close, a million times... heading east and back along I-12.

Wow, when was that? Tommy is one of my all-time favorite guitarists. Shame he died that way.



A Floyd Rose is a tremolo bridge with a locking nut and string locks at the bridge. The idea is that it eliminates the possibility of slack storage behind the nut or the bridge saddles. It works very well, but a lot of folks don't care for the tone they impart.

Is that what you mean by a fixed bridge? Satriani uses Ibanez's version of a Floyd Rose bridge...

I'm of the opinion that a lot more productive, in-tune miles can be gotten out of stock- or partly stock- Strat trems, with proper set-up, some lubrication, and attention to playing 'em in a way that pulls slack back from behind the places where it catches. You don't always have to route out a Strat for a Floyd or Kahler or God knows what just to enjoy the trem!

Graph Tech (or other brands of slippery) composite saddles, nuts, and string-trees (the little retainers behind the nut) can help, and so can stabilizers (goes in like an extra trem-spring, in the middle, and provides a pre-set neutral position that's enforced by two-way springs) like the TremSetter from HipShot, and others.

He means Tommy Bolan

The James Gang/Deep Purple/Billy Cobham/solo artist is Bolin.