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Guitarzan

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  • Birthday 04/14/1960
  1. I'm a rebel was written by Alex Young who was the eldest brother to none other than George, Malcolm and Angus. I always thought that was pretty dang cool.
  2. I don't consider them in the shadow of ufo and the scorpions. I actually prefer them. I love Udos voice, I wish he was back in instead of doing his own thing. Their last three releases are solid. Mark T. Does a great job on vocals but I still miss udo.
  3. That actually isn't their first album but it certainly is my favorite. Balls to the wall is a very modern album in its messages. Their manager wrote the lyrics, it was awesome. I learned a lot of cool stuff jamming with that release. Imho Their best
  4. I have two former military buddies with ptsd that benefit from marijuana. Up here in Canada we can purchase it at our local liquor store. It was eye opening for me how common it is now when I was waiting in line to enter the store for a bottle of wine. An employee was walking up and down the line asking people something, and every now and then I could see someone leave the line to enter the store . I was confused until she asked me "marijuana or alcohol?" I said alcohol, which she than said ok you can go in. Almost 80% of the line up was for weed! I did not expect that ratio and the age group was not who you would expect, how times have changed.
  5. I'm glad the stigma associated with thc, cbd is going away. As mentioned it isn't lethal. My wife benefits from gummies to aid in sleep and it works wonders. I keep forgetting to take cbd oil regularly as I do have a fairly old body that has been beat from 32 years of factory work. This year I jumped into growing some sativa, and did ok. I do enjoy recreational thc intake but not to a chronic sense. Like having a few beers as opposed to chugging a 40 of rum. So I'm a farmer now lol. Edibles can be good for body pain but when it's homemade it is hard to regulate, I proceed with caution as I don't want to sleep all day. But I have had good results with the occasional chocolate.
  6. Congrats, that's way more complicated than I could deal with. Ha But I'm sure it will be a good way to get lost in time playing with it.
  7. Quite the year, a lot has happened but I forget..lol Seriously we all managed to stay safe, which isn't hard in nowhere Nova Scotia. Even though we are in a rural area I have all my needs in a ten minute radius. No need to hit the shopping metropolis. This fall I had the pleasure of installing a metal roof, only two of us and I'm 61 and crawling around on a roof sure stretches those muscles that haven't moved for awhile. Got her done and now I never need to go up there again. It was hanging over my head for awhile and now I feel a big weight off my shoulders. I went back to work for four months after being retired for 8 months. Good pay and the only negative was a coworker who I had to work with every day. No fun working with a sour angry self centered baby every day. But I'm back out and loving it. Last year was not much different in lifestyle for me, just the masks , vac, and social distancing . But I am anti social anyway ha ha. Having a great time with Jim's Big Fish, we jam twice a week and it's pretty free style. Great bunch of guys, no egos and an awesome drummer. We go direct and all wear headphones. Dual guitars work great as Jim and I have jammed for as long as I have known him, 30 years, we know each other and blend well. We have no genre other than electric guitars doing things. Now as for this year...I have just grabbed a players strat in shell pink , hum sing sing ,tortoise shell pickguard and a roasted maple neck! Which I needed badly to cover the bases of our tunes. So for this year I'm pretty pumped.
  8. Happy belated new year. So far so good
  9. I've been using the mk 2 50 kat as well. We go direct at practice and I'm using as a glorified amp sim . I run it crunchy and dial back my guitar for cleans. It works great and definately cuts through . I've been using the Aria mostly now as it cleans up real nice and sounds nice and stratty. But I must say when I tried out a fly rig recently the guys loved the tones. I do have more options with the kat though. Definately a cool amp with options galore if you use the tone studio.
  10. That's going to be bitchin for sure. I dig teles and would like one as simple as hell , I may some day grab a slick tele from gfs. Who knows. As soon as I really retire ( back on contract) I may get into some kits for fun.
  11. Fender style but stamped saddles. The saddles are probably stamped . I looked in the control cavity and..normal full sized pots. I read that they used top quality stuff at aria in the early years. I didn't expect to find full sized pots though. The buckers are standard open coil with slightly rounded slugs on the slug coil. All screws are turned 90 degrees from the string direction. I wonder if that was done at the factory. I know we tend to do that now but either the owner did that or matsumoku did that detail in 84. Anyhoo it is top notch build and ripe for modding if I choose. All the inazuma models had varied pups. I read they had some with Allen screws like dimarzio, rumour is the designer consulted dimarzio, some high end models came with dimarzio so who knows. I've heard the pickup name mmk45 mentioned in a few aria discussions.
  12. Do any of you know anything about the pickups? Or had experience with aria humbuckers. I haven't tried them loud yet but they sure clean up nice. I'm stripping it down for a setup tonight so I make sure I take pics but it's been awhile since I've posted pics so I'm unsure how I do that.
  13. Something jumped out at me when I was checking out my local music store . Yeah I bought it. A 1984 matsumoku made aria pro two inazuma v. Alder body maple neck with rosewood fretboard. Dual tapable humbuckers and a trem with a big solid block. It's a nice playing super strat. And it was a no brainer..75 bucks!!! Metallic green and no electronic issues . I almost walked by until I checked the trem cavity and seen the big block, I knew it wouldn't have that if it was an entry level aria. Japanese built A lot of my past aquisitions were japanese guitars, which I seem to accidently find here in rural Nova Scotia. My last ibanez was an 86 roadster with the edge original trem and unfinished neck .
  14. Cool axe. I seen on in brown and it was nice. I'm a sucker for a godin
  15. Thanks guys, missed you all. Been a little crazy here with damn near anything. I actually started back on contract at my pre retirement job. 3 months for now. This is the first weekend I haven't been angry at the world. Hey it's all cool. Just life happening..all at once. Lol
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