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Guitarzan

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  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
  16. This past year has been pretty crazy. I managed to keep working until I retired in Aug. Before that my mother had a kidney removed, while the wife's grandmother had hip surgery and eventually took a turn for the worse while dealing with that and dementia. She passed away. Retirement made my situation easier with covid protocols. My son had to leave Ontario when the entertainment industry stopped cold. He's now working at my former employer and me being an idiot has gone back for three months.lol My mother and step dad has a rough couple of weeks, Ron had surgery on his kidney the day before mom had cataract surgery which is on top of the early stages of dementia. We took turns staying there with Mom and Ron while they healed but I'm afraid everytime mom gets a procedure done she slips a little. Last night I went to bed early ( I never really do that normally) at 11. I woke in a groggy state hearing concerned voices. My son noticed water shooting from the cold water feed to the water heater. Great, working on a few brain cells I jumped at it wondering why the wife didn't even call for me, she was half asleep and thought I was already gone to work. So when I tried to shut of the water , the handle broke off, great off to the shed for vice grips..got it. Spent a long time looking for a piece of rubber and a pipe clamp for the pinhole in the pipe. Found a suitable piece cut from a pack of rubber washers but couldn't find a clamp anywhere until I remembered I put a quick release on my garden hose , outside I go to remove that from the hose. Still not sure if was going to go small enough , it did, now at 5 am I showered and got ready for work. Went in but tapped out at lunch and came home to sleep. I'm sore from lack off sleep and glad I don't go in until 7am tomorrow. On top of all this my cousin who lives in Philadelphia who had been receiving cancer treatments developed covid and passed away the same week mom and Ron were getting their surgeries. It has been stressing but we're getting through it. On a positive note I seem to have musical diarrhea. I finished my up " anti social media" I only to write two more songs in minutes. I can't seem to stop, the band hasn't played the funk song yet and I'm producing more. Which is nice, really excited about music again. Haven't stopped playing but it wasn't exciting for awhile. Surviving and waiting to retire again.
  17. I understand the thing about yamahas necks. I don't mind the size but there is a difference that makes me wish they would attempt to model a fender neck or a Godin neck. I recently tried a Godin stadium 59. Desert green with stained maple neck and rosewood board.compemsated three barrel bridge , slanted pup selector, seymour duncan 59 in the neck and Godin raging cajon bridge single coil. And the high def revoicer. It was flawless. Played like it was made for me . Perfect nut height perfect setup. I do love me p90 pups. The chime and chunk combo. I like chords, inversions and weird intervals so I love anything that has that and still can be raw.
  18. The janitor, I got locked in the basement
  19. And thanks everyone for the warm welcomes. I remember why I loved it here
  20. I will do lead but I prefer it to be memorable so I like to write the part. The only time I just go for it is if it was a kicker in the fashion of ac/dc. I will go for it then. If I get excited. Otherwise I just feel like I'm being generic. You know like when you pull off a lead and the notes are all correct but it just sounds correct and doesn't take you anywhere special. I have jammed with people who are quite happy to rip but don't hold down the fort enough for me to play over it. I'll give anyone solid tight backing but I don't like players who only play rythym to kill the time until it is their solo. You have to love the whole song not just the orgasm. Oh I do noodle. I come up with tasty licks that way. It's fun. If you heard me " practice" you would think I have attention problems. Lol drives the wife crazy
  21. Are you referring to American Speedster ? They made a 57 chevy tail fin model if I recall
  22. I hear you. I can get so many tones with pick attack , vol and muting. I like mimicking other instruments. Tone is definately in the hands. Good gear allows that but it won't make it alone.
  23. I don't do the recording but since my son is now home with his PC and music production skills I hope to get a freebie. Or have my buds in the band record. Another former coworker has a studio in the upper half of his big ass garage. This pleases me because the way my mind works if I had to do the recording part it would slow down my creativity. Sounds like you work similar to me. I may find a cool riff from and build it. And over time it morphs and twists. Now that I jam these out with the guys interesting things happen . Our drummer was unaware of how a song went that I wrote so I had to change the accents for the tempo he played it at. At first I didn't like it but when I wrote the chorus it was complete . Sometimes I feel like a moron because I can milk totally different tunes from a motif or series of scale tones. Music is so cool. Sometimes I take existing songs and put them in the blender. In other words try to make a riff that conveys both songs. Weird pastime but it is a learning experience for sure. This is for giggles as my bass player Chris and I are usually laughing our butts off. His garage and his sense of humour bring to life some gems. I do write a lot of simpler stuff that is funny and cool. Top secret , something in my pants for you, and welcome to Canada are simple yet cool. I have been finding more cool moves since I started thinking of 7th chords , flat 5ths and chromatics. I would love to do an orchestrated cover of my mom's fave Amazing Grace. Kind of what Brian May would do. It would be cool to jam with you Caev, I like how you think. Lately I don't even care if ever play lead, I feel more in the zone doing textures and orchestrating . Leads are ok and all that but I'll let the other guitar player put on his condiments I'm more into cooking the meal just right.
  24. Mostly my listening this week is Freak Kitchen. A swedish hard rock three piece with a monster guitar player Mattias Eklundh. If you never heard of them you need to check them out. Notable tunes are teargas jazz, speak when spoken to, freak of the week, murder groupie and an awesome cover of a real old tune Goodie Goodie. That's when I'm not digging judas priest firepower which totally rips for a band that has been going for 50 years!
  25. I noticed the body thickness is listed as 13 mm. Ah that's not very thick . The pic shows a thickness of over 40 mm. Must be a typo. 13 mm is like half an inch. Sup wit dat? And what happened to those cool axes they released a few years back?
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