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Well, I believe someone on some other forum referred to it as an Ibanez. I remember it as a sienna toned solid body with a wide dark brown stripe down the center. I thought it looked nice. Thanks, but I do believe there were some who thought that was a good thing. 😉 😎 Later..... Whitefang

Sure, been gone a long time, long enough to think my account was null and void. I thought I had to re-register as a new member and had problems with that. Like being told my username and e-mail was already being used by another member! 😲 Apparently was having a major senior moment(or two). So this morning just tried signing in as if I've never gone away. So now I'm finally back. But I still don't know what all the fuss was about. After all, I got much more grief from other members back then(especially by one called FredC and d=half note) Than I ever gave anyone else. I refused to suffer fools and mostly was giving back as good as I got. Plus a little good natured ribbing which it turns out is seen as "Passive-aggressive" insulting no less. I saw the phrase as a millennial psychobabble oxymoron. But nonetheless, I'll let all that roll off my back and will lay back and wait until I get used to how this site now operates before I engage more actively. And now, a few addresses to a couple of members... LARRYZ--- Glad to be able to get in touch with you again. You've always been a great guy. But one thing has been bothering me since the ban along with the reason why you refused to answer my repeated inquiries as to why you changed your avatar from that nice lookin' Ibanez guitar to a buffalo skull? So how about it? What was up with that? SURFERGIRL-- slight correction. My daughter Jennifer prefers to spell her "short" name J-E-N-N-I (you know, like JIMI?)I used to tease her about it, like calling her "Jenn-eye" or writing her name "Jenn👁️" on letters or birthday/Christmas cards. Stuff that would probably get me banned from this site again. 😉 But enough of that. Good things said about Jim Pate here feels good to read. But nobody mentioned we also knew him by the handle "Doc". When first getting onto his forum I mention that my step brother's step father(his Father of course was my stepfather) was also named Jim Pate and wondered if there was any relation. But I believe it was just coincidence. Especially since that other Jim Pate was always described by my stepbrother as an a$$hole. I've rambled long enough, so I'll be here daily taking in how this place works and getting used to things. Glad to be back Whitefang

Y'know, it gets tiring when supposed intelligent people keep taking things OUT OF CONTEXT. like.... I never said anything against improvisation, only that it HAS no place in a "tribute" band or a classical recital. The only changes ever given a classical orchestral piece is, when a conductor gives his "interpretation", it goes no further than tempo, pause and rest changes that are SO subtle you'd have to be REALLY familiar with the piece to notice. Like for example. Former(and late) music director of the DSO, ANTAL DORATI, although one of my favorite conductors, plays MAHLER'S symphony #1 WAY too slow for my taste. and on the other hand, revered Boston Pops conductor ARTHUR FIEDLER seems to race though most of what he's conducted. Whitefang

OOPS! While rifling through my classicalCDs I ran across THIS one I forgot to mention a bit earlier.... [video:youtube] CAREFUL! More of that "boring" classical music! Whitefang

Restroom graffiti? well...... The best two examples I ever saw had nothing to do with tempo or music. To whit--- "While you're reading this, you're pissing on your foot!" "Napoleon stood here and blew his BONAPARTE!" Oh, and one more..... "Please don't throw cigarette butts in the urinal. They get soggy and hard to light!" Whitefang

Being a blues "freak" since a low single digit age, I have trouble understanding anybody NOT liking the music. What I was joking about was that in your clip, there's a quick second or two showing somebody( can't identify) holding up a WASHBOARD! & BTW--- Not familiar with the CONTI guitar( looked 'em up, and VERY nice!) But the only Conti I'm familiar with are BILL CONTI, the film score composer(including the ROCKY series). Whitefang

I disagree. I was taught and strongly believe that the ultimate goal is to develop your own sound, your own voice. A MUSICIAN should endeavor to sound like himself, not like someone else. My attitude is a direct result of the genres I have chosen to pursue. Jazz and Blues place great emphasis on the improvisational abilities. Pick any Jazz standard and search for the title on YouTube. The results of the search will display dozens of performances, all of which will sound very different from the others. That's MUSICIANSHIP. I would love to sound like Joe Pass, Barney Kessel, Bucky Pizzarelli et. al., but I steal ideas from them and make changes to them in order to reflect my own personal aesthetic. I steal ideas, but I don't copy. "Steal, but don't copy". - Ella Fitzgerald Well, bear in mind Fred, that the discussion is "tribute" bands, which I suppose would include tributes to individual artists. And so then... Who do you suppose would pay good money to see someone who claims to be an ELVIS impersonator only to find this dude comes on stage with a shocking orange MOHAWK haircut, and sings like SATCHMO? And would ELVIS feel honored? I think not. And to go back and address the classical music thing..... Years studied professional symphony orchestra musicians likely DON'T feel playing pieces "as written" is a "waste of time". Much of the classical(if not all) catalog is some of the most difficult and challenging music for any musician to play( and play well) that they strive for the achievement to do "verbatim" well. And another POV I've been a "patron" of The Detroit Symphony Orchestra since '77, with certain personal situations causing me to cease attending concerts in the late '90's( and still the NEEME JARVI tenure). And you can bet the rent that I, and practically ALL those who went to a DSO concert of Beethoven's 9th symphony, preferred to hear Beethoven's 9th! Not somebody's idea of a "salute" to the work( if ya get my drift ) And I have to sheepishly admit that when in the bands I was in, we NEVER did "note for note" either. But it wasn't because we preferred to stretch our "creative legs" But mostly because we weren't GOOD enough to, no matter how hard we tried! Whitefang

And in honor of the "Blues awards" thread too, It's the 109th anniversary of T-BONE WALKER'S birth today! And look how he holds that axe!...... [video:youtube]https://youtu.be/V1xvx0UHa0A Whitefang

Sure, but then you guys aren't CLAIMING to be anybody's "tribute" band, are ya? So don't sweat it. And FRED?---- One isn't "full of themselves" unless they CAN play something "note-for-note" verbatim, and with the same sound(or tone) but refuse to, thinking their version is "better", and not just a "variation on a theme". And the whole NEIL YOUNG thing is subjective. Some think he's "amazing", And others (like me) generally compare him to fingernails on a blackboard. He did a FEW tunes I liked, ("Cinnamon Girl" among them). But not enough on one LP to go running out to the store. Whitefang

Liked the clip Larry... But it made me wonder..... Who's YOUR favorite blues WASHBOARD player? Whitefang

I would HOPE so! And LARRY Posting an OSCAR PETERSON clip is hitting below the BELT! Loved that guy for decades. But more to the point.... Those guys didn't BILL themselves as a "Bach tribute band", did they? And too, WHICH Bach? JOHANN SEBASTIAN? JOHANN CHRISTIAN? JOHANN CHRISTOPH? Or one of his other 12 children? They too, WERE after all, composers. Whitefang

Yeah, I used to enjoy watching Terry spar with Jay Leno whenever he'd show up on the Tonight Show. And I knew you meant the guitar Larry, but I was in another one of those moods! Whitefang

Sure. Classical music wasn't composed as musical guidelines, but intended to be performed verbatim. And another way to look at all this stuff( "note-for-note" v "loosely" covering...)---- 1. Some are so full of themselves they think they can make the song BETTER by doing it more THEIR way... 2. They're actually not GOOD enough to do the song "note-for-note" and assuage their wounded egos by saying their fallen short efforts were intended( like Pee-Wee Herman claiming, "I meant to do that!" ) Plus, I don't think any classical pianist of healthy mind would purposely change the notes around in Rachmaninoff's 3rd in the presumption they can make it better. Whitefang

Wasn't broadcast 'round here either. Heh.... Didn't even know there WAS a "Blues award". Whitefang

Never(yet) saw that ad, but to address one part of your info..... When in the shower, most guys find that the moisture in the air from the steam, etc. has NO effect on their "woody"! Whitefang

Well sure... Those Indian casinos here get a LOT of people into those shows featuring washed-up '70's AOR bands! Whitefang

Yep! Whitefang

I remember back in the '70's me and some guys were in a friend's boat in the middle of the Detroit river 'bout where Cobo Arena is the night TED NUGENT was playing inside. And we heard him CLEAR OUT THERE! Now, there was NO need for that! Sure, you want your music to be heard, but wouldn't you like for your audience to be comfortable at the same time? Whitefang

OCD is right Skip. The guy taking the photo probably only had the axe leaning against the tree for a few moments longer than it ook to snap the photo( likely 1/60th of a second). And I don't typically lean my guitars against anything without consideration for the neck. Like if a wall, the guitar is facing said wall, and if( and there have been times) against the sofa, I stand it high enough that not much reliance is ON the neck. And too.... Do those guys that complained typically PITCH A TENT to sit in when playing their guitars out of doors? Or don't they ever play them outdoors? Whitefang

With no added comment, all I can say is I saw one that DID beep demonstrated at Marshall's Music in Allen Park, MI 'bout 20 or so years ago. Whitefang

Today would have been the 85th birthday of synth pioneer ROBERT MOOG. [video:youtube] Whitefang

There wasn't that much info in your post elsewhere, so it does appear there's rooms in that monstrosity. And, is that a LES PAUL it's modeled after? Why not a STRAT? And do they have to pay GIBSON something for the use of the design? And are the beds( or the pool) PICK shaped? And will the restaurants give you a choice in gauge of string cheese, or what? All KINDS of questions need to be answered! Whitefang

I agree. When I saw one advertised somewhere, my first thought was... "Can you change the key of the beep to the key you're practicing in so as to eliminate another distraction?" The one that flashes a light would seem to me also, just as distracting. @Larry---- An online "mechanical" metronome isn't really all THAT "mechanical", is it? Whitefang

Why? We're already dealing with a world with no ALLMAN BROTHERS! Anyway.... And a cue from my just posted entry in "Tribute Bands",..... Drummer Louis Hayes heads up an ensemble he calls The Cannonball Adderly LEGACY band. The band plays a lot of Cannonball's known pieces and arrangements, and too, includes a few Cannonball alumnus, and surely there's at least a COUPLE of guys left from the original Allman Brothers band to put together a "legacy" band, eh? Whitefang

Here's another "concept", if you will....... Jazz drummer LOUIS HAYES heads up an ensemble he calls "The Cannonball Adderly Legacy Band". Their playlist consists of tunes made popular by the late Cannonball, his arrangements and such, and the band includes a few alumni of Adderly's bands. Others might just call it a "tribute" band, but I thought the use of "legacy"(since whom they're "tributing" is dead.) a bit clever and more respectful. Whitefang