desertbluesman

I have a Strat clone with Fender Vintage Noiseless pickups in it. That guitar does sound a bit brighter than the hum-bucking guitars I own. (all of my guitars have the same scale 25-1/2")

D'Addario XL 110's, 010-.046, Been using them for many many years, started in the mid 80's and perhaps before that even. I was using the Guitar To MIDI stuff back then and someone recommended them to me for better tracking. I have liked them ever since.

Congratulations to the family surfergirl. I admire anything that helps out with the planets good health.

Good luck with the new pedal Winston. Happy New Gear Day.

I pretty much stay away from You Tube vids and documentaries. I only watch a little comedy on the TV, Netflix, and Prime. Pretty much the rest of TV including most documentaries bores the heck outta me. Secondly I only have over the air TV, no cable, no sattelite, I do not have AXS TV whatever that is.

Plus one amigo.........

I remember Gorilla amps, but I have been an all tube guy since 1966 with a very few forays into modeling (I once had 4 modelers at different times, as well as a tube modeling amp hybrid) So I never tried the Gorillas, if no tubes I ain't into it. I understand that the new modelers and profilers are wonderful tools, but I use 3 sounds, clean, tube overdrive stomps, and reverb pedals, I use the reverb pedals in both my clean and overdrive sounds, so I have no need of $1500+. modelers or profilers.

Other than a few bands that I was in back in the day, I always play solo myself. I learned a long time ago that once I created a backing track, that-that BT always shows up on time, it does what I ask it to do without any bitchin or arguments, and it is always in tune and on time. However that said, I surely liked playing with inspiring musicians, I just could never find others who were not argumentative or bossy. I tried to insert some of my originals in the set lists, but no one ever wanted to take the time to learn them. So I opted for machines (recording computers and play back machines) as my band mates, not quite inspiring but like I said above the machines are always in tune and on time.

OT; but here goes anyways. You are a Filipina surfergirl? My eldest son is married to a Filipina doctor who still lives in the Philippines, and he lives in New Jersey, both commute back and forth several times a year for a month or 6 weeks each, and then back home they go. My kiddo wants to live over there, but has to wait about 7 years so he can collect his full social security, which because of the money he has earned and paid taxes on is huge. She would live in the USA but she tried to be certified as a Doctor and could not pass the certification and get a residency in the USA for some reason. And she wants to practice medicine so she moved back to The Philippines after living in New Jersey for years with him.

Yeah I like all three Larryz, at first Clapton was my favorite, then later on Jimi was my favorite, and even later on Beckola took the lead in my personal taste category, and still holds a slight lead over Clapton, both are still alive. The only reason Clapton fell outta the top spot in my humble opinion is; he ain't with the Cream anymore, and that for me was the best of his efforts, maybe not in his mind, but he was God back then, later on he became mortal again, and his music became a lot less full of fire, technically better maybe but not quite up to what he did on Wheels Of Fire. Of course Bruce and Baker did a lot of trying to outdo each other, and that tension probably added a big bunch of fire to Eric's playing. Because when the musicians you are with are great, a player who associate with great players always excels because the others are inspirational, and the muse takes over and great stuff ensues.

Danny was an amazing craftsmen on guitar. He amazed me every time I saw him on the tube and you-tube.

Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce fought like cats and dogs, and they hated each other with a passion, maybe that was the reason they did some amazing music, They got more out of 3 instruments than any other band in their day. Of course he was considered an a-hole by some folks, however I did not have to deal with him personally. I did watch a Netflix on him a bunch of months ago, and I could see how he would be called an a-hole, and I would not have liked to work with someone like that, but he sure added a bunch to Creams power, and for that I can admire his contribution to the late 60's musical excellence.

RIP Ginger Baker! Drummer of one of my all time favorite bands, The Cream, they were something else.........

I have Fender Vintage noiseless pickups in my Agile Strat Clone, I like them, I get very decent sound out of them. Good choice.

+1 on Caev's comment above

Tommy is one monster player......

Stewart MacDonald's sells a set of nut files. Check them out https://www.stewmac.com/SiteSearch/?search=nut%20slotting%20files

Neat amigo. Very well presented.

First time I ever heard of that guy, wonderful player according to those vids above. Nice heads up.......

I met Tal one day at Phil Petillo's guitar repair shop in when it was in Brick Township New Jersey, later Phil moved his shop and home to Ocean NJ. This was probably in the late 80's. Anyways I asked Tal if his fingers ever caught up to his head, and it took a moment, then he got the drift as to what I was asking, and he said no. That he could not really reach everything he imagined. So I thanked him and shook hands with him, and he had the biggest hands and the longest fingers I ever saw on a guitar player, that is probably how he could spread 6 frets down low to get those strange and original sounding chords he used and was famous for. He actually made his living painting art work and names on yachts. He lived somewhere near Sea Bright, N.J. I think his wife was wealthy in her own right as well, at least I seem to recall Phil telling me that.

RIP Beverly "Guitar" Watkins

+1 Absolutely on Chet and Jerry. Those guys were the most amazing players. The only fan club I ever joined was the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society. He just floored me with his playing. Jerry Reed also, one smokin picker.

The leads were guitar to MIDI, I used a Roland GM 70 to trigger 4 synths 2 Roland D 550's (their first digital synth in a rack mount) A Roland MKS 20 (I think) piano module, and Yamaha TX 802 for the bass parts. I also used a Roland Drum module for the drums and I beat the drums into the sequencer with a Roland Octopad. I did the basses with a MIDI Keyboard and some kind of bass synth I forget what them name of it was, maybe an Oberhiem Matrix 6R. It was just the leads on Android that I Played in live, I sequenced the whole mess with the MOTU Performer 3 a MIDI only sequencer. I shot everything into the sequencer, the guitar parts live played into the sequencer, the rest step timed in, then I shot the whole mess into a C-Cassette all at once, I never had a multi tack audio file, this was a bit before digital recording was accessible to those without a multi-track digital recorder (Probably a hundred grand back in those days). I still have the mIdi file on floppy somewhere (maybe), however I used a Macintosh II (the first color mac) to record that and I now use Windows computers so I have no way to read that disk anymore.

I always admired all three of those guys in the initial thread starter above. I do not think they are underrated at all. In fact I listened to all three a bunch. I do think Steve Morse from back in the Dixie Dregs days was always overlooked by the mainstream. The Dregs as a whole were underrated until you had the fortune to listen to them. I never heard of them until after they broke up. On a lark, I bought Industry Standard, and some of those songs just slay me for the ineradicable technique and arrangements, the whole band were master musicians.

The modelers are not useless, not useless at all. I used them to great effect back in the day (Probably 10 years ago) I just decided that it was enough for my experimentation. When I first started recording I used them to great effect on many things back in my analog studio days I had a big bunch of guitar effects, rack mounts full of fully pro gear. Including guitar to MIDI, which went into 4 synths at once. Here is a sample of that Guitar To Midi Thing I did back in the late 80's https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=2022996 My stage name on Soundclick is Harvey Cedars.