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Why my guitar gently weeps (The death of the electric guitar industry -and why you should care)
Washington Post ^ | 6/22/17 | Geoff Edgers

Posted on 06/22/2017 4:29:03 PM PDT by Drew68

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To: freedomlover

Nobody plays reeeeal guitar anymore, Dad...


161 posted on 06/22/2017 11:01:45 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Who would you recommend I listen to? I love folk and bluegrass.

Thanks!

Ed


162 posted on 06/23/2017 1:23:42 AM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: Noumenon

Thanks!

I’ll check them out.

Ed


163 posted on 06/23/2017 1:46:41 AM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: Bug

Very cool, thanks, Bug!


164 posted on 06/23/2017 1:49:37 AM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: StockJockey

One of my favorite records is Deep Purple and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Simply magnificent!

Ed


165 posted on 06/23/2017 2:10:43 AM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: LS

I saw Steppenwolf in Oregon, amazing show...John Kay was magnificent!

How cool for you to have opened for them!

Ed


166 posted on 06/23/2017 2:34:31 AM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: Drew68

Acoustic pianos are also slowing in sales, but not in China.

So their kids get the discipline and the concentration, especially under the classical canon.


167 posted on 06/23/2017 3:44:12 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Drew68
This is what music used to be:


And these are our "artists" today:

No guitar playing skills required. Just a big mouth and lots of profanity.

168 posted on 06/23/2017 4:26:46 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot
Agreed. I am sick and tired of having crap forced down my throat. Their culture is uninspiring, dark, crass, violent, irredeemable, irresponsible and unworthy of what has been.
169 posted on 06/23/2017 4:32:58 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: All

I thank God I didn’t have Interwebs when I was growing up.
At the age of 14 I picked up a guitar and it instantly became one of the great loves of my life.
There were many summer nights I fell asleep with it in my arms only to be awakened by feedback from the amp and the scratchy sound of a needle that had reached the end of the record I was trying to learn.

I was one of those lucky devils (maybe not) who spent most of the 80’s with long hair, small waist and an axe to grind (heh) and was able to get most of the wild out of my soul before old age crept in.

I do find it funny that most of my metal-head/rocker friends have become quite Conservative in our old age despite the Hell-raising we engaged in!


170 posted on 06/23/2017 6:10:21 AM PDT by Maverick68 (T)
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To: BradyLS

Sometime in the middle of 2011, the EPA or some derivative thereof raided Gibson’s Nashville factory and confiscated all the rosewood claiming it was endangered or protected species or some such crap. The rosewood was intended to be used for making the fretboards. Of course the Chinese are the largest consumers of rosewood because they just love furniture made out of it. How many Gibson fretboards could be made from the wood needed for one rosewood dining room table or “China” cabinet? The upshot for Gibson was that in order to finish the instruments in the production schedule, they had to substitute another wood and chose “Torrified Maple” which was just maple that was baked to a darker finish. Most all instruments affected were the bottom end Les Pauls. Last winter I had a Jones for a P-90 guitar and there was a nice looking 2011 Studio in Honeyburst at a local used shop that I saw on their website. I went to the shop to play it and loved the neck shape, the pickups, the tone and volume controls and the light weight. But something was off about the feel of the fretboard which looked like rosewood but felt rough like unsanded barn siding. I asked the kid at the counter and he said it was rosewood. I borrowed their magnifying glass and damned if it wasn’t baked maple. A total deal killer. I wrote down the serial number of that guitar and got the date of manufacture info from a website and sure enough it was dated October of 2011. A couple of months after the raid. If they would have knocked a couple of hundred off the price, I would have bought it and taken it to a local luthier guru and had the board replaced with rosewood or, my favorite, ebony.


171 posted on 06/23/2017 6:23:39 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: BradyLS

Yup. Last night I spent the evening testing a hotplate to see if it would be hot enough to heat a bullet mould to 450 degrees.

Nope. Back to the drawing board. Had a blast.


172 posted on 06/23/2017 6:29:54 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: Drew68

Backing bands for Rap, Hip Hop and pop don’t offer a guitarist opportunity for a unique sound meaning it doesn’t matter if one is playing a cheap mexican made Fender or a custom Gibson. It all sounds the same—crap.


173 posted on 06/23/2017 6:38:00 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Hack-proof tagline.)
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To: noiseman

” Phil Keaggy”

I watched Phil Keaggy do a workshop at a church years ago.

The experience was so overwhelming that my immediate response was to want to throw my guitars in the trash and never play again.

No one could ever be that good.


174 posted on 06/23/2017 6:57:27 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Hack-proof tagline.)
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To: Skooz

“Jaw dropping. The man is just impossibly good.”

Indeed. Mind blowingly good.


175 posted on 06/23/2017 7:01:17 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Hack-proof tagline.)
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To: Phillyred
No one plays or sounds like Eddie.

Also true if you are talking about this Eddy.

176 posted on 06/23/2017 7:18:19 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Sir_Ed

They were on their reunion tour 76, and we were kind of dismissive, but they were tight and very pro and had a great show.


177 posted on 06/23/2017 7:59:53 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Gay State Conservative
All the music I'll need for the rest of my life has already been recorded.Thousands and thousands of recordings...rock,pop,folk,country,instrumental,"easy listening",classical.Music from the 50's...60's...70's...80's,etc.Even a few from *this* decade.

On my computer, I have 17,345 songs with a total playing time of 46 days 18 hours, 5 minutes. Everything from old blues, to big band, to 'classic' rock, to modern alternative. If I want to, I can pretty much spend all day listening to nothing but songs that are exactly 3:33 in length. There's still plenty of new music being produced, if you're willing to slog through dreck, you can find some groups that are really producing some fine stuff.

What ticks me off is that modern copyright law has pretty much done away with the concept of the public domain. By now, the vast majority of my music should be in the public domain. Dark Side of the Moon is 45 years old! The entirety of the Beatles catalog should be in the public domain by now. It's sad that we've let our government become the best that Disney's money can buy.

178 posted on 06/23/2017 8:18:48 AM PDT by zeugma (The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
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To: zeugma
On my computer, I have 17,345 songs with a total playing time of 46 days 18 hours...

Well,you've got me beat.About 15 years ago I discovered CD-Rs (I'm a computer dunce).I also discovered that our regional library district allows you to search their huge collection by keyword,etc.

As a result I was able to amass a collection of about 5,500 songs...about 90% of which are from the 50's (my parents' music,some of which I love) and the 60's (my generation).It took a while...and involved a number of visits to various libraries in my area.

179 posted on 06/23/2017 8:50:49 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

180 posted on 06/23/2017 8:53:28 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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