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guitarbuddha -> RE: Volume and lowering the action (Nov. 17 2007 16:59:37)
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Anders I respect your opinion on guitars,also your knowledge on their construction and maintenance clearly exceeds mine by several orders of magnitude. I also know that you are a capable and experienced guitar player.
You're not going to like the rest but YOU SET THE TONE.
The Les Paul sounded bad mostly because the strings were SITTING ON TOP OF of the first fret, rendering it unsuitable for open string playing. It was set up badly YOU WOULD CERTAINLY AGREE. I have a similar problem on my Ibanez destroyer but find it suitable for shredding whenever I feel the urge (almost never but I still like to hear it done well -see the Greg Howe I posted) but it is useless for thrashy rhythm playing no matter how much distortion I use because the pitch is too indistinct it needs repaired . However, oddly enough my pupil who owned the les Paul in question was a sixty something exmechanic WANTED TO PLAY JAZZ and he bought a Les Paul because of the name Les Paul, the Jazz player and innovator and electronics innovator who designed it. The set up was not his decision it was the shops, it was done poorly (and I HAVE had an instrument which was set up well for HM and know how it should feel). Shops know that particulary for electric guitars people buy mostly on playability and looks, I am not morally or 'ethically' opposed to this style of setup but if it is done badly then the guitar neither plays nore sounds good. I feel that I could have done him better justice as a teacher if I had known more about jazz and how to teach it.
Being unashamed of playing classical does not make me prejudiced against flamenco or flamenco guitars or any other style of music. However being unashamed of playing classical DOES inspire responses like yours. Here are a list of your prejudices (defined as assumptions that you have made about me for the purposes of your last post but which are false.)
1. I do not understand or appreciate HM, not true I should know, my party piece use to be shredding with one hand whilst chugging a litre of cidre. I had an Ibanez Destroyer II (still have it but it is neglected) with a DiMarzio super distortion pick up in bridge position. Real loud it sounded like Randy Rhoads (pre compression and EQ, the raw sound on the tribute album).
2. I would not like a guitar with a Jerez style set up. Wrong but I do not want to ONLY have a guitar like this.
3. I would presume to criticise a player whose playing is working, no I critise too much but only when I think something isn't working. I watched that Tomatito video that was posted of him playing Pas la pimpi and liked very much the sound and recording style. Is this the sound you are talking about? If so let me correct you. I love it, would I tell him to play differently no I wouldn't. Would I want this guitar YES, could I afford it NO, would I want it as my ONLY guitar, no I do not think that I could play slow Bach well on it, maybe some people could but not me.
4. You seemed to have forgotten,although I have not, the thread about hybrid guitars of which you were a substantial contributor. If I had mentioned that I could only afford one guitar and that that guitar would need to be a hybrid (actually that is what I did ) would you still have made some prejudiced ( but terribly 'hip') assumtions to allow you to incorrectly interpret the rest of what I had said ? I want to know where I can try one out here in scotland -or London- I am still hoping for positive advice on this.
5. I spend my whole life playing dolce. Nope.
6. Perhaps most crucially you seem to have assumed that drunken logic is terribly witty. Sorry no.Whatever is frustrating you in you real life or whoever your imaginary image of me ( clearly you haven't the foggiest idea who I actually am ) resembles (maybe a small minded violin teacher?) I am not to blame.
I deserve an apology. BE A MAN. And if you can't... at least notice that the prejudice is all yours.
Whatever I say is transformed by YOUR prejudice to suit your ends (and what noble ends ). Your are tacking on whole levels of flagrant untruth to what I say purely to make it risible. Instead of responding to what you WANT me to mean why not try and work out what I actually DO mean before attacking me, and if you have a point I'll try and take it on the chin (unfortunately I cant do this now because you have been so TOTALLY in error ). And next time you attack me ENJOY it for what it is, it is pointing at the new kid and saying 'he smells', the other kids will love you for it, some (most?) will believe I smell. At least when Koella does this he knows what he is doing.
Anders you know an awful lot, you are a fine craftsman and I have heard nothing but praise for your guitars. I am certain that I would be proud to own one, if it pleased you then there would be much of worth in it. You have wide ranging tastes in music and are clear and aritculate, your posts are generally well considered and enlightening. I am certain that on any subject over a beer you could entertain and delight me with your company. I am sorry that I have responded so vigorously today but I really have had more than enough of this sh@t from people here and am really dissapointed to find it coming from YOU. Your post was out of character and more worryingly your target was predictable . People often don't get me and that is my fault, I am a poor diplomat and use a style of prose which many peopl object to, also I have no talent for jumping on bandwagons. But I get really tired of people trying to convince me that their errors are more valid than reality. I am tired of people thumbing their noses at me from the bandwagon.
Yours FAITHFULLY
D
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PS Please accept my apologies Bahen for obscuring the purpose of your thread.[&o]
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