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  1. Sometimes you just need a break I dropped ALL music from my life for awhile back in the early 90's. I had just gone through a bad breakup with my then-girlfriend and got completely burned out on everything musical (att, I was a full-time college student & music major at a podunk school in the middle of nowhere). I put down my trumpet (primary instrument at the time), packed up my guitars, and moved to Austin. It was a couple of years before I played the guitar again and 6 or 7 until I so much as touched the trumpet.
  2. ...we have a home-made stand made from painted PVC pipe we can run it from. this. Our drummer built a pvc frame that our banner (10x4) lives in. We can either hang it from a truss or stand it up in front of/ around the stage. With the frame around it, it's nice & legible from just about anywhere in the bar, but can be especially fun trying to get in/out of the van on windy nights, though
  3. Here are a few 'unique' or 'rare' guitars that I almost purchased/ wanted to buy at one time: Epiphone Spotlight Yamaha Pacifica 302 (tele)
  4. As a follow up to this, the guitars have been taken off the Amazon storefront. http://www.amazon.com/gp/shops/storefront/index.html?ie=UTF8&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&sellerID=AKOEJIQC3X57D KICKASS! Back to the deals: Amazon has some pretty good deals on white active EMGs: 89 - $68 89R - $75 SAV - $50
  5. Um...I'm a woman. Dammit! Something told me as soon as I posted that comment that I was wrong.... I KNEW that I had seen you post that you were a girl. My apologies.
  6. I also reported it to Ibanez, PRS, Rickenbacker and Martin. I'll call Taylor and Fender when they open. They have the legal teams to deal with it. I already got a response from an actual person (as opposed to a mailbot) at Martin. PunkKitty bringin the smackdown on the scammers! :cop: Well done!
  7. Screw reporting it to Amazon. I reported it to Gibson. Let their legal team deal with it. As did I Back OT: Amazon has a BC Rich Mockingbird Archtop marked down to $390.... $599 at MF [edit]Act fast: there's only 2 in stock as of this posting, so it'll go back to regular price as soon as one is bought.
  8. Similarly for the other guitar, it says it's from Ibanez, list price is $3,466.65, and everything on that link looks likes it's the real deal at the bargain price of $1050. I noticed that douchebag's listing for the Ibby a week or so ago. How did you contact Amazon re: these obvious counterfeits?
  9. I my Mock Special, & the Masterpiece Mockingbird is no slouch either: That being said, are you sure that she got the Special and not the Masterpiece? The reason I ask is that the going price for the Special is closer to $700 (though I scored mine on Amazon for under $400 ). Also, I'm not sure, but I think that the Special isn't available in the Dragon's Blood finish. There are several rather glaring differences between the two: the special is neck-through, has an ebony fretboard, cloud inlays, & Rockfield pickups whereas the Masterpiece is bolt-on, rosewood fretboard (24-fret, though), block inlays, & BC Rich p'ups. Anyways, the average retail prices that I've seen for them go as follows: Masterpiece: $300-400 Special/ Special X: $600-750 Hope that helps [edit] I re-read your post and realize that yours is a neck-though.... definitely NOT a Masterpiece & absolutely a good score at $400
  10. Never stolen a guitar (or anything, for that matter). However, I was once given what I'm nearly 100% sure was a stolen guitar. It all started when my brother took his 80's Kramer superstrat to a pawn shop & traded it for a MIJ Fender Strat with a shark decal covering the serial number. A short time later, he came to me with the Strat saying that he wanted to give it to me (I think he was afraid that either 1) his ex-wife would trash it or 2) he'd be tempted to pawn it for drug $$$). Anyways, I agreed to take it off of his hands & promptly peeled off the shark sticker only to find that the s/n had been completely gouged off... hooray, instant bad mojo! I tore it completely apart, stripped the finish off the body, stained it, added a Wilkinson bridge, & bought a Carvin neck for it. No matter what I did to it, though, it NEVER played quite right. Eventually, I gave it to another one of my brothers who still has it & enjoys it, but doesn't play all that often anymore. Here's what it looks like now: Ironically, I put the Fender neck onto a 'junk' guitar that I assembled from leftover parts of various projects & it plays better than the Strat :poke: ... ended up giving this one away to a friend for his kid to learn on: *if you look closely, you can see where the serial # is supposed to be.
  11. OP - I turned 46 last week. I grew up on classic Dio, Priest, Maiden, Accept, VH, Sabbath and AC-DC with Bon Scott. I love that stuff. It's on constant rotation on my MP3 player. However my listening pleasure has grown with age. I listen to 70's funk, Prince, Mike Stern, Johnny Winter, Frank Marino, Electric and acoustic blues. It's a heady mix of genres. I don't play metal anymore. Not because I can't or I worry about my image. I play what I hear in my head. These days its stuff like Johnny Winter, Frank Marino and Eric Clapton. I actually used to worry that my metal friends would think I sold out. LOL!! Play what you love. The rest will fall in place. Though I'm ~9 years younger, my early experiences are pretty much the same as yours (I have four older brothers who helped shape my early musical tastes... thankfully). However, I broadened my musical horizons early on by picking up the trumpet. That got me into a lot of jazz, blues, and classical music that I otherwise wouldn't have listened to. Lately, I've even been getting into chicken pickin' country stuff. I play all sorts of music, but I still play metal as well m/... the riffs from "The Hellion" into "Electric Eye" get my blood pumping every time. As for growing old gracefully, here are some of my gigging guitars: I regularly play all of these (minus the red mini-v... that belongs to my kid) in my classic rock cover band & the audience LOVES it! Why the hell would I want to 'grow up'?!?!
  12. The original pickups are easy: They technically have two wires with one running inside of the other. The baided silver part is the ground wire and the black insulated wire running inside of it is the hot. Unsolder both of those contacts (back of volume pot (ground) and terminal 3 (hot)) and connect up the P90s like dcooper830 said and you should be all set. [edit] you beat me to it, dcooper830.
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