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Here's a bit of something - a Les Paul through a Boss ME-25.

Anton, your Rhodes parts remind me a bit of a couple of albums that really influenced me in the early days...

Here's another less "reckless" version.

Red Clay would be a good one. I used to play that with a trumpet player who, along with myself, is a big Freddie Hubbard fan.

nice - I like the lava lamp too

 

I don't think I've ever heard you play with such reckless abandon! I dig it!

I had just returned home from a musical I was involved in with 20 nine to twelve year old children. We did a scaled down version of "Little Shop of Horrors" where I played piano and acoustic guitar as the support for the kids singing and interlude music between scenes.

We spent a week at a wilderness camp and put the whole thing together in five days. Our local opera singer was the singing and drama coach and it was amazing to see the transformation as they learned their parts and started singing with confidence.

However, being in such close quarters with twenty screaming pre teens (can we have everything louder than everything else?) certainly primed me up for some "reckless abandon" when I got home so I was delighted to see that you had posted a jam. It was just what I needed.

I still think it is senseless whammy bar wankery - at least for the most part.

Here's a bit of senseless whammy bar wankery.

Are you in the Vancouver area as well?

I called around today and nobody here stocks the pacifica at all (vancouver) so I definitely won't be able to check one out in person beforehand unfortunately.

http://www.westcoastguitarsvancouver.com/#!yamaha/cqng

It's not the guitar - it's the player...

[video=youtube;zBX7LBiYn5U]

Some guitars work for some players.

I think the price of a Les Paul has a lot more to do with marketing and what people are willing to pay than it has to do with what it costs to build them.

The Studios from the early 90s were every bit a Les Paul but they were "dumbed down" in order for Gibson to be able to sell them a bit cheaper to compete with other brand but not with their own product.

The first time I picked one up I almost put it through the ceiling.

that must be really loud when it is turned all the way up like this

I wouldn't let something like that be the deciding factor in what you decide to do with something like this

if it were me, i'd just choose another amp for that guitar

maybe the pickups/guitar are not as much of a contributor to the feedback problem as you may think

microphonic tubes in your amp may be contributing as well and if you change (or even just switch around) some of the preamp tubes you may greatly reduce the problem

in the OP you stated that you don't have the problem with your strat so that means it must be the PRS but since, using the same logic, you didn't have the problem with the other amp (Marshall?) then maybe the amp is a factor too

consider that the output of the PRS is much greater than that of the strat so the combination of potentially microphonic tubes and high gain pickups may be the issue

you can test your tubes for microphonics by gently tapping them with a wooden pencil (use the eraser if it has one) and listening for a ringing sound through the speaker - sometimes, if the tubes are really microphonic, you can hear the ring just by tapping on the front panel

I'll see what sort of options I can find for you but if you decide the guitar just doesn't work for you anymore...

Why are there no Buddhist blues guitar players?

I'm sorry. I'll try to be more careful next time.

It's not so difficult once you start doing it and it will come back to you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgHHD8dxLc

Why all the expressions of hate?

If you don't like the guy or his music, don't pay any attention to it.

All of this attention being paid to something someone does not like is IMO defeating the purpose of music.

Has anybody here played with Herbie Hancock?

[video=youtube;JAZXEB-2IfA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL50B6D6C813791427&v=JAZXEB-2IfA&feature=player_detailpage#t=66s

skip ahead to 2:00 min in if you are impatient

One of my students is 17 and he's quickly becoming a fine guitarist.

He likes John Mayer - through Mayer he discovered Hendrix.

[video=youtube;-i__R__umCA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i__R__umCA

We live in a marketing world.

Fender is a marketing company.

John Mayer is a marketable product.

The fact that he is actually a good guitar player seems secondary in this marketing world and in this thread.

Ritchie Blackmore has been described as "difficult" but that does not stop people from listening to and enjoying his guitar playing. Why should Mayer be treated any different?

It would work for me. I use a Yamaha DG80 and run the speaker emulated DI into the PA and back through the monitors. The DG80 has separate volume controls for the line out and for the speaker out so, sometimes I will just use the DI and it sounds fine.

For the gig mentioned in the OP the Yamaha DG1000 would be perfect for me because it would be way easier than carrying the DG80 (55 lbs) around.

He's seventeen and a natural guitar player. While all his friends are going for as much gain as they can with their pointy guitars he just goes for that sparkling clean strat sound and plays great blues and jazz with the neck pickup. He found Hendrix through John Mayer and currently listens to Bob Marley more than anything else.

He's beginning to write his own stuff and I can't think of a better place for the big old Super. It's much easier for him to carry it around than it was for me.

The ultralinear SF line gets a bad rap but I like them. I inherited a 70 watt Super Reverb that needed repair and, once it was fixed up and adjusted it sounded great. Incredibly clean and very powerful and responsive. It takes pedals well and there are many great overdrives to choose from these days.

One of my young students really appreciates Fender clean sounds and his MIM strat sounded so good through the monster that I gave it to him. (I took it to a few gigs and realized that I'm to old to be lugging a Super around any more - I have a '73 Princeton Reverb that works really well with a SM57).