Etienne Rambert

I want.

I really WANT one of these.

(Emphasis added by me) Chris Loeffler wrote: “I don't see the guitar disappearing from the lexicon of modern AMERICAN music anytime soon, †Not everyone lives in the USA. So what is going on in the rest of the world - for example - the high-growth markets in Asia? How much appeal does electric-guitar centered-music have today in India, Japan, S. Korea, Indonesia? How about West Africa & Latin America? Do Marshal stacks & Strats still have futures in those places too? I don't have sales figures. Maybe you do. From what I've seen & heard in my travels, the prominence of the electric guitar has receded internationally. Kids listening to radio are not transfixed by guitar solos so much as by digital prestiditgitatation of vocals on the airwaves. Synths & DJ's are becoming dominant in many parts of the world outside electric guitar-centric North America & some of retro-movements like Rockabilly in UK & EU. (2. Steel string acoustic guitars are still popular for singer-songwriters in Asia. But the electric guitar & its accoutrements - if they are on stage at all - are just one more instrument in the band. (3, The better synths today offer some realistic samples of electric guitars. It is more difficult to find a synth that can fake a strum rhythm on a steel-string acoustic.

Really good. Thanks.

Great article. I'm glad to hear about this. I've been using MIDI since before the GM1 standard was established. It rarely gets the credit it's due. I saw in the late 80's that MIDI could be the most liberating technology in the history of music. IMO, it has lived up to the hype. So I'm always happy to hear musicians give MIDI the short shrift.

I don't find this design visually appealing. I am seriously looking at the offset 2014 model though. Online retailers are blowing them out at $799 to $899 - with case. That is a huge bargain for a new US-made Gibson.

Censorship is a growing problem. The censors should be rounded up, tortured and shot. Likewise those whom they would censor should also be rounded up and shot. But I do not recommending torturing them. It's against the law and it reflects badly on a compassionate society. In fact, the best solution to this very difficult and sensitive problem might be to arrest and execute everyone. It would be a way to make a clean break. A new broom sweeps clean you know....The logistics and little details, the who's, the how's, the when's, and where's, can be worked out after we've agreed on the plan above.

Every I bought a lower-priced T last month. Everybody from my local repair guy to the vendor thought the T was the better choice in my case. I wanted to get the HP model. But I took their advice. I think in the Faded, Studio and Tribute line, the upgrade to HP is worth the money. In the higher-end LP's - I would stick w/T.

I want.

I'll be watching the prices of US-made Ovations, new & used. I've been wanting one.

All those people rickrolled? And they paid good money for it too. Isn't that a crime?

I endorse Zager guitars. And I have come to praise them, not vilify them. Chew on this Mr.Fret Fiend: -------- "In the year 4545 You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes You won't find a thing to chew Nobody's gonna look at you..." ---- They won't be looking at you because they won't have eyes Fret Fiend. But even so, that Zager guitar warranty will still be good. Mr. Zager himself will be there to back it up. How far out into the eons will your Martin carry you Fret Fiend? Not very damned far I'd bet. But Denny Zager will be right there, taking care of his sightless, toothless customers. How many million selling records did Christian Fredrich Martin have? Not even one. So I rest my case.

Awesome! What else?No company -none - zero - can match Zager's warranty until the year 2525...or is it 3510? Whatever, that's a hell of a good warranty.

I don't have much time for music anymore. I'm in the gumbo trade. But I still dabble. cE_5gCMqrH4

New apartment - new gear arrangement.

Wow TB. LOVE that F47! Love it! What a dream guitar! ***** I picked up a new MIDI controller today. Here's the front view of my cable spaghetti command center. Another view (w/guitars): (NB: the big arch-top & the cutaway Guild), beat anything I've ever played.) From front: Vietnamese-A/E Classical, Vietnamese arch-top, 1988 Guild D-60, 1997 Guild F65ce.

That Marcellis is still looking mighty fine. It's sounding mighty-fine too, through that Roland AC60. Let me know if you want Mr. Binh to make you one.

Ah. Just that you don't see many Vox acoustics right? Definitely not. I like the logo. It's a great old brand. Is that a bullet hole in the finger-board?

Do you mean a DV-52? At Westerly Guild Guitars, I can find no mention of a D-52. DV-52's are much loved and highly sought after Guilds. Go to Let's Talk Guild and you'll read people raving about them. DV-52's are among the most sought-after Guild flat-tops. They're considered the equal of D-55's at a lower price.

This article is really worth reading. He deconstructs the song. He quotes de Chirico as once saying, "It is necessary to go about living in the world, as if in an immense museum of strangeness.

Obviously, I dissent from the literal interpretations. Nhat Wilk II hit something on the symbolism of the sun being the source of life and the moon being a dead reflection. Streets full of people, all alone Rows full of houses, never homes Church full of singing, out of tune Everyone's gone to the moon Eyes full of sorrow, never wet Hands full of money, all in debt Sun coming out in the middle of June Everyone's gone to the moon Long time ago, life had begun Everyone went to the sun It's a simplistic view of a long time ago. But the transition from a life focused on the sun and a life focused on what nhat wilk referred to as the "dead reflection" of the moon is there in the lyrics. But meaning, like beauty, is in the eye (or ear) of the beholder. The song to my ears, is as moving today, as it was when I was a kid and heard it in my Dad's car radio. This is a very mysterious piece of work. And that's what makes it art and I think, timeless. -- http://60x50.blogspot.com/2008/05/sentimental-lunatic.html Here is a serious article about the song, written by a kindred spirit to myself. He loves de Chirico's work. My avatar is by de Chirico. He invokes de Chirico in his critique of King's song. Both de Chirico's art and King's song are replete with mystery. His experience with Jonathan King's song was about the same as mine. We were about the same age when we heard it. De Chirico's "Gare Montparnasse" from the aricle: He and I both come down firmly in the non-literalist camp. It does not mean we are correct and Lee Flier and Lee Knight are wrong. It just means there are different schools of thought about this song and all deserve serious consideration. I think Jonathan King

Lee Knight, is "Gone to the Moon" slang for "barking mad"? That would certainly explain the title.

Lee Knight: "Plus gone to the moon meaning "Gone off his rocker"." Your wife is English, right? Is that part of the slang? That adds something to the critique. I think it's more beautiful and mysterious though. I don't see it as a political critique of wasteful spending on the space race. A critique of selfishness? Yes. A critique of modern life gone wrong? Yes. Arms that can only lift a spoon, logically, cannot lift anything else. "Only" is a universal. So that line indicates weakness, to me. But Jonathan King was being a poet, not a logician. Maybe he was referring to the weaknessand decadence of the well-born. He went to Cambridge where he certainly learned about both logic and the well-born. If "Gone to the moon" is slang for what I've heard Brits call "barking mad", that explains a lot. But it doesn't explain everything. I think about this line, Eyes full of sorrow, never wet,. People lead aching, bitter lives, but they can't even cry anymore. Yet, you see it in their eyes. That's not about wasteful spending on NASA. And I prefer hearing this song in AM mono.

BTW Rasputin, I disagree about stereo. This song sounds best played on an AM car radio, preferably late on a starry night as you're driving around aimlessly. Maybe I'm being theatrical. But it definitely sounds better in AM mono IMO. Rasputin: "What do you make of "Arms that can only lift a spoon" ?" It's poetry. It's an image that evokes pity, sympathy, an image of pathetic humanity, maybe an infant or maybe an invalid. It's poetry. It evokes melancholy, pity, curiousity. That's what poetry does. Lee Flier: "I always wondered if that song wasn't somewhat literal too. JFK promised to send a man to the moon. In 1965, it hadn't been done yet, but people were fixated on the idea. Of course many thought the idea of space exploration was grand and noble, but others saw it as folly - another example of man endlessly coveting what is beyond his reach and vacating the present life and the planet we live on, leaving it empty and uncared for." Another poet, Leonard Cohen, had these lines on that subject. So the great affair is over, but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant, so deeply unimpressed; It's like our journey to the moon, or to that other star, I guess we go for nothing, if we really want to go that far. It's like our journey to the moon, or to that other star, I guess we go for nothing, if we really want to go that far." Death of a Ladies' Man (Closing lines)