jazzzzzy, haha, man I agree on your thanksgiving post man. You hit every point square! I find holidays like that to be one big mound of bullshit. We don't actually have thanksgiving here, but we have something kinda similar, around september time - Harvest Supper. It's not a big thing though.
I just detest how Valentines Day, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Easter and Christmas have all become one huge great commercial opportunity. No joke, a TV ad that ran this year was something like "come on down to DFS and buy your mum this amazing 3-piece Suite for just £1699 this mothers day".
Who's gonna spend £1699 on their mother just for mothers day? Crazy. I know, it's a little different to your problem with thanksgiving, but you got me started! hehe
on other matters, haha, you like my pimpin photo! hehe, cheers dude. You know that's not a bad idea, setting up a webshots t2j page.
Maybe we should call it Mugshots! haha. Anyway, we'd need a general opinion from everyone else, but it sounds like a cool idea to me!
Joeman9, I personally would not recommend that ESP - I tried a few ESPs, including the Kirk Hammet model which is meant to be an excellent guitar, and I just didn't like them.
I would honestly recommend the RGT42 if you can afford it. The neck is really nice and feels solid. The frest and string spacing all feels consistent all the way up, and the thru-neck build means access to the 24th fret is easier than on just about anything, except for a Washburn Nuno model!
I put a pair of Joe's pickups (a-la JS1000) in my RGT and it's great. Initially I didn't get on with them but now I'm used to them and have adapted my amp/pedal setup accordingly, I find them really nice.
On 7 strings, yeah getting an RG7 isn't a bad idea, but you have to think about whether or not you'll use it all the time. Say you had a 7-string and a nice 6-string RG, and they both had your desired pickup combination, which one would you fall back on most of the time?
michelle, hehe, the song is called "Song 1" and is by Blur. Yeah it's one of those bands I don't listen to either, but Song 1 has been kinda rammed down our throats, at least once a year, since it came out, here in the UK.......something about them being british....I dunno!
Suzie, hey thanks for checkin it out, I'm glad you like it! Yeah you got the title right!
Tone-wise, I'm using the (aforementioned) Ibanez RGT42. I installed a pair of Joe's pickups - PAF Pro in the neck and Fred in the bridge - and for most of the song I was using the Fred. It's got that fat, warm sound but with a nasal twang which really heats it up.
At the beginning of the, for want of a better word, 'solo' section, where the tone really cools off (briefly), I used the PAF Pro. For pedals, I was just using a Marshall Bluesbreaker for the overdrive, Ibanez Delay and Morley Bad Horsie Wah!
And the clean tone at the intro and outro was courtesy of my dad's DOD multi-effects pedal, which I used for it's chorus and stereo output, and the single-coil strat pickup in my cheap-as-chips Ibanez GIO! hehe.
Regards guitar buying, if you're looking at £500, I personally would say you'll get more out of a Flying V than any of the others you mentioned. in my experience, Jaguars are a disappointment, especially when you find out how much better a decent Strat is!
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