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On 10/18/2010 6:05 PM, Marc Leduc wrote:

(man, what a whiner......)

Sorry, not yet...
;~)

But I appreciate this attempt at being friendly.

oops, sorry....
...I thought the mic was off......

:-)
bobby

Alright, alright already:
Did you remove the pups to see if they're actual Duncan 59s?
(man, what a whiner......)

Sorry, not yet...
;~)

But I appreciate this attempt at being friendly.
Marc

On 10/18/2010 5:50 PM, Marc Leduc wrote:

Hey! Any sense of friendship on this forum! Nobody ask if I have removed the
pups to see if they're actual Duncan 59s?

Alright, alright already:
Did you remove the pups to see if they're actual Duncan 59s?

(man, what a whiner......)

:-)
Bobby

The point is that if you get an instrument with junk
pickups then any "upgrade" will sound better.

Some Epi pickups are poor whilst others I have replaced
were great and the Duncan upgrade was a waste of money.

I recently acquired two Epi pickups for just ?20 from a client
who wanted Duncans. I checked them all out and the Duncans were
no different at all. So, I now have two excellent pickups that
I got for a song which I will install in my Taurus semi. The Taurus
has DeMarzio pups fitted but the covers are rusty so the refit
is purely cosmetic.

I will put the DeMarzios on ebay where there is bound to be
some collector who is convinced that vintage DMs have a magic
tone.

The cheapest - and often most effective - upgrade is decent
heavy grade strings.

Will

Hey! Any sense of friendship on this forum! Nobody ask if I have removed the pups to see if they're actual Duncan 59s?
Marc

Many Duncan pickups I have fitted have a logo on the
underside which looks like an "S" with pole pieces
wrapped inside it.

Depending upon on where an Epi is made the pickups can
be junk or pretty good.

Will

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On 10/18/2010 3:16 PM, Angelo wrote:

Does anybody really want to steal Kiss' music??

Not the point. Gene Simmons has every right to try to protect the business he is in and to spread that word to his fellow musicians in the hope that they can benefit from those words. Personally, I think the musicians have been (stupidly) silent about it for far too long.

Most of the piracy of music is of the current teen musical heartthrobs...not
old has-been jazz players.

I'm not so sure about that. It seems to me that the entirety of the music business, throughout every genre, has been hijacked by thieves.

I don't see Puff Daddy, or Jay-Z going around in rags and driving Pintos...

And they don't see you driving around in a new Jag. So what? I already made the comment that these guys are some of the few non-fools left in the business, and that is sad, considering they aren't even musicians.

Don't most studio musicians get paid per session? So it wouldn't really
matter to them if the CD sold ten or ten million copies.

This whole problem has "pin action". As it gets less and less rewarding (or even possible) to make and promote recordings, every person in the industry is affected. You are a smart guy, Angelo - how is it you don't see that?

Has anyone on this list written a top-ten tune and hasn't been sufficiently
rewarded?

Again, not the point, but Dave has defended his publishing company right into the ground. Is that enough for you?

My point is that it's the large corporations, the same ones who have
marketed good music out of the picture, who are "suffering" because of
piracy - and over-priced product. $20 for a Kiss cd??? Gag!

Your point is off target. You're just too cheap to buy records.

I would like someone to explain to me how all this piracy is affecting the
average musician, who by the way, is probably not paying composers for the
right to play their tunes on gigs...

It's the music establishments who pay for the music played in their clubs. Or at least that's what it USED to be. Everybody made a buck, everybody was happy. Angelo, I know that you are (or were?) a school teacher. You had a Union to defend you every step of the way, and without it you would have made around $6000 per year, and without any benefits forever. If the Social Studies teacher is treated unfairly, the Phys Ed teacher is right there to stand on that picket line and defend her.

For you, of all people, to make these comments is callous and hypocritical.

"He who lives by the sword, etc..."

Exactly.

I don't sound like it right now, but I really do like you,
Bobby

Dave,
This is why I just go ahead and use the long url.
BTW, I have long had this fancy of making one musician out of two. Each would bring something different, but it would become unified. Me and you would be a bad mf. Url Scruggs and Gem Mings in one is an interesting concept. I have always wanted to know what it would feel like to have transcendental chops. Of course Gem might trip and fall, or he could bring some new imagination. I don't know which. I like to think the latter.
Jim

I have?a Lollar Special Strat set for sale. $200. In case anyone is interested.

Rod

On 10/18/2010 11:04 AM, Ron Becker wrote:

Url Scruggs? He used to know Tiny Moore

James Mings and Url Scruggs? I'm guessing here, but methinks Mizzuzzes
Mings and Scruggs may have a problem with this.

Not if they can watch.

Ron

Living and playing outside the box.

Same result.

Living and playing outside the box.

On Oct 18, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Chris Smart wrote:

Ron ... he was kidding!

Ten four, saw that in the next msg I read,

Ron

Living and playing outside the box.

Does anybody really want to steal Kiss' music??

Most of the piracy of music is of the current teen musical heartthrobs...not
old has-been jazz players.
I don't see Puff Daddy, or Jay-Z going around in rags and driving Pintos...
Don't most studio musicians get paid per session? So it wouldn't really
matter to them if the CD sold ten or ten million copies.
Has anyone on this list written a top-ten tune and hasn't been sufficiently
rewarded?
My point is that it's the large corporations, the same ones who have
marketed good music out of the picture, who are "suffering" because of
piracy - and over-priced product. $20 for a Kiss cd??? Gag!
I would like someone to explain to me how all this piracy is affecting the
average musician, who by the way, is probably not paying composers for the
right to play their tunes on gigs...
"He who lives by the sword, etc..."

Dave,
I had trouble with Tinyurl, myself. I now use Snipurl.com. You can put a
link up on your browser's taskbar and it will automatically make a shortened
url of the page you have open...
Btw, here's the link you've been trying to put out there...

[www_jazzguitarstartingright_com]
You can choose to leave the "peek" url or not... I did to show it..

Will,

Amen. I was going to say the same thing, but didn't want to get hooted
down in derision...

Cheers,
JV

Juan Vega

I have gone to Kent Armstrong or Benedetto (originally Kent's stuff) pickups
on many of my jazz guitars.

Massive improvement in sound.

Also, I typically change the tone pot to push/pull and use it to coil tap
between single coil and dual coil.

Single coil is a great option on a Jazz box.

Every time I try this url (and the previous) I get redirected to some
Russian web site.

Looks like something has been hacked.

Okay. Here is an angle that just occurred to me and I don't know if anyone
has recognized it before. I've never heard it mentioned.



We all used to get FREE music all the time!



It was a little thing called RADIO!



All the young people we are bashing here (99% of downloading being done by
those under 25years of age) are just listening to their music the same as we
all used to.



They download 30,000 tunes, hit "random" and just go about their business.



I don't think we should be looking at charging for downloads, I think we
need to incorporate advertising into the mix to pay for it all, the same as
we did when we had functioning radio stations.



For example, I don't mind watching a 30 second commercial prior to seeing a
video clip on the internet. We need to look at our business model for the
internet in a reasonable way.



Truth be told, most people don't want to pay to download a song because in
many cases they only care to hear it once or twice anyway.





All the best, John



Reciprocity

On Oct 18, 2010, at 12:01 PM, JVegaTrio@... wrote:

You can never go wrong with Jason Lollar's pickups. :)

Yessir. I have a bunch of his pickups. All are excellent.

Jeff