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Jethro Rocker said:
Yes you also have broken a string now and then. Stop the set and change it?
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On a Les Paul, id just play around it and transpose the solo to compensate....i don't stop playing to switch.

Now a Fender with a floater??? I only use those in the studio nowadays for tunes that need a tremolo. I cannot trust them live.

I've fixed a lot of people's amps and guitars between sets....
 
Inspector #20 said:
On a Les Paul, id just play around it and transpose the solo to compensate....i don't stop playing to switch.

Now a Fender with a floater??? I only use those in the studio nowadays for tunes that need a tremolo. I cannot trust them live.

I've fixed a lot of people's amps and guitars between sets....
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Hard to transpose a solo on the fly with like a broken B string. Then play the rest of the set? To me it is far more professional, honestly, to simply switch guitars. It is rare to break on an LP granted. But of one is 3 hr drive from home? Just bring a spare. The amp very well could have died at a gig at that rate.
Inspector #20 said:
Seems like a lot of folks do. That's one i just cannot identify with, but its cool if you dig it.

I only want to collect money...
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I only want to spend it!! :p

I should add - why collect if and not spend it?
 
Jethro Rocker said:
Hard to transpose a solo on the fly with like a broken B string. Then play the rest of the set? To me it is far more professional, honestly, to simply switch guitars. It is rare to break on an LP granted. But of one is 3 hr drive from home? Just bring a spare. The amp very well could have died at a gig at that rate.

I only want to spend it!! :p

I should add - why collect if and not spend it?
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I honestly don't even worry about a backup with my Les Paul and my Ivanberg Modded ORI50.

I teach live performance for Rockstars, so i sometimes will give a student a guitar withba broken string and teach them to play around it. I've also clipped a student's string in the middle of a workshop for training (we always replace the strings on the house)

But to me, its a fun game. I'd rather walk the tightrope without a net.

My job is to teach them to focus on the performance and avoid turning their back to the crowd and avoid unnecessary dicking-around with equipment during a show.

Jethro Rocker said:
I only want to spend it!! :p

I should add - why collect if and not spend it?
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To be honest, i guess you could say I'm "collecting" memories and experiences....the music is just the vehicle.

I'd trade a 1,000 guitars for one night in front of the fire pit.

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Inspector #20 said:
I honestly don't even worry about a backup with my Les Paul and my Ivanberg Modded ORI50.

I teach live performance for Rockstars, so i sometimes will give a student a guitar withba broken string and teach them to play around it. I've also clipped a student's string in the middle of a workshop for training (we always replace the strings on the house)

But to me, its a fun game. I'd rather walk the tightrope without a net.

My job is to teach them to focus on the performance and avoid turning their back to the crowd and avoid unnecessary dicking-around with equipment during a show.



To be honest, i guess you could say I'm "collecting" memories and experiences....the music is just the vehicle.

I'd trade a 1,000 guitars for one night in front of the fire pit.

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I really do get that Rob. I’d been working nearly full time since I got out of HS in 72. Forty of those behind a parts counter. Before that as a mechanic. I have never been one of those males that let the job define me. It was a job. That job helped put food on the table. I didn’t hate my job…. But when I retired two years ago, Walked out the door for the last time Oct 2, 2020. Sat in my car for a few minutes gathering my thoughts. One chapter was closing and new one opening. And I won’t lie. Pretty sure a single tear ran down my cheek. It was a mini emotional moment. Drove home. Woke up the following Monday morning and I have not missed going to work for one minute since. I miss some of the people I worked with. The relationships. Some I’m still in touch with. But the job. Nope!!

So it’s probably a good thing I did not get involved making music as a living. Music has kept me pretty much sane since I’ve been a teenager.
 
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Inspector #20 said:
I honestly don't even worry about a backup with my Les Paul and my Ivanberg Modded ORI50.

I teach live performance for Rockstars, so i sometimes will give a student a guitar withba broken string and teach them to play around it. I've also clipped a student's string in the middle of a workshop for training (we always replace the strings on the house)

But to me, its a fun game. I'd rather walk the tightrope without a net.

My job is to teach them to focus on the performance and avoid turning their back to the crowd and avoid unnecessary dicking-around with equipment during a show.



To be honest, i guess you could say I'm "collecting" memories and experiences....the music is just the vehicle.

I'd trade a 1,000 guitars for one night in front of the fire pit.

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Man, speaking of keeping it professional, back in the early '90s a guitar player friend of mine was on stage and had to walk out behind the building to barf he was so drunk one night. He leaned his forehead against the back of the building wall and spilled as he played the whole solo through it. You could say being drunk wasn't professional but he never miss a note that way while performing.
 
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Jethro Rocker said:
I might have to email them tomorrow to see what the color actually is..bottom shot looks more brown. At some point I want an R0 and I have never seen one like this.


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Are the knobs used??



:D
 
Sapient said:
Man, speaking of keeping it professional, back in the early '90s a guitar player friend of mine was on stage and had to walk out behind the building to barf he was so drunk one night. He leaned his forehead against the back of the building wall and spilled as he played the whole solo through it. You could say being drunk wasn't professional but he never miss a note that way while performing.
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That's what im talkin about....
 
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