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Location: PDX | Inspired by cruster in his April 29 Semi-OT; Saturday Afternoon Rant thread –-- I thought ---
Well, it’s Saturday afternoon, the wife is up taking a nap, so I grabbed a cigar, La Gloria Cubana #4, my porch guitar, the Guild, a can of Pabst (feeling a bit pedestrian today) and headed to the back porch for the Saturday Cigar set.
Kind of a gray day today after a week of great weather for May here in Stumptown, not too cold, just overcast and a bit gloomy. The LGC fired up with a razor sharp burn, picked up the Guild and:
Nature Boy (in Drop D)
Here Comes the Sun (since I was in drop D already)
Nature Boy
tuned back up, contemplated the cigar smoke for a while, watched the song sparrows paired up and foraging, a little Pabst, and:
Lagrima Prelude (Terrega)
Gavotte I (Bach theme from Cello Suite #6)
It Had to Be You
Black Bird
to the fridge for another beer, some smoke rings, fought with the cat for lap space, and finished up with:
Ave Maria (Shubert)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
And I Love Her
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| Up early this morning as me and schroeder junior were off to the London Guitar Show. Easy drive right across London.
Bought myself a new guitar. :D :D :D
Hand built all solid wood spruce/cypress flamenco guitar. Paco de Lucia. Signed by the man himself. Exact model I've been drooling over for quite a while. And got a GREAT deal on it as well.
Came home, phoned in a beautiful Indian meal, cracked open a bottle or several of Fuller's Discovery, kicked up a vaguely Spanish sounding ruckus waiting for the food to arrive.
Found it difficult to eat with a grin a mile wide that I couldn't seem to lose.
Sometimes life is so good you could believe in the tooth fairy.
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by schroeder:
Sometimes life is so good you could believe in the tooth fairy. Um... we'll talk about this later.
Congratulation, Schroed! I can hear this guitar making beautiful music already! Can't quite see who's playing it... no, too murky. Might even be you. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Schroed....sounds like a damn near perfect day! |
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| And so to bed....
Great day. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by gh1:
La Gloria Cubana #4 Good stuff. I'm still working on those Zinos, although I do have other labels in the humidor (although for the life of me I couldn't tell you what they are...maybe some Fuente's for sure).
my porch guitar, the Guild And what model Guild is your porch guitar? I'm still searching for a low cost backyard/beach guitar that I can 'not worry too much about.' I almost pulled the trigger on a Seagull S6+ Cedar for slightly under three bills (as new). But...it's all wood. You know? How rugged is that going to be?
a can of Pabst (feeling a bit pedestrian today) I think the last time I had a Pabst I stole it out of my dad's downstairs refrigerator (and I was many years shy of being legal). I've been slowly consuming the Molson Canadian I got for cheap at Sam's Club (28 bottles for $16).
Kind of a gray day today after a week of great weather for May here in Stumptown, not too cold, just overcast and a bit gloomy. We had that the last two days here in Sparkle City. Then the City Commission passed an ordinance and today it was sunny. Although, it was a bit breezy and not exactly warm. I did take Patch and Littleman (13 and 3.5) over into the 'field' (the High School practice soccer fields abut my propery to the west) and played a couple 'holes' of pitch and pitch-some-more.
Nature Boy (in Drop D)
Here Comes the Sun (since I was in drop D already)
Nature Boy I have never played in anything but boring old standard (concert?) tuning. Is it worth the hassle of retuning? Maybe I'm lazy. ;)
Lagrima Prelude (Terrega)
Gavotte I (Bach theme from Cello Suite #6)
It Had to Be You
Black Bird There's only one song in your whole list that I would even attempt. Based on your other titles, I'm sure you're playing it a lot better than me, too. :)
Sounds like you had a good day in the back yard. I have discovered that fingerstyle 'Twinkle Twinkle' and 'Blackbird' seem to attract lots of finches and cardinals. When I start hitting the strings with the pick, all of the wildlife takes wing.
Or, perhaps it's just that I like to light off screaming bottle rockets in between the fingerstyle and picked portions of the set. :eek: |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I have been thinking of looking at Rainsongs...I hear they are damn near indestructible. Have no idea what a used one might cost but maintenance free sounds kinda nice. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Wouldn't an adamas accomplish the same thing for a lot less money? Dave |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | First off I can't believe Dave is already up to 122 post.
Next bad beer riuns a good cigar more than a bad cigar ruins good beer. Deep thoughts. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by OldLiverJones:
First off I can't believe Dave is already up to 122 post. Being a newbie is kind of fun. You get to blow by about 10 people in the directory every day. And other newbies don't know all your past baggage. Hell, I could probably just cut/paste the same old 5000 posts and look like just another smart-ass.
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Copying and pasting not necessary for that, Dave.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Don't know Dave, I have never played or heard a Rainsong. Have you? What are your thoughts?
You know, I was just thinking about all the hassles I had gone through this year with the humidty being so low and having to use both room humidifiers and hole humidifiers just to keep things above 40% for all the wood and wood top guitars. Seems I totally forgot that the Adamas's are pretty much immune to such nonsense. |
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Location: PDX | Well:
The Guild is a 1965 M-20, I've had it since 68 or 69. It's a small, all mahogony beater. I bought it off my high school chum the night he fell of the amp he was sitting on, and put a hole in the back, for $25. For about the next 35 years it was the only guitar i ever owned. I love this little thing. It sounds decent and i can drop an ash in the sound hole, spill gin on it, bang it into the music stand, door jam, what-ever and it just keeps playing. The varnish is toast, the rosewood fretboard is divoted from wear, and still, it would be the last guitar i would sell -- yeah, i'm a bit sentimental about it. A beater guitar is a must. I did have a luthier re-set the neck and dress or put on new frets about 8 years ago, but they are in need of serious help again.
Bad beer and cigars -- actually i find a cigar makes bad beer taste better ;) However, i think i'm going to look for that $0.57 a bottle Molson -- but out here in the west, it's Costco -- Sam's club is a midwestern thing. (I grew up in Chicago and all my family is in Illinois)
Alternate tunings -- well, drop D is easy, only the bass E gets tuned down. But as a whole, i find them a hassle. Which is a shame really, i learned this killer arrangement of Never Going Back Again that i poured my heart into. But it is in a really weird ass tuning, CBDGBE -- so i shied away from it -- and now it's gone.
schroeder's new guitar: wow! I've got a line on a flamenco player here in town i am angling to get to teach me some technique. However, those wide neck guitars are outside of my muscle memory, but i really love the tone of the nylon string set. Congrats on the new purchase! And what the hell is Fuller's Discovery -- damn Brits, they have access to some great beer.
As far as beater guitars go, it's my opinion that it really doesn't matter too much what it is. It just has to be cheap and sound decent. There are a ton of decent guitars out there that folks will let go of for a song. As long as you are playing -- that's the main thing. If it breaks, buy another. But, you know, now that i am thinking about it -- there is something kind of, well, special about a beater. I mean, you don't want some ply piece of crap that delaminates in the first rain. It does have to sustain tone, stay in tune, and feel good to play. Interesting, "the search for the perfect beater". I feel a new thread coming on.
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | My perfect day????
At the airport at 6:00 a.m. to prepare for our annual "Young Eagles" Event. Starting at 9am, flew continuously until 3 pm. 150 kids got their first flight in an airplane (22 in mine alone).
As much as I love to play the guitar, it's not much competition to the smiles and squeals of excited kids going into the air in a small plane for the first time.
However, I did end the evening working up some chords from a Rich Mullins song, so it is a guitar related Saturday.... |
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Location: closely held secret | I've played Rainsongs. I had read and heard about the tone being 'piano-like' pure. I was ready to go to battle to purchase one. But I was disappointed when I finally got to play one. To me it was too pure. All note, no character.
I was afraid all carbon topped guitars were going to sound like that, till I heard an Adamas. The pure note with a lot of unique character. |
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| I played a rainsong once and it sucked. I'd never played an Adamas at the time and just had carbon down as a typical Yank hi-tech bunch of bollocks. I'm now prepared to apologise to W2 but not Rainsong. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | The "Q" would be interesting to hear as it is more like a rainsong than any current Adamas. |
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Location: closely held secret | Ask Cliffie. |
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Location: NJ | Q10 resided w/me for a bit, and I was AMAZED at how "wooden-sounding" it was (compared to other Adamases). Amazing instrument.
I tried a couple of RainSong's at NAMM.
I wasn't impressed . . .
I remember Jon Anderson (Yes) was a big endorsee of their's when they first came out . . . for about a year . . . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | So why was Q10 scrapped? Cost of production versus potential sales? |
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Location: The State of Hockey | I wish I had a porch to play in. |
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Location: New York, NY | You know, it's nice to hear that even when there is a generation gap, it's bridged in certain places... My day yesterday involved sitting on my balcony, staring out at the Empire State Building and playing for the - well, I guess just the pigeons - working my way through the new Red Hot Chili Peppers single on my O Tangent. Next to me I had a Arturo Fuente Hemmingway Best Seller cigar and a can of Pabst (OK, a few cans).
I guess it's official... cheap beer, good cigars and guitars really can bring us all together!
Cheers,
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Fuente Hemmingway's are one of my favorite cigars. |
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Location: Scotland | Rainsong make a great $500 guitar. The problem is they cost 2 to 3 times that. Composite Acoustics are way ahead of Rainsong, but apart from Q#10 which I spent some time with at Cliff's place, I'm not convinced by all-composite guitars. The Irish-made all carbon fibre Emerald guitars suck pretty hard too. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Played a CA at the local mom and pop when I bought my Elite. Thin sounding, as I recall. Almost brittle.
Just to put in the obligatory on-topic material...played outside tonight with Littleman. He climbed trees (Oy, if I had the energy a 3.5 year old has...) for an hour while I sat under the big (forty footers) Douglas Firs at the back or our lot (in the sun, though) drinking one of those cheap Molson's, puffing away on yet another Zino (only four more to go!) and playing the geetar. I really need a beater, though. |
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by vcnyls:
You know, it's nice to hear that even when there is a generation gap, it's bridged in certain places... My day yesterday involved sitting on my balcony, staring out at the Empire State Building and playing for the - well, I guess just the pigeons - working my way through the new Red Hot Chili Peppers single on my O Tangent. Next to me I had a Arturo Fuente Hemmingway Best Seller cigar and a can of Pabst (OK, a few cans).
I guess it's official... cheap beer, good cigars and guitars really can bring us all together!
Cheers,
JT :p Well said v. Although i have no idea what a Red Hot Chili Pepper is, besides what i cook with, it really doesn't matter.
AF makes some fine cigars, as Stephen noted -- i really like the Short Story myself.
Sounds like a nice view.
Play on!
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Location: PDX | Well, whatever -- whether they are good guitars or not, i really liked the two sound clips, especially that bluesy little number under the Legacy.
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Location: New York, NY | Gh1 - I love the Short Story.... the Best Seller is the same tobacco but it's just a little bit bigger. I really like that whole line though.
FYI: Red Hot Chili Peppers is a rock band. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Short Stories are great when you only have 20 minutes or so to kick back and relax. |
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Location: Parrish, FL | Jeff,
Young Eagles!! My kids, now well into high school, still mention their first trip up in a small plane, thanks to the Eagles program.
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