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Location: Carle Place, NY | My choice for best thread of the year is the one started by Hal Jordan where he asked advice on how to keep new strings from getting all gunked up when they are passed through the pinless bridge. Dave's (StandingO) response of using special plastic tubes was hilarious because it was done in a deadpan serious manner.
I guess that the Toneville a-holes, Hal and his buddy/alter ego '69D28, have found some other forum to infest. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I saw a picture in Dan Erlwine's book on guitar repair and ... there's a strat that uses string tubes. I think it was SRV's guitar.
Truth is stranger than fiction. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Any thread in which Moody p.i. says "mix up some Margaritas"!
I have only had one in the 5 years but I do enjoy the whole ambiance' he sets up - unless he's scaring away the new guy's! ;) |
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Location: Vermont USA | This is a hard one. Kinda like asking which brand of milk do you like. Any thread where Cliff and CWK2 mix things up.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I like any thread Cliff already has mixed up so I don't have to. |
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Location: SoCal | I've never scared away a newbie, have I?
And let's raise a toast to margaritas! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | This one:
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | My personal favorites are the ones were Al talks about the new stuff that is coming out. The time tables are always wrong (not Al's fault) but it keeps me drooling for months on end! |
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Location: Midland, MI | That llama one. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I liked the other Llama one... |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Nah guys - what about that one with the Llama?
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | The Day Job one has been pretty interesting but it's hard to beat politics and religion. |
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| How about my introduction to the forum? I found that one freakin' hilarious.
*sniff* I love you guys and your tough love. *sniff* |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | C'mon,
Nick's WAS pretty freaking interersting...and the drama! |
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Location: Vermont USA | Jeff W Nick's WAS pretty freaking interersting...and the drama! How about the Llama drama :confused:
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Location: south east Michigan | I got a kick when BrianT put in his 2 cents about monster cables. Which at times, hit a little to close to the truth.
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It depends on the overtone you desire. For example, cables made with "Brazilian Copper" favor the darker bass side of the spectrum. Cables with Adirondack or Austrian plastic on the insulating sheaths enhance sustain. Some cables even contain fossilized mammoth dung as a dielectric spacer between the jack tip and shield, these are, of course, preferred by finger-style players
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The very best tonally responsive copper is "free range copper". This type of copper is only harvested in it's natural state, when found laying on the ground. You see, mining copper with huge machinery drives out the free radical valiance electrons which give free range copper it's pure harmonic tap tone. You can actually pick up a piece of free range copper and tap it with a hammer and hear it's natural harmonics. Mined copper sounds weaker when tapped because the free electrons have been traumitized by the in-humane mining process. Some people claim that placing mined copper in front of speakers and playing Devo records repeatedly at max volume can restore some of the free valance electrons and result in a purer tap tone. But I think it's best to demand the real thing when buying a cable, pure book-matched free range copper. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | There are many great ones to choose from.
The Ovation bashing and eventual rehabilitation of GN-Nick.
Hal Jordan (the troll) stirring the pot was interesting.
But for me personally, it was definitely a thread I hijacked to talk about trying to find an Adamas W597, that lead me to buying Bongo Boy's 1537. A very big thanks to everyone here who talked me into it! |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Don't even get me started. Waaay too many to choose from for me. Every day's a wonderful day in the neighborhood here. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Likewise, I whined on way too many different threads about my failed attempts to get a 1537. Whatever thread it was that convinced Noah that I should have his "extra" 1537 has to be my favorite. |
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Location: GA USA | When I saw the topic, I immediately thought of "the Nick thread" |
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Location: SoCal | As a side note,
Nick:
You need to buy a FD 14 when one becomes available. It costs, but it'll knock your socks off.
Back to the thread topic --
I don't have any favorite threads. This is the one board that's almost universally interesting/funny every single day. In fact the very few days that it's not of interest to me are the rare exceptions.
Long Live The OFC! |
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Location: Flushing, MI | I vote for Nick's because that's what got ME sucked into this forum! |
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Location: GA USA | I saw Nick as the chosen one, who was to bring balance to the board. Actually, I was impressed by the way he handled being called a #@(*)$!
I also would like to mention "OFC Kindness" from August. If you haven't read that one, read it now. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | As one of the subjects of the OFC Kindness thread, I'd like to say that I thank Noah every day for the 1537 he sold me. I know he misses it, but it has a loving home. |
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Location: closely held secret | He must get tired of all those phone calls. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | What's the 411 on the llamas?
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Can't cha' put links to the referenced threads for those who
a-weren't there at the time.
b-wanna look see.
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Location: SoCal | We really can't talk about the llamas.... the statute of limitations hasn't expired yet.
Half the fun of this site is searching for old threads. Try it. You'll like it. |
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Location: GA USA | So sorry...
The Nick Thread
OFC Kindness |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I like them all, but I used to particularly like Paul T's rants on subjects that gave him the same super reflex as if he had been tasered.
BUT, he also contributed some of the best technical and relevant musical info that I have ever heard and that any young musician would be wise to study.
Of course the subculture of our resident godfather and Private Eye have been interesting but scary.
Then there is the golf playing, spoiled collecter of all we would love to own, who traveles the east coast in great cars and bitches about everything sxcept his little bitch that he loves like the rest of us.
Then there are MILES and MILES of technical minutia that none of us understand except we know the web site works great.
Then of course there is the rest of us idiots, who are trying to live a life and find a diversion from the reality that we are cursed with and all these heroes don't have to face, OR DO THEY!!!
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Best thread of '05?