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| Warning - contains non O material.
Lucky me. |
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| I can't believe I uploaded pics and successfully linked them.
I gotta go buy a lottery ticket - I've never done that before either. |
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Location: Vermont USA | I thought it was going to a picture of coal :(
Very nice guitar great color.
Pauly |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | So, what's the story? |
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Location: SoCal | I'll tell you guys what's cool about this. It's a beautiful guitar and Schro' knows how to play it the way it should be played.
Way to go Schro'! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | very nice!!!! I always loved that style but as Paul said (and I paraphrase) "ya have to know how to play it" |
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Location: Vernon CT | NICE!!! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Now that is beautiful. This is what I really wanted when I bought the Joe Pass Emperor II jazz box. |
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| I went out to look at/buy a 2002 Gibson L4CES. I've wanted one for as long as I can remember but they are pretty rare everywhere but specially so in the UK - like all of those Custom Shop archtops they are in the Gibson catalogue but they only make them to order - but one appeared in a shop 50 miles away so off I went.
It was a big disappointment - I played one once about 15 years ago and thought it was fantastic, but it just didn't do anything for me this time round. Looked around the shop and what do I see? The Tal Farlow. Picked it up and POW - love at first touch. Gorgeous neck - very ute-like in shape and substance and one of the unique things(for a Gibson) about the Tal is that it is a 25.5" scale which I much prefer.
It is in absolutely amazing condition - there's a scuff mark on the case and that's it as far as I can see. Although it's not deep by archtop standards at 2 7/8" it's got a beautiful acoustic tone, truly vintage Gibson archtop sound. Plug it in and you realise why every pickup manufacturer makes a copy of the original PAFs - these are vintage 57s and they sound glorious, a perfect match to the body. Thick, woody sound, dripping with harmonics and almost no sustain. Clean as a whistle. Run it through a Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal with just a touch of drive and it breaks up just like Barney Kessel thrashing a Charlie Christian pickup.
The only downside is that I traded my epi archtop which has been a friend for the last 6 or 7 years and this is the first time there hasn't been an epi archtop in the house for about 20 years.
I'm a happy, happy man. |
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Location: NJ | don't you mean father christmas? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Notice he waited until AFTER I visited to bring it in his house. |
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Location: closely held secret | Santa must have only checked his list once this year....
NICE, Schro! (Now if you could just figure out how to use your mac to record... :rolleyes: ) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | and what Moody sez: The boy knows how to play it... . . |
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Location: south east Michigan | Wow... That IS a perfect guitar for you Schroeder.
Good for you! |
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Location: SoCal | Schro', what Epi did you trade? I remember a couple of years ago at Stonge's, we were talking about his Epi Sheraton.
I've always wanted a jazz box but my playing style just doesn't lend itself to one (nor does my playing ability)..... |
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| A Joe Pass (Mark I). fantastic value for money. I played lots costing 3 times as much that weren't as good. Don't know about the Mk II - ask the prof. But a used Mk I would be fantastic.
The thing with archtops is they have such a distinctive sound that you sound like Joe Pass even if you only know three chords ( :p ) - like playing a Macaferri, you can't help but sound like a tenth rate Django. Actually I'd settle for sounding like a tenth rate Django. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Congratulations Schroeder! I absolutely love it! I think the Tal Falow is one of the coolest Gibsons ever! Absolutely Gorgeous! |
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Location: Chicago | Fantastic. But I can't find any music on your page. Maybe retarded me.... So get out your box and play something, then! |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Beautiful! There's nothing like a great archtop. Congrats! |
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Location: Sugar Land, TX | That's beautiful man. Congrats. Reminds me a little of my uncle's Super 400. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | With respect to the Epi Joe Pass II, here's an illustrative story. We did a pure jazz concert last year. During the rehearsals, I took five archtops to experiment with and let the band and sound techs choose which one they thought provided the best "smooth" jazz tone. The guitars were a vintage Gibson ES-335CRSTD (played in both single and dual coil configurations), Gibson ES-135 with P90s, vintage Gretsch CG, Guild Starfire IV, and the Epi Joe Pass II with Be-Bop jazz strings. To my surprise, they unanimously chose the Joe Pass, the least expensive of the lot, and that is what I used during the gig. |
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Location: Tennessee | Sweet. Beautiful work of art. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Bobbo took the words right of my mouth, it's a work of art! Hadn't seen one of those before. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy it! |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Beautiful but the question is will Tom let you play it unsupervised? |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Thats a real beauty.
Try some pure nickle strings on it if you haven't. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Man, that is one elegant, classy guitar. If it sounds 1/10 as wonderful as it looks, it'll be killer. Just gorgeous.
--Karen |
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Santa came a few days early