... ViewItem&rd=1&item=180213844405&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=008 Holy cow! If the seller is to be believed that it's all original, that's as close to mint...
Beautiful piece alright but it looks like the original tailpiece has been modified. It doesn't have the jack. The jack has been moved to the side of the...
... has ... to ... Good point. I see the fellow has posted the FON: "I finally found the numbers inside, they are : 141 0 23 (23 is in red pencil)" I...
Has anyone attempted to contact seller to inform them of the modifications? They really seem to know very little about it. If it was me, I'd want to keep...
Here's an interesting eBay item. Looks like someone in Switzerland is selling an original Stimer pickup for Selmer Maccaferri guitars that comes with the...
well, its wierd that its not the typical TWEED type of covering all over the amp. It looks like it was PAINTED black. You can see the original tweed covering...
Charlie may be bigger today than he ever has been - he is definitely reaching more people than he ever did on radio. To me he is still an enigma; I know the...
What about this one? http://cgi.ebay.com/Gibson-vintage-tube-type-amp-amplifier-speaker- EH185_W0QQitemZ140212926657QQihZ004QQcategoryZ10171QQssPageNameZWDVWQ ...
Whilst we have a lull in pickup and amp worship, I'd like to refer back to #2979 and #3289 on the question of harmony. It never did get discussed - whaddya...
... If you mean the studied tritone sub/flat five vocabulary of Dizzy and Bird, clearly not. It would be pushing it to suggest that that line of development...
Some people trace the development of bop back to Lester Young. Since Charlie was a Prez devotee, that puts him in the right ballpark. But getting back to Diz...
... There is an interesting analysis of Charlie Christian's playing (about 16 pages) in a book named "The Swing Era" by Gunther Schuller . He says in...
"David Sadowski" <dsadowski@...> wrote: But getting back to Diz and Bird, the way they played in 1941 was not the way they were playing in 1945. But there is...
Is anyone familiar with an es150 player, Roy Sainsbury from central England (Cotswolds perhaps)? I have his email from a JJG article on him but it doesn't seem...
-"Jeff" <houseofcharm@...> wrote: Is anyone familiar with an es150 player, Roy Sainsbury from central England (Cotswolds perhaps)? I have his email from a JJG...
Thanks for that Peter, not to disguise this as another dear thread but his 150 is the 'Omaha Beach' model he got from me via Tom James...Jeff----- Original...
houseofcharm@... wrote: Thanks for that Peter, not to disguise this as another dear thread but his 150 is the 'Omaha Beach' model he got from me via Tom James....
I think a relative of Dick Knight did the resto. Everyone here was
frightened of touching it and not tamper with the sound even as the eyesore
that it was. ...
... ViewItem&item=270220789387&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:t op:us ... The line that threw me is "The Holy Grail of Vintage Pickups for ...
Many of the early bop guitarists tried to play like CC, so there's every reason to think the original would have done at least as well as the imitators. ...
The other reason for imaging CC as a bop player (if he had lived) is Prez. Charlie modeled his playing after Lester Young, and Prez certainly had no...
"David Sadowski" <dsadowski@...> wrote: The other reason for imaging CC as a bop player (if he had lived) is Prez. Charlie modeled his playing after Lester...
Everything you or I or anyone else might say about CC and bop is speculative, since there was no such thing as bop yet when CC died. But to some degree, the...
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