Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: LiamH on August 08, 2006, 09:33:18 AM
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ever make a silly mistake? Get this one, I have been beating myself up about it for years. As from about 1985 to 1997, if not earlier I collected Guitar Player Magazine (the American one) religiously. I can remember some of the nuggets of information in those magazines, like that for a long time Steve Vai used a "rat" pedal (not a proco but an Ibanez I think). The interviews with players were often really in depth and they were such a great source of information. My ex girlfriend threw them all away after a row one evening and I never took them out of the bin.....
The only thing I have left is a Frank Zappa flexi disk. Bugger. Oh yeah and a huge collection of Mike Varney produced shred albums !!!
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I gets worse. I can't find the zappa flexi disk!!!
Sorry this is of little interest to anyone, I just needed to rant. All I can find in the flex's are oddities such as Steve Vai playing Amzing Grace and Paul Gilbert and Billy Sheehan playing "screaming blues o'mania" - classics I am sure !!!
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If not many peolpe reply to this dont feel bad... If every one responded to this with their story the ISP would probably fry out :D
Mine (one of many) is letting a classic car slip through my fingers. It needed a resto but still, 3 years ago I could have bought it from my brother in law for $1600. Now you cant buy a wreck of the same car for under $8000. Man what i wouldnt give for that chance again. :wink:
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He he, I don't expect anyone to reply. I was just venting my spleen !
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Steve Vai used a "rat" pedal (not a proco but an Ibanez I think).
No - it would have been Pro Co - nobody as far as I know has made a Rat pedal.
Vai only teamed up with Ibanez/Hoshino in 1987 - trying to get replacements for all his stolen Jacksons and Green Charvel
I loved Guitar Player for the Repairs column with Dan Erlewine
My personal silly story involves a 1965 Metal Plate logo Marshall JTM45 that I let Karl from Rockbottom have from me way too cheap - with a mint Sound City 4x12 (which unknown to me had very old and valuable celestion g12s in it)
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Life is nothing but regrets, many of which I wouldn't be prepared to write about ( :oops: !), but here's one that's relevant to this forum:
Quite a few years ago I went to the London Guitar Show (or whatever it was at the time) and one of the stalls had a sunburst, rosewood neck Relic Strat for £799. Used, but so what, it's a Relic! This was in the early days when Relics were all beaten up (no Closet Classics or Time Machines like they have now) and had a 9.5-inch radius like a modern Strat (now they have vintage spec). It was perfect, and light as a feather. I wandered around the place for 10 minutes trying to decide if I could afford it, came back and it was gone. Gone forever.
A Relic Strat for £800! I'll never see that again! It still gets me really annoyed every time I think about it! :evil:
Still, At least I have my collection of Guitar Player magazine from October 1981 to the present day. :wink:
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My personal silly story involves a 1965 Metal Plate logo Marshall JTM45 that I let Karl from Rockbottom have from me way too cheap - with a mint Sound City 4x12 (which unknown to me had very old and valuable celestion g12s in it)
Oh, and there was the time I sold my 1964 SG Special and the guy persuaded me the pickups weren't original and talked me down to £900. And I took it, even though I didn't believe him.
Then the next day someone phoned up and said he would have paid way more than that even if it wasn't all-original.
I must be the only person to make a loss on a vintage guitar. :oops: :oops:
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That's all you lot have to regret?! Christ! You wanna count yourselves seriously lucky! :lol:
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That's all you lot have to regret?! Christ! You wanna count yourselves seriously lucky! :lol:
Tell us all about it. It's good to talk....
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Feline, your comment about the Rat is something I would have agreed with (until yesterday). Infact I bought a proco rat for that same reason. I never got anywhere near that Vai sound which cheesed me off I got to thinking what I read all those years ago was something I had dreamt up. Anyway I was googling on TS808/9 pedals (as I was just about to go out an buy one) and came across an ibanez pedal that had been modded. The main thing I remember about it was that the normal "square" select button had been drilled and a MXR type footswitch had been added. Not only that it was called a "tubescreamer (rat)". If I can find the link again I will post it.
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He he Fubar, I have loads to regret....well not regret, as such, just wince over........I mean on my boss's desk !!!!
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That's all you lot have to regret?! Christ! You wanna count yourselves seriously lucky! :lol:
Tell us all about it. It's good to talk....
Other than all the major bollocks (divorce and general youthfull shenanigans that shall not be repeated for legal reasons) there are so many to choose from. Having a girl throw her glass at my head for staring down her top was a bit of a classic. I tried t explain that I was hallucinating Paisley Wallpaper on her cleavage but she was having none of it. :(
Splitting up with my ex for the fourth time that week, going out and ending up doing the "wild monkey dance" with some other girl then waking up, in her bed and getting the "can we just talk about this" phone call with a naked girl asleep next to me I kinda feel bad about. She did make me breakfast tho. :)
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That's all you lot have to regret?! Christ! You wanna count yourselves seriously lucky! :lol:
Tell us all about it. It's good to talk....
Other than all the major bollocks (divorce and general youthfull shenanigans that shall not be repeated for legal reasons) there are so many to choose from. Having a girl throw her glass at my head for staring down her top was a bit of a classic. I tried t explain that I was hallucinating Paisley Wallpaper on her cleavage but she was having none of it. :(
Splitting up with my ex for the fourth time that week, going out and ending up doing the "wild monkey dance" with some other girl then waking up, in her bed and getting the "can we just talk about this" phone call with a naked girl asleep next to me I kinda feel bad about. She did make me breakfast tho. :)
and you feel bad about that??
what did she make you for breakfast tho?
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Fubar, the cleavage is a source of many misadventures for me. I remember once leaning on a bar telling some girl that she had great knockers. What I did not know is that I had managed the almost impossible: pressing the call button on my mobile, which dialled my girlfriend and enabled her to hear me compliment another woman's top shelf....oh dear
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and you feel bad about that??
what did she make you for breakfast tho?
I do feel kinda bad about it, but hey, whaddaya gonna do?! And...iirc, it was toast and coffee. You don't want anything too heavy after a night on the sauce. :wink:
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ya can't beat a nice greasy fryup to cure a hangover
usually with a beer
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Fubar, the cleavage is a source of many misadventures for me. I remember once leaning on a bar telling some girl that she had great knockers. What I did not know is that I had managed the almost impossible: pressing the call button on my mobile, which dialled my girlfriend and enabled her to hear me compliment another woman's top shelf....oh dear
It's always the breasts that do it, man...
*stares the thousand yard stare*
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Breasts are so worth the effort
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ya can't beat a nice greasy fryup to cure a hangover
usually with a beer
Depends on the circumstances. This truly works best if you have the full Irish Breakfast at Barney's Breakfast Bar in Amsterdam whilst sampling a vapouriser full of their "Willy Nelson" green. IMO one of the finest establishments on the planet!
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Patented hangover cure:
1. If possible before sleep, 2 pints of water, one mixed with diarolyte (that nasty stuff you drink when you have the shites). If not have it in the morning.
2. Morning, a berroca vitamin tablet.
3. Bacon and egg butty (x 2 if necessary). 3 cups of tea.
4. Can of coke for elevenses.
5. A couple of pints at lunch followed by a good sleep.
6. Afternoon in the pub.
REPEAT
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I kinda wish I got hangovers now, just so I had an excuse to eat nice greasy fry ups at the weekend :lol:
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i just get so smashed that im still drunk in the morning, then as the hangover comes into play, it can be merged with the lunchtime pub visit
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the worst one is waking up more than okay , in fact feeling grand (probably still drunk) and then by dinner thinking "oo er I think I am about to expire", getting covered by a cold sweat and wondering whether your mates will really miss ou when you are gone.
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I kinda wish I got hangovers now, just so I had an excuse to eat nice greasy fry ups at the weekend :lol:
Stick at it my young paduoan, they will come with practise! :twisted:
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I dont think they will, theres been nights where I've had around 8-10 beers (and other things..) and still woke up the next morning feeling fine :?
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I dont think they will, theres been nights where I've had around 8-10 beers (and other things..) and still woke up the next morning feeling fine :?
well then that;s your problem....drink more than 10 beers
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Staying up all night is the best way to avoid a hangover- sleeping in between drinking sessions is asking for trouble.
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It's better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you haven't.
rgds
Ol.
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Very true Ol very true.
The old way of saying it was'It's better to have loved and lost than to have never have loved at all'
I swapped a 62' Srat for 20 Bensons once!
Not really! :D :roll: :lol:
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is the 62 strat v a packet of benny hedgehogs a joke?
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Theres so many guitars i've let go I shouldnt have
Gibson Les Paul Standard, Ibanez JEM7VWH, Ibanez RG7620, Music Man John Petrucci, Peavey Wolfgang, Peavey Vandenberg, Ibanez S520EX, Fender Contemporary Standard Strat (1986)... god the list goes on for ages.. But you cant regret it all, and looking back at things through a rose tinted glass isnt going to help either.
I'll tell u now i spend all day thinking that strat i sold was the best sounding guitar i've ever heard but I honestly dont think it would hold up against the stuff I have now..
oh and heres a list of amps i regret selling..
Marshall JCM800, JCM900 SLX, JCM900 MkIII, ENGL Screamer 50.. but none of them are as good as the one i have now muhahaha!
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Guitarwise I regret not buying a 68 (or possibly 69) Thinline Tele for £125 way back in 83 because I wouldn't borrow the last 20 quid of my folks :(
Apparently it was previously owned by Adrian Gurvitz (pardon spelling) who had previously worked with Ginger Baker (amongst others) ofcourse that was before he released that really sh1t song 'Classic' (which probably devalued the guitar by a considerable sum for all of eternity.)
Most other things I regret are too depressing to be mentioned.
Rob...
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Blimey, Baker Gurvitz Army, now theres a name from the past. I regret selling my Laney Klipp years ago anletting it go for next to nothing.
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I dont think they will, theres been nights where I've had around 8-10 beers (and other things..) and still woke up the next morning feeling fine :?
Bah, you're hardly trying! :P :lol:
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I dont think they will, theres been nights where I've had around 8-10 beers (and other things..) and still woke up the next morning feeling fine :?
Bah, you're hardly trying! :P :lol:
I never had a hangover till I was 26 and I was trying (still have the scars to prove it).
Rob...
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I dont think they will, theres been nights where I've had around 8-10 beers (and other things..) and still woke up the next morning feeling fine :?
Bah, you're hardly trying! :P :lol:
I never had a hangover till I was 26 and I was trying (still have the scars to prove it).
Rob...
You're never truly a man until you've been hospitalised with alcoholic poisoning! :lol: :P
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You're never truly a man until you've been hospitalised with alcoholic poisoning! :lol: :P
been there
i think the term on my medical record was 'acute alcohol poisoning'
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perhaps the nurses fancied you CJ ( groan ).
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I dont think they will, theres been nights where I've had around 8-10 beers (and other things..) and still woke up the next morning feeling fine :?
Bah, you're hardly trying! :P :lol:
Too true - The first (and so far only) hang over I ever had was after drinking a bottle of whisky, neat, in the space of about 10 minutes...next thing I know I'm sitting in the local McDonalds and it's 9 hours later
That was a bad hangover though, and Tom - It's not something you want to rush to experience :drink: :lol:
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The hangover that only really starts a couple of hours after you wake up and carries on for a couple of days are the worst.
Those are usually preceeded by passing out mid sentance several hours before (on one occasion totalling the potted plants in a Redditch chip shop). I didn't drink for several months after that and still can't stand the smell of certain beers :(
Rob...
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That sounds VERY similar to my experience - I couldn't stand for the whole next day (after sleeping) and was still throwing up the day after...
And even now, a year on, I don't drink anywhere near as often as I used to
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when i got the ol' poisoning, i couldn't drink anywhere near as much for about.... two, maybe three weeks
then i got smashed again and realised how much fun a couple of bottles of vodka, a crate of red bull, a shopping trolley and a bungee cord can be :D:D:D
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L - O - $%&#ing L!
You've given me some fairly legendary ideas for that shopping trolley and bungee cord - one such idea is tying the cord to a lamppost and the trolley and riding it down the steep ass hill outside my house :drink:
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one of the ones we came up with was to find two poles across a road (preferably with speed humps) and cone off the road, then tie the bungee cord across the width of the road, then using the magic of elasticity, shopping trolley (usually filled with drunken teenagers) goes WEEEEEEEEEEEE until it hits the speed bump and kinda takes off a bit
although a lot of the time the front of the trolley just stopped ... which hurt
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Well, this steep hill has speed bumps...Maybe the bungee cord isn't needed :P
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Steep stairs, plate glass front door, two compeditive brothers and a pair of space hoppers, what could possibly go wrong ?
Rob...
NO it wasn't me
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Well, this steep hill has speed bumps...Maybe the bungee cord isn't needed :P
the bungee cord is never NEEDed .... it just adds to the fun
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Steep stairs, plate glass front door, two compeditive brothers and a pair of space hoppers, what could possibly go wrong ?
Rob...
NO it wasn't me
HAHAHA!
Reminds me of the time one of my mates ran through a glass door at someones house when being chased with something (cant remember what but it cant have been anything desirable) :D
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:lol: my cousin managed to convince his brother (my other cousin) that if you run fast enough at a greenhouse then you will go straight through
which i suppose is true to a certain extent...
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Selling my Voodoo Strat for 400 quid. I was absolutley broke at the time and a "mate" decided to stick the arm in. bar-steward.
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Selling my Voodoo Strat for 400 quid. I was absolutley broke at the time and a "mate" decided to stick the arm in. bar-steward.
doesn't make sense in my caffeine-saturated head....please simplify :)
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Stick the arm in: Phrasal verb. Financially, To kick a man when he's down. To extract maximum profit for minimum goods or vice versa.
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aaaah i getsya
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fun while drinking? riding a surf baord down the stairs, paddling a two man canoe down the same stairs (both times the turn in the middle was a bitch), mentioning at three in the morning that "there's a good festival in Donegal this weekend" then waking up several hours later in the back of a van in Donegal!
regrets? well, they're mostly to do with women, and when i think about it i probably don't really regret them at all!
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I am off to the pub in an hour or so for a night out, I have a rare few days off. Any suggested regrets gratefully received.
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OOH ... get a bungee cord and a video recorder
:D :D
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Drunken Regrets?
Stealing a wheelbarrow and riding it down the stairs. into a plate glass window...
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I got a new one. I wore a pair of old trainers to the pub, with meshy fabric stuff all over........
sick seeps through.....
he he he (evil laugh) well I suffered !!!
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a crowd of us stayed in Tralee, County Kerry.
well, i regret that, the bit where we took a wheelbarrow from a building site, were followed home by the cops and spent the night answering questions and giving various alternative names and addresses was actually kinda funny!! :lol:
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Just got back from Ireland (family is from Sligo) I regret getting drunk every night for 7 nights.
Good god.
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Liam, do you find that Irish people are never happy unless everyone around them is (at least on the way to getting) drunk?
I remember going to my (irish) grandmother's house when I was about 14, and a conversation that went something like:
"D'you want something to drink James?"
"Yeah, I'll have some water"
"Are you sure? I've got whiskey"
:drink: :lol:
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He he. I am a paid up English man (you know all Logbows and Steak and Kidney puds). Then I found out all my "real" as opposed to "adopted" family is English...no matter, well all drink too much, far too much.
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that should read WE' ALL not WELL. god I cannot type
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that should read WE' ALL not WELL. god I cannot type
are you drunk?? :lol:
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Going to a little chef on the way home. Basically decided to stop off at a little chef for something to eat and my car was broken into. They stole my White Ibanez Jem, ADA MP-1 three tube modded, Lexicon reverb unit, Carvin poweramp, ADA cabinet simulator, my Scarface DVD :D and a whole bunch of other shite.
I avoid little chefs like the plague now.
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Going to a little chef on the way home. Basically decided to stop off at a little chef for something to eat and my car was broken into. They stole my White Ibanez Jem, ADA MP-1 three tube modded, Lexicon reverb unit, Carvin poweramp, ADA cabinet simulator, my Scarface DVD :D and a whole bunch of other shitee.
I avoid little chefs like the plague now.
...and the food is over-priced and barely edible. Deffinately not your day! :lol:
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Regrets:
1. That mid 80s, when I bought my first guitar, I said I like Mark Knopfler and took the Tokai Strat instead of the Les Paul.
2. That beginning of the 90s when I bought a really expensive Guitar I saved up for a long time, I took the Hamer FloydRose instead of the Charvel Strat.
3. That I gave away my original Ibanez TubeScreamer
4. That I sold my Rivera Knucklehead/Marshall 4x12 at least 400 EUR below value just because I needed the money so badly (for my first Mac:)
5. That I have two broken headstock guitars because of shitey guitar stands on stage
6. That on the greatest gig of my life my cable was too short to walk across stage to the other guitar player to do the back to back posing thing
7. That I had to go through Boogie, 5150, Recto, Rivera, THD and Engl heads before I got the Bogner Shiva
8. That I spent money on other pickups than BKP
9. That I studied economics and not guitar
10. That I bought a too small pedal board :roll: