Having Fun this weekend...

gutpile · Post by **gutpile** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:01 pm

no wife, no dogs, lotta beer & tone... it's a guy weeekend!!!

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:20 pm

I don't even have enough space left in the Man Cave to do a family spread like that. I'd lay everything out and couldn't get the camera back far enough to take the shot.

Next house needs a bigger basement. And a bigger garage. Or a bigger garage with a nice room above like Chief's.........

gutpile · Post by **gutpile** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:36 am

Flames1950 wrote:I don't even have enough space left in the Man Cave to do a family spread like that. I'd lay everything out and couldn't get the camera back far enough to take the shot.

Next house needs a bigger basement. And a bigger garage. Or a bigger garage with a nice room above like Chief's.........

Lucky for me "my" space is the basement!! 1200 sqft for my toys!

fillmore nyc · Post by **fillmore nyc** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 1:31 am

Very nice family portrait, my friend!! What amp is that with the gold square logo, third from the left?? Looks like an old Marshall, but hard to tell from the pics.

killpop99 · Post by **killpop99** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:48 am

Are those Weber Mass's I see? How do you like them?

gutpile · Post by **gutpile** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:54 am

fillmore nyc wrote:Very nice family portrait, my friend!! What amp is that with the gold square logo, third from the left?? Looks like an old Marshall, but hard to tell from the pics.

That is my JTM45 Metro amp with a great looking block logo from Chris Stokes! The Weber Mass 150 works great for me, I also have a Hotplate... both do the job adequately!! too many Heine's last night.. my head hurts

Post by **VelvetGeorge** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:10 am

Take some aspirin, brush your teeth, get in the car.......bring Matt, and meet me in Lansing at Elderly Instruments. Afterwards, lunch on me.

VG

NY Chief · Post by **NY Chief** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:23 pm

VelvetGeorge wrote:Take some aspirin, brush your teeth, get in the car.......bring Matt, and meet me in Lansing at Elderly Instruments. Afterwards, lunch on me.

VG

Gee, thanks G. I'm getting on my scoot and I'll be there shortly!!!

Andy, anytime you wanna come make noise in the attic you're welcome!

OK, Mr. Mike...why do I not see a bada bing hat in that pic????

You're gonna make me get the family out aren't ya?

NitroLiq · Post by **NitroLiq** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:08 pm

Man, I really need to move to the 'burbs.

Post by **VelvetGeorge** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:02 pm

Man, I wish all of you guys could have been there today. Frog (the infamous vintage guitar guru from Elderly) blew me away. I asked about Strats, we chatted for a few minutes then he said "hold on". A few minutes later he comes out of the vault with a completely original '63 Strat!!!!!!!!

The price tag was a meager $22,000!

I had the unbelievable fortune of comparing half a dozen new Fenders to the real deal. Many were nice I'll admit, but none captured everything the original has. I played the Eric Johnson (great PU's), the John Mayer, the Jimmy Vaughn, relics, custom shop 50's, 60's you name it.

Finally, he brought out a Nash 60's. Whoa! That guitar felt like an old friend. It had 90% of what I experienced playing the real '63. The price on it was $1650 (which I don't have so I left empty handed). But I'll be watching Ebay.

I thought the Nash had just as much vibe as the relic Fenders going for $2500-3500. Cool Strats! And I'm a hopeless Les Paul guy. LOL

VG

thousandshirts · Post by **thousandshirts** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:25 pm

VelvetGeorge wrote:Man, I wish all of you guys could have been there today.

Elderly's website makes me all giddy. Always has. . . Probably a good thing they are 2000 miles away. Definitely on the list of places to visit, though, and stories like yours are very cool to hear. You do need a good Strat, George. Business expense, right?

HARLEYIII · Post by **HARLEYIII** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:27 am

And my woman wonders why I dont want to get married

MacGaden · Post by **MacGaden** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 4:03 am

VelvetGeorge wrote:Man, I wish all of you guys could have been there today. Frog (the infamous vintage guitar guru from Elderly) blew me away. I asked about Strats, we chatted for a few minutes then he said "hold on". A few minutes later he comes out of the vault with a completely original '63 Strat!!!!!!!!

The price tag was a meager $22,000!

I had the unbelievable fortune of comparing half a dozen new Fenders to the real deal. Many were nice I'll admit, but none captured everything the original has. I played the Eric Johnson (great PU's), the John Mayer, the Jimmy Vaughn, relics, custom shop 50's, 60's you name it.

Finally, he brought out a Nash 60's. Whoa! That guitar felt like an old friend. It had 90% of what I experienced playing the real '63. The price on it was $1650 (which I don't have so I left empty handed). But I'll be watching Ebay.

I thought the Nash had just as much vibe as the relic Fenders going for $2500-3500. Cool Strats! And I'm a hopeless Les Paul guy. LOL

VG

I agree with you on the CS-strats: I

gutpile · Post by **gutpile** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:44 pm

NY Chief wrote: OK, Mr. Mike...why do I not see a bada bing hat in that pic????
You're gonna make me get the family out aren't ya?

that's because it was on my head!!! We got some great clips of many different amps through many different speakers with a plethora of guitars

I just tried a uploading an unmixed dry version of a 1952 Gibson GA-40 to soundclick and got a little garbled in the conversion to .mp3?? below is the link... It sounds like shit compared to .wav file... I can put it onto a CD (in .wav format) and it sounds great, any ideas why it did this? anyways I mic'd an SM57 in the front and threw a Fathead in the back... the levels on the left side need to come down a little... I had it up to high in the dumpdown... Once I figure out how to get the conversion to .mp3 down I'll make more... We got about every combination of the gear below...

AMPS:
'69 Fender Bassman
'52 Gibson GA-40
Marshall 50w 1987 reissue
Metro 50w
Metro JTM45
Metro 100w
'70 Kustom 150

GUITARS:
LP Std (Skatterbrane PUPS)
LP Classic (SD Antiquity PUPS)
Fender Tele (Fralin PUPS)
Fender Strat (CS '54 PUPS)
Gibson SG ('57 Gibson PUPS)
Danelectro- Stock
'72 Tele Reissue

CABS:
Marshall 4x12 G12M 20w Celestion Heritage
Marshall 4x12 - Stock 75's

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6434670

NY Chief · Post by **NY Chief** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:49 am

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