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Not allowed to have the same listing multiple times.
So maybe that is the seller's way of going around it by using many accounts to get more coverage in searches.
Acounts have similar names and locations that it would appear to be the same seller rather than hijacked or fake accounts.
Nice guitar. .......I was looking to buy a sweet sounding bass quite a few years ago. Searched for around 6 months and played over 100 guitars but couldnt find what I wanted. Popped into a cash converters one day and they had a beaten up, bashed up old vintage Rickenbacker 4001 on the racks. It had a Fender P bass pick-up crudely fitted in place of the original and the back of the guitar was stripped bare with buckle rash.
But it was the nicest bass I have ever played. The sustain is incredible. You can pluck a string, go away and make a cup of coffee and it will still be ringing when you get back ( well almost....
) The fretboard has a beautiful action and the resonance is amazing. You can feel the body of the guitar vibrating as the strings are played. Needless to say I handed over $1250 for it and have loved it ever since. I wont ever part with it, as it has become one of my most treasured possesions.
Its had a hard life, been knocked around and beat up, but underneath the crusty exterior is an honest, genuine, hard working treasure.
I had a similar experience at Cashies chamo, I walked into one and spotted one of the original hand-made Washburn accoustic guitars on the wall and nearly tore the stitching out of my back pocket to get the wallet out !!!!! It's since been fitted with a nice bridge pick-up, and like yours sustains seemingly forever.
I won't tell you what I paid for it otherwise you'd be throwing heavy blunt objects in my direction
@padi*0409 wrote:I had a similar experience at Cashies chamo, I walked into one and spotted one of the original hand-made Washburn accoustic guitars on the wall and nearly tore the stitching out of my back pocket to get the wallet out !!!!! It's since been fitted with a nice bridge pick-up, and like yours sustains seemingly forever.
I won't tell you what I paid for it otherwise you'd be throwing heavy blunt objects in my direction
It seems if you can feel the body of a guitar vibrating when a string is plucked, it will resonate nicely. The stronger the vibration, the greater the resonance and sustain. The vibrations also usually indicate a richer, fuller instrument sound. This is one of the first things we look for now when buying a guitar. Pluck a string and feel for vibration in the guitar body.
The missus plays lead guitar and has a small collection of very nice guitars. Her work hack when we played in bands was a G & L strat. It was one of the early ones, hand made in a small factory by Leo Fender, after he sold the Fender company to the Japanese. ( with certificate of authenticity, signed in biro by Leo Fender ... ) The body of this one vibrates like you wouldnt believe. She was still regularly playing in bands throughout her pregnacy with our son, until 8 months of term and we usually had the volume crancked up pretty well.
The son is a bit of a musical genious and leaves both me and the missus for dead with his musical feel and song writing abilities. ( rap and Hip Hop.) He's just done his first interstate club gig and has a Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane tour coming up in a couple of weeks, booked by a national music promoter. ( Yes we are very worried parents, but you have to let them go one day.....
) While some of it is probably genetic, I have often wondered how much of his musical ability is down to the vibrations and sound he would have been exposed to in-vitro.
I havnt played for a while either. Carpel tunnel in the wrists and beggered voice. I,ve had the carpel tunnels done so no excuse now really.
The missus was a sound engineer and worked the desk for one of our early bands that played regular pub gigs in SA & Victoria. We dated and ended up getting married. After that we mainly ran as a three piece, Myself on bass and vocals, the missus on six string and slotting in one of several drummers we used, depending on who was available. Occasionally we added rythm guitar and harmonica or a backing vocalist if we got a bigger support gig.
We where regularly playing some of the larger venues that the major touring acts played. ..........We where like the little filler, no name band they had on when none of the majors where touring.......
, but this did get us a few support gigs for some of the big names.
Probably the highlight was an open air support for one of Australias living legends. No Name, but a clue. He,s got a documentry on his life out at the moment...... This was with the full touring stage and concert PA system, speakers 5 metres high and ten metres wide each side of the stage. It was one of the highlights of my life to feel the thump of that sound system up close and to experience a concert like that from the stage rather than the crowd. The kids where old enough to attend the concert with granny, so got to see mum and dad on the big stage too.
Unfortunately its just memories now. Time for the next generation to take up the batton and run with it. The lad is just getting going, but one of the South OZ. girls he has written and played music with a couple of years ago is currently in America touring as support for an international Rap band, so anything is possible.
@padi*0409 wrote:I don't know what it's like over your way chamo, but when I was still living in Perth the amount of pubs doing live gigs was diminishing all the time, so it was getting really hard for musicians to get a live gig anywhere - and those pubs that were still doing it expected the whole band to play all night for a couple of hundred bucks...............
Most of the musicians I know that have made it have had to go to europe or the US to break into the scene, and of those they are not producing CD's anymore and are just going through Utube etc.
Sad really, I don't think we realised back in the 70's or so how lucky we were as regards music.
Edit. One bright star on the horizon is the local Blues at Bridgetown weekend next month..............YAY.
We where lucky enough to get started in bands in the glory days before the pokies came in. Back then every large regional centre had a major pub or specialist venue that had a band on every Friday & Saturday night. The well known bands such as the Hoodo Gurus, Angels, Mondo Rock, Chior boys etc. where doing regular tours around the country playing the regional centres and the footy clubs and smaller country pubs often had bands on as well.
One of the bands I was in tried to climb the greasy pole and borrowed $20,000 ( big money back then for a bunch of lads ) to buy a large ex hire concert PA and lighting rig. This was hauled around in a big old ex hire, furniture removal trailer with a couple of clapped out panel vans. Having the right stage gear got us in the door to some of the bigger venues and larger outdoor shows and becuase we supplied the equipment, we where the headline act when three or four bands where booked.
We would head off on weekends and do mini tours. Leave Friday morning and drive a couple of hundred km.s to a regional centre, set up and play Friday night. Sleep at the venue and move on next day to another Saturday night gig and if we where lucky, get a Sunday arvo beer garden gig somewhere. If we where playing in Adelaide we regularly went to the RAAF base on Sunday arvos and boy did those guys know how to Party....
The money from the bigger venues was pretty reasonable back then and it was great fun. Later when the missus & myself where married, things where tight on the farm, so we played music in three pieces to help pay the bills. We charged $350 - $450, so me and the missus pocketed up to $300 per gig and had an enjoyable night out to boot.
We never made a fortune or hit the big time, but we earned some handy cash, made some good friends and had an absolute blast.
Just looking at what the lad is doing it appears artists record their music at home and put it on the internet. They develop followers as a fan base and artists with similar music styles collaborate and communicate on the internet, even writing and recording songs remotely. They also sometimes get together in person to record.
The lad has been lucky to get accepted by a small group of slightly older musos in Adelaide. One of these guys is one of Adelaides leading Hip Hop artists who has a large online fan base and is already playing regular gigs and doing interstate shows. My lad is probably more introverted, but musically gifted, while the other guy knows how to promote himself better. The son and this guy have been working closely together and this has opened the door to the club gigs and promoters for him. He started off doing guest spots on the other guys gigs and has now moved onto his own solo sets.
The interstate gigs are a bit of a worry as we dont know the venues or promoters and the lad is still pretty young and inexperienced, but we cant wrap them in cotton wool for ever. We are just crossing our fingers and hoping he comes through it all safetly and has some great experiences along the way.
