A quick scan of Reverb shows that you can get a 95-96 Custom 22 10 top with quilted maple for right around $2k - or less. The brand new ones are up there in the $4,500 range, but that strikes me as being more like a nice shiny sports car that depreciates 50% the second you take it off the lot than an "investment"…

I think he played primarily SGs, although he did play Les Pauls too on occasion.

Since I haven't seen it mentioned yet, how about Larry Carlton's solo on "Kid Charlemagne?" 335 straight into a Tweed Deluxe. Fantastic technique, fantastic tone - all in service to a fantastic song. What more can you ask (except that there be gas in the car)?

Korean guitars, in my experience, are almost uniformly excellent.

More like the Lexus of guitars. BMW once made the E30 M3, which was perfect, as long as you didn't need fripperies like AC. Others prefer the E39 M5. Personally, I'll always have a soft spot for the E60 M5 6-speed, even though mine tried to kill me. Those cars looked like regular sedans, but could give any street…

Thanks.

Never plays it the same way twice: Richard Thompson is easily my favorite non-jazz guitarist. My favorite jazz guitarists are in a three-way tie: Jim Hall, Kenny Burrell and the immortal Wes Montgomery.

I guess you're just as entitled to be wrong as the next person.

Because they are ugly, tasteless and overpriced?

Displacing Django Reinhardt? That's kind of like saying Chuck Mangione displaced Miles Davis or Kenny G. displaced John Coltrane. There's no accounting for taste, but seriously. . .

I think Santana is famous for playing a Dumble Overdrive Special, which make Mesas look like a bargain - assuming Alexander Dumble will even sell you one - and he won't.

Peter Laughner's solo at the end of Pere Ubu's "Final Solution."

You are exactly right - that's the guy I was thinking of. Don't get me wrong, I didn't think it was a great documentary.

I don't think they needed to challenge him: he did all the damage to himself he needed just by talking. I don't actually remember it that well: mostly I remember that one guy seemed to be quite nice, and that Varg disliked Christianity as a consequence of anti-Semitism. It was a brief peek at an alien subculture…

Kind of. One of the Mayhem guys - not Varg - seems funny and down-to-earth. The rest of them are barking mad. It's definitely not as funny.

"I love their Mr. Blue Sky/ Almost my favorite is Turn to Stone/ and how 'bout Telephone Line?/ I love that ELO." Personally, I used to wake up to the news, but in the interest of not killing myself, I'm giving silence a try.

I get it although he did use and EMS filter (I dimly recall - I saw a doc once where he showed off his synths). My greater point is that synthesis is more of a process than an actual instrument. When you take a sound wave and filter part of its harmonic frequency, you've committed subtractive synthesis. There is a…

I got heavily into synths for a while. There's a college textbook about synthesis - I think it's called Refining Sound - that explains synthesis in some depth, although it mostly focuses on subtractive synthesis, which is what all the classic analog synths (the big Moog modulars, the Minimoog D, ARP, EMS, Oberheim,…

I'm glad to hear it! That's a great song too - I could easily see adding it. In an earlier iteration, I had The Next Four Weeks from the Black Sheep Boy Supplements. That and Our Life - which would follow chronologically - would have a nice flow. Maybe I'll give that a try myself.

Most would say I'm Your Man -and they are used very prominently there - but there are synths all over Various Positions.