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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Location: London, UK
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Heres a good quote from Ed's site, he is trying to flog some curly cables, and as we all know 99.9% of curly cables are rubbish, so Ed has probably been shipped a box of 5,000 so heres his spin on how to get rid of them:
'Hey, did ya' ever wonder how Hendrix got that distinctive dreamy tone? Well we don't know either! Jimi Hendrix always used a Coiled Cable probably for the convenience. It seems although that the coiling of the cable delivered a subtle resistance to the signal path. This may be a small part of the reason that it's harder today to get some of those retro tones back when coiled cables were common.'
'Subtle resistence to the signal path' ?? come on Ed how long did it take you to think of that one? i think Jimi used them cos they were new, and different and cool, no other reason, if there had been a pink plastic see through strat he would have used it. And on the OLP models he states they come with Black/Black seymour duncan pups, but shows the picture with zebra pups, and you never actauly see a picture of the stated black/black duncans. |
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1bassleft
Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 3951
Location: "Hit The North"
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Lee, glad you're over the missing DVD  . That's a good one. On another forum (which makes me, in ER's eyes, the biggest pile of faggots since the Salem Witch-hunts) there was a sudden rush of 'coily cable' ironic jokes.
I love that "how to capture that vintage tone" stuff. It occassionally makes me swing a handbag ( again). I read crud like where the Fender truss rod adjuster is best placed, scratchplate materials, etc. ER is right, coiled cables are cack - total impedance nightmares. Oh, hang on, they're the "missing link" in the Holy Grail of the Hendrix Tone. Cancel those lessons... |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 12:00 am Post subject: |
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I checked my post today, and guess what? no DVD, im trying to forget but its difficult, i cant sleep some nights, other nights i wake up at 3 in the morning after having nightmares about it, it wont be long before im under the doctor with it, these people and their promises, they dont know the chaos and carnage they leave behind...... i'll keep everyone posted on this, it might run and run..  |
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1bassleft
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Location: "Hit The North"
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I've got this strange image of Lee "under the Doctor", with the runs, trying to find a DVD. Please, for all our sakes, guitarscamofamerica.com, send the man his disk  |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
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Location: London, UK
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| Even Ed would have sent one by now, my nerves are in tatters, i just dont think i can take any more, HitchHikers guide to the galaxy looks good though, anyone seen it yet? I bet it cant live up to Alien Vs Predator, what a film that was. |
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1bassleft
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 1:35 am Post subject: |
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| I can feel my anorak rustling, but I'm a semi-"Hitchikers" expert/nerd. I remeber the '80s BBC TV series making a right mess of the original. Hope the film's better... |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Location: London, UK
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| The guy out of 'The Office' looks good in the main part, is it Ford Prefect? i read the book at school and cant remeber that much about it, i remember like you the BBC tv series was a bit of a low budget hash, but it had some good bits too. |
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