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The education on the Gibson was great. Thanks!
Now…have you noticed the seller of the Gibson has no feedback as a seller?
Check with the guys at http://www.ibanezcollectors.com.
Wonder what he eventually got?
You can buy some great Ibanez guitars for not much money on e-bay. And I’m not talking about the fakes.
I got an SA160 flamed maple mahogony body for $300 with hard case, and I’ve seen them for less than that. I also got an RG270 for just over $100, looks like it’s never been played.
If you go for some of the Artcore stuff, you can pay big bucks, though.
Did you see the photo of a four-pickup…I think it was a Teisco…some time back, here? It’s hanging on the wall of a restaurant near here!
Thanks for the link. In it, the book I mentioned is referenced:
I bought (at a used book store) a really excellent book about all the instruments the Beatles played, from their very first dime-store and pawn shop instruments till well past their breakup. Fascinating history. I eventually sold it on e-bay, and I’ve never seen another.
Maybe I don’t know what I’m looking at, but I compared the two-pickup version to everything I can find, and it looks right to me. There IS a 3-pickup version. This one has a new list of about $4000, give or take.
[quote=”lee_UK”]They steal other peoples auctions and then relist them.
Very common scam, they always have (0) sales, they dont actualy have the item, neve buy anything from ebayers in China, unless you know they are legit.[/quote]Actually, probably not in this case. If you bid, and pay the extemely high shipping, you will probably get two guitars. And they may even look like the guitars in the photo. But they’ll be cheap Chinese copies.
This has gotten to be an extreme problem with Ibanez, lately. One expert says there are more “Ibanez” guitars made in China than Hoshino makes around the world, including in THEIR Chinese factory. Most of the copies are really bad, often hundreds having the same serial number, etc. If there is an accurate picture of the item, it’s usually not hard to tell that it’s a fake.
Here’s an example. This guy has been around, been booted off e-bay, and just keeps coming back under new ID’s. Take a look at the photos. You’ll see a number of problems, if you know what to look for.
Here are two for less than $400 for the pair! (Yeah, sure.)
OK, I broke down and got the Pulse DVD. Good quality, but I was surprised how flat–both musically and dynamically–Gilmour was on “Learning to Fly.”
[quote=”lee_UK”]Didnt know about the original of that song, thought it was Spanish, So Mexican-Spanish is kinda like US-English? a kind of bastardised form of the pure original language? Jamaican english being the same?[/quote]
I would say Mexican Spanish is farther than what is spoken in Spain than Quebecois French is from Parisien French or Texas English is from the Queen’s English. Most Mexicans in the U.S. are illiterate in two languages.
[quote=”lee_UK”]Once heard a band in Spain playing pop covers, they had a captive audience as most of us were there on holiday and were waiting for the ‘Kids’ disco to start, so we could make ourselves look stupid doing the kids dances.
Anyway, they sang ‘phoneically’ like accoustica says, and some lines sounded clear (usually the chorus) and other lines were very blurred, but has anyone tried to sing La Bamba? imagine how that sounds to a Spainiard?[/quote]I’m guessing that a “Spaniard” might have quite a bit of trouble with the original version, since it was by a CalMex singer. Just as something sung in Quebec would sound mighty strange to someone from Paris.
As far as phonetic singing is concerned, have you never heard the Beatles in German?
Or, for that matter, anything by ABBA?
