On Jan 30, 10:39*am, Tim wrote:
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On Jan 30, 8:51?am, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:32:09 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:23:45 -0800 (PST), Tim
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On Jan 29, 2:56 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
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Check out the guitars in this video.

By the way, the video is fun too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3l48_EGNdY

Speaking of oddball guiatrs...

Heres one of my favorite research sited on Ruskie electrics.
No vid, but an interesting study....

http://meatexz.com/cheesyguitars/index.html

Made in Bulgary

Where the hell is Bulgary? :)

None of the Nuevo Flamenco guitarists I listen to play weirdo guitars.
And they can really play.

Nobody of any real importance plays weirdo guitars. "Importance" is
defined
as "Will anyone remember them in a few years?"

You mean like Bo Diddley?

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Or Steven Stills
Or Neil Young
Or John Petrucci
In short, their pick of guitars has nothing to do with their ability
or lack of.

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I'm referring more to people whose ONLY claim to "fame" is a strange
instrument.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEUqX...eature=related

Even Stanley Clarke doesn't lean very heavily on the piccolo bass, although
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Have you ever heard of Junior Brown? He's a Julliard trained musician
who found he had a great voice for old style country music, and is one
hell of a guitar player. He wanted to play both lead and steel, so he
invented his own:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcbGWDceOyU&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrYje...eature=related

That guy is a rocket!

I'm amazed that on a couple songs he will take the low E string and
tune it down to B, back and forth to C,D etc, and play a hard hitting
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I saw him by accident at a club, he rocked the joint!