Recent content by Rhythmisking

Either Elixer Optiweb, or DR Pure Blues (for guitars that tend a bit bright). Always 10-46.

Maybe...but I'm not younger than many people at this point. Fortunately there's a lot of 'old guys' in the band so I don't feel too aged.

Not a PRS..not even a guitar. I'm playing alto (middle guy in the horn section) at a gig last month.

Besides guitars, I guess it's liquor. I love 'cocktailing', and have a better equipped bar than many actual bars. Probably 15-20 different amaro, and as many different types of bitters, in addition to many oddities and all the usual base liquors. Bourbon and American whiskeys are a favorite...

ESL?

Victor Wooten is the man. His book 'The Music Lesson' should be required reading for any music curriculum. The things is, the player has to serve the music, because the music itself is what is important. Theory is often helpful for communication between musicians, and as a starting point. For...

The 2011 Santana in my avatar. I saw it on the local craigslist for ridiculously cheap, and, being someone always on the lookout for seriously underpriced guitars, I immediately snagged it. The college kid selling it even delivered it to my house. He said he was going back to school in a few...

There was one on reverb last week that was better than this one, but still obviously fake. The guy had included a bunch of close up pics of many of the very things that made it obviously not a real PRS, so I figured he didn't know. I messaged him to tell him (in a friendly way) and he replied...

Quite true, plus the quality of relatively inexpensive import guitars and their consistency is typically superior to their American made ancestors from the 70's and 80's

Yes and no. I think of playability more as 'ease of play'; the physical mechanics of the strings and the neck: The action height, intonation, comfort of the neck profile, and the feel of all of that in your hands. I think of responsiveness as the instrument producing changes in tone and timbre...

You sure about that? I know some people...:oops:

It's none of those for me, first is responsiveness, then sound/playability. Responsiveness to me is an instrument that gives something back when you're playing it, like there's a give and take. It's a sort of sensuality I guess, that has to do with the tactile feel and sound, but also how the...

Not ironically bad lyrics (Steel Panther)?

I was going to get that as soon as it dropped it's price, but then I looked around at the 30 guitars staring at me from every corner of the room and lost the initiative. CONGRATULATIONS!!

Keepers tend to end up getting modded, ones I'm unsure about tend to stay stock to make selling them easier. An often misunderstood reality of used guitars is: a $500 guitar, to which you've added $500 in mods, is worth... ...wait for it... $500. Maybe $550 if you manage to find a buyer who...