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[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Posted by Patrikas (here)
Hi to all in the village ,newcomers and such ,
Happy belated Valentines to you all wherever you may be.

Just thought i,d add this too .......

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sH0uR2u7Hs

That's one of my favorite albums, Dejá vu. My favorite track form that album is:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXenEK0h6qg

"I guess I felt like letting my freak flag fly..."

and live:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mCKLt7A6sA

Check out that freaking axe that Stills is playing!

[Calz]

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)

Posted by Patrikas (here)
Hi to all in the village ,newcomers and such ,
Happy belated Valentines to you all wherever you may be.

Just thought i,d add this too .......

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sH0uR2u7Hs

That's one of my favorite albums, Dejá vu. My favorite track form that album is:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXenEK0h6qg

"I guess I felt like letting my freak flag fly..."

and live:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mCKLt7A6sA

Check out that freaking axe that Stills is playing!

Rock on brothers ... make that Deja Three!!!

[REILLY]

Love the CSN&Y.

I had a sighting this morning, while writing a PM. Rock on Redneck ET Jesus!

¤=[Post Update]=¤

Deja Four is more like it, we posted at the same time!

[Calz]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
Love the CSN&Y.

I had a sighting this morning, while writing a PM. Rock on Redneck ET Jesus!

¤=[Post Update]=¤

Deja Four is more like it, we posted at the same time!

Sorry ... only one "thank you" per post.

Mods? Any progress on that ¤=[Post Update]=¤ thank you button???



ummm ... never mind

[Carmody]

Check out that freaking axe that Stills is playing!

It looks like a thin bodied thru-neck. Nice tone for a biting but 'resonant note' lead playing/picking and power chords. And it sounds exactly like that.

Back when artists did things right...they got the note they wanted from the instruments and how the gear was set up. as we moved into the 70's, it began to fall into the gimmick oriented sound.

Frampton comes to mind, with his tube in the mouth. probably set off a bunch of folks thinking that gimmicks sell. they do, but only for their 15 minutes of fame, IMO.

I'm still listening to it. that is a very nice guitar. It very much requires tubes not solid state amplification. Too hard for solid state.

the bridge (and pickup) is right in the middle of the body, so the resonance for the four corners of the guitar are guitar are going to be at their lowest frequency and then harmonics up from that. Plus, most of them will be full strength in output or addition to the given note.

This means, this placement, that this slightly fat tone that bass players get when they play right at the bridge, that this could be part of the natural sound of the guitar. Also, it then has a shorter strings. The guitar was and is built for a fat resonant sound. With a 'bite' to it, due to the short scale (string length), thin body, and hard finish. In the right hands, it is probably a very expressive guitar.

[Calz]

Then there is the OMG I almost cut my *grey* hair version to make us old codgers really feel our age

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWmwvT8bCw

[modwiz]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Check out that freaking axe that Stills is playing!

It looks like a thin bodied thru-neck. Nice tone for a biting but 'resonant note' lead playing/picking and power chords. And it sounds exactly like that.

Back when artists did things right...they got the note they wanted from the instruments and how the gear was set up. as we moved into the 70's, it began to fall into the gimmick oriented sound.

Frampton comes to mind, with his tube in the mouth. probably set off a bunch of folks thinking that gimmicks sell. they do, but only for their 15 minutes of fame, IMO.

I'm still listening to it. that is a very nice guitar. It very much requires tubes not solid state amplification. Too hard for solid state.

the bridge (and pickup) is right in the middle of the body, so the resonance for the four corners of the guitar are guitar are going to be at their lowest frequency and then harmonics up from that. Plus, most of them will be full strength in output or addition to the given note.

This means, this placement, that this slightly fat tone that bass players get when they play right the bridge, that this could be part of the natural sound of the guitar. Also, it then has a shorter strings. The guitar was and is built for a fat resonant sound. With a 'bite' to it, due to the short scale (string length), thin body, and hard finish. In the right hands, it is probably a very expressive guitar.

Looks to be some version of a Gibson Firebird. Current price is $1649.00

[Carmody]

Posted by modwiz (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)

Check out that freaking axe that Stills is playing!

It looks like a thin bodied thru-neck. Nice tone for a biting but 'resonant note' lead playing/picking and power chords. And it sounds exactly like that.

Back when artists did things right...they got the note they wanted from the instruments and how the gear was set up. as we moved into the 70's, it began to fall into the gimmick oriented sound.

Frampton comes to mind, with his tube in the mouth. probably set off a bunch of folks thinking that gimmicks sell. they do, but only for their 15 minutes of fame, IMO.

I'm still listening to it. that is a very nice guitar. It very much requires tubes not solid state amplification. Too hard for solid state.

the bridge (and pickup) is right in the middle of the body, so the resonance for the four corners of the guitar are going to be at their lowest frequency and then harmonics up from that. Plus, most of them will be full strength in output or addition to the given note.

This means, this placement, that this slightly fat tone that bass players get when they play right the bridge, that this could be part of the natural sound of the guitar. Also, it then has a shorter strings. The guitar was and is built for a fat resonant sound. With a 'bite' to it, due to the short scale (string length), thin body, and hard finish. In the right hands, it is probably a very expressive guitar.

Looks to be some version of a Gibson Firebird.

yes, I was thinking Gibson, as they did a lot of thru necks in that time period, IIRC. at least compared to what I've seen. The thin body means it might be the cheapie version? Those can sound fabulous, like the little cheap 'teenage' esquires and the like. Probably Gibson's version of an esquire. That is what your supplied photo seems to be speaking.

thru-neck means that the given guitar is unrepairable, but as far as I'm concerned the trade offs are worth every issue and cent. The fenders always sounded 'dirty' to me in a inharmonious way, due to the separate neck issue. a thru neck means one would have to be a responsible guitar owner. properly done, a thru neck can't warp. But it can nearly double the cost of purchasing that unwarpable guitar.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by modwiz (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)

Check out that freaking axe that Stills is playing!

It looks like a thin bodied thru-neck. Nice tone for a biting but 'resonant note' lead playing/picking and power chords. And it sounds exactly like that.

Back when artists did things right...they got the note they wanted from the instruments and how the gear was set up. as we moved into the 70's, it began to fall into the gimmick oriented sound.

Frampton comes to mind, with his tube in the mouth. probably set off a bunch of folks thinking that gimmicks sell. they do, but only for their 15 minutes of fame, IMO.

I'm still listening to it. that is a very nice guitar. It very much requires tubes not solid state amplification. Too hard for solid state.

the bridge (and pickup) is right in the middle of the body, so the resonance for the four corners of the guitar are going to be at their lowest frequency and then harmonics up from that. Plus, most of them will be full strength in output or addition to the given note.

This means, this placement, that this slightly fat tone that bass players get when they play right the bridge, that this could be part of the natural sound of the guitar. Also, it then has a shorter strings. The guitar was and is built for a fat resonant sound. With a 'bite' to it, due to the short scale (string length), thin body, and hard finish. In the right hands, it is probably a very expressive guitar.

Looks to be some version of a Gibson Firebird.

yes, I was thinking Gibson, as they did a lot of thru necks in that time period, IIRC. at least compared to what I've seen. The thin body means it might be the cheapie version? Those can sound fabulous, like the little cheap 'teenage' esquires and the like. Probably Gibson's version of an esquire. That is what your supplied photo seems to be speaking.

thru-neck means that the given guitar is unrepairable, but as far as I'm concerned the trade offs are worth every issue and cent. The fenders always sounded 'dirty' to me in a inharmonious way, due to the separate neck issue. a thru neck means one would have to be a responsible guitar owner. properly done, a thru neck can't warp. But it can nearly double the cost of purchasing that unwarpable guitar.

To comment on the thruneck style and also on your original comment, "Back when artists did things right...they got the note they wanted from the instruments and how the gear was set up.", I think that was best typified by Owsley "Bear" Stanley, Phil Lesh, and Jerry Garcia. Notwithstanding the Wall of Sound, Bear was an absolute genius and pioneered the Dead's sound, and took it places where no one else, with maybe the exception of Zappa, was going at the time. Their sound was primarily accomplished by using nothing other than McIntosh equipment, made in Binghapmton, NY. My favorite of Garcia's guitars was the Travis Bean, which he played form '74-'79. The Bean had a solid aluminum neck which ran straight through the entire body with the pickups located on the aluminum neck. I have always wanted one, but alas, I don't have several thousand dollars laying around.



Whether you dig the Dead or not, they put more deadication (slight pun intended) into the sound and technicality of their music than any band that I have studied, again, excepting Zappa, and possibly Floyd.

[dan33]

Love your House Sierra
...and interestings past lives

[dan33]

Thinking about this two music themes from days ago.
Sierra - Japan.... it's the time.

We are All Related.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB_xyy2mOdQ

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGs_vGt0MY8

[Cottage Rose]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Check out that freaking axe that Stills is playing!

It looks like a thin bodied thru-neck. Nice tone for a biting but 'resonant note' lead playing/picking and power chords. And it sounds exactly like that.

Back when artists did things right...they got the note they wanted from the instruments and how the gear was set up. as we moved into the 70's, it began to fall into the gimmick oriented sound.

Frampton comes to mind, with his tube in the mouth. probably set off a bunch of folks thinking that gimmicks sell. they do, but only for their 15 minutes of fame, IMO.

I'm still listening to it. that is a very nice guitar. It very much requires tubes not solid state amplification. Too hard for solid state.

the bridge (and pickup) is right in the middle of the body, so the resonance for the four corners of the guitar are guitar are going to be at their lowest frequency and then harmonics up from that. Plus, most of them will be full strength in output or addition to the given note.

This means, this placement, that this slightly fat tone that bass players get when they play right at the bridge, that this could be part of the natural sound of the guitar. Also, it then has a shorter strings. The guitar was and is built for a fat resonant sound. With a 'bite' to it, due to the short scale (string length), thin body, and hard finish. In the right hands, it is probably a very expressive guitar.

One fact I keep finding myself thinking about is that Preston Nichols, who worked for Brookhaven National Laboratories, states he served as Electrical Engineer for the Montauk Project, and has studied and experimented with multidimensional sound for much of his life using a series of vacuum tube receivers connected to delta-t and other exotic antennas - created sound equipment for JIMI HENDRIX. Multidimensional sound anyone?

He has also stated that he has picked up past and future broadcasts at his personal time/space laboratory in Cairo, New York with the assistance of Montauk psychic Duncan Cameron. It took me some time to wrap my mind around the possibilities. I now personally interpret his testimonies as credible.

Nichols has the capability to distinguish various types of radio transmissions by ear. He states he has a recording of the sound that occurs 12/21/2012 and it is unlike any other sound he has heard before:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84W72Ux3IBE

I find it interesting to hear a description of his equipment and see it in operation in this video. The ending of this video gets rather dark in my opinion. But, Montauk was indeed a dark project in many ways.

I also heard, but cannot locate exactly where at this time, that a recent highly strange electromagnetic anomaly was centered directly over his property.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxcqw_xITE

[Sierra]

Thank you for the blessings everyone. I feel overwhelmed by your kindness.

Viral Spiral, I've created an album of the new house on my profile.

Sierra

[Cottage Rose]

Posted by Sierra (here)
Thank you for the blessings everyone. I feel overwhelmed by your kindness.

Viral Spiral, I've created an album of the new house on my profile.

Sierra

Beautiful home, Sierra. Congratulations!

[Carmody]

And one of the original soundmen for the Dead, is a friend of mine. Small world....(he shall remain nameless)

[astrid]

Our beloved Ulli has arrived safely and wishes that i send her greetings to all at the Village,
she has only phone internet access right now, but I'm sure she will be with us here all soon enough.

sending her a big

:

[benevolentcrow]

Posted by Sierra (here)
Thank you for the blessings everyone. I feel overwhelmed by your kindness.

Viral Spiral, I've created an album of the new house on my profile.

Sierra

Lovely place, love the views. Looks like a little piece of paradise. Such character! Enjoy your new home. We should have more photos of Villager's homes.

[Sierra]

Posted by astrid (here)
Our beloved Ulli has arrived safely and wishes that i send her greetings to all at the Village,
she has only phone internet access right now, but I'm sure she will be with us here all soon enough.

Oh good! Thank you Astrid!

Love, Sierra

[Carmody]

apparently, this is the one true and correct valentine's day display.



it's supposed to be done with a real human skull. st. valentine's skull, to be exact.

Skull and roses: "The skull and roses design was composed by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse, who added lettering and color, respectively, to a black and white drawing by Edmund Joseph Sullivan. Sullivan's drawing was an illustration for a 1913 edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Earlier antecedents include the custom of exhibiting the relic skulls of Christian martyrs decorated with roses on their feast days. The rose is an attribute of Saint Valentine who according to one legend was martyred by decapitation. Accordingly, in Rome, at the church dedicated to him, the observance of his feast day included the display of his skull surrounded by roses.[56] This was discontinued in the late 1960s when Valentine was removed from the Roman Catholic canon along with other legendary saints whose lives and deeds could not be confirmed. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead

[Sierra]

Carmody,

Are you sleeping yet? Have you tried Tryptophane (essential amino acid)? I'm using "Doctor's BEST L-Tryptophan Enhanced with Vit. B6&Niacinamide", 500 mg L-Tryptophan/90 Veggie caps.

Very relaxing, puts me to sleep.

Here is a site for the side effects, should you experience them. I've used it for decades without a problem, but I do remember the scare when people died, allegedly from a contaminated batch. Since then, have not heard of any problems (other than the threat to remove it from our reach):

http://insomnia.emedtv.com/tryptopha...e-effects.html

Hope you feel better soon.