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It is impossible today, to purchase a Fender. What do you think of a RELIC fender, a reissue, and many more like squier, mexican fenders. Do you here the difference playing an exact copy of a genuine USA Fender.

Same with Gibson. I went to visit the plant in Memphis, where hollow bodies are made: LUCILLE's, 335, 175 and so much more. I was surprised the way they make a guitar, people tell it is automatic, but I prefer "automatic people" with their proper skills, starting from peaces of wood, and ending in the store. I was a little bit shocked when they told us that 20%-30% of guitars, they still stay there a couple of months before going to stores, are DESTROYED JUST BECAUSE THERE IS AN ESTHETIC PROBLEM, like paint , 1 drop to much: destroy the guitar. Why don't they bring those out: another name, and on the headstock, where they write custom and other things, they can write Gibson. Did you know that almost every person working there receive each year a Gibson, influenced a little bit by that part of their job, if they were sick a while, their motivation, but it still stays a nice bonus.

Fender is going 100% crazy. Is the Fender Highway, a lot cheaper, a good sounding guitar. Do you REALLY HEAR THE DIFFERENCE between a Mexican strat and US strat. Also a lot of these guitars are made in Japan, China (very good workers and very motivated), Korea. SEE PRS the SE series, they really approach the US PRS, I do agree that it is not so smooth to play it, an SE. And than all those fender models, you need a year to test them to find a good sounding guitar (you have to test it without using an amp, and when you use an amp, don't change the configuration of this amp, and don't touch volume on the guitar. I am really curious to hear what the "chordies"people think. 1 more thing, is there a lot of difference in sound between a "standard" fender and the newer G&L guitars, also co-founded with Leo Fender. What should a player who likes fender, and has 5000$ in his hands, custom reissues, relics. Same thing with Gibson, they have Epiphone, will it sound different?

Those things are fascinating, and I wrote this topic to share, the more, the better, information, before the guitarist buys a "better instrument", because almost every guitar player in the world like to buy sooner or later, a " BRAND NAME". I have a lot of guitars, but I don't know if you can hear real good the difference between an Epi and a real gibson, I have one Epiphone: Sheraton, increasing in value. What guitar, not TALKING ABOUT THE KIND OF MUSIC YOU PLAY, meaning, ballads, blues to heavy metal. What is so SPECIAL about the PAF humbuckers. 1958-1959-1960 Gibson Les Paul Standards cost more than 200.000$ This is not funny anymore, the reissues like Les Paul, made today but build like Gibson Standard 59, a jimmy page? Even Tokai "Gibsons" become collector's items. Are the 58--> 60 standards THAT better???, more, the Gibson Les Paul Custom, the more expensive Gibson Les Paul Custom, the same period, is about 4 times "cheaper", also with PAF's AND BEING A CUSTOM. I really would love your opinion, as I wrote already, I am disabled due to a car crash in 2000, >I can sit, walk, but it is more and more difficult to go to the store. I also will write an identic topic, concerning acoustics. I THANK you already for participating this topic, or to react. The more reactions, the better. I have a lot of time, I looked everywhere, from harmony central to the fender, gibsonwebsites, but I think that writing this can give me, and especiall new guitarplayers, a decent answer. Don't forget, we may be playing quit good, but a (long) time ago, we were starters too.

I have a topic, but it is in my eyes VERY IMPORTANT, for new, young artists, and musicians playing quit a while. We pick up music the whole day, commercials, radio and some tunes stay in your head.

It is not so difficult this subject. It is as I said very important to a lot of people.

Does someone has found or knows a website with "plagiarism songs".

QUESTION: If you copy an existing song(s)and you change all the lyrics, is this considered as 50% plagiarism???

Like instead of Blowin'in the wind, writing, the question, dear soldier, is shooting on someone else, the question is what will you do. This a new lyric, created in 10"", on the lyrics of Blowin' in the wind. AM I VIOLATING A LAW when I use those LYRICS???

Who likes close harmony groups? Talking about let's think, the bee gees, CSN&Y, Beach Boys.

Who would your list look.

1/ Bee Gees

2/ Beach Boys

3/ Peter Paul and Mary

4/ Crosby,Stills, Nash (& Young)

5/ Beatles: just listen to the song BECAUSE

I want to know, especially concerning big names in the music world, the group with the most funny or special names. I like the name of the group Marylin Manson. There are also names of pop/rockgroups, who started to live their own lives, for instance ALICE COOPER, started as name of a band, wasn't it a guy named Vincent Fournier, who started with a group, named Alice Cooper?

This a weird topic, but it can help people to understand better the drug scene. Probably I mentioned it already, but my profession is medical doctor, with special interests in mental problems, like addiction. It's also a knowledge and very interesting to see, how simple guys show, the younger they are, the more chance to end like this. I would even use the word split personnality.

It is already long ago, but after the dead of Jim Morisson, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin, some music magazines had their own deathlist. On the top, I am speaking of the early seventies, the numbers 1 & 2 were Lou Reed & Keith Richards. The reason why Keith didn't die is like it is with alcohol, and medication, some people taking 1 valium 5mg sleep the whole day, while others can take 50 times more. Alcohol, some people are drunk after 2 glasses, while others are still standing after 25 drinks. I think it is depending on your constitution. Also, the more money you have, the better the quality is. Even when you take coke (classical way: through the nose) you inhale at the same time, from 1gram cocaine, there is maybe left 30%, and 70% real dirty products, ammoniak, it is incredible how they do it. Dealers, making 7 kg out of 1 kg.

If you read a book, like the one BILL WYMAN wrote, they have been through a lot. You know, that there is a theory that the only reason, why Keith Richards is still alive, is because he had always, the highest quality and pure heroin.

I have been MD on the biggest rock festival in Europe, ROCK WERCHTER, and I have to admit that I saw a lot. One example, do you remember the happy mondays?, I had to enter their trailer for a reason, and 10 minutes later, I came out of the trailer, and everything was so funny, and I even didn't smoke, but 10 others did.

I must tell also that there was an evolution in the + direction, most of them are health freaks now.

I can also understand that because of the stress, they wanted to be in a higher level. But aren't there a lot of people, also with a lot of stress. It is sad to see, how talented guys, loose control. Their only boss is king alcohol, with his family: princess Heroine, prince Coke, and they have nephews like xtc and a maid named Mary Huana. What is your opinion on this one?

I see you have answered the first, the most important in a group, roadie, manager, tourmanager.

Sometimes having a manager looks very bad to me. I have my opinion, you have NOT TO BE A SHARK to be a good manager. You need someone who takes care of business, not easy to find. If I was a prof musician, I should go to an headhunter, if required to increase your chances. Still there are groups with big problems with their manager, and through him with the record company. There are more GOOD managers than bad. I also do understand that there will always be programs on the web,for free like napster was, and audiogalaxy. Even these days are gone, you still have big and important music sites mp3 and no money to pay, and if you pay you pay only for $20 (to be legally) for a lifetime. I am sure it harms the record sale, but studies have also proven the opposite. For starting groups, put your song on youtube, and look the reactions. What I should do is give the people only 50% of the song. If you are and there are already rock groups, that have thanks to that site, are projected as stars. I just don't understand, that you can create a site and not asking money for it, like napster in 2000 and 2001, that when they sell this product for big $$$$$$. Where do they get their money: publicity?

The most terrible joke is the "john Fogerty" case. Young and enthousiast they signed contracts that among other hidden traps, contracts who told that songs written by CCR were property of atlantic. It is disgusting on 1 hand, but if you are a painter you make a beautiful painting sold for a lot of money as a unique piece, you are completely wrong if you paint the same for someone else. All those rights are so difficult, see the case of Michael "wacko jacko" Jackson, who purchased every beatle song, which I still can not understand how this was possiblle. I would say that if you can obtain the rights from a very popular hit, only one, should be enough to live a good life without working. I still don't get it that a record company, like sony, can spend millions and millions of $ to sign an artist, who is supposed to bring out 5 full cd's. To come back on music download for free, check the ticket prices, who are now very expensive, mainly because they sell only 5.000.000 albums in stead of 8.000.000 records. You can discuss about this subject for weeks often without finding a solution <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy">  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_eek.gif" border=0 alt="Shocked">

There is 1 thing I can not understand.

You purchase let's say a gibson SG standard with 490R neck and 498T bridge coils, with cover.They throw another gibson SG on the market, like the menace with also 490R and 498T BUT they call them SMOKEY coils, without cover. I have to admit that there is no special paint on it, just wood you see. I visited once the factory in Memphis tenessee, and it is, I think, quit expensive to put the nitrocellulose on the guitar, taking a lot of time.

But my question was more: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A 490R and a 490R=Smokey coil, 498T versus 498T smokey coil. There is quit an important difference when you purchase a gibson sg, and I haven't yet got the occasion to compare.

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