951 Topic by gitaardocphil

(4 replies, posted in Bands and artists)

The performers of course, but this isn't about the performers.
I am aware of the fact that it's like a puzzle and all the pieces form that puzzle.
There are probably a lot of people involved here, like:
- The Sound engineer
- The CEO of a record company
- The public relations person (my sister did this job for a few years, from 1981 to 1986), and I remember me going with her and the band to a bar or discotheque, this job is really hard), these PR people cross around the country to give the record to a lot of radiostations.
This thread is maybe better if we divide it into 2 parts.

- STUDIO and recording
- LIVE PERFORMANCES.

1) Is a MANAGER NEEDED? or can a band function without a manager?
2) On tour, there most of the bands have a TOUR MANAGER.
What is the difference between the manager and the road manager?
For a gig, you need roadies, people tuning guitars (and on a gig, while I was on stage, if I didn't count at least 20 guitars, like 5 identical Fender Telecasters, a few Gibsons, SG's Standards, Customs, and 1 guy with headphones busy to tune all these guitars, and re-checking..

What is the function of the roadmanager?

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952 Topic by gitaardocphil

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Am I right if I write that in those years, a band started touring when they had a brand new album?
I don't believe they were able to make profit. They lost money by touring across the country.
Probably some bands could put money aside, but who?
Building a stage, touring in a bus, and perform.
Roadies, professional guitar tuners and all the SHARKS in their slipstream.

I had for a period of 15 years the privilege to be a Back Stage Doc. The artists were great, but all the others, road managers, bodyguards, they were real "evil".

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953 Reply by gitaardocphil

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06sc500, you use exactly the same system as I do concerning songs. I compare this always with meeting a woman.
The first impression is "her looks", a "wow" feeling, once you know her better, you dig deeper, character, personality.
A song = identical. I fall in love with the MELODY, THE TUNE and NOT THE LYRICS.
If you analyze the lyrics, I am afraid that writing lyrics is a special skill. Go back in timer and analyze or listen to lyrics of famous artists in the 60ties, like NO MILK TODAAY, OH WAHDIDDY DOM DIDDY DOO, great title lovely tune even the Beatles: SHE LOVES YOU YEYEAH.
The melody is what remains at the end.

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954 Topic by gitaardocphil

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Ken, this is about WHISKY.
Scottish people have of course the BEST WHISKY.
But don't the Irish people claim the same? They call it WHISKEY.
IRELAND +USA = WHISKEY
SCOTLAND + CANADA = WHISKY

Why the difference in name? WHO were first in producing WHISK(E)Y, and the ingredients?
What about American WHISKY? Is the name PROTECTED? like Champagne? In France it is remarkable, you own a vineyard and you have the right to name your product CHAMPAGNE.
On the other side of the road, having the same soil, it is not registered as Champagne, since a few months they expanded the "champagne territory"

It's confusing, BOURBON, WHISKY, WHISKEY

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955 Topic by gitaardocphil

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A splendid example of "jive" talking are the two afro-americans sitting together in the "hilarious" movie airplane.
I believe that Jive is slang.
An almost not to understand talking.
WHERE DID THIS KIND OF LANGUAGE COME FROM? New York, like Harlem, Brooklyn?

A second question is about NEW YORK
- MANHATTAN
- THE BRONX
- QUEENS
- BROOKLYN
- STATEN ISLAND
What about HARLEM, isn't it a part of MANHATTAN? I also found that around 1883 when the BROOKLYN bridge was constructed, that this was the first big bridge connecting Manhattan with Brooklyn, at that time still an independent village.
WHO LIVES WHERE in NEW YORK, like Chinese, Afro Americans, Jews, Italians?

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956 Reply by gitaardocphil

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I don't know for sure about the GOLDEN EARRING.
If that band should be an American band, it would be one of the greatest.
I don't know if there was a lot of money left for these guys, because a tour was exhausting and expensive.
- THE LADY SMILES
- TWILIGHT ZONE

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957 Reply by gitaardocphil

(4 replies, posted in Electric)

so I was told, and confirmed on a kind of stupid thing. Who googles a number? But I had 1000 hits, telling that it is a PAF.

- WHAT IS A t pick-up or humbucker?.

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958 Topic by gitaardocphil

(4 replies, posted in Electric)

I have an old Gibson LP custom original 1968.
The serialnumber is referring to 1967.
I mailed Gibson, and the answer was that they started to re-make that LP Custom line end 1967, but on the market in 1968.
This story is useful because if you have an old guitar, and some parts are changed, like an EMG on an expensive Gibson, which you want to sell.
Even a very old and perfect sounding guitar with other tuners, other knobs, in fact any part can be realised. There is a guy called "THE PARTSDRAWER""who has thousands of guitar parts, he expected a 300.000$ shipment.
So if you need a new part, that's the guy.
It's just INFORMATION, and it can be really hard to have a valuable guitar with replaced parts.
30-40 years ago guitar players wanted better stuff, and who could look in the future?
I searched for weeks, even months to find back my original 1968 humbuckers, and my daughter found them recently: a patent nr 2,737,842 (isn't that a PAF?) but the second is a DiMarzio, not in production before 1969-1970.
I hope this info can be useful for some of us. I looked so long on the most impossible site, until I found that guy.

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959 Reply by gitaardocphil

(2 replies, posted in Electric)

Thanks Jay, I phoned to "my' music store and they are also the GIBSON distributors.
They told that a DiMarzio was used a lot, but not before 1969.
The guitar has to be "terrifying" expensive, and THE PICK-UP used should be an original t-pick-up, whatever a t-pick-up is.
NEWS FOR PLAYERS, OR COLLECTORS OR HAVING AN OLD VERY EXPENSIVE guitar, there is a guy on eBay, his name is the partsdrawer (I think) and you can find whatever you want. He buys guitars smashed on stage, or all kinds of parts, from a volume knob, to a tuner, like kluson. He had ordered for $300.000 parts, only for electric guitars. I will post a thread.

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960 Topic by gitaardocphil

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How many songs are on the radio, and this is real frustrating, you haven't a clue about who the writer or performer is.
Since a lot of radiostations play only music, and the commercials every 10 minutes, a lot of them don't announce the artist, or they tell the list of artists before or after.
There is one thing that makes me really nervous, hearing a very familiar tune and NOT KNOWING THE PERFORMER(S)
- Do you have the same problem?
- Are there still "writers put together" writing as an entity?

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961 Topic by gitaardocphil

(2 replies, posted in Electric)

The serial number shows 1967, response from Gibson, they "restarted the production"end 1967, but 1968 is the official year of re-production.
HUMBUCKERS
- 1 with the famous patent number 2737842
- but the second humbucker, looking very old sais DiMarzio.
My question is: did Gibson use DiMarzio humbuckers in 1968?

I really appreciate your answer. I transformed the guitar back to the very first customs with P-90's but here they are P-94 humbucker-style single coil to fit in the cavity.
THANKS

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962 Reply by gitaardocphil

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I wonder how many B-CHORDS haters we have. Agree, you can take it "perfect sounding" on the 7th fret, if you take it on the 4th fret, it works too, but the risk is you touch the other strings too much, and if you play a song A, E, C, B, it is hard to do it because you need to switch fast.
And yes the B7, is indeed a great chord, easy to play, and sounding warm and "bluesy".

An other sh** chords is Dm. I play guitar since long, and I practiced a lot in "switching chords" and this takes a lot of time.

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963 Reply by gitaardocphil

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A so called "bottleneck", there are cylinders to put a finger inside, and you use that hand with that device and slide over strings.
The best result you will see in an open tuning. All you need to to is strum without putting your fingers to form a chord, and use your "bottleneck"' to slide.
There are quit a few open tunings, like in stead of placing your fingers on the frets to form an E-chord, you TUNE your guitar in a way resulting in an E-chord, and NO fingers, only a strum, gives you the same E-CHORD (see A, D, C..)

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964 Reply by gitaardocphil

(6 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

Thanks BOOT, I know YOU ARE THE MAN who knows how an electric guitar is build, you can analyze, you can compare. I compare it with ANATOMY, a course we had in the 3th year on University. (I always have a big smile on my face, when I think about that course, imagine anything you want, like scaring girls with a p** in their pocket, we did it.) We respected the body, in fact is was almost a non-human there on the table) so far my comparison.
I know that you are a skilled builder.
About pick-ups, do you see if a pick-up is good for HARD ROCK, BLUES, or a warm sound and a heavy sound, with an instrument that measures out- and input?
At that point we start with "customized" guitars. Or am I right if I say that the big brands start using a lot of different pick-ups?
.

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965 Topic by gitaardocphil

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There is one thing that keeps me busy all the time: ELECTRIC GUITAR PICK-UPS.
I don't know how many pick-up companies there are.
I found this when searching for EMG pick-ups:
This is what they write
Conventional pickups typically exhibit a dry "peaky" frequency response, while EMG's have a much broader bandwidth that's better for harmonic pull-offs and chord definition. Individual notes have better presence and are dynamic. Playing styles are more pronounced
- ACTIVE PICK-UPS: EMG 81 and 85 (the ones mentioned in another thread about Zakk Wylde)
EMG-81 is a high output pickup designed especially for the lead guitarist and is at its best for high volume overdrive and amps with a master volume. The EMG 85 gives a more natural tone, it works great as a rhythm and blues pickup.
- PASSIVE PICK-UPS: this is what they tell about the H4, on the EPIPHONE ZAKK WYLDE:
EMG-H4. The H4 is the equivalent of EMG's 81 Active Pickup without the "Active"
BUT WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ACTIVE AND A PASSIVE?

What about other pick-ups?
- LINDY FRALIN (I have 3 single coiled dominoshaped on a PRS EG made from 1990-1992)
- SEYMOUR DUNCAN
- GIBSON HUMBUCKERS, are these better or will your guitar sound better by replacing them?
better is GIBSON, FENDER and other brands working with specialised PICK-UP companies?
THIS IS A REAL JUNGLE FOR ME, but I don't think I am alone. How many players do change pick-ups, and what is their purpose and motivation?

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966 Topic by gitaardocphil

(8 replies, posted in Electric)

I think that he must be VERY IMPORTANT and HUGE in the USA, but I know a lot and I heard the name ONLY because of 3 guitars.
- Gibson Custom Shop Limited Run Zakk Wylde Bullseye Aged Les Paul Electric Guitar $7,999.99
- Gibson Custom Shop Zakk Wylde Signature Les Paul Electric Guitar - Bull's Eye $4,399.00
- Epiphone Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar Bulls-Eye $799.99 (which is quit expensive for an Epiphone).
If you see the customers ratings,
- The Gibson LP Limited version has 3 stars on 76 ratings which is very poor. Probably the buyers expected a lot more than the regular ZAKK WYLDE Gibson and are disappointed, so much money.
- The Gibson LP has 336 ratings and 4 1/2 stars
- The Epiphone LP 593 User Ratings, and 4 1/2  stars, a very high rate
As seen both Gibsons have EMG pick-ups an EMG 81 and an EMG 85
The Epiphone has EMG-HZ4 pick-ups.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE EPIPHONE PICK-UPS and THE GIBSON PICK-UPS.

Probably there are a lot of Epiphones where the player removes the HZ4, by an 81 + 85 pick-up.
What can you tell me about this guy and the guitars?

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967 Reply by gitaardocphil

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First of all a question. A lot of people in the USA have a letter between their names, like George W. Bush. In Europe there is one country using this too: The Netherlands. Like my name could be
Dr. L.A.P.L.PHILIPS. So I don't get it these letters used. Another strange thing is let's use my name again L.PHILIPS IV.

- PEPPER BOB (also a DR.PEPPER) you have Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, and Dr. Pepper, but what kind of drink is DR Pepper?
- ANTHONY CELLO
- PHILIP HISCOCK
- RICHARD W. RUBRIGHT.
- BYWATER DUNCAN
- TED STOTERON
- Mr P. NIS

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968 Topic by gitaardocphil

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Easy topic, all the BOBS, JENIFFERS, ..

How many internationalities do we have on chordie?
- USA
- UK the winners
but about other countries like BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS, SCANDINAVIANS???

Times changed, but in the period of 1900-1940, most kids were baptized with names like:
- MARIA
- JOSEPH.
It was really funny in the early 80ties when I had a house call in a "retirement home".
When I said the name MARIA loud enough, 75% of the women stood up.
Same for JOSEPH
It was a tradition here to have 3 or 4 names, like my grandmother's name: MARIA, and her second name was CLEMENTINE, the name she used but wasn't on her passport.
MOST POPULAR NAMES FOR GIRLS:
- Emma - Marie - Laura en Julie  (In the Dutch speaking part of Belgium)
MOST POPULAR NAMES FOR BOYS:
- Milan - Robbe - Wout  - Kobe - Thomas     

SOME OF THE MOST UNUSUAL NAMES:
-  Bahrein, Bonaventure, Bru, Caesar  Poen (= money) others Rembrandt and 1 even Rolex.

What's the situation over there?

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969 Reply by gitaardocphil

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AHA the good old paranormal asking me why I wrote "you make my day"
- I envie your attitude
- I love your threads, and answers
- You are a nice guy and you contribute a lot.
So it is meant as a compliment, your humor is more like a kind of "dark humor" hidden in your threads or answers, cynical, and yes I respect that. Some people will not like it, others do like it.
I like your style.
About names, imagine your parents giving you an unusual name, it's maybe great when you are young, but you have to live the rest of your life with a name as PUMPKIN. Here in Belgium, the tradition is you get your name, and 2-3 extra names, like your godfather's name.
I have 4 names: LIEVEN, ALBERT, PAUL, LEO, my daughter (you can admire her on myspace) has 3 names, ESTHER, EDITH, CHARLOTTE. We both loved ESTHER that's her name. She loves her name, and it's easy "to use" like calling her ESSIE, or ES, even S . I know a kid, named KIONO, his mother saw somewhere on TV a Japanese program, and so this was the name.
If they should know what I know since 2 seconds, A CATASTROPHE, and spread that name....
I just found what this name means = Code name for very very small penis, covered in zits.

I just have to mail THIS to my ex who lives here now almost 25 years, and we still have a good contact, even THE SAME LAWYER! Strange? Maybe, but if in a divorce I have a lawyer, she has a lawyer, it can be very expensive. In my situation, a problem? well he is a kind of MODERATOR.
ADVICE TO ALL THE DIVORCED OR WOULD BE, TAKE 1 (ONE) lawyer.

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970 Reply by gitaardocphil

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I can add 1 thing Nela, I never met so many nice people in my whole life as I did here.
I adore chordie, even more for the (cyber)friendship, than for the music.
They saved me, upyerkilt, old doll, Roger Guppy, James, Southpawn, Bonedaddy, bootleger, tibernius, zurf, russell, geoaguiar, paranormal, and a lot more. PLEASE don't shoot me if you don't see your name, ALL chordians are truly friends.
So "help from a friend" is 100% as you write.
I really wanted to write this.

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971 Reply by gitaardocphil

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G S E I don't know what you mean by writing this?
This is a "silly" topic, where we try to give a name to a non existing band AND/OR to see how many crazy names some bands have.
- GOO GOO DOLLS isn't that a silly name?
or
- Donald and the DUCKS.

I adore playing with words. My "mistake, or mental disturbed idea. I am a mental case, that's for sure, but give me an alternative: all people aware of my condition, consider this PLEASE as a reaction on my "serious" lesions.
It isn't funny at all to come from a job, a passion working 80 hours a week, ALL GONE IN A SPLIT SECOND. All my dreams, my desires, my self esteem, self respect, self assured GONE, and sitting here with thousand questions, like why or what am I still doing here? Worst is "pretending to be an iron man", and paying the price for my "pretending". It is a lot worse than you know, they came to me for a wheelchair, do you know what this causes? I can't stand longer than 1 minute. My "oesophagus", pre-cancer, all great news, and a daily confrontation. Agree, there are worse problems, and my biggest mistake is as told PRETENDING that I have NO problem, and it really hurts and it's terrifying to see my evolution, or DEVOLUTION, or to hear that other people don't fight, I'm anxious, I'm scared, I can't go shopping alone, and I'm glad to have chordie, all these great people, giving me courage, support, WHY didn't I die, having no life.
SORRY I'm feeling really bad recurring high fever, and being completely useless.

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972 Topic by gitaardocphil

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- We have so many members here.
- We are all connected by 1 thing = MUSIC
- We are all connected by the passion of playing guitar (most of us)
- A lot of us write music, lyrics.

ONE THING I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IS:
- WHY DON'T WE LISTEN TO AN ARTIST AND/OR A BAND FROM OTHER COUNTRIES?
Now and than I write an artist's name, from BELGIUM, and I really should love if we take a minute to listen to another artist, from NON US, UK soil.

I really would appreciate this, to show you music from here or other countries.
There is a guy here in BELGIUM, who is getting real big, 1 year ago nobody knew him.
His name MILOW, where to listen = YOUTUBE.
His style? Maybe American but really good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o32x-kHGaTo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo1gNtWs … re=related

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973 Topic by gitaardocphil

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Who can tell me more about these (expensive) guitars

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974 Topic by gitaardocphil

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Imagine you have a band, and you want to give your band a name, be creative my friends and try to give A FANTASTIC, but HILARIOUS NAME.
- THE SEX PILOTS
- DOCPHIL AND THE BLACK DOT NAKED NURSE BAND.

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975 Reply by gitaardocphil

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There is a MD, a colluege in our village called DR. HACHE (= chopped meat, like hamburger), but here we have 3 official languages: DUTCH, FRENCH and GERMAN. In the FRENCH part the word HACHE is used a lot.
- MARY CHRISTMAS
- AL DENTE
- APRIL MAY
- MS B. MINOR and husband RAY MAJOR
- GUY TAR
- BUD LIGHT

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