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    Family portrait.

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    Posted · Edited by Doc H

    From left to right:

    2018 MIM Fender Deluxe Strat, 2020 MIM Fender Deluxe Strat HSS, 2021 Fender American Ultra HSS (changed the pickguard), 2021 Fender American Ultra with 2020 MIM Deluxe neck, 2012 Squier Strat with Texas Hot pickups and grease bucket circuit.  
     

    The American body and MIM neck Strat has an interesting back story. Found some guy who broke his American Ultra soon after he got it (how do you break a neck on a Strat?). Bought the body from him. Got the new in box Deluxe neck from Stratosphere. Added in v-Mod humbucker, gen 4 noiseless pickups, a S1 switch and a Ultra Trem. So it’s essentially a Partscaster. Essentially it pairs to things I like in the straits I’ve got. 12” radius neck of the Deluxe and the lower bout relief cut/tapered heal of the American Ultra .

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    Family portrait.

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    18 hours ago, Bapu said:

    Then there's the "bakers dozen" of basses:

    LtoR: Alembic 1977 Series I, Rick 4003, American P-Bass with Quarter Pounder PUP, Players P-Bass, 1977 EB-3, Dano Longhorn, Squier Fretless Jazz, Custom 5 String, Variax, Hofner Ignite, Kala Uke Bass and Epi Jack Casady.

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    And then..... the last bass I bought....

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    Very Nice!

    Family portrait.

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    11 hours ago, paulo said:

    Phew.

     

    For a minute there I thought I was gonna have to try and think of something nice to say about that weird looking relative........

    (everyone has at least one of those, right?)

     

     

     

    Hint: If you think that you don't. It's you.

     


    Well….. that would be me. 

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    Family portrait.

    in The Coffee House

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    An updated family portrait of me Strats. 

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    I’ve relocated once again. The wife and I moved to Spring, TX. I think I’m certifiably retired now. I sit and watch the world go by. Feeling a bit like Sid. I think I’ll show up at someone’s studio and just sit there and stare at the goings on.  😁

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    Helicopters! Such nonsensical recollections.

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    I’ve apparently have lived in the “country” for so long that I’ve forgotten the sound of helicopters flying over my home. Having moved to the 4th largest metro area in the States has brought back so much, nostalgia?  No, remembrance. Or should I venture to say recollection? The once to thrice weekly flyovers are not the police helicopters I recall from living in the Golden State or the Sunshine State. Nay, these are life flight flyovers. We have a hospital nearby. 
     

    Though it keeps reminding me of “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2.”

    I got angry! And I paid for it in spades!

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    7 hours ago, slartabartfast said:

    You have entered the dismal world of planned obsolescence. This turns the old engineering adage "if it ain't broke don't fix it" on its head in favor of the marketing maxim "newer is always better . " Basically the whole computer hardware/software ecosystem is participating in a more or less coordinated effort to make your old stuff useless so that you will have to get newer more expensive stuff to do basically the same stuff. It begins with the operating systems and propagates through the applications to the hardware like a disease. In this environment, the software hackers play an important symbiotic role by threatening to steal your bank account if you fail to upgrade everything even more often. The rented not owned and its variation the annual payment for access to upgrades is the latest wrinkle on the protection racket under the guise of obsolescence insurance. You have to love capitalism. Really...you have no choice.

    So I should hold them for ransom and have them pay me in bit coin?

    Jealous of American musicians

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    On 4/6/2021 at 2:03 PM, marled said:

    I am jealous of American musicians. They have really good prices for hard- and software. E.g. the Ampeg RB-112 is $399 in many U.S. shops, here in Sweden prices are $535 (foreign shops active in Sweden) up to about $650 in "real" Swedish shops/sites. This is only an example, it's with almost everything like that. And since the EU defined that all products bought via internet are taxed in the country of the buyer and since our mail company (almost federal) has decided a very high fee on imports it got less interesting to order things from abroad, even in the EU! Terrible! It reminds me absolutely of the Soviet Union!

    A friend of mine in Denmark wanted me to buy a Stratocaster for him in the States and then send it to him as individual parts over a few months to avoid the VAT. Then he figured out that he could get in trouble for that. What is with the reporting of shipments by the postal service in Scandinavian countries? It’s horrible! I did get a co-worker an iPhone in the States and brought it to her (Denmark). Customs at the Copenhagen airport is a bit lax with small stuff. I doubt they would have been as understanding of a Strat. 
     

    But just how many € or Kro. does a government really need?

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    I got angry! And I paid for it in spades!

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    It befuddles me how many companies think their plug-in soft synths are worth $$$ in subscription costs annually. Reason Studio’s move to Reason+ just really made me angry. Especially with the part about “you can buy a perpetual license but you aren’t getting upgrades or additional instruments without a subscription bit.” 
     

    So in a fit of anger I went and invested in NI Komplete 13.

    Then I find my Line 6 KB37 that has served me well since 2007 is not supported on the latest Mac OS. Got angry again! Bought a new keyboard controller. 
     

    I’m starting to think that music hardware & software companies are the root of my anger management issue. Thank goodness that guitar don’t really go obsolete (Kramer guitars as the exception - their demise was sudden and the resurrection is more like the Frankenstein monster).

    Asian Prog

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    Posted · Edited by Doc H

    I still listen too Japanese pop and rock. They really have come a long way from when I was a youth. (Lived in Japan as a kid & mom’s Japanese). (Also lived in the PI between 72 & 74).

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