police squad

21 hours ago, EdwardMarlowe said:

What really says to me that Vintage are a brand that has come of age is that they've been able to attract some pretty serious players as endorsees. You don't want your brand associated with crap, as a rule... 

This is very true but the guitars have been very good for the past 15 years, this is when I first tried a relic Strat-a-like at Music Live in Birmingham IIRC. My brother ended up buying one and he is really very fussy about gear, he's no gear snob either, he just couldn't believe how good it was.

I'm going to see the Quireboys on Sunday and I know Paul the guitar player uses them. I am proud to use mine because they are that good

i keep a CC2X in my office. Blue speakers in it. Sounds lovely

I have 4 Vintage 6 stringers. 3 or which are my gigging guitars. The forth sits in my office.

All very good, the nut usually needs a little work but other than that, really great.

I have a V58JD, this is for my function/60s band. Very versatile wiring

An SG & 335 a-like for my Paul Weller and Stereophonics tribute bands

Office guitar is a Geoff Whitehorn signature from about 15 years ago

I currently gig with a Brian May guitar. 24 inch scale and I love it. No idea why, it's just great

They do a bigger head that has channel switching and fx loops. It looks good too. The MVX 150H

On 06/08/2021 at 15:42, EdwardMarlowe said:

Aha! Thanks, that makes sense. 

I hear you about gigging with cheaper guitars. If I were playing out these days, I'd be the same. To be honest, though, with guitars like MIM Fender, the 5xxx series Gretsches, Vintage and Harley Benton around, I'm honestly increasingly questioning whether I could ever begin to justify the price of some big money guitars now. I mean, *sure* if money were no object I'd buy a 6210, but I'm honestly not convinced the price gap to the 5240 now is worth it - for one comparison. In particular, given that my main preferences tend to the more utilitarian Fender styles, there's a lot to be said for going cheap now. I remain of the opinion that the higher end Squiers are arguably the truest product line Fender now produce to Leo's original design intent of putting a giggable, workingman's instrument in the hands of as many players as possible... 

Those Vintage SGs are the ones that really got me to look at the brand. They're stupidly good for the money. Ironically, I also think they look better than the Epiphone option, a headstock thing mostly. Just looks nicer than the Epi, even the new one imo. The relic style Vintages are great fun too, especially considering the cost of any such thing from the big boys. Sure, they might look a little uniform if you study them, but the general vibe is there, and it must be so much nicer to gig with a guitar you can play in anger and not worry about damaging... 

 

yep i agree. 10 years ago I spent £2K on a new Gibson AFD Slash guitar. Gigged it hard for 3-4 years. It's a really great guitar. I see them going for more than I paid for mine. I dont think I could justify spending that now. I did have a proper White Falcon, again 10 years ago. Another truly great instrument but it was only 1700 quid as it was 'B stock'. Nwe they're pretty expensive and I wouldn't buy one.

Up the Vintage!!

those PF-500 are great amps

18 hours ago, EdwardMarlowe said:

Very nice. What's different about the JD wiring, aside from the Strat pup in the neck? 

 

The JHS Vintage range is lovely stuff; I'd genuinely struggle to choose between the likes of a Squier CV and the Vintage 52. I'd probably be seduced by quite a lot of the Vintage range, save for the fact they don't do many of the more interesting looks left handed. For Gibby styles, I think they're far better value than Epiphone, and snapping at the heels of the very top Squiers for Fender types, while being markedly cheaper than either. 

so the JD wiring,

starting at the bridge pickup, position 1. 

Position 2 gives the out of phase strat 'inbetween' sound

Postion 3 both pickups in parallel (like a normal tele)

Position 4 is the neck pickup plus some sort of capacitor which tries to make the neck pickup sound like a humbucker (roll the tone down a bit and it's not toobad)

Position 5 is the neck pickup.

I actually have 4 vintage guitars now, one is the Geoff Whitehorn signature from July 08. I keep this in my office and use it to learn songs on, during lunchtimes.

I have an SG with vibrola and a 335 type, both used in my Paul Weller and Stereophonics tribute bands.

They are all excellent guitars and hold their own against my other higher range stuff. (I have 3 Les Pauls, an SG jr, PRS signature form 1989)

I am making it my goal to only gig with these cheaper instruments as taking 3 to 4 grands worth of guitars is starting to bother me

I also took delivery of this fantastic Vintage V58JD. It has the Jerry Donahue wiring, strat pickup in the neck. This guitar is really loud acoustically too. Cleans up on the volume knob beautifully. Nice chunky neck, absolute tele spank from the bridge pickup

A fine instrument (and a lovely cat called Midnight)

I have a JTV-59. Bought it when it came out. It is very good

I also bought the A/B switch for it, so the acoustic sounds go straight to the PA. It also powers the guitar

It's a great bit of kit, used it in 2 different bands where I had to switch between electric and acoustic during the same song.

Just sits in my guitar rack these days, as I don't need the capability but I keep it, just in case

Lovely build quality

19 hours ago, ezbass said:

The very same chap. I have a few of their (Be Sharp) CDs. Best cover of Green Manalishi I've heard is on one of them.

 

https://www.besharp.co.uk/be-sharp-live-2/

nice player, I've seen him a few times with Gambler

2 hours ago, ezbass said:

I used to go and see Be Sharp a fair bit. They’re a 3 piece and the guitarist, Jerry Stevenson, uses a synth. The thing that really seemed to work well was he’d play a chord through a patch and then use a switch pedal to hold the chord. Worked really well for organ and string type emulations.

Kent based? Is that Jerry from Gambler?

I was in a band and the other guitar player used one. It worked really well.

But he was a stupid pr@t and sold it

I have the mv50 ac, the ac-30 one. It's fabulous, I gigged it last week with my function band, using a telecaster. My bother has one and is very fussy about sound. He also loves it

I bought my wife the MV50 higain and the 1x8 vox cab. Also fabulous.

They take pedals in front well too

I had the gain set to about 1 o'clock and had enough drive for the status quo stuff and when I backed the volume down (on the guitar) it cleans up all sparkly

what's it like and do you want to sell it?

I had a few gibsons a while back. '79 Deluxe, 2010 AFD, '59LP jr, '67 SG jr, 2002 R7, Custom shop Flying V Custom, Faded flying V, early Studio with Ebony board

I still have the SG jr , The AFD and the Deluxe. The studio belongs to Mrs PS

And I still have this, which I put together with a Fender Jap body, bound. A Bare Knuckles bridge p/up (Keith Richards model IIRC), a Kent Armstrong PAF with 4 conductor wiring and a chunky WD neck. It has the phase reverse switch and a built in gain boost like the clapton boost circuit

A fine sounding Tele being used here in my Police tribute

For a while I had one of these. Ash bodied, had a real sparkle to the sound. The Nashville Tele.

Difficult to have absolute favourites isn't it but one of my favourite guitar players is 

Geoff Whitehorn.   Great touch and taste

Brian May, so musical

David Gilmour.

On 12/08/2020 at 07:58, leftybassman392 said:

Hi mate. Good to see you've joined up here too.

Haven't been back down to Deal this year for obvious reasons. How's the pace coping with Covid?

 

Hi mate, as far as I know Deal has been fairly ok. It was lovely during lockdown. Roads were empty. But now it's busines as usual. I love it here

I bought one of these. It's very good and gets those BM tones too

 cheers guys

Hi all,

normally next door on BC was decided to pop over to check stuff here.

Although I'm bass player through and through, I have spent the last 15 years playing much more guitar live, than bass.

Currently performing in an 80s duo, playing guitar and singing, anything from Erasure to Wham! Duran Duran, Bryan Adams, Bon Jovi etc

Also in a Paul Weller tribute (as Steve Craddock) and a Stereophonics Tribute (as Adam Zindani)

and Sting in a police tribute