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Post by berkley on Jul 24, 2024 0:11:21 GMT -5
Beautiful looking instruments - I wish I could play them, any one of them!
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Post by berkley on Jul 24, 2024 0:16:23 GMT -5
If no one minds, I still have a few questions and comments about some of the 1964 albums that I haven't had time to post due to work, etc. But I should have some free time coming up in a few days so I'll do it then. No offence will be taken if everyone feels the topic has run its course and doesn't want to talk about it.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 26, 2024 10:37:54 GMT -5
Tartanphantom's Guitar Roundup-- 2024 Appendix II- electric guitars
Apologies to supercat and Confessor for the delay in posting this section, I've been super busy and haven't had the time to do a whole lot of interwebz stuff lately.
This appendix covers electric guitars acquired since Feb. 2022.
First up is another guitar I got directly from Gretsch--
2021 Gretsch Players Edition 6118T Anniversary Prototype-- While I do have another Gretsch Anniversary model, this one is different. It's a Professional Players Edition, which means it has a thinner body, a string-through Bigsby, locking tuning machines, a pinned bridge, Schaller Strap Locks, and new (for this model) FT-67 FilterTron pickups. There are other differences as well, but it was purposely designed for working musicians for stage work.
This particular example is a factory prototype, which sports the Gretsch smoke green paint scheme and the aforementioned new pickup design. Standard production guitars of this specific model now have the FT-67 pickups, but they have never been available in this particular finish.
Next up is a 2021 Gretsch G5622T- (3rd gen build)-- This guitar is from the Gretsch Electromatic line, and yes, again, I already own one of these, a 2nd gen build in black finish ( can be seen in this post), but I also received this guitar gratis directly from Gretsch. The major differences from my existing 2nd gen model are the pickups, which are Gretsch BT-3 Blacktop Broadtrons, the laurel fretboard, and the fact that this guitar was built after Gretsch moved the production for this model to to China.
The last point notwithstanding, it does indeed feel and sound different from the one I already have. As supercat can probably attest based on his experience, the Broadtrons are more aggressive and mid-range heavy than most traditional Gretsch pickups-- they are pretty hot and you can get them to growl quite easily. Great for hard classic 70's rock and punk.
And last, but certainly not least, my most recent acquisition, a 2019 Gretsch G5232T Double Jet-- Another guitar from the Electromatic line, I came across a deal on this one that was too good to pass up. The previous owner threw in around $200 worth of accessories, plus a Gretsch Pro-line case. I ended up getting this pre-loved gem for a little less than the price of a brand new one, case and extras included.
I'm still in the honeymoon phase on this one, but yeah, I'm pretty sure that it's going to get lots of stage time!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2024 10:59:11 GMT -5
Tartanphantom's Guitar Roundup-- 2024 Appendix II- electric guitars
Apologies to supercat and Confessor for the delay in posting this section, I've been super busy and haven't had the time to do a whole lot of interwebz stuff lately.
This appendix covers electric guitars acquired since Feb. 2022.
First up is another guitar I got directly from Gretsch--
2021 Gretsch Players Edition 6118T Anniversary Prototype-- While I do have another Gretsch Anniversary model, this one is different. It's a Professional Players Edition, which means it has a thinner body, a string-through Bigsby, locking tuning machines, a pinned bridge, Schaller Strap Locks, and new (for this model) FT-67 FilterTron pickups. There are other differences as well, but it was purposely designed for working musicians for stage work.
This particular example is a factory prototype, which sports the Gretsch smoke green paint scheme and the aforementioned new pickup design. Standard production guitars of this specific model now have the FT-67 pickups, but they have never been available in this particular finish.
Next up is a 2021 Gretsch G5622T- (3rd gen build)-- This guitar is from the Gretsch Electromatic line, and yes, again, I already own one of these, a 2nd gen build in black finish ( can be seen in this post), but I also received this guitar gratis directly from Gretsch. The major differences from my existing 2nd gen model are the pickups, which are Gretsch BT-3 Blacktop Broadtrons, the laurel fretboard, and the fact that this guitar was built after Gretsch moved the production for this model to to China.
The last point notwithstanding, it does indeed feel and sound different from the one I already have. As supercat can probably attest based on his experience, the Broadtrons are more aggressive and mid-range heavy than most traditional Gretsch pickups-- they are pretty hot and you can get them to growl quite easily. Great for hard classic 70's rock and punk.
And last, but certainly not least, my most recent acquisition, a 2019 Gretsch G5232T Double Jet-- Another guitar from the Electromatic line, I came across a deal on this one that was too good to pass up. The previous owner threw in around $200 worth of accessories, plus a Gretsch Pro-line case. I ended up getting this pre-loved gem for a little less than the price of a brand new one, case and extras included.
I'm still in the honeymoon phase on this one, but yeah, I'm pretty sure that it's going to get lots of stage time!
Just killer, love the trio. I like the look of all of them but oh that smoke green finish on the first one, and looks maybe a bit Cadillac green'ish on the side to me, it works so well! Completely agree on the Broadtrons as well with your 2nd one, very well suited for 70's rock, I actually love dialing in the AC/DC early sound with mine. And your 3rd one is also a reminder I need a solid body Gretsch still. Just awesome, again, Gretsch is the good stuff, congrats on all!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 27, 2024 18:47:38 GMT -5
Confessor mentioned boxed sets a little while back and it stuck with me. So the last two days I’ve been listening to the Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-74 box. I love the convenience and ease of finding stuff that steaming gives, but those big boxed sets were amazing.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 27, 2024 18:50:08 GMT -5
Tartanphantom's Guitar Roundup-- 2024 Appendix II- electric guitars
Apologies to supercat and Confessor for the delay in posting this section, I've been super busy and haven't had the time to do a whole lot of interwebz stuff lately. This appendix covers electric guitars acquired since Feb. 2022.
First up is another guitar I got directly from Gretsch--
2021 Gretsch Players Edition 6118T Anniversary Prototype-- While I do have another Gretsch Anniversary model, this one is different. It's a Professional Players Edition, which means it has a thinner body, a string-through Bigsby, locking tuning machines, a pinned bridge, Schaller Strap Locks, and new (for this model) FT-67 FilterTron pickups. There are other differences as well, but it was purposely designed for working musicians for stage work.
This particular example is a factory prototype, which sports the Gretsch smoke green paint scheme and the aforementioned new pickup design. Standard production guitars of this specific model now have the FT-67 pickups, but they have never been available in this particular finish.
Just killer, love the trio. I like the look of all of them but oh that smoke green finish on the first one, and looks maybe a bit Cadillac green'ish on the side to me, it works so well! Completely agree on the Broadtrons as well with your 2nd one, very well suited for 70's rock, I actually love dialing in the AC/DC early sound with mine. And your 3rd one is also a reminder I need a solid body Gretsch still. Just awesome, again, Gretsch is the good stuff, congrats on all!
Well, with the Gretsch Anniversary model, they did sort of borrow from Cadillac RE: the paint scheme--
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Post by Calidore on Jul 27, 2024 19:15:15 GMT -5
Confessor mentioned boxed sets a little while back and it stuck with me. So the last two days I’ve been listening to the Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-74 box. I love the convenience and ease of finding stuff that steaming gives, but those big boxed sets were amazing. Atlantic Rhythm & Blues is a desert island set for me. Just incredible. It also pairs pretty well with the Complete Stax/Volt Singles box, though there is some overlap, and the latter being complete instead of curated means there are misses as well as hits.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 27, 2024 23:27:58 GMT -5
Confessor mentioned boxed sets a little while back and it stuck with me. So the last two days I’ve been listening to the Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-74 box. I love the convenience and ease of finding stuff that steaming gives, but those big boxed sets were amazing. Atlantic Rhythm & Blues is a desert island set for me. Just incredible. It also pairs pretty well with the Complete Stax/Volt Singles box, though there is some overlap, and the latter being complete instead of curated means there are misses as well as hits. I’ve got the latter set as well. Yeah, complete sets can definitely have a bit of chaff. Having finished up with Atlantic, I grabbed the Willie Dixon Chess Box.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 29, 2024 15:16:25 GMT -5
Confessor mentioned boxed sets a little while back and it stuck with me. So the last two days I’ve been listening to the Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-74 box. I love the convenience and ease of finding stuff that steaming gives, but those big boxed sets were amazing. I still think a top 10 favourite/best retrospective box sets thread might be fun. We'd obviously have to set rules on what constitutes a retrospective box set -- minumum of three discs maybe?? Covering a period of at least 2 years in the artist/band/record lable/genre's existence??? Can it be a vinyl or CD box set or are we just focusing on CD?? Maybe it has to have been issued at least 10 years after the period of time it covers??? Would we exclude classical music??? I dunno, but once we get what constitutes a retrospective box set ironed out, I think such a run down could be a lot fun.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2024 15:34:44 GMT -5
Confessor mentioned boxed sets a little while back and it stuck with me. So the last two days I’ve been listening to the Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-74 box. I love the convenience and ease of finding stuff that steaming gives, but those big boxed sets were amazing. I still think a top 10 favourite/best retrospective box sets thread might be fun. We'd obviously have to set rules on what constitutes a retrospective box set -- minumum of three discs maybe?? Covering a period of at least 2 years in the artist/band/record lable/genre's existence??? Can it be a vinyl or CD box set or are we just focusing on CD?? Maybe it has to have been issued at least 10 years after the period of time it covers??? Would we exclude classical music???Those are the box sets I love the most Seriously though, I will not be offended if you do. It's a fantastic time for us classical music lovers though, I've recently picked up an amazing 36 disc Prokofiev set with some very key recordings along with the complete studio recordings of conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler which is another 55 discs of great material. I was already working my way through another smaller box set of CPE Bach material, so I've had to put additional purchases on hold. That's the only problem with "too much of a good thing" at times, I try to listen to at least one disc each night, but some of them are so good I end up re-listening to the same ones for multiple days, sometimes even a week!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 29, 2024 15:50:57 GMT -5
Confessor mentioned boxed sets a little while back and it stuck with me. So the last two days I’ve been listening to the Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-74 box. I love the convenience and ease of finding stuff that steaming gives, but those big boxed sets were amazing. I still think a top 10 favourite/best retrospective box sets thread might be fun. We'd obviously have to set rules on what constitutes a retrospective box set -- minumum of three discs maybe?? Covering a period of at least 2 years in the artist/band/record lable/genre's existence??? Can it be a vinyl or CD box set or are we just focusing on CD?? Maybe it has to have been issued at least 10 years after the period of time it covers??? Would we exclude classical music??? I dunno, but once we get what constitutes a retrospective box set ironed out, I think such a run down could be a lot fun. I'm up for it. Let's talk rules. I might have to balk at the 2 cd minimum though, because what I suspect would be my #1 choice was two discs and was one of the biggest releases of the year when it came out. I still think a top 10 favourite/best retrospective box sets thread might be fun. We'd obviously have to set rules on what constitutes a retrospective box set -- minumum of three discs maybe?? Covering a period of at least 2 years in the artist/band/record lable/genre's existence??? Can it be a vinyl or CD box set or are we just focusing on CD?? Maybe it has to have been issued at least 10 years after the period of time it covers??? Would we exclude classical music???Those are the box sets I love the most Seriously though, I will not be offended if you do. It's a fantastic time for us classical music lovers though, I've recently picked up an amazing 36 disc Prokofiev set with some very key recordings along with the complete studio recordings of conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler which is another 55 discs of great material. I was already working my way through another smaller box set of CPE Bach material, so I've had to put additional purchases on hold. That's the only problem with "too much of a good thing" at times, I try to listen to at least one disc each night, but some of them are so good I end up re-listening to the same ones for multiple days, sometimes even a week! I don't know that I have a problem with classical music...though I do think that it kind of skirts the outer bounds of what I think of when I think boxed set.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2024 15:57:17 GMT -5
I still think a top 10 favourite/best retrospective box sets thread might be fun. We'd obviously have to set rules on what constitutes a retrospective box set -- minumum of three discs maybe?? Covering a period of at least 2 years in the artist/band/record lable/genre's existence??? Can it be a vinyl or CD box set or are we just focusing on CD?? Maybe it has to have been issued at least 10 years after the period of time it covers??? Would we exclude classical music??? I dunno, but once we get what constitutes a retrospective box set ironed out, I think such a run down could be a lot fun. I'm up for it. Let's talk rules. I might have to balk at the 2 cd minimum though, because what I suspect would be my #1 choice was two discs and was one of the biggest releases of the year when it came out. Those are the box sets I love the most Seriously though, I will not be offended if you do. It's a fantastic time for us classical music lovers though, I've recently picked up an amazing 36 disc Prokofiev set with some very key recordings along with the complete studio recordings of conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler which is another 55 discs of great material. I was already working my way through another smaller box set of CPE Bach material, so I've had to put additional purchases on hold. That's the only problem with "too much of a good thing" at times, I try to listen to at least one disc each night, but some of them are so good I end up re-listening to the same ones for multiple days, sometimes even a week! I don't know that I have a problem with classical music...though I do think that it kind of skirts the outer bounds of what I think of when I think boxed set. Well, I generally think of them as a set...that's in a box. ![](https://i.imgur.com/jnJRzcy.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/6xuAZLt.jpg)
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Post by Confessor on Jul 29, 2024 17:07:01 GMT -5
I still think a top 10 favourite/best retrospective box sets thread might be fun. We'd obviously have to set rules on what constitutes a retrospective box set -- minumum of three discs maybe?? Covering a period of at least 2 years in the artist/band/record lable/genre's existence??? Can it be a vinyl or CD box set or are we just focusing on CD?? Maybe it has to have been issued at least 10 years after the period of time it covers??? Would we exclude classical music??? I dunno, but once we get what constitutes a retrospective box set ironed out, I think such a run down could be a lot fun. I'm up for it. Let's talk rules. I might have to balk at the 2 cd minimum though, because what I suspect would be my #1 choice was two discs and was one of the biggest releases of the year when it came out. I think I know exactly which release you're talking about. If it is the set that I am thinking of, personally I sort of didn't consider that to be a bona fide box set at the time because it was just a double CD. But actually, having just looked on Discogs.com, I see that in the U.S. it was indeed released in a proper rectangular box set format. Over here in the UK, we just got it in a standard fatbox double jewel case. So, maybe as a compromise we can say that a box set has to have two discs as a minimum, but it also has to come in an actual box, with a booklet – not just a double jewel case. What do you think? Those are the box sets I love the most Seriously though, I will not be offended if you do. It's a fantastic time for us classical music lovers though, I've recently picked up an amazing 36 disc Prokofiev set with some very key recordings along with the complete studio recordings of conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler which is another 55 discs of great material. I was already working my way through another smaller box set of CPE Bach material, so I've had to put additional purchases on hold. That's the only problem with "too much of a good thing" at times, I try to listen to at least one disc each night, but some of them are so good I end up re-listening to the same ones for multiple days, sometimes even a week! I don't know that I have a problem with classical music...though I do think that it kind of skirts the outer bounds of what I think of when I think boxed set. I certainly don't want to exclude anyone or really care too much if we do include classical music box sets. But like slam, I sort of feel that classical box sets are a very different beast to what I normally think of when I say a "box set". Not least because, unless it's modern classical, it won't feature the original composers conducting or playing as they will likely have been dead for a long, long time. Whereas box sets of 20th or 21st century artists will feature recordings in which the original artists themselves participated or that were at least released within the lifetime of the original artists and their listenership. I've not explained that particularly well, but I hope you sort of catch my drift? But I really don't mind if we do include classical box sets, if you have some that you really want to talk about, supercat .
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2024 18:14:43 GMT -5
I certainly don't want to exclude anyone or really care too much if we do include classical music box sets. But like slam, I sort of feel that classical box sets are a very different beast to what I normally think of when I say a "box set". Not least because, unless it's modern classical, it won't feature the original composers conducting or playing as they will likely have been dead for a long, long time. Whereas box sets of 20th or 21st century artists will feature recordings in which the original artists themselves participated or that were at least released within the lifetime of the original artists and their listenership. I've not explained that particularly well, but I hope you sort of catch my drift? But I really don't mind if we do include classical box sets, if you have some that you really want to talk about, supercat . I was actually just teasing on that, I know what you guys are going for here, just couldn't resist a little jest on the "definition" (though I really have been enjoying those sets I mentioned). ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) I don't actually plan to bring any classical music to the discussion, but I will be interested in what you guys end up talking about!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 29, 2024 19:54:18 GMT -5
I'm up for it. Let's talk rules. I might have to balk at the 2 cd minimum though, because what I suspect would be my #1 choice was two discs and was one of the biggest releases of the year when it came out. I think I know exactly which release you're talking about. If it is the set that I am thinking of, personally I sort of didn't consider that to be a bona fide box set at the time because it was just a double CD. But actually, having just looked on Discogs.com, I see that in the U.S. it was indeed released in a proper rectangular box set format. Over here in the UK, we just got it in a standard fatbox double jewel case. So, maybe as a compromise we can say that a box set has to have two discs as a minimum, but it also has to come in an actual box, with a booklet – not just a double jewel case. What do you think? I don't know that I have a problem with classical music...though I do think that it kind of skirts the outer bounds of what I think of when I think boxed set. I certainly don't want to exclude anyone or really care too much if we do include classical music box sets. But like slam, I sort of feel that classical box sets are a very different beast to what I normally think of when I say a "box set". Not least because, unless it's modern classical, it won't feature the original composers conducting or playing as they will likely have been dead for a long, long time. Whereas box sets of 20th or 21st century artists will feature recordings in which the original artists themselves participated or that were at least released within the lifetime of the original artists and their listenership. I've not explained that particularly well, but I hope you sort of catch my drift? But I really don't mind if we do include classical box sets, if you have some that you really want to talk about, supercat . You are definitely thinking of the one. And, yeah, it came in an oversized box with a very substantial booklet. The US release was very much a boxed set. On the other hand, Chuck Berry’s The Great Twenty-Eight was a double CD.
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