jeastman
Tenderfoot
If it floats, it's deadwood.
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Post by jeastman on Mar 18, 2014 14:33:50 GMT -5
D'oh. I was just there on Saturday, picking up a nice little Vox amp for rehearsals. I certainly would've like to have pounded out a couple of chords...
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Post by riotonsunset on Apr 5, 2014 14:08:34 GMT -5
The white AC-4? That's a nice amp.
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jeastman
Tenderfoot
If it floats, it's deadwood.
Posts: 17
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Post by jeastman on Apr 8, 2014 14:21:03 GMT -5
The white AC-4? That's a nice amp. Yep - the very one. I've been playing some fairly small venues lately, so, I wanted a nice little compact tube combo - something that was easy in/easy out for load ins. I had the 6.5" version, and while it sounded good through a cab, it wasn't quite up to the challenge on its own, so when I saw the 10" version in the store, I made a trade.
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Post by thenewoldme on Aug 13, 2022 0:47:30 GMT -5
Thanks for the posts! I asked Jim Harms to fill in the blanks about how the guitar got from Paul to him. He told me the guy he bought it from is a collector and a Replacements fan who bought the guitar from another local store. I think that guy bought the guitar around 1999 and sold it to Jim around 2001.Jim sold it to a regular customer soon after he bought it and it was traded back in in 2010 and sold the same day. I was lucky to be in the store when it came back for the 3rd time. 3rd times the charm! Jim is a great guy.He has been a dealer in the Minneapolis are for over 30 year working at legendary stores like +Music,Park Music and now My Music Store . He used to have a huge collection of vintage gear. When he opened the Golden Valley store he had about 150 vintage guitars anda huge stash of BF Fender amps for sale.Below is an early Fender Esquire that is on display at his store. Fender has verified the guitar as one Leo used as a test bed for the prototype Strat tremolos(notice the 3 saddle tremolo). Actually,Paul and Laurie have both been a customers of Jims store.Paul bought Jim's vintage Epiphone Casino back when Jim first opened his Golden Valley Store. Also Jim told me that Paul once brought him a Les Paul Junior and asked if he wanted to buy it. Jim said the guitar was just a husk when Paul brought it in, a body with no pickup,hardware,pickguard or electronics.There was never any explanation about how the guitar got like this. Still it was a vintage Junior from around 1956 so Jim said it might be a better idea to restore it it with vintage parts and then sell it on consignment. Paul agreed and and Jim said he was able to get it put back together with all the appropriate parts but after he did Paul decided he didn't want to sell the guitar after all. I think Pau may still have it now. I wonder if that's the one I have. It was donated by Paul to charity, guy I bought it from won it in a raffle in 1991. It is beat to hell and the neck replaced, but with the original fretboard. I have the broken neck too. It was splintered in the middle of the neck and the headstock was cracked in half. The guy who fixed it did a great job, it's my best guitar. Killed 4/6/89 Warner Theater by PW. It appears to be the Junior Paul is playing on the I'll Be You video. Looks like the store is closed, do you know how I could reach Jim?
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Post by thenewoldme on May 24, 2023 21:49:38 GMT -5
If that's true, then he stole that joke from Chris. In the infamous Musician Magazine interview, there was the usual gear sidebar, and there was a lot of detailed info about everyone's gear until it came to Chris, who just responded to the question about what drums he plays by saying, "Black ones." One of the guitar magazines had a centerfold of Paul's '62 Melody Maker (same year as mine!). Anybody remember that? He had 'decorated' it somewhat, including some Pesos glued to the front. I still have that somewhere, I wish I could remember his description of it.... Took me 10 years to find it, but here it is in the June 1996 issue of Guitar World. Attachments:
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Post by FreeRider on May 26, 2023 8:22:13 GMT -5
I wonder if there are any pics of Paul's collection? It is hard to find information about Paul's Guitars.He doesn't like to talk about that stuff. I read interviews where he is asked him about his guitars and he said something like "I have a big red one". Here is the quote: His wiry shadow rarely darkens a club doorway these days, but then again, the guy who dresses up as Mickey Mouse probably doesn't spend his days off at Disneyland. "When the Mats first started I used to go out a ton, but after years of touring it gets to you. I come home and I want the opposite: quiet, peace. I'm not like those guys who need to get onstage after a month to affirm their being," he says. The man doesn't even like to talk about guitars. "It's a hunk of wood with wires -- what could be more boring? It's like, I got a big red loud one, all right?"(source: www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1993/06/13/a-replacement-finds-his-own-place/23e1146d-e4ac-4c78-895e-f638064dee3e/)
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Post by con on May 27, 2023 0:51:31 GMT -5
It is hard to find information about Paul's Guitars.He doesn't like to talk about that stuff. I read interviews where he is asked him about his guitars and he said something like "I have a big red one". Here is the quote: His wiry shadow rarely darkens a club doorway these days, but then again, the guy who dresses up as Mickey Mouse probably doesn't spend his days off at Disneyland. "When the Mats first started I used to go out a ton, but after years of touring it gets to you. I come home and I want the opposite: quiet, peace. I'm not like those guys who need to get onstage after a month to affirm their being," he says. The man doesn't even like to talk about guitars. "It's a hunk of wood with wires -- what could be more boring? It's like, I got a big red loud one, all right?"(source: www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1993/06/13/a-replacement-finds-his-own-place/23e1146d-e4ac-4c78-895e-f638064dee3e/)100%. And he, of all his contemporaries, is the guy who has disproven the gear heads—it’s the song that matters. It’s ineffable and weird, but you know it when you hear it, and Paul had it.
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Post by FreeRider on May 27, 2023 20:33:38 GMT -5
Hmm, the link to the Washington Post article is broken, but I had scanned the article into jpegs. I referenced it in the "Westerberg's Junk" thread:
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Post by anarkissed on May 31, 2023 7:23:55 GMT -5
Here is the quote: His wiry shadow rarely darkens a club doorway these days, but then again, the guy who dresses up as Mickey Mouse probably doesn't spend his days off at Disneyland. "When the Mats first started I used to go out a ton, but after years of touring it gets to you. I come home and I want the opposite: quiet, peace. I'm not like those guys who need to get onstage after a month to affirm their being," he says. The man doesn't even like to talk about guitars. "It's a hunk of wood with wires -- what could be more boring? It's like, I got a big red loud one, all right?"(source: www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1993/06/13/a-replacement-finds-his-own-place/23e1146d-e4ac-4c78-895e-f638064dee3e/)100%. And he, of all his contemporaries, is the guy who has disproven the gear heads—it’s the song that matters. It’s ineffable and weird, but you know it when you hear it, and Paul had it. Yeah, I think he was leaning into his persona a little on this one, and I think he cares more about his guitars and amps than he let on. This is the guy who had six or seven specific guitars lined up on stage, each numbered, some in alternate tunings, so that he knows: "For these three songs, I'll use #1, then I'll switch to #2 for this song"...That's not a guy who doesn't care what he plays. And he was always very vocal about avoiding "pointy" guitars, which seems to me to just be a personal preference based on cosmetics...
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Post by firespirit on Jun 1, 2023 5:01:32 GMT -5
100%. And he, of all his contemporaries, is the guy who has disproven the gear heads—it’s the song that matters. It’s ineffable and weird, but you know it when you hear it, and Paul had it. Yeah, I think he was leaning into his persona a little on this one, and I think he cares more about his guitars and amps than he let on. This is the guy who had six or seven specific guitars lined up on stage, each numbered, some in alternate tunings, so that he knows: "For these three songs, I'll use #1, then I'll switch to #2 for this song"...That's not a guy who doesn't care what he plays. And he was always very vocal about avoiding "pointy" guitars, which seems to me to just be a personal preference based on cosmetics... I agree with this. If Paul really didn't care he would have just played cheap pawn shop junk, but he almost always played nice Gibsons. I have that "Waxed Up Hair" book and there's a photo of Paul playing in a backyard kegger band before he even met the Stinsons. And he's playing a nice Gibson 335. That's NOT a guitar a novice would use...
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 1, 2023 9:30:44 GMT -5
Funny that he's grouchy about it but I didn't see it as him as not caring about the guitars he uses or has. I saw it as him being prickly, for whatever reason, over talking about gear. I guess he doesn't like gear talk!
But he knows his stuff; like when talking about how he likes the cleaner P90 pick ups because he wants the amps to do all the work. Sounds like he was dangerously getting close to gear talk, ha ha...(of course, he was hawking the First Act model and getting paid to endorse it).
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Post by curmudgeonman on Jun 1, 2023 15:46:53 GMT -5
Yes, Westerberg tends to craft his image a bit through interviews, and I'll bet the man knows a bit about guitar and recording gear, but doesn't like to project that type of character in media. In the Come Feel Me Tremble film, it does show a scene with Westerberg and his guitar tech going over the guitars he was going to use that night. He 's not one those guitarists that played a single, iconic instrument (BB King's Lucille, Stevie ray Vaughan's strat, Brian May's Red Special, etc). And yeah, he did not like the pointy, flashy hair metal guitars that guys like Randy Rhodes and Kirk Hammett used, and I share his sentiment. Hell, even Eddie Van Halen designed his EVH Wolfgang guitars to look more traditional than flash.
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Post by anarkissed on Jun 2, 2023 8:09:08 GMT -5
Well, I think that "pointy guitar" comment was a (perhaps good-natured) jab at Bob Mould, who sometimes used a Flying V...I think the apparent disinclination for "gear talk" was a sort of holdover attitude derived from punk...
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Post by FreeRider on Jun 2, 2023 9:30:04 GMT -5
ha, I'm guessing he didn't like Bob's Gibson Firebird either cuz of its funky body design.
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Post by anarkissed on Jun 3, 2023 11:07:37 GMT -5
I expect Bob liked the Firebird because Johnny Winter played one...
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