Ive heard of it, but I see enough of it on the web, without having to go to a site thats dedicated to it.

But Im having a look now

speaking of guitars, anyone know anyone that wants to purchase a JCM 800 100w marshall to fund my cycling addiction?

did the penrose 8 hour tosday, i counted 2 broken arms / collar bones among the carnage. i myself did my patented endo - to tree headplant. was a bit scary as i thought i had broken my hand at the time. got smashed in the results too :( im not sold on the enduro format and i think id rather do a more traditional XC race, it favours my strengths a lot more.

track cycling looks more appealing by the day... really looking forward to racing road at the end of april :D

OTB with tree headplant... OUTSTANDING!!!!! (much applause....)


I'l give you $20 for your JCM. But only because they're my initials, not because that pile of stinking american marketing is actually any good. In fact it rates all the way down there alongside F F F F ender

Fender still make some nice stuff, just gotta keep away from the mexican stuff. I would very much like to own a 60's fender -if i was a guitarist ;)

HDTVKSS - well at least you didnt break your hand

pfft. fenders all suck.

next you will be saying hendrix sucks

Meh I like fender guitars.

A lot of the Mex stuff is pretty good actually, just like a lot of the US stuff is crap. With Fenders, you just have to pick the individual guitar. They are very inconsistent.

I haven't posted for a while, so i thought I'd bette give it another go....

I dunno what possessed me to even contemplate starting a ride under the midday sun. It was hot enough to abandon all plans of participating in, watching, or even thinking about cycling. But i'd missed my race this morning due to trainee commissaire duties so I needed some solid bike time.

Anyway, I jumped on the gitane and headed from Maitland down towards Newcastle (sorry Kotter, not enuf time to arrange a ride, next time). Norwester failed me at Beresfield, about 10km into the 35km journey, so plugged away into the seabreeze which got stronger the closer I got to the coast. When I reached the foreshore my speed dropped below 30 and stayed that way until I got past Nobbys.

With warm gogo juice and water there was only one thing to do... top up with cold water at Newey Beach, home of Expat's infamous Vodafone Beach Volleyball Pervchicks. They weren't on display today, but there was plenty of other eye candy on display due to the heat.

There was so much to take in, what could one do? So I stayed a while and checked out the scenery. It was like a voyage of discover, with scantily clad young women running this way and that with superb tans and heaving chests. There were other young ladies peeling their outer garb in the most seductive manner, the head down-arse up arrangement with knees together so as to effect a disturbingly erotic removal of pants/skirts. It was a sea of hornbags all doing their thing for humanity...

And then it dawned on me that I'd best head back to Maitland. The seabreeze carried me pleasantly back to Beresfield, whereupon I was ceremoniously dumped into a stinking hot norwester for the final 10kms. And not a beachbabe in sight...

No, I'll be saying Hendrix is dead

Jock - Marshall is Engish, invented by a drummer infact. I have 2 japanese strats, one vintage reisue and a 80's metal bohemoth. i like them both. but i do quite like my maton mastersound. may get rid of that for a eppi les paul in black n gold mmmmm les paul. my last les paul got stolen :(

:eek: how can you say that? dont you know he moved to mexico with Elvis, Buddy Holly, JFK and the fat kid from hey dad and is now rocking out the local tequila establishments?

Marshalls don't sound as good as the american hype makes them out to be. And Fender just suck. They have "the worst" action on the planet, the fretboard is waaay too wide ( and I have large hands), they sound like someone stole their testicles, and they so boring that ppl actually prefer to watch lawn bowls than gaze upon their styleless form.

Four fargin strikes... they're out!

I'm not really up with all the new gear, but I'd say Marshalls are probably overrated by today's standards. Some of the Bad Cats and the new Boogies are farking AMAZING, but they cost gazillions!! One of the best sounds I ever heard was from a guy using a 5150, but I think they only had 3 channels.

Here's my old beast, which is nearly as old as I am. Only cost me $700 in 1989!! I think Jimi Hendrix once pissed on it!! :)

http://vmartin.bigpondhosting.com/ph...shall_head.jpg

I gave up trying to get a good sound out of it, so I had the preamp bypassed, bought a JMP1 preamp, then obviously just used the power stage of the head. Sounds good enough.

I never liked Fenders either, and I wondered what all the hype was about when I first started going to guitar shops. I know some of the new ones are more like Charvels than Charvels, but 'real' Strats have a too curved fretboard, the necks and bridges are too wide, the 1st knob is too close to the 1st string, and they usually sound crap, even with a Hotrails in there!!! :) And what's with the whole 25.5" scale length??!! I've never heard a good argument for it!! :p Don't even get me started on Telecasters....what a hunk of hard-to-play junk they are. But, you've gotta give old Leo credit for designing the bolt-on neck and a body that hasn't been changed in 50 years. The last I heard was that there's still a bit of debat over who exactly invented to solid body

I use to be an '80s/Vai guy, so I was right into U.S. Charvels and Jacksons. I've got an 'itzabitza' 1982-ish Strat headstock San Dimas Charvel (i would happily sell it for the right bike), a 1986 Texas bolt-on Jackson custom, and a crap Ibanez RG something that I used to take to hillbilly gigs. I bought the San Dimas off Jack Jones (name dropper :p) for $2100 in 1992, which was too much, but after I saw Crossroads, and bought Eat Em and Smile, I was desperate to one like Stevie's



If anyone wants any grouse Charvel/Jackson links, lemme know.

There's also a few muso forums (too many teenagers), and some manufacturer-specific forums.

Jock - I was there with you in spirit. Wondered why my good eye was so itchy...

yeeeees, I can understand how you'd come to that decision.

Jock you've been out in the sun way too long old mate.

Roflmao

You were doing such in lycra? You're gamer than me. :eek:

Well I'm back from the Twin Coast Cycle Challenge 360km in 11:15.

I think I started one group too high as I got dropped each day but picked up fellow sufferers and finished each day in a small group. Best bit - the descent off the last (4km) climb :D. Worst bit - having to stop on the steepest climb after getting down to a cadence of about 30 and take a moment before zig-zagging the last 200m to the top :eek:. The really worst bit - coming last out of my mates by 5 minutes :cry:

After a diet of pasta and creamed rice for four days, it'll be a good week or two before I want to see either. I knocked off a Coopers Pale Ale and 1/2 a bottle of red wine last night :beer:

Lets hope the road cycling works out better for the kiwis as the track turned out to be a big collection of 4ths :(

The car vs bike thing sounds a bit the same as happens here. It usually turns out that unless bones get broken the cops aren't really interested :mad: I hope recovery is swift for the rider, and retribution slow and painful for the pink shirted nob-head.

I'll go for a Matin acoustic and Les Paul electric any day.

So you've been copping heaps from yer mates then? Dun worry, that should subside after 6 months or so.

Kiwis have been awfully quiet in the cycling. TT, MTB, and Road to come. Maybe they can pull an upset out of the bag...

Discovered on the weekend that the carport/lean to at the caravan park in Moama was not high enough to fit the car with my MTB on the roof. Doh! :o
End result not too bad, seat took all the impact so a new one was duly purchased the next day. Choices were limited so I am now giving a Specialized "split for your bits" style a go.

I'll also admit to being the owner of a Mexican Fender Strat that i bought new in the USA about 15 yrs ago and have been happy with. But I'd swap it in an instant for a nice Gretsch hollow body! :D

I'll cop to the Fender Strat, but I can't play, and it's hardly seen daylight in the last 3+ years.

I played guitar for about a year, and always wanted an Orange amp and a Hamer for that big metal chug.

Went to the Corner last night to see my mates band Peeping Tom and Clutch from the US. The Clutch guitarist had quite a set-up running a Marshall head, Quadbox as well as a Vox.

If any of you are in the market for a super nice guitar, check out my friend Tim's custom hand made guitars....
http://www.lovellguitars.com.au/guitars.htm

:D

*edit*
Man, I've got the games running in the background here, and here comes an ad with Sam Neil espousing the virtues of eating red meat 3-4 times a week because 'we were meant to'. What an ignornant, money grubbing *****. Hows the coronary and colon cancer coming along, Sam? :mad:

Nice plug Thylo! Looks like some pretty sweet guitar bling there.

Hey, ya gotta support ya mates, right? It's even easier when they do such seriously noice stuff. Get in before he gets 'discovered' and his prices go through the roof.

Once knw a guy who made his own guitars. Used to shape the necks with an angle grinder :roflmao:

But there was nothing wrong with them playing-wise