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Topic: Have you ever lost it ? |
Bill Moran
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Virginia, USA
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Posted 5 May 2015 5:04 pm |
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I started out on a LDG. Oh I had a Maverick and a Pepi Jo. You wouldn't even call them guitars. Just a block with strings. It had a sound, let me say a growl, with the LDG that I can't find again. I have spent thousands, national debt, on guitars. Pro ll, Emmons SKH, Franklin, Carter, Several Mullen's, GFI and several Marlin's. Almost forgot, a Fender 2000.
Where did it go ? Why can't I get the sound I have running around in my head ?
I have had every amp on the market up until the Milkman came along.
Has anyone ever had it , then lost it ? 
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Bill
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Mike Wilkerson
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Luther Oklahoma
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Posted 5 May 2015 5:48 pm
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Bill I know exactly what you are saying.I lost my beloved 69 push/pull Emmons and all my gear in a house fire in 2010.Fast forward to 2013 when I replaced all my gear and I was like a beginner all over again.The only thing I know to tell you is the tone is in your pick hand.You may pay close attention to how soft or hard you're striking the strings and where you are placing your right hand in reference to the pick-up.I hope this helps
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Nicholas Ackron
From:
Daytona Beach
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Posted 6 May 2015 4:38 am
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David Spires
From:
Millersport, OH
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Posted 6 May 2015 5:26 am
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My advice - go back to what you love. I've been a victim many times of trying the latest and greatest thing. Sometimes those things are a step in the right direction, and some are really a setback.
If you loved your tone back then, go find that guitar and amp combo, and enjoy it. Nothing will sound like an old Sho-Bud more than an old Sho-Bud!
David Spires
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 6 May 2015 9:22 am
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| What David S. says, it takes a ShoBud to sound like a ShoBud, accept no substitutes. I love my PP but the 'Bud stands alone in the tone department. |
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 6 May 2015 10:11 am true
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boy if ever the truth be told David Spires
just told it I had a green laq Emmons pp
come my way once and it had that tone
and of course grass is greener got it
however the right hand is the secret to good tone
ive seen guys sit down to a maverick or a carter starter play with THAT tone as well
but there is some tone difference between brands
mike
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Dennis Olearchik
From:
Newtown, PA
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Posted 7 May 2015 6:58 am
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"...but there is some tone difference between brands..."
I would hope so!!! |
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Don R Brown
From:
Rochester, New York, USA
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Posted 7 May 2015 8:40 am
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Bill, I'm still trying to find it for the first time!  |
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Ken Pippus
From:
Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 7 May 2015 9:14 am
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| The other thing that needs to be considered is that your memory may not be telling you the whole story. I remember having a chance to play a guitar years after it had made my "one that got away list." I suspect the guitar hadn't changed, and it didn't bear much resemblance to the golden, irreplaceable tone I had in my head. |
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Fred Justice
From:
Mesa, Arizona
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Posted 7 May 2015 9:38 am Pepi Jo
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Bill, now there's a name you don't hear every day, not even every life time.
I too started out on a "Pepi Jo" I got from David West down in Claxton TN.
We done some horse tradin and no doubt he got the better part of the deal.
I keep that ole critter around 11 months, you couldn't even get it in tune much less keep it in tune.
But it got me out of the starting gate anyway. 
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Georg Sørtun
From:
Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 7 May 2015 11:12 am
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Mine didn't get away ... it was just gone for a while...
It happened when I brought my old, heavily modified, Dekley S10 up to Bent Romnes' workshop years ago, to service it after decades of abuse (by me ). Bent did a perfect job on it, but once I had brought it home some of its inherent tone was gone. It sounded "dull", without the character I had become used to.
I "hunted it down" to a couple of screws under the keyhead that was tightened a little too much so they dampened the soundboard (a Dekley, unlike most PSGs I have played, does have an actual soundboard).
Loosening those screws half a turn was all it took to get the "tone of the soundboard" back, and all else was in perfect order after the service-trip from Norway to Canada and back |
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Tom Quinn
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Posted 7 May 2015 11:17 am
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George, it took me a while to see what your avatar was and then I saw it was a cat. Up until then... -L-
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 7 May 2015 11:30 am
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My wife thinks I lost it years ago.  |
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Bobby Boggs
From:
Upstate SC.
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Posted 7 May 2015 7:34 pm
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| Have you ever lost it? |
I don't think I have. Sure I've played guitars that inspire me more than others.Certainly some play, sustain, and sound better. But in the end. I still sound like me. Not sure that's a good thing.  |
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Georg Sørtun
From:
Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 7 May 2015 8:50 pm
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| Tom Quinn wrote: |
| George, it took me a while to see what your avatar was and then I saw it was a cat. Up until then... -L- |
Have heard that one before... |
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Georg Sørtun
From:
Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 7 May 2015 9:15 pm
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BTW, a short time ago I had the misfortune of trying to tune up, and then play, a PSG someone had just bought. For a while there I thought I had totally lost both my sense of hearing and my ability to push pedals and levers in a somewhat timely and sensible way   
But then it hit me, that the contraption wasn't really a PSG ... it was a Carter Starter
Trying to make music on that thing was an entirely new experience for me, and I don't want to repeat it |
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Bob Simons
From:
Kansas City, Mo, USA
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Posted 12 May 2015 5:25 am
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Not with pedal steel, but years ago I had my treasured 1954 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop stolen. Dozens of guitars later I still feel like a singer who lost his voice. Sadly I'll never have $80,000 or so to get another one! (Modern versions just don't have IT!)
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 12 May 2015 2:55 pm
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| It seems that fishermen, spinsters, and pedal steelers are the three groups that are most often pining about "the one that got away". |
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