Guildedagain
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Starfire with HB1's (?) in action.
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Meaning they are not HB1's? I should go read the book, again ;}
I read it cover to cover, have to say it's amazing. Maybe the best guitar book I've ever had. The history, the fascination with bits, tuners, knobs, it stands above my other guitar books, some written by Tony Bacon. Really like that it's vintage already, my copy is 25 years old, paper starting to yellow a bit, and that nothing goes past '77, to me it's all downhill after that, but really just pure nostalgia. Fantastic work, will probably read it again and again getting something new each time.
I need to learn how to distinguish Starfires from one another, but too much studying will just lead to longing for one, more unaffordable by day...
Huh... I don't think I've ever thought to put them side by side and take pictures. I'm quite disappointed in myself...
At least you photographed them. I can't tell you how many times I have things apart, with the intent to take pix, but get so caught up in "new guitar fever" that I completely forget. When I remember, it's long after everything is back together. Same goes for taking neck measurements when changing strings. I have the attention span of a gnat and it rarely gets done.
Ripping is subject to personal interpretation for sure.
I got over the Beano album a long time ago, but I still have it, the same one I played over and over. That last issue of Guitar Player with BB King on the cover really lays it out where Clapton, Page, Beck, Hendrix, where all of them went to get their inspiration, the roots. Zeppelin is probably the most notorious for borrowing old Blues songs, Stones also, but then again, they shed light on old artists forgotten to history otherwise.
In retrospect I did cop every single lick of Have You Heard, but eventually I ended up driving around listing to Freddie King Sings The Blues in my car for a couple years and came away with the feeling that Clapton was good, but maybe not as good as who he was trying to emulate.
So, it's not always about prowess, but more about how powerful is the statement.
alas, i have the red tele,the red jaguar and an astatic JT30 in quadruple. so,obviously,i need a starfire,
A ripping solo? Nicely played, but I think better adjectives might be tasteful and competent. A ripping blues solo is the one Eric Clapton played on John Mayall's "Have You Heard."
i will take the real muddy waters band over boomer blues rock any day.