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Brooks Montgomery

Looks like a beauty! At first glance I thought you had used a string leveling style nut, which i think is a great idea—surprised it’s not used more. Probably a hassle to build?

Brooks Montgomery

I'm not interested in hearing them mutated into some weird free style like the work of Bela Fleck or Jean Luc Ponty. I accept the limitations of popular music, and I believe its appeal is familiarity. However, when musicians master their instruments, I sense many get bored with familiarity. A typic...

Brooks Montgomery

Pretty darn cool mini lessons. i subscribed.
So what are & how many chord shapes go from the I to the IV with the bender?

Brooks Montgomery

I guess amps are like martinis.

Brooks Montgomery

Thanks guys, G.A.S. is chronic!

Brooks Montgomery

I know you're only experimenting but, here's a recent shot of one of Paul Beard's dual pickup (Lollar Gold Foil and Fishman "Nashville" piezo) guitars. Fishman active electronics. This particular guitar also has the Hipshot "Doubleshot" tail piece. A "loaded" guitar. I...

Brooks Montgomery

Thanks Mike!
I found this article helpful for dialing certain tones and amps with the BD-2
https://www.thesoundjunky.com/boss-bd-2 ... al-review/

Brooks Montgomery

I’d recommend Merle Haggard, “The bluegrass sessions”, with Rob Ickes playing dobro. Although it’s called “The bluegrass sessions”, all the songs are classic country. I guess Merle called it bluegrass sessions because they all sat in a circle, playing acoustically, including Marty Stuart and others....

Brooks Montgomery

Bravo!!!!

Brooks Montgomery

Why not just use six-strings (remove strings seven and eight) and get used to the DADF#AD tuning…..and then if you feel the need, add whatever , a 6 or flat 7, or flat three, or…? Mike Neer, master of the 8 string Clinesmith, showed us recently some beautiful C6 work on his Clinesmith, where he sim...

Brooks Montgomery

Why not just use six-strings (remove strings seven and eight) and get used to the DADF#AD tuning…..and then if you feel the need, add whatever , a 6 or flat 7, or flat three, or…? Mike Neer, master of the 8 string Clinesmith, showed us recently some beautiful C6 work on his Clinesmith, where he simp...

Brooks Montgomery

Funerals can be fun. I played at a friend’s wake. Cancer. Mort, an old bandmate. He organized it. “I want to be at my own wake” he said. At the party, he sat in a recliner in his yard in a bathrobe and slippers and smoked. A bunch of us played. We had a few stand up jokes with prizes for best jokes....

Brooks Montgomery

And Frank Zappa said: “It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.” But he also said: “Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I d...

Brooks Montgomery

“Can we get a hell-yeh for freedom!” Freedom to read your text messages on your phone while singing on stage…..I guess…..

Brooks Montgomery

Rich Arnold wrote:I got invited to a jazz/ bebop jam tomorrow and they are under the false assumption that I play armpit guitar. This has never happened before.

Blow their minds Rich. I’m sure you will.

Brooks Montgomery

I’m in.

Brooks Montgomery

Michael J Pfeifer wrote:Dude!

Put your thinking cap on. House concert. Invite the neighbors. Good luck.[/quote

Nah, just we just jam at the bar. Neighbors won’t shoot the bar’s windows out. They don’t want to get banned.

Brooks Montgomery

Superb!

Brooks Montgomery

Michael J Pfeifer wrote:Brooks,

You can do better than that. I don't have a TV.What about the public library? Come on,man. Put your thinking cap on.

Our librarian would have a stroke if we showed up with amps and guitars

Brooks Montgomery

Fred, Right on! Brooks, You are an intelligent man. If clubs were not an option,where would you play? Well, as I mentioned, where I live, in rural Idaho, clubs (bars, honky-tonks, breweries) are the option, That’s where we often have jams and open mics. And people show up and enjoy it (sometimes😎)....

Brooks Montgomery

Thanks Fred and Michael,

Michael, so your statement still has me confused: ‘Open mics and jams have a place, just not in clubs’.

Open mics and jams, where then? If Clubs, bars, honky-tonks are the same thing. ?

Brooks Montgomery

Hi, Don. I dig where you're coming from. Open mic and open jam have a place; they just aren't in a club. Thanks for sharing. I guess I’m confused with the concept of “clubs” and why they can’t have open mics. I live in rural Idaho. We have bars. Honky tonks, and breweries. Some (sadly few) hire ban...

Brooks Montgomery

I think that’s the weirdest thing David ever did.

Brooks Montgomery

Jeremy Reeves wrote:take em both off to play a game of cards or set up some little snacks

And the necks can make nice cribbage boards

Brooks Montgomery

OK, Lloyd opened up this thread for banjo jokes……

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