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>> I could see that word "funky" going for the old Danos but not the new ones.
> i meant 'funky-*cheap*';
> ya know, when ya find instruments that aren't great, but are definitely
> useable, have some character & don't cost the world?
> (i put 2 kids through *private* american universities, as a full-time freako
> musician-composer, ya dig.....)
> i have noticed that the 'quality-bar' has been raised, at the lower end of
> the guitar-manufacture-scale..... makes it easier for the gtr-geek to
> assemble a wider array of functional instruments, eh?

ya, I like that kind of funky too. I got a couple of stinky cheap ones that
sound amazing.

> 
>> I do *like* the old Dano's pickups a little better than my Jerry Jones', a
little darker sounding, maybe that has to do with aging... (?) what does dt
think? coils? metal used? dunno...
> different value on the *pots*, maybe?

hmmm, dunno from lectronics... you may be right...
 
>>> afaik, kim t. (soundgarden) detunes gtrs, rather than using baritones.
>>> and: lotsa altrock dudes seem to be playing 7-string gtrs, the last coupla
>>> years.
>> I know a couple of guys from Seattle who know Kim very well and they said
>> he *sometimes* uses a baritone and also sometimes detunes, so we're probably
>> both right. Maybe we should call him and ask him?
> okay!

looking up phone # now... "Hi, is Kim there?"... I'll let you know what he
says.

 7 strings seem cool too but those Ibanez ones *look* funny to
>> me,
> i had a 7-string teuffell tesla here, for a while --- it was the prototype of
> my *new* gtr --- and i used it a bit, but not much (recording w/david bowie,
> recording w/tim berne) --- can't quite relate to the 7-strings.
> don't like those quasi-pseudo-trendy ibanez 7's, wauuuuuuuugh!

nice. I love berne and bowie, what Bowie CD are you on? i wanna hear that.
yes the I-been-hads are quite the non bomb, eh?
> 
>> dt. I learned a lot about how to take chances on gtr from watching you
>> play as a kid at the Bottom Line in NYC, you're one of my faves in the
>> experimental music scene.
> thanks! i certainly don't think of my playing as experimental, though.....

for me you are very experimental (at least when I saw you 20 yrs ago!), what
with all the "applied" gtr stuff like playing mini-cassettes through the
pickups and scraping and other stuff I would never had thought of before I
saw you do it... as well you are (to me again) quite versatile even though
your voice is solid. That's hard to accomplish, having your own voice and
yet being able to play lots of different musics... IMHO
> 
>> I'm also a sarcastic smart ass guy from Long
>> Island, Port Jeff... you're from Huntington originally if I'm not mistaken
>> (?)... 
> born in amityville, in the year of the horror.
> raised in wantagh (jones beach).
> late teens in north india.
> montréal, toronto, upstate ny, nyc, london, (insert 'aachen', here), upstate
> ny since.
> old guy, now!
> end self-filtering bio.

hahaha, groove on worldly brother!

> 
>> don't know if you're a smart ass with your mouth but you sure play
>> like one (compliment).
> thanks much, dude.

welks dude.

> btw:
> i tried to d-l one of yer tunes @..., but it failed -site caused
> funkyassed crash- will try again, later.

mp3.com blows me, oh well... I thank you for trying and if I'm allowed to
influence your choice of tunes, I'd say you'll enjoy "Get out of My Way"...

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