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This post is almost exclusively guitar related content. Four armed is four warned. Or something like that. This morning I started the day listening/watching an instructional rockabilly guitar DVD by Damian Bacci. I’d seen some clips on the ole YouTube and his stuff was fluid and the lesson speed and content was right up my alley. I knew I was only going to have enough time to listen to a little and then hack away for a little bit. I grabbed three different guitars over the course of noodling and noticed quite a difference between them. In fact, major differences. I remembered that I’d had some of these guitars worked on by Neil Sargent in Houston….which is funny because they’re the guitars that played the absolute best. For all the non-guitar players out there, buying a guitar is a lot like buying a suit. You really need to have it “tailored” how you like it. Unfortunately, I’ve never truly acquired the skill to do my own setups. I do the basics, but when it comes to the more extensive stuff, I leave it to a pro. Once the pro has done it, it’s more or less a “set it and forget […]
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