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    Advice please. I have been asked to help sell 2 vintage Les Pauls

    Hello vintage Les Paul experts, I haven't spent much time here in the last few years, but I know this forum is the right place for advice on this matter. A good friend of mine, who knows nothing about guitars, has been asked to help appraise and sell 2 vintage Les Pauls owned by a former...
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    Seeking info on this possible vintage Epiphone

    Hung out at my drummer's house last night, and he showed me this old Epiphone 335 style guitar he had. Any ideas of it's year, and value?
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    Mullard EL34 reissues - soft, medium, hard ???

    Looking to re-tube the Jube. I figured I'd try these Mullards, available from MF. http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Mullard-EL34-Tube-?sku=212050 ...but wtf is this "soft, medium, or hard" choices? Which should I choose, and why? Adam
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    rig pic - Jubilee and R7 content

    Took a couple pics last night featuring my new Jub, dying to share. Adam
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    Amp tech on Long Island?

    My Marshall is making horrible noises, and it's time to re-tube/bias anyway. Who do I go to?
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    Anybody use a Marshall JMP-1 with a Lexicon MPX-G2?

    How do you have it hooked up? Using the JMP-1's effects loop, or not? Adam
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    Breaking strings due to topwrapping

    Been topwrapping for 3 years, and haven't had any trouble. Now, that I'm in a band for last few months, if I'm having trouble hearing myself over everyone else, rather than turning up and everyone telling me I'm too loud, I tend to hit the strings harder in an attempt to be heard. Well, I've...
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    Monthly practice room, or hourly studio time?

    Just curious about your thoughts and experiences on this...the band I recently joined/formed has been practicing weekly in a decent size studio, 2 (sometimes 3) hours @$30/hr. split 5 ways ($12 each). Since I much prefer to use my own amp rig, I've been lugging it every week (the rack is heavy...
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    My R7 got it's first battle scar.

    No pics yet, I'll try to borrow a camera. Second rehearsal with new band, new studio, small room, the friggin' mic stand for the snare drum had a long boom that stuck out in front of my amp. I step up to the amp and accidentally walked into the end of the boom. Took a small chip of gold...
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    More Brit Humor...with celeb. guitarists.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5OHPgne1S4
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    Spaceflight Participant Anousheh Ansari

    I'm fascinated by this woman. She's a space nerd, and so am I. I watch NASA TV quite alot, and I follow all space goings on with the International Space Station and the shuttles. This woman is so captivating...her dream, her vision, her accomplishments, her professionalism, her grace,....her...
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    9/11 Prevention Fantasies

    I think about this stuff almost every day. Let's suppose that you knew about it before it happened. Maybe you were clairvoyant, or you had some "power", or you could go back in time, or something like that. I constantly have these fantasies of somehow disabling the planes, or killing the...
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    End of the world in 2 weeks?

    Got this from Drudge Report, not my words.... --------------------------------------------- WSJ: Scholar Warns Iran's Ahmadinejad May Have 'Cataclysmic Events' In Mind For August 22 Tue Aug 08 2006 10:22:35 ET In a WALL STREET JOURNAL op-ed Tuesday, Princeton's Bernard Lewis writes: "There is...
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    Friday's Liberal Joke of the Day

    Subject: Questions for Mr. Bush George Bush goes to a primary school to talk to the kids to get a little PR. After his talk he offers question time. One little boy puts up his hand and George asks him his name. "Stanley," responds the little boy. "And what is your question, Stanley?" "I have 4...
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    Total Solar Eclipse Today !

    Not visible from the U.S., but good coverage and a video here: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/sun_earthday2006.html Pretty cool. The next one visible from the U.S. will occur in 2017.
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