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Recent content by clayville

  1. clayville

    Wayne Perkins and "Hand of Fate" Underrated song and solo!

    Zombie thread from, er, 20 years ago... but now that you bring it up I agree with the o.p. Hand of Fate is high on my list over favorite Stones tunes and one of the best "story songs" Jagger ever wrote. Keith has some real balls dialed into the rhythm and both Perkins' solos are excellent...
  2. clayville

    Becoming a "pickguard off" kinda guy...

    When I bought my CS-356 out of the Stinger run twenty-one years ago neither Gibson nor Music Machine had the heart to cover the top with the pick guard. Neither have I... and no worse for wear after almost daily use.
  3. clayville

    Any CS-356 Players / Owners out there?

    Original owner of this 2003 from the Music Machine Stinger collection in Quilted Heritage Darkburst. My #1 for twenty years!
  4. clayville

    Anybody using a headphone amp?

    I picked up a DSM & Humbolt Simplifier MKII pedal over the summer for this kind of thing and I'm very happy. No screens, no apps, no firmware, all analog (except for the reverb which helps greatly with play along tone blending through the aux-in). Does Fender/Vox/Marshall with lots of control...
  5. clayville

    Modelers

    In the home recording and noodling realm, I used the direct out of a Damage Control Womanizer tube overdrive pedal to get great, warm, edge of breakup, amp-like tone for something like 15 years. Not exactly a modeler, but I've never felt the need or desire to replicate album sounds in detail -...
  6. clayville

    NGD - Gibson Custom Shop 356 - Post pictures of yours…

    Congrats and welcome to the club. Mine's a bone stock 2003 in Quilted Heritage Darkburst out of the limited Stinger run from the old Music Machine store (ebony board, '57 Classics). I'm the original owner and absolutely love this thing. I actually find mine to have a slightly scooped sound...
  7. clayville

    CS-356

    Welcome to the club! And: Thanks, fellas!
  8. clayville

    Hey it's Mat from Gibson Product Development - AMA

    I realize there are current supply chain and production capacity limitations as well as other priorities, but I wonder if there are plans to reintroduce the CS-336 and CS-356 ? Wiith so few all-new designs launched over the last 20 years, those two particularly suffered (in my view) from website...
  9. clayville

    Let's say..... there was this guitar player.....

    Not sure if this will help any, but here goes: I'm a mostly self-taught blues hound and have been playing for 40 years. Good ear, can make musical noises in the right key and generally hold my own in most situations I encounter. Makes me happy, makes others happy on occasion. My knowledge of...
  10. clayville

    ES-339 Serial Number Altered?

    My guess is the guitar may have picked up some indents when the finish was still quite new and soft, but who knows? That seems more likely to me than some sort of alteration to the serial number or a "factory second" indication - stamped numbers (and painted ones) can come out less than perfect...
  11. clayville

    ES-339 Serial Number Altered?

    Not much help here from a single photo. I'm assuming this is a Trans Ebony ES-339 with that black headstock. At first the serial number itself troubled me - I'm more familiar with the earlier "ME XXXXX" serial numbers from the Memphis Custom Shop era. But apparently ES-339's have used several...
  12. clayville

    ES-140T anybody?

    I've had an odd obsession with these 3/4 size guitars for about a decade since picking one up off the wall at Mark's Guitar Loft for a few minutes many years ago. Still don't own one, but the GAS runs strong and I continue to sniff around and stare at them on Reverb. Anyone care to praise or...
  13. clayville

    A-Roid

    Nice of Alex to get out in front of this thing at last. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3894847 :jim
  14. clayville

    Political Junkie Detox?

    As I prepare to enter Political Junkie Detox for a while, there's still the lingering questions of, say, Alaska's Senate race (or Minnesota's... or who won Missouri) before the various recounts and runoffs. I'm not sure why I find Alaska interesting (other than the prospect of returning a...
  15. clayville

    Playing with fire?

    To me, John McCain is a weary and ineffectual but well-meaning public servant caught in an unenviable position... one not of his making or of his choice, one concocted and goaded by the likes of Fox and Limbaugh to confuse, obscure, deflect and deceive... to demon-ize and negate anything the...
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