7/4

Ouch! .

I guess so. I never really understood what it was good for, it invades the range of the bass.

I think that like a regular gtr or bass, a longer scale length makes it punchier. .

That's his reputation. His music sounds otherwise to me. I think his problem was his hair. I'd be unhappy too, if my comb fractured every time I tried to use it.

That's his reputation.

I always thought that a generic rectangular case for a Strat would fit, but then, I never really had to shop for one. I guess so. They're just discussing a drop D tuning. I guess for it to be truly baritone, it would have to be all tuned down, like B-E-A-D-G-B. It's longer scale than a Strat (25" and change) Your guitar: This slightly longer scale length of 26 1/4" is perfect other examples from MusiciansNotYourFriend: the ESP LTD SC-607B 7-String Baritone Electric Guitar: 27" baritone scale Fender Baritone Special HH: Its 27" scale length allows it to be tuned B, E, A, D, F#, B Schecter C-1 EX Baritone Blackjack Guitar: 26-1/2" scale Ibanez MMM1 Mike Mushok Signature Baritone Electric Guitar: 28" scale mahogany/purplewood neck

Man, I love this photo...

Great article! Thanks for bringing it to our attention, 7/4. Surethang!

Good thing I didn't go. .

There's other baritone guitars out there...I don't know how long those guitar necks are, but there must be cases for them too. .

sort of related, not quite what it's titled... Chico Hamilton Quintet 1955 Recording Session .

Sweet Smell of Success

May 11, 2008 Neil Young Gets New Honor - - His Own Spider By REUTERS Filed at 2:49 p.m. ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Iconic singer and songwriter Neil Young has had an honor bestowed upon him that is not received by many musicians -- his own spider. An East Carolina University biologist, Jason Bond, discovered a new species of trapdoor spider and opted to call the arachnid after his favorite musician, Canadian Neil Young, naming it Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi. "There are rather strict rules about how you name new species," Bond said in a statement. "As long as these rules are followed you can give a new species just about any name you please. With regards to Neil Young, I really enjoy his music and have had a great appreciation of him as an activist for peace and justice." Young, 62, is a veteran rock musician who rose to fame in the 1960s with the band Buffalo Springfield and later became a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, whose 1970 release "Deja Vu" has become a classic rock album. The singer/songwriter, whose solo work ranges from older albums such as "Harvest" to newer CDs like "Living with War," has long been an activist for social and anti-war causes. Bond discovered the new spider species in Jefferson County, Alabama, in 2007. He said spiders in the trapdoor genus, who tend to live in burrows and build trap doors to seal off their living quarters, are distinguished from one species to the next on the basis of differences in genitalia. He confirmed through the spider's DNA that the Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi is an identifiable, separate species of spider within the trapdoor genus. Young is not the first musician to have a creature named after him. A species of beetle that looks as if it is wearing a tuxedo -- the whirligig beetle, or Orectochilus orbisonorum -- was named earlier this year after the late rock 'n' roll legend Roy Orbison and his widow Barbara. Reuters/Nielsen

May 11, 2008 'Honeyboy' Edwards, Delta bluesman, outlasts them all By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 12:09 a.m. ET JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- With his 93rd birthday a month away, David ''Honeyboy'' Edwards admits it's getting hard to walk long distances. Fortunately for the man believed to be the oldest surviving Delta bluesman, fans and admirers never let him walk more than a few feet at a time. Every few steps, someone wants to shake his hand, offer a gift or share news of common friends. ''It's like this everywhere we go,'' Edwards' manager, Michael Frank, said during the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation ceremony Friday to honor the Shaw native. ''He can't walk through a crowded room.'' Edwards has a legacy that almost no living musician can match, and as the last Delta bluesman still standing he has found himself in demand. In the past year alone, he has released a new album, won Grammy and Handy Awards, appeared in ''Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,'' and done interviews for three documentaries due out in 2009 and 2010. With all the activity, though, Edwards finds he is often tired these days. He was in Tunica on Thursday for the Blues Music Awards, in Jackson on Friday, and in Crystal Springs on Saturday to play a festival on a bill that included Pinetop Perkins, one of the few musicians who can claim to have known Edwards when he was a young man. Edwards, who turns 93 on June 28, will get a day to rest when he returns to Chicago, and then it's off to Europe for 10 dates. He still plays about 70 gigs a year and the calls keep coming. Even among the footloose group of blues musicians who gained fame in the 1930s and '40s, Edwards was known for his far-ranging travels. ''When I was young, I was everywhere,'' Edwards said. Edwards learned the guitar growing up in Shaw, started playing professionally at age 17 in Memphis and by the 1950s had played with almost every bluesman of note -- Tommy Johnson, Charlie Patton, Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters -- across the decades. Edwards was honored by the Johnson foundation along with the late Ike Zinnerman, who is believed to be the teacher who helped Johnson become the envy of his fellow bluesmen and a touchstone for a generation of rock 'n' roll musicians. Though much time has passed, little about Edwards' style has changed. His latest album, ''Roamin' and Ramblin','' offers the kind of music Edwards would have played as he traveled first the Delta, then the region. ''Blues ain't never going anywhere,'' Edwards said. ''It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere. You play a lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock 'n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.''

So it gets even worse on the later stuff? I'd better stay away from that, then. The music of his that I have is interesting, but I really wish he'd just shut up. I feel the same way, but I hardly notice the noise any more. Keeping that in mind, the music of his that I have is interesting, but I really wish he'd just shut up.

daab 2008 NY/NJ Amp show.

ArkAmps 2008 NY/NJ Amp show.

I thought Moonchild was influenced by the Derek Bailey/Evan Parker/Jon Stevens scene...Jamie Muir did join the band a few years alater.

I was wondering about those too.

I've certainly heard it in order from WKCR broadcasts over the years, but now I'm more likely to take a chunk - like the classic Shorter/Williams/Herbie grp in the studio - and listen to it in chronological order. Otherwise, you have a long list of issues there...

I noticed. I have most of what is released on CD.

You made it in shop with your friends?

Wow Jim. I'll say a prayer.

Men charged after skull dug up, used as bong Fri May 9, 1:27 PM ET Authorities in Texas have filed corpse-abuse charges against two men who allegedly removed a skull from a grave and used it as a bong. The Harris County District Attorney's Office confirmed on Thursday that misdemeanor abuse of corpse charges have been filed in the case. One of the men allegedly told police they dug up a grave in an abandoned cemetery in the woods, removed a head from a body and smoked marijuana using the skull as a bong. Police found the cemetery and a grave that had been disturbed but are still investigating the rest of the story, officials said.