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I haven't seen his name anywhere since a friend gave me a cassette dub about 10 years ago. Wonder what's he's been up to. Three fusionish albums that sounded kind like Holdsworth in the '80s - I like them - and nothing until a few years ago he put out a straight ahead album that was a bit of a disapointment.

Mahogany body...interesting... Fender Jim Root Artist Series Telecaster Electric Guitar Features: Series: Artist Body: Mahogany Neck: C-shaped maple, satin polyurethane finish Fingerboard: Ebony (white), maple (black) Frets: 22 Dunlop® 6100 jumbo frets Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm) Width at Nut: 1.650" (42 mm) Hardware: Black Machine Heads: Fender deluxe locking tuners, black Bridge: Black six-saddle string-through-body hardtail Pickguard: Single-ply (black or white) Pickups: EMG® 60 (neck), EMG® 81 (bridge) Pickup Switching: 3-position blade Position 1: bridge pickup Position 2: bridge and neck pickups Position 3: neck pickup Controls: Master volume Strings: Fender Standard Tension ST250L, Nickel Plated Steel, gauges .009, .011, .016, .024, .032, .042 Unique Features: EMG® pickups, mahogany body, ebony fingerboard, flat finishes Get to the root of a heavy sound and order this Tele today!

and the world's a safer place!

guitar sounds = guitarist face. blame Jan Hammer. .

Might as well put those guns to use! .

I don't know too much about EMG pups, just that they make active pups. An active circuit on an electric guitar never really did much for me...I'm not even sure I like it on a bass, but of course it works for the right kind of music. Amp...Fender clean does it for me. I tend to like 6L6 tubes over 6V6 tubes so I'm into my '67 Bassman these days, it's been a while since I've fired up my '73 Princeton.

http://photobucket.com/ .

the Future Scientologists of Corea actually sound pretty good there. I liked them before Chick chased Bill out of the group with graph paper. Hmm...I seem to remember that he killed Circle the same way.

Of course, the pitch bendy stuff is very cool too. Those were the days...before fusion was a bad word....

Bill Connors!

Mine is still working like a charm. .

I thought so too. There's been a bunch of Down Beat articles/interviews over the years with Braxton that also make for interesting reading. .

Yet too smart for us.

No shit speedo.

Sounds like something I'd say.

I play without distortion about 90% of the time, the EMGs I have sound really nice in my old Gibson. I play without distortion about 99.99% of the time.

logging in on another machine, forgetting to log out and then using my machine causes problems. .

Steely Dan was a dildo.

Crescent was one of the last Impulse 'Tranes I got. These things happen... .

No doubt. I don't know how you got this far without it! .

April 1, 2008 FBI: Parachute Isn't Hijacker Cooper's By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 8:24 p.m. ET SEATTLE (AP) -- A parachute found buried in southwestern Washington was not used by plane hijacker D.B. Cooper when he bailed out over the Pacific Northwest in 1971, the FBI said Tuesday. The agency came to its conclusion after speaking with parachute experts and digging where children found the parachute early last month, said Laura Laughlin, special agent in charge of the FBI's Seattle division. Earlier, the man who packed the four chutes given to the mysterious hijacker said they could not have been used by Cooper. Earl Cossey examined the found parachute for the FBI on Friday. He told The Columbian of Vancouver that the newly found chute ''absolutely, for sure'' could not have been one of the four that he provided. ''The D.B. Cooper parachute was made of nylon,'' he said. ''This 1945 parachute was made of silk.'' Cossey sold parachutes at a skydiving operation in the 1970s and provided the chutes that the FBI gave Cooper. Agents found more fabric and parachute lines as they dug at the site, but no harness, which would have provided a serial number and possible source of the find, FBI spokeswoman Robbie Burroughs said. The FBI launched a publicity campaign last fall, hoping to generate new tips to solve the 36-year-old mystery. The torn, tangled parachute was found about a month ago by children along a dirt road near Amboy. A man who gave his name as Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland, Ore., to Seattle in November 1971, claiming he had a bomb. After the plane landed at Seattle, he released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 and four parachutes and asked to be flown to Mexico. He then bailed out of the jet as it flew somewhere near the Oregon line. Some of the cash has been found but his fate is unknown, and investigators doubt he survived.

or YouTube. .

...Wild Bill was also a Scientologist for a while. .

We also learn this: This makes perfect sense, Barris claims to be a CIA operative.