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    I'm bummed

    Amazing, isn't it?
  2. 7/4

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    Cool! Those are sweet guitars. The prices seem to have crept up, but they're still bargains. $300 when it was new in '74. I see them for as high as $1200 now. My guitar has been through a bit, I don't think I could get that kind of price, but it's not for sale anyway!
  3. 7/4

    I'm bummed

    That's the guitar. Mine has a six position pickup switch.
  4. 7/4

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    That's cool! I really like those L6S guitars. I played in a band with a guy who had a natural finished one. Isn't that the one with the cool Bill Lawrence designed pickups? That's the one.
  5. 7/4

    I'm bummed

    I suddenly have a tremendous urge to go guitar shopping.
  6. 7/4

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    My electric is sanded down and in pieces. I plan to put it back together for my son someday. I still have my first electric: '74 Gibson L6S. And I still play it too!
  7. 7/4

    I'm bummed

    My first guitar ended up looking like that!
  8. 7/4

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    I remember they blew those out a while back for $199 or less. I wish I would have jumped on that. I still want to try those special guitars that you play 7/4. I love Indian music so much. I would love to get into semi-tones. You can always get there with a slide. Good point! I'm a big fan of George Harrison's slide playing and I have been practicing his style for a while. If you can, play over a drone. It really helps to nail the pitch. Harrison had a real unique slide tone.
  9. 7/4

    I'm bummed

    I remember they blew those out a while back for $199 or less. I wish I would have jumped on that. I still want to try those special guitars that you play 7/4. I love Indian music so much. I would love to get into semi-tones. You can always get there with a slide.
  10. 7/4

    I'm bummed

    A friend bought a fretless guitar (LP clone) off them a while ago, but I didn't see any on display when I was there last year.
  11. 7/4

    I'm bummed

    They're pretty cool lookin'.
  12. 7/4

    I'm bummed

    Rondo isn't very far from where I live.
  13. YOUR TABLE IS READY by JOHN KENNEY Issue of 2005-02-14 and 21 Posted 2005-02-07 You do not seize control at Masa. You surrender it. You pay to be putty. And you pay dearly. . . . Lunch or dinner for two can easily exceed $1,000. —From the Times’ review of Masa, a sushi restaurant that was given four stars. Am I very rich? Since you ask, I will tell you. Yes, I am. I happen to be one of the more successful freelance poets in New York. The point being, I eat where I like. And I like sushi. As does my wife, Babette. Unfortunately, we were running late. This worried me. I had been trying to get a reservation at Masa since 1987, seventeen years before it opened, as I knew that one of the prerequisites of dining there was a knowledge of the future. I also knew of the restaurant’s strict “on-time” policy. Babette and I arrived exactly one minute and twenty-four seconds late. We know this because of the Swiss Atomic clock that diners see upon arrival at Masa. The maître d’ did not look happy. And so we were asked, in Japanese, to remove our clothes, in separate dressing cabins, and don simple white robes with Japanese writing on the back that, we soon found out, translated as “We were late. We didn’t respect the time of others.” Babette’s feet were bound. I was forced to wear shoes that were two sizes too small. The point being, tardiness is not accepted at Masa. (Nor, frankly, should it be.) The headwaiter then greeted us by slapping me in the face and telling Babette that she looked heavy, also in Japanese. (No English is spoken in the restaurant. Translators are available for hire for three hundred and twenty-five dollars per hour. We opted for one.) And so it was that Babette, Aki, and I were led to our table, one of only seven in the restaurant, two of which are always reserved—one for former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who died five years ago, and the other for the actress and singer Claudine Longet, who accidentally shot and killed her boyfriend, the skier Spider Sabich, in 1976. There are no windows in Masa. The light is soft, and, except for the tinkling of a miniature waterfall and the piped-in sound of an airplane losing altitude at a rapid rate, the place is silent. We sat on hemp pillows, as chairs cost extra and we were not offered any, owing to our tardiness. Thirty-five minutes later, we met our wait staff: nine people, including two Buddhist monks, whose job it is to supervise your meal, realign your chakras, and, if you wish, teach you to play the oboe. Introductions and small talk—as translated by Aki (which, we later learned, means “Autumn”)—lasted twenty minutes. I was then slapped again, though I’m not sure why. Before any food can be ordered at Masa, one is required to choose from an extensive water menu (there is no tap water at the restaurant). With Aki’s help, we selected an exceptional bottle of high-sodium Polish sparkling water known for its subtle magnesium aftertaste (a taste I admit to missing completely). Henna tattoos were then applied to the bases of our spines. Mine depicted a donkey, Babette’s a dwarf with unusually large genitals. Then it was time to order—or to be told what we were having, as there is no menu. Babette and I had been looking forward to trying an inside-out California roll and perhaps some yellowtail. Not so this night. I was brought the white-rice appetizer and Babette was brought nothing. Aki said this was not uncommon, and then told us a story about his brother, Akihiko (“Bright Boy”), who has, from the sound of it, a rather successful motor-home business outside Kyoto. I noticed another guest a few tables away being forced to do pushups while the wait staff critiqued his wife’s outfit. Aki saw me looking at them and translated the words on the back of their robes: “We were twenty minutes late. We are bad.” It was then that our entrées arrived and we realized why this restaurant is so special. Before us were bay scallops, yellow clams, red clams, and exotic needlefish, all lightly dusted with crushed purple shiso leaves. Unfortunately, none of these dishes was for us. They were for the wait staff, who enjoyed them with great gusto while standing beside our table. They nodded and smiled, telling us, through Aki, how good it all tasted. Aki told us that this was very common at fine Japanese restaurants and urged us to be on time in the future, even though he said we would never be allowed on the premises again. He then gave us a brochure for a motor home. Babette and I were strongly advised to order more water. For dessert, I ordered nothing, as I was offered nothing. Babette was given a whole fatty red tuna wrapped in seaweed, served atop a bowl of crushed ice and garnished with a sign reading, “Happy Anniversary, Barbara” (sic). Our bill came to eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars. Aki said we were lucky to get out for so little and then begged us to take him with us when we left. We caught a cab and got three seats at the bar at Union Square Café. http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/?050214sh_shouts
  14. really now... The demo sounds amazing to me. I'll have to look at it again, those drawbars never made sense to me in the past, maybe I've learned something recently that will help.
  15. 7/4

    Smooth Jass, ANY1?

    One day they're blaming it on the Bossa Nova, the next it's Fusion.
  16. 7/4

    I'm bummed

    Both. Once I had a power tube fail on a gig and now one of my amps sounds real harsh in the treble dept. Nasty sound too.
  17. One of my big rock influences in the mid '80s. And not just itchie, but the whole band. Gillian, one of my fave rock singers. Lord, a great rock keyboard player, best on the Hammond and Ian Paice, a real kick ass rock drummer. And Glover knew the pedal point!
  18. Lookin' like NAMM!
  19. That must be the program where Zorn & Sandborn were playing the Ornette/Spy vs Spy material (am I imagining this?). I know they did a gig together with that material in NYC around that time.
  20. You might want to get one of these (B4), a notebook and a sequencer!
  21. Change the printer you're printing to? Maybe the default is the fax modem?
  22. I laughed so hard I choked. At least we can be thankful that they can't have kids! promise?
  23. Only important if you're Welsh. Which you would never admit to anyway. Isn't the first time I've heard that!
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