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[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1405633425' post='2503981'] Do you find the big stubby gives a duller sound that is a little close to finger style? [/quote] No, not really. I'd call it crisper not duller. I rarely play with a pick but if I do it's usually because I want a faster attack and the harder the pick the more that happens. It also means I'm able to play faster if I need to, especially close to the bridge. However, I seem to recall that the last time I mentioned the idea that harder pick meant faster playing, not everyone agreed with me.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1405611696' post='2503661'] I'll always remember him for his performance of Jumpin' Jack Flash on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1974. Which via the gift of YouTube I reproduce here. [media]http://youtu.be/wQPlU5q1CBI[/media] [/quote] I saw that line up at the Kinetic Circus in the Mayfair Suite in Birmingham. It was very loud.

[quote name='scalpy' timestamp='1405628544' post='2503899'] Texted this news to my guitarist, a big JW fan, also a gp. He said 70 was probably a long life for someone who slept with Janis Joplin! [/quote] Leonard Cohen will be 80 in September and ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx83eIVkKyo

Several threads on this already but I rarely use a pick but when I do, Big Stubby 3mm:

[quote name='njr911' timestamp='1405544797' post='2502973'] Alternatively, who makes Fenders strings? Maybe they still do the 45-105. [/quote] It's generally accepted that Fender strings are now made by D'Addario. That's not to say that they are the same as D'Addario labeled strings.

Never, but Email John PIrruccello at Lakland to find out. I think they were/are actually made by ESP in Japan.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1405331255' post='2500761'] The Fender 4-a-side headstock was just a progression of their 6-a-side guitar headstock which was "borrowed" from Paul Bigsby who "borrowed" it from CF Martin, who "borrowed" it from any number of German luthiers before them. Nothing really new at all. [/quote] OK, I didn't mean to suggest it didn't come from the 6-a-side. The rest I didn't know. That's 1830s.

[quote name='winterfire666' timestamp='1405257493' post='2500113'] i know they are pretty much seen as a standard headstock but i really think they are ugly as sin (all fender headstocks) at least a lot of the others on this thread are thinking outside the box. [/quote] When Fender introduced the four-a-side headstock it was 'outside the box'.

[quote name='Freddy Le Cragg' timestamp='1405076034' post='2498555'] [/quote] Clever idea, but shouldn't the tuner circular slots be slightly extended towards the nut to prevent string catching on the circular edge?

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1403730141' post='2485801'] ... she was Dusty Springfields lover. [/quote] ... and backing singer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUi_VvwqwQ4

... and Madeline Bell in December 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am6VICpv95M

Here's the 1994 version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4PBgtFHl58

[quote name='badboy1984' timestamp='1403610786' post='2484396'] ... I do have problem with the MAG ... series which tend to be very bass and doesn't sound well in the band. [/quote] That's the opposite of my experience. [quote name='Mcgiver69' timestamp='1403624936' post='2484679'] ... I used to play a MAG300 combo and found that it didn't agree too much with active basses. [/quote] That's also the opposite of my experience.

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1403465007' post='2482971'] That Blue Mink song has questionable lyrics! [/quote] Possibly so by present standards but it was nearly half a century ago and it was no doubt positive and forward looking for it's time.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1403352209' post='2482029'] He must be playing them through a pretty loud amp if you can hear that [/quote] Ha ha, unfortunate (or not) wording.

They sound like D'Addario Chromes.

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1402824136' post='2476985'] [/quote] That is so bad it has taken me three days to work out how bad it is.

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1402911939' post='2477706'] I have one of the Fender ones. I like it - looks brilliant - but it is very heavy. Seems to extert a lot of pressure on the amp input. [/quote] Same experience here. I like it but I am constantly thinking 'is this a good idea?'.

Give them a few weeks and they'll sound even better.

I knew about the white ones but I didn't know about 750Ns - how are they different?

String Direct, Stringbusters, Lord of the Strings, Thomann - all stock 760Ns. They are very nice strings, if you like them, just like any other string.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuhRLYcN3nM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRrZEZ-tlfg

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1402434716' post='2473560'] ... 'Blues Collection' CDs ... [/quote] This one?