"I was told that at high volume the blade 'vibrates' within the coil." Yes I did contact Lollar. I knew of someone that wanted to fit three of his CC pickups...
Fifteen months ago, when I visited with the good folk of Bonham, we launched the idea of the saving and removal of the house to a new site in Bonham. Here is...
Truly great news especially when one considers all of the well intentioned but never-come-to-fruition proposed projects in the world. Thanks for your efforts...
I was watching the absolutely ridiculous movie last night called "The Nude Set" or retitled as "The Fast Set" made in 1961. "Set" meaning social group as in...
I did a www.imdb.com (Internet Movie Data Base) search for "The Fast Set" and came up with "Mademoiselle Strip-tease" which shows the movie cover cover for ...
The Peter Broadbent Quintet will be playing at the Wales Millenium Centre (Opera House in Wales built at a cost £104 million) next month. Music by CC will be...
... called "The ... all Speaking of CC and the movies, I watched "Focus" (based on Arthur Miller's book on anti-semitism in wartime America) on DVD last week ...
I'm still trying to re-locate the photo of Charles in his hep-cat gear posing with the sunburst 250 with dangling tags and BG standing to his left. I did find...
On "Body and Soul" Grimes quotes "I Got Plenty of Nothin'" on the bridge. Considering his penchant for "borrowing" CC lines, one might wonder where he got...
Seymour Duncan has a repro CC pickup that looks exactly right. Go to www.seymourduncan.com, click on Products, then Custom and look at the 'Other Pickups'...
Does anyone know when those Bill Savory airchecks will if ever be released?I guess there are legal issues preventing some wonderful Goodman and Christian fronm...
Well,that is somewhat good news.perhaps he will form his own label.He has unissued gems from Chick Webb,etc.. Thanks for the info ! ... As far as I know, there...
During a recent google search of Charlie Christian, I found the following: http://www.ntxe-news.com/artman/publish/article_25954.shtml Interesting, eh?...
... Thanks. That should heat up the discussion a bit.... Some of you may have seen Wayne Goins' earlier articles in Jazz Improv magazine or reference to the...
Just passing this along for the curious. I don't know the guy and am NOT vouching for the items, but if anyone has an extra $125 to blow on some bakelite...
Which ones are original to the ES v. EH? With or w/o the arrows? I've had both on my 2 ES's and arrowless on my 2 EHs (if I remember correctly). Jeff...
... correctly). Incidentally, for comparison there's an excellent photo of the knobs with arrows in Edison62's folder in the "Photos" section. - Garry...
Hi Folks, I wanted to inform you on what's been happening lately at www.jazzguitar.be: -a lesson on tritone chord substitution & the lydian dominant scale ...
I found another previously unseen by me photo in a book at Borders called "Big Band Almanac" in the BG section. There is a photo of the Sextet at Catalina...
In this the birthday month of our subject, it would be interesting to know what made you a fan. I was 20 when I first heard Charles in 1976. Prior to that, I...
Sounds not too dissimilar from my experience except that I waited until
about 35y.o. to really become a jazzhole and see how rudimentary my beloved
pop/rock...
