spirit

and PICS! We need PICS! 

Yes, Pics! Oh and congrats too

Anyway back on topic ....here's a small part of Robb Flynn's statement about Dimebag that made me smile, it gives you an idea on the kind of guy he was....

"....So the next day I go up to him and say "Hey man, do you remember what you

did to my guitar last night?" He's like "Uh... refresh my memory"... so I

say, "You... uh... smashed the neck in half"... to which he says "No ****

dude?! I'll take care of you, no problem, don't worry!" He then had his

tour manager give us TWICE as much money as it would cost to replace /

repair the neck. And then a week later, while we're ON STAGE in Chicago, he comes out,

and brings both Logan and I brand new, top-of-the-line Dimebag Darrell

signature guitars - these things were worth probably 2500 dollars each - and

he whispers in my ear, "Sorry about the neck, Carjacker" (a nickname he had

for me)... I mean, COME ON!?

The next time we saw him, he played us some "just finished" mixes for the

then-unreleased "Reinventing The Steel" record at he and Vinnie's Club. We

were all worshipping. We drank shitloads, and he even rocked on the vodka

with us, rather than the whiskey, just 'cause he remembered that The Head

like vodka. A week later I get a package at our hotel in Pittsburg... he

had sent 4 one-liter bottles of expensive-ass Ketel One vodka, all the way

from Texas, with a note that read "Carjacker, it was killer hanging out with

you the other night. Remember, it's Goddamn Electric! -Your brother Dime".

That's the type of guy he was, such a giving person. 200 bucks worth of

vodka? Bah, no problem

This is the kind of thing that really bums me out about his death. I've heard nothing but good about the kind of guy he was, and now I'll never get to meet him, or even to see him on stage. It may be selfish to think like that, but I can't help it. He's one great guy that I'll never meet.

www.stringsdirect.co.uk may be of some help then

Feylya, do you live in the UK? Cos if you do, I know a site. If not, then nevermind.

A late addition to the thread, I know, but the "amp in a guitar" has been done by Pignose.

http://www.pignose.com/

(Go to "Product Information", which is on the left of the main page.)

www.cyberfret.com

It's explained on there.

Sounds like a pinched harmonic. Can you give an example of a song?

Darnit, now I want a rack setup! *sigh* Yet another thing to add to the bleedin' list...

Took me 5 -YEARS- to finish that guitar. And probably 7-8 strip-and-refinishes before I finally found a recipe that worked for me. I started that guitar before I really knew what I was doing, and I just wouldn't give up on it until I had figured out a way that worked for me.

That's got to be the luckiest guitar on the planet.

I'm sure it was probably the most nervous one too after witnessing it's share of potential guitars sail into the "wall-of-death" at high velocities becoming a twisted pile of splinters.

Just put a big "REINVENTING THE STEEL" down the fretboard

Thats exactly 21 frets

Well then it needs 3 exclamation marks!

With an image of Dime on it, or perhaps a copy of one of his more famous finishes.

Lets hope you never do have to hear them..

their horrible amps

Really? Why did Dime start using them then? Or had all those gigs made him lose his hearing

yeah, I saw on the dean website they where gonna release a guitar for him

and he just signed for krank amps too!

Krank amps? Never even heard of them.

If you pick up a Guitar World magazine they are usually featured in the back with the gear reviews.

*is british*

yeah, I saw on the dean website they where gonna release a guitar for him

and he just signed for krank amps too!

Krank amps? Never even heard of them.

If you were going to consider the Dimebucker, you might also want to consider Bill Lawrence pickups.

And signed back to Dean again just before his death.

Yeah, don't go there. Especially since Dime was a supporter of the people's right to bear arms. Maybe if the laws in Ohio weren't so f'd up and the bouncers were allowed to be armed, this wouldn't have happened. I give the bouncer who rushed an armed gunman and died in the process props for trying to use what he had--nothing but muscle.

So there's two sides to the debate, nothing's going to bring Dime back, so let's end it here, now, and remember Dime for how he lived, not how he died.

Sorry if I caused offence or something. I probably don't have anything like enough information to have much of an opinion on the matter. It's just a thought.

To the hard drinkin', hard rocking amigo we all loved. Rock In Peace.

I'm not trying to turn this into a political debate, but this thought keeps going through my head:

"...and you think it's a good idea to have the right to bear arms??"

RIP Dimebag.

Need I say anything more?

That's really all that needs said.

Man of the World - Fleetwood Mac

The Blessed Hellride - Black Label Society

It's not working for me.

My History teacher frequently gets off topic, and one day he wandered onto the subject of Asia, and I learned that day that we in the West are technologically about 2 years behind Asia. No doubt camera phones are practically standard there.

It was close for me between rhodes 7 string monster, and the acoustic, and since so many people seemed to be voting for rhodes, I went for the acoustic.