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    Guess who !

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

    Posted · Edited by NancyJohnson

    On 15/1/13, he won/paid £161 for this Schecter guitar [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130832259749?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_nkw%3D130832259749%26_rdc%3D1"]here[/url]. Within days, he'd [i]converted [/i]it from a 7-string to a 6-string and (re)listed it 24/1/12 for £347.00 [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190789082180?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D190789082180%26_rdc%3D1"]here[/url].

    Maybe I'm missing another trick here.
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    Hamer. A sad day.

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by NancyJohnson

    Joel
    OK, here goes. (For the record, I am a little hungover, so I may wander a bit.)

    1) I'd never thought Fender would have bought a company for their distribution network. Really? I've been dipping in and out of guitar stores since the early-80s and if there's one brand that's synonymous by it's unanimity, it has to be Fender. Never struck me that they needed distribution, I thought they sold like hot cakes.

    2) Hiatus or otherwise, the information I posted was sent to me from the guys at the Hamer Fan Network, who to a degree have effectively become the Hamer mouthpiece. The Workshop blog hasn't been updated in nearly a year. I would say one thing here, who puts a company into hiatus and then relaunches it at some future date?

    3) Recession. Psst. Guitars are still selling aren't they? And what would you rather rock out with? A Guild semi or a Hamer solid? (OK...don't answer that.)

    4/5) These are statements of fact/conjecture.

    6) I'm running a business selling very expensive sprockets and I have a full order book into 2013/14. I've been selling these sprockets for a few years now, quite successfully it has to be said, but now I'm going to start manufacturing cheaper sprockets. I know, to meet demand, I'll close down my expensive sprocket business, cancel the back orders and move all my machinists over to make my cheaper product. That's some sound business sense, for sure. Now I don't have access to Fender's balance sheet, so I don't know how much sales for Hamer and Guild account for, so don't feel qualified to comment on whether this is a sound decision or not.

    7) Other guitar stores are available and there's a big old world beyond those US borders. I work in the jewellery business and we sell into many businesses that are most probably overburdened by debt, but as a credit manager, I can control what goes out and what happens when we don't get paid. There are many channels of distribution globally. I think of Fender being a little like Kiss. Clearly not really interested in what went on outside of the US until things started going down the toilet at which point it became time to concentrate on the markets in Europe, South America, Australasia, Far East. (I'm curious, do the Americans use the term Far East, because in actuality it's probably Close West. Sorry, went off topic there.)

    8) This, my friend, is a shameless plug. I will be visiting Amazon imminently.

    If there's one good thing about the Hamer brand, it's that there's a good 30 years of production still out there (aside from the hundreds Nikki Sixx destroyed), so they're still readily available and will still be even when I'm dust.

    Oh, and in closing, please desist in the overuse of unnecessary "inverted commas". You're a journalist/magazine editor, are you not? Tut tut!! :)

    Message ends.
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    Weekend in New York - Bass-ish ideas for what to do and see???

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    If you're anywhere near New York Public Library on the weekend you should check out this guy busking and give him a couple of dollars. I'm not sure whether the guy is only let out on the weekend, but he's very entertaining (and this isn't a dig at people with learning difficulties or anything...I know it's 2013). We saw him several times during our sojourn in September and he was pulling people left right and centre. He's fearless.
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    Sunn Mustang Bass w/upgrades

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted

    Bought this a couple of years back as a project. Full refinish, hi-mass bridge, aftermarket scratchplate (black/single ply), Wilkinson P pickup and Dunlop Straploks. I'll throw in a Levy's wide strap as well.

    Plays very nicely, great tone, lovely low action...it's just surplus to requirements and I have another bass arriving this month. I used it on the [i]Stayin' In[/i] and [i]Boy Loves Being A Girl [/i]which you can hear at [url="http://www.nancyjohnson.co.uk"]www.nancyjohnson.co.uk[/url].

    There's no case or gigbag.

    £120.00 firm.

    Thanks for reading.
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    CAD STAGE 7 Drum Microphones + Extras

    in Accessories & Other Musically Related Items For Sale

    Posted

    [b][color="#000000"]CAD STAGE7 Drum microphone set, XLRs, small bass drum boom stand. £160.00[/color][/b]

    [color="#000000"]This is brand new; never taken out of the box. Project this was purchased for never happened and I ended up using loops. [/color]

    [color="#000000"]More information here: http://www.wilddistribution.com/cad_stage7.html[/color]

    [color="#000000"]Thanks![/color]
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    Hamer. A sad day.

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    About twenty years ago, Hamer used to be distributed (along with Godin and, I think, Warwick) from a small industrial unit close to me in Kings Ride Park, Ascot; my drummer knew someone who worked there and I had a couple of hours one afternoon pulling guitars out of boxes and playing them. They were all good. I can probably pinpoint that afternoon as where my love affair with Hamer first started.
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    Hamer. A sad day.

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by NancyJohnson

    I just got an e-mail from the Hamer forum mods who advise that, 'Hamer brand guitars will no longer be produced after the current round of custom orders are complete.'

    I find this a sad day. Hamer may not be to everyone's taste, but they certainly resurrected a handful of dead in the water Gibson designs and introduced some new poop into the market. I'll miss them.
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    are there any super bands with poor bass players?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1356708740' post='1912744']
    +1 on this comment on Michael Anthony of Van Halen . He's a superb hard rock bass player who is no slouch when the mood takes him . Listen to the first VH album and Michael plays some clever stuff throughout without ever cramping EVHs style or getting in the way . An underrated player in my estimation , and not poor by any stretch of the imagination .
    [/quote]

    I loved early (Roth era) VH, but never really thought that Michael Anthony fit the band. He was certainly the the worst musician in there by a country mile, although I do concur that his BVs were pretty extraordinary. I recently bought the Guitar World VH interview collection ([url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guitar-World-Halen-Great-American/dp/1618930273/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1356779757&sr=8-1"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guitar-World-Halen-Great-American/dp/1618930273/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1356779757&sr=8-1[/url]) and the guy really comes across as unlikeable, ignorant and somewhat of a bigger arse than I originally thought. Irrespective of how he feels about DLR now, VH would simply have been another LA rock band without DLRs bravado, charisma and showmanship as the primary focal points. Despite what he was doing before (and after) it just reinforced my opinion and that he was simply in the right place at the right time.

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