unclebuck

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Bubba po

I'd rather trickle roughly-crushed glass into my eyes, thanks.

unclebuck

Sooo.. fickle...

Open those glass encrusted eyes.. then expand that long dead organ that you would call 'your mind'... embrace the future m8 - everyone has a big hug for you there..

unclebuck

Must be the 'trickle down' effect... LOL you make me laugh...

So... where's your mix then??

Bubba po

It's on a ligger, waiting for the brickies to do a bit of walling with it.

unclebuck

You are such a Luddite... You really need to get with the digital age as soon as you have the time... (Cornwall)

Bubba po

I AM a Luddite, and proud of it. I also like modern, adventurous music, just not that kind. All that bollocks just reminds me of pre-schoolers cutting up Old Masters to make a collage and getting a gold star on their exercise book. Perhaps one day they might show the diligence and self-sacrifice required to play a proper instrument.

At what point did "songs" turn into "mixes" exactly?

unclebuck

Around about.. 1990 imo - although some may claim it was earlier.. tunes began to be 'designed' with mixing in mind. Is that a bad thing in the land of Bo then?

chocolate_o_brian

iTrader: (22)

Electro isn't really my cup of tea. Uplifting Trance & Progressive gets me going - something with a driving riff and sanctuous melody

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Think you're about a decade late there. Think back to Martin Rushent and Trevor Horn's early 80's productions. Lot of remixes and as you say tunes deisgned to be remixed.

subaruturbo_18

Cant get on to the website as at work. Might upload one of my recent house mix's though.

Oh yeah Choccy O'brian, im entering a DJing competition, could give it a blast yourself if you felt like it.

you can find it here on Mixed In Key - Harmonic Mixing DJ Software

chocolate_o_brian

iTrader: (22)

15 min mix... I'd get 3 choons in max LOL

unclebuck

You are a Luddite and an idiot, more like...

Bubba po

You really ought not to persist with your pose of pretending to like this wretched nonsense. Choose a genre which is more in keeping with your age.

unclebuck

Yea... you're right Best break out that old repro Squire Telecaster and bash out a few bar chords..

Ah, those old days of glory....


Or we could move with the times, as we always have done..

Bubba po

I have two USA Fender Telecasters, a '96 and a '99. And the music you're touting is anachronistic in its own right. It lost its relevance as a "new" thing fifteen years ago. But I take your point.

unclebuck

I know... well, I don't know, but I would assume that to be case - I was taking the p*ss Not that old then? It's the pre-CBS models that are the collectable ones as I have always understood it.


That's true as well... it's (music) pretty much all old hat now. Recycled ideas and styles in whatever is your preferred genre. Though 'electro' house does offer a slightly different and original slant on house music.

slightly....

Lucky then that we are both here to inject the required innovation.

Bubba po

Yeah, the pre-CBS examples are the crock of gold as far as collectors are concerned. The weird thing is, the 1970s USA instruments attract very high prices even though it is universally agreed that those years are truly the rock-bottom of Fender production quality. Really, really crap. It took the Japanese (as usual) to show the world how far USA standards had sunk. The Jap factories began to produce the "Squier" [sic] brand in the early 1980s. Actually, they were originally intended to produce affordable Fender-branded instruments, but when the Yanks saw what the Japs were producing they got a massive wake-up call.

USA Fenders are now top-notch instruments once again (if overpriced), and the Squier brand is firmly budget quality. Get your hands on an early 1980s Squier, and you will be playing one of the best instruments ever to have a Fender badge.

But I digress.

Bubba po

My days of innovation are over, if they ever existed, BTW.

ronjeramy

iTrader: (1)

Maybe they were crap in the 70's because Hendrix and co kept setting them on fire and smashing them

unclebuck

Interesting...

So, in your opinion, what are the qualities that make one Telecaster superior to another - regardless of the make..

unclebuck

Yep, It's all been removed anyway by our anti-aspirational Labour government......

We have all been reduced to bovine tax slaves...

Toodle Pip...

Bubba po

Well, the Telecaster's probably not the best instrument to start on when discussing guitars. It was originally meant to be a "workmanlike" guitar and I prefer a Strat, if truth be told. But it does a few things really well and I play one now because nothing else looks or sounds quite right with the band I'm in at the moment.

As regards the qualities that set one Telecaster guitar above another:

Alder body

Top quality overwound bridge pickup.

Neck profile -either it feels great or it doesn't.

Top hardware.

Authenticity; if you're recreating a vintage sound then use the bridge style of the time. The old-style bridge with three saddles has inaccuracies of intonation that produce a distinctive sound. Try playing "White Man in Hammersmith Palais" on a modern six-saddle Telecaster and it won't sound right.

Bubba po

After all that, I have to say that the instrument you play is of minimal importance, it's how you play it that matters. Pete Shelley played "Ever fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have" on a guitar from Woolworth's. OK, it's not Beethoven, but that song will last forever.