Identifying the gear

I was going to make a whole reply to this, but I am just going to say "okay, dude" instead.

Okay dude.

And i'd love to get a more articulated reply from you then that, but i'm so jet-lagged... I have finals on Tuesday as well, so hooray to me, I guess.

I'll articulate a few words.

I think guys who are really happy with the sound of their guitar and amp don't like cluttering that combination up. That's how I feel most of the time. I kick something cool in and I am like "that's cool, but not as cool as my awesome core sound." Also, effects really get int he way of my playing sometimes, even fuzz and other dirt can be really problematic, masking what I'm trying to do unless its a part I specifically conceived for that gimmick sound. But there's no guarantee you would be as knocked out by my core guitar tone as I am, you might get bored with it pretty quick and wonder why I don't have more effects going. You might also be bored with my playing in some contexts, like "well that was well executed, but pretty tame."

Anyone familiar with Cort Guitars? I'm absolutely not. I'm looking for the dreadnought played by the guy with the orange beanie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGjvkaEZ_GE

Looks like an Earth because of the black tuners. Does anybody know if they changed their headstock logo? On the new ones I can only find a different one.

Maybe it is better visible in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaKdjD-OyRs

bear den? oh man... where do you find these guys?

anyway, based on the fake tort shell pickguard, basic binding and shape I think its part of Cort's entry level Earth series (which are probably fine guitars... Korea has always made a really good acoustic at an affordable price point.... and the Cort and Peerless folks are particularly good manufacturers with nice attention to detail)

to this day I am uncertain if my 90s Epiphone dreadnought is Japanese or Korean, if it had a sticker when I got it as a teenager when I didn't worry about this stuff, it fell off long ago and its from a weird period where some epi acoustics were still made in Japan (and mine was a top of the line Epi, limited edition anniversary model), but it could easily be a Korean guitar that got top grade, solid tone woods and more attention than the run of the mill dreadnoughts that were a bit cheaper. Either way it is a very good guitar and really holds its own with current American made big-name acoustics. I actually clocked in well under budget on my Ep back in the day and coulda bought a serious brand name, but the epi played and sounded better as well as having no laminated woods where I think they shouldn't be. I wouldn't take it toe to toe with a pre-war guitar, and it might not hand so well against the better 50s and 60s Martins, Guilds and Gibbies or even early Taylors, but against the high end shit most people have been buying new since the 70s its a match... playable and extremely toneful. So I'll bet if that guy plays a low end Cort its still a nice ass guitar. I am feeling tempted to pick up some budget friendly cort acoustics now.

Yeah, i think it's an Earth too – but which one? 100?

I actually like Bear's Den. Saw them live last year when they opened for Mumford & Sons in Berlin (Waldbühne), which was a pretty cool venue. The whole thing and the area around the Waldbühne were build during the Third Reich for the 1936's Olympics. The whole dark and megalomaniac architecture of that era is always impressing. And Bear's Den's debut "Islands" was a pretty solid record when you dig that kind of music.

Waldbühne: http://www.schlagerplanet.com/cache/sp/image/c/0/1/waldbuehne-berlin_n4088.jpg

Olympic Stadium: http://www.goruma.de/export/sites/www.goruma.de/Globale_Inhalte/Bilder/Content/B/Berlin/Berlin_besondere_Gebaeude_Olympiastadion_2_1600.jpg

https://billsandbrews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/COLBERT_PIC.png

I Wikipedia-ed these guys and found they STARTED their band after I quit professional music.... it just doesn't feel like that much time has elapsed where some hippies could start an alternafolk band and get on stage in Hitler's stadium, but I guess 4 or 5 years is a while! I felt old just reading that 3 paragraphs on Wikipedia.

so you can actually listen to mumford and sons? and choose to do so sometimes? every time I listen to one of their songs all the way through I'll reach over and touch me ear and when I look at my fingers there's a trace of blood... and I really like American roots music. Huge Alison Krause fan. I can put on old Guthrie and Seeger records and just zone out any time... but this mumford band, I dunno, man. Its not the same thing.

You guys (Europeans) have been copying and reinterpreting our music (old and new) forever now to the point that by the 70s much of what the UK and Europe sent back was unrecognizable and really was a new thing. But when it comes to our roots music, you guys are mainly copyists. It used to feel like a homage, but bands like the mumfords almost seem to be mocking us and our traditional musical styles. You guys have your own folk traditions, does anyone in Europe (apart from fucking Sting) pick up a lute and play European roots music? I'd like to see that....

but this? lute fail:

http://amoureuxdulangage.m.a.f.unblog.fr/files/2013/01/songs-from-the-labyrinth.jpg go get your P-bass out, dust it off and shriek "Roxane" at me, dude.

I liked a Mumford and Sons song for a bit.

https://youtu.be/mT-fjYFqPOk?t=41

Anyone know what capo that is? Never seen that in my life.

its one of those chord capos that you can adjust up to 3 frets out on each string to capo a guitar into open tuning from standard, I forget who makes them. Look it up, its legit.... I guess buying one of those is cheaper than owning lots of guitars (especially if you might capo up your open tuning guitars to get that spanky capo sound or for whatever reason folkies and hipsters are always capoing their poor guitars), but its not nearly as fun. I'll stick to the 'stacks of guitars' method of managing alternate tunings, thanks. I am home today (don't get me started, me and my family are seriously annoyed about all the schedule rearranging we did this week for no reason thanks to my ex-wife and her last-minute BS) and while Lu was napping I played 4 of my guitars for about an hour.... and I still didn't have to open a single case. That's how ya do it!

I played 4 of my guitars for about an hour.... and I still didn't have to open a single case. That's how ya do it!

Hell yeah, soudns like more fun than these capos. Speaking of, it's called a "CapoSonic", and I just submitted it here.

Just added Lianne La Havas to EB, need help identifying this guitar. It's really cool, reminds me a little of a Danelectro but I don't recognize the logo on the headstock. Any ideas?

https://www.nubimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/TD_Lianne_4.jpg

It's a Harmony Alden Stratotone. Looks like this:

http://www.mainstreetvintageco.com/guitars/20101115/alden-stratotone-1-pu/images/bigDSCN8562.jpg

Notice the headstock design:

https://reverb-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/s--KQVSWQP1--/a_exif,c_limit,f_auto,fl_progressive,h_620,q_75,w_620/v1392303280/wue8yc4lz3aaep2xtaos.jpg

Also found an extra article with some other stuff:

"My guitar is a Danelectro, and it’s a Silvertone model from 1964, and it’s a hollow body."

Source. Article also has the two amps she uses (one for live, one for practise).

Also found an extra article with some other stuff:

You're such a boss. Thanks!! That's a sweet little guitar. Fairly inexpensive too.

EDIT: This chick plays cool guitars (and basses). Google "Lianne La Havas live"

I gott a put in my .02 as always because the definition of 'vintage' has gone crazy since the turn of the millennia:

I am pretty sure they (low end stratotones and bobkats) don't have adjustable truss rods (if its the one I am thinking of) and a hard to find with straight necks though... also, that style of harmony pickup is really prone to microphonic feedback.... I used to see these bottom-end stratotones all the time. they are a little thinner on the ground now thanks to the hipster vintage catalog guitar trend. For its actual playability I would say this guitar is worth $250 max regardless of the market. Eventually the bottom will fall out of this hipster guitar trend and you will lsoe your shirt on dn-os, supros, airlines and harmonies unles they are the serviceable players.

These guitars are not actually cool in my book, theya re beginner guitars no one wanted but got for Christmas anyway. For some reason people think theya re cool now. Yes, they are made of great old growth tone woods. But every old guitar was. Most of these guitars are a nightmare to set-up, intonate and play. Its like wrestling. I gotta say that what's really guitar is a guitar that plays well, can be adjusted if it gets out of whack, and doesn't squeal unless you want it to. The story of guitar building and music electronics is one of continual growth and innovation. For some reason the 90s vintage craze has now convinced people that better music can be made with instruments and equipment that was under-engineered by the primitive standards of the era it was made and that by today's standards is pretty darn bad. Yes, some big name guys wrangle this stuff, but they have money to have top shelf techs make it work. And a guy like Jack White? You don't see him playing res-o-glass airlines anymore. He has custom modified, hand-made gretsches, now doesn't he? He put on a good show in "It Might Get Loud," but what's he got on tour these days? I know for a fact the guy who mods White's Gretsches also took the fretboards off his cheapies and added modern, duala ction truss rods to them as well as doing a host of other modernizations to make them behave a little better. When the Stripes were touring around before they broke Is aw them a number of tiems in small clubs and they sounded HORRIBLE. Jack's guitars were out of tune and completely un-intonated and he only got away with it because its a 2 piece. You could visibly see the guys truggling with the guitar too, which is cool in a way, but he probably did his joints irreparable damage that will haunt him in the next 10 years....

Have you ever checked out "tiny moving parts", they really seem to fit with that TTNG, American Football, tappy math rock emo indie pop scene, which I've been checking out lately, since I discovered AF

Google "Lianne La Havas live"

Let me tell you something. I work at a sporting goods store (that, unfortunately, is closing), and they play a CD with all of the most terrible top 40 songs possible with a few exceptions. I always heard her sing "What You Don't Do" extremely loud and it sounded terrible. Made me want to shoot whoever made the song or condemned us to listen to it.

SHit, I just listened to it with earphones and I love it. I have a new artist to listen to :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MtQPxfvVF4

Guy on the left (Stuart Smith), what beautiful Taylor is that? Also, this:

http://www.theaureview.com/sites/default/files/header_thistownneedsguns.jpg

Aaaand this:

https://jumpphilly.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/ttng_002.jpg?w=342&h=513&crop=1

Sorry, i'm just unfamiliar with these instruments.

the bottom picture has what appears to be a Yamaha SG of some kind... either that or a Greco MX500 or MR500? Or maybe an Ibanez Artist from the 80s, one of the lower models.... the lack of fingerboard binding pretty well says its a low end Japanese-designed doublecut

Ordinary Taylor 416ce is the acoustic, next photo is Schecter Tempest Custom, and I have no idea about those two...