Forged in Fire spinoff Knife or Death

[Beth]

I know some of the group said they watch Forged in Fire.  Did any of you watch the spin off Knife or Death.  I have to admit it started off slow but in the end was fascinating to watch.  Who knew that there are blade sports?

[yanmacca]

Its a new one on me Beth, blade sports? I was a bit of a rapier in my youth.

[Beth]

Blade sports

[yanmacca]

Well I never, I just thought it was fencing like you see in the Olympics, not whole sale destruction, I don't know what is wrong with people today, they just like to smash things, like driving huge trucks over lines of cars and things.

[Beth]

But this is controlled smashing.

[deadwoodgultch]

Don't let Ian Kid You. He used to get off on a bunch of long hairs busting their guitars!

[yanmacca]

Tom, do you mean the British rock band 'the who'?
They were okay, I never had the chance the bash my axe around, I loved em too much.
I had some nice axes in my playing days, I only wish I had kept them as I had two Fenders and a Gibson, not all at the same time of course, but over the course of about five or six years.
If I tried to buy them now it would cost between 3000 to 4000 British Pounds!

[deadwoodgultch]

This assh*le gave away a Les Paul made in 1952 or 53. Don't feel bad and the friend I gave it to had it stolen. Look it up, it will make you sick. A family member gave it to me, I never played.

Regards,
Tom

[yanmacca]

Jeez Tom, Les Pauls are great guitars, I don't know how old mine was, in those days you had to send the serial number to the states for verification. My two Fenders [Tele and Strat] were nice working guitars, the strat was made around 1970, well the guy who sold it me said it was, but the Tele was brand new and off the shelf.

BTW; the Les Paul cost me less then 200 pounds [190 quid I think] and I sold it for nearly double that.

[deadwoodgultch]

My buddy loved it, he played for a group called The Pallbearers. We had no clue that the value would skyrocket.

[yanmacca]

Tom, I will tell you a story about my Les Paul.

It was 1982 and my band was playing a social club in Runcorn, it was a fairly big venue which could seat about 250-300 people all on small tables so they could sit in small groups and get drunk.
It was a standard gig with us going on a 9:00PM, doing 45 minutes set, then they had 30 minutes of bingo and then we would go on again for another 45 minute set.
During the first set I used my Telecaster, I set my levels during the sound check and everything was fine.
Now before we went on for our second set, the guy who sold me the Les Paul, turned up with the guitar for me to test it out during the show, so I said I would use it for the second set, so I went straight on stage plugged it in and we began the second spot with Apache, now I hit the opening notes and nearly deafened the first two rows of tables. It was so loud that we had to stop the tune while I amended my volume controls.

That's how powerful Gibsons are over Fenders.

Got to go as there is a big game on TV this evening, Liverpool FC are playing Real Madrid in the European cup final in Kiev, 'come on the reds'

[colt45]

Yan,
I still have my 1963 Fender Stratocaster, with rosewood fretboard. It's scary to see how much it is worth today. I got it in the late 70's by trading my then fairly new telecaster and $400. I had no idea then how good a deal I was getting.

[yanmacca]

I didn't know you played Colt, great to have a fellow guitarist on site.
Both my Fender's were Rosewood necked, I remember playing a maple necked Tele once through a Fender 60 watt amp and the sound was great. It was a real country sound. I always wanted a maple neck after that but alas I hung up my plectrum in the middle eighties.

[colt45]

I don't play much anymore either. When I did, I plugged the axe into a fender twin reverb with external speaker cabinet. That old tube sound just can't be beat. My amp is worth a lot also. Paid a couple of hundred bucks for it in the 70's as well. Got the speaker cabinet for almost nothing, and replaced the speakers and recovered both. They looked new in the 70's but now look like original equipment.

[yanmacca]

I had a Fender too Colt, a 65 watt combo, which could handle any venue.

I will always remember my first proper amp, I got it for 100 pounds and it was a Vox AC30. I have always been a big Beatles fan and the Vox was the main amp used by Lennon and Harrison. If you left it to warm up for half an hour so the valves could warm up, it gave off such a warm tone. I couldn't believe this guy sold it me because it was a 1960s original with blue speakers, he was playing a local pub one night and happened to be in there, we got talking and one thing led to another and I ended up with his AC30.

I changed amps in the early 1980s from Fenders to Peavey's, they had a nice sound and was the amp of choice for lynyrd skynyrd.

I just thought, you said Fender Twin Reverb, jeez they are beasts, I recall Ted Nugent using them when we saw him in the 1970s, he had around four all linked together by the looks of it, wow plaster was almost falling off the wall when he played Stormtrooper!

BTW; Check out the late Roy Buchanan, he will be on youtube somewhere, and listen to the sound he gets out of his old telecaster, a really great player and never gets the recognition he deserves.