Russell E

OK, during a New Year's Day celebration, one of my hosts brought out a very interesting old electric guitar. Kinda reminded me of a Danelectro copy from Japan. Bridge is wood, with thumbscrews to adjust the height. One pickup and a headstock design I've never seen before. It had nice action, but the wooden bridge threew me for a loop. I promised that I would ask all you experts if they have any idea of the make of this guitar.

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you know I love finding out about this kinda stuff...

any help would be appreciated.

Thanks guys, and Happy New Year

Seeing as the the lawsuit by Spirit is going forward now, I've listened to Taurus and heard a LOT of similarity there, and can see where Page might have gotten the basic idea from for the opening part of Stairway. But as a pro guitarist, I also heard a lot of differences..he didn't play the exact same chords, although the finger picking style was very close. Taurus has a descending chord pattern, While Page's riff goes up and then down, and has the similar sound ,Tuarus did not have the quick F and Am chord accent at the end of the riff...it had an extended D chord... Now I can see the similarities, sure, but also the differences...you wanna hear total plagarism? Twist And Shout and La Bamba!!! all you need to do is change the lyrics, and take out the extended Ah Ah Ah AHHHHH!! My band used to do La Bamba but also mixed in Twist and Shout, too and we didn't even have to cahnge strumming patterns!!!!!!!

What I want to know is the song that Spirit is supposed to have taken inspiration from by the band Crows..

I hope the court either gets sheet music from both songs or testimony from other pro musicians that can testify the things I talked about.. Rock music has always been a bit plagaristic..a lot of riffs can be heard that are similar to other songs...

I've been playing guitar for 47 years and have been performing in public since 1971...(I know some people here resent that I actually speak from true experience)

But I'm looking for a serious answer for this....really!

I'm having a little tiff with a young guitarist. HE thinks that learning to copy a solo note for note and being able to shred is the epitome of learning guitar. While I am trying to get across that all the copying you do means nothing when confronted with 3-4 other guys, none of whom know the same songs, but are able to make decent music almost immediately because they know their instruments and can improvise is the more important and useful way to learn guitar, etc...Opinions?