What Boredom Does To Me
Honestly, I’ve been bored with standard dropped-D for the longest time
since ’95, but since that’s the tuning that Black Memphis is using, I
can’t help being stuck in a rut from time-to-time.
So…
I
pulled out the Jackson DKMGT, which was tuned to D Standard, and for
some reason I found a set of Ernie Ball Beefy Slinkys (.11-.54), and
then tuned the f?!ker to B! S?!t, it sounded awesome! I was worried
that the .54 was not gonna fit on the slot where it comes out through
the body (it is a string-thru type of a bridge), and the thing kept on
popping out (the term escapes me at the moment).
I’ve never
tuned to B before, this is fun! The neck seemed fine, the top three
strings (.11, .15 and .22) seemed a tad thin, I wonder if a set up
would nail it on this one. I’m thinking it’s best left to a baritone,
but I gotta work with what I have. By far, the bottom three held their
tuning pretty well.
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Open D is fun, but it’s
limiting. Although I’ve written a bit on it, I get antsy that I have
my John5 in a weird tuning. I got myself a EB Skinny Top Heavy Bottom
Slinky that I can do a Soundgarden -inspired tuning on it (ha! you’re
waiting for me to say that huh?). That will be (low to high) C G D G B
E.
I’ll probably use the Open D tuning when I have a nice American Standard Tele.
I think it’s time I bring back the chrome pickguard on the John5…
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You
gotta love independent music stores. The people at Jim’s at Irvine are
cool guys. Sean brought me to Pro Music Exchange and the people there
are cool as well.
It was so slow at work the other day, so I
went to Pro Music Exchange and attempted to find screws for my Ampeg
logo (which I found on eBay after a whole year!). They just gave me
the screws for free and we chatted for quite a bit, not realizing that
time had gone by. I bought a set of acoustic Martin strings (.10-.47),
since the Elixirs I got last time was too heavy (.11-.52).
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WTF happened to my other pair of Armoured Cables???
