The link works fine in Firefox and Windows Media Player. Sorry, but I don't think the recording does it justice. It'll just vary with the sound card and speakers. I'd really like to hear it live for real. Great playing though. Where do you guys play?

We mainly play in Nevada City and Grass Valley California, but still do gigs here and there in the City (San Francisco). We played Coopers in Nevada City last night and we're playing the Miners Foundry tonight which is the oldest hall in Nevada County (Gold Country, where the gold rush was centered). I'm just sitting in this and last weekend (came up from SF) as their bassist is in the UK for a couple weeks.

you can get updates at: www.nevadacountyregulators.com

I am also happy to email anyone the MP3 that i bounced directly off the DAT if you want to hear the file in a clean form. Just send me an email or IM.

Taking nothing away from the guitarist (the sound byte was excellent) I have two observations:

-The purest sound of that vintage, as an example, will be found on Buddy Holly's recordings because it lacks the signal processing we have become so entrenched in the use of.

Your apologies in thinking your discussion of the Charvel guitar is inappropriate to this Forum is premature in that I am intrigued by the fact that this red Charvel (1977-pre:Fender) carries the Fender logo on the headstock. It brings to mind the often asked question as to whether or not Mark Knopfler's original red Stratocaster was indeed Fender or Charvel.

Here's another related historical note from Phil Taylor's book "The Black Strat":

In a letter to Charvel Manufacturing dated 12/8/77 regarding plans for replacement necks for David Gilmour's guitars, he specifies in pp.2:
'the headstocks are to be in the late 50's style with appropriate Fender
decals'.......and therein, they are so pictured.

I can only think that Fender had licensed Charvel to make replacement necks for their guitars at that time. It would be most interesting to have the company's response to that, because I see a serious question arising regarding authenticity in the vintage guitar market out of this.

Doc.

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Doc charvel started out making replacement parts for fender their headstocks at times have been identical. Its quite possible that the guitar had the logo applied when it was pieced together.
Its the 57 hardtail i want to see. I really hope its the tremblocked off rather than filled and a hartail bridge installed.

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Morning Niki: I've modified my post a bit, but still to the point. The hardtails of that period, to my memory, were routed like Teles. Pickups and controls. The back untouched, and the body drilled for string holes.

Doesn't Ron Wood play one?

Doc

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I stand corrected. I must go and find pictures of ron woods strat.

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I remember catching a view of the back of his guitar and it appeared solid with a nice sunburst finish...one of the reasons why I liked that hardtail option which Fender seems to have eliminated from their catalog.

No sweat getting the CS to build one though.

Doc

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Here it is. Ron wood's hardtail it is a 56.




http://www.slideonron.com/guitars.htm

Quite the thing of beauty. I honestly thought fender didnt make hardtail's till the 70's. Just shows how wrong you can be sometimes

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[quote="nikininja"]Here it is. Ron wood's hardtail it is a 56.

"Don't take it so hard"...(interesting how I worked that song title in, isn't it!)
......you just haven't had the years to have read as many vintage catalogs as some of us.

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....and there's the red Charvel

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I photographed the 57 hardtail yesterday, and uploaded pix. As for the logo on the Charvel, Ian had an extra from his guitar shop in Palo Alto (i believe if you owned a shop you could get logos? Someone let me know if there is a rule here, and if we can all buy Fender logos...). I believe he mentioned Wayne applied it on the headstock before finishing the neck.

Full - http://www.x31.net/strat/57full.JPG
Head - http://www.x31.net/strat/57head.JPG
Body http://www.x31.net/strat/57body.JPG
Back - http://www.x31.net/strat/57back.JPG