I'm SO jonesing for a Jazzmaster

[Offshore Angler]

Aren't Jazz masters a little bright especially on the high strings?

Bright = good for a live band.

[Kap'n]

Bright = good for a live band.

Within reason.

[gaddis]

They're bright if you keep the tone control all the way up. I usually keep mine in the middle third of its range.

[Don]

You know, I've never even played a Jazzmaster! With a tight budget, I'm kind of afraid too!

[clayville]

I've never been a Jazzmaster guy, but Nels Cline could make me want one.

Dang. Saw Wilco on Tuesday. Check out Nels Cline's guitar work on Impossible Germany at 43:00 here:
http://www.cbs.com/late_night/liveon...n/wilco/video/

The guy is an animal!

[Kap'n]

Dang. Saw Wilco on Tuesday. Check out Nels Cline's guitar work on Impossible Germany at 43:00 here:
http://www.cbs.com/late_night/liveon...n/wilco/video/

The guy is an animal!

I'll need to check that out when I get home.

This is the solo from IG from when I saw them in NOLA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnMYoo5ZeRA

[clayville]

Pretty much the same thing (right down to Tweedy's wander across the stage for the harmonized part at the end). Each is ever so slightly raggedy, but in different spots.

Understandably enough!

[Kap'n]

Dang. Saw Wilco on Tuesday. Check out Nels Cline's guitar work on Impossible Germany at 43:00 here:
http://www.cbs.com/late_night/liveon...n/wilco/video/

The guy is an animal!

Thanks. The whole show is pretty darn awesome. Decent mixes, good camerawork, and great performance!

[clayville]

I'm still floating around a few feet off the ground (unassisted) from that show and from watching that video again. The director certainly seemed to know where he wanted to go with the camera, didn't he/she?

[Kap'n]

Makes me happy that I can see something from this tour. The closest they got was Central Park.

[Rickenjangle]

Sorry, which show? I can't youtube while at work...

[Kap'n]

The cbs.com link that clayville posted is a 63 minute Wilco show taped at the Ed Sullivan Theatre this week. It's really good.

[Rickenjangle]

Thanks! I'll have to check it out some evening. I've enjoyed Tweedy's work since Uncle Tupelo.

[Kap'n]

You can just listen now, if your work environment lets you.

Unfortunately, mine doesn't.

[Rickenjangle]

I don't think I can, either. Hogs up too much bandwidth. Plus I keep having people asking me technical questions...

[Kap'n]

Damn those customers. If they'd just leave you alone, you could do something.

[Rickenjangle]

Like where I used to work...I had about 1 hour of real work in any given day. Then again, that company lost 75 percent of its workforce in a 2 month period and is struggling to survive.

The one I'm at now - where Mikey's son also works - expects performance at all hours of the workday and then some. But it's a booming little company that is on the rise instead of on the decline so I'm not complaining!

[buckaroo]

I've been lukewarm about them for a long time, but now I REALLY want one...

Even a *cough* clone would satisfy me.

I have owned several pre CBS Jazzmasters over the years. They are certainly good instruments. What I didn't like about Jazzmasters was that the saddles failed to retain the strings in place when I would play harder, and all the switches / electronics that I really found to be of little use.

[Rickenjangle]

They ARE a different beast to a Tele, that's for sure. I feel like I could drop-kick my Tele off the stage, spill a beer on the carcass, spend the rest of the set gently playing my Jazzmaster, and then pick up the Tele later, tune it, wipe it off, and keep on playing.

Still, the JM is making me NEVER pick up my '80's AmSt Strat...it does everything I need it to - and also has more bite than my strat...

[BradKM]

Caught Wilco in Atlanta last week.

The Jazzmaster jones has been reignited.

For the first time in a very long time I'm actually thinking about selling a few guitars to fund the purchase of a new J. Mascis signature Squier.