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My most expensive guitar is also my sole Hamer. A left handed USA Korina Vector. I do like many lower cost guitars as well. I have a beat up, $400 Gibson Flying V that I converted to lefty (side dots, nut) that I really like a lot.

Doh! I've already bought several. Those Gibsons blow out prices were too irresistable.

Possible, but not in the last few years when everything was "custom" and the price tag showed. FYI, I had that one made for under $1,400. One piece mahogany body and a one piece mahogany neck, Schaller hardware, SD pickups etc.

FYI, I had a "stripped down" Standard (albeit left handed) quoted a couple of years ago. Basically, a left handed version of the Gibson 76 Explorer. The quoted price was $3300, which was more than what the right-handed Gibson Custom Shop mahogany Explorers were selling for at the time. I was expecting more something around $2,000 since I had purchased a new, lefthanded Korina Vector a few years earlier at around $2,500. I don't know if the Fender buyout caused prices to increase 50+% or what, but it priced me out of the market. I ended up getting this one built locally.

IMHO, they definitely priced themselves out of the market. If they had a regular production run of guitars for $1,500, they would have faired much better during the recession.

I've installed P90s and Gretsch Filtertrons in a couple of my Flying Vs. Big change in sound-raw and gritty vs the more compressed sounds of a HB. I also like the new mini-HB in the 70's tribute Gibson guitars. I have two of the Firebirds and I really like those pickups.

Yes, I have heard/read interviews that pretty much stated that they intended the band to continue on without any original members. Probably not too far away. A big touring tribute band.

Last night I watched the Letterman performance and one from the reunion tour back in '96. I didn't realize that they had been back with the makeup for 16 years now...wow! Anyways, the Letterman show....as much as I like the band, I think it might be time to finally wrap it up.

Jimi Hendrix

My first Motorhead album was 1916, which came out when I was in highschool. I thought it was pretty good album back then, and it has stood the test of time well. RIP Wurzel.

I use the "amazing slow downer" on my laptop.

The Cars-Move Like This The Angels-Night Attack Hail the Villain-Population Declining Rhino Bucket-Who's Got Mine Tom Jones-Praise & Blame

GI_Zuk GI=Goverment Issue: I was in the Army from 1995-2006. Zuk=A nickname for the Suzuki Samurai. I've got a number of them that I offroad. I've driven them for the past 20 years now.

Yep, the Six Teens was another good song. They had a lot of them. Highly underated band stateside.

Sweet F.A. A.C.D.C and Someone Else Will.

I think Linda Ronstadt owns that one!

I'd have to second April Wine's 21th Century Schizoid Man. I know this will tick off the Peter Green fans, but I have to say Judas Priest's version of Green Manalishi.

I think Eddie's guitar skills left the building decades ago. Yes, he changed most everything we know about modern guitar playing and building when hit the scene THIRTY YEARS AGO but he hasn't done anything innovative in a couple of decades and like others have said, he's basically just a fried shadow of what he used to be IMO. I would say he lost a lot his playing/writing skills sometime in the 90s and I think he lost his ear for good guitar tone in the late 80s. Did you hear the stuff he did for that "movie" a few years ago? It seems to me that Ed's ego got way overblown in the 90s and he stopped listening to other's feedback or possibly stopped asking for it. The guy is just so full of himself now if not delusional. Just read any interview from the past 10 years.

Yes, I agree Eddie and Dave are the main attractions, but without Michael's background vocals (which I heard were sampled/midi tracked on the last tour) a lot of the trademark VH sound will be missing. I'm sure they'll do some studio magic to mimic his vocals though. It's like AC/DC-the main attractions are Angus and Brian. However, the people really holding everything together and creating the base sound/groove is the rhythm section. Pull out Malcolm, Phil, or Cliff (possibly to a lesser degree) and it simply will not sound the same. I have had all the Roth era albums since I was a kid and I really love those albums. 5150 was a good album as well, but they lost me after that. I think EVH has pretty much fried his brain after 30+ years of nonstop drug and alcohol abuse, so I have a tendency to believe the new album will suck. VH4 = VH3

No Michael Anthony=No Van Halen.