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Ishibashi is the source for Japanese Fenders (or Japanese ANYthing), but I heard that they no longer ship to the US. I'm not sure if that's true. The Japanese Fenders have a solid reputation, and are pretty widely considered superior to US made Fenders from recent years. Those Jet Kings pop up from time to time, but I guess they're getting pretty rare. The Jet King 2 is more widely available, but is atrocious, imo.

You could get one of the older Ibanez Jet Kings and do some work on it, possibly turning a profit (or if not a profit, at least it's a cheap guitar on which to hone your refinishing and electronics skills). Those are pretty cool guitars, and versatile since they have the coil tap. http://www.mojopie.com/jtk1.html

Mine broke, too. It only broke at the clear part near the hole, and still plays, but it's annoying.

There's a strong possibility that you will not be allowed to bring in a cooler at this show. As nice as it is to be able to bring in a cooler and not buy $5 beers, I'd gladly leave the cooler at home if it means the people in the best seats are NOT making business deals with their associates during the concert. The tickets usually say "No Coolers" when it is a non-table set-up concert: CHASTAIN PARK SEATING INFO According to Chastain Park's offical website: Chastain Park Seats are broken down into tables (each table seating accomodates 6), reserved orchestra seats, and a general admission ar

Yeah, the Fox is BY FAR the best thing in Atlanta. Apparently, Chastain is the only venue in Atlanta that is bigger than the Fox/Tabernacle/Civic Center but not as big as Philips Arena/Lakewood Amph./Gwinnett Center. Wilco's only other option, aside from playing a 1/4 full 20,000 seater, would have been to do a "half-house" concert at Philips, but that's still 10,000 seats. The best scenario is for all you fans within a few hours of Atlanta to buy tickets. Every seat occupied by a true fan is one less seat available to a yapper, so please make the roadtrip.

Well stated. Chastain Park Amphitheater is literally right in the middle of an exclusive country-club/old-money style community.

I believe the infamous Neil Young/Lucinda Williams show was NOT part of a series, and is well known as an example of poor audience behavior. Obviously I hope the crowd for Wilco will be respectful and have a good time, but there just seems to be something about the venue that brings out the worst in audiences.

People who go to concerts at Chastain. They bring fig leaves and quiche, too. Like I said before, the Wilco concert will probably be "No Coolers Allowed", so the chances of the Wilco guys getting pelted with cheese are slim, but the annoying audience chatter is always guaranteed at Chastain.

Chastain has two basic concert set-ups. One is a table set-up in which the "floor" or "pit" section is all tables. The people who sit at the tables bring candelabras and have their table catered, or bring upscale food and beverages, and thoroughly ignore whatever act is on stage. They treat the event as a dinner out with friends or business associates, rather than a concert. People in the stands often bring in their own folding table and tablecloths, etc and set them up in front of their seats. For these concerts, all audience memebrs are allowed to bring in coolers with food, alcohol o

Chastain Park has a capacity of 6700. Fox Theater (where they played last time) has a capacity of 4400. That's not too big of a jump. However, Chastain is a horrible place to see a show. I predict this will be the one and only time they will play there. The audiences there are notoriously rude to the bands, regardless of who that band is. Ask Neil Young, who had to stop one of his acoustic songs on the Greenville tour and tell the audience to quiet down so he could hear himself. Ask Garrison Keillor, Lyle Lovett, Randy Newman, Ricky Lee Jones or Dan Fogelberg, all of whom have left

Spraying your strings with Fast Fret, or a similar string cleaning product, might help. This stuff also makes the neck feel nice and smooth. Or you could try coated strings. Elixir is one brand that comes to mind.

Yes, it'll tarnish.

Yeah, it was probably just a bad one. The store had more of them, but I was only able to try out the crappy one. I wound up getting a Taylor 414, which has made me want to do nothing but play guitar since I first tried it out.

I agree the Nels vs. Jay thing is tired and pointless. If you need to read some interesting Nels info, here are three recommendations: 1. go to AllAboutJazz.com and search the interviews. They've done a few lengthy interviews with Nels, at least one of which deals with Nels joining Wilco, and his mixed feelings about devoting so much time to Wilco and not as much time to his own projects. 2. go to Mike Watt's website (hootpage.com) and read Nels' tour diaries from two of the tours he did with Watt. *** 3. go to Nels' own website (nelscline.com) and read everything he's written there.

I heard one of her songs this morning. Started out ok, but she wouldn't stop saying "it breaks my heart" so I got sick of it AND her and turned it off.

You are free to contribute as many "interesting points" about Nels as you'd like. You have not done so.

I recently read one of those "acoustic guitar roundup" articles in a back issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine, in which they review a bunch of guitars in the under $500 price range. They said they were kind of shocked because the top on the Blueridge behind the bridge had sunk, but they said it sounded fantastic and gave it a positive overall review. I'm not sure if it was the J45 that they were reviewing, or some other model. If it sounds good, feels good in your hands and seems solidly built I say go for it.

That's all that needs to be said. Slap 'em on the wrist. Case closed. I see that guy driving around. His license plats says "ACQUIT", and it's no joke. He's the go-to guy around here. http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/932/211...uceharvey.0.jpg

Mine stays in tune, but the wiring sucks. I've heard the toggle switches on these are crap. That might be the problem I'm having with mine.

I think I listed my guitar stuff a while back, but since then I've aquired an Ampeg Reverberocket (reissue, 50 watt) and a Taylor 414 acoustic. I dumped my Epiphone Valve Junior head and my Peavey Classic 112E Cabinet (and some other stuff) as trades towards the Taylor. In the six days since I got the Taylor my playing has improved considerably...I've started learning Travis picking and have even relearned some of the material from my short stint taking classical guitar classes.

I'd regret that, too. I wasn't sure if maybe Nels was playing strats these days, or maybe used one from Jeff's extensive guitar collection for the recordings. Now that I think of it, I think Nels did play a strat in his '90s band Bloc. He described them as a "double strat attack" band and said their record was probably the most '80s sounding record recorded/released in the '90s. I found their cd on ebay or amazon, or something, for 2 or 3 bucks. It's a challenge to listen to it.

I forgot about those. I tried one when I was thinking about getting a Dot. I liked the Ibanez better than the Dot. The Ibanez has a bound neck, which I like, and it felt very solid and well made. It also had a nicer looking finish than the Dot. (I didn't get to plug it into an amp, so I can really only comment on how it felt and looked, and not the sound.) You can get an Ibanez Artcore new for $329, maybe less.

Since when does Nels play a strat?

REM are worse than all of them since they had a pact that they'd end the band if anyone quit.

The research has been done and the verdict is in: Putting Wilco on the cover will not attract advertisers, therefore they will not be on the cover. This is exactly the same reason they don't get played on commercial radio stations.