clintmartin
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Dallas Guitar Show
Anyone going? I went to 8 or 9 in a row, but it's been 7 or 8 years ago. I'm thinking about going. It's May 2,3 and 4. Back at Fair Park.
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Beagle
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Re: Dallas Guitar Show
2014/04/17 10:28:57
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guys from my church band usually go after church on Sunday.
but I'm a keyboardist...I have never gone! :)
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craigb
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Re: Dallas Guitar Show
2014/04/17 12:36:10
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Beagle
guys from my church band usually go after church on Sunday.
but I'm a keyboardist...I have never gone! :)
Ah, that's right, you play keyboards. That explains soooo much.    (Note that I didn't make this and, yes, I play guitar!  )
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Beagle
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Re: Dallas Guitar Show
2014/04/17 12:39:16
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you didn't make the red X?
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Re: Dallas Guitar Show
2014/04/17 12:43:03
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Beagle
you didn't make the red X?
Nope. Neither the red X nor the puddle on the carpet in the corner. Now be a good pooch and go to the guitar show with your camera (since you won't be drooling over the exhibits you'd be able to take pictures that aren't fogged up - heh). 
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Re: Dallas Guitar Show
2014/04/17 12:45:17
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lol, yeah, but aren't there "sales reps" at these guitar shows??? reps who in their former profession might have been called "actresses" or "models"???
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clintmartin
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Re: Dallas Guitar Show
2014/04/17 12:45:48
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Now that gave me a smile...well done.
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Re: Dallas Guitar Show
2014/04/17 13:35:30
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There were four of us pals that used to go to at least one of the Dallas shows every year (eons ago). It was our official boys weekend out. But every year the show got worse and worse in two ways. First, the "vintage" stuff just kept getting more and more outrageous. The final straw the last year we went was seeing a 56 or so strat BODY...just the body, no neck or any hardware at all...that had been singed in a fire and was riddled with gouges, etc... for $3500 semolians. In other words a charred, scarred piece of ash or alder about the size of a large cutting board for $3500. Second, (we started going in the early days of the shows) all the major retailers started having a presence at the show and it finally just became a giant music store/GC type affair.
Haven't been in over a decade...has anything changed?
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michaelhanson
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Re: Dallas Guitar Show
2014/04/17 16:56:19
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If I can break away early Friday afternoon, I may try to drop in on my way home.
I don't think it is one of my companies shows this year, if it was I could make up an excuse for checking it out.
Funny story, I went a couple years ago thinking that it was one of the shows that my company General Contracts, because it has been in the past. I walked up to the back dock and flashed my company badge to one of the dock guys and just walked right on in. He looked at me a little weird, but nodded and as I walked by. I didn't find out until the next day that we lost the show to a competitor that year. I guess it just goes to show, that if you look like you know what you are doing......
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clintmartin
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Re: Dallas Guitar Show
2014/04/17 18:32:09
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I used to make the 5 hour drive every year. Eric Johnson would play pretty often (he's my favorite guitar player) and they had new gear really cheap. Now they charge for some of the shows. The last year I went (around 2006) I was looking for a 50th anniversary Strat. They had them, but they were all priced the same as everyone else, so I came home and ordered it. I drove 5 hours, paid $22 to get in and then they wanted to charge me the same as Sweetwater. I was just wondering if maybe it was better now. I have a friend who says the show in Arlington in October is better, but I've never been to that one.
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michaelhanson
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Re: Dallas Guitar Show
2014/04/18 00:44:34
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It's been a couple years since I've gone Clint; and not since they moved to Fair Park. If I go, it would probably be to scout out a neck pick up for my 335 Dot. I have been wanting to put a Gibson pickup in the neck; I already have one in the bridge. A used 490R would work just fine on my 335.
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Re: Dallas Guitar Show
2014/04/18 03:30:19
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MakeShift
It's been a couple years since I've gone Clint; and not since they moved to Fair Park. If I go, it would probably be to scout out a neck pick up for my 335 Dot. I have been wanting to put a Gibson pickup in the neck; I already have one in the bridge. A used 490R would work just fine on my 335.
Ooo... Thanks for reminding me! I still have the stock pickups off of my last Gibson (and I actually know where they are - lol). I'll have to figure out what they are... One might actually be a 490R...
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michaelhanson
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Re: Dallas Guitar Show
2014/04/18 12:20:13
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490R is stock in the neck of a lot of Gibson's; that makes them a little easier to find on the used market than some of the others. The Classic 57 is one of my favorite neck pick ups. I have a 490R that came stock on my LP and it sounds pretty darned good though, for my style of playing. It has a nice throaty sound, but still enough presence/ mids to cut through.
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