What DVD have you just watched?
Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 27 November 2005
All the best from Fredrik
Passed up a fantastic '61 Strat a few years back. They were asking GBP26,000, so not pocket change. But I kind-of regret not just getting it now. 1961 is when I was born, so that year holds particular fascination.
I'd love to see those videos. I might look on YouTube.
Here's the place where you can say your house goodbye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw5uX6PFPGs
And this if you want to get the dvds: http://www.youroldguitar.com/
Enjoy! 
Passed up a fantastic '61 Strat a few years back. They were asking GBP26,000, so not pocket change. But I kind-of regret not just getting it now. 1961 is when I was born, so that year holds particular fascination.
I'd love to see those videos. I might look on YouTube.
Here's the place where you can say your house goodbye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw5uX6PFPGs
And this if you want to get the dvds: http://www.youroldguitar.com/
Enjoy!
The paradox of vintage guitars is that the better the information is to allow authentication, the better the fakes become, because they know exeactly what people will be checking. The running joke is that there are now far more pre-CBS Strats in existence than were ever manufactured.
I'm kind-of torn. Can modern guitars match the vintage ones in tone and playability? Objectively, yes, (and for far less money) but there is still something very appealing about an old guitar.
Passed up a fantastic '61 Strat a few years back. They were asking GBP26,000, so not pocket change. But I kind-of regret not just getting it now. 1961 is when I was born, so that year holds particular fascination.
I'd love to see those videos. I might look on YouTube.
Here's the place where you can say your house goodbye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw5uX6PFPGs
And this if you want to get the dvds: http://www.youroldguitar.com/
Enjoy!
The paradox of vintage guitars is that the better the information is to allow authentication, the better the fakes become, because they know exeactly what people will be checking. The running joke is that there are now far more pre-CBS Strats in existence than were ever manufactured.
I'm kind-of torn. Can modern guitars match the vintage ones in tone and playability? Objectively, yes, (and for far less money) but there is still something very appealing about an old guitar.
There's plenty of online shops that sells you all you need to make yourself a 200.000$ relic! Stickers and scratches on body included. I did try some of those "relic" and they sounded like a bag of hammers while it happened i've found some chinese or mexican made that were not bad at all. Sometimes it's a matter of luck. In the end is always a matter of woods and warnish. I own a canadian Larrivee that sounds heaven compared to more expensive and famous.
Keeping the line....
Passed up a fantastic '61 Strat a few years back. They were asking GBP26,000, so not pocket change. But I kind-of regret not just getting it now. 1961 is when I was born, so that year holds particular fascination.
I'd love to see those videos. I might look on YouTube.
Here's the place where you can say your house goodbye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw5uX6PFPGs
And this if you want to get the dvds: http://www.youroldguitar.com/
Enjoy!
The paradox of vintage guitars is that the better the information is to allow authentication, the better the fakes become, because they know exeactly what people will be checking. The running joke is that there are now far more pre-CBS Strats in existence than were ever manufactured.
I'm kind-of torn. Can modern guitars match the vintage ones in tone and playability? Objectively, yes, (and for far less money) but there is still something very appealing about an old guitar.
There's plenty of online shops that sells you all you need to make yourself a 200.000$ relic! Stickers and scratches on body included. I did try some of those "relic" and they sounded like a bag of hammers while it happened i've found some chinese or mexican made that were not bad at all. Sometimes it's a matter of luck. In the end is always a matter of woods and warnish. I own a canadian Larrivee that sounds heaven compared to more expensive and famous.
I'm completely uninterested in "relics". An absurd concept as stupid as reproduction architecture.
I have a Larrivee D-09 that I bought 11 or 12 years ago in Australia. It is now back home in Vancouver. I've never played a guitar that I think betters it.
Working my way through this series once again. Up to the summer of 1940 at the moment. After the fall of France and the low countries and awaiting the Luftwaffe and likely invasion, this was probably the low point of WWII for the UK (though things in the Far East would get very grim, that only threatened the empire, not home).
One of the aspects I find fascinating about this series is the interviews with so many participants. Those with the politicians and their advisers are especially enlightening. Of course, we can now view and judge their thinking with the benefit of knowing the outcome but I can't help but see in some of their accounts parallels with some of today's international problems e.g. the 'hope' that thoroughly wicked people will eventually see sense and act reasonably; the expectation that senior politicians/leaders will act with integrity and not self-interest; unyielding belief that what has worked in the past will work today, even when the evidence shows it isn't.
They say that the ability to learn and to pass on knowledge is what separates us from the other species on this planet. On the whole that must be true but my word aren't there a lot of occasions from history which would suggest otherwise!
Passed up a fantastic '61 Strat a few years back. They were asking GBP26,000, so not pocket change. But I kind-of regret not just getting it now. 1961 is when I was born, so that year holds particular fascination.
I'd love to see those videos. I might look on YouTube.
Here's the place where you can say your house goodbye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw5uX6PFPGs
And this if you want to get the dvds: http://www.youroldguitar.com/
Enjoy!
The paradox of vintage guitars is that the better the information is to allow authentication, the better the fakes become, because they know exeactly what people will be checking. The running joke is that there are now far more pre-CBS Strats in existence than were ever manufactured.
I'm kind-of torn. Can modern guitars match the vintage ones in tone and playability? Objectively, yes, (and for far less money) but there is still something very appealing about an old guitar.
There's plenty of online shops that sells you all you need to make yourself a 200.000$ relic! Stickers and scratches on body included. I did try some of those "relic" and they sounded like a bag of hammers while it happened i've found some chinese or mexican made that were not bad at all. Sometimes it's a matter of luck. In the end is always a matter of woods and warnish. I own a canadian Larrivee that sounds heaven compared to more expensive and famous.
I'm completely uninterested in "relics". An absurd concept as stupid as reproduction architecture.
Indeed they could spend in better woods and pus than adverts.
A fave old show from years gone by...
Bollywood film 'The Lunchbox', written and directed by Ritesh Batra, receives Star Box Office India's 'Film with Best Return On Investment' award.
Having recently completed its India release anniversary, "The Lunchbox" which emerged as the largest grossing foreign language film on the US Box office in 2014, and second highest ticketed movie in France, is still continuing its impressive global box office run.
Described as a 'defining film' in the history of Indian cinema, 'The Lunchbox' which has won numerous domestic and international accolades in its slightly-over-a-year's run at the box office wins yet another award.
Produced by Arun Rangachari, Anurag Kashyap, and Guneet Monga, Ritesh Batra's directorial debut which stars Irrfan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Nimrat Kaur was recently conferred the 'Film with the Best Return on Investment' award at the Star Box Office India's 2014 awards.
Mr. Vivek Rangachari, Producer, DAR Motion Pictures and Guneet Monga from Sikhya Entertainment were present on the occasion to receive the award.
Critically acclaimed and globally loved, 'The Lunchbox' is the story about a mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system that connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
Quite powerful with very good acting, a story of a man's struggle with AIDS and the American medical establishment.
Watched this last night and enjoyed it. DDL's performance was very good indeed, as was Tommy Lee Jones'. I particularly liked Spielberg's efforts for authenticity in the sets and costumes e.g. the poor candle lighting, even in the White House, the ill-fitting clothes, and that no-one looked as is they had ever taken a shower! Would recommend the movie.
At first, I was a bit sceptical due to the Hunger Games saga but it was truly gripping stuff. Last film I enjoyed this much was A History of Violence.
Got good reviews but I just hated it. Didn't care for any of the characters and walked away after 30 minutes leaving the wife to watch it on her own.
Tony,
I thought that Winter's Bone was excellent. Never saw the Hunger Games though.
Many years ago I read the book before seeing the film. As is often the case, the book was richer in detail and character development but I still found the film enjoyable. Donald Pleasance does a super job of portraying the sinister and menacing Himmler.
Recently this box set on Blu-Ray. Watched it when it was shown on tv a few years back and it's so well done.
Looking forward to watching it again at some point.
Recently this box set on Blu-Ray. Watched it when it was shown on tv a few years back and it's so well done.
Looking forward to watching it again at some point.
I very much enjoyed it too, preferring it to the subsequent and more expensively made Pacific. What I really liked about Band of Brothers was the testimony of the actual veterans interspersed in each episode. Somehow made the drama so very, very real. What these guys went through puts into context the stresses we moan about today.