111518 Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Heritage, despite not advertising, made a pretty good showing in this month's round of guitar magazines. Guitar Edge has pictures of Alex Skolnick with a 150 (p. 2) and a 575 (p. 10), and Acoustic Guitar has a couple of pictures of John Sebastian playing a Heritage that looks like a Golden Eagle, though the "What He Play's" box identifies it as an Eagle. (p. 7, p. 66) I've seen pictures of Skolnick with the 575, but never before with the 150, and I didn't know Sebastian played Heritage. For all that I wish the company's reputation rested on the quality of the guitars and not association with celebrities, in the real world this sort of free publicity seems to bode well for the company's future. Speaking of guitar mags, did anyone see the cover of the April Guitar World with EVH and his son? No offense to EVH fans, but it looks like two guys dressed up for a Halloween party, one as Frankenstein (Eddie) and one as an Elvis impersonator (the son.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axman Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Seeing and more importantly, hearing Alex playing a gold 150 with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra made my mind up. More recently I read an interview where he mentioned why he plays a Heritage. He said that he switched from Ibanez because he felt bad playing one then having people in the audience get an Ibanez and it not being anywhere near the same guitar he plays on stage. He said that would not be the case with a Heritage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Flying Bird Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 I talked to Ren about a year ago when I got the 137. He said that John Sebastian bought a 137 and he let the guitar player for Letterman borrow it and was having a hard time getting it back. That night we were at my buds place and the guy playing guitar for Letterman was playing a Korina single pick up 137. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
111518 Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 OK, this doesn't deserve a new thread, but new band pictures yesterday for a couple of summer gigs with new lineup. I'm trying to fly the Heritage flag as best I can. Saxist in funny hat has Ph.D. in Musical composition, woman seated beside him Ph.D. in classical piano performance (plays a mean What I Say), back row is Radio Bob, band leader and engineer at local public radio station, then two students --vocalist and basist-- currrently in the lineup. New drummer went to the wrong place for picture --not a good sign. http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg76/111518/image11.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brentrocks Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 i love it man!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthpawGuy Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 OK, this doesn't deserve a new thread, but new band pictures yesterday for a couple of summer gigs with new lineup. I'm trying to fly the Heritage flag as best I can. Saxist in funny hat has Ph.D. in Musical composition, woman seated beside him Ph.D. in classical piano performance (plays a mean What I Say), back row is Radio Bob, band leader and engineer at local public radio station, then two students --vocalist and basist-- currrently in the lineup. New drummer went to the wrong place for picture --not a good sign. http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg76/111518/image11.jpg[/img] As long as he arrived on time ! Nice pic by the way. Good luck with the new lineup. :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Seacup Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Great pic, nice plug for Heritage, funny story about drummer. Calls for a +1, in my book! Consider it done, 111518! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freshmattyp Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 I'll be playing my 535 in a month or so at the Great American BBQ Festival here in KC. We're having one of the local weather guys sit in for the gig, so I'm pretty sure it'll be on the telly at some point and I'll try to get the headstock in the shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Flying Bird Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 OK, this doesn't deserve a new thread, but new band pictures yesterday for a couple of summer gigs with new lineup.......... Who's the hippy with the 535? > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Flying Bird Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Who's the hippy with the 535? > By the way, 11, I can tell by the way that your hand fits the neck of that 535 it has the righteous shape neck that I love. If man wasn't supposed to play high up on the neck God wouldn't have put frets up there. The 475 with the wide flat neck is a true work of art. The perfect neck on a Heritage acoustic. That's hard to beat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxdx99 Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Cool pic, 111 - fun looking group. Like the bound headstock on the 535. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacques Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Who's the hippy with the 535? > Just like I thought..... Heritage are old hippy geetars, I'm sure :afro: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitfiddler Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Nice band shot! I noticed you cradle your Heritage like I hug mine. Partly due to affection, and the other to keep folks from bumping into her. Have fun with the new group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
111518 Posted April 18, 2008 Author Share Posted April 18, 2008 Thanks everyone for your kind words in response to my more-than-a-little ridiculous photograph. The three old guys in the picture have played together now for 15 years ... maybe that's because we've always had a sense of humor about the thing. As for the new drummer and "on time" ... I've never even been introduced to the guy and I'll be on stage with him for a three set gig two weeks from today. The student bass player knows him and says that he's compulsive about speed and technique ... not usually what I want to hear about a drummer. On the other hand, he's the student of a very good drummer who has worked with us in the past and who recommended him, so he didn't just wake up one morning and decide that because he likes to beat on things he's a drummer. On my being an old hippie ... one of the very few benefits of being an adjunct instructor in the world of higher education is that there is no dress or appearance code beyond basic cleanliness to which I feel bound to conform. I'm too cheap to fire. (there IS a formal NO DOG policy to which my golden retriever says rrrrrrtuff!) The students probably think I look like a radical historian/guitar teacher should look, and they like my dog, and my dept. chair is the sax player in the funny hat so it's all good (until payday, when it really sucks.) As to my 535 --yeah, I was trying to make sure the headstock was in the picture. It's a custom order from Wolfe with ebony fingerboard. My preference would have been for more yellow-to-black than brown-to-darker brown sunburst, but I think the latter is Jay's sense of what "OSB" should mean. He kept saying tobacco sunburst, I kept saying OSB. Here's one more from the "shoot." Thanks again. http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg76/111518/image43.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy53 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Here's my bands picture with my 157 new-CJB-group.jpg new-CJB-group.jpg_thumb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy53 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I guess that was just me I will find the full picture new-CJB-group1.jpg new-CJB-group1.jpg_thumb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersteel Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Nice pic! I like the "smoke" effect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Flying Bird Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Tonight I stopped by a buddy's place and he dialed up his fancy "view on demand." A BBC show was on called, "Later with Jools Holland." It was a June of 2004 show with Tom Petty. There was a guy with a group called Catatonia playing an H-150. Nice guitar but the music sucked. There was another band called Kula Shaker that rocked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacques Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 oooh yeah - Jools Holland! We get BBC here in Holland and I love his shows. Indeed some of the music sucks, but it's all live - where do you find that on the idiot box these days? What I like about the BBC so much is their enormous experience with sound production. I once talked to bass player Richard Sinclair of prog bands Caravan, Hatfield & the North and Camel who has been recording a couple of times in BBC studios. He told me you have these old men with dust-coats who first ask you to play your instrument and then they go to the store room in the back and return with just the right mic to get your specific sound on tape. He saw this happening with even the worst sounding punk groups. And no matter what your taste is, every band sounds great on Jools Holland's shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Flying Bird Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 - where do you find that on the idiot box these days? It was on a view on demand channel. The sound was very good and the photography was first rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxdx99 Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 oh yeh, jool's show is top notch. Lool for 'concert tv' - we get it on comcast cable up in the 1900 channel series. It's free in demand and they switch the shows every couple weeks to month. They're also showing a german show called rockpalast(sp) of live concerts. Very cool stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Flying Bird Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 oh yeh, jool's show is top notch. Lool for 'concert tv' - we get it on comcast cable up in the 1900 channel series. It's free in demand and they switch the shows every couple weeks to month. They're also showing a german show called rockpalast(sp) of live concerts. Very cool stuff. Yep 99, my buddy has Comcast. That's where we saw it. Another friend got cut off from Comcast about 20 years ago. Their signal was bad in the old days and their billing was worse. They cut him off by mistake the same day he found a dish of funky food in his fridge left over from the previous tenant. He drove down to Comcast and spooned that casserole into their drop box. He said it was all he could do not to puke. Good times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VJonathan Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Check out the scene with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in the movie "SWINGERS." The guitar player is sporting on a Golden Eagle grooving on the tune: "You and Me and Bottle Make Three Tonight." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VJonathan Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Also, check out the Gary Moore DVD "Live in Montreaux" 1990. A perfect head to head face off with this GM 150 and his Peter Green Burst! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brentrocks Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 I guess that was just me I will find the full picture SWEET!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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