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A Great New Track From Sting: "Rushing Water"

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steve_davis10/10/2021 1:05:59 pm PDT

re: #25 makeitstop

I always thought the Gibbons setup story was just another of the Rev’s tall tales, but got verification from someone ho does pickup gigs with him that yeah, he did actually play with those super-duper light strings.

Me? I’d be busting strings left and right. I can get pretty good action out of .10s and I’ll stick with them.

I went to .8’s on the Les Paul, and my life with it has never been happier. I wonder if it really is just a question of which guitar you are on. I have .9’s on the Strat (because the obsessive compulsive part of me thought whoever strung it before they sent it to me did a shit job) and it feels fine to me. But I had .10’s on the Les Paul and it was a real heavy lift trying to string bend. I put the .8’s on and suddenly all those licks in Brit Guitar Heroes by Jesse Gess become very doable. By the way: full confession. I absolutely suck at guitar. I know no theory and there are some barre chords that my tiny little reptile hands can’t manage. But I absolutely love playing a tab lick and thinking “Yeah, that fucking sounded like Clapton/Beck/Otis Rush.”