Music Stuff - Cool Stuff

For many years I had an old Cry Baby Wah.   It was an el-cheapo base model.  Imagine how surprised I was to open it up and find a "red fasel" inducter in the wah wah.  It was not supposed to have a red fasel, but it did.  Woohoo!   Anyway, because I love to tinker with electroincs, I modified the Cry Baby Wah Wah circuits to change the tone, added true by-pass, removed the buffer components and added an LED. The best part was the LED.  Do you know how much it SUCKS to not be able to "SEE" if your wah pedal is on?  If you don't, listen up.  It sucks a lot.  I loved that modded Cry Baby Wah Wah. Then, one day it died.  The input and output jacks in the plastic casings wore out.  Damn it.  I loved that pedal. Well, I did not feel like tinkering with the Cry Baby anymore, so I tossed its dead carcass in the trash. Meanwhile, a guitarist who played in a band I was in back in Raleigh North Carolina USA used a stock VOX...

So..... since selling the recording and rehearsal studio in Raleigh NC and moving to Eugene OR, I have kind of neglected this little blog.  It has been almost a year now, and I am just beginning to settle into the Eugene scene.  It always takes longer than I think it should to settle into a new city. At first I thought I would look for some musicians and put together a new, west coast line up for the Jimmy Haggard band.  But, things have not worked out that way. No worries though.  I am a member of two bands now, and I do a solo acoustic act off and on.  The two bands are:  The BlueShades - Blues Rock and Classic Rock www.theblueshades.com I am a front person, singer, guitarist and songwriter in this hot ro ckin band Outlaw 'Shine - Outlaw Country - www.facebook.com/outlawshinecountryband / I am playing guitar in a coun try band, and might do a little background singing too  Enjoy The Music! Jimmy

Today started off crazy, jump out of bed, in the shower, in the car, haul ass from Raleigh to Durham in order to be on time for Guitar Summit 2013 at Griffith Theatre at Duke University.  Luckily, I had time for a breakfast burrito and coffee!  Thanks to Kevin Wilson for putting this annual event together, which attracts some of the best working guitarists and inspiring guitarists from around the world for a day of sharing tips, tricks, experience and philosophies.  #GuitarSummit