Ultimate Rhoads

I beleive he is building them again. He runs and advertisement in Vintage Guitar magazine every month showing him standing there with a PDV. Thw text says something like: Sandoval Engineering, builder if the original Polka Dot V.

frank wrote:old guys rule! pass me the metamucil dean!

RockyRhoads wrote:Y'know, I took the string tree off and lubricated the nut and that did the trick...

Thank you all for your help.

I knew it....See, there you go......you should always listen to "the old guy"!

Matthew wrote:As a non USA poster...the name rings a bell but means little

As a USA poster....even though she's a "household name". Her whole existence means very little.

I've decided that it'd be nice to have an acoustic guitar to play, but I don't like the one I have because it's the tradition large bodied instrument with almost no access to the upper frets. So for $199 I think I'd like to by a Dean V acoustic... http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products...

I have a Scholz Rockman Guitar Ace. Bought it new in the 80's. Haven't used it in many years. Wasn't impressed with the sounds. Has 3 sounds : Clean...Slightly distorted, and.... BOSTON! :lol: nothing in between. Also is NOISY as HELL, when in Boston mode. I tried modding it to soften up the insane ...

Sounds like the string is hanging up somewhere. Check the nut's slot and the string saddle for burrs.

LL should come on over to my house for a little one on one therapy.

Trust me, I'm a doctor.

Just kidding.........sheesh!

You forgot something... What? Like the whole innovative whammy bar thing that nobody else could do before Ed perfected it and inspired Floyd Rose to create a locking nut? I'd need a whole new thread to talk about Ed's innovations that changed guitar playing as we know it. As with Randy, Ed's signat...

I am on UR.TK or RR.TK :D Did I get argumentative on the wrong board again? i really dont care about EVH personal problems...im strictly talking about guitar playing....when i think of EVH, i think of a great guitarist from the 80's...but thats it...When i think of Rhoads...i think of one-of-a kind...

funny...the review calls Randy a junior-league EVH ....and his playing short on imagination....ummm...Van Halens first big hit was a cover song..their albums are full of cover songs...talk about short on imagination. I remember reading an interview many years ago where Ed Van Halen was asked aobut ...

Hahaha! Doesn't surprise me.

You've got to remember what magazine that came out in....Rolling Stone.

They're the bunch of idiots that said Led Zeppelin was overwrought crap and would never make it.

F##kin' Idiots!

Thats very true, so you were only kiddin about the gold nuggets and jewllery then? I bet you have to dig through layers of unicorn skeletons to get to them! :D T Oh no! I wasn't kidding at all. I go to the beach. Lots of rings, watches, bracelets, coins, etc. in the sand. Also go to mountain stream...

Seriously tho', there's big bucks in meteorites. Some museums / collectors will pay thousands for a good specimen. Thats very true, so you were only kiddin about the gold nuggets and jewllery then? I bet you have to dig through layers of unicorn skeletons to get to them! :D T Oh no! I wasn't kiddin...