Re: (TV) Best Punk Rock Song Title Nomination

[Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com>]

Sam Inglis <sam@sospubs.co.uk> wrote:
> They're heavy. I've read variously that they are .013s, 0.14s or .015s.
> I've never even seen a set of .015 electric strings, so that may be
> exaggeration. Or it may just be that guitarists these days are wusses
> and there's no demand any more.
> He claimed that the guitar wouldn't stay in tune unless he put the
> heaviest strings he could find on it.

.015s??!?!  Keee-rist!  I use .012s on my acoustic!  He must go halves
with Dick Dale on the special piano wire strings.

As for his guitar staying in tune with only heavy strings, that's a
sign of an improperly set up guitar, and it doesn't seem to work anyway;
when I saw Television in '92, Tom spent a *lot* of time between each song
re-tuning the Jazzmaster.  The fact is that the JM's never kept a tune
very well.  I managed to fit a 90+ minute show on a 74 minute CD-R by editing
out all the guitar tuning!


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