A public thank you to EBMM

[B2D]

Thanks for spoiling me rotten with the Silhouette Specials. I tried playing my Strat in rehearsal today... couldn't do it! I think I may confine it to a studio/practice axe, I barely play it anymore anyways. The silos are too damn comfy and sound too damn good!! Thanks for making an awesome guitar.

 

[NorM]

I can't find another guitar I even want.

 

[dwells]

ebmm are king

 

[Big Poppa]

sell the strat and buy an albert lee!

 

[lock-ny]

Funny because I bought a fat strat a few weeks ago and I returned it 2 days later, and the only reason it took 2 days was because I worked late the next day, I feel guilty cheating but I needed a cheap strat style guitar as a backup, but I figured I was better off saving for another silo speical or something else maybe on the used market, BTW the silo special is my favorite of my MM's -

 

[TNT]

Keep "spoilin' us MM!

 

[mesavox]

sell the strat and buy an albert lee!

Or just pop a three single coil guard in the SS for the alder/rosewood Strat sound. lol

I still want an SS with Lindy Fralin Blues Specials.... ahhh... One of the other guitars that was stolen a couple of years before my 7 string, was a Floyd Strat that I took out the HSS configuration and put Blues Specials in...with the baseplate... I still had the volume pot for the humbucker, so they were too bright, but they sure were resonant sounding. I miss them... I miss my JPM more though.

I also think that an Albert Lee with a tele type bridge and pickup combination would be pretty killer... a Tele without the ugly. LOL

I am still kicking myself for missing out on the Guitar Center deal one Memorial Day... They had a Blue Dawn SS...I played it the day before... They wanted a thousand or whatever... I learned two days later when I got back home that they put in on Mem Day sale the next day for 700 or something like that....

Now I'm really missing my JPM. Stupid thieves....!

 

[Pittman75]

I can't believe someone would steal your guitar. Whenever I see something like that, I feel awful. Wish I could do something all the way in MA, but I'll at least keep an eye out!.

Keep the guitars coming MM!

 

[robelinda2]

As BP said.

Go the AL.

 

[guitarman23]

I can't believe someone would steal your guitar. Whenever I see something like that, I feel awful. Wish I could do something all the way in MA, but I'll at least keep an eye out!.

Keep the guitars coming MM!

i live in MA

Ernie ball(king)!!!!

 

[B2D]

sell the strat and buy an albert lee!

The strat's my first real guitar, lot of emotional value and history there. I'll always have it.

Or just pop a three single coil guard in the SS for the alder/rosewood Strat sound. lol

I've actually got a maple-necked Silo Special that is SSS... love that one too! i wish the pickups had a little more beef and SRV-style clang though. I tried replacing the bridge pickup with a Duncan 5-2 hot for strat and got a lot of buzz because the polarity was out of sequence... can i use other single coils with that silent circuit as long as I keep the polarity the same as the original set?

 

[leftyguitarblue]

I can't wait to get my Silo so i can praise it!!!

 

[Astrofreq]

It's good to have ONE guitar by another brand that you can leave at your rehearsal space. That way if it gets stolen, you've still got your EB's.

 

[paranoid70]

BTW the silo special is my favorite of my MM's -

Me too. I love the 20th, but I keep going back to the SS.

 

[candid_x]

I still want an SS with Lindy Fralin Blues Specials.... ahhh... One of the other guitars that was stolen a couple of years before my 7 string, was a Floyd Strat that I took out the HSS configuration and put Blues Specials in...with the baseplate... I still had the volume pot for the humbucker, so they were too bright, but they sure were resonant sounding. I miss them... I miss my JPM more though.

My experience with Fralins (both the blues specials and vintage hots) is that they're more like the original 50's Strats: bright and crisp , and not much at all like SRV. Actually, I think the Silo Special neck p'up is more toward SRV, especially with a little help from a TS9-TS808, running it clean.

I feel like I'm cheating a bit when playing my Silo Specials, they're so easy to play. Not being a great player, I'll take all the help I can get, though.