Question for Jim - and one about the pictures on the forum border...

achase4u

Jim - great to have you on a forum! You are great!

I recall in an interview that you said you had some loaner Seymour Duncans in your 59 Tele while he fixed the originals, and the loaners were the best youd heard. Am I remembering that correctly? Also - Can you comment on the orignal pickups tone before they were rewound - were they just ok, or amazing like so many people think old pickups are?

And as to the forum - are those pickups chosen by things you like? Love Rod Serling down there. I have all the Twilight Zones on DVD... best show ever...

JimCampilongo

Glad you like the forum.

It was all so long ago I really can't remember the pick up details but I've always liked Duncan ...

Curtis Novak makes a great pick up too http://www.curtisnovak.com/pickups/tel-hc.shtml

Yes, all the border photo's were my choice.

elreclusa

Maybe a bit broader a question, but since we're talking about pickups, what is it that you look for in a pickup, Jim? There are a LOT of viable choices out there, for sure. I heard you worked pretty closely with Fender CS getting the Campy sig pups just so...what won out in the end?

JimCampilongo

Bass was the priority then a mellow tone quality, and an even output

elreclusa

Thanks Jim! Good as so many pickups are, that does seem like a desirable, but tricky, balance...

kgharper

Hey there achase4u. Yeah, Rod Serling & The Twilight Zone is great. I think a lot of it is real. Sometimes I feel as if I have actually been there. As a matter of fact I'm pretty sure I'm there right now. Thinking back,... there was a time in my life when I was right up there with Rod Serling as far as smoking seegareets goes.

kgharper

Oh yeah, my daughter told me that the gal what got arrested with that english actor....I think his name is "Hugh
Grant"?...........Anyways they was personal friends for awhile. The woman went by the name a "Pancakes". I see there is a picture of em around the "border".

JimCampilongo

I thought her name was "Foxy Brown"... anyway, I love that photo.

SqueakySpring

I think it was Divine Brown Jim. Foxy Brown was a 70's Blacksploitation movie. Strange coincidence since you also have a picture of Bridget Fonda in 'Jackie Brown' it's self a 'Tribute' to many a 70's blacksploitation movie, or course staring... Pam Greer who was, I believe... Foxy Brown. Did someone mention The Twilight Zone...

kgharper

Yeah, Tracy told me she new her from when you were livin there on Post street. I know them gals change their street names a lot. Think she went between San Francisco, Oakland, L.A and God only know's where else. I have visited The Twilight Zone in my mind plenty of times. Maybe Tracy is pullin my leg.

MzDeVille

Hi SqueakySpring, The beautiful Pam Greer did play Foxy Brown but her name is spelled GRIER (in case you're planning to send her a Christmas card).

Speaking of The Twilight Zone and gals, when I was a kid in 1960s L.A., my best friend Kim and I would hitchhike (public transit was non-existent to farcical), that renowned corridor of glitz - the Sunset Strip to 'Coast Highway, Santa Monica Bay, Malibu. On several occasions Rod Serling gave us a ride in his big, black Lincoln. He always looked kind of sunburned, had large, really white teeth and smoked alot of seegareets. Kim and I played fantasy role games, i.e., twin lunatic sisters Beatrice and Katrina, Mr. Toad and Mole, from Wind in the Willows, and Rod Serling would banter with us!! "Refresh my memory, which of you is Beatrice?" or "Well, Mr. Toad, how is Ratty doing?" Simple stuff like that. And if it's possible to recall with lucidness, he was not adverse to our lighting a joint for the ride. The point is he was so childlike and free flowing. When he dropped us off, he would say something like "Watch out for each other!" "Be wary, girls!" - the opposite of predatory. These encounters were a gift - the memory still gives me a buzz.

The antithesis was when the monumental Charleton Heston (of course not on the forum border), would pick us up in his chariot of a white Rolls Royce. Unlike Mr. Serling, he never recognized us and we were unique. He was oblivious, moralizing, and a TOTAL pervert. He would pry into our world (kind of creepy, don't you think?) with questions about drug use and sexual activity. We would push all his buttons until he was red-faced, white-knuckled, frothing. "You girls should wait till marriage!!" ("Unless you want to pull over and do me right here, right now!") He was definitely cruising but we found him hideous in all ways. His wrath gave us fits of hysterical laughter which increased his wrath and so on. Glorious!

I notice Charles Laughton's picture on the forum border. My father and he used to drink together and read poetry. That's why I'm the mess I am today.

And I've always liked those Seymour Duncans.

JimCampilongo

I vote this best post of the year! Thanks "MzDeVille"!