The Vinnie Vincent Forum - Where Freedom Rocks!

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Cheers!

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metatron wrote:Monster V Aliens

That is a cracker

And definitely a t-shirt design.

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Yes my original post was negative, with humour, but born of facts, track record and anecdotal and personal experience. It’s a result of anger, sadness, helplessness and frustration. This is a FAN forum, it’s full of praise, appreciation (awe), advice, support, offers of help and encouragement for th...

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If it happens, I hope it won't be like that weird scene at that convention where he just sort of went through the motions and wouldn't let rip. That was bizarre.

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When VV is reading or pondering our merry little forum, is he :

A. Tearing his proverbial hair out and ranting at our obsessiveness and gall.

B. Laughing at our stupidity and patting himself on the back for being so clever at playing his games.

Answers on a postcard please.

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The funny thing is, over the years I've often thought about changing bits - pickup, trem, nut, machine heads (even the my original Frankensteining idea) but for some reason I can't do it! Maybe it's because it's always been my only guitar, I have to keep it as it is. And now it's so well set up... (...

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That's cool, the JT6 is hard to find parts for these days. You can replace the whole thing with an Original or Schaller Floyd. I did that on my Model 88, including the trem posts and post bushings, all new. I actually like the JT6, the way the top is pretty flat and fine tune tuners are out of the ...

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I just took it back to the local dealer I got it from and they ordered one and plumbed it in. It wasn't too long after it was bought so I guess they were fairly available. I didn't know what I was doing, setup wise, back then so wouldn't touch it myself. I did play it for a while before getting it r...

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This is my Model 2 which I bought new in 1988 for GBP 399 (about USD 700 at the time). Being pretty inexperienced, I bought it because it was the closest I could get to buying a Jackson, which I knew were handmade and thought were very cool as some of my heros used them. I got a red single humbucker...

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True, true. Unfortunately I think our suggestions, well meant advice and offers of help are probably all counterproductive. They are probably seen as intrusive, controlling and arrogant to someone who has been treated very badly in the past, feels that virtually everyone is his enemy and has his own...

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There was a 1978 Savoy book by Robert Duncan with that title, I think I've still got a copy of it somewhere.

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The thing is, when any company produces any kind of new product or service there is some kind of initial announcement or press release and then you expect an information drought for a while, but the way this guitar release, the old forum, the new website and the promise of music has been handled ove...

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G & P wouldn't care, they would say it was just BS, sour grapes from a sore loser, and the Kiss machine would roll merrily on.

VV would end up with more bad press, but it would be a great read though.

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This YOUTUBE site (or cite) desperately needs to be updated to claw back even an iota of credability. The ad itself is at least 3 months out of date as the guitars have been premiered at NAMM. There has been no news for over a month, and the text is still full of threats, pretension and legal gibber...

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Absolutely, but there is a history of this kind gobbledygook.

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when is vinnie going to change the youtube spelling mistake 'cite' . Great way to start an ad for a 10k guitar. I'm not so sure now that he has spelt it wrong. I think it may be deliberate - he is trying to be clever with words as he often does. 'Cite' in american english is a short form of 'citati...

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I'm amazed they are sending these emails and pdfs out for free - an original is going to be worth a fortune soon...

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I think Gene is just caught in the middle of talking to the other guy; that often gives odd facial expressions.

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What the picture or the guitar? Is the guitar re-sprayed? - there is no logo on the headstock.

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In the first picture of the three 'Ace' looks like an action figure!

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Check this out, fantastic! :

http://cgi.ebay.com/LEGO-Minifig-Custom ... 312a3#shId

You can also get the other 4 makeup'ed Kiss members either in costure or 'Dressed to Kill'.

Nearly, nearly bought one...

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Thanks for the link, I looked before, don't know how I missed it!

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Downloaded this a couple of weeks ago, only just go round to watching it all (hangs head in shame), stunned and solo is astonishing.

Thanks everso for putting it up - no problemss for me.

Anyone have the L'Amours show from '86 anywhere?

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Unfortunately he cannot go away because we will not go away.

He can't handle us because he can't control us, which is probably driving him nuts.

He's reacting the only way he knows how.

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For what it's worth... There may have been good intentions about a comeback initially, but it’s all shot to shit. The phone has gone, the catalogue too it seems. You’ll probably never get a reply from the email now, and there will be no more guitars. Goodness knows what will happen to the guitars ne...

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It seems we are not alowed to use his name anymore unless we have his authorisation

Youtube now has this added :

This YOUTUBE cite is the only Official site which VINNIE VINCENT has authorized the use of his name.

Suggestions of what we should now call him are welcome

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Here :

http://www.trademarkia.com/logo-75377959.html

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doublev wrote:He has to have some guts and show up as he is. He can not hind behind 80s photos forever.

So you're pretty sure he's alive and well, just doing what he is told?

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poserboy71 wrote:I never noticed the little cast on his pinky in the photo in Metatron's post above.

Was this the excuse for not playing ? It's on the picking hand. He could've played.

Looks like the top off a pen or something like that to me.

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poserboy71 wrote:I'm beginning to think Dino is at his wit's end and is going to share a lot of things...

Perhaps Dino should write a book...

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Genebaby wrote:That said, who is running this TM1 company? Vinnie? Les Kero? Diane Cusano? Where the frig is Vinnie?

http://il.14thstory.com/tm-one-holding-company.html

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doublev wrote:the world is his bed!

unless you see vv on youtube or a picture i think its safe to say other people close to him are running his life.

is that 'running' or 'ruining'?

What is going on, this is ridiculous.

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doublev wrote:well, from the interview I have seen, VV states that his father in law is running TM1 without his consent. He says TM1 is bogus and a fraud along with the youtube channel.

Not sure about all this.

What interview, where?

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Well said. I too can understand why people are angry, but for me nothing much has changed. Mr Cusano has been his usual unpredictable, predictable self. He said he’d go online to answer questions and either had no intention to or bottled it. Either way, based on the last decade as least, it was alwa...

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poserboy71 wrote:I would prefer that there is no back-handed, double-dealing on anyone's part.

I wouldnt see it as backhanded if one of his team was fed up with what was going on and the way he was behaving, and decided to get in touch and enlighten us a little.

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Fair enough. Calling us FRAUDULENT is a bit HARSH though. The legal speak is always a bit annoying. . He's not calling us fraudulent, he's calling the person who was to be answering questions (ie himself!) fraudulent. In other words he (apparently the real Vinnie) says we have been duped by this 'F...

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This is unfortunately all so utterly expected and predictable.

What we need now is for someone in Vinnie's loop to do us (and Mr Cusano and themselves) a favour by breaking ranks and TELLING IT ALL LIKE IT IS.

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This is great news. I'm wondering how this is going to pan out. His YouTube channel is a somewhat limited voice for 'his' company. Is the 'Talk' section going to be HIS pseudo official communication outlet, or is he also going to start other lines of comms to the world (statements, interviews etc)? ...

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Vic, just out of interest, when did you get feedback from Vinnie that this idea might be a goer?

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It's here on the les paul forum, the usual Vinnie bashing, about a third of the way down:

http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/backsta ... sucks.html

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Happened across this, don't know if it's been put up before.

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doublev wrote:However even with the questions answered .. is it worth nearly 10k??

No.

But there will always be people to whom money is not an issue, or who will pay over the odds. That would be the difference between one or two sales at 10k, and perhaps a dozen or so at say 3-4k.

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Personnally, I would get a gold or pink Jackson RR as I prefer the shape (and to an extent they are more iconic to VV for me) - HORROR!!!

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Indeed, which is why it is so crazy. It would be so easy to get some quick wins by doing this kind of stuff. Which is exactly why I can't help thinking that something else is going on - either good (hopefully) or naive, or it's all some kind of front for an alterior motive. But then other people are...

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Absolutly agree.

V also needs to emerge from his hole...

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Despite everything, I wouldn't write it off yet, NAMM was only a month ago and it was a trade fair.

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Welcome back, good to hear you are ok.

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We know that TM1 is a registered business, we know it's address and it's president.

We also know that TM1 has applied for 2 registered trademarks (still processing) for this double V guitar shape.

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What, they've only just noticed?!!

This board has been spotting these for ages...

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As said, must be him as they couldn't put his name on it otherwise, but you can his same expression in this photo from the LIU tour if you enlarge it (sorry can't work out how to grab image only!): http://cgi.ebay.com/Vinnie-Vincent-KISS-8x12-Photo-Lick-Up-3-84-25-/160469199476?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0...

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