Find another salesman. I go to every GC around here regularly, and get different quotes from every salesperson I talk to. I find it easiest to deal with a manager, when possible. Their return policy as I understand it is never "the sale is final".
Vai has good and bad tones. His tone on Alien Love Secrets is wonderful, and Passion And Warfare has some great sounds.
Modern Vai (Post Fire Garden) is not my idea of good tone.
Figured I should follow up. The Silver Machine Wah I got recently is amazing. I don't recommend anything else. I have only tried and owned a few. Fulltone, Buddha are some nice Wahs I have tried, and I've owned both Bad Horsie versions, a Digitech Whammy/Wah as well as a Dunlop Crybaby and a Vox...
I don't really like selling guitars, but I don't really miss anything I've ever sold. I had a Jem DBK that I hated, a Universe I didn't like, and an RG550 and Yamaha MS1221 that I bought only to sell. Other than that, I have held on to most everything else. Oh, I did buy a pair of cheapie Ibanez...
I like my RC Booster a lot, but I also sometimes turn the gain down on my Maxon OD9 and use that. I think The Keeley compressor pushes other gain pedals fairly well, too.
I dig some Vai, but I will probably never grasp why Eat em and Smile is so revered. Then again, I prefer Sammy Hagar to Dave, even though the Roth era albums themselves had more songs that I like. I just can't stand Dave himself.
I'm not really into James, but I am curious about the possibility of him going to Miami.
I thought Wade deserved the MVP the previous year, not James. I really like Wade, and the two of them together would be fun. I know a lot of people are against it, and it's fairly unlikely. I still think...
I can't say just one. Overall it's easily Satriani, even though I don't listen to him anymore. The first time I heard "Surfing with the Alien", I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I was 7 or 8 years old then.
Otherwise, Steve Morse and Van Halen have been huge for me. Lately I like Chris...
I agree about Dogman. Faith Hope Love is great, too.
I had no idea that Dogman was a Recto. I have always despised that amp, but I guess a great tone is possible on it after all.
Once again, you have no idea what he may have had going on in his own life. He could have been sick, going through personal problems, or whatever.
Furthermore, you paid to see a concert. That's what you got. I'm not of the belief that musicians owe us anything beyond that. Meet and greet stuff...
Nonsense.
I've met Eric on two separate occasions, and he was beyond classy. The first time was after a concert, and the second time was when he was walking out of the music store I taught out of in Maui. He recognized me from before (probably because the first time was about 2 months before...