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26 Mar 01 - 03:05 PM (#426006) Subject: Black Diamond Strings? From: jeepman (inactive) Does anyone know if Black Diamonds are still available? Jeepman |
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26 Mar 01 - 03:12 PM (#426011) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: catspaw49 Yeah...They're still around..........CLICK............But you know you can buy barb wire at your local hardware store for just a few dollars more. Of course the barb wire has a better sound............. Spaw |
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26 Mar 01 - 04:29 PM (#426061) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: Kim C Black Diamond strings are like white flour and grits You play Black Diamond strings cause that's all you can get ---Guy Clark |
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26 Mar 01 - 04:36 PM (#426074) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: Matt_R I have 20 year old Black Diamond strings on my fiddle! Haven't changed 'em in oh...4 years or so. |
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26 Mar 01 - 04:52 PM (#426090) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: jeepman (inactive) Thanks for the Clickety Spaw. You are so right about the bob-ware. In 1960 when I was just learning to pick, Black Diamonds were the strings of necessity. I remember they used to rust quickly. Jim |
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26 Mar 01 - 05:09 PM (#426106) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: mousethief There's a Black Diamond about 30 miles from here. An old coal mining town turned sleepy exurb. I remember as a child driving past it (on the way to skiing in the mountains) and seeing the steaming slag heap. Today the same slag heap is a tree-covered hill. Makes me feel old. |
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26 Mar 01 - 05:25 PM (#426114) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: Lanfranc But Martin SPs are only 35c more per set! Unless Black Diamond have improved dramatically ( and to be charitable one must assume that they will have ) the comment above about barbed wire has to be apposite! I'm surprised they've survived, if my memories are anything to go by. I haven't seen them in the UK for 25 years. Perhaps there is a captive market of masochistic guitarists out there, hanging round drug stores and playing clapped-out Kaye guitars strung with Black Diamonds. Wired weird.
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26 Mar 01 - 05:35 PM (#426121) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: Kim C My dad had a Kaye guitar! My brother has it now. |
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26 Mar 01 - 05:43 PM (#426132) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: Lanfranc I had one once, hence the comment. Mine had an action akin to a double bass, and strung with the aforementioned strings, it drew blood at virtually every playing. I traded it and a five-pound note for an Eko, but that's another story! |
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26 Mar 01 - 07:08 PM (#426188) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: Dave Wynn I had an Eko Ranger 12 once...Hammered that guitar into the ground and sold it on without a thought for all it gave to me without complaint....if I could have my time again...keeping that old guitar would be on my list of things I would do differently... Spot
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26 Mar 01 - 07:21 PM (#426194) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: Giac Yes they rusted quickly, and the first string would pop on a whim. The one drugstore in our town that carried the strings had one drawer with sets and another drawer with the high E strings. One could buy any string individually, though. The neck on my first guitar was badly bowed (not the best for 9-year-old fingers). Add those strings to the mix and one had to be pretty determined to learn to play. The first set of another brand I got (at a music store 60 miles away) felt like satin. |
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26 Mar 01 - 09:42 PM (#426239) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: jeepman (inactive) When they used to break on my banjo, I would tie it back together and go on. Jman |
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26 Mar 01 - 10:30 PM (#426254) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: Mooh I liked the cool little boxes they came in. Unlike today's packaging, they were actually good for something after the strings were gone. All I really remember about the strings is they were loud as hell! Mooh. |
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27 Mar 01 - 12:15 AM (#426301) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: john c I once saw the great Archie Fisher playing at a club in Edinburgh and he spent half the set tuning and retuning his guitar. It was clearly unsettling him and at one point he stopped, put his guitar down, turned to the audience and said "Let me state this catagorically - Black Diamond strings are.....CRAP" Kinda sums it up! |
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27 Mar 01 - 11:50 AM (#426597) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: Kim C (heeheehee) I guess that's because they're not Scottish! (all you SNL watchers will know what I mean - I am NOT making fun of Scots!) |
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27 Mar 01 - 10:45 PM (#427175) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: Deckman Hey mousethief ... there's lots of good trout fishing down by Black Diamond ... and they even have old troutses! Bob (deckman) Nelson |
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28 Mar 01 - 07:13 AM (#427368) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: wes.w For us authentic Thames Delta Bluesmen of the 1960s, Black Diamonds were just too expensive (and crap). We preferred 'Red Dragon' at half the price and with a great clanging brassy sound. But I've still got the Eko Ranger 6, although now it get strung with Martins. |
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28 Mar 01 - 08:39 AM (#427410) Subject: RE: Help: Black Diamond Strings? From: RichM Larry Cordle, a traditional country/bluegrass songwriter has a wonderful song about Black Diamond strings... called appropriately, "Black Diamond Strings". It's on his CD "Murder on Music Row". |