Go here to check 'em out. I have a full set of 280’s - his stuff is cheaper than all the other top after-market Strat p’up makers (Fralin, Kinman, etc…) and sound at least as good, and maybe better. Again - Fender worked with Bill to design the noiseless pickups in the 50th anniv. Strat just released.
Lace Sensors are fine - they just have a tone of their own, and don’t particularly sound like vintage Strat pickups - too much mid range, and the out-of-phase positions aren’t “quacky” like real, old Strats. These BL pickups sound pretty much like vintage Strat pickups without the noise - so if that is what you are looking for, in terms of a change, they are a great choice.
Feel free to email me if you have other questions - I think poor Ogre’s head might explode (or eyes roll permanently up into his head) if we keep talking gear…
ahem To get away from music for a minute and talk about the other point of the OP, “Why do people claim things in an interview they can’t back up?”
I interview a lot of people for my software company, and I see this all the time. I just don’t understand it. It’s one thing to claim something obscure (one interviewee noted on his resume that he was the 1984 Louisiana Rubiks Cube chambion. We ended up hiring him.) Do they think I’ll just be impressed without asking about it? It’s as if I claim to be fluent in French (I don’t speak a lick of French), and during the interview I say, “Sure, I read Voltaire and have been published in Le Monde.” Wouldn’t I expect someone to ask me to actually speak some French somewhere in the process?
Hint: When you interview for a software company that specializes in databases, don’t claim to have implemented an data wharehouse in 2 weeks without being prepared to explain just how you pulled off that little miracle.
I was actually serious. The guy claimed to another person interviewing him at my company that he had been in the CIA. We found out later that he hadn’t even finished high school - the college he had written down was where he took a couple of night classes on his way to getting a G.E.D. This guy was a piece of work.
PoorYorick - you got it; that is exactly where I am coming from, and what I was dealing with here.
I once had a woman ask for help with her resume. She was putting down that she was competent with different computer programs, but couldn’t follow my directions to format the resume. I just did it myself. She can go fail or not somewhere else.
Yeah. Sorry if that wasn’t more clear. I thought I’d left enough clues that my story was just a comedy routine. I thought it was funny anyway…even if no one else did.
On the subject of why people do stuff like this…what does a guy like that have to loose? If the guy is really the loser he appears to be, what does he have to lose by coming into an interview and slinging a huge line of bullshit? Worst case, he gets laughed out of the room. He’s probably used to that. On the off chance that the person who’s interviewing him is a dimwit, maybe he gets lucky and scores a job (and a paycheck) for a while…until he’s found out, of course.
Or maybe he’s just one of those jerks that just likes lying to people. They’re out there too.
Ultimately, this is how I have assumed he is. I guess he’s the kinda guy who walks up to 100 girls a night and asks “wanna fuck?” knowing that he’ll get abused 99 times, but every now and then…
eeesh - not a life I want to live, but to each his own…
