Extra Slinky® my string of choice, Sad to see ya go Ernie.

they should cut up tiny bits of high E string and put it into the food at his wake.....then Ernie can take some friends with him. i bought a set of Martin strings back in high school and never looked back.

Really? I still go for D'addario.

Only use Gibson 9/42 myself, but it is all a matter of personal choice.

D'Addario lights (.008) for the six, D'Addario Extra lights (.007) for the twelve string.
GHS Boomers on the Explorer.
Fender Super Bullets (lights .008) for the SG with Floyd Rose Tremelo. They bend like nobody's business,never break, and stay in tune.

Elites for my bass... Tho I aint fussed about strings normaly, snarling dogs still sucked tho' - sorry Ernie - it's true, though I'm glad you never fucked with the design of the StingRay bass - I still want one, I'd stick a 24 fret graphite neck on it tho'

The core slips inside the windings with Ernie's, even with Earthwood Phosphor Bronze. This leads to a dead wrap that kills the crispness of the string. Also the nickel alloy that he uses on the solid strings has a low steel content so they corrode faster and develop metal fatigue and break.
Not only that, but he bought MusicMan Amps & Guitars in the 80's and ruined the whole line. Eddie Van Halen had a couple customs made and he was happy, but on the other hand, Eddie could make any piece of shit sound good.
MusicMan used to make the finest tube amps. I used to have a MusicMan head with Mesa Boogie Tubes for my Blue Sparkle Tuck & Roll Kustom Speaker Box. The pair stood about five and a half feet tall and would knock over small objects at thirty feet.
Eventually I figured out that no matter how loud I was, I wasn't Hendrix and never would be.

1967 Gibson SG (any strings) and Vox AC30 for me....

My farther-in-law has a pre Ball StingRay (late 70s) a 5 string StingRay thats only a couple years old - he swears by it (u can prob guess he's a pro muso), My wife has a SG special (Guitar not bass), personally I have a Vox Standard Bass that dates back to late 70's (the passive DeMarzio's put out a lot of level) to be honest though - my being in a band days are over but I still mess about with it.

Guitar fags

Man - I have had a vision! The answer to our current problems with AL-Queda and the like, is not to bomb the shit out of em (even if it is Xtreme fun) ::: but to give them all guitars and let them find the true way to ROCK!--- See my avatar - its a message - Jubus there is playing a left handed air-guitar with his hand way up high on the neck - look at his face - see the look of ecstasy as he lets the sustained power-chord-come-harmonic ring for two whole minutes (hey - he's Jesus)