
Pineaway,
Sounds like you and your friend are in a difficult situation with the whole ring-tailed lemur thing. I think it would be in your best interest to pursue this in a legal manner. As for repair you might start saving up money to travel to the jungle because Ring-tailed lemurs are found solely on the island of Madagascar, an island off of southeast Africa. There are no repair shops in the states.. sorry.
As for the pinch harmonic vs. regular harmonic.
A pinch harmonic is produced when a note is actually fretted with your left hand on the neck (this is all assuming that you are a right handed player.. if not switch the info the opposite way) and your picking hand is holding the pick in such a way that the second after the pick hits the string the thumb follows behind with an almost instant muffe. You will get better pinch harmonics depending on where you place your thumb as it hits the picked string after the initial strike.
A regular harmonic is produced by placing your fretting finger gently above the fret (not pressing down) and plucking it with your picking hand. There is a large placement of harmonics on the neck... following the fret placing (scale of 18) and the natural overtone series that our ears can hear inside the audio spectrum
I hope that helped you out a little.. any more help on harmonics you can email me at eyesnears69@hotmail.com
as for Mindwalk here is your info
1.) The Ibanez Artfield is Extremely rare, and will most likely run you over $1700 dollars at the very cheapest. They were only made between 1987-1990 in three series. And the majority of them reside in France....
B.) In the Chicagoland area this is your best bet for cd duplication and any type of studio work... they have a huge selection....http://www.matervillestudios.com/news.html
D.) In twenty plus years of playing I have had many pedals involved in both my bass, guitar and keyboard rigs. I have had everything from midisynth shit to simple boss DOD petals but the weirdest pedal i have ever worked with was an old electric organ effects pedal bastardized by some old psychotic satanic friend of mine, it didn't have any recognizable brand name on it, but it it had a series of dials like an old vacuum cleaner (rate, depth, "balls" which was like built in flange, and "small gain" and "large gain"
The pedal was about the size of a toaster and all those dials were to be adjusted by feet. it easily weighed 10 lbs. and it sounded like an airplane accident. Blew my freaking mind.. he wouldn't sell it.. You should look around for things in your house.. if you are at all good with electronics almost any household appliance can become part of your rig.
5.) There is a tie in my mind for the best band name .. they are
Obi BonKaJovi ( a band from my home state of Maine that does Bon Jovi songs in a StarWars type of Vibe)
and
John Cougar Concentration Camp ( a pretty well known acoustic punk type of band that actually has quite a following)
6.) The second best name is also a tie
Curl Up and Die - a raging emo-core bad in the vein of Don Cabellero and Modest Mouse
and
Batman and His Giant Walking Dildo - A trippy acid rock thrash band in the style of the Happy Flowers and Anal Cunt
F.) Worst Bad Name is also a tie
Deceased the Evil Side of Religion (DTESOR) a early to mid eighties death/black metal band from New Jersey
and
Hoobastank.... self explanatory
Have a great day
Peace
Neon