Questlove: He calls me and says, I’ll be there, at 12.30, and I tell him you just had a baby, and he says, ‘yeah, that’s nice, tell him I’ll be there at 12.30. So then Prince leaves and I’m thinking, what was this ping pong thing all about. I go, right, let’s bring it on man, he comes to the show, doesn’t even look at the ping pong table, performs that night, destroys it, has the greatest show ever, Kirk lent him his guitar and he broke it. So they call back and say, ‘he wants to play ping pong, but not on camera’Īnd they go, “Prince thinks Jimmy will be fun to play ping pong with.’ ‘Okay, fine, we’ll have it set up, just in case he feels like playing ping pong. They call back, ‘he doesn’t want to play ping pong’ Sure, as long as Prince wants to play music. They call back and say, ‘we’ve rethought it, Prince really wants to play ping pong’. So I say, ‘okay, sure’Īnd they call back and say, ‘no Prince does not want to play ping pong’ He's booked to come on the show, and his people say, ‘Prince really wants to play ping pong against Jimmy’,Īnd we don’t play ping on the show. You’re reminded to enjoy every sandwich, and every minute playing with the guys, and being with the kids and everything. I mean I always thought I did that, I always enjoyed myself, but it’s more valuable now. I mean, you put more value on every minute. How is the work now, living with this diagnosis? They certainly don’t discourage you from doing whatever you want? Letterman: To me, you look and seem remarkably healthy. Well it means you better get your dry cleaning done on special. Letterman: ‘Oh my god, and it turned out not to be congestive heart failure. all the time’, and they’d say, ‘dont you ever watch the Sopranos?’īut when Dr Stan the dentist heard about it, he said, ‘it sounds like congestive heart failure or something, ‘ so he made me go to a doctor the next morning after he heard it. Teh only person that I ever go to is DrStan, you know Dr Stan, the dentist, and I always said if he can’t fix it, I’m screwed.Īnd I told Dr Stan that I was having shortness of breath, I had it for months, I did a short tour, went to Canada, and I would only hire people who would tell me it was stress.įlunked out medical students who became musicians, I’d say ‘Imshort of breath. It was one of those phobias that really didn’t pay off. First of all let me saythat I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for twenty years. All the vintage gold foil pickups I've seen (and the Novak and Lollar reissues) are very short and suitable for surface-mounting (sometimes even requiring shimming), while the All-Parts models and - I'll guess the GFS ones, too - are thick enough to require mounting within pickup cavities.How did I learn about it. Most of the information I've gleaned leads me to think that the majority of no-name reissues are actually some sort of mini-humbucker in a gold foil-styled housing. The main construction similarity among all of them is the use of a gold (or sometimes silver) foil covering (which is only aesthetic) and the incorporation of "rubber" refrigerator-style magnets - though I'm sure there are at least a few pickups that fall into this general style that used other materials, too. those with off-centered pole screws (vintage Tiesco and Lollar reissues) those with centered pole screws (some vintage Dearmonds, like those found on some vintage Silvertone and Harmony offest guitars, and no reissues to my knowledge)ģ. those without pole pieces (Dearmond and Rowe vintage pickups and Curtis Novak reissues) - these are sometimes referred to as "shaver" pickups because they look like the top of an electric razor.Ģ. It seems that there are at least three types of gold foil pickups, each with different construction and slightly different sound:ġ.