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Hey, kid, you wanna buy a guitar?
Americanthinker.com ^
| 7/5/2020
| Michael James
Posted on 07/05/2020 10:11:43 AM PDT by rktman
May I mention how marvelous your comments have been? So many of you have expressed beautiful thoughts; more handsome because they expand on the subject at hand. I assure you we are the good people who possess something valuable, something to protect. We will.
When I was three and could only patrol the sidewalk right in front of our house, I would often go AWOL mentally and strum an imagined guitar. This was so peculiar that the adults on our tiny block sometimes called me Mr. Banjo. I suppose this after a particularly vigorous outdoor rehearsal.
Did you make your first guitar or other instrument? I mean the broomstick-cigar box sort. I could pick out tunes on those things.
I knew a kid named Dave, at five he was sperimenting with upside-down buckets of various sizes. And he could play on that homemade kit; he could bang out "La Bamba" like it was his job. Today it is.
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Okay music fans, have at it. LOL! One thing I did see I have to object to. The author says at one time he had too many guitars. No such thing. Sort of like "Dang. I have just too many guns." Or "Dang, I have too many classic mustangs." LOL! My oldest is a '65 Epiphone Riviera that I bought new in Albuquerque a LONG time ago. Newest is a wuhan Telecaster knock off that I had a buddy mod with some HOT ceramic humbuckers Squier loaded pick guard. Yikes! Sounds awesome. But the dang thing is heavier than an oak Les Paul. Anyway, have at it. A little relief from looting and burning.
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posted on
07/05/2020 10:11:43 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
Around '84 when I was in high school I needed to move from acoustic guitar to electric. You can't shred on an acoustic. I had $200 to spend and I really wanted a USA made guitar. So I went down to the local used guitar store and the only thing he had that I could afford was a 1961 Gibson SG Special. Old '60s Gibsons were dirt cheap then, especially SGs. Nobody wanted them. Anyway my friends with their imported pointy guitars were not impressed.
But who cares? I loved it. I Played that thing for 10 years and loved it but decided I needed a strat and sold the SG for about $250, thought I did okay. Then around two days later the vintage guitar market came into existence. Suddenly it was worth thousands. Sigh.
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posted on
07/05/2020 10:27:24 AM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: rktman
> too many guitars
Some sort of gibberish or random noise got into your post. No idea what that means.
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posted on
07/05/2020 10:30:36 AM PDT
by
ArcadeQuarters
(Socialism requires slavery.)
To: rktman
‘65 Epiphone Riviera
*************
Mini-humbuckers are sweet. Noise cancelling and a great compromise between single coil pickups and full size humbuckers.
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posted on
07/05/2020 10:31:04 AM PDT
by
Starboard
To: rktman
Whats a ‘guitar player’? Do they make loops I can sample for my pc? Sad. In the late 60’s through the 80’s there were so many great guitar players, you couldn’t count them all. Now, you can count the new generation one 1 hand, and few if any are innovative or original....or will be memorable.
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posted on
07/05/2020 10:31:34 AM PDT
by
Bommer
(I'm a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
To: rktman
What is this too much wattage allows no headroom nonsense?
Wattage pretty much equals headroom. A puny little amp will be crushed by a drummer in a club and turn into a noisy, fizzy mess. 30 watts minimum, unless you are going direct or miking the puny little amp.
PRS?
please....
Gibson or nothing.
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posted on
07/05/2020 10:35:12 AM PDT
by
bk1000
(Banned from Breitbart)
To: pepsi_junkie
You can’t shred on an acoustic
Ever listen to much Flamenco? Shredders only wish...
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posted on
07/05/2020 10:38:59 AM PDT
by
bk1000
(Banned from Breitbart)
To: bk1000
Yep. Screw those boutique 10w heads. 6505+ 120w in to a 400w 4x12 Marshall. If anything the sound guys always tell me to turn it down. Play whatever guitar you like. I'm no snob. BTW Jackson USA made or nothing.👍
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posted on
07/05/2020 10:45:29 AM PDT
by
Brasky
(You miss every shot you never take.)
To: rktman
one more song before i can do the entire mud slide slim album on my guild fingerpicker special 24 fret from 1993 and her sister 20 builds older.
I got distracted with dione warwick walk on by...
What a great tune added to my collection of playables.
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posted on
07/05/2020 10:51:14 AM PDT
by
Samurai_Jack
(Democrats are not the enemy, Republicans are not your friends. We're on our own folks!)
To: bk1000
I would say listen to some early Django Reinhardt.
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posted on
07/05/2020 10:54:16 AM PDT
by
Federal46
(federal 46)
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To: rktman
I had 28 guitars about 10 years ago. Sold them all but three. My Guild acoustic (which I bought new in 1976,)my Ovation and my Strat. Thinking about getting a dot 335.
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posted on
07/05/2020 10:59:51 AM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(Freedom.....where is she?)
To: Federal46
Or some Al DiMeola.
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posted on
07/05/2020 11:01:01 AM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(Freedom.....where is she?)
To: rktman
I don't know what possessed me. I had worked all summer and was planning on buying a Strat but Zed Lepplin was constantly on the radio and the clarion called...
And I became the proud owner of a doubleneck guitar. I still have it although it's been several years since I last played it. Sure is impressive wall-art ;'}
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posted on
07/05/2020 11:01:35 AM PDT
by
rockrr
( Everything is different now...)
To: bk1000
Yeah. I got into the neo-classical stuff that was going on with the shredders of the time and taught myself to play some Bach and Beethoven (not well, mind you) and stuff like that on the acoustic and listened to Segovia and master like him. BUT ... I mean, it was the '80s man! Van Halen and Yngwie and Rhodes and Satriani were not shredding flamenco style! My buddies weren't trying to form a gypsy quartet, we all wanted to be the next Dokken or Metallica.
Ironically, my poorly played classical stuff is probably the best I ever got. I grip the guitar like I'm trying to crush the neck to powder because my acoustic that I learned on had super high action and played very stiff and it is just burned into me to play that way on electrics too. To this day I can't really play very fast because of that death grip.
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posted on
07/05/2020 11:03:39 AM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: bk1000
I currently have two guitars: A Gibson SG and PRS Custom 24 from 1990 (so an old one when they were still mostly hand crafted). I’m a Gibson guy (SGs actually though I’ve h ad Les Pauls too) and I bought the PRS just to flip it for quick cash but damn it’s good guitar. So I kept it. Don’t write them off. They are different for sure but a good one is fantastic.
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posted on
07/05/2020 11:06:16 AM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: rktman
Don't even think about it kid.
BTW that kid would later play the limo driver in Die Hard.
To: Starboard
It gets played occasionally now. And it’s like an old friend every time I play it. Still sounds sweet. The finish is crazed after all this time. LOL! It’s older than a lot of the guys I jam with.
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posted on
07/05/2020 11:07:58 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: pepsi_junkie
LOL! Yeah, did a facebook live deal with a friend yesterday and we used nylon string acoustics. They DO NOT lend themselves to playing lead(even with a wah wah attached). Even my Takamine steel string acoustic is a little better but I did what I could.
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posted on
07/05/2020 11:11:00 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
1974 Selmer Mark VI. Not a guitar.
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posted on
07/05/2020 11:11:09 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(If you believe masks work, you also believe Santa Claus ate the Easter Bunny for dinner.)
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