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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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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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.
> too many guitars
Some sort of gibberish or random noise got into your post. No idea what that means.
‘65 Epiphone Riviera
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Mini-humbuckers are sweet. Noise cancelling and a great compromise between single coil pickups and full size humbuckers.
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.
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.
“You can’t shred on an acoustic”
Ever listen to much Flamenco? Shredders only wish...
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.
I would say listen to some early Django Reinhardt.
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 ;'}
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.
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.
BTW that kid would later play the limo driver in Die Hard.
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.
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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