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FReeper Guitarists, Unite!
Vanity ^ | 10 JUL 09 | Terabitten

Posted on 06/09/2009 6:42:10 AM PDT by Terabitten

I'd like to hear from all the FReeper guitarists out there!


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KEYWORDS: fender; gibson; guitar; martin
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Post your collections, your music, and just enjoy being a conservative musician!

I'm also curious about how many of us have regular gigs, be it church, bar, VFW Hall, whatever.

Here's my modest collection. I don't have good pics of my actual guitars out on a photobucket account yet, so these generic pics will have to do:

2005 Gibson Custom Shop Slash Signature Les Paul:

2008 Squier Classic Vibe Telecaster:

1991 Peavey Vandenberg Custom Quilt:


1 posted on 06/09/2009 6:42:10 AM PDT by Terabitten
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To: Terabitten

I’m a Telecaster man. ...played through a blackface Deluxe Reverb.


2 posted on 06/09/2009 6:44:27 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Terabitten

I had an old Ibanez Destroyer that I took with me around the world in the Navy.

Nothing like playing Metallica’s The Shortest Straw on the bow of an amphibious assault carrier while docked in some middle east country.

Morticia (My guitar) finally developed a crack right down the middle about seven years ago.

Going to get an explorer someday.


3 posted on 06/09/2009 6:47:08 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Strat man with plenty of Line 6 gear; working on songwriting (see www.taxi.com). Classic pop/rock, country influences, including Christian music as of late. Seems to be a lot of talent and energy moving there...Note my User name.


4 posted on 06/09/2009 6:49:39 AM PDT by Dansong
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To: Mr. Mojo
I’m a Telecaster man. .

You owe it to yourself to try that Squier Classic Vibe Tele. $300 of pure Tele goodness -- guys are trading in their '52 reissues and custom shop Nocasters for these guys.

5 posted on 06/09/2009 6:50:08 AM PDT by Terabitten (Vets wrote a blank check, payable to the Constitution, for an amount up to and including their life.)
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To: Terabitten
I have a few and play as a living room legend. Photobucket
6 posted on 06/09/2009 6:50:11 AM PDT by doodad
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To: Terabitten
Oh, shoot, I can't post guitar pics at the moment (I'm at work) but I'll catch back up tonight...

Currently have a custom-built black-walnut/Modulus-Graphite rock axe, Gibson SG (c. 1962) for the blues, and a variety of others for special purposes.

Main amp is a an early-70's silver-face Fender Twin Reverb:


7 posted on 06/09/2009 6:50:55 AM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Terabitten
I got a question. We have a neighbor kid who's apparently learning to play. He's not bad just not good. Lacks rhythm and his timing is off. He practices using an amp that's seems to be at full volume - you can even hear the distortion at times.

My question is this: Have any of you guitar players ever subjected your neighbors to amateurish playing via an amp? Don't most people learning to play get good before they decide to crank up the amp?

Note: The family is a big Obama supporter. They have an Obama sign in a bedroom window that can only be seen from my yard!

In the summer and nice weather I have my C. Crane radio out in the yard with Limbaugh and Beck on. I don't play it loud and consider myself respectful of not trying to make them listen to it. This Summer things might change.

8 posted on 06/09/2009 6:50:59 AM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: Terabitten

Clapton signature Strat. Amazing. Just awesome.

Les Paul, Alvarez classical and a Norman acoustic.

I still suck.


9 posted on 06/09/2009 6:51:36 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Terabitten
I'm a "four-string" man. Can I play too?? 64' Fender Jazz - except no substitute!

Photobucket

10 posted on 06/09/2009 6:52:16 AM PDT by Vasilli22
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To: Terabitten


I have a Paisley Tele reissue (just like James Burton played when he was backing up the King!



My main axe - a Epiphone Firebird. I play in a surf/garage band, and I pump this thru a 1962 Fender Princeton amp for the sweetest sounds this side of heaven! My band has only played twice (to great response and some nice paychecks!), but we've finally recorded a demo and are getting ready to assault the Mid-Atlantic area with pure rock and roll.
11 posted on 06/09/2009 6:53:16 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Refugee from the World of Doomed Olsens)
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To: raybbr

What is the problem of just asking the parents to tell the kid to turn it down as a courtesy?


12 posted on 06/09/2009 6:54:55 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: raybbr
Most beginners who practice loud and poorly will soon give it up - he'll will soon annoy himself as well. If he gets better he'll use the headphones or practice acoustically.
13 posted on 06/09/2009 6:55:05 AM PDT by Dansong
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To: Terabitten

Martin, acustic drednaught ... Wouldn’t it be great if we could start having some “folk songs” about all this mess with the government ... so we could be playing them at tea parties, etc. Look at how strong this kind of music was back in the sixties (in the other direction) ... so maybe we could get the attention of the younger crowd going in a different direction.


14 posted on 06/09/2009 6:55:05 AM PDT by DHC-2
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To: Terabitten
Squier Classic Vibe Tele

Does it have a fat U-shaped neck? If not, I have an extra '52 reissue neck lying around somewhere. Only fat necks for me. ...on guitars, that is.

15 posted on 06/09/2009 6:55:05 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Terabitten

Any opinions of the quality of the Mexican and Chinese Strats and Teles?? The prices seem almost too good to be true...


16 posted on 06/09/2009 6:56:55 AM PDT by Dansong
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To: Terabitten

I’ve always been an acoustic guitar player. I still have an play my 1982 Alvarez Yari that I bought new. Sorry no pic. This guitar has been through many parties, camping trips, beaches, you name it, over the years. It’s starting to look like Willie Nelson’s guitar. It’s very well broken in and the tone I get from it is beautiful.

I’ve recently discovered Cubase and also a much easier program Mixcraft to write some multitrack instrumentals.
Throw in a korg keyboard workstation, download some vsti’s and you have multi instruments to use. Currently using Edirol.


17 posted on 06/09/2009 7:02:31 AM PDT by robby (xbox360 gamertag...........bainrowe)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I knew I’d see you on this thread! How are ya?


18 posted on 06/09/2009 7:04:35 AM PDT by Vor Lady (DC or bust)
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To: Terabitten

You guys sound like you need some low end.

I play 2008 Rickenbacker 4003 in Jetglo.

Read it and weep.


19 posted on 06/09/2009 7:04:42 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: TheWyzzyrd

guitar ping


20 posted on 06/09/2009 7:05:33 AM PDT by Lovergirl (He will NOT take my 4Runner from me.)
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