Posted on 06/09/2009 6:42:10 AM PDT by Terabitten
I'd like to hear from all the FReeper guitarists out there!
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:
I’m a Telecaster man. ...played through a blackface Deluxe Reverb.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Clapton signature Strat. Amazing. Just awesome.
Les Paul, Alvarez classical and a Norman acoustic.
I still suck.
What is the problem of just asking the parents to tell the kid to turn it down as a courtesy?
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.
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.
Any opinions of the quality of the Mexican and Chinese Strats and Teles?? The prices seem almost too good to be true...
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.
I knew I’d see you on this thread! How are ya?
You guys sound like you need some low end.
I play 2008 Rickenbacker 4003 in Jetglo.
Read it and weep.
guitar ping
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