“...Hale, are you a picker, too?..”
“I’m a picker, I’m a grinner, I’m a lover, and I’m a sinner”!!!
Yeah, I can still shred the frets... my dogs get REAL nervous when they see me hooking up the guitar and high-tail it under the bed.
Cut my chops learning Hendrix, Clapton, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, then Eddie VH, Steve Vai, and SRV back in the day.
Good stuff. People actually PLAYED their guitars then.
Played the hell out of them, actually.
Amazing the stuff you learn about folks here..
Not to pimp my You Tube channel, HG, but you can see the neck of my Charvel in the solo of "Hooks and Chains".
Hooks and Chains by 10 Pound Test
I was running through my backup amp on that recording, an old Tube Works Mosvalve 1x12 combo...which I like to trot out from time to time.
Man...guns, guitars and politics. This thread has it all.
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And knew how to tune them. I hear so much of today's so-called metal, and the guitars aren't even in tune! It seems like all you need is "black wall of death" guitars, double kick drums, Cookie Monster-sounding vocals, and put it all together using Pro Tools so it'll sound just like everything else, and you have a hit on today's rock radio.
There are some talented newer guitarists out there -- John 5 comes to mind -- but my guitar heroes tend to be from the Slash era and older.
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