June 29, 2004

• like this only with different colors.
• I had a left handed mexican tele turned up th' other way and a fender twin. I stress had, they are in another country now and I miss them. *cries*
• there there kid, there there.
• Hold me.
• When I was in high school and actively playing guitar, a friend of my father's loaned me his '68 Les Paul. I say "loaned," but my dad's friend was never going to ask for it back; it had belonged to his dead brother and he was really excited that someone was getting some use out of it. That was an amazing guitar- great tone, responsive, easy to play. Long story short: it was stolen out of my garage during my first week of college (in '91). I'm convinced that the malefactor was my mom's sleazy boyfriend (who fortunately wasn't a boyfriend for too much longer), but there was no way to prove that. So I switched my major to classical voice, continued to play bass in bands (which was fine; I was always a better bassist than guitarist), and haven't really played guitar since.
• My SO has been dying for a custom-shop Gibson Les Paul with a variety of specs (quilt top, 60's neck). Looks similar to this one, only not an Epiphone (and thus about 10 times more expensive). It sounds like it might be cheaper to track down bone's malefactor.
• I once, long ago, bought an Ibanez bass, but my complete lack of musical talent (I think, at the height of my skill, I managed an off-tempo Peter Gunn theme) prompted me to trade it for a used Gibson generi-axe. Total musical talentlessness follows one through various instruments (I think I learned a grand total of three chords on the Gibby), so I traded it for an Alpine car stereo. Now *that* I could play. *raises an envious glass to the Mofi Guitar Slingers League*
• That's a schweet axe there Mickey. I've recently lusted after a quilt-top Carvin. The quilting seems hypnotic . . I like the gold-hardware, gloss black custom 3 pickup (with wireless unit) Paul though. Then you can play without all the mucky-muck. /Tap
• My axe is the Vantage VS-695 shown here. (The one in the 3-guitar picture)
• I've been lusting after an SG Standard or LP Studio for years now, but I can't get up the sack to actually make the purchase. Someone help, please.
• I didn't get anything on that link rocket88 but is it like this? That's a good looking instrument too - is that neck-thru body? Is it as heavy as it looks? :) uncleozzy you have my full moral support and emotional cooperation! And speaking of SG, let's hear from the patron saint. It's a cool interview. I was pleasantly surprised to read about how he gets the distortion . . .
• pete: that's her (mine's a darker stain, though). Bolted-on neck, and yeah, heavy as hell - which is a bitch on stage but gives it great sustain.
• pete -- the Lonestar is a nice guitar. I think I know the color you're talking about, they had some at the local Sam Ash. I have a Fender Tex Mex Strat in baby blue and an American Standard in black (yeah, I know, the only real difference is the pick-ups). I play both through a Marshall 100W combo...and I really need to start playing more to keep the skills. If I could afford it, I'd buy a Parker Night Fly acoustic-electric...those things are sweet.
• Man, AC/DC are so damn cool. And I agree with him about distortion -- while on recordings I tend to go over-the-top, in a live situation you want to clean it up a bit so it doesn't wind up muddy at the back of the room. Well, unless you're totally hammered and are going to make a lot of mistakes, but that's neither here nor there.
• Baby-blue Danelectro Longhorn reissue bass. Lightweight girly bass with a nice pop-bass tone. I love me some retro style.
• Ooo. I envy your Dan-o. They're unspeakably sweet. I've got one of the first re-issue six-strings they built (before they started calling them the U-2) and it does that kind of Gretschy thing ever so well. It does, I confess, help that I tore out all the electronics but the pickups and had it rewired with somewhat higher quality gear. And if it's time to brag about our guitar collections... I have a '40s Gibson acoustic, I think an L-00 or something, and a '71 Les Paul Custom (both on loan from the my-older-brother-who-no-longer-plays collection), the aforementioned Dano, an '88 Stratocaster with sentimental value and a neck warped to near unplayability, an '85 Squire Tele (my favorite), two lap steel, one mother of toilet seat and one bakelite, two pedal steels (one ten-string and one twelve), a Deering Goodtime banjo, and a National Estralita. I got carried away, what can I say? I do play shows and work the occaisional session. And most of the guitars I'm willing to lend out to players I trust. Oh yeah, couple old Fender amps too. And, the jewel of my collection a Peavey Classic 20. The cheapest and most under-rated supplier of pure tube tone I've ever found. And it's tweed!
• Wow tracicle that's awesome - did you see it first or did you go out looking for a Danelectro? I started out with a Peavey bass, and then fell in love with fender jazz. Bass deserves it's own thread. . .
• Bah. I have the best guitar of all yall. I purchased it in an allyway in Granada off of a one eyed claw-handed Gypsy. Because actually, I do play Flamenco, and actually, this crazy old half-blind Gitano luthier made the most wicked guitars in Andalucia. In my price range, at least. I couldn't afford to drop a few G's for a Barranco or something like that. Electric guitar is for pussies! oh god, I am so going to get murdered for that
• Schecter PJ from Texas. L series body shape, (teak
• 1959 Guild Thunderbird (best guitar I'll probably ever own) and 1965 Epiphone (most fun to play). Oh and a Kramer bass with the aluminum neck.
• pete_best: I started out with a generic no-name bass for learning on, then left it in NZ when I moved to CA. I missed it so much that, on a Femmes bender, I went looking for an acoustic bass. Found the acoustic but fell in love with the Dano. I love how light and comfortable it is, and it has a really clear sound, almost like a normal acoustic guitar. I brought it back to NZ when we came back and only briefly considered selling it when I realised I'd stopped playing. Now it comes out at least once a week while I muck around on it. Next mission is to buy a cheap but decent acoustic guitar for hubby, and then a kids' guitar for the mad toddler.
• Wolof, hand over the G/K. C'mon, gimmie. steveno - thoses is wacktified lookin'! How do they feel when you play? I mean it looks like the balance may be toward the neck? What does it sound like? Someone lock Ian in a room with P.Diddy and Billy Bob Thornton.
• pete_best: The Guild is so good, I hate to put my unfit fingers on it. Sounds like 10 million dollars. For that reason the Epiphone is my favorite. It is a strange play - mahogany - it bends! Single coil pickups = thin but clean so I can make it sound like a Fender or a Gibson or . . . The Kramer is very neck heavy - let go and it almost hits the floor - but THE SOUND! Overtones! Sustain! To top that off I put D'Addario xlreds (copper wound strings) on it and played with a 2 x 12" speaker cabinet. Rang like a bell choir, but that was my sound.
• wow that's cool - i haven't heard of copper wound strings before. the idea is that you get more overtones? Do you bend the neck/body as a tremelo of sorts or is it in place of stringbending? Anyone ever play that wacky through-body tremelo that attached to the strap lock and took up most of a telecaster's insides?
• Eddie stripes some guitars! oh, and also Eddie's Guitars. Via this thread on the blue. Beauty. Only I disagree with that one comment - Vai is all about the soul, baby.
• guitargeek.com
• Oy!
• cool cool, thanks tick!