| Author | Message | ||
     Lions |
That was BEAUTIFUL! Love your finger pickin'! You've got to be classically trained! Me--Jazz trained..reason for a quick right hand pickin'! | ||
| Danger_dave |
Thank you - I enjoyed your bit too. My teacher used to live directly across the road from my mum's house. Every Tuesday afternoon. But he also took me to the Pub and to see Frank Zappa and the Mothers when I was 15. Glory days. (Message edited by danger_dave on February 19, 2007) | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Don't know much about guitars & can't play either, but all I know is that the sweetest sound I've ever heard on a guitar played live, came out of a Gretsch. Those of you that know this stuff have by now worked out that I like nothing better than live rockabilly.  | ||
| Court |
Tripp: If you do start building check out www.exoticwoods.com In fact, if you want to send me your address, I'll send you one of my issues of Acoustic Guitar which has TONS of resources for Luthiers. Guitars are fascinating on so many levels . . | ||
| Edstevens |
Tripp Glad to hear about your new guitar. I had waited years before I started my search. I played a 12 string Maderia by Guild that I bought for $65.00 at a yard sale for 15 years. I play mostly contempary christian music in church. Then the day came to start the search. I went to every music store within 75 miles looking for that one acoustic that would really speak to me. I looked at Martin, Taylor, Gibson, Seagull, Tacoma, Washburn, and anything else the music stores had that I could pickup and play. At Classic Axes in Manasses, VA was a brand called Wechter. I had never heard this brand but really liked the low finger action, real nice neck shape and good acoustic sound. I played for a few minutes and the Wechter felt very good; but then, over hanging between some other guitars was a very odd looking guitar. It didn't have nice wood in fact it didn't have any wood at all. I asked, "Can I play that?" and he said, "I don't know. If you do, that thing will follow you home." Well I played this black/grey thing and that was it for me. I played the guitar then I had the owner play it so I could stand back and listen at a distance. He was right, that guitar was a Rainsong made out of carbon graphite. The model is WS1000 a six string cutaway with Fishman internal mic and piezo under the bridge. For me the sound was like nothing I had ever had and I liked it. It did indeed follow me home. I hope you will enjoy your new upgrade as much as I enjoy mine. | ||
| Gearhead |
I'm a real novice in this group but I have enjoyed taking lessons over the years, playing Rock & Roll. I really like my Strat and being black and flamed is a bonus!! I play it through a Line 6 Spider amp.  | ||
| Lions |
Had a few beers last night to calm me down....Obviously it didn't work!  Clicky | ||
| Lonexb |
do i smell spandex and hair spray?  | ||
| Damnut |
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| Lions |
"do i smell spandex and hair spray?" Not this time around....but...Brian, you will smell my $ucce$$ when you find out which local Long Island Celeb made me an offer!  ...That's why it pays knowing more than 3 chords like our silly Damnut over here | ||
| Lonexb |
Not this time around....but...Brian, you will smell my $ucce$$ when you find out which local Long Island Celeb made me an offer! well hopefully her name doesn't start with the letter "T" and rhyme with piffany!!!  brian}} | ||
| Jimduncan69 |
damn Brian... thats harsh.... | ||
| Damnut |
This silly Damnut is a drummer tryin to learn something different. Some of us didn't come out of the vagina playin Dixie. | ||
| Lions |
"damn Brian... thats harsh...." He's allowed to get away with it...he's one of the good ones  | ||
| Danger_dave |
>>This silly Damnut is a drummer tryin to learn something different.<< Drummer?........Drummer??? http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/jampacks/rhy thm.html ;-P dd | ||
| Lions |
"well hopefully her name doesn't start with the letter "T" and rhyme with piffany!!! brian}" No...but here's a hint...It's a "He" & it starts with "d" He happened upon me playing at The Guitar Center a few weeks ago!} | ||
| Lonexb |
wow.... i didn't know Debbie Gibson went through with the operation to become a man. i thought that was all just rumors! sweet. good luck with that "widow maker".hopefully you can "stay hungry" enough to make it happen!!  brian | ||
| Court |
Interesting how many folks play in the Guitar Center, eh? I met the guy who owns them, while at a gig with a friend Sylvie Lewis. Since the NYC flagship store is next to my office, I wandered in one day and it's amazing. . . first of all that they can sell enough stuff to support a Wal-Mart size store in Manhattan, next that they can compete with New York City's famed "Guitar Row" and finally that they allow anything and everything to be played. .. it appears that many of NYC's budding young musicians spend their days practicing in the store. By the way . . . spend more than 30 minutes on Guitar Row and you'll run into somebody. . you know or have heard. Cool stuff.  | ||
| Tripp |
court, i'm not building the guitar myself but that's some great fodder for day dreaming, thanks for the offer to send me that mag though! ed that sounds like a really cool guitar you have there, i hope i like mine as much as you do your's. i just talked to my dad, looks like it's going to be nine weeks before i see my new garrison! seems like a long time to me but i suppose there is a line of folks before me. hehe, the "d" word is like a swear to some percussionists jim! lol | ||
| Damnut |
Drummer Drummer Drummer....... YES I'M A DRUMMER. Would it be better if I said the I play the drums??? right here buddy  sorry but I have been playing for many years now, have been in a few bands and know plenty of musicians (a few that attended Berklee)........ I've never heard of anyone being offended by being called a drummer. | ||
| Imonabuss |
OK, sounds like it's time to start the drummer and guitar player jokes... | ||
| Imonabuss |
Here we go: Q: What's the difference between a guitar player and a certificate of deposit? A: The CD will eventually mature and make money. Q: What is the first sign you're Halluncinating? A: Two electric guitar players are playing in tune. | ||
| Damnut |
here's one that my buddies use to say all the time.......... Q: What do you call a guy that hangs around a bunch of musicians? A: A drummer | ||
| Imonabuss |
And: Q: How does a lead guitarist change a lightbulb ? A: He holds it and the world revolves around him. Q: If you drop a guitar player and a watermelon off a tall building, which would hit the ground first ? A: Who cares ? | ||
| Court |
You guys SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO suck! I had plans this evening and now I have to go home and dig through a pile of crap looking for the pages of drummer jokes someone had sent once. Let the frickin' fun begin! | ||
| Sarodude |
Busy corporate guy needs a vacation - BAD. He decides to go someplace outside the range of cellphones, pagers, etc. The little airplane lands him on an island. Upon getting off the plane, the first thing he hears is the beating of distant drums. He was curious. He grabs his luggage and hails a taxi. As soon as he gets in, he decides to ask the taxi driver, "Hey, what's with the drums?" "When drum stop, very bad...." was the reply. The businessman was curious. The cab dropped him off at his hotel - and he couldn't help but keep hearing the distant drums beating away. So he asked the concierge, "Hey, what can you tell me about the drums that I keep hearing?" "When drum stop, VERY BAD!" Wow. The guy was getting very curious. He emptied his suitcase, donned his swim trunks, and headed down to the beach. The drums were as loud and persistent as ever. Some hotel cabana boy was walking by with an umbrella drink, so the man asked, "Hey, kid, why do I keep hearing drums?" "When drum stop, VERY VERY BAD!" The man asked impatiently, "But why? What happens?" "Bass solo." -Saro | ||
| Strato9r |
Tripp, trust me, the wait for your Garrison will be worth it. I do the service work for a few of the music stores in the area, and subsequently get to play and repair a lot of different instruments. Of the acoustic guitars I've played and worked on, the Garrisons are easily the most consistant and best intonating guitars out there. As you probably know, the synthetic framework,as well as being impervious to humidity changes, handles the job of supporting the structure, leaving the actual wood [and they use nice wood] to simply resonate without being damped by being a stressed part of the instrument. They also use a slick approach to laying out the positioning of the nut, frets and bridge, the "Buzz Feiten Tuning System", which gives the instrument near perfect intonation anywhere on the fretboard. I love 'em. And, in five years of working on them, I have yet to have to have done any significant repair to one, and have never seen or heard of a bad or even marginal sounding one. They are ALL good ones. Have fun with it! BTW, if you are interested in building your own guitar, Stewart- Macdonald Guitar Supply also has some excellent books on the subject as well, and they also sell some guitar kits that have some of the major work done for you. You might enjoy it, and there are fewer techs out there all the time, so there is always work out there for someone who's good at it. I started as a hobby, then it became my evening job. As a matter of fact, I paid for my Firebolt using only the money I made fixing guitars. It may not be as much fun as being in a band, but it pays a lot better, and I never have to track down a slippery club manager with the bands wages at 3 in the morning!!!!!!! | ||
| Danger_dave |
The man asked impatiently, "But why? What happens?" "Bass solo." Same set up with 'I REALLY DON"T LIKE THE SOUND OF THOSE DRUMS!!!' all the way through. Tag is: and then a voice comes back from deep in the Jungle: 'Hey man, he's not our regular drummer.' | ||
| Court |
>>>>never have to track down a slippery club manager with the bands wages at 3 in the morning!!!!!!! Man does that bring back memories. We used to play, and bear in mind I'm 53 and we're talking about when I was 15 and the Gibson Melody Maker had just been released, a EM Club on a major. We were used to playing for $50 a night and the Air Force Facilities folks would pay us $400 to play 7 songs consisting essentially of various iterations of E-G-A-D over and over. The problem was at the end of the night having to have out drummer's dad (we were all "yutes") fill out the government paperwork to get us paid. | ||
| Djkaplan |
"OK, sounds like it's time to start the drummer and guitar player jokes..." Q: What do you call a drummer without a girlfriend? A: Homeless. ------------------------------------------ Q: How do you get a drummer to stop playing? A: Put some sheet music in front of him. |
