Names Scott, self taught and very poor axe hacker, even though my playing is less than critically acclaimed my opinions are always available.I began playing sort of accidently about 8 or 9 years ago, my wife at the time took it into her pointy little head that she wanted to learn to play acoustic guitar, we were both involved with a church worship group. So she (without informing me prior) goes out and buys a Seagull acoustic (parlor) sized. Well that lasted about 2 or three months till she tired of it, so here I am, witha nice solid top acoustic going unplayed. The rest you can guess, I picked it up and well here we are. Now I have 8 guitars and three amps, have moved to rural texas and don’t have any mates to play with, I still play the Seagull, along with 2 electric/acoustics ( again the second one of those came by way of the same wife, again abandoning it). My main guitars are my PRS SE single cut and (prepare to send me the grief) a Stagg LP, my practice amp is a Hughes and Kettner 30R blue, and I have a Fender Accousonic30 and my main gig amp is a Peavey VK212,anyways be happy to discuss gear and other stuff with anybody who’s around , maybe we can re-enliven this forum.

Hi I’m Jim and a newbie to this forum. I hope to have a good time posting as I’ve decided to quite posting at the name-brand sites. I’ve played guitar for about 15 years, off and on so I’m no real professional. I have a Dixon acoustic, Squier Strat and Crate Gfx-15. I play mostly, Alternative, Classic Rock music as I listen to most Alternative and Classic Rock.
I am currently in between jobs, so I have a little time to do some postings.
As with many people I started out playing the piano, then the viola, trombone and now the guitar. Right now I re-learning the bass clef, along with the treble clef which I already know. I might add that I’ve also sung in the church choir when I was little.
Well, that’s it on me I’m interested in learning about you all in the future. Thanks, Jim

[quote=”Tim”]Hey Brian, welcome![/quote]

Thanks Tim. Had a gig over the weekend so am doing a thread on it. Comments welcome!

Hey Brian, welcome!

Howdy kids.

I’m Brian from Gainesville, Florida, USA.

I’m old. I have lots of guitars. I play in some bands and in church.

My avatar is me.

I guess that’s it.

Greetings to you all. My name is Ray and I am an electrical engineer. My second passion is playing guitar, sort of 😆

My background should keep visitors and other newbies from feeling intimidated. Never been in a band. All I own is a Squire Standard
Stratocaster (black metalflake/white pickguard/maple fingerboard- Indonesian) and a Rogue 30w x 10″ amp. Recently lost my Epiphone PR350s (Korean), of 7 years, to a broken neck. (Thank you for your sympathy). I play for my own pleasure. Does that make me selfish? Merciful?

Mountain biker, recent convert from BMX…close but no cigar 😛

Hey Michael, IbanezDaemon. I’ve also been offline for a bit, sorry!

Best thing I’ve found for saving old stuff is me half decent sound card, initial outlay was a fair chunk but I can connect any Hi-Fi seperates to it and record Vinyl, Cassette, CD etc also takes my bass and guitar and even has midi sockets.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b378/subphonic/Betty500.jpg

However, despite being a (less so these days) sprightly 28 I still have my Dad’s old Sony reel-to-reel which was the first thing I ever recorded myself on…singing unfortunately…and trying to be a radio-type voice…and American 😕

I’ve finally got the live cassette of my first ever gig back (been circling people for 7 years now) so there may well be a “What was Tim doing in 98?” thread some day soon… 😉

I have a thread in clips and pics categoryu called “what was 1BL doing in ’93?”. I took a cassette recording of my band’s and stuck a digicam in sound mode in front of the speaker, punting the resultant wav file up to a site called 4shared.

Unfortunately, I let the account lapse through lack of updating it. Still, I’ve found the camera with the file on it and could even digitize some more of my old stuff and punt it up to a file-sharing place. I’d be interested if you put some of yours up.

On The Beatles, I think the early mono recordings were even more primitive than that. All instruments on track 1 and the vocals on track 2. If strings or orchestral bits were needed, the two tracks were bounced to 1 and the orchestra recorded on track 2. That’s the impression I got from some TV programme I watched years ago.

Thanks for the nice welcome.

I have to agree. I was in it so long ago I was seriously thinking of laquer back then. Cassette prices were running about the same… still unaffordable for me back then.

If I can figure out a way to get a few of my songs from Nowhere Radio to here, I’ll post them. I can’t even remember my password or user name it’s been so long since I checked in over there.

Funny thing about having all of this equipment I couldn’t live without back in the ’80’s is that it’s all obsolete now. Nearly antique, certainly vintage.

The Beatles didn’t have it this good in the ’60’s. I think I remember reading somewhere that one of their early albums was tracked on a 4-track deck.

Welcome in Michael (and apols to IbanezDaemon – I’ve been offline for a while). Really interesting background story, Michael – I especially identified with the recording. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, we did our stuff on a co-operative owned R8 mastered onto DAT (which none of us could play) and we couldn’t afford the sky-high cost of 500 minimum CDs then so I have to listen to hissy old cassettes.

These youngsters plopping it onto hard drives and 750 friends on their MySpace site…. don’t know they’re born 😆

Hi to the other new guys here.

I didn’t see this thread before asking my question in the acoustic forum last night.

My name is Michael (obviously) and I’ve been involved in music one way or another since I was around six years old climbing up on my Mom’s piano bench and banging on the keys.

I gigged when I was younger but always played the piano or a Roland JX-3P and an Ensoniq synth. I tried guiter in one band but I was miles behind the rest of the guys in terms of technique and theory. It was always easier for me to see the notes on a keyboard than it was to see those same notes on a fretboard.

I got into multi-track recording in the mid ’80’s and used to salivate at the local store over the TASCAM 38-8’s that I couldn’t afford back then. Instead, using some off-brand 4-track cassette machine that still cost a bundle back then since they were relatively new on the market. I had a lot of fun with that and wrote some crappy tunes. I did learn a lot about arranging and producing though, so all was not wasted.

After a stint in the Air Force I went back to college and took a lot of music theory and composition classes along with formal piano classes. All three of those subjects made me a much better piano player but I didn’t seem to be able to apply what I had learned to the guitar, so I’m still struggling with it to this day.

Nowdays I practice guitar more and piano less. My Kurzweil SP88 is propped up in the corner to make room for the VOX AC50 and the few guitars I have. My nicest is an Epi LP Custom in white. I’m getting ready to change the pick-ups out for Gibson ’57’s. It’s been a good guitar for a not so advanced player. I have a Dean Vendetta which despite the price and being made is China is a surprisingly playable and solid guitar. It was set up by Ed Roman, and in fact purchased from him several years ago.

My talent on the guitar really doesn’t justify the expense of a VOX amp, but I’ve always wanted a tube amp and I don’t care for the Marshal sound.

My talent doesn’t justify the expense of a Rick Turner Model 1 either, but I’ve always wanted one of those too. Maybe someday if I get any better.

For acoustic guitars I have a 12-string Ibanez PF and a dark and muddy Seagull S-6. Both very playable and OK guitars, but far from a Martin or Taylor.

I don’t record much anymore not having anything to write about, but I have that TASCAM 38-8 I used to dream about along with a TASCAM 52-2 mix-down deck hooked to a TASCAM M-1516 console, and assorted boxes and mics. It’s a lot of fun at times and frustrating at other times.

Influences over the years have been Rush, Pat Benatar, Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, Styx, Jimmy Buffet and a few other names that escape me just now.

Anyway, enough rambling from me.

Hi guys, newbie here so here’s a brief introduction. I’m a guitarist from Ireland into all the NeoClassical players. Fave guitarist is Paul Gilbert. I also like most rock guitar and I’m also into blues players like Bonamassa and Healey and Flamenco guitar as well. My guitars are an Ibanez RGR420, Caparison Horus and a Hamer Californian.

Hey Surfdaddy, You like Blues and Rock so I’ll be happy! And don’t worry about the Gibson/fender crap…I’m very much Pawn-shop guitars and borrowed amps (literally, that’s been my setup for years!)

Totally agree on going for sound, and playablitity too in my case…a nice cheap guitar can be hacked up and fitted with nice P’ups without any worry of resale values,

Welcome in, Surfdaddy. I was scratching my head when you said “not into tube and solid state amps”; I was wondering if there was some new invention out there. Then I got it – you’re not into endless discussions about which is best. Lots of threads here that are neither Fender/Gibson nor tube/SS “which is best?” types. Hope to hear soon.

😆 OK–finally got registered and logged in! old guy here, been playing since the early 60’s. blues, surf, rock, whatever! yardbirds freak too! no band these days, let the younger guys have their shot at it. currently playing a godin detour thru a h&k blue edition 60, as well as 3 dano reissues and a traynor reverb mate 40. and the taylor baby m when i don’t feel like plugging in.
not partial to tube or solidstate amps, not into the fender-gibson wars. i play guitars and amps that have a sound i like! not real picky but i do have my own thoughts on the subject!
glad to be here and just gonna sit and watch for a spot to jump in! peace

Welcome in, Berserker 🙂

I am a former guitar player and now the drummer in our Female Fronted Hard Rock/Metal band in Michigan. We are from South West Michigan and are just now getting ready to get involved into the local music scene. We have not done our first public show. We hope to start sometime this fall. Our name is Prime Instinct and our myspace page is http://www.myspace.com/primeinstinct if you want to check us out.

Its nice to read about you all. Its nice to get to talk to other other musicians.

😆

I like to listen to those ideas, and have fun doing so. I have a different problem; I get some good ideas and forget them before recording. That is annoying. I like this thread for catharsis, if no other reason 🙂

I can understand, lee, that my stupid replies could bother you, and I’m sorry about that.

I talked about myself last year here in a thread.
I am a 45 year old kid who hates his life “in general”.
I’m waiting for only one thing in this life : I would like my 6 years old daughter to be able to talk.She doesn’t pronounce any word and I’m becoming crazy , a little bit more day after day!
I work as an air traffic controller but aircrafts are really not my cup of tea.I am very serious at work, of course, but that’s for the money only!

So I try to have fun here, and I like sharing music with other people.
I started playing classical guitar at the age of 11, then I quit at 17 and went back to guitar at the age of 27.I learned playing many songs a few years ago and actually I would be still able to play them, because I spent hours and hours…so many hours playing my guitars!
I have this hobby : I try to find short samples of my own , and I simply forget them as soon as they are recorded.

🙂 , I can tell your Lakewood from your (c) Takamine, even with laptop speakers. Makes me wonder why valve amp recordings usually sound so poor through them…

[quote=”1bassleft”]recorded using the Lakewood?[/quote]

This will be the next question for £50,000 :
http://accoustic91.free.fr/2004.jpg

In 2007 acoustica1 -best guitarist of the planet – recorded “back to Usa” , using his :

A/ Taquaminne
B/ Tacamine
C/ Takamine
D/ Thakamine

Of course you can call a friend….. 😀

Certainly do, Guy; recorded using the Lakewood? Nice use of harmonic picking that blended well with the arpeg.

I was hoping to get to sing If I were in LA, though 🙂

I’m back guys!!!!

http://guitarlover.free.fr/.back.to.USA.mp3

Inspired by my vacation in California and recorded today.

….hope you like.

Well, Guy. Cervical arthritis is certainly unpleasant. If it is any consolation, you are fortunate to be French. In Britain it would probably take one million years to be diagnosed; from your fossil records. MRI scans are more limited over here. An epidural steroid is probably the quickest “shock therapy” and, although I hate to say it, you need to help yourself by limiting activities such as hunching over a keyboard typing messages.

Instead, you should be drinking red wine, sat in a warm Jacuzzi having your neck gently squeezed by the thumbs of a bikini-clad cutie. Even if the health benefits take a while to work, it’s a heck of a good prescription.

Keep sending short messages with nice acoustic clips to let us know how you’re progressing 🙂

[quote=”1bassleft”] I hope you have a good prognosis.[/quote]

I had a MRI 2 days ago, so I know exactly what is wrong :
http://www.allaboutarthritis.com/AllAboutArthritis/layoutTemplates/html/en/contentdisplay/document.jsp?docID=condition/arthritis/clinicalArticle/cervical_arthritis.xml

(Starts between 40 and 50 years of age……as we are used to say in france: “that’s the beginning of the end”)

No pain at all in the neck (I would have preferred!!!) , just numbness in the fingers of the right hand (i’m righty).I can use a pick but I am not a big fan.

So, I am waiting for a treatment of steroid epidural injected into the neck.That should work.

Thanks again for your friendly replies.I really appreciate.
I’ll be back anyway (even if it takes 10 years to become a virtuose of the flatpicking), just because I didn’t record yet all my ideas !!

Anyone knows a good chinese guitar website? My “olympic games theme” is for sale…..I hope they won’t tell me that sounds celtic!!! 😀

http://guitarlover.free.fr/Pekin2008.mp3

Hey Acoustica, really sad news. Hopefully you’ll be able to find ways to adapt your style. Are you a righty or lefty? I assume it’s your picking hand. Is it stabalised at 40%?
Sorry to hear about this, hope you find a way to work with it.

Tim

Thanks my friends
Well…about the right hand, I have lost 40 percent of the speed.

So I try with the others 60 percent to write musics for tv-series……I am not sure that it could be of interest for anyone 😀 =>
http://guitarlover.free.fr/tv-series.mp3

….sample dedicated to UK members!! 😉

I enjoy listening to many clips but, Guy, are you seriously saying you have an injury that may prevent you playing? That would be a tragedy both for you as a player and me as a listener. Your style and compositions are first-rate. I hope you have a good prognosis.

[quote=”acoustica1″][quote=”shakedown_04092″]Well, my turn, I guess.

Anyways, I am 27, have been playing for almost 7 years, and playing lead for about a year and a half.uote]
[/quote]
I didn’t see the myspace link.
Good music and excellent playing!!

Play 24 hours a day and enjoy your instruments, before it’s too late.
….Life is so strange sometimes…you are 27, I am 45 and I must quit music , maybe definitely due to the last “friend” I met two weeks ago => “polyarthrisis” ; It took time to write this reply because I am unable to move the fingers of my right hand.
You can trust me I’ll never forget that term for the rest of my life![/quote]

Thank you for sharing, and also taking the time to listen & write back; I am sorry to hear about that…I haven’t heard of it before but I assume it’s a form of arthritis? Keep your chin up – there will be something that you will find that will take the place of your love for playing. 🙂

[quote=”shakedown_04092″]Well, my turn, I guess.

Anyways, I am 27, have been playing for almost 7 years, and playing lead for about a year and a half.uote]
[/quote]
I didn’t see the myspace link.
Good music and excellent playing!!

Play 24 hours a day and enjoy your instruments, before it’s too late.
….Life is so strange sometimes…you are 27, I am 45 and I must quit music , maybe definitely due to the last “friend” I met two weeks ago => “polyarthrisis” ; It took time to write this reply because I am unable to move the fingers of my right hand.
You can trust me I’ll never forget that term for the rest of my life!

Thanks for listening, 1b. My buddy Toby who plays drums on that track did that drum intro – totally spontaneous and not how we’ve ever done it before (or after, for that matter), but I love it. My brother is playing bass, and I really like how he plays bass on that song. Our friend Paul Johnson is on lead guitar – a fantastic guitarist. This particular track is a little fast, to be honest, but worthy of being online I think. The vocals aren’t very loud either, but this version was recorded live on a Zoom MSR1266 DRS in a basement of a friend’s house while jamming one night, so fwiw, it’s not all that bad, I guess.

FYI – the 2nd & 4th songs were recorded live last August at a party we throw each year in a field in Scarborough, Maine, with a band that unfortunately no longer exists.

The 3rd song, probably my favorite, was also recorded live around the same time Fire Back was recorded (somewhere between March & June of 2004) and with the same group of folks.

[quote=”lee_UK”]This is our bands first posting on youtube[/quote]

I hope it won’t be the last post….excellent!

Benny, had a listen to your site and I like the first track very much (early pink floyd way) but the intros take a while, as you probably know. Good to see SB on this thread, too. For all those “I have a guitar, what is it?” threads posted here, a simple Google turns up Vintaxe.com very highly in the list. Invaluable.

I guess since I joined the Guitar Site Forum the same day as lee_UK and I’ve exceeded 100 posts I’ve met the basic criteria to jump in on the introductions.

I got my start on guitar around age 12 when my sister decided to give up the guitar (it hurt her fingers) and my parents allowed me to take over her lessons. Now decades later, I still love the instrument both for the sounds it can produce and the aesthetics of it’s construction.

I don’t really know how many guitars and basses I currently own but I can tell you it exceeds 200 by a healthy margin. Of course, half that number would not be recognized as “real” musical instruments by accomplished guitarists since they were originally produced as beginner or intermediate grade student guitars. Although these budget guitars do have their faults, I find that they are a rich source of new tones and musical inspiration.

I’ve played bass in my current band since the year 2000. We are not much of a gigging band; in fact our last gig was almost 6 months ago. We spend most of our time writing, rehearsing and recording original music.

I’m only an ocassional poster on Guitar Site due to the fact that I’m a forum moderator on my own site VintAxe.com. VintAxe was born out of my frustration with the lack of information available on “Catalog Guitars” of the 60’s and 70’s. From the humble beginnings of a few online guitar photos, VintAxe has grown into one of the most valuable guitar resources available for people seeking information on less popular guitar brands. A quick visit to the Catalog Section of VintAxe will give you an idea of the range of instruments we cover.

I don’t really consider myself a guitar expert since I’m a hobbyist, not a professional dealer. However, I have spent a considerable amount of time perusing vintage guitar catalogs and reading guitar books published by the experts. If you post a “what kind of guitar is this?” question, on the Guitar Site Forum I will certainly do my best to give you a constructive response. I may not know the answer, but I might be able to steer you in a direction that helps you find an answer. I’ve also been known to foolishly respond to questions about current guitar values.

Ok, that’s more than enough about me. I really enjoy the community at Guitar Site, it’s a great place to talk guitar.

Your faithful member,

SB

Well, my turn, I guess.

My name is Benny and I live in Portland, Maine (US) which doesn’t have a great music scene yet still seems to be very hard to crack into & be accepted by. Lots of metal and prog/indie stuff. I am more into the (gasp!) jam band scene myself, with my influences including but not limited to (and in no particular order):

the Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia/Bob Weir/Phil Lesh, Phish/Trey Anastasio, the String Cheese Incident, Pink Floyd, Ween, Bob Marley, Talking Heads, Keller Williams, Steely Dan, Disco Biscuits, Taj Mahal, Beastie Boys, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler, Jimi Henrdix, Wilco, Rusted Root, Allman Brothers, Peter Frampton, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Django Reinhardt, Chick Correa, Neil Young, Herbie Hancock, Jim Morrison & The Doors, John Foggerty, David Grisman, Santana, Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty, Traffic, Steve Winwood, Velvet Underground, Merl Saunders, Pantera, Metallica, Rev. Gary Davis, Merl Haggard, Guns n’ Roses, Michael Jackson, Robert Hunter, Richard Corson, Railroad Earth, Paul Johnson, Grand Funk Railroad, My Morning Jacket, The Who, The Band, Marco Bennevento & Joe Russo…..ok that’s enough for now. Sorry about that. I got a lil’ carried away.

Anyways, I am 27, have been playing for almost 7 years, and playing lead for about a year and a half. That is what I am trying to get better at lately – learning theory, gaining more dexterity in my fingers, and just trying to grasp the concept of music as a whole so not only can I better understand it, but that I may better communicate through it.

I taught myself how to play via (what else?) the internet. I bought my first guitar for $75 (an electric Ibanez…not sure of the model, but I still have it), and spent the next 2 years logging onto chord & tab sites teaching myself how to play. When I first could play a barre chord I thought I had conquered the world. I miss that feeling, because it happens at such a more frequent pace when you’re beginning than it does as you grow into the instrument, but I keep striving for it because it’s a beautiful thing.

Shortly thereafter my now-fiance bought me an Ovation acoustic w/ a built in pup; an ok guitar for my first acoustic. I still plan on upgrading that eventually. Since then I have purchased a Fender Tele (mexican), a Fender Strat (american), a Dean Evo (made in Czech. Rep., the thing weighs a metric ton and sounds great) that I currently use as my back-up guitar, and my current axe is a Gibson SG, which I friggin’ LOVE. Such a great tone, and feels soooo good in my hands.

As some of you know, I am having a custom made arch-top hollowbody made in the likes of a Paul Languedoc model (Paul was Phish’s soundman and made Trey’s 3 guitars that he’s used with Phish since ’89ish). Delivery is set for about a month….I am truly excited about getting this.

I’ll post pics of my guitars and gear this week if I remember to get the camera out. You can find a list of my gear about half-way down this page: https://www.guitarsite.com/hotlicks/viewtopic.php?t=3630&start=10

To wrap up this novel, I am currently in a cover band that plays a lot of the music by the folks mentioned above. I have been in a couple of original projects but for whatever reason they didn’t last. I still write, record, & sometimes perform my originals. You can check out some of my original stuff here (I am singing & playing lead in all 4 songs, thought that is not me you first hear making announcements in the beginning):

http://www.myspace.com/benjaminmstclair

or at the link below this post for the cover band.

😆 , Worse than that bass guitar from season two of the “ugly finish/worst guitar” thread? Now, that’s harsh.

😆

Worst. Visual. Image. From. A. Forum. Post. Ever.

[quote=”Michael”]It’s probably illegal to to have sex and drink in some states of America at my age.[/quote]

With my intake, it’s more like impossible than illegal but (now my picture is public domain) I suspect that I’ve overloaded everyone’s information threshold with that nugget 😆

So far, nobody has been how I imagined them, it’s kinda strange…

It’s probably illegal to to have sex and drink in some states of America at my age. But the rest of your imagined image fits just perfectly.

Mike, you are policeman young. With the Brent avatar, I had this mental picture of you as an overweight, ridiculously unfashionably bearded shirker with an imagined talent for humour. Oh wait, that descn fits me. Better swap avatars.

Hot off the press!

Stacey begged I not include crazy frog in my picture, but I insisted. I also insisted i nurse him like a newborn.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a76/guitarczar/mikeandken.jpg

As you can see we are pretty rugged up in these ultra cold Brisbane temps at the moment.

Photos, eh? Wonder if this link to Arni’s leftybass biog + pic of me will work. Saves me typing:

http://www.leftybass.com/oz_osborne.htm

Ha, tried it and it works.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/guitarweekendmarch2007_01.jpg

This is me above in the MC5 t-shirt and with the holey guitar. (Photo was taken at a Guitar Weekend in the Lake District earlier this year). I’m forty-something and am a guitarist of no fixed ability. I’ve been playing on and off since I was 11, but in those early days it was classical guitar lessons at school and it was incredibly slow-going. The approach was to teach us one-string at a time. I don’t think I got any further than B.

My first electric guitar was a Vox Standard 25 (a very heavy maple-bodied Strat-type thing, that was actually a really good quality guitar).

I dabbled around with home recording for many years (I had one of those Fostex X15 cassette multitrackers when they first came out) and made many recordings both on my own and with friends. As well as the Vox guitar I had a Westone Fretless bass, an Eko Ranger 12-string guitar, and an old Vox Clubman II guitar that I had converted to fretless. I also was using an EBow quite extensively (very interesting on fretless), and played keyboards on recodings (couldn’t do it live, but recording you can scribble all over the keys with felt-tip pen to tell you where to play).

My first band was called Damn It Janet and were a noisy punky type effort. We rehearsed loads but the whole thing imploded when the bass player decided he couldn’t put up with the moody singer any longer, which was a shame because it was on the eve of our first gig. At this period I was using two Japanese built paisley pink Fenders – a Tele and a Strat, and was playing these through a Vox AC30 piggyback (separate amp and speaker cab) that a colleague from work had given me.

The next band was a much more acoustic and somewhat folkier affair and was called Naked Egg. I decided to take a back seat in this band as I was fed up of doing all the organising. We had a great singer/songwriter and guitarist called Ross. One problem was that there was too much swapping of instruments going on, everyone other than the drummer swapping instruments on different songs. At one point I was taking an amp, an acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and bass guitar to rehearsals, which could be a bit much on the bus or in the back of the drummer’s little Fiat. Another problem was that Ross (the singer/songwriter) was always changing things, from lyrics to arrangements, to people in the band. We’d turn up at a rehearsal and find we suddenly had a violinist (which was cool actually), or had suddenly acquired a female vocalist (she was nice but didn’t come back for more). Two of us got fed up of all the indecision and broke away as a duo, and again practised loads and loads, played one gig and then more or less lost interest.

Following this I got back into home recording again, and started by recorded a whole bunch of songs left over from the bands I’d been in (although listening now they are very lo-fi recordings, but it’s nice to have a record of them).

I also got into buying and selling guitars (I guess with the advent of eBay) although to start with this was because I needed the money and had to sell the Paisley Fenders and the whole of the guitar collection. Later on I bought other guitars as replacements, but I never had the same bond with any of these latter instruments and would happily sell them on again if I became bored with them. An occasional joke of mine is that I hate changing strings and find it easier to buy a whole new guitar.

I guess I must have owned more than 50 guitars – one day I’ll do an inventory and find out a precise number.

Only claim to fame would be co-writing a song with a certain punk rock hero of mine. It was to be a contender for a song on his band’s forthcoming album, but last time I spoke to him I don’t think it was still in the running.

WE WANT PICS!!!!

Hey,

I’m an occasional poster from Minnesota.

I got my first guitar and amp, a Fender Lead II and a Peavey Bandit 112, at the age of 15, patched in a ProCo Rat, and have been playing for over 20 years. I’ve played lead guitar in 10 or so different cover bands, but I’ve never played for an audience larger than 1000 people. I once spent 4 months “in the pit” on lead for a local production of an A.L. Weber monstrosity and depending on my mood, you may find a guitar student or two in my music room (alive and picking, not buried under the floor boards 😉 ). Over the course of my career, I have been silenced by the police on 4 separate occasions for violating city noise ordinances.

My current amp is a Marshall JCM 900 hundred watt half stack with a variety of effects pedals. I have a bunch of Fender Stratocasters loaded with Seymour Duncan pickups but bear no grudges against other guitars.

Currently, I’ve been listening to a lot of Guided by Voices, The Pixies, The Chili Peppers, and alternative stuff from the 90’s. My earliest guitar influences were all the cliché dinosaurs tinged with Minneapolis rock like The Replacements, Soul Asylum, Trip Shakespeare, The Gear Daddies, etc. I’ll admit to once being a huge Iron Maiden fan but deny it pressed. Other bands that hold a special spot in my ear are Big Star, The Meat Puppets, The Dead Milkmen, and Tom Petty. I like too much music to properly list.

My last band was great fun as we preformed “rocked-out” versions of a wide variety of covers including songs by Dolly Parton, The Fine Young Cannibals, and Cher – believe me, it was quite funny and the audience loved it.

I could go on but won’t. If you want to know more, my blog is here:

http://etherealgarage.blogspot.com/

Many thanks to the mods here for all their insight and proper use of the English language – it’s a nice forum. 😀

and I wear shorts (DOM warning).

OK, that’s the mods and mega-yakkers. It really would be nice if contributors here could put up a little bit of info about ourselves. Nothing too personal, just a bit about your gear, what you like to play, that sort of thing… 🙂

I’m a sprightly 26, I’ve been messing about on bass for about 10 years, playing seriously for about 4. I’m also a master of 2-string power chords on guitar (specifically the (fat)E and A strings) .

Performing-wise, I used to play live bass for a guy called David Elf http://www.myspace.com/africastudios, this varied from playing to pretty much no-one in a Welsh field to playing to thousands on the same bill as Marillion. And everything in between. Currently just writing and recording bits at home (or ‘creating musical fusion’) based around vintage blues, sleazy rock, and trip-hop beats.

My main bass is an Aria Pro II 4 string (called Christine, yes, after the Cadillac of the same name 😳 ) I’ve made various mods to strap buttons and finish but it’s about to have major surgery, current plans are: P/J set of Quarter Pounders, master volume knob (no tone knob) with a Gibson-style three way switch. I’m measuring up the void this will leave for a Strat-style jack socket…I never worry about resale values!
Also an Epi. SG, Vintage Acoustic bass, 50’s Framus Archtop guitar.

Recieved my Modly status by being on at weird times so I could deny you all the pleasure of viewing P*ris Hilt*n’s *&%*!* and getting a nice free Virus/Trojan/Worm at the same time, sorry about that.

I’m probably even slightly younger than 1Bass. Of course, you know me as Michael, but you probably didn’t know I once dyed my hair red and became Mick Hucknall. Not for Stars In Their Eyes either.

I’m one of the moderators here in the GuitarSite forum. I also work on the actual website, GuitarSite.com, as well as the other muso websites on the Hitsquad network.

My job on GuitarSite really involves making sure I provide new and exciting content to guitarists, and that’s something I enjoy doing quite a bit. Though, there is also a load of behind the scenes work that takes up a lot of time and isn’t nearly as cool.

I can’t complain though. Not everyone can combine work with something fun like music.

Oh, my churn… but I hope all good people here are brave enough to spill the beans, not just us modding over-yakkers:

Only slightly younger than Lee, I’m a left-handed bass player (look at my sign-name; geddit ❓ ) of nearly average ability and a rubbish, chord-hacking strummer on guitar. I got a “comfort blanket” effect from low-B 5-strings almost as soon as I got my first and I rarely use any of the standard 4-strings now. My fivers (all lefty) are a ‘warm’ mahogany thru-neck (active), a backup bolt-on that I’m going to tweak to a ‘bright’ bass and a fretless electro-acoustic. My interest in guitar-building is mostly theoretical because I stopped once the factories started making the more oddball stuff available to us cack-handers.

Many of you will know my boring, compulsive/obsessive disorder for old valve amps. The odder, unsung and therefore cheaper, the better. Quite few Brit EL34 types, ditto EL84, two US and one German 6V6 powered and, in a few hours, I hope to get hold of a US 6L6 amp without paying Fender Blackface (or even silverface) money. Oh, and I forgot the Canadian Traynor and a couple of valve-powered echo units.

Rare excursions into covers; I’ve usually kept my limited ability safely hidden in original numbers bands.