The Guitar Pron Thread

[VABuckeye 2472]

On 5/19/2019 at 1:21 AM, Celery Man said:

got. damn.  

probably first off should be sorry about your dad, Chief.  

has a song been written about when, to fuel your coke habit, you pawned your dads 1962 batwing j45 that he bought with his first paycheck from the railroad, and then your girlfriend got it back and then you married her?  You might need 4 verses.  Maybe 5 now.

And that's at least two brazilian rosewoods you've got now, probably more.  Incredible.  Each one with a story.

 

I've been on a Jason Isbell kick.  If anyone is in a rut or bored with cowboy chords (but wants to keep playing cowboy chords) I recommend marinating in this for a few spins and then sitting down with a guitar and watching this excellent tutorial

 

if you guys are like me (and I suspect you are), you pick up lots of little walk ups and chord modifications from different songs and work them into your playing all over.  there are some nice pretty interesting ones in here.

Thank you for posting this.  My new ass is taking this very slowly but it gives me something nice to work on that works my fingers in a different way.

[BoomMF 1398]

My new ass is taking this very slowly but it gives me something nice to work on that works my fingers in a different way.

Bruh. NSAA is that way...

[Buzzrock 14871]

My condolences as well Chief. And Celery almost
made the connection but the story of you pawning your dad’s guitar could definitely be an Isbell song.

[CHIEF 5072]

22 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

CHIEF, if you don't mind and can find the time at some point, please post more stories, photos, or recordings of your Dad.

Sure, right now I am running his metal fab shop. Put in 12 hours today. You would think that a 75 year old would only leave golf clubs, maybe a golf cart, a fishing boat, a car etc.

I got guns, guitars, and a 50-60 hour a week job.

CHIEF

[Paul Wesley 3277]

Just spent an embarrassing number of hours dusting off this bad boy and getting it dialed in.  Until this week, I never really considered how many things Ibanez re-engineered -  the nut, everything about the bridge, the choice of pickups, how they're voiced, what a neck ought to be shaped like, etc.  

I mean, it's got zero pedigree, but it's fun as hell to play.  

 

[Buzzrock 14871]

\m/

[jimmyjazz 45559]

I had an Ibanez kinda like that one in the late 80's.  I wasn't a metal guy but for some reason the guitar appealed to me.  It was blood-red with visible grain, and quite stunning, actually.  Played great.  I think it was an RG560?  Nothing expensive, but a lot of guitar for the $$$.  More or less this:

[tbone_ 14025]

That blue one looks like it wants to play the cool riffs from that faith no more epic song in the worst way

[DougO 5239]

I was curious as to how many guitars and stringed instruments I now own, thinking it had to be getting close to 20. I amended an old list I had stored and checked it, it counted 24, including a couple of bases and a mandolin.  It is possible I missed a couple. Five USA made Gibson and Fender, the rest imports.

It is a disease.

[noharleyyet 2837]

Quote

It is a disease.

For which most of us are communicable carriers. 

[Chad Fuck 17566]

1 hour ago, DougO said:

It is a disease gift.

fify.

Edited May 21, 2019 by Chad Fuck

[the idoit 165]

Damn, CHIEF, sounds like your dad was the kind of man the world needs more of, not less of. My prayers to you, your family, and all those affected by his passing.

[ohchaucer 1443]

Condolences, CHIEF.  That's sad news to hear.

[CHIEF 5072]

Thank you all. His whole business was ran off of sticky notes and yellow notebook tablets. It's been a mind fuck for sure. Hit the bricks at 7, this morning, finished up with my real estate stuff about 9:30 this evening. Just mentally and physically exhausting, but i know he loved me, and this was the path he would want me to take. 

If your Old Man is still alive, please be sure to tell them that you love them. Any riffs you have, mend them (luckily I didn't have any).  Also, be sure and have fresh strings to throw on your new axes.

CHIEF

[Buzzrock 14871]

Mending Riffs would be a good album title.

I have an Ibanez bass with the worst fret bite, but i still like it because it’s green and has a bass boost that really thumps.

[Chad Fuck 17566]

Mending Riffs would be a good album title.

I have an Ibanez bass with the worst fret bite, but i still like it because it’s green and has a bass boost that really thumps.

Have we ever seen this bass?

[Buzzrock 14871]

Have we ever seen this bass?

No it has been camped out at a friend’s house for a long time. I need to get it back and throw it in the new music cave along with the bass amp that’s with it.

[Buzzrock 14871]

I was curious as to how many guitars and stringed instruments I now own, thinking it had to be getting close to 20. I amended an old list I had stored and checked it, it counted 24, including a couple of bases and a mandolin.  It is possible I missed a couple. Five USA made Gibson and Fender, the rest imports.
It is a disease.

If this is troubling to you then I have the solution: buy a bigger house. I moved six weeks ago and now I have guitars spread out all over the place.

[tbone_ 14025]

Wife wants a bigger house. I told her if we do it it’s going to have room for a shitload more guitars/amps and a couple more cars.

 

She’s debating.

 

[jimmyjazz 45559]

3 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

Wife wants a bigger house. I told her if we do it it’s going to have room for a shitload more guitars/amps and a couple more cars.

 

She’s debating.

 

OK, you're halfway there.  If she balks, tell her that's gonna require you to buy at least a half dozen more guitars and at least one more car.  It's only fair, because she is limiting you.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

On 5/21/2019 at 10:44 AM, DougO said:

I was curious as to how many guitars and stringed instruments I now own, thinking it had to be getting close to 20. I amended an old list I had stored and checked it, it counted 24, including a couple of bases and a mandolin.  It is possible I missed a couple. Five USA made Gibson and Fender, the rest imports.

It is a disease.

I got gifted a bass a few weeks ago, so my count is two acoustic guitars, six electrics (one in pieces), one bass. I actually play my wife's acoustic a lot more because my two acoustics are dreadnoughts and I have the goddamndest time getting comfortable singing with them. Hers is a concert style Ibanez, much easier to sing over.

Soon: mandolin

[jimmyjazz 45559]

Shit.  I'm a piker.  4 electrics, 3 acoustics.  Gotta go shopping.

[Buzzrock 14871]

4 acoustics, 5 electrics, mandolin, bass, uke

[noharleyyet 2837]

6 Electric, 2 Acoustic, and a Jazzmaster worm in my head that needs exorcism....

[tbone_ 14025]

5 acoustics. 5 electrics including a 3/4 pink mini strat which, yes, I play.

[jimmyjazz 45559]

Shit, I'm supposed to count the ukelele?

[Buzzrock 14871]

I also have a Strumstick and a half built electric I don’t count. Four amps, a full size keyboard, and a baby grand piano.

[Deej 76568]

14 electrics (sold about 6 or so in the past few years), 2 acoustics, and a bass.

[CHIEF 5072]

11 acoustics ( 3 Gibsons, 2 Martins, 3 Taylors, 3 Alvarez), 2 electrics (both USA Strats), 2 ukes, a 1950 Gibson Mandolin, one lap steel (1930's Gibson), and a Deering 6 string Banjo. That's about it, maybe a bass laying around somewhere.

 

CHIEF

Edited May 23, 2019 by CHIEF

[VABuckeye 2472]

1 acoustic guitar and happy. 

[Deej 76568]

17 minutes ago, VABuckeye said:

1 acoustic guitar and happy. 

[Buzzrock 14871]

[Deej 76568]

Come to Butthead...

[AnotherUTFan 9681]

13 Electric (2 Fender, 3 Gretsch, 2 Partcaster, 6 Gibson)
5 Acoustic (2 Gibson, 1 Martin, 1 Gretsch, 1 Kay)
1 Lap Steel (Gibson)
1 Bass (Fender)
More amps than I can guess, 11 I think (2 Marshall, 1 Peavey, and the rest Fender)

[Deej 76568]

1 minute ago, AnotherUTFan said:

13 Electric (2 Fender, 3 Gretsch, 2 Partcaster, 6 Gibson)
5 Acoustic (2 Gibson, 1 Martin, 1 Gretsch, 1 Kay)
1 Lap Steel (Gibson)
1 Bass (Fender)
More amps than I can guess, 11 I think (2 Marshall, 1 Peavey, and the rest Fender)

I don't even want to count amps.

[Celery Man 20886]

Martin DM
Martin HD-28
Martin D-41
Martin OOO-15M
Gibson J45 rosewood
Fender Strat
Fender Tele
Fender '72 Tele RI
Gretsch 6120N
Gretsch 6128
Gibson Les Paul
PRS McCarty
G&L Tribute ASAT Blues BOy
Fender 51 Precision RI
Fender Marcus Miller Jazz Bass
Fender Mike Dirnt P Bass

I think that's it.  I need a 335, some more acoustics, a real quality precision bass, a fancy G&L.  Something with P90s.  Like maybe one of these guys

 

[4thgenhorn 38]

Bought my 3 yr old daughter a purple Eukelele this past weekend.  Challenge of course is I don’t play Eukelele. So I picked up a basics book and will try to learn a few cords. Never know, could be next Taylor Swift. 

[Deej 76568]

7 minutes ago, 4thgenhorn said:

Bought my 3 yr old daughter a purple Eukelele this past weekend.  Challenge of course is I don’t play Eukelele. So I picked up a basics book and will try to learn a few cords. Never know, could be next Taylor Swift. 

You probably have too much ass to be the next Taylor Swift. 

[NBMisha 224]

2 electrics I don't play, 3 acoustics, 2 of which I play, and a banjo, which I don't play.  On patheticness, I score.

[Paul Wesley 3277]

I own a lot fewer than I used to.  For the most part, guitars either get played regularly or they get sold.  

 I need a 335, some more acoustics, a real quality precision bass, a fancy G&L.  Something with P90s. 

 

I've got a couple things on my own wish list that are similar to Celery's.  I'd like to find a perfect Martin 000-28 that sounds as great as a few that I've played (owned by friends).  Not an urgent need.  But you know... someday.

And I'd like to own a semi-hollow electric with P90's, because they do a magical thing through Vox-style amps, IMO.  

Something like this 336:

https://reverb.com/item/18036827-gibson-cs-336-2017-tv-yellow

Or like this offset which whispers to me like a temptress (and dammit, they just dropped the price on it), though I'd prefer dual P90 instead of humbucker + P90:

https://reverb.com/item/22489460-tmg-ronnie-scott-thinline

[sidis 9754]

13 minutes ago, Paul Wesley said:

And I'd like to own a semi-hollow electric with P90's, because they do a magical thing through Vox-style amps, IMO.  

 

just curious because i am considering getting one...why not an epiphone casino?

[DougO 5239]

I'm down with the semi-hollow p90 wishlist. I would also like to have a Jazzmaster with the classic soapbars and trem at some point. And something cool with a bigsby. Finding steals on such things is tough.

And a decent American acoustical at some point, would be nice.

[Paul Wesley 3277]

3 hours ago, sidis said:

just curious because i am considering getting one...why not an epiphone casino?

Hmmmm.  

Why not, indeed.  

[noharleyyet 2837]

Not a fan of the dog ear p90 but that 336 looks ‘right’ With em. 

[Deej 76568]

My Epi 339 with the newer P90 Pros is the best guitar I own, and cost me less than $300 new. I know I've said that a million times, but I'm saying it again.

[Bogeywon 2518]

12 total

8 electrics 

3 acoustics 

1 bass

[AnotherUTFan 9681]

Loko

[DougO 5239]

Musiciansfriend stupid deal today is a Gibson FIrebird studio "Gold mist" for $699.

Looks white in the picture, though.

[jimmyjazz 45559]

1 hour ago, DougO said:

Musiciansfriend stupid deal today is a Gibson FIrebird studio "Gold mist" for $699.

Looks white in the picture, though.

Now it's "Heather", and my inner guitar jones is jonesing for this thing:

[DougO 5239]

Stupid Deal of the Hour today at musiciansfriend.