The Guitar Pron Thread

[Deej 76511]

4 minutes ago, dcbc said:

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Richards later said that his only concern at the time was: “Did I push him too far off to Charlie’s drums, so I would screw up the drumming. But I didn’t and the guitar was still in tune.” When people tell us to dedicate ourselves to the things we love, this is not what they mean. He continued to speak, laughing, “I bailed him out afterwards. He didn’t spend the night in jail…He still owes me 200 bucks.”

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/keith-richards-rolling-stones-attacked-fan-with-guitar-video/

[Deej 76511]

Keef did what?

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and a brief stint he spent as a nanny while on tour in Australia.

 

[dcbc 14388]

6 minutes ago, Deej said:

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/keith-richards-rolling-stones-attacked-fan-with-guitar-video/

Awesome.  It's the equivilent of the mob boss beating the shit out of someone and dropping some cash on them. 

 

I intended only to post the part where he throws him money and says, "Get yer haand looked at."  But since its the most perfect use of Let it Loose (top 5 Stones song easy), you get the whole clip.

 

 

[dcbc 14388]

Off topic sort of.  But by the way, we just passed five years in this place.  And I'm recalling that when Shaggy started to burn, it was one of the guys from this thread who messaged me and told me about the new place.  So good on this forum and this thread.  I'm sure whoever it was, regrets it.

 

/update: Checked my messages.  It was Celery Man.  Thanks again, dude.  The rest of you, blame him.

Edited April 14, 2023 by dcbc

[Celery Man 20874]

4 hours ago, Goredho said:

NGD with what those last two guitars I sold helped fund — a 1993 Gibson Chet Atkins Tennessean.  Kind of the bastard offspring of an ES-335 and a Gretsch.  It has the same body dimensions, center block and humbuckers of a 335, but departs from that with a 25.5” scale length, 1 3/4” nut width, it’s single cut and Gretsch-like controls — master volume, master tone and an individual volume control for each pickup.  I am hoping it’s the answer to my 25.5” long scale electric spanglish quest.  I’ve got 30 days to return it while making up my mind.

 

wild, I don't think I've ever seen one of these. Feels like it needs a bigsby?

[jimmyjazz 45513]

Man, I love that Keef clip.  Your average rock guy might be kinda skinny and slight, but most have come up through some dicey clubs.  They aren't afraid of a scrap.

My lame band got called on to fill in for an opening act that couldn't make it about 20 years ago.  Headliner was a touring punk band of some reknown.  We were NOT punk, not like that.  The crowd hated us, and the last thing I remember was glancing stage left as some asshole tried to detune my buddy's Les Paul as he was playing.  My buddy has a temper, and he's a multi-level black belt in Aikido.  I thought "oh shit this is not gonna go well" and sure enough, that Les Paul headstock managed to pop the villain right in the forehead.  Blood went everywhere, chaos ensued, and we basically made for the exits.

It was glorious.  Our bass player got his girlfriend pregnant in the parking lot that night.

[Celery Man 20874]

Lucky he didn’t get a splinter in the neck.

[Goredho 17302]

2 hours ago, Celery Man said:

wild, I don't think I've ever seen one of these. Feels like it needs a bigsby?

I don’t think they were wildly popular.  Chet didn’t move to Gibson until way late in his career.  As for a bigs, I dunno.  I might get a Les Trem that can just fit on the existing stop piece studs.  It’s not as cool as a bigsby, but it’s cheap, looks easy and is completely reversible.

 

[Goredho 17302]

Got to play the Tennessean last night for a couple hours before bed, and... holy fuck, trial's over, it's a keeper.  It took awhile to get a tone I like playing over a few different backing tracks. The pups want to be kind of dark and muddy, so I don't know if they'll last, but as far as being an ultra-playable electric spanglish type with the neck I'm after?  Yeah, it works.  Anyway, here's what it sounds like...

 

[Celery Man 20874]

I was listening to this with the kiddo on the way to preschool this morning

 

 

do you know if Atkins recorded anything on the Tennessean? Sound great.

[Goredho 17302]

4 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

I was listening to this with the kiddo on the way to preschool this morning

 

 

do you know if Atkins recorded anything on the Tennessean? Sound great.

Thanks for the compliment and for the link, that’s a cool song and Chet was a badass.  I don’t really know if he recorded with his Gibson Tennessean or not.  He’s holding a Gibson Country Gentleman on the album he did with Mark Knopfler in 1990.  I think he left Gretsch for Gibson in 1980, so it would be recordings after that.

 

Also an interesting interview with the man here where he discusses his involvement with Gretsch and his leaving to go to Gibson.

https://reverb.com/news/chet-atkins-discusses-his-relationship-with-gretsch-in-previously-unpublished-interview-bacons-archive

[noharleyyet 2835]

15 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Man, I love that Keef clip.  Your average rock guy might be kinda skinny and slight, but most have come up through some dicey clubs.  They aren't afraid of a scrap.

My lame band got called on to fill in for an opening act that couldn't make it about 20 years ago.  Headliner was a touring punk band of some reknown.  We were NOT punk, not like that.  The crowd hated us, and the last thing I remember was glancing stage left as some asshole tried to detune my buddy's Les Paul as he was playing.  My buddy has a temper, and he's a multi-level black belt in Aikido.  I thought "oh shit this is not gonna go well" and sure enough, that Les Paul headstock managed to pop the villain right in the forehead.  Blood went everywhere, chaos ensued, and we basically made for the exits.

It was glorious.  Our bass player got his girlfriend pregnant in the parking lot that night.

[Goredho 17302]

10 minutes ago, noharleyyet said:

Tommy Lee's response

[Chad Fuck 17503]

4 hours ago, Goredho said:

Thanks for the compliment and for the link, that’s a cool song and Chet was a badass.  I don’t really know if he recorded with his Gibson Tennessean or not.  He’s holding a Gibson Country Gentleman on the album he did with Mark Knopfler in 1990.  I think he left Gretsch for Gibson in 1980, so it would be recordings after that.

 

Also an interesting interview with the man here where he discusses his involvement with Gretsch and his leaving to go to Gibson.

https://reverb.com/news/chet-atkins-discusses-his-relationship-with-gretsch-in-previously-unpublished-interview-bacons-archive

I follow these on Reverb just because of this album.  One of my all time favorites.  Haven't found the perfect one yet, but one day.

[G650 13990]

One of you Tele dudes needs to get up on this.

 

https://guitars.com/inventory/ef10138-1988-fender-custom-shop-mary-kaye-telecaster

[Celery Man 20874]

was expecting pink

[Deej 76511]

Right number of pickguard screws, but don't like the gold hardware with that color. 

[Deej 76511]

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The owner of the Indianapolis Colts, Jim Irsay, owns David Gilmour’s famous Black Strat, Jerry Garcia's Tiger guitar, Prince's yellow cloud guitar, Bob Dylan's Strat from his very famous first electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, a 1960 Les Paul Standard with a (very rare, maybe the only one) factory-installed Bigsby, and tons of Gibsons, Fenders, Rickenbackers, and Martins previously owned by the Beatles, Clapton, et al.

I'll take, "Wasted Guitars" for $500, Alex.

[AnotherUTFan 9659]

That guy put on a guitar show here recently that he promoted heavily and featured his band, for which he's hired some notable musicians to play with. I thought the guy was trying way too hard to play rock star and took a pass. At that point, you're just a captive audience for him to jack off onto.

[G650 13990]

1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

was expecting pink

Mary Kayes are blondes with gold hardware.

 

https://www.fender.com/articles/fender-performances/cult-classic-the-mary-kaye-stratocaster

[Goredho 17302]

7 minutes ago, G650 said:

Mary Kayes are blondes with gold hardware.

 

https://www.fender.com/articles/fender-performances/cult-classic-the-mary-kaye-stratocaster

I looked hard at one when looking for a strat. They gave great specs.

[Celery Man 20874]

19 minutes ago, G650 said:

Mary Kayes are blondes with gold hardware.

 

https://www.fender.com/articles/fender-performances/cult-classic-the-mary-kaye-stratocaster

[dcbc 14388]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

I'll take, "Wasted Guitars" for $500, Alex.

[Paul Wesley 3277]

 

Here's a custom shop Thinline from an era when they were putting out some magnificent instruments.  Nice color.  Birdseye maple neck.  Only 12 made.   Seems like a competitive price.

https://reverb.com/item/51054528-fender-custom-shop-thinline-candy-apple-red-1994

DAMN that is tempting.   I have a Wurlitzer 200A that might sell for close to that, and that would be a no-brainer upgrade in my book.

Looks like it was separated from its Strat mate.  Here's a still-together set of those 12 pairs of identical guitars for 30K:

https://reverb.com/item/67053528-fender-custom-shop-matching-set-thinline-strat-and-tele

[Celery Man 20874]

Do it.

 

ditching my black proline guitar stand for this wood string swing stuff that seems nicer. They don’t really match each other which is weird as they were a set, but I like the guitar stand a bit better. Holds the guitar a little more in place, much smaller (although also holds one fewer guitar).

 

https://www.stringswing.com/guitar-floor-rack-hardwood/

 

[Goredho 17302]

Pan to lower right quadrant.  Zoom 3x.  Enhance.

[Paul Wesley 3277]

Looks nice, Celery, though I like your pics more when you just sort of accidentally have the Matchless there in the background, like “Oh, *that* old thing?”

[Napoleon 8596]

On 4/14/2023 at 12:43 PM, noharleyyet said:

 

On 4/14/2023 at 8:50 PM, G650 said:

Mary Kayes are blondes with gold hardware.

https://www.fender.com/articles/fender-performances/cult-classic-the-mary-kaye-stratocaster

Looked at a clip of Mary Kaye playing her Strat and like me, she didn’t plug it in so that no one could hear her play. 
 

 

[G650 13990]

I feel like putting Geddy Lee in there is undermining your argument

[Celery Man 20874]

and no lemmy?

[locodos 5329]

He could have just stopped at String.

If my daughter was to date a guy in a band, I'm most worried about the drummer.

[tbone_ 14020]

Any dude in a band is problematic

[hullabelew 3698]

On 4/15/2023 at 6:45 PM, Celery Man said:

Do it.

 

ditching my black proline guitar stand for this wood string swing stuff that seems nicer. They don’t really match each other which is weird as they were a set, but I like the guitar stand a bit better. Holds the guitar a little more in place, much smaller (although also holds one fewer guitar).

 

https://www.stringswing.com/guitar-floor-rack-hardwood/

 

Where is the new gold top?  

[Napoleon 8596]

5 hours ago, locodos said:

He could have just stopped at String.

If my daughter was to date a guy in a band, I'm most worried about the drummer.

There was a Texas Ex around 26 or so in the LA Texas Exes greater community at the start of the 2000s who mentioned that girls liked the drummers & the bassists.

This surprised me and I asked her “Why?”

Her response: “The fingers.”

[Celery Man 20874]

stand next to my chair obvs

[locodos 5329]

2 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

There was a Texas Ex around 26 or so in the LA Texas Exes greater community at the start of the 2000s who mentioned that girls liked the drummers & the bassists.

This surprised me and I asked her “Why?”

Her response: “The fingers.”

I didn't know a lot of guys in bands but in the small sample size of my first hand experience the drummers were just low key crushing it.  I think girls want to date the singer, but like you said they have other thoughts for the strong sweaty dude with stamina and rhythm.

[G650 13990]

Well ye olde 58 got dropped off today for it's new duds. Let the waiting commence!

[Celery Man 20874]

wait so what are they doing to it? stripping down the finish and just putting a zakk wylde thing on it or something?

[tbone_ 14020]

Oooh yea, glue a bunch of beer tops to it

[G650 13990]

23 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

wait so what are they doing to it? stripping down the finish and just putting a zakk wylde thing on it or something?

We are doing a proper finish. What's on there now is not great. Then we will go to Nashville to have Gibson do the silk screen on the headstock, probably in July.

 

16 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

Oooh yea, glue a bunch of beer tops to it

Dude those were nailed on.

[Deej 76511]

1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

wait so what are they doing to it? stripping down the finish and just putting a zakk wylde thing on it or something?

 

[G650 13990]

43 minutes ago, Deej said:

 

[G650 13990]

2 hours ago, G650 said:

Well ye olde 58 got dropped off today for it's new duds. Let the waiting commence!

Is this what it's like when a child moves out? The house feels very empty right now

[jimmyjazz 45513]

10 minutes ago, G650 said:

Is this what it's like when a child moves out? The house feels very empty right now

It's kinda hard to buy a new child.  You can buy a new guitar today.

[G650 13990]

2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

It's kinda hard to buy a new child. 

[jimmyjazz 45513]

I mean, they're out there, that's on you.  

So when do you go buy the service guitar today?

[G650 13990]

Just now, jimmyjazz said:

I mean, they're out there, that's on you.  

So when do you go buy the service guitar today?

 

Ha. I'm good actually. I have the '77 primed to go. I've honestly been playing my Strat Plus almost exclusively since I got it back awhile ago from the fret level.

 

The only real wish list I have right now is someone buying the AM Std Strat so I can get another Strat Plus.

[jimmyjazz 45513]

3 minutes ago, G650 said:

The only real wish list I have right now is someone buying the AM Std Strat so I can get another Strat Plus.

I'd be on the other side of that deal all day long if I wanted another guitar.  I'm still trying to get my current Strat to play nice with a borrowed Deluxe Reverb. 

[G650 13990]

4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I'd be on the other side of that deal all day long if I wanted another guitar.  I'm still trying to get my current Strat to play nice with a borrowed Deluxe Reverb. 

 

It's a great guitar. The only thing I don't get on with is the neck radius has slightly thicker shoulders that are ever so slightly annoying. My Strat Plus has my most perfect neck ever for my hands. Otherwise I'd just slap some 57/62 pickups in the Am Standard and be totally happy.

 

What DR are you using? Reissue?

[jimmyjazz 45513]

3 minutes ago, G650 said:

What DR are you using? Reissue?

Some 80's model I believe.  It's OK, it's just a loaner while I figure out what's wrong with my VOX Tony Bruno (which I haven't put much effort into since . . . borrowing the Deluxe Reverb).