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Post by deuce on Mar 3, 2016 0:35:26 GMT -5
I've been playing guitar steadily for over 30yrs now. Don't play as much now as aforetime, but I still love to hear guitar-based music and talk shop with other guitar geeks. Today would be Rory Gallagher's 68th birthday. He influenced everyone from Clapton to Brian May to Slash to Joe Bonamassa. He influenced me as well. Rory pretty much lived and died to play guitar, so he seemed a good choice to kick off this thread. Frontier Partisans has a tribute here: frontierpartisans.com/6440/pistol-slapper-blues/A great compilation vid of some of Rory's best live solos here: uploadsociety.com/video_v125627 |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2016 4:08:55 GMT -5
I am forever bitter at guitars... I used to have a kantele (old finnish traditional instrument) but my sister wanted a guitar because it's cool. So my parents exhanged the kantele for a cheap guitar, and my sister played it maybe once... -.- I'll never have another kantele. =,(
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Post by thedarkman on Mar 3, 2016 8:34:28 GMT -5
I love guitar, especially the crunchy, bluesy riffs of Malcom Young and AC/DC. I have no desire to be a lead guitar hero; I like that pounding backbeat of rhythm guitar. But this part sucks. I have no talent, none.  |
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Post by deuce on Mar 3, 2016 8:45:56 GMT -5
I am forever bitter at guitars... I used to have a kantele (old finnish traditional instrument) but my sister wanted a guitar because it's cool. So my parents exhanged the kantele for a cheap guitar, and my sister played it maybe once... -.- I'll never have another kantele. =,( I'm familiar with kantele music (I had several Finnish friends back around 2000). Why couldn't you buy another kantele? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 4:01:04 GMT -5
I am forever bitter at guitars... I used to have a kantele (old finnish traditional instrument) but my sister wanted a guitar because it's cool. So my parents exhanged the kantele for a cheap guitar, and my sister played it maybe once... -.- I'll never have another kantele. =,( I'm familiar with kantele music (I had several Finnish friends back around 2000). Why couldn't you buy another kantele? Because one like what we had costs heaps! >.< Way too much for a student atleast... If I had one, I'd play "Church bells of Konevitsa" all day long. Can you play that with guitar?
The root of the tune comes fro Konevitsa monastery, situated on an island on lake Ladoga. The wind carried the tune to the shores of the lake where carelian kantele-players started to mimic the sound of bells and produced this wonderful tune that became traditional.
Sorry that I'm taking over your guitar thread with kantele-talk. U.U I'll leave the speech for others from here on.
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Post by deuce on Apr 21, 2016 20:14:17 GMT -5
Prince died today. I was never a huge fan, but he could definitely play guitar. He rips it up on this clip from the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame:
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Post by deuce on Apr 22, 2016 10:35:11 GMT -5
Lonnie Mack, a legendary bluesman and mentor to Stevie Ray Vaughan, has died. RIP.
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Post by deuce on Apr 24, 2016 23:05:17 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 12, 2016 23:16:03 GMT -5
I'm familiar with kantele music (I had several Finnish friends back around 2000). Why couldn't you buy another kantele? Because one like what we had costs heaps! >.< Way too much for a student atleast... If I had one, I'd play "Church bells of Konevitsa" all day long. Can you play that with guitar?
The root of the tune comes fro Konevitsa monastery, situated on an island on lake Ladoga. The wind carried the tune to the shores of the lake where carelian kantele-players started to mimic the sound of bells and produced this wonderful tune that became traditional.
Sorry that I'm taking over your guitar thread with kantele-talk. U.U I'll leave the speech for others from here on.
That is a truly moving anecdote, Venaala. Obviously, you have some pent-up feelings about the incident you needed to vent. Has this given you a quantum of closure? Going back to my original question, it sounds as if your parents made a very poor bargain, otherwise the "guitar money" could go right back to "kantele money". I guess, however, that everything is really all the fault of "guitars", somehow. Right? Anyway... I purchased my first guitar (a used 1976 Fender Stratocaster) when I was 17, with money I'd saved working over several years. It changed my life. The photo below is reasonably close to the axe I bought.  When it comes to Strats, I find that maple fingerboards rule.  |
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Post by deuce on Oct 9, 2016 20:12:47 GMT -5
Justin Johnson digs the blues:
All jokes aside, he is a very accomplished slide player. There are no fret markings on that guitar. He simply is versed enough in his art to know where that slide goes.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Dec 3, 2016 0:19:20 GMT -5
By this axe I rule! Ha-ha - me onstage 'back in the day' circa mid-90s. It was a festival of bands - six I think - at Glenwood Park - we called it GlenwoodStock! That's my '86 Fender Katana in Metal Flake Silver - I still have it. Luckily when my house burned I had that guitar with me playing a Christmas party. Love it. And yeah - I'm aware of the Daisy Dukes - I still catch flak over those shorts! Loved playing in that band - we were called Soul Cage. Some of the song list consisted of Queensryche's 'I Don't Believe in Love', Alice in Chain's 'Man in the Box' and Metallica's 'The Thing that Should not Be'. Oh, my amp at this show was a 100w Marshall Valvestate - I still have the same model but not the same exact amp which I later blew up, rebuilt and sold. I'm a Marshall man through and through.  |
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Dec 6, 2016 12:23:46 GMT -5
This is some new equipment I invested in recently, trying to kick start my interest and rekindle the old flame and passion I used to have for playing guitar. Back in the day it was not uncommon, actually the norm, to put between 8 and 12 hours a day on the fret board - nowadays I'm lucky to pick it up once a month. This guitar is the Gary Clark Jr. Epiphone Blak & Blu. The guitar is really hot - the P90s with chrome plated covers buzz like frig when you touch them - hence the black tape visible on the one my pinky fingers rests on all the time. The Epi sounds great though, lots of tone on acoustic channels, but delivers some bone-crunching gain on the distortion channels. The new amp addition is the Marshall MC30CFX on the left - a little practice amp. I wanted something with effects and this thing delivers. Without a bunch of pedals I can dial up Flange, Chorus, Delay, Reverb, Echo, and Octaver plus all the clean and dirty tones you can imagine. The new rig can easily pull off any Metallica, Slayer or Pantera you wish while at the same time sounds amazing playing In a Word by Fates Warning as well. Love it. The half-stack on the right is my old Valvestate Model 8100 100w that I've had for years. I need to find a good photo of my circa '86 Fender Katana that I got for Christmas '86 as a kid - it was my first electric.   |
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Dec 19, 2016 11:37:56 GMT -5
Here are a couple images of my '86 Fender Katana with original hardshell case and an original storefront flyer. This was my first electric. I spotted this in Conncert Music in the local mall in Bluefield, WV as a kid. I was just getting into playing guitar (had only been beating on a cheap Sears model six-string about 2 or 3 years by that time) and was wanting something nicer. I spotted this, went and got my mom to show her and she laid it away for me. It was regularly $750 but they were running a 50% of certain items and that Fender was one of them. So she paid the hefty sum of $375 for it. I got it Christmas '86. It's the Japanese model in Metallic Silver. These Katanas are rare guitars now adays, mostly falling into what folks think of as 'oddities'.  Head stock:  This is an original advertisement flyer. When mom laid it away it was going to be two or three months before I got it. I asked Randy Conn if I could have this flyer, he went straight to it, pulled it off the front window, and handed it to me. It is possibly rarer than the guitar itself! I chopped off the top of the flyer in this image, but you can see it in the head stock photo above.  |
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Post by deuce on Dec 19, 2016 13:31:05 GMT -5
Pretty cool! I only vaguely remember the Katana. Is it a good player?
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Dec 19, 2016 16:30:39 GMT -5
Pretty cool! I only vaguely remember the Katana. Is it a good player? OMGosh It's awesome! I love it. The only reason I've ever bought another guitar (and have had quite a few) is for diversity of sound, etc. Getting a new piece of equipment always brings a wealth of inspiration. I actually had another Katana in metallic blue that I sold a few years ago to feed another hobby - wish I still had it! But the guitar has very light, low action, great sounding pickups and the body is lightweight so it doesn't kill your shoulder. I just spotted a Vanilla White one for sale earlier for $425, $50 shipping. It was the Squire version w/ single humbucker, Volume only, but would love to have it. They were Fender's way of attempting to get into the Jackson V and Gibson V market. Didn't work out too well for them as they only made these for like 2 years or so before discontinuing. |
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