Any Guitar Players?

[therealj]

I just purchased my first Guitar on Friday. It's an epiphone SG copy, price was right for a beginner like me and it looks rough http://anabolicfitness.infopop.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif . To say I'm a novice would probably be the understatement of the year http://anabolicfitness.infopop.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif . Anyway who else plays?

[archive_Bjaarki]

I used to play steelstring. I had a Gibson and a Martin knock-off, an Aria by Yamaha. Usually used d-modal tuning, like Leo Kotke, and would sometimes play bottleneck. I majored in music theory/composition for two years before I got serious about a career. I wrote my own songs and stuff. But that was back before you were born, J. Have fun with it. There's nothing like being able to make your own music out of silence.

Bjaarki

... Then, do what you have to do.

[turkhunter]

sg-400????if so, ive got the same, its a nice guitar, i replaced the stock pick ups with gibsons and sanded the neck down to a nice smoth baseball bat like finish. the toughest part about just starting is finding new stuff to keep you interested, here is a link with some beginer songs:

http://www.guitarnoise.com/easy.php

good luck

HELLO

[archive_Caligula]

I used to. My first guitar was red with white slahes all over it just like Eddie VanHalens. My next was a red BC Rich. I enjoyed playing but ran out of time with sports and school and stuff.

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"That Which Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger"

Curious

[strober]

Ive played since I was a kid, I currently have only one a gibson Les Paul, to just get your feet wet learn some nirvana tunes or something of the like they are simple and you can play pretty much the whole song or songs with fiths

[archive_Ulter]

My first venture into the world of business was to open a music store. It was all rock band equipment and with a wall of guitars sitting there all day I just picked it up. I played everything from Hammer's to Flying V's. We had a pretty good guitar teacher to teach kids but he mostly taught me. For strings and picks. I'd throw him a pedal once in a while. We got pretty popular after about a year of chasing bands at the clubs to buy our stuff. We sold to Cheap Trick and REO Speedwagon before they made it out of the clubs and on to labels. I think Rick Neilsen has the largest collection of vintage guitars I have ever seen. I remember when Jimmy Page bought a '56 sunburst Les Paul from him. Got us tickets center stage 1st row for Led Zepplin and I got to watch Page puke from a heroine overdose onstage upclose and personal. Ah the 70's.
But Bjaarki is probably the only one who knows who any of these people are.

[hooker]

I have a Dean acoustic and a Fender 50's reissue Strat that was a birthday gift from my g/f.

"Computer games don't affect kids negatively; I mean if Pac-Man affected us
as kids, we'd all be running around darkened rooms, munching magic pills and
listening to repetitive electronic music."
-Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc.
1988

[turkhunter]

How could anyone not know jimmy page, cheap trick or reo speed wagon!!!? Im curious now how many people really dont know who led zepplin is? Ulter, that is awsome,why did you get rid of the shop?

HELLO

[archive_Ulter]

I couldn't compete when they started putting up Guitar Center franchises. One opened about a mile away and they literally sold everything at cost to drive out the little guys like me. I can't complain, I had a lot of fun while it lasted.

[VOX - DEI]

I would have firebombed the comp., but that's me.

[VOX - DEI]

Or if you would prefer not to live or die by the gun, you could put a lien on their RE for any number of things.

You could also hire some people to dress like the KKK to hold meetings outside of the property.

Your finance company could report to all three credit bureaus that that your competition is 240 days past due.

Use your imagination

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-Thomas Jefferson

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[archive_Ulter]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="**-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by VOX - DEI:
I would have firebombed the comp., but that's me.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I ended up buying a bar and having just as much fun and getting laid way more so it was a good thing.

[Twiggy]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="**-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Bjaarki:
I majored in music theory/composition for two years before I got serious about a career. I wrote my own songs and stuff.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oh man... That hurts me... http://anabolicfitness.infopop.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

I've been playing longer than I haven't been -- Music is my first love, and I figure if the whole "working to pay back student loan debt" thing doesn't end up working out, I can always fall back on being a rock star. http://anabolicfitness.infopop.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Stud Diesel]

Yeah I play. Actually I just started picking it up again after many years. What got me back into it was my wife buying me a Sirius satellite radio. I was getting so sick of radio. Now I brought my amp up from the basement and put it next to my stereo and jam to the tunes on the radio, just like I did when I was a kid. I have a good ear, but I never learned to read.

I played in high school in a rock band; we played parties and things like that. And I was also in the high school jazz band when we won the state championship. After that I tried playing in a few different bands, but as anybody who has been in a band will attest; it’s a pain in the ass if you don’t have the right group of people. People missing practices, not learning the songs, ego’s… blah blah, it can get frustrating real quick and then it’s not fun anymore, and when it’s not fun then it’s all over.

So I quit being in bands and focused on recording my own music. I became the kind of customer you would have loved in your store, Ulter. Piece by piece I bought an entire rack mounted home studio, with various and assorted effects boxes, microphones, a bass guitar, drum machine, several guitars, a PRS, a USA Stratocaster, an Ibanez, an 8-Track Tascam a Mesa Boogie amp, and a ton of other shit I can’t remember.

And then I started writing songs. I had about 10 songs that I thought were pretty good, and I would mix each one down onto those small 10 minute cassette tapes to be sent to the copyright office to be published. Then I mixed 8 or 10 of what I thought were the best songs to those 30 minute tapes and I would sell them for a buck a piece at concerts or clubs; anywhere just to get them out there. If people didn’t want to pay a buck I would just give it to them. And then I became a famous rock star…

…and then I woke up. http://www.anabolicfitness.net/smileys/lol2[1].gif

So after a few years of that I got tired of it and I ended up selling almost everything except my Mesa Boogie amp and my most prized possession of all; my Paul Reed Smith semi-hollow body Limited Edition. She’s a beauty. She is #390 of 500 and is signed by PRS. He’s a local guy, buy the way. (Maryland) When I bought it in 1991 he was just becoming known in the business. I think he had Carlos Santana playing his guitars, but that was probably it as far as famous people back then. Now he is getting the recognition that he deserves because the Paul Reed Smith is arguably the finest axe made. Yes, even better than the famous Les Paul. But the Les Paul has that mystique, since so many famous people played them, such as Jimmy Page. So all it took was for people to start playing the PRS for it to become a classic.

So last weekend I was in Guitar Center and I went to the back to check out the classic guitars. They had a ’59 Les Paul (priceless) and an old sixties Strat and a few other things, and lo and behold I saw one of my Limited Edition PRS’s behind the glass and it was in worse shape than mine. (Mine is perfect.) And they wanted 10K for it. Holy shit! http://anabolicfitness.infopop.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif I paid $2,200 for mine in 1991. Like I said, I’m sure glad I kept that piece.

So good luck with your playing, J. It can be a real blast!

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[Twiggy]

Cool... I play a PRS through a Mesa also... ('cept mine's not quite as nice; it's a 92 Custom, but it does have the oh-so-pretty 10 top.)

I love the PRS necks, but I think my next addition will be something bigger & better suited for heavy gauge strings -- Maybe a Gretsch.

J, this site has got some basic chord charts and links to easy songs:
http://guitar.about.com/library/blguitarlessonarchive.htm

And once you are comfortable with basic chords, olga.net has got almost every song you could want to play tabbed out.

[archive_Ulter]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="**-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> I became the kind of customer you would have loved in your store, Ulter. Piece by piece I bought an entire rack mounted home studio, with various and assorted effects boxes, microphones, a bass guitar, drum machine, several guitars, a PRS, a USA Stratocaster, an Ibanez, an 8-Track Tascam a Mesa Boogie amp, and a ton of other shit I can’t remember.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

You're right. I would have loved a guy like you. It's funny how now you can sit in your room with a cheap mixing software, a guitar and keyboard and make a better mix that you could with $25,000 worth of equipment from back then. This is a little ditty done with a LP, Strat, Marshall and some cracked software.
http://www.anabolicfitness.net/ditty.mp3

[therealj]

thanks guys....of all the things God made it easy for me to do, why couldn't this be one of them http://www.anabolicfitness.net/smileys/tounge[1].gif

[VOX - DEI]

Which software did you use for that? Is that an original song?

[archive_Ulter]

I don't remember the software. It was liquid blah blah something. I'll find it. Yes that's an original song.

Cakewalk, that was it I think.
I lost the drive with all my software and artwork on it a few months ago.

[This message was edited by Ulter on 02-06-2004 at 09:44 PM.]

[VOX - DEI]

It is commercially viable. You need to make it much more edgy, but other than that it sounds great, the original sounds way to retro and a little pussy.

The rifts need to be more abrupt.

Do you think you can fix it and post an other link on this topic?

[archive_Ulter]

I don't even have software OR the original anymore, let alone the time to redo this. This was back when I had nothing to do all day but post on Elite and read E2 cycles written for BIZ. I can ask my friend who wrote it if he has it but really I doubt it. It was written in about an hour and hardly worth keeping.

Oh and thanks for the "retro and pussy" comments in your critique. LOL!!

[variation]

haha, I thought it sounded good ulter...

ya.. I play too I have a nice electric-acoustic and a shitty v electric..

here's a pic of my acoustic

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[This message was edited by Ulter on 02-08-2004 at 12:15 AM.]

[archive_Bjaarki]

I didn't know any of that about your music business, Ulter. The legend of Your Favorite Mod grows .....

Funny what you said about watching Jimmy Page puke from an overdose of smack. I watched him get so drunk he fell off the stage at Earl Warren Showgrounds in Santa Barbara CA in '69. It was otherwise a good concert. Jethro Tull opened. Page was really out of control that year, lots of folks were, the world was, I guess. Didn't Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin all die the next year?

Twiggy, what I said about giving up music theory in order to get serious about career ... don't let that bother you. Art is beautiful and necessary, all kinds of art, and if that's what makes you bleed that's cool. I'm much happier (and more successful) as a researcher.

Bjaarki

... Then, do what you have to do.

[archive_Ulter]

Another story you just reminded me of that goes back to when I was selling tickets, ok scalping tickets. Tull was supposed to play for the prom at Joliet Central Catholic HS in about 1970 but they skipped town after being paid a deposit. The school filed a lawsuit which they won by default. The result was that Jethro Tull was not allowed to play in the state of Illinois until they honored the contract. They didn't return until War Child in '74 and sold out 4 nights at the Chicago Stadium (Ulter 14th and 29th row).
The only way they could play the dates at the Stadium was to honor the HS contract. Sooo...I saw the full stage show, the same one I saw at the Chicago Stadium, orchestra and all, in the gymnasium of the HS with 350 other people.

[turkhunter]

lol, hey ulter do you have a pc or a mac? check out "garage band" if you have a mac, ive been messing around on it lately hooked up to my mbox and usb keyboard with no glitches, i love my machttp://anabolicfitness.infopop.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

garage band (http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/)

HELLO

[archive_pornosonic]

I have been playing since I was a five with a 3/4 size acoustic guitar then started collecting electric guitars when I was 15. I have played in bands since I was 12, but quit playing in my last band of six years when I went to law school and moved to no man's land from NYC.
I now have 3 classic acoustics and 17 electrics ranging from a
Gibson ES150d to a modern PRS McCarty custom and everything else in between...Strats, Ibanez's, G&L's, Shecter, Parker Fly, original Danelectro, Peavey and other Gibsons.
But my baby is a 1977 Charvel custom made by Wayne Charvel himself for Ritche Blackmore(Deep Purple) who I bought it off of. They just had an interview with Wayne Charvel in a guitar magazine where he said it was the best guitar he ever built--enclosed is a snippet of the interview...

***Wayne Charvel
The originator of the Super St*at speaks in an exclusive interview for Guitarist online

After a career in luthiery spanning the best part of three decades, Wayne Charvel is a genuinely big figure in the history of the humble electric guitar. With the recent news of the Fender acquisition of Jackson/Charvel guitars, the company that he started with Grover Jackson and that still bears his name, we thought it was time for a chat.

Here's a series of quick-fire questions answered in Wayne's usual laid-back style...

What is the best guitar ever?
Fender Stratocaster.

Which is the best guitar you've ever produced and why?
It was a black Charvel Guitar with orange hot-rod flames on it. All the parts just fitted real well and boy it sounded great!!****

--All I can say realj is keep practicing and try not to get frustrated because that is when people get bored and don't want to play anymore. It doesn't come overnight even though the best guitar players make it look so easy. In the beginning results are slow but when you practice everyday for 15 minutes your hands muscle memory takes over and results come a lot quicker.

[Stud Diesel]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="**-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Ulter:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="**-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> I became the kind of customer you would have loved in your store, Ulter. Piece by piece I bought an entire rack mounted home studio, with various and assorted effects boxes, microphones, a bass guitar, drum machine, several guitars, a PRS, a USA Stratocaster, an Ibanez, an 8-Track Tascam a Mesa Boogie amp, and a ton of other shit I can’t remember.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

You're right. I would have loved a guy like you. It's funny how now you can sit in your room with a cheap mixing software, a guitar and keyboard and make a better mix that you could with $25,000 worth of equipment from back then. This is a little ditty done with a LP, Strat, Marshall and some cracked software.
http://www.anabolicfitness.net/ditty.mp3<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>That’s pretty good. I like it.

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