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Guitar players corner!
- Thread starter danbones
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I'm OK with having a guitarist corner here, so long as it's kept in the proper perspective. When a bass player walks into a GC, we're faced walls and walls of guitars - there are so many of them, even the support posts in the pace will have guitars hung on them, just to get a few more in. Then you ask where the basses are, and someone points you down a hallway, past the bathrooms, past the employee break room and the bulletin board with all the legal notices one it about minimum wages and such, there's a spot in the hallway, right next to where the trash goes out to the dumpster, that has a few basses in poor repair hung on the wall.
We should probably be nice and treat guitarists a little better than that, but maybe keep their expectations about where that analogy would put it, lest they get too comfortable and start edging us out of our own clubhouse.
In short, I'd like to wish all the guitarists joining us a lukewarm welcome.
We should probably be nice and treat guitarists a little better than that, but maybe keep their expectations about where that analogy would put it, lest they get too comfortable and start edging us out of our own clubhouse.
In short, I'd like to wish all the guitarists joining us a lukewarm welcome.
I'm joyously playing one of these guitars today, have been for a good while now,
The LeGrande from Gibson has the measure of mine, although I also, thankfully, have a tone knob, and the humbucker is in this, tidier, format,
What would you call those f-holes? Stilett-oles? Very blade-like, if you ask me. My guess is that elegant variation, perhaps engineered to stymie a potential law suite, may have been the driver there. They do grow on you after a while, these slits, and they clearly function in the same way as the tried-and-true, run-o'-the mill variety
It's a treasure. What can I say? If you ever find one of these, and you've been hankering after a quality jazz box, you'll be pleasantly surprised, with one of these.
Here's what one looked like, out-of-the-box, all those decades ago. Notice the woody bridge,
Over the years, I've owned about a dozen (SWMBO likes the feel of the bodies) and I have never had one which didn't have some (marginally, perhaps?) noticeable neck dive (and I even have the first issue of the Epiphone Tony Iommi Model).
Here's a goer, fleshes things out a little — maybe a precursor to mine,
I love this guitar... just needed to share again with folks that might understand 
Hey, we're both--some started on guitar and added bass, some started on bass & added guitar
I've never seen basses in a such situation around here.
Yeah the guitars outnumber them--but they also outsell them.
But it's all cool--we have a thread for those who also play mandolin.
Play both (Or all three if you include mandolin)
More fun than posting here.
Finally managed to get this lot translated, the riddle is solved, at long last,
"The piece is impressive," they state emphatically. Too true!
So, the top's spruce, the back and sides are fiddleback (no mention anywhere of ply), the neck's three-piece maple, the board's rosewood, frets are twenty (20), the scale's 648 mm, the bridge's rosewood, there's one volume and one tone control, the pegs are Grovers, flat-wounds are the standard, and the finish is nitro — this is blatantly obvious, twenty-four years down the track, not a flaw, nor is there any checking in sight — still pristine All the evidence I could've hoped for.The catalogue, which you can see here, …
There are a number of decent axes in that catalogue, I'd hazard a guess. Shimamura doesn't beat about the bush. They've been at this for years, unrelenting.
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More unsolicited guitar noodling from a gig 11 years ago. Yeah, kinda faked our way through it, but a lot of fun.
That's an Orville-by-Gibson Japanese '58 Les Paul reissue from the 90's that I wish I still had. Was playing straight into a heavily modified Fender Hot Rod Deluxe.
Shameless noodledge begins at 3:20.
That's an Orville-by-Gibson Japanese '58 Les Paul reissue from the 90's that I wish I still had. Was playing straight into a heavily modified Fender Hot Rod Deluxe.
Shameless noodledge begins at 3:20.
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I love this guitar... just needed to share again with folks that might understand
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Nice guitar! It's funny, I never used to like Telecasters, but several years ago, I got a yearning to buy one. Now it's one of my favorites.
2013, me on the right, plugged straight into my early Fuchs ODS prototype amp that Andy Fuchs built in his basement in 2001.
Slide used was my one remaining original 1970's Coricidin bottle.
Slide used was my one remaining original 1970's Coricidin bottle.
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Another guitar clip, this one from 2020, the last gig before the covid shutdown.
I'm on the right with a 2002 Gibson R8 Les Paul. No dirt pedals, just a semi-cranked 50 watt Marshall 4-holer bass/1986 head and 212 cab.
I'm on the right with a 2002 Gibson R8 Les Paul. No dirt pedals, just a semi-cranked 50 watt Marshall 4-holer bass/1986 head and 212 cab.
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One more guitar clip: A 2019 warm-up jam tune at the beginning of a show. Sub drummer on the gig who was good at thinking on his feet and could easily turn on a dime.
2010 Road Worn Telecaster with after market pickups, plugged into a 50 watt Marshall '68 plexi clone, driving a couple Celestion G1265's.
Again, no dirt pedals, just guitar and amp, with a touch of uni-vibe for the rhythm playing.
I kind of drove the wheels off a couple times, but somehow managed to not go completely in the ditch. No telling how that happened.
2010 Road Worn Telecaster with after market pickups, plugged into a 50 watt Marshall '68 plexi clone, driving a couple Celestion G1265's.
Again, no dirt pedals, just guitar and amp, with a touch of uni-vibe for the rhythm playing.
I kind of drove the wheels off a couple times, but somehow managed to not go completely in the ditch. No telling how that happened.
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As a lifelong bassist whose pronoun is bass/bassist I’ve never seen a guitarist behind the drum stool staring at a hihat during a concert. I’ve never seen a lead guitarist dodging the spotlight.
Just saying, as a bassist, basses are where the bassists have established that they (we) want them to be, out of the limelight. When all bassists kick their boots on the monitor at the edge of the stage and grab a mic off a stand to sing a verse and flirt with everyone In eyesight the guitar stores will have to keep the basses closer to the front. That’s my soap box. Basses are an afterthought because bass players try to hide in stage. We all know what brings the dancers to the floor. But whose fault is it the dancers can’t see who brought the thunder?
