Anyone Here Play Guitar?

reaganyouth84 · 10-18-2005, 08:27 PM

Just curious if anyone else here on the board plays guitar. If so, what kind of setup do you have, and why style do you play?

-Mike

**thepyrofish** · 10-19-2005, 12:10 AM

Play? Yes. Play well? No.
I've got a cheap-ie electric running a little 12W BCRich practice amp and a 30yr old Hohner Acoustic. I very briefly owned a Garnet BTO head, but I couldn;t afford a cabinet for it, nor really justify having such an amazing, large amp so I sold it 2 weeks later for 5 times what I paid...gotta love vintage gear.

reaganyouth84 · 10-19-2005, 12:23 AM

Originally Posted by thepyrofish

Play? Yes. Play well? No.
I've got a cheap-ie electric running a little 12W BCRich practice amp and a 30yr old Hohner Acoustic. I very briefly owned a Garnet BTO head, but I couldn;t afford a cabinet for it, nor really justify having such an amazing, large amp so I sold it 2 weeks later for 5 times what I paid...gotta love vintage gear.

Yeah, I just bought a Fender Blues Deluxe. It's not an original, but it's a re-issue. It was made in 93, which is the first year they made the re-issues, so in a way it is vintage. It has the tweed covering on it instead of the black tolex. It's pretty sweet. Next on the agenda is a 1962 stratocaster re-issue, hopefully a japanese made.

-Mike

**cigar1993** · 10-20-2005, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by reaganyouth84

Just curious if anyone else here on the board plays guitar. If so, what kind of setup do you have, and why style do you play?

-Mike

and play acoustic exclusively. My first guitar was an old Martin given to me by an uncle, which was stolen from my car. I replaced it (I believe in the first year they were made) with a deep-backed Ovation that's really sweet, and that I still play today. My 12 string is an Epiphone from around 1970.

My son, however, can play anything there is by ear, and has a great collection of instruments. His two favorites are his shallow-backed Ovation and his Ibanez hollow-bodied electric. He can outplay me any day of the week.

Some day I'll give him this ratty old electric Fender I've never used.

**basil** · 10-20-2005, 03:59 PM

Yeah, I play - my set up is a chair. I have a thin-body Alvarez w/ built in pickup that, run through a dist. pedal and an amp gets really close to Neil Young in his Crazy Horse days. The amp is sweet - a '67 Fender reverb that I got for a song (pun intended) I had the speakers re-coned a while back and the capacitors replaced. No solid-state here, just tubes and the mechanical reverb (if you've never seen one of these, they're pretty cool.) Finally, I bought material that dupes the original and re-covered the front. All the pots work, etc. The amp is fun, but I'm usually unplugged.

Also, I have a Les Paul that I rarely play. It's an '83 and heavy as hell. I also have a kid who can play anything and he'll probably get it someday.

I like all kinds of stuff - Neil, U2, Rolling Stones, John Prine, Cowboy Junkies, Pink Floyd. Stuff on the radio I can pick the basics out in one pass and then it morphs into something I can handle. Even though I'm from Texas, I don't listen to or play much country.

**mithril** · 10-20-2005, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by cigar1993

My first guitar was an old Martin given to me by an uncle, which was stolen from my car.

those are some sweet guitars. i toured their factory a while ago. my uncle got a new one a couple years ago, he won't let me play it.

reaganyouth84 · 10-20-2005, 11:20 PM

They have a few of Gibson factories in Nashville. I've gone through one, and there are a lot of vintage instruments lurking around Music City. Nashville is a pretty cool place. I saw the John Mayer Trio a few weeks ago at the Ryman Auditorium(the place where the Grand Ol' Opry started) its on the national register of historic places, very nice venue.

-Mike

**Drake** · 10-21-2005, 08:56 AM

i've played for 10 years. i have an epiphone goth v:

with emg hz pickups. i have a crate 100w tube amp with a 4 x 12 behringer cab. i have a crappy ibanez acoustic, and 72 tiesco del ray that looks like this one:

i play music from pantera to incubus

**basil** · 10-21-2005, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by Drake

i play music from pantera to incubus

That's what my son plays - w/a lot of black metal. Maybe it's just a phase. Not a big fan of the bm, but, he's awesome.

**Shagaroo** · 10-21-2005, 10:32 AM

A Gibson Les Paul Studio and a beat all to hell Headway acoustic. An even more beat up ancient Crate amp for the Gibson. I try to keep my playing to when I am alone or when everyone is drunk, then they think I'm a superstar.

I mostly play the acoustic now but break out the gibson when I feel the need to play some Ramones.

**Drake** · 10-21-2005, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by basil

That's what my son plays - w/a lot of black metal. Maybe it's just a phase. Not a big fan of the bm, but, he's awesome.

i'm not either except for opeth, who i'm going see tonight. there're a tasteful bm band from sweden

**basil** · 10-21-2005, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by Drake

i'm not either except for opeth, who i'm going see tonight. there're a tasteful bm band from sweden

Actually - a bm band from Sweden w/ some stuff I do like is in flames. I think Sweden - Scand. for sure.

**Drake** · 10-21-2005, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by basil

Actually - a bm band from Sweden w/ some stuff I do like is in flames. I think Sweden - Scand. for sure.

in flames are good. they put on a good show, too. not a big fan of his vocal style

**Eshaw99** · 10-24-2005, 05:12 PM

I've played for about 10 years. I own several guitars, but my baby is a 1963 Gibson LG0 acoustic. I play a little bit of everything, but mostly blues.