Anyone Here Play Guitar?

[cigar1993]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Eshaw99]

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.

[Drake]

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]

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.