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Title: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Jim Ratto on September 05, 2008, 16:47:01 pm
ok go for it


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: javabug on September 05, 2008, 16:50:01 pm
Its pretty easy.

(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x45/gitarisdangdut/guitar-chord-chart.gif)


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: ian c on September 05, 2008, 17:07:03 pm
forget all that bullshit .

you dont need full chords , and you'll never need half of them !!!

kieth ,
dont buy your strat in the uk !!!  ;) (ask greg binton , i bent his ear ranting about it at nicks):D

jim ,
i have 2 telecasters in storage in corona , your welcome to borrow one .


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: j-f on September 05, 2008, 20:49:01 pm
Ask Ron Lummus  :D :D



Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Lee.C on September 06, 2008, 01:03:25 am
Ask Ron Lummus  :D :D



How Cool was that  ;D ;D ;D See I told you dude ;) :)


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Rune on September 06, 2008, 01:09:42 am
That was a cool ending to the SCC weekend..


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: ian c on February 24, 2009, 05:35:15 am
dug this thread up to show off some pics i took last week which i think are cool .
probobly the best i've ever took , no wobbles or anything  ::)

(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x216/iancross182/guitar006.jpg)
(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x216/iancross182/guitar015.jpg)
(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x216/iancross182/guitar013.jpg)
(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x216/iancross182/guitar012.jpg)
(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x216/iancross182/guitar010.jpg)


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Diederick/DVK on February 24, 2009, 11:36:17 am
awesome pics. nice collection!!

did that 72 tele custom come with a stock single coil bridge pickup? i always see them with 2 humbuckers, i like this better!
that gibson is gorgeous too, it must've cost you yer left kidney, though  ;)

all i'm looking for is a good low wattage/volume valve amp. blues jr is too loud, i'm talking 5w.


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: ian c on February 24, 2009, 12:34:51 pm
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/archive/index.php/t-1704167.html

just to confuse you  ;D


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: javabug on February 24, 2009, 13:55:18 pm
What's the story on the hoodride Tele on the left?  Looks like one of the new "worn" deals?

Dieds, Epiphone has a 5W amp in combo or a head/cabinet, or check out Fender's Pro Junior (I think).  Either are cool little amps.


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Diederick/DVK on February 24, 2009, 14:50:15 pm
yup, i love the epi cabinet but i don't get why they didn't build a head that is just as wide. apart from sharing the same tolex and cloth they don't match. but that's a minor detail.
or the fender champion 600, but that might be a little too rockabilly for me.

i want a crunchy/slightly cranked tube tone at low volume. i may even need an attenuator...

ian, thanks for the link. i read through the topic.


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Gary Justus on February 24, 2009, 20:03:30 pm
find yourself an old HARMONY amp. They sound pretty "nasty". I had two (amongst all my other gear).  I did a lot of recording with a 10" 20w Harmony that had a metal back. That and my favorite Les Paul (had 8 at one time), a '57 flame top made for some badass noise ;)


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Nico86 on February 24, 2009, 20:08:29 pm
Wow nice collection ! :P


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: JS on February 25, 2009, 00:30:46 am
I gave up learning guitar, so I learned the bass instead... 


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: ian c on February 25, 2009, 01:54:36 am
deid , 72 is all standard
mike , the hoodride is a joe strummer edition .


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Gary Justus on February 25, 2009, 02:18:30 am
worked at Fender '72-'76.....I know the CBS stuff


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Harry/FDK on February 26, 2009, 19:58:45 pm
ANY DRUMMERS HERE ?


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: javabug on February 26, 2009, 22:14:24 pm
ANY DRUMMERS HERE ?

WHAT???  I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE GUITAR PLAYER!!!


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Harry/FDK on February 26, 2009, 22:43:46 pm
ANY DRUMMERS HERE ?

WHAT???  I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE GUITAR PLAYER!!!

LUDWIG DRUMKIT.  I don't need Marshall. Ha!


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Jim Ratto on February 26, 2009, 22:50:45 pm
used to play drums. Another reason for neighbor to want to kill me, besides IDAs and S & S headers

Cool Telecasters, ian. I always wanted a mirrored Telecaster. Or a blue-chromed one.


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Martin Greaves on February 26, 2009, 22:53:30 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCazHyVBA6w&feature=related


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Carlos De Alba on February 27, 2009, 00:26:40 am
my guitar is better  ;)  :-*


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: ian c on February 27, 2009, 01:30:54 am
yeah , thats a cool custom carlos ;)
(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x216/iancross182/jl22.jpg)


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: . on February 27, 2009, 04:25:58 am
Here ya go Jim !
 ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW0tKIDE4Xo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW0tKIDE4Xo)


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: low oval on February 27, 2009, 09:33:34 am
my guitar is better  ;)  :-*

what guitar?


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: lawrence on February 27, 2009, 20:07:57 pm
ANY DRUMMERS HERE ?

I had a cranberry red Ludwig kit. It was beautiful and sometimes my band mates would tell me to bang softer;D I played for a few years, but I sold my kit because I got burntout. I got the itch to play again and I want to buy another kit soon.


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: speedwell on February 27, 2009, 20:47:37 pm
my guitar is better  ;)  :-*
still alive  el loco nacho  ;D ;D ;D


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Harry/FDK on February 27, 2009, 21:29:07 pm
IAN, THE COOLEST FENDER IS THE RORY GALLAGHER ONE. NOW GET IT , AND SHOW IT.


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: ian c on February 27, 2009, 22:34:28 pm
http://www.guitarcenter.com/Fender-Rory-Gallagher-Signature-Electric-Guitar-102548088-i1398867.gc
its pretty cool , but i wont be able to buy one .


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Gary Justus on February 28, 2009, 02:42:30 am
You guys don't even know Rory Gallagher.


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: javabug on February 28, 2009, 04:02:21 am
If you guys dig that "relic" stuff, check out:

http://www.jeffsennguitars.com/



Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: ESH on March 04, 2009, 23:25:16 pm
If you guys dig that "relic" stuff, check out:
http://www.jeffsennguitars.com/

There's some lovely stuff on there. I have been dabbliing with guitars for 26 years or so but mainly only as an excuse to have a couple of the things about the place. Back in the early 90s my then girlfriend introduced me to a guy she knew as I had a Gibson and this bloke had loads of cool guitars having been a session musician but who was mostly retired. As we got talking it became apparent that this guy had pretty much the A-Z of the all time greats most of which he' picked up here and there when they were just battered 'old' guitars. The old 'pawn shop' type scenarios. I asked him about a couple of the guitars he mentioned and he obviously liked them but didn't sound too crazy about them and then started talking about his favourite guitar, a big old jazzer.

He lived above a shop he ran and this was just down the road from the pub we were in so he took me over to see it and having pulled a case out of the cupboard and having asked if I had a belt on handed me this 1943 Gibson. When you touched the strings it just rang, the most incredible action and tone I have ever experienced by a long way. I didn't fancy hammering out some Mudhoney or Dinosaur Jr on it as the action really wasn't geared for that sand I felt a little outclassed by it so I just played a few open chords with one hand and all I can say is I will never forget what was probably just 30 or so seconds with that thing. I handed it back over to him pretty quickly. It was immaculate barring a small cigarrette burn on the scratch plate which it had had since he had got it in the 50's. The guitar had been borrowed for an early Unplugged by a friend of it's owner who was playing 'inside left' on the program and subsequently the star of the show offered him a huge amount of money for it, six figures and a lot more money than the shop was worth but it wasn't for sale and I can understand why. We went back up to the pub bit, and then a few of us ended back at this place hammered and played about with some of the 50's and 60's Gibson and Fender 'firewood' that was lying around.

Selling all of mine would probably not pay for any of the guitars that guy had!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/SanchoPancho/General/6gtrs.jpg)


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: javabug on March 05, 2009, 13:55:33 pm
Cool story!


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Neil Davies on March 05, 2009, 17:21:13 pm
Awesome story Mat!

Heres a couple of mine - Excuse the crappy picture from my old phone!

80's Jap Fender body and electrics on the red one, with a Chinese large headstock neck and correct decal. Really heavy body, getting on for Les Paul weight! The other one is a cheapy Hendrix/Zappa inspired one built out of bits. I bought a load of old aged gold hardware off ebay, then picked up some Fender USA pickups, and was thinking of putting them in the red guitar. But then I got the cheapo sunburst body and the tortoiseshell pickguard and had a plan - Dweezil Zappa had a strat that used to belong to Jimi Hendrix and later to Frank Zappa, and I'd seen it on a documentary for the 40th aniversary of the stratocaster and always loved it. I realised that short of the lefty maple neck I'd got all the bits! So, The body got attacked with a blowtorch, cigarette lighter, screwdrivers, and best of all, a 50p piece! I need to shim the neck up a bit, but apart from that it's a cool little thing and just nice to have in the corner of the room!


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Harry/FDK on March 05, 2009, 17:47:47 pm
You guys don't even know Rory Gallagher.

 ???


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Trond Dahl on March 05, 2009, 18:44:01 pm
That was a cool ending to the SCC weekend..

Perhaps we should hire him to do the concert this year  ;D


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: lawrence on March 06, 2009, 02:10:14 am
If you guys dig that "relic" stuff, check out:
http://www.jeffsennguitars.com/

There's some lovely stuff on there. I have been dabbliing with guitars for 26 years or so but mainly only as an excuse to have a couple of the things about the place. Back in the early 90s my then girlfriend introduced me to a guy she knew as I had a Gibson and this bloke had loads of cool guitars having been a session musician but who was mostly retired. As we got talking it became apparent that this guy had pretty much the A-Z of the all time greats most of which he' picked up here and there when they were just battered 'old' guitars. The old 'pawn shop' type scenarios. I asked him about a couple of the guitars he mentioned and he obviously liked them but didn't sound too crazy about them and then started talking about his favourite guitar, a big old jazzer.

He lived above a shop he ran and this was just down the road from the pub we were in so he took me over to see it and having pulled a case out of the cupboard and having asked if I had a belt on handed me this 1943 Gibson. When you touched the strings it just rang, the most incredible action and tone I have ever experienced by a long way. I didn't fancy hammering out some Mudhoney or Dinosaur Jr on it as the action really wasn't geared for that sand I felt a little outclassed by it so I just played a few open chords with one hand and all I can say is I will never forget what was probably just 30 or so seconds with that thing. I handed it back over to him pretty quickly. It was immaculate barring a small cigarrette burn on the scratch plate which it had had since he had got it in the 50's. The guitar had been borrowed for an early Unplugged by a friend of it's owner who was playing 'inside left' on the program and subsequently the star of the show offered him a huge amount of money for it, six figures and a lot more money than the shop was worth but it wasn't for sale and I can understand why. We went back up to the pub bit, and then a few of us ended back at this place hammered and played about with some of the 50's and 60's Gibson and Fender 'firewood' that was lying around.

Selling all of mine would probably not pay for any of the guitars that guy had!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/SanchoPancho/General/6gtrs.jpg)

So, you held the "leadbelly" guitar that Kurt Cobain refers to in the Nirvana unplugged album. That's crazy!! Cool story!!


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: ESH on March 06, 2009, 11:12:45 am
So, you held the "leadbelly" guitar that Kurt Cobain refers to in the Nirvana unplugged album. That's crazy!! Cool story!!

Now that would be quite something! This was from an earlier Unplugged and had no provenance in terms of its ownership at that time. If the "Leadbelly" made the half a million dollar asking price that Kurt mentioned then it was worth a little more than the offer made on the '43. It was still huge money though and above the book value for the guitar but it was an absolute gem.

 :)


Title: Re: teach us how to play guitar thread
Post by: Diederick/DVK on March 08, 2009, 15:13:17 pm
i'd exchange a kidney for this one, a 1967 (yup!) Gibson Trini Lopez:

(http://www.davesguitar.com/product/C55072.JPG)