Thread: Guitar players out there?

Man, where has this thread been?

I wasted five years of my young life touring South America with the band. At the time we played Heavy Rock and we did alright. We cut a couple of records and one kinda sold a bit. I left the band to come here, where I found I had to work for a living... meh!

I still play, and still love guitars, though, and have a few.

My baby is a Martin Auditorium, which I love. I have a few (ha!) others... I'll try to remember the all;

Fender Gemini III acoustic, steel string, the midnight model.
Alhambra acoustic, nylon string classical.
Di Maggio acoustic, steel string (first guitar I bought)
Gibson SG, ca. '74, cherry finish, all stock.
Gibson baby Paul, which I rescued from an idiot who tried to make a 12 string out of it. She's wounded, but plays. It has a single pick up now, a Di Marzio humbucker.
Yamaha Strat copy, which plays remarkably well.
Washburn flying V - a garage sale acquisition. Not a very good guitar.
No brand electro-acustig bass guitar.

I'm sure there's a couple I can't remember now... If the wife didn't keep me on check I would have a house full of guitars.

There's a couple of solid state amps, what we used to call practice amps, but seldom plug them in. One is a Gorilla, the other is a Yamaha.

It is with great shame that I admit I haven't played in months. When I do, generally it's blues, some alternative and some old rock.

I play a little electric violin. I have been trying to learn guitar. Everytime I see 6 strings and those painful fret bars I get completely disgruntled with the entire idea.

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

I play a little electric violin. I have been trying to learn guitar. Everytime I see 6 strings and those painful fret bars I get completely disgruntled with the entire idea.

The trick is not to do bar chords until you are ready. And you'd be pleasantly surprised at how many tunes you can strum out without a bar chord at all!

Now... I tried playing the violin, and the lack of frets kinda threw me off and wound up giving it up. It's still languishing someplace in the attic I think, the poor thing.

Yup, I'm a guitar player. Mostly Celtic fingerstyle on an eight-string classical, made by Augustine Hernandez (Mexico).

Other guitars in my stable:

Martin OMC-1e
Composit Acoustics Cargo
Ovation Celebrity classical
Custom eight-string electric (strat)
Conklin 7-sting electric

Plus I play bass:

Conklin GT-5
Ibenez Acoustic bass

And for messing around, an old Silvertone banjo, and an off brand Mandolin.

I play a Fender Stratocaster with a Fender Blues Junior tube amp. I mostly play slide and love to play blues and Z.Z. Top kinda stuff. I play for my enjoyment only...

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