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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: wirehead on 10 Jan 2007, 00:33
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Jeph,
Since you mentioned your fav guitar in the News today ("... telecaster-style Cobra with a solid rosewood neck hlgblugblhlgbh." Tuesday, January 9th, 2007).
Thought I'd mention mine. Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty with two sets of switchable pickups -- Fenders near the neck and Humbuckers near the bridge. <drool> Anyone know whose guitar this was and on what album they played it to perfection?
Cheers.
- Jimbo
WIREHEADS (http://www.wire-heads.com/istrip)
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Ahaha, don't even get me started here. From what I can pull from the top of my head, the guitar you're thinking of is a Gibson Les Paul Studio Lite. I don't believe Gibson ever made stock LP Customs with Fender-style single coil pickups.
Classics:
1972 Fender Telecaster Deluxe
1954 Gibson Les Paul Custom (two P-90s)
1958 Gibson Les Paul plain top
1961 Gretsch Duo Jet
1962 Fender Jazzmaster, foam green, matching headstock
1957 Gibson Les Paul Junior (TV Yellow)
1956 Gretsch Jet Firebird
1969 Fender Telecaster Thinline
1957 Gibson Les Paul goldtop
1953 Harmony Stratotone H-44
Johnny Ramone's modded Mosrite Mark II
1965 Gibson Firebird I
Brian May's Red Special
1964 Electro ES-17
The last decade or so:
Fender Telesonic
Fender American Vintage '62 Jazzmaster
ESP EC-400 archtop
Ibanez AR-300
Gibson Firebird Studio
Gretsch Malcom Young II
Eastwood Airline 2P Deluxe
Fender 1972 Telecaster Deluxe Reissue
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No, not The Knack. (Nice cover, though).
And you're right, valley_parade, it wasn't "stock."
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I adore most Telecasters - that are Fender or Squier made, I hate the copies because they warp the shape; even the headstock is part of it to me - excluding pretty much just Thinlines. I can't think of any others off the top of my head.
However, the holy grail for me would be an Esquire. THAT would be sweet.
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Fender came out with a new Esquire at 2005's NAMM. You can find them online for about US$620-650 brand new.
kerblam! (http://fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0131502306)
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I think I just came in my pants.
It still wouldn't be an ol' 50s or 60s one, though, eh?
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There's always eBay, if you have teh monies.
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Well I sure as hell don't, so I guess once I can I'll just get an old school one. And then I'll crank it up to within an inch of its life and play lead lines so razor-sharp it'll make your ears bleed.
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I am quite partial to my Takamine acoustic. They make nice guitars!
However, I think if I could only pick three I'd really like:
http://www.seagullguitars.com/products6.htm <- Seagull S6
http://www.gibson.com/Products/GibsonElectric/Gibson%20Electric%20Guitars/LesPaul/ <- Gibson Les Paul (I'll take any of 'em)
and my personal coup de grace:
http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0109200800 <- Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute Stratocaster. :drool:
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(http://www.soundcontrol.co.uk/images/img_prod/large/large_1.1.1.1.1-7-5414.jpg)
Fender 1972 Telecaster Custom IN WHITE
and
(http://matchauchau.free.fr/guitare/sg/sg5_resize.jpg)
THE KING OF ROCK GUITARS...the Gibson SG Standard in heritage cherry
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I've decided that, if I can track one down, my next guitar will be a Mosrite (http://www.tymguitars.com.au/mymosrites_CelebrityIII.htm) Celebrity (http://www.vintagesilvertones.com/forsale_gtr-acoustic-celeb.html).
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So... answering the original post... Randy Rhoads?
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(http://yavcon0.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/tony_live.gif)
(http://yavcon0.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/c1full.jpg)
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Oh yeah! The SG is waay cool.
And no, not Randy Rhodes. Good try, though.
Sorry, I'm probably just too old school for you guys on this one (Yes, that's a hint).
By the way, THIS is the original "stock" Gibons I was referring to. Sweet.
(http://www.gibson.com/backstage/Custom_VOS/vos_57lp_custom_3pu_1280s.jpg)
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Everything's gold-plated...
But the tailpiece and the pickguard bracket. wtf, Gibson?
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Gibson SG-Z
http://www.everythingsg.com/images/identify/SG-Z.jpg (http://www.everythingsg.com/images/identify/SG-Z.jpg)
Yay.
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Basses:
(http://www.fender.com/products/prod_images/basses/0194060764_md.jpg)
Fender American Deluxe Precision Bass, Montego Rosewood, with humbucking bridge pickup in addition to the standard P-Bass pickups.
(http://myspace-536.vo.llnwd.net/01393/63/58/1393328536_l.jpg)
Ibanez Mike D'Antonio signature bass
(http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/Images/Guitars/Product/Main/P_ATTLTD11_SF.jpg)
Yamaha Billy Sheehan signature
,and I couldn't find a picture, but a 60's Fender Jazz, in white with tortoiseshell pickguard.
6-strings:
PRS Custom 24
(http://www.gibson.com/Files/images/LPSUAWGH.jpg)
Gibson Les Paul Supreme white w/ gold hardware
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Gibson SG-Z
That is the goofiest looking thing I've ever seen and I totally want one.
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I am quite partial to my Takamine acoustic. They make nice guitars!
Word
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(http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/[img])eq/gtr01a.jpg[/img]
The Drifter
[quote="Sonic Youth gear archive]
NOTES:
# The Drifter was in Sonic Youth's arsenal for nearly 20 years. Originally a cheap 6-string, in the mid-80s the frets were torn out and the guitar was strung up with bass strings and used exclusively by Thurston on Eric's Trip up until July 4th, 1999, when the guitar was stolen in California.
# Gauges: .056 .056 x x .042 .042
# Black Les Paul style body
# Originally played as a 6-string, typically with a cowbell for "She's in a Bad Mood" (see "SONIC DEATH" liners) or drumsticks for "Burning Spear".
# All frets removed in mid-80s
# Strung up with 4 bass strings in mid-80s
# 2 E tuners removed
# 2 drumsticks used for "Eric's Trip" typically wedged under strings
# "SONIC" sticker on headstock
# Sticker w/ Elvis on a U.S.A. flag
# Dayglo Tiger sticker (?), similar to Kimberly guitar
# Confusion is Sex sticker
# Large white square sticker, unsure of details
# Silver single coil pick-ups taped in
# All knobs taped over with duct tape
# Rosewood fretboard [/quote]
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And no, not Randy Rhodes. Good try, though.
Yeah, I just re-read the original post and realized -- unless I'm mistaken -- Randy's Black Beauty actually had three pickups on it, hehe.
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I'd always thought "Black Beauty" refered only to the three humbucker models anyway.
Just to throw a guess out there..Dave Davies from The Kinks?
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Gibson SG-Z
That is the awesome-ist looking thing I've ever seen and I totally want one.
Corrected.
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Corrected.
As far as SGs go, I think my favorite is the old SG/Les Paul with a Maestro vibrato. Yummmmm.
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Nope, VP, not Dave Davies... Give up? Here's some more hints. This guitarist was one of the original Yardbirds, made a major change to his sound with this guitar in 1975 where the released album went to #4 on the US charts. Got it now?
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I liked Clapton better when he was rocking out on a fucking Gibson Explorer.
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Nope, VP, not Dave Davies... Give up? Here's some more hints. This guitarist was one of the original Yardbirds, made a major change to his sound with this guitar in 1975 where the released album went to #4 on the US charts. Got it now?
I want to guess Page but I've got this odd little nagging feeling like YOU want me to guess Page so you can be all "LOL FAG"
I'm on to you.
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Actually, Topham was before Clapton, who in turn lead to Beck, and then Page.
LOL FAG.
Did I do it right?
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(http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/eq/gtr01a.jpg)
The Drifter
NOTES:
# The Drifter was in Sonic Youth's arsenal for nearly 20 years. Originally a cheap 6-string, in the mid-80s the frets were torn out and the guitar was strung up with bass strings and used exclusively by Thurston on Eric's Trip up until July 4th, 1999, when the guitar was stolen in California.
# Gauges: .056 .056 x x .042 .042
# Black Les Paul style body
# Originally played as a 6-string, typically with a cowbell for "She's in a Bad Mood" (see "SONIC DEATH" liners) or drumsticks for "Burning Spear".
# All frets removed in mid-80s
# Strung up with 4 bass strings in mid-80s
# 2 E tuners removed
# 2 drumsticks used for "Eric's Trip" typically wedged under strings
# "SONIC" sticker on headstock
# Sticker w/ Elvis on a U.S.A. flag
# Dayglo Tiger sticker (?), similar to Kimberly guitar
# Confusion is Sex sticker
# Large white square sticker, unsure of details
# Silver single coil pick-ups taped in
# All knobs taped over with duct tape
# Rosewood fretboard
woo for actually remembering to put in the img url this time
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Well, the player I was looking for was... (Aw surely your guessed it?) Jeff Beck. I first heard his album "Blow by Blow" in 1975 and wore out the grooves on it. Absolutely amazing to listen to his phrasing work on "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" with that guitar.
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I like the cover of A Day In The Life that Jeff Beck did. Thats all i've heard of him, though. I kinda stumbled upon it whilst downloading the original.
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i reccomend him wholeheartedly, especially the albums "Blow by Blow" and Wired
(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4540/legzzzzz026dh2.jpg)
that cd = love
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Motherfucking guitar companies won't make the guitars I want left-handed.
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Zakk Wylde Signature Les Paul Electric Guitar - Bull's Eye
(http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/4/7/0/273470.jpg)
Will set you back about $4,000.
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Nae if you get the Epiphone version.
(http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/8/9/8/274898.jpg)
Will set you back a penny shy of $800.
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i reccomend him wholeheartedly, especially the albums "Blow by Blow" and Wired
(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4540/legzzzzz026dh2.jpg)
that cd = love
i shall have to take a listen sometime.
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Zakk Wylde Signature Les Paul Electric Guitar - Bull's Eye
(http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/4/7/0/273470.jpg)
Will set you back about $4,000.
Alternatively, you could drive a hypodermic needle through your eye.
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Zakk Wylde Signature Les Paul Electric Guitar - Bull's Eye
(http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/4/7/0/273470.jpg)
Will set you back about $4,000.
Cool looking, but 4 large... NFW.
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i reccomend him wholeheartedly, especially the albums "Blow by Blow" and Wired
(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4540/legzzzzz026dh2.jpg)
that cd = love
Ooh, yeeaaaaaaaah.
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Shit looking, for 4 large??? NFW.
Fixed.
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I just carefully re-read this thread.
Only one phrase came to my mind.
"WHO GIVES A FUCK?"
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Oh, Khar!
*everyone laughs*
*roll credits*
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Questionable Content was filmed in front of a live studio audience.
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No sorry, reading this thread is like people cumming in my eyes. This is fucking bukkake for gear nerds.
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I want to guess Page but I've got this odd little nagging feeling like YOU want me to guess Page so you can be all "LOL FAG"
I'm on to you.
Page's Black Beauty had 3 Gibson double-coil pickups and was stolen shortly after their January 9, 1970 concert at Royal Albert Hall, if I'm not mistaken. I'm pretty sure it was stolen on that tour, in any case.
I have plenty of guitars left on my list:
- Gibson SG Standard in cherry red
- Fender 1962 reissue Jaguar in ocean turquoise (getting her this summer, if all goes according to plans)
- Gibson EDS-1275 in cherry red. Nothing like a 12-string electric, they sound amazing (see "Under The Hedge" by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists)
- Fender American Telecaster (Alan Jackson's guitarist is awesome)
- Fender American Stratocaster (Dire Straits self-titled album. 'Nuff said)
- Takamine 12-string acoustic
I would also like to hotrod my '02 Johnson Shitocaster by putting some actual Fender parts in her.
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No sorry, reading this thread is like people cumming in my eyes. This is fucking bukkake for gear nerds.
It is a lot like that.
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(http://www.fernandesguitars.com/jpc-samb.jpg)
I wouldn't mind one of those.
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No sorry, reading this thread is like people cumming in my eyes. This is fucking bukkake for gear nerds.
Gee, Well in tat case Khar, I'd like to solemnly apologise on behalf of everybody here who posted in this thread for forcing you to read it all the way through, twice.
waitaminute
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No sorry, reading this thread is like people cumming in my eyes. This is fucking bukkake for gear nerds.
Gee, Well in tat case Khar, I'd like to solemnly apologise on behalf of everybody here who posted in this thread for forcing you to read it all the way through, twice.
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
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No sorry, reading this thread is like people cumming in my eyes. This is fucking bukkake for gear nerds.
Gee, Well in tat case Khar, I'd like to solemnly apologise on behalf of everybody here who posted in this thread for forcing you to read it all the way through, twice.
waitaminute
I read it once, your sarcasm is meaningless.
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I just carefully re-read this thread.
Then something isn't adding up!
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You'll have to understand that the first reading consisted of scrolling past everything looking at the pictures of guitars, noting that they did not seem very interesting, and then opening up a text file in which I keep the bb code for images of the BEST GUITAR EVER and pasting that in to a reply.
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FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
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Let's use HTML guys. My "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT" post was the open tag. Misereatur's quote of my post is the close tag. Fight over. More guitars.
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LOL NO POINTY BRACKETS OMG NOOB
(http://www.edromanguitars.com/featured/images/Vam_rockbat_550.jpg)
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IT NEEDS MORE FRETS, 24 IS ABSOLUTELY NOT ENOUGH. FRETS ARE LIKE HOURS OF THE DAY.
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(http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/gun_guitar.jpg)
PEW PEW
I desperately want this now.
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That's like, 750 dollars too.
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The guy who owns my favourite guitar shop actually has that guitar (not for sale though). The trigger is the pickup switch. I had kindof been hoping it would light off some fireworks or something but I guess that's good enough.
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Kane Roberts (formerly of Alice Coopers band) had a gun guitar that shot jets of flame, I believe.
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I want a guitar that's shaped like it's built out of a number of smaller, inferior guitars.
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I want a guitar made out of the bones of various woodland creatures.
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I want a guitar that's shaped like it's built out of a number of smaller, inferior guitars.
That could be a marketable idea.
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I had the idea of making a robot that would play a bass guitar, but the guitar would look like a robot, and the robot would look like a guitar.
I have to get a more interesting job.
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Zakk Wylde Signature Les Paul Electric Guitar - Bull's Eye
(http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/4/7/0/273470.jpg)
Will set you back about $4,000.
i agree with every part of this post. this guitar kicks the shit.
also, if anyone has ever seen FLCL, (and i know its just a cartoon but...) the main character naota has a pretty sick guitar at the end of the show, right when he turns into atomsk. I forget what they called it and don't have time to look it up. but i am sure somebody knows.
Also, Slash had a pretty sweet Gibson back in the day if anyone can remember.
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you mean the double necked Gibson? Or the Rickenbacker?
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Slash's doule neck Gibson is/was amazing
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Townshend and Page did it first.
Just sayin'.
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Hmmm... Every musician I've ever know was a gearhead. So, someone has a problem with musicians?
(Of course, they wouldn't be the first. Lots of people have issues with creatives.)
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Townshend and Page did it first.
Just sayin'.
True.
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Lots of people have issues with creatives.
I cannot even begin to provide examples from my own experience for the validity of this statement, just because I don't think I'd be able to even come CLOSE to finishing.
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(http://www.languedocguitars.com/for_sale/img/g2_032f_lg.jpg)
A Languedoc.
Nice to know he's making them for the general public these days.
But the pricetag is a bit of a turn off.
And, this Conklin.
(http://www.conklinguitars.com/facebass/4gallery/4smoke3.jpg)
Melted tops melt my face.
Although, if i were into the whole extended-range bass thing, I'd be killing for this Conklin, known as the "pac bass"
(http://www.jeanbaudin.com/images/pac9anglemedium.jpg)
It belongs to jean baudin, hes the man.
Sorry if my pictures are a bit big, if anyone has a problem ill go and resize them.
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Fender Stratocaster...
I am just too lazy to red other people replys.
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Fender Stratocaster...
I am just too lazy to red other people replys.
I have two requests for you.
The first is to read the rules of the forum and thusly remove that sig.
The second is a more personal one. I do not enjoy watching a naked anime child's balls.
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Fender Stratocaster...
I am just too lazy to red other people replys.
I have two requests for you.
The first is to read the rules of the forum and thusly remove that sig.
The second is a more personal one. I do not enjoy watching a naked anime child's balls.
Any more request?
Fender - Cyclone
i like it's looks and name.
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Dag nabbit, I missed it, what did this presumably offensive signature consist of?
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David_Dovey: you mentioned a 6-string PRS before. I totally just remembered that my guitar teacher is sponsored by PRS. We all nag him about when his own PRS model is coming out, and when he can throw free ones our way. :lol:
Oh, I almost forgot.
My current baby (more or less): http://www.promusicaustralia.com/guitar/TAKGImages/G530S.jpg (http://www.promusicaustralia.com/guitar/TAKGImages/G530S.jpg) <- It's a kinda big file (something like 1200x1800 pixels) so it may load kinda slow. Not my fault.
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Dag nabbit, I missed it, what did this presumably offensive signature consist of?
Do ya realy want to see it?
Gibson's Killer B bass guitar uhh baby.
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What kind of question is that? If it scars the eyes and gives children permanent psycholgical damage, then of course I want to see it.
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It belongs to jean baudin, hes the man.
Does he know how to use a bass? I submit that if I needed that many strings for my guitar then I wouldn't be doing it right.
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It belongs to jean baudin, hes the man.
Does he know how to use a bass? I submit that if I needed that many strings for my guitar then I wouldn't be doing it right.
Yeah, extended-range basses tend to move out of the bass range.
But he pretty much does alot of tapping,
Search youtube for "jean baudin" or "11 string mario" and you'll see it.
His myspace page has some nice music too. He gets almost piano like tones.
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Dag nabbit, I missed it, what did this presumably offensive signature consist of?
It wasn't offensive, we just don't have sig pictures here.
Oh, and I like the Fender Cyclone, but every one I've played they can't hold tuning. I know wammy bars sent you out of tune, but Cyclones do it the worst I've ever heard.
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It belongs to jean baudin, hes the man.
Does he know how to use a bass? I submit that if I needed that many strings for my guitar then I wouldn't be doing it right.
He's a tapper. There's a video of him playing the Mario theme on an 11 string bass.
Also, for me, nothing beats the Jazz Bass. Simple, comfortable, great sound.
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I've got a love-hate relationship with my guitar. It's a 70s era Epiphone Genesis, which is basically just a cheap Les Paul knockoff with pickup switching and two cutaways. It's sweet, but I got it used, and the previous owner wore out the hardware like you wouldn't believe. Now the strings go out of tune almost immediately after I tune them, or at least shortly after I start playing. :?
But even so, I like it.
http://www.elderly.com/vintage/items/30U-13286.htm
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David_Dovey: you mentioned a 6-string PRS before. I totally just remembered that my guitar teacher is sponsored by PRS. We all nag him about when his own PRS model is coming out, and when he can throw free ones our way. :lol:
PRS's are the shiz.
Also, I just remembered:
EVERYTHING ON THIS WEBSITE (Carvin guitars and basses) (http://www.carvin.com/)
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Although I'm sure they're pretty nice instruments, I just can't get into PRS or Carvin guitars, simply because they're so aesthetically displeasing to me.
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I think the Gibson Thunderbird IV is probably the best-looking electric. Such a nice shape. Slightly off-topic, but has anyone seen the Dean V Coustic? Ugliest guitar ever.
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If I ever open up a shop, I'm going to buy parts from Warmoth and make a few guitars in the style of Tony Iommi's Gibson custom shop SG (wine red). It's one of the best looking SGs I think I've ever seen.
(http://www.everythingsg.com/images/custom_shop_models/iommiSG.jpg)
Although I'd more than likely do them up right handed.
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Oh, and following Sonic Youth's lead, this is now my favourite of my guitars:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/DynamiteKid156/Sigs/Yammy01.jpg)
I'm going to try recording with it tomorrow night. Drone-rock epic here we come...
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How do you play one of those, out of curiousity? Do you strum it or do you hit it with something in order to produce a sound?
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Oh, and following Sonic Youth's lead, this is now my favourite of my guitars:
I'm going to try recording with it tomorrow night. Drone-rock epic here we come...
Did you string it the same way as well?
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Er... how does one play such an instrument?
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I didn't string it the way they did. It's tuned DADADx. I use it to make dissonant noises and feedback, by hitting and strumming. The frets are redundant of course, but I basically have two guitars in one because the drum stick acts as an artificial bridge, so the strings above and below make different noises. So no strumming per se, occasionally one strum of the strings or moving a slide or something up and down it, but it's mostly feedback and hitting the strings with a drumstick.
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I want to build a Whamola stick like Les Claypool.
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(http://hpc.isti.cnr.it/~diego/mitcag/images/guitars/harp.jpg)
(http://ursispaltenstein.ch/blog/images/uploads_1/momi.jpg)
Not that I have any clue how to play these, but knowing they exist makes me happy.
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I would have a mental breakdown just tuning the second one. What the jesus fuck is that thing?
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I almost have a mental breakdown tuning six strings. Oh fuck, I'd be dead after tuning 30 of them.
edit: jesus, there's more of them at the bottom!
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They're just drone strings. Though I really can't imagine what the inside of that guitar looks like to brace all that tension.
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(http://hpc.isti.cnr.it/~diego/mitcag/images/guitars/harp.jpg)
(http://ursispaltenstein.ch/blog/images/uploads_1/momi.jpg)
Not that I have any clue how to play these, but knowing they exist makes me happy.
that bottom one there, looks like it could be pat metheny's pikasso guitar.
its a harp guitar,
so while you can play the main guitar neck normally, the rest acts as a harp.
they are tuned to different scales. so that you can strum and have a chord play or whatever.
if you want to hear what it sounds like, check out the song "into the dream" of the imaginary day album.
theres also a video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEq02XUxVOw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEq02XUxVOw)
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Looking at the first page, i feel as if my Gib SG is no longer special. Despite its name.
On another note (LOL)
A friend of mine brought in a Les Paul to school, and it looks small to me. Are all Les Pauls on the small side?Or was it just an illusion of brain chemicals?
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I have to say my absolute favorite electric guitars are Fender telecasters. I bought a mexican, wine red tele last May and wouldn't trade it for ANYTHING. I've borrowed some electric guitars to perform priced well into four digits that I wouldn't switch it for. That thick sound with the pickups, the neck, and even the color are absolutely perfect.
Runner up though is the Gibson ES-335. I love that tone. Although, I would almost as quickly buy an Epiphone version, as the high end of Epiphone ES copies are extremely similar and a better value. The price jump to Gibson really hasn't shown me that much of an advantage, especially for poor, student-art-rocker that I am. While the sound and neck are a bit better, it's not worth the money-jump if you ask me.
Bass is definitely the four-string Fender jazz bass. In black. It has a nice thick tone, and the neck is brilliant. Although my bass teacher recently turned me on to Lakeland basses, which I've played on a few times to great success, but I'll still go back to Fender. With bass, I've really found that once you reach a certain point in rock music, it's more about what kind of amp setup you're rockin'. Peavy and Hartke have treated me extremely well.
Acoustic guitars is where I like to go the expensive route. Any Martin or Taylor guitar that plugs in is great by me. Given unlimited funds, I'd rock the most expensive Taylor available with electronic setup.
A friend of mine brought in a Les Paul to school, and it looks small to me. Are all Les Pauls on the small side?Or was it just an illusion of brain chemicals?
Les Pauls have really small bodies, but they are heavy as all hell. With that weight and the wide neck, they feel kind of bulky when you're first playing them, interestingly enough. At least that's what I've found.
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(http://www.espguitars.com/images/basses/ec-404.jpg)
I saw this in a Misery Signals film-clip and had to hunt it down. ESP EC Bass. Single cutaway bass? Tasty.
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I am no doubt in wholehearted support of the ES-335 fans in this thread. My mate's dad has one from somewhere around the mid-70s (bought her new) and has kept her absolutely stock. She sounds absolutely perfect in any setting. She's especially good for playing Ted Leo, since he played a Gibson with a dual-humbucker setup and used that lovely pickup blending. Hell, I think he even used a 335, I'll have to go back and look at the YouTube videos of him live.
In any case, someday I will have myself a 335 and it will be a goddamn gem and I'll never trade her for anything.
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Yup, Ted Leo's a 335 man. I have picture of him on my door.
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Most pictures I've seen of Ted are with an Epiphone Sheraton, although he does also bust out the 335.
I'm getting the new Gibson Melody Maker soon. Vintageeeeey. Also only $350. So depending on prices, I might also get a Fender Champion 600 amp, or an Epi Valve Junior head/cab.
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I'm planning on purchasing an Epiphone Casino soon, and I was wondering if anyone else thinks this is a good decision. I haven't gotten a chance to play one as such, but I played an Epiphone Les Paul in the same price range, and so I figure playability and craftsmanship-wise, both axes would be at about the same level.
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I'm gonna go with "Lennon played one, McCartney still does".
It's a good guitar, I tried one out a few months ago.
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(http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/3/5/7/268357.jpg)
(http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/3/5/8/268358.jpg)
This is what I'm going to buy this summer. I don't know which colour I should go for. I'm more into the first one but it doesn't really match anything I own to wear. I'm okay with getting the Olympic white one, too, but that's such a frequently-occuring colour now thanks to Hendrix's Strat at Woodstock '69.
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Personally, I'd get black. Then again, I'd rather a Jazzmaster. Out of those two, go with the green.
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I doubt either of those colours will match much of anything. I'd go with white.
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I think not matching anything is kind of the inevitable drawback of cool retro surf colors.
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Well I've never been bothered about my guitars matching my clothes, but it appeared that Kim was, so I took it into consideration.
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Jaco's Fretless Jazz Bass
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Fenderjazzbass1966.jpg/300px-Fenderjazzbass1966.jpg)
Brian May's Red Special
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Queen_2005_1010016.JPG/683px-Queen_2005_1010016.JPG
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Wasnt jaco's bass of doom, a sunburst jazz, with the pickguard removed?
And also had the knobs replaced with the knurled metal ones?
Something along the lines of what the jaco relic bass was modeled after?
(http://www.fendercustomshop.com.au/images/0196108_md.jpg)
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Yeah. I Just used a stock 62 Jazz. My bad. But that IS the same guitar. Just a different color.
Jaco played 2 basses. A 1960 Fender Jazz Bass with frets, and a 1962 Fender Jazz Bass with the frets removed, and the neck epoxied.
This made the neck smooth, and kept the Rotosound strings from eating the neck.
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Bozo 12 String
http://www.gruhn.com/features/bozo/
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Bozo (pronounced "Bo-zho")
o rly?
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Of course. I play the guitar, and I took lessons for several years, and got to where I was, if I do say so myself, really pretty mediocre. Only two things are keeping me from being a great guitar player: a complete lack of talent and a complete lack of ability. Other than those two things, though...
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A 1960 Fender Jazz Bass with frets
He replaced the original neck on that bass to a 60's Precision bass neck. So it would be harder to practice on.
He also said that he uses the fretless for recording and shows only, becuae the strings eat up the neck.
Flat Wound strings are the best. I dont think I'll go back to regular strings for my Jazz bass. I love that sound.
Also, I'm looking into buying a fretless white 80's Japanese Jazz Bass for about US$800. It's well worth it, I'm just not sure if I have the money.
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Imagine this guitar without the whammy bar (the ones with the bar were discontinued because they detuned it :/). (http://namm.harmony-central.com/SNAMM03/Content/Burns/PR/Barracuda_Blue-lg.jpg)
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Burns guitars are awesome, they have that whole 70's Japanese vibe to them, with the reverse bodies, and warped bodies that avoid law suits, and cramming as many different bits of pickguard/switching and pickups on as possible.
Although that one not so much, you know what i mean.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/grommit/guitar_conrad4pic.jpg)
Like this.
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That Barracuda had the ugliest headstock I've seen on any guitar ever.
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You know, I thought that at first, but it really fits the guitar. It grows on you.
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I doubt either of those colours will match much of anything. I'd go with white.
Yeah, I want to get the darker one, but I only have a few 'outfits' or whatever that it would look good with, and they would look bad against my red sunburst fake Les Paul and my navy blue Squier Bullet. Blue clothing with red is a bad combination and blue clothing with blue makes the damn thing disappear.
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Imagine this guitar without the whammy bar (the ones with the bar were discontinued because they detuned it :/). (http://namm.harmony-central.com/SNAMM03/Content/Burns/PR/Barracuda_Blue-lg.jpg)
Oh Burns.
Pat, you have the same Squier I do. Only all I have left of mine is a sticker covered, beat to shit body and the neck. I'm going to attempt to fix it this summer.
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Mine has a sticker on it. It's by the guy who does DieselSweeties. It says "I'M A ROCKER. I ROCK OUT."
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I've always wanted one of the shirts that said "I am a rocker. I rock out." But I've just never gotten around to it.
My second favourite guitar would probably have to be a strat with overwound (Mmm, mid range) single coils all the way through. I can't stand these friggin' things with humbuckers in the bridge. Gotta be a rosewood fretboard, some sort of graphite/graph-tech nut, a high quality trem and some good tuning machines.
My favourite guitar will always and forever be the guitar I built:
Three piece mahogany body (it's GIGANTIC). I used three pieces so that I could set it up so that the pickups are in the centre of a board, rather than over a glue joint.
One piece mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard and jumbo frets. Kinda wish I had used smaller frets though.
Some sort of Grover tuners, I'm going to replace them with locking tuners some time in the next few months.
DiMarzio Breed(Neck) in... you guessed it, the neck position (sexiest sound EVAR)
DiMarzio Tone Zone in the bridge (also very sexy, but neck pickups FTW)
Wilkinson trem with locking saddles. Note, these don't lock the strings, just the saddles so your intonation will stay stable while changing strings.
Special 5-way pickup switch set so it can do coil splits in positions 2 and 4.
Expanded cutaway for playing on high frets. The Xplorer has always felt somewhat restrictive on the high frets.
I can send pictures of it if anyone wants to see it.
Of course I also want like a thousand billion other guitars. I'll end up like Nigel Tufnel in Spinal Tap, I'll have guitars that have never been played. Ever.
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1981 Gibson Flying V Bass - Trasparent blue [1 out of only 375 made]
(http://www.flying-v.ch/81vbass/b_81trb0.jpg)
And the Lord shall set you free...
(http://www.worldpress.org/images/20050720-guitar-rifle.jpg)Hallelujah!
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My favourite guitar will always and forever be the guitar I built:
(description of possibly the most badass guitar ever)
Of course I also want like a thousand billion other guitars. I'll end up like Nigel Tufnel in Spinal Tap, I'll have guitars that have never been played. Ever.
NICE. I'd also like to see photos of her.
I'm building a guitar with my dad. I needs teh munnees for all the different specialty parts *sigh* but here's basically how it's going to go:
The shape is of my own design, but very Fender-esque with the offset body, and intended to accomodate a Mustang bridge and a Jaguar tailpiece. She's going to have two noiseless neck-position P-90s in both the neck and the bridge so I can have the heavier midrange that The Thrill mentioned with the Strat. Pickup switch is going to be a 3-position snap slider, and the knobs are going to be 2 sets of 2-knob 2-pot stacks. The top knob is going to be volume and the bottom is going to be tone. Jackplate is going to be a reversed Strat jackplate on the bottom of the body (reversed to reduce wear on the instrument cable when I loop it through my strap).
It is going to be epic.
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And the Lord shall set you free...
lol priest holding a shotgun-guitar.
Would that be a shot-tar or a guit-gun?
Either one sounds funny :lol:
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GUITARIFLE
Yours are better though xD
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I'm building a guitar with my dad. I needs teh munnees for all the different specialty parts *sigh* but here's basically how it's going to go:
The shape is of my own design, but very Fender-esque with the offset body, and intended to accomodate a Mustang bridge and a Jaguar tailpiece. She's going to have two noiseless neck-position P-90s in both the neck and the bridge so I can have the heavier midrange that The Thrill mentioned with the Strat. Pickup switch is going to be a 3-position snap slider, and the knobs are going to be 2 sets of 2-knob 2-pot stacks. The top knob is going to be volume and the bottom is going to be tone. Jackplate is going to be a reversed Strat jackplate on the bottom of the body (reversed to reduce wear on the instrument cable when I loop it through my strap).
It is going to be epic.
P-90s are always a great choice i think.
As for the jackplate, you might want to look into doing something like this. http://www.scottfrench.com/Gallery/Customs/Spencer%20Seim,s%20SF3%20Guitar/06.jpg (http://www.scottfrench.com/Gallery/Customs/Spencer%20Seim,s%20SF3%20Guitar/06.jpg) Id rather put it as a url than a picture because its sort of bigish. And im not sure how to change the constraints in this crazy forum code.
Thats a guitar made by Scott French, I really like his work, and think the jackplate at the back is a great idea, how often when you play on stage do you face your amp? Never. So it makes sense it be at the back.
If placed correctly, it wont stab into you when you play sitting down, and with your offset body, that shouldn't be a problem.
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GUITARIFLE
Yours are better though xD
wait, it's a rifle? I totally thought it was a shotgun.
SHOTGUNZ R MOAR FUN ROFFLEZ
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GUITARIFLE
Yours are better though xD
wait, it's a rifle? I totally thought it was a shotgun.
SHOTGUNZ R MOAR FUN ROFFLEZ
YER RITE ITZ A SEXTUPLE-STRINGED SHOTGUN! LAWL
(most likely break action)
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well ive got a gibson sg(black) and a gibson les paul(orange sunburst) and a couple martin acoustics, but i really want an old fender mustang...that would be sweet...or maybe a prs
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As for the jackplate, you might want to look into doing something like this. http://www.scottfrench.com/Gallery/Customs/Spencer%20Seim,s%20SF3%20Guitar/06.jpg (http://www.scottfrench.com/Gallery/Customs/Spencer%20Seim,s%20SF3%20Guitar/06.jpg) Id rather put it as a url than a picture because its sort of bigish. And im not sure how to change the constraints in this crazy forum code.
Thats a guitar made by Scott French, I really like his work, and think the jackplate at the back is a great idea, how often when you play on stage do you face your amp? Never. So it makes sense it be at the back.
If placed correctly, it wont stab into you when you play sitting down, and with your offset body, that shouldn't be a problem.
That is indeed a cool jackplate design. Just by looking at it though, I don't know how comfortable it'd be... it looks like the cable would be kindof poking at you if the hardened bit of the cable is long enough. I use Planet Waves cables and the hardened bit sticks out quite a ways. I think I may even end up putting a Strat jackplate the normal way on the side of the guitar to where it comes out of the plate with the cable pointing up so that I really have no choice but to loop it through my strap.
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I dunno how I forgot to mention the Custom Telecaster that first showed up in 1959. Double bound body and a rosewood fretboard.
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Anybody reading this thread in the Maryland area, there MAY (IMPORTANT! MAY!) be a kickawesome guitar shop opening in the Columbia area soon, owned by a Mr. Damon Foreman, and, if I whine and plead enough, may get a job at said shop, so you all will need to stop by.
That is, IF this shop gets put in, and IF I get a job there.
But, if it happens, then yeah, totally.
IF.
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but i really want an old fender mustang...that would be sweet...
So it's the summer of 2003, I save up my hard earned money and go down to the local shop, where thar be a 1973 Fender Mustang. Ugliest piece of shit I'd ever seen. Sonic blue finish faded to green, racing stripes faded to a creamy-yellowish, tortioseshell pickguard, body all dinged up..love at first sight.
I didn't have enough money at the time..come back the next week with the proper $450 and it's been sold. =/
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but i really want an old fender mustang...that would be sweet...
So it's the summer of 2003, I save up my hard earned money and go down to the local shop, where thar be a 1973 Fender Mustang. Ugliest piece of shit I'd ever seen. Sonic blue finish faded to green, racing stripes faded to a creamy-yellowish, tortioseshell pickguard, body all dinged up..love at first sight.
I didn't have enough money at the time..come back the next week with the proper $450 and it's been sold. =/
oh man...that is seriously the most depressing story ive heard all week. and im not joking either.
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I ended up with an Epiphone based off an old Gibson Firebird III. It's..quirky to say the least. I love it.
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very nice, i think epiphones get too much hate, i mean theyre not gibson, but theyre still solid guitars.
on a side note, check out this gangsta shit:
(http://www.rondomusic.net/photos/acoustic/panda2.jpg)
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I'd actually murder for an epiphone.
Thing is, pretty much anything would be an improvement for me.
But my favourite guitars...
Are the ?20 junior sized classical starter guitars that they hand you in primary school. So much fun to play. More fun to play than any other guitar I've ever played.
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don't murder for an epiphone! you can get one for like $200 or somthing.
My favorite guitar is my acoustic bass guitar. Its a fretted four string by la bella. They make mostly classical strings but also a very few basses. It is beautiful and has amazing resonance. It is kind of big though...
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magnanimusman, he uses play money 'cause he's in Britain, that's 100 pounds.
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Are the $20 junior sized classical starter guitars that they hand you in primary school. So much fun to play. More fun to play than any other guitar I've ever played.
Oh man do I ever want one of those to install a pickup in.
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This thread has gone on for far too long without mention of the Wangcaster. (http://www.carverdoug.com/wang.html) Link posted instead of pictures, becausit's slightly NSFW.
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oh wow...thats just...i dont even know what to say.
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"Masturbatory guitar solo" anyone?
Actually, with that body, it looks like it'd be an easy guitar to play. And a body made out of cherry wood... hell, I don't even know what to say.
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I like how you're talking about the wood makeup of the guitar when it's a guitar shaped like a wang.
No offense or anything, I just thought it was kinda funny.
MOAR ABOUT THIS WANG-TAR PLZ
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Well, I mean, one can only go so far in a thread with "lol penis," amirite?
(I really am curious as to how the thing sounds and plays though!)
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It'd make a sort of tWANGy sound, amirite?
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I like how you're talking about the wood makeup of the guitar...
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Most penis jokes in one thread here we come.
DONGZ AND CHORDZ LOL
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Most penis jokes in one thread here we come.
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that guitar has balls
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Most penis jokes in one thread here we come.
U C WAT I DID THAR?
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Are the $20 junior sized classical starter guitars that they hand you in primary school. So much fun to play. More fun to play than any other guitar I've ever played.
Oh man do I ever want one of those to install a pickup in.
It won't work, nylon strings don't produce an electrical field when they vibrate over a pickup, and you'd have to completely remove and reposition the bridge (requiring a lot of dicking around and the construction of a special jig) to be able to use steel strings with any hope of having non-shit intonation. Sorry mate :B
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What about piezo pickups?
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What, one of those vibration-sensitive guys? Well, it depends on what kind of sounds JohnnyC wants to get out of that guitar.
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You could dope the string in something that conducts and then run a current through them. It'd sound completely different but I'd like to hear it. Has anyone tried running a current (oscillating? the out from an oscillator or some other guitar maybe?) through their strings?
[edit]actually, guitar strings are coils aren't they? damn, solenoids give you parallel magnetic fields rather than circular ones surrounding the string.
DynamiteKid: is there some site somewhere that has a bunch of rambling and vague articles about getting drones or other not typical guitar noises out of a guitar?
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Oh shit, guys, I have an emergency here. This is what happened:
So the housekeeper was mopping around an area that we've told her about 50 times not to do ANYTHING around, because it has all of my guitars in it. But she didn't fucking listen and decided to mop there anyway. She knocked my Squier Strat over into my '53 Kay acoustic and dropped the mop in the bucket, splashing water on the back of the acoustic. This water contained floor cleaner. The floor cleaner in the water has completely fucked up parts of the finish on the guitar.
Is there any way for me to fix this with the limited resources I have here in Albania, or am I going to have to take her to the States and have my dad take care of it?
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why would you take her to your dad? i say you kill the bitch where she stands brother.
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In that part I meant "she" as in my guitar :B
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I couldn't come up with a good girl's name for my guitar, so I just call it "23".