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Pretty self-explanatory.
I'm in the 1-2 category; I own a Danelectro and a Taylor acoustic (most kickass guitar ever).
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Including bass guitars? If so, 9+
If not,1-2, if lap steels are included as a guitar, 3-4.
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2 classical, 1 acoustic and an electric. I want another one, but I hardly play any more so it is a bit of a waste.
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I have so many guitars that I light my cigarettes with flaming guitars.
I also cry myself to sleep on a pile of guitars every night. It's pretty uncomfortable.
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3. Fender Squier that I got as my first guitar, Takamine acoustic, Epiphone Les Paul.
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I own 4. My acoustic, my Gibson SG, My Fender Jazzmaster, and my B.C. Rich Warbeast.
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I own two. My pretty meh acoustic and my pretty meh Squire Strat. I plan on getting new guitars in the relative future.
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I own two basses, a reliable Squier P-Bass and a nice sounding but completely unreliable and I want to sell it Warwick Convertte. Also I'm renting a cello, which is far cooler than any of this guitar nonsense.
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3. my crappy non playable fender squire strat, an acoustic tacoma guitar, and an acoustic seagull folk guitar.
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A Squire Strat, a Fender '72 Telecaster Deluxe, and an Epiphone Orville acoustic.
Currently working towards a Fender American Stratocaster and a Seagull acoustic.
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In my experience the more guitars a non-professional musician owns the worse they are at playing them.
This is also true of people who get all gay for certain types of guitars. The more one talks about how super rad a certain model of guitar is, the less talented they are.
Also they probably have small dicks.
(This post is not aimed at any of you, I'm talking about people I've known in real life.)
(I own two guitars, a Danelectro for standard tuning playing and a cheap Esteban for GGDDGG tuning, which my band has about five songs in.)
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Including bass guitars? If so, 9+
If not,1-2, if lap steels are included as a guitar, 3-4.
Yes, and lap steels.
X/A/B=C
A=amount of songs one tries to play (in front of an audience) that he/she obviously cannot
B=amount of times Slash or Guns N Roses is mentioned per day
X=amount of time spent practicing per day, in minutes
C=skill in units Y, used for comparing against others
It works perfectly for where I live.
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I have two electric guitars, including an American Standard Tele that I bought last week, and an acoustic guitar that I reassembled myself.
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I have:
One bass
Two electrics (one solidbody and one semi-hollow)
3 acoustics (one classical and two steel strings, one of which is on indefinite loan)
If I had infinite money I'd probably have dozens of the damn things. Right now I'm just working on getting the essentials. Next comes a 12 string.
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1 electric, 1 acoustic, 1 bass
Used to be 2 basses but some theft happened.
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I have this many.
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a46/ironoxide887/GuitarMaster.jpg)
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Still a quality photo, Ox.
As for me, I've got the Yamaha, the Grey Beast, the Hofner, the Tele, the Encore, the Fender, that's six, plus my bass and my lap steel makes eight or six depending how you look at it.
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I have this many.
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Did you take that for the purpose of posting it on this thread, or did you have it already? Either way, lol and awesome
I was so sad when I saw that the SG had hit the ceiling. That poor guitar.
Unless my mind is playing tricks on me, which is more than likely, in which case the SG is fine.
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Including bass guitars? If so, 9+
If not,1-2, if lap steels are included as a guitar, 3-4.
Yes, and lap steels.
15 altogether then, 12 basses, 2 guitars, and a lap steel.
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Seven guitars, two basses.
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I have a Tenada acoustic and a Dean Vendetta. When I've made some money I'm gonna save it for a beautiful Fender or Gibson. :-)
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i have an acoustic shitty guitar. i had planned to upgrade but things got in the way
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I have a reallllllllly old creme white dano and a mexican strat. And a super-bottom-of-the-barrel harmony acoustic guitar.
So 3.
The strat is missing the B string, but otherwise it is in standard tuning. The Dano is missing both the B and e strings, so it is currently tuned to ABBA. the acoustic is standard.
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How does ABBA tuning sound?
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I'm in the 9+ category.... I've got a bad addiction.
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How does ABBA tuning sound?
Like shit.
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One of my ex girlfriends had left her guitar untuned for so long, that when I strummed the strings, it was so out of tune that it sounded awesome again.
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I have an ungodly amount of guitars mainly due to the fact back in high school I bought tons of shitty guitars (under 100 buck affairs) from the used section of guitar center as opposed to a single good one. Then I bought good ones later on so I have wayyy too many.
THE END (UNLESS YOU CARE ABOUT WHICH GUITARS)
Let's see...
1. Epi Les Paul Junior
2. Peavey Strat Knockoff
3. Old used Jackson Metal guitar of some type
4. Peavey Strat Knockoff #2 (later I discovered it was a rare American made model and worth a lot more the 60 bucks I paid)
5. A old beat up Gretsch Synchromatic
6. A Chinese "Gifson" Flying V (it amuses me)
7. A Switch Stein IV (the first decent one I bought)
8. which came with a free cheaper switch guitar too
9. An Epi LP
10. A Switch that my drummer gave me cause he heard I liked plastic guitars
11. An old Fender HH Telecaster I got out of the trash at school, no pickups or bridge or anything, restored it but made the mistake of loading it with Dimebuckers (part of my regrettable nu-metal phase)
and then I actually bought some good stuff
11. Gibson Explorer circa 1980
12. PRS Semi-Hollowbody
13. Fender Highway 1 Telecaster (the best thing ever)
Too bad I just didn't buy a telecaster to begin with.
I use a ton of different tunings though so it's nice to be able to just switch guitars around.
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I've got an Epiphone SG that plays like garbage and a Martin acoustic that I adore.
Ironically I'm more of an electric player so I deal with the SG at home and at practice I play my mate's DeArmond (Guild) Starfire and Thinline Tele.
Looking to buy an American Tele Deluxe when I get my hands on some cash.
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I would love to have a '72 Tele Deluxe someday...
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*waves penis in your face*
Well, it's a Custom... reissue... and a Squier...
But it's a black tele with two humbuckers and four knobs on it!
So, har.
*waves penis some more*
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One of my ex girlfriends had left her guitar untuned for so long, that when I strummed the strings, it was so out of tune that it sounded awesome again.
I love playing detuned guitars and figuring out how to make them sound good. Especially acoustic ones.
Also, I honestly believe Telecasters are the single most overrated thing in the entire world of guitars.
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I have 8. The majority of them aren't even played anymore.
1. A crappy 3/4 size classical that I bought off of a friend for the coins I had in my pocket at the time.
2. A Jazz Bass knockoff.
3. A Stagg LP knockoff.
4. A half built Strat which will probably take about 20 years to built due to what I want to do to it.
5. A Squier MB4 Bass.
6. An Acoustic that I bought from a charity shop because I was told that the next guitar wouldn't be ready for a few months after I bought it.
7. A Fender CD140SCE Electro Acoustic.
8. A Fender Cyclone. I love it.
The last 2 were bought with Student Loans, you have to love them!
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Guys, you are all doing it wrong. Even you, OP. The only answer worth giving is "NOT FUCKING ENOUGH"
At last count, if you include my dad's guitars (I do, because I play them more than he does and I live over 9,000 miles away from him/them), the number was 9. Not counting my dad's guitars, I've got 6.
Edit for lists. My six:
1. Gibson Faded SG Special, cherry
2. Johnson Stratoclone (personally autographed by Bo Diddley, it is my pride and joy), metallic silver
3. Squier Bullet (hardtail), spraypainted and stickered
4. 1953 Kay acoustic, natural finish on a Sitka spruce flat top
5. Arbor copy of a Les Paul, cherry burst
6. Some shitty PRS clone that my stepmom's brother built (poorly) and gave (unloaded) to me as a present
My dad's three:
7. 1937 Kay acoustic (my favourite acoustic guitar of all time), battered to hell with a Sitka spruce top and natural finish
8. 1973 Fender acoustic, not quite sure what model
9. 1983 Epiphone acoustic, again not sure which model
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Four. Looking to get both a new bass and a new electric.
Currently,
1. Behringer Strat knockoff
2. Fender Musicmaster bass (Absorbed from friend, buying soon)
3. Wayne Classical (Absorbed from parents, my resident downtuned acoustic. Keep it in D Standard to play acoustic Insomnium covers)
4. Valencia Spanish Acoustic (Got given it when I was 3 by my godfather, who happens to be awesome. It has a real good tone and great action)
Aiming for a tele in the guitar department, and a ricky in the bass department. Bass first, though.
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1.) Rickenbacker 4003 in Jet Glo (only colour they had)
2.) 1994 Ibanez Talman Cream with Red Mirror pickguard (Before they turned Talman's into shitty acoustics)
3.) Squire Strat Navy.
4.) Johnson bass
5.) Epiphone Ebo-3 (SG bass)
6.) Shitty Dean guitar my friend never came back for
7.) Jazz bass knockoff but nonetheless my first bass, amazing for a knockoff
I pretty much waste every cent i get on guitars and basses.
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Two shit acoustics, a squier strat, a lovely Epiphone Les Paul '56 Gold Top and an Aria Pro II Bass.
And a mandolin. Because FOLK MUSIC > YOU.
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1. A crappy behringer vintager (strat copy). My dad has a Hohner Acoustic, but that is his, and while I play it more than he does, I still don't play it more than once a year. Want an SG, getting a job soon as I can so I can afford one.
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It's a really shitty store, and most of their guitars are pretty overpriced, but if you don't care about your SG being an Epiphone, and you have a Music and Arts Center near your house, I saw one at my local store for like 250 a few months back.
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Also, I honestly believe Telecasters are the single most overrated thing in the entire world of guitars.
I honestly hope you die.
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aiming for a emerald green paul reed smith, my friend is selling it to me.
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I can get an SG cheap at the local store, but I want to get the gibson one, if I were to get an Epi, I would get a cherry burst les paul.
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I have a Squire strat that's in rubbish condition, a Marlin Loner (best name for a slightly metal looking guitar ever, they might as well have called it the 'I will never touch a woman') that I got for a few quid and won't stay in tune, a shitty Squire p-bass that I sort of like even if a friend did once describe it as sounding like twanging a rubber band attached to a bit of inferior wood and a Mexican Fender jazz bass that I'm extremely fond of.
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Also, I honestly believe Telecasters are the single most overrated thing in the entire world of guitars.
I honestly hope you die.
I honestly hope you've only played the squires (which are still good, but let's face it no where near as amazing as those Fender Teles)
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Nah, with my limited knowledge of Jackie and his music I can pretty safely say that he's probably played a million Telecasters over the years.
It's just personal preference, guys. We've had this debate a million times over.
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But the telecaster is just so damn perfect! Ah, dropping the subject now. DROPPED!
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I has a arirang (gibson ripoff) steel string acoustic, a hawk nylon, but both are now broken.
Going out in about 5 weeks to buy myself a takamine acoustic hopefully.
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doooo eeeet
I got one for my birthday two years back and I am a big fan.
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right now, 7 guitars and 1 bass.
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1 Black Nameless Acoustic (Stolen)
1 Ibanez Custom (stolen)
1 Epiphone LP (Stolen)
1 Washburn Acoustic
1 Harmony Stratocaster
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Jesus shit, what happened?
Jeph, be more specific you cocktease.
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Got drunk left the acoustic at this kids house. Then the other two are just due to having a very shitty friend. My Amp, and everything else got taken.
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Ibanez Artstar - Not the stock pickups. I put in some gibson stuff, it sounds nice.
Schecter Diamond Series - It is semi hollow and orange. Has a p 90 type pick up and a humbucker. It is cool.
Fender MIM 72 Telecaster Deluxe Reissue
Washburn HB 32
Some random Danelectro I bought to practice wiring and soldering on.
Takamine Santa Fe Acoustic
Alverez Yari from the 70's
Some Cheapo Spanish guitar.
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a PRS SE singlecut... plays BEAUTIFULLY (after a master setup)
and a Yamaha classical guitar thats been here for like 25 years... and plays great
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Corey, your Tele is beautiful. I want one of my own.
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Electrics...
-Gretsch Duo-Jet (black)
-Fender Telecaster (white)
-Epiphone Les Paul (cherry sunburst)
-Ibanez GAX (red)
Acoustics...
-Takamine G-series (natural)
-Epiphone EJ-200 (natural)
-Applause (Ovation knock-off - sunburst)
Basses...
Epiphone Firebird (sunburst)
Fender P-Bass (red)
Misc...
Galveston Mandolin (green)
Epiphone Banjo
Laney Lap Steel
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Electrics...
-Gretsch Duo-Jet (black)
-Fender Telecaster (white)
Etc.
Is your Gretsch any good?
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Three- a low-end taylor dreadnought, a G&L ASAT Z3 tele, and a 1930's hawaiian-style acoustic.
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Corey, your Tele is beautiful. I want one of my own.
You should get one. It is my favorite of my guitars. I am now in love with Tele's.
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Electrics...
-Gretsch Duo-Jet (black)
Is your Gretsch any good?
It's a Duo Jet. I'd reckon it's nothing short of outstanding.
(I've...played one. Once.)
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Five. In order of acquisition:
1. Cheap electric from Sears (Harmony?) that I got out of high school, horrible sound/feel, should pawn it.
2. Cheap acoustic no-name guitar, bought at yard sale, very high action horrible sound flaking paint job. Should also be pawned or just thrown out.
3. Takamine Jasmine acoustic, this is my baby, the one I play most often and learned the most from. Frets are a bit large but so far I've managed some pretty sounds.
4. Epiphone Embassy bass, I love this instrument, I'm just starting out on bass but I already think I like it more than guitar. It's certainly been easier to pick up but I haven't had a chance to jam with other players yet.
5. Daisy Rock Debutante electric... technically I don't own this one yet, but I will in a few days when it comes into the shop. A little leery of buying a "girl" guitar even though I am a girl but who knows, maybe it will be easier to handle than my full-scale Takamine. I've heard other girl players (and guys with small hands) give this company glowing reviews.
And I'm still at beginner level. I think at this point I like the collecting more than the actual playing, or maybe it's just that I don't have time for the actual playing. If/when I sell the first two, though, it will not seem so ridiculous.
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I've got...
Fender Aerodyne Jazz Bass. Red with white trim. She is my baby.
Fender Telecaster cherry sunburst with tortoise shell pickguard
Ibanez Talman (TCY10E) Electro Acoustic, Black
Ibanez Talman (TCY20) Electro Acoustic Red Sunburst
Nameless Fender Jazz Rip off I compiled from bits. British racing green, White pickguard.
Westone Fretless Bass
Unreasonably old Mexican 12 string Acoustic
Random Schecter thing
I used to own a Hofner Verithin Semi Acoustic Bass in Red from 1962, but I had to sell to help fund the buying of a home studio. Still miss it tho..
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I really need an excuse and the money to buy a new bass. With like 5 strings and no frets and and and...!
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I need an excuse to buy a bass and a good bass amp.
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1 gibson les paul (authentic)
1 gibson sg special
1 squire acoustic (not too sure about specifics
1 gibson firebird VII
do basses count? cuz 5 if you count my washburn taurus t-25
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My first guitar was a cheap nylon guitar my dad got me from a flea market. but i don't count that as one of my guitars. also, i have no idea where it is, so:
My first real guitar is a yamaha pacifica electric. It's pretty beat up, but i started using it again in my first year of college cuz i didn't want to bring my other guitar. so I use it fairly often now
My second guitar, the one i use to wreck the hell out of my fingers on a daily basis is this one:
(http://www.themusiczoo.com/Celebrity_Acoustic_CC057_9014621full.jpg)
http://www.ovationguitars.com/?fa=detail&mid=20 (http://www.ovationguitars.com/?fa=detail&mid=20)
I play it with Ernie Ball Earthwood (medium) strings and it sounds fantastic.
speaking of which, a strings thread would probably be a really good idea.
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Time to join this largest dick competition.
I personally own 4 guitars. I have 3 electrics and an acoustic. My dad though, I think has 7 acoustics and 2 resonators.
My acoustic is a lovely 1920's Lyon and Healy that my dad got off of ebay and repaired. It has quite a deep v neck which took a while to get used to, but it has an excellent sound and is very playable. A lovely guitar, which has a cool beat up gangster style case ( like the violin ones but scaled up).
First electric guitar I got was a Peavey Raptor. It is bright red and was ok to play, the actions a little to high on it and I rarely play it these days. It does however sound awesome when played with a slide, and a lot of distortion, the horrible rust on the strings (haven't been changed in years) adds another element of cool to the sound.
Next guitar I got was a Japanese Fender Jaguar. It has a nice sound which I have only really discovered now after getting a good amp to play it through. The bridge on Jaguars is crap so I replaced it with a Jagstang bridge ( I think, might have been a mustang). This mod makes it a hell of a lot more playable, If any of you are thinking of getting a jaguar, put a new bridge on it. The strings I have on it are a bit to heavy and for this reason the guitar doesn't get the attention it deserves, I should really do something about that but I've never gotten round to it.
My favourite guitar by far is my Mexican Telecaster Custom. The neck on it is amazing and the so is the sound. It's black and looks awesome as well. Guitar was stringless for a while after making some mods to it, but it is back in action now. I really don't play guitar enough now, I should really get my arse into gear and learn some new stuff.
Discussions about strings should go in the guitar topic I reckon. Its a pretty good place for it.
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There once was a long discussion about strings over in the guitar topic, so yes, yes it is.
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Guys, I have seven electric guitars now. This is getting silly.
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...I'm not sure that particular discussion really counts as proper discourse. I mean, shit, it's where I got my sig quote.
[EDIT] Okay, never mind. I double checked. That discussion was only half as uninformative (but just as awesome!) as I remembered it.
Also, I still only have the one guitar. I'm a failure as a forumite and a person.
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two: a mexican made fender strat circa 2002ish
and a taylor 110
My strat i don't play that much, mostly because I have a shitty amp. It's still lots of fun to play though, it's got super low action.
My taylor is my baby :-)
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jay turser tele, just set-up yesterday [set-up bbq's are rad]
jay turser acoustic [hey, the brand is cheap and i didn't have a lot of money]
vibra les paul [inherited from an ex]
i had a hondo les paul that i traded for cd's and comix that was held together by duct tape and old punk rock stickers.
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I can get an SG cheap at the local store, but I want to get the gibson one, if I were to get an Epi, I would get a cherry burst les paul.
You remember that whole thing where I am selling my SG? Yeah, nothing new there.
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You remember the part where I am jobless? Probably not, I don't think I have mentioned it.
Going to start searching for a job, though.
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two: a mexican made fender strat circa 2002ish
and a taylor 110
My strat i don't play that much, mostly because I have a shitty amp. It's still lots of fun to play though, it's got super low action.
My taylor is my baby :-)
Oh man, I want a 110e so bad.
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Three, counting my bass. None of them are really anything special. I've got a Fender acoustic that I don't play all that much, a hollow-body Squier that I absolutely adore, and an Ibanez bass that I've had since I was 12.
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two: a mexican made fender strat circa 2002ish
and a taylor 110
My strat i don't play that much, mostly because I have a shitty amp. It's still lots of fun to play though, it's got super low action.
My taylor is my baby :-)
Oh man, I want a 110e so bad.
Do it, man. It plays and sounds beautifully. Good sized body and great neck. The neck isn't overly wide like many acoustics, and it's got low action. At the time i bought it, i wasn't looking for an electro-acoustic (Personally, at least for gigs, I think miced acoustics sound better than acoustic pick ups) but I'm slightly regretting not having the ease of plug & play. Plus, it only cost me $475 USD but the guy also gave me $50-$75 off.
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I.. uh... have a fiddle.
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*grin*
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I.. uh... have a fiddle.
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*grin*
Is your fiddle any good? I'm a violinist, and actually have never been able to tell the difference (if there is one) between a violin and a fiddle. I played a lot on it, and was pretty good, but then I fell in love with the guitar and don't play my violin as vigorously. I might as well say it's a Scott Cao, made in California, pretty good as non-pro violins go.
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As far as I'm aware, there is *no* difference between the modern fiddle and the classical violin except for how it is played. That is not to say, however, that some types of fiddles (such as the Nordic Hardanger) are not very distinctly different from a violin.
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I only have one guitar. A lebanese classical guitar that my grandfather gave my father when he moved in Canada. My father was self-taught and he developped bad playing habits so he stopped playing it. He gave it to me two years ago. I could never play it. The peghead were so rusty that when I tried to tune the guitar, it cracked the handle.
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I'm a violinist, and actually have never been able to tell the difference (if there is one) between a violin and a fiddle.
Fiddle's got a flatter bridge and nut. Makes it easier to play two strings at once as is so common in ceilidh and bluegrass music.
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A Jay Jr. Acoustic and a Gibson SG.
The Gibson was a budget-guitar carried by Best Buy for a few months/year. I would never recommend the instrument upon someone.
My amp is a Peavey Blazer 158 Transtube Amplifier. I really need to see how it sounds using another guitar with it.
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The Gibson was a budget-guitar carried by Best Buy for a few months/year. I would never recommend the instrument upon someone.
I do not believe you.
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http://www.guitar-museum.com/guitar-4435-GIBSON-BALWIN-SG-SIGNATURE-SERIES-GUITAR
http://jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com/2006/03/best-buy-guitars-no-threat-to-guitar.html
I had trouble finding information on it trust me.
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An ancient Carlos 12 string acoustic, which is falling apart and has screwy intonation
An Ibanez acoustic-electric
A Rogue violin bass
assorted other random instruments
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1.USA Gibson Firebird VII (Blue Finish!)
2.Fender Special Edition Koa Strat (I added a switch that turns on the bridge pickup, allowing me to have the tele style neck/bridge sound or all three on at once!)
3.A Discontinued Ovation Celebrity
4.An Ibanez Mandolin
5.The Cigarbox guitar I made myself
6.Soon to be owning my friend's Banjo
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The Gibson was a budget-guitar carried by Best Buy for a few months/year. I would never recommend the instrument upon someone.
I do not believe you.
Doubt it was a real gibson, my friend and I refer to his kit-guitar Les Paul knock-off as a les paul, even though it is a cheap-feeling hollowbody POS with an acoustic neck.
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Yeah, I think Gibson owns the Baldwin company, but believe me, they're not Gibsons. Baldwin seems to make bargain instruments for beginners and students. I have one of their violins, which also has the Gibson name on it, and it's not great.
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I would kill to have one of you peoples' Firebird VII.
I'm almost not joking, that's how much I want one.
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Yeah, I think Gibson owns the Baldwin company, but believe me, they're not Gibsons. Baldwin seems to make bargain instruments for beginners and students. I have one of their violins, which also has the Gibson name on it, and it's not great.
Yes it has Gibson-Baldwin on the box.
When talking about it I call it a "Gibson" on text. If talking to someone I use fingerquotes.
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Two. One is an Epiphone Les Paul Special. It is quite nice and i got it real cheap second hand, currently it is tuned to C and is used almost exclusively to play Sleater Kinney songs. The other is a no name tele copy. I am quite fond of it and plays rather nicely, it is tuned to standard right now.
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When talking about it I call it a "Gibson" on text. If talking to someone I use fingerquotes.
The only reason the Gibson name is on there at all is so that the uninformed will buy it (Gibson is a huge name in the world of guitars), and when people bitch about the poor quality, the answer they'll get is "What, you thought this was an actual Gibson USA instrument? Hey dude can I interest you in some oceanfront property in Arizona?"
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I'd be more likely to buy the property, I am still young, I can wait until california breaks off.
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When talking about it I call it a "Gibson" on text. If talking to someone I use fingerquotes.
The only reason the Gibson name is on there at all is so that the uninformed will buy it (Gibson is a huge name in the world of guitars), and when people bitch about the poor quality, the answer they'll get is "What, you thought this was an actual Gibson USA instrument? Hey dude can I interest you in some oceanfront property in Arizona?"
Oooh how much!?
Yeah I fell for the trap of buying it. It was my first electric, and I hadn't done any research on them. I just saw the instrument perusing Best Buy and thought "cool" and asked for it for Christmas. I became kind of suspicious when I tried looking my guitar up when I got it (2 and a half years ago) and had trouble finding it.
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Yeah man, if I'd have been in your situation in the store I can't exactly say I'd have blamed you.
I kindof want to buy one someday and mod the everliving shit out of it, just because modding the shit out of crappy guitars is quickly becoming one of my favourite hobbies.
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Yeah man, if I'd have been in your situation in the store I can't exactly say I'd have blamed you.
I kindof want to buy one someday and mod the everliving shit out of it, just because modding the shit out of crappy guitars is quickly becoming one of my favourite hobbies.
Have you put in a Kaoss Pad yet? Those things are awesome, and it would be easy (relatively) on my hollowbody Dano, but I can't force myself to do anything to it. It's like the brother I never had.
What would be awesome would be putting in a circuit-bent speak and spell, so it activates when you play. Pointless? Sure. Too awesome to resist? 100%.
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I have four guitars. The first is a really stripped down Epiphone SG that I bought in a starter pack when I was first learning. I also have an Ibanez Jet King. The other two are acoustics. One is a Sunlite, who I'm pretty sure is a drum maker. The other is an exotic wood Ibanez.
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Have you put in a Kaoss Pad yet?
Oh I was thinking more along the lines of installing capacitors with on-off switches (like the mid-kill switch on a Jaguar) or doing coil-taps or other weird-but-simple shit like that. I'd buy it as a "Mod it and abuse the shit out of it" guitar, because seriously, who needs a whammy bar when you could just push down really hard on the body and up on the neck? So what if you snap the neck joint, the fucker was like $50.
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I own an Epiphone les paul classic, an Ibanez rip off telecaster from the 70's, a cheap dean semi-hollow, a wrecked guild acoustic (my heart broke when its neck did), a chet atkins epiphones special, a american high way one fender jazz bass, a cheap beater bass, and a classical from mexico, so um 8?
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Squier Stratocaster (two humbuckers, black w/ black pickguard, currently out of commission)
Fender Lead II (two single coils, red w/ black pickguard, main guitar)
Ibanez Artcore Acoustic Guitar (main acoustic)
Squier Telecaster (red w/ white pickguard, belongs to bandmate)
Samick Bass (wood-stained gold-hardwared nu-metal thingy, 24 frets, borrowed from friend)
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This is about a week late, but I have increased my count by one Fender Jaguar. So including my dad's acoustics, the count is now at 10.
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Pics. What colour jaguar did you get? Make sure to mod the bridge because the bottom E falling off all the time will really get on your nerves.
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Beating Pat to it- he got it in Olympic White.
Yeah get a Mustang bridge dawg.
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Epiphone Les Paul Special II, Ibanez RG-350 DX, Denelectro Rumour Bass, an acoustic, and a mandolin.
First post!
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I have an old acoustic guitar I found in my grandparent's attic, a blue and white Fender Squire and a Fender Strat my uncle got me for graduation that was custom-built. I'm definitely not a guitar expert; I just try to find the best sound with what I have. I do know that I need a better amp though. The Frontman I got with my Squire is uh, shall we say, limited.
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Three basses, two electric guitars, one acoustic guitar, and I'm buying an upright bass soon.
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A Shaftesbury Les Paul copy, made in 1966
A Yamaha Pacifica 812v that is probably only about 2 years old now
They're mah babehs :P
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New electric! White Harmony!
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do ukuleles count? :-D
If so,
Lanikai LU-21C uke
Ibanez 1570
ESP LTD Deluxe EC-1000
Schecter C-7 Blackjack
yeah, I like to shred... especially on the uke
(http://www.news-messefrankfurt.com/musicmail/englisch/bilder/yngwie2.jpg)
:-D
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If other strings count then I have a banjo and a mandolin. Somewhere.
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yeah, I like to shred...
Then I guess I don't give a shit about you.
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New electric! White Harmony!
Is it one of the new Harmony models? I've heard they're rather expensive compared to what the originals were back in the day.
(http://harmonyguitars.com/images/products/front_41.jpg)
$1200, CMON LADS.
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Then I guess I don't give a shit about you.
I don't just shred. I just got bored of taking classical and jazz guitar lessons for six years, and my teacher also just happened to be incredible at that technical shred stuff. I'm a heck of a lot more well rounded than Yngwgay, that's for sure.
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I was semi-joking, I just don't "get" shred on anything other than a masturbatory level.
What people often say to me is that guys like Satriani often have good songs as well as shred solos.
But I have to ask - would those songs be good enough to get him signed if he couldn't play 200 notes a minute?
It'll just never be something I like out of certain contexts. If you're not in a metal band I already like, I won't like you're shredding, basically.
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Squier Strat (blue finish, white pickguard, Oilers sticker, and SD Hot Rails pu in bridge)
Squier Tele (black finish, white pickguard)
Ovation CC24 Celebrity (acoustic, quilted maple finish)
Out of comission:
Epiphone LP-100 (sunburst finish)
Gretsch G-1653 Synchromatic (acoustic, first guitar, flamed maple finish)
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But I have to ask - would those songs be good enough to get him signed if he couldn't play 200 notes a minute?
You've never, ever listened to a Satch song.
Have you.
Anyway, I own
- A Gibson SG Special Faded
- An Ibanez RG350EX
- A Schecter Hellraiser Avenger
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But I have to ask - would those songs be good enough to get him signed if he couldn't play 200 notes a minute?
You've never, ever listened to a Satch song.
Have you.
Yeah, several. And while they were alright, none of them seemed like they'd get him signed ahead of anyone else.
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I really like Surfing With the Alien. The rest of his music, however, is rubbish once you take away the speed factor.
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I can honestly say that if I had to choose one shredder to be bludgeoned with forever, it'd be Satch.
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I really like Surfing With the Alien. The rest of his music, however, is rubbish once you take away the speed factor.
Guys, what the hell, Satch isn't even a fast shredder.
The vast majority of his music isn't really fast at all. It's like a kind of instrumental pop-rock with shreddy solos.
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I've 3, one modded bridge Japanese Fender Jaguar (the mod was SO WORTH IT), an old Art & Luthrie acoustic and a Fender Sonoran Acoustic.
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I really like Surfing With the Alien. The rest of his music, however, is rubbish once you take away the speed factor.
Guys, what the hell, Satch isn't even a fast shredder.
The vast majority of his music isn't really fast at all. It's like a kind of instrumental pop-rock with shreddy solos.
But it's still about the guitar.
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An acoustic guitar and a Epiphone knockoff of Gibson Junior I got some time ago. I'm trading it in pretty soon, because that guitar drives me freaking nuts.
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one modded bridge Japanese Fender Jaguar (the mod was SO WORTH IT)
I did the same to my guitar after getting incredibly annoyed at the strings pinging off of the bridge all the time. It's not only worth it, it's pretty much necessary to make it a playable guitar.
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So I got to play with one of the new MIM Jaguars the other day. The annoying ass bridge is gone. It's still a floating tremolo but the old, annoying saddles have been replaced with what are basically Gibson tune-o-matic saddles.
Fuck yeah! I may need to get me one of these suckers.
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But it's still about the guitar.
Which there is no inherent flaw in.
Some people don't find that kind of music engaging, fair dinkum. However, you saying that Satch doesn't write good songs is like a country fan saying that Decapitated don't write good songs. Which is true, as long as you're looking at it from the context of a different genre.
Or, simply, why bother making judgments about music that lies outside your genre interests in the first place? I'm completely fine with people having the opinions they do, but the strange thing is that people seem to be happy to judge multiple very different genres by the same standards.
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OT, but I might be modding my Tele so it has a built-in DS-1
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But it's still about the guitar.
Which there is no inherent flaw in.
Some people don't find that kind of music engaging, fair dinkum.
Good!
However, you saying that Satch doesn't write good songs is like a country fan saying that Decapitated don't write good songs. Which is true, as long as you're looking at it from the context of a different genre.
Or just have a different opinion to you.
Or, simply, why bother making judgments about music that lies outside your genre interests in the first place?
Because that's how one decides that it's outside of one's interest.
I'm completely fine with people having the opinions they do, but the strange thing is that people seem to be happy to judge multiple very different genres by the same standards.
In what sense am I judging multiple different genres?
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My general contention is that if you don't like a genre in the first place (like guitar-driven, virtuosic, instrumental music), then you're probably missing something the fans are getting. That's not a personal slight or anything, because it happens with everyone. I dislike the majority of rap, commercial or underground, so I'm in no place to judge it because my tastes fundamentally differ to others in such a way that I am incapable of appreciating many of the elements inherent in rap.
Which is precisely why each genre has to have its own set of criteria for music to be judged by.
So basically what I'm saying here is that if you don't like shred in the first place, of course you're going to think Satch writes mediocre songs.