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[MadassAlex]

Ah, not a particularly significant bloke, then.

[Ballard]

Jesus, Patrick's gonna stomp some faces in for that one.

Good show, Alex.

[Patrick]

If you can find yourself enraged after listening to Pavement 197 times in a week, I salute your anger-producing abilities.

[PECOAE]

Side effects include: easily gettting bored, joyful cynicism, detached sadness, and Jay Leno dropping yr fucking guitar.

(i.e. after they played on the tonight show, duh)

[imapiratearg]

Is that on YouTube?  Can I see that?

[PECOAE]

It used to be... That's where I saw it...

Can't find it now though.

[Ballard]

Jack White throwing his Wandre down on the floor like a banana peel on Conan is equally enraging.

[Beastmouth]

Jack White throwing his Wandre down on the floor like a banana peel on Conan is equally enraging.

Yes, Jack White on television is pretty awful. 

[DMart]

Woo! Got my P-bass today!



As for the banjo... I found that in a closet a few years ago.

[squawk]

Fuck, I wish I could just find banjos in closets

[orangepeas]

It's my baby

[DMart]

^Why was my first impression "it's blind!!"?

RE banjos in closets - my dad bought it at a garage sale years ago for like $20. It's rusty in some parts and as you can see the skin is filthy, but it's good fun.

EDIT: Also just got back from first band prac with the P-bass. F*cking sh*ts all over the cheap Ibinez I was using on loan for a while.

  Who'd have thought?
  /
 

[doombilly]

I have to concur about the Precision Bass. Maria got one after getting a Tobias Growler and then a Carvin LB70P and since has not been back to playing either of those. You should put flat wounds on it.

[Patrick]

Jack White throwing his Wandre down on the floor like a banana peel on Conan is equally enraging.

But FUCK that was a great show up to that point.

[atimholt]

[not even a taylor]

It's my baby

That's not a baby!

[DMart]

I have to concur about the Precision Bass. Maria got one after getting a Tobias Growler and then a Carvin LB70P and since has not been back to playing either of those. You should put flat wounds on it.

Yeah, I distinctly remember being at one of the guitar shops and playing around with a CIJ '51 reissue... one of the clerks asked what my budget was and started handing me all these new Corts etc to 'have a go' of. None of them felt nearly as solid, nor as good to play as the P-bass. Even without an amp you could hear the tone of the P-bass so much clearer. I was really surprised at how immediately noticable the difference was. Probably should have expected it considering the Corts etc were nearly half the price of the P-bass, and that was second hand.

[DMart]

^ there's a guitar pedal thread already open, I think it's still on the first page. Check it out - people might have made mention of some of those pedals there.

[doombilly]

Behringer sucks. After buying a rack tuner (how fucking hard can that be to make right?) and having it basically FAIL as a tuner I have decided that if you buy Behringer, you buy shit. Just get a fucking kleenex box, poke some holes in it. Run your cables back/forth from your loop, pretend you hear goodness. There. I saved you $30.

[Ballard]

With effects, perhaps even more than with guitars, you get what you pay for.

There are exceptions. These exceptions do not come in the form of Behringer pedals.

[Jonny_Columbine]

thats the shit. plays great.
also, hi.

[orangepeas]

[it's a TACOMA]

It's my baby

That's not a baby!

so what if it's not a taylor? what do you have against my guitar?

[imapiratearg]

Taylor acoustics > everything.

[orangepeas]

Taylor acoustics > everything.

Well you don't see me telling everyone that Tacoma guitars> everything. I've tried a Taylor guitars and it just didn't suit me. They both start with T's isn't that good enough? 

[atimholt]

so what if it's not a taylor? what do you have against my guitar?

It was supposed to be a really bad joke. Taylor actually makes a guitar called "the baby" or "baby" or something. My dad's got a big baby, and the screws-through-the-fretboard thing kind of turns me off from them. That, and the string-to-fretboard clearance (which is called action, yes?) is too wide.

But as for my dad's other Taylor, it's very nice.

[godinpants]

Bassplayers rejoice!

The bass of doom has been located, although not quite as doomy as one would expect from fender's recreations.

[orangepeas]

so what if it's not a taylor? what do you have against my guitar?

It was supposed to be a really bad joke. Taylor actually makes a guitar called "the baby" or "baby" or something. My dad's got a big baby, and the screws-through-the-fretboard thing kind of turns me off from them. That, and the string-to-fretboard clearance (which is called action, yes?) is too wide.

But as for my dad's other Taylor, it's very nice.

yeah, you kinda failed at the joke,but I'm not going to hold that against you. :p

[FireAarro]

Bassplayers rejoice!

The bass of doom has been located, although not quite as doomy as one would expect from fender's recreations.

Link fixed

[Beastmouth]

so what if it's not a taylor? what do you have against my guitar?

It was supposed to be a really bad joke. Taylor actually makes a guitar called "the baby" or "baby" or something. My dad's got a big baby, and the screws-through-the-fretboard thing kind of turns me off from them. That, and the string-to-fretboard clearance (which is called action, yes?) is too wide.

But as for my dad's other Taylor, it's very nice.

The action on most every guitar can be adjusted, you know.

[imapiratearg]

I don't like how you can see the screw through the fretboard, either.

[Patrick]

Taylor acoustics > everything but Patrick's dad's Kay which is made up out of the right bicep of Arnold Schwarzenegger and the skull of Robert Johnson

[imapiratearg]

I really wish I could play a Kay.  They don't still make them, do they?

[Patrick]

I don't think so. It's really a shame, I'd love for somebody to make a reissue of my dad's old strum-box (I am looking at you, Eastwood).

[valley_parade]

I'm still waiting for them to do something with that Tele clone that popped up at NAMM.

[sean]

Okay guys my bass is being problematic and I have no idea what to do besides send it in the shop because I am not guitar savy at all, so I'm gonna see if you guys have any other ideas.

I have a Warwick Convertte, active. For some reason though, now it doesn't work active and and it plays incredibly quietly passive. The battery is perfectly new, so I know its not that. Do any of you guys have any ideas as to what I can do?

[imapiratearg]

Uh, check the wiring?

[Patrick]

Yeah, word at that. Just grab a screwdriver and make with the plate removal. You might have a solder connection coming loose. If you've got an iron and some solder, have at it.

In other news, I am trying to make my old Johnson (the Bo Diddley Strat) playable as my main actually-do-manual-work-and-learn-this-summer project. During the afternoon/evening I will work. During the late morning I will go to the library and order parts and tools off of the Inter Nets. During the time from 11pm to 2am, I will do crazy things that will alter the course of history forever.

By the end of June, I will have a trem-bearing Strat copy with two pickups and two pairs of concentric knobs. I will even mount an actual Fender neck on that motherfucker so nobody can tell the difference.

[imapiratearg]

Isn't it autographed, though?

[Nodaisho]

Was, but then it came off for some reason or another, was it some sort of varnish or something?

[Patrick]

It tried to come off when we sprayed clearcoat on it (irony: we were trying to protect it), but we engraved that motherfucker before it had a chance to slough off completely. It may be almost entirely valueless as a result, but at least now it won't come off after a couple years of playing. So I don't feel too bad about modding the hell out of the electronics.

I think maybe I'm just going to put noiseless Tele pickups in there with standard Tele switching (but a vintage-style Strat 3-way) and have the plus sides of each instrument.

[atimholt]

So, I said in another thread I wasn't going to purchase a guitar of my own for 6 months (I started playing recently), but that, obviously, doesn't include any extremely good deals on relatively decent guitars from people I know. I bought a nice dark red (cherry?) Squier Strat from my sister's father in law (he'd replaced it with a near identical Fender). I'd post a picture, but we probably all know what they look like.
$75 for the guitar, $25 for a really nice gig bag, and $20 for a belt-worn headphone amp from the late '80's.
I'm still going to get that doubleneck I've been thinking about (an Epiphone g1275) in September. Probably. Also cherry. Red was my favorite color when, as a child, I was required by law to have a favorite color ('Cause, you know, it was one of those things we were always asked.).

Without a strap, I have the perfect excuse to head on over to Guitar Center today. Yay!

[Nodaisho]

My friend lusts after a double-neck too, the local store had an epiphone one, he played it whenever he got the chance, but it was expensive.

I don't think we have a separate amps thread, so I was wondering: How important is getting a new amp if all I have is a Behringer 15 watt tube? I don't use it much, I would want to get something better if I were gigging regularly, but do I need a new one if I am not playing in front of people often?

[carrotosaurus]

Dogg, the difference in sound between a behringer and something else is countable.

[Nodaisho]

Yeah, but is it enough that someone with very little income to spare needs to get a different amp? I am currently saving for an SG, but that will take a while.

[imapiratearg]

Uhm, are you going to be playing with a band, and how much are you willing to spend are two questions to consider.  'Cause, I mean, if it's just you, and you have a fairly flexible budget, a VOX AC15 will only set you back about $500-600, or less, if you can pick up a used one.  They are also apparently incredibly loud for 15 watt amps.

[sk8brder40]

Pshh...

Cheap 500 dollar Ibanez Gio strat-lookalike and cheap Aria acoustic FTW! Hahaha

[Patrick]

Hah. While some may be satisfied with an overseas-made Ibanez superStrat, I've got my U.S.-made Gibson and I -still- pine after other guitars.

I guess to each their own.

[Nodaisho]

your "cheap" $500 guitar is almost as much as I am planning on spending on a US-made Gibson. Not sure whether that means the gibson is cheap, the GIO is overpriced (my friend has their SG-clone bass, I don't care for it much, but I haven't used any other bass, it could just be my wimpy fingers), or what.

I would be playing with a band, not sure how much I would be willing to pay, though, I guess I will have to look at different ones until I see something that I like for the price.

[sk8brder40]

True, it's not exactly cheap in price. I just meant a cheap-made guitar.

Bought it used from someone's basement for 120, so it was well worth it for me

[imapiratearg]

I guess it all really comes down to your budget.  If you're like me, and you can't afford a whole hell of a lot (I am going to start saving money for college, here), you may have to acquire it over time.  I'm going to finish paying off my Hot Rod DeVille, buy a ProCo TurboRAT, and that will probably be all I'll be able to afford, until I get out of college.  Or I'll just have to periodically set money aside for the Hagstrom I want.  But yeah, if you're going to be playing with a band, you'll want something with some balls.

[sk8brder40]

Yeah, if you have a tight budget, don't be afraid of looking through the paper.

You can find some great, used instruments for good prices. So what if it's a tad scuffed? Put on some new strings and it sounds fine!