Ive seen a few randomly, but post here and lets chat about it...
or if you dont play, chat anyway!
I have played on and off for the last 30 years. I was homeless for 6 months last year and forced to sell all of my gear, including my beloved Fender Strat that I had owned since 1986. A couple of seeks ago I was given a BC Rich Warlock by my therapist. Her son was a musician and had passed away recently. She said that he would have wanted his guitar to go to someone who would enjoy it rather than be sold for profit. When she heard the sadness in my voice when I told her about having to sell my instruments, she decided I was the perfect candidate. It feels so nice to have a guitar in my hands again. Something funny I noticed was that when I presented male I could have never pictured myself playing such an instrument with such an in your face design as the Warlock. Now I feel totally comfortable with it. It took me since I was 12 years old to figure out, it wasn't the outrageous looking instrument that was the issue, it was picturing myself as male that was the problem.
Play a bit. Not well.
I love guitars. So now I repair them.
Joanna
I've been playing since I was around 13 years old (I'm 42 now).
I've always been kind of a metal head and still love the older 80's metal that I grew up with. I still play my guitars but don't have nearly the time i used to have to do so. :(
Hopefully someday I will, I love playing in bands and miss it a lot!
Fender Strat here. Fender Precision Bass too. I played in a rock band in my youth prior to my change. I also did vocals which I'm not inclined to do anymore. I'd love to get back into a group and play bass. My principal instrument now is the cello. I play in a symphony orchestra. As to music genres, I'm not picky. If it is good music, I tend to like it. Of course what I consider "good" is very subjective.
Cindi
I picked it up in the 6th grade and played recreationally since high school. Picked up a Jay Turser Ventures replica with a bigsby last year for my collection. Mainly play an Ibanez with the Floyd Rose. My first was a semi hollow Harmony electric. Love 60s, 70s and 80s rock/metal. Iron Maiden is heavy metal opera! It just doesn't get any better... 😊
I play. Electric mostly, since I was about 13. Have been in some bands over the years, including two all TG (mtf) bands.
I have been playing since about 13 I am 56 now. Still have my first real rig, Marshall 1959 super lead and 70's strat with the big headstock and 7.25 radius, still my favorite guitar and amp. Some people say the 70's starts are junk but this old hardtail rocks.
Quote from: Stevie on September 10, 2015, 03:03:35 PM
I have been playing since about 13 I am 56 now. Still have my first real rig, Marshall 1959 super lead and 70's strat with the big headstock and 7.25 radius, still my favorite guitar and amp. Some people say the 70's starts are junk but this old hardtail rocks.
Those guitars could be worth a small fortune!
Cindi
Quote from: Cindi Jones on September 10, 2015, 03:07:53 PM
Those guitars could be worth a small fortune
Somewhere along the line all my gear became vintage.
I have the worst guitar of all time
Norlin era, 1979 Gibson Custom, ebony and gold
everyone on the web hate them... best guitar I have ever owned
I play a Marshall JCM800 and a Splawn
Gibson LP, Strat, Peavey Tracer (my Floyd Guitar), LTD EC1000
I have played for about 25 years, my vintage peavey kicked the bucket (could be repaired im sure) I have a little joe satriani mini colossus tube amp and a line 6 to mess about on. Gibson LP, Epi LP and some bc riches
Anne in the chat has something like 60 gibsons
I've played since about 2007! My fleet is currently in its downsized state. My main guitar as of late is a Seagull (God in) Entourage CW GT acoustic, but my favorite electric is a 1996 model Ibanez JS100 in this beautiful one-year-only Atlantic Blue. Licensed Floyd Rose, DiMarzio humbuckers with a coil tap :) I also still have my first guitar, a Jay Turser SG copy that I still enjoy playing with all these much more refined instruments and a 60's Tiesco Del Rey Tulip that I inherited from my great uncle, I was the only family member that played after he passed so I was chosen to take care of it. The neck is so bowed that I'm afraid it's destined to be a wall hanger, but it's a cool guitar regardless.
Still have my Harmony Stella 3/4 from when I started playing in 1974. I had a Cortez goldtop Les Paul copy with Grover tuners, Dimarzio pickups, and push/pull pots for coil switching, but it was stolen in a burglary in 1982. I have a pre-lawsuit Ibanez Les Paul copy, an Ibanez Strat copy with a nut extender I use for slide, a Daisy Rock semi-acoustic on loan to a young lady learning to play, a Danelectro dead-on '67 baritone, a traveler eg-1 I keep in my office, plus a Fender 6 string acoustic and an Ibanez 12 string.
I've been playing for 40 years, but I'm only so-so. I like to play, though.
I play some 8)
Quote from: Olive on September 11, 2015, 12:13:29 AM
I've played since about 2007! My fleet is currently in its downsized state. My main guitar as of late is a Seagull (God in) Entourage CW GT acoustic, but my favorite electric is a 1996 model Ibanez JS100 in this beautiful one-year-only Atlantic Blue. Licensed Floyd Rose, DiMarzio humbuckers with a coil tap :) I also still have my first guitar, a Jay Turser SG copy that I still enjoy playing with all these much more refined instruments and a 60's Tiesco Del Rey Tulip that I inherited from my great uncle, I was the only family member that played after he passed so I was chosen to take care of it. The neck is so bowed that I'm afraid it's destined to be a wall hanger, but it's a cool guitar regardless.
Those old Tiesco's make pretty good slide guitars even if the neck is bowed, I have one tuned DADGAD.
I love alternate tunings 8) I have an old Goya (Martin knock off) that I tune to a BF#BEG#B or C#
It's one of my early guitars and comes complete with a small caliber entrance and exit hole from a drive by shooting
I tend to find odd things to use for a slide, lately I've been using a 4&1/2" x 2" piece of glass with a skeleton hologram inside it
I have a few other guitars as well
What, not one sample of music in this thread? I want to hear everybody playing! ;D
Hugs, Devlyn
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on September 11, 2015, 08:21:01 AM
What, not one sample of music in this thread? I want to hear everybody playing! ;D
Hugs, Devlyn
Heres one Devlyn, from the Top Gun Movie
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0SkWmkoP6jm
Quote from: Serenation on September 11, 2015, 11:02:50 AM
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on September 11, 2015, 08:21:01 AM
What, not one sample of music in this thread? I want to hear everybody playing! ;D
Hugs, Devlyn
Heres one Devlyn, from the Top Gun Movie
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0SkWmkoP6jm
Thank you, that's what I'm talking about! :)
Hugs, Devlyn
Quote from: RitaChans on September 10, 2015, 09:13:04 PM
I have the worst guitar of all time
Norlin era, 1979 Gibson Custom, ebony and gold
everyone on the web hate them... best guitar I have ever owned
Don't listen to those people on the web with the Norlin snobbery. My '72 Custom rocks!!
Quote from: NikkiJ on September 11, 2015, 01:03:38 PM
Don't listen to those people on the web with the Norlin snobbery. My '72 Custom rocks!!
sarcasm doesnt translate well via interwebs
Not me... ;D
Yes, I collect them. Right now I'm ripping on a 1954-65 Frankenstrat- the best pre-CBS parts assembled into the best vintage guitar ever. The pickups were made in the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop by my friend Maricela Juarez and were modeled after a set once owned by Jimi Hendrix and rewound/modified by Seymour. I can almost nail some of Hendrix's tones with it and a 1969 Marshall Super Lead.
Quote from: Jill F on September 11, 2015, 04:16:16 PM
Not me... ;D
Yes, I collect them. Right now I'm ripping on a 1954-65 Frankenstrat- the best pre-CBS parts assembled into the best vintage guitar ever. The pickups were made in the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop by my friend Maricela Juarez and were modeled after a set once owned by Jimi Hendrix and rewound/modified by Seymour. I can almost nail some of Hendrix's tones with it and a 1969 Marshall Super Lead.
Super leads are such sweet amps, what year is the neck on Frankie?
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on September 11, 2015, 08:21:01 AM
What, not one sample of music in this thread? I want to hear everybody playing! ;D
Hugs, Devlyn
I play guitar! (http://vocaroo.com/i/s0Ur0sKwzweM) <--- Turn down volume before clicking!
It's super loud for some reason. The original mp3 recording I made doesn't clip, but for some reason vocaroo has this awful db clipping on this recording. I don't know how to get it to go away???
Doesn't matter I suppose... this is just for S&G's on here haha.
So this is a solo I wrote years ago and it's me playing all the backing parts and solo etc. I've been playing and into music since I was 12, some 25 years ago. Always loved creating and recording my own schlock haha.
I don't play much lately though :'(
There we go! ;D I salute your axe wielding!
Hugs, Devlyn
Quote from: Stevie on September 11, 2015, 09:00:06 PM
Super leads are such sweet amps, what year is the neck on Frankie?
It's a super rare August 1965 custom-ordered extra large neck with binding. It has a "2" on the butt stamp, so it was a Strat from day one, and not a cut down Jazzmaster (which could have had a "4" or maybe "13"). They probably made 20-25 like this. The body is a 1954 pre-production model with the earliest of features, probably one of the first 50 or so ever made. If it hadn't been badly beaten, refinished and parted out, it would have been worth a fortune. Oh well, it's featherweight, sounds like a million bucks, and the best part? It's mine. ;D
I've been playing guitar for about 8 years now, and still haven't gotten around to learning how to read music. :P
So, most of what I play starts like things I hear then turn into improv.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0dnGenjv0rx <- here's a bit on my 83' Fender Gemini II. (The ending kind of fell apart)
I'm only 16, so I don't have any "rare" gear, sadly. I do enjoy playing though either way.
Nice, AshBear! You're sixteen so you have a lifetime of guitar playing and collecting to do, look at it that way.
Hugs, Devlyn
Quote from: AshBear on September 12, 2015, 04:24:00 PM
I've been playing guitar for about 8 years now, and still haven't gotten around to learning how to read music. :P
I've been playing for over 30 years and still can't read music... but don't feel bad about that, the most successful songwriter in history - Paul McCartney can't read music either.
I play all the rock and roll instruments. Guitar, bass, drums, keys, and I sing. I write songs, do all the recording, mixing, all that bru-ha-ha. It's the only thing I'm remotely good at. I actually write songs almost pathologically.
By the way V, that track you posted is rad. Totally hits me.
I played a little in High School, and picked up a decent Gibson acoustic then. I recently started playing again after picking up a cheap electric and play Rocksmith on my computer when I have time to practice. I'm much better at singing though, and don't really know how to read guitar music though I can read a percussion and piano score.
Quote from: Ⓥ on September 12, 2015, 10:42:59 AM
I play guitar! (http://vocaroo.com/i/s0Ur0sKwzweM) <--- Turn down volume before clicking!
It's super loud for some reason. The original mp3 recording I made doesn't clip, but for some reason vocaroo has this awful db clipping on this recording. I don't know how to get it to go away???
Doesn't matter I suppose... this is just for S&G's on here haha.
So this is a solo I wrote years ago and it's me playing all the backing parts and solo etc. I've been playing and into music since I was 12, some 25 years ago. Always loved creating and recording my own schlock haha.
I don't play much lately though :'(
I'm not gonna lie, that was pretty epic
Quote from: Jill F on September 12, 2015, 02:56:41 PM
It's a super rare August 1965 custom-ordered extra large neck with binding. It has a "2" on the butt stamp, so it was a Strat from day one, and not a cut down Jazzmaster (which could have had a "4" or maybe "13"). They probably made 20-25 like this. The body is a 1954 pre-production model with the earliest of features, probably one of the first 50 or so ever made. If it hadn't been badly beaten, refinished and parted out, it would have been worth a fortune. Oh well, it's featherweight, sounds like a million bucks, and the best part? It's mine. ;D
Binding on fender neck is rare especially a Strat, beside the Jazzmaster's I've only seen it on an old Bass VI,and a Fender XII. So is that a 7.25 radius or was that custom too?
Quote from: Stevie on September 14, 2015, 10:49:16 AM
Binding on fender neck is rare especially a Strat, beside the Jazzmaster's I've only seen it on an old Bass VI,and a Fender XII. So is that a 7.25 radius or was that custom too?
It started out as a 7.25, but now it runs from 7.25 at the nut to about 10 at the heel after the last refret.
I totally want a 1966 Fender XII, AKA the electric hockey stick. See "Pinball Wizard" and "Stairway to Heaven". (Yes, Jimmy Page played it live on a Gibson EDS-1275, but he recorded it with a Fender XII and Telecaster.)
Here's my current collection. I want a resonator, and maybe a bc-rich perfect 10.
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Quote from: Jill F on September 14, 2015, 03:24:40 PM
I totally want a 1966 Fender XII, AKA the electric hockey stick.
Cool, make sure you get one with a straight neck. I'd like a Bass VI.
Quote from: NikkiJ on September 15, 2015, 12:41:04 PM
Cool, make sure you get one with a straight neck. I'd like a Bass VI.
This is why I don't just get one on eBay. Planing and refretting a bound neck is never fun.
Bass VIs are the same way, but to a lesser extent.
Oh, and another pro tip- avoid Guild 12 strings like the plague. They always need a neck reset, but they have the dreaded double dovetail joint at the heel that's damned near impossible to unglue, even if you've completely removed the fingerboard. I see these for stupid cheap all the time, and this is why. It's potentially a 20 hour/$1000 repair job.