Lets see some guitars!

[Bennyboy]

My all time favorite Albert King's Flying Vee.Also the last known photo of Albert.

[Bennyboy]

1. Jerry Garcia's Wolf

made by Doug Irwin

[darkstar]

7. Nice....

Ratdog is here in St. Louis tonight, but I'm sitting at home. Big long day and a meeting that just let out earlier, believe it or not, than I thought, so I passed on tickets.

Look at this old warhorse (or should I say battle ax?)

[Bennyboy]

8. Too bad.....

Mark Karan is back now and the set lists have looked sweet so far....

[DarkTirade]

2. How 'bout mine? :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. I've been looking for you. Where've ya been?

[DarkTirade]

5. I'm around.

Just too busy to spend much time hanging out online lately. :P

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Pfft. I could be busy too, but I have perfected the arts of procrastination and blowing things off.

[DarkTirade]

9. Yeah, that's what I've been busy doing.

:P

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Well do it here, darn it!

[DarkTirade]

12. I've been doing it mostly with my new guitar. :P

Hard to type with both hands on the guitar and a thumbpick wrapped around my right thumb.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. Well, all right. I can accept that as an excuse

[darkstar]

13. What's the top one DT?

The middle one is a Precision?

[DarkTirade]

22. They go in order of how long I've owned them.

The top one I just got on Friday. It's a Dean. My very first electric guitar. :) 'Twas normally about 200 bucks but it was on sale for the ridiculously low price of 79.99, so even though I shouldn't be spending money I just HAD to buy it.

Middle one is the Crescent bass I got for christmas. Pretty basic simple starter bass that I'm learning on.

And the bottom one is the acoustic guitar I've had since 2000. It's a Nagoya.

So no big-name ones, but both the guitars were ones that I chose because I played them and compared them with others in the store and liked them best. I really got lucky with the price on the newest one though. :) I liked that one better than some guitars that cost more than twice that much. Both for the sound and the feel of it in my hands.

In fact, only once has a 'big name' guitar really felt right in my hands. And unfortunately that was back when I was a broke college student, and it cost over 800 bucks. And the next time I went back to that guitar store, it had been sold. :cry: Alas, I shall never see my sparkly green strat again. We never even had a chance to be together.

[Bake]

14. Cool!

What's the acoustic? I can't make out the label.

Bake

[DarkTirade]

23. Nagoya.

Never heard of it, but it worked for me when I tried it out at the store. :) It's not great quality, but it was good enough for me to play on it, and most of the music I've written for guitar was written with that guitar in my hands.

[Bake]

25. Excellent!

Now you get you a Martin!

Bake

[DarkTirade]

27. I originally learned on my mom's old Guild.

That was a nice guitar. The action was a little low for my taste, but that's because my mom played ALL the time, so she didn't want to make it too hard to play for long periods of time. :P So she had it modified to lower the action a bit. She also put a pickup inside, but since I didn't have an amp when I still lived with my parents I never got to try it out and see if the pickup still worked after all these years.

[Bake]

30. C'mon, admit it. You DESERVE a Martin!!

You know you want it. Just give in!!

Bake

[DarkTirade]

34. Eventually, once I have the money I'll invest in a good acoustic.

But for now I'm down to pretty much nothin' and I got no income, so it'll have to wait.

And once I do have income, I'm planning on seeing what I can do to start getting into making/modifying electric guitars. I figure it's a good way to combine my love of makin' stuff with my knowledge of music. :)

[Bake]

44. I waited 20 years (!!!!) for my Martin!!

What with kids and all. I played a Tak acoustic/electric for years. People always told me it "sounded like a Martin", especially plugged in. But it was worth the wait. I'd never play anything else now.

Bake

[DarkTirade]

48. So what kinda sound does a Martin have?

:P

[Bake]

55. Like nothin' else, dood! You know it when you hear it!

Like Nazareth PA in your breakfast bowl! Come play mine, and you'll see.

Collings, e.g., are excellent guitars, excellent workmanship, built to the same specs as Martins. But they don't have that Nazareth PA sound. They just don't.

If it doesn't say C.F. Martin on the headstock, it just ain't the same. Come play mine. You'll know what I'm talking about!!

I used to grip about the "Martin snobs." Until I got mine. Now I know.

Bake

[DarkTirade]

56. I mean what kinda tone.

Twangy? Solid? Heavy? Light? :P

[Bake]

83. Not twangy. Sweet. Woody. Smooth. Mellow, but with guts.

In short, everything an acoustic guitar ought to be. Again, you'll know it when you hear it!

Bake

[DarkTirade]

100. Sounds like my kinda guitar.

:)

[DarkTirade]

115. So I stopped by the guitar store today...

and tried a few different ones while I was wasting some time.

I kinda liked one of the Ibanez ones that I tried. Then I went into the little hermetically sealed climate controlled room that they keep the nice guitars in. And found me a whole wall of Martins. :)

First I took the cheapest one and tried it. The very cheapest Martin I could find still sounded twenty times better than the guitar I have now. And that was me playing sans pick.

Then I tried one of their acoustic-electrics.

So yeah... I'm gonna be needing about a thousand bucks real soon. :P

I also tried out a few electrics when I was there, and the Fenders really weren't impressing me. There was one I tried that was a brand name that I can't remember... but it had the most incredible sustain I'd ever heard. You pluck a string and it doesn't stop until you MAKE it stop.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Jimi with one of his

[Bake]

15. Oh yeah!!! The Voodoo Strat!!

Cool!

Bake

[darkstar]

24. Jimi with a V...

[Bennyboy]

11. Jerry with a Travis Bean

Jerry, "I don't like any guitars that are available. I'm trying to have a guitar built." Hence, the Travis Bean. He laughed upon first seeing it, but quickly changed his mind when he tried the custom aluminum-neck guitar made in San Francisco.

1976- Travis Bean TB500 w/single-coil pickups and fx loop

[Tikki]

16. When we first saw Elvis Costello & The Attractions...

Elvis was playing a:

Fender Jazzmaster



The Tikkis

[ghostsofgiants]

17. Joe Strummer's Telecaster...

[darkstar]

20. Wow...great shot...never seen that

Too cool....

[ghostsofgiants]

21. He had that same guitar for most of his career.

[darkstar]

32. But I didn't think it was (ever) green....

[ghostsofgiants]

53. I think that's justr the lighting that makes it look green in the picture I posted.

[VenusRising]

19. Jerry Garcia's Alembic in the Rock and Roll HOF

ZodiakIronfist (my husband and a red Rickenbacker player) with Rick James' white Rickenbacker:

[Bennyboy]

26. Actually that is RoseBud another Irwin guitar

1990- Rosebud Irwin delivered his $11,000 masterpiece, Rosebud, with MIDI controls built in. "Everything he had learned about guitars went into Rosebud.
Jerry played Tiger for another year for Garcia Band Shows.

[DarkTirade]

29. How do you put MIDI controls in a guitar?

[darkstar]

36. Pitch to voltage conversion

At least that's the way it used to be done.

[DarkTirade]

38. Ah.

So it's something that turns the analog signal into note values basically.

I was wondering if there was some kind of weird Guitar Heroesque buttons there that I couldn't see or something. :P

[darkstar]

47. Right....there was an attempt at that sort of thing

at one point.

And, in my understanding, at least, it's kind of like the way a tuner works, i.e. pitch to signal.

[Bennyboy]

42. He did it to a couple of guitars....

http://dozin.com/jers/guitar/history.htm

[DarkTirade]

49. Hmm... so in his case it seems like he was using it mostly to output to

synthesizers to get different sounds. Makes sense.

[VenusRising]

41. It must be the shape that made me think Alembic.

Oops.

[DarkTirade]

31. The important question is...

is he growing his hair back out now? :P

[VenusRising]

40. Not yet.

Still no job secured yet, so no hair. Soon I hope.

I miss running my hands through his hair.

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. Here's one the truly unsung guitar gods of the worlds, playing a red guitar.

Sorry, I have no idea what kind of guitar this is.

[Fenris]

37. It's a Parker Fly.

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. And it's red. Gotta give me credit for knowing it's red.

:rofl:

Thanks for tip! I've never heard of Parker guitars. Are they a high end pricey guitar?

[Fenris]

58. They can be.

The low-end is six, the high is, well, high.

[Capn Sunshine]

43. Is that Peter Greene?

PS:


Epi's 1961 take on the Gibson

[Rabrrrrrr]

46. Peter Greene? No, I said he was an unsung god: Adrian Belew.

:P

Peter Greene, though - another good one, indeed.

[Capn Sunshine]

50. King Crimson?

unsung? Not 'round these parts
Oh and Wiki says he was guitar for Cindy Lauper among others, like Bowies whole Heroes album and tour.

[Rabrrrrrr]

51. Ask the average person, though, and he/she won't have a fucking clue who Belew is.

Yes - Belew was with King Crimson a few times. Also solo work, and played with Zappa for a few years when he was a youngster.

Great guitarist, and great musician.

[tigereye]

119. amazing man

saw him play solo at a workshop years ago.

Incredible.

[johnnie]

33. George and his all rosewood tele

I would love to have one.

[DarkTirade]

35. I still remember the day he died.

That was a rather... interesting day for me.

[swag]

63. He had such great taste in guitars.

I love that Burnt Umber Les Paul he played in this clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87yq372R4Ts

[johnnie]

81. And his Country Gentleman

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. And leave us not forget the box guitar

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/05/17/bodiddley_narrowweb__300x425,0.jpg

[calimary]

52. My son just recently got a deal with Minarik guitars - a sponsorship of sorts!

You can see him playing 'em here:

www.michaelgossard.com

Good picture of him playing one in the page "About Mike".

Here's how he sounds:

www.myspace.com/acidicband



(I'd post pictures here, straight-out, but I don't know how...) :P

[swag]

69. That's fantastic!

Congratulations to him.

And I like the looks of that guitar he's playing on his home page.

[calimary]

85. Yeah. That's the Minarik Lotus. He won that - and this rather gruesome-looking

Coffin Case - at this battle-of-the-bands they enterd last September.

Kind of a neat story, too, because one of the judges there was the drummer (and dad and manager) of The Feisty Piranhas - a higher-profile group in Ventura and northern L.A. Counties. He took an interest in Michael because, as we later found out, they were expanding - away from Pro Tools - and wanting to add a rhythm guitarist in the flesh. He invited us up to their studio digs in Camarillo, and they jammed together. And they meshed really well. Soon enough, Mike was a Piranha also.

If you check here:

http://www.michaelgossard.com/NEWS-AllAccess.html

or here:

http://www.acidicsounds.com/PastConcertsAllAccess2007.htm

there's more.

AND, check www.minarikguitars.com for all their different designs. The Manta and the Inferno are RAWTHER cool! They sponsor the legendary Dick Dale, Dave Navarro, Gene Simmons, and some guys from Maroon 5 and Pink's band too. And Lemmy from Motorhead. Oh my Lord...

[Bennyboy]

54. Another Flying Vee!

[swag]

71. And another

The great Donita Sparks of L7, who blogs every Friday at 3 Pacific at http://www.firedoglake.com.

[RetroLounge]

57. Okay

Me and My LP



Me and my old Ricky



Some of my old guitars. I only have the Black LP now.



:hi:

RL

[DarkTirade]

60. What did you do with all the others?

[RetroLounge]

62. Sold them...

and that's only about 1/2 of what I had.

I also sold 3 or 4 other Les pauls, a 1945 Gibson J-45 Acoustic, an Epi 12 string acoustic, and a stray Fender or two.

Plus I sold all the vintage 70's effects pedals and the Marshall 1/2 stack.

:shrug:

RL

[DarkTirade]

68. Jesusallahbuddha...

:wow:

[RetroLounge]

70. Yeah, he bought the 1956 Les Paul

:D

RL

[DarkTirade]

73. I really need to get a job so I can get into making/modifying my own.

Right now I just can't afford the parts. :(

I'd love to experiment with some old-style electronics/effects too. :) Digital has its advantages, but sometimes the old ways of doing things work pretty damn well. And sometimes you don't want a pedal that has 900 functions... sometimes you just want a couple.

[RetroLounge]

75. I played the Les Paul into the Marshall

in between, I had a bunch of boss pedals.

A Super Distortion, a phaser, a flanger, and a digital delay.

But mostly I played with them all off and let the plank of mohogany scream thru the marshall...

:hi:

RL

[DarkTirade]

76. 'Xactly.

:) Effects can be fun and interesting... but most of the time I just wanna hear the instrument.

[RetroLounge]

77. The Marshall was a bit one dimensional

I would love a fender twin someday.

RL

[DarkTirade]

116. If such a product doesn't exist, I'd like to see if I can somehow put together or rig up

a stereo amp that lets you do a different effect for each channel.

And maybe even lets you do interesting things like switching channels back and forth. :) 'S what I did with the rhythm guitar in my 'trippy' song that I recorded recently. The rhythm guitar was an acoustic that I recorded with a microphone, but then I ran an acoustic pickup into my amp and added some distortion and whatnot. So you have two tracks running simultaniously, but that sound very different. And I had the two slowly fade back and forth from left to right opposite each other. Made for a nifty effect.

[calimary]

89. Damn. Sorry to hear that.

Sounds like some fun stuff. My kid would be salivating.

[swag]

67. Wow, nice lifetime of beautiful guitars.

[RetroLounge]

72. Thanks

Back in the early 80's you could buy vintage stuff for alomost nothing.

I was tripping over vintage axes in Chicago back then every time i turned around.

I bought the 1956 LP Special for $100.00 back then.

and I had a 1968 Fender Bronco I got for $50.00.

Heady times, the 80's...

:hi:

RL

[swag]

59. Here's my Carvin DC100 that I bought in late summer 1981.

I should play that thing every so often.

[swag]

61. It came in other colors, but I only wanted black.

[RetroLounge]

64. Kinda like a Melody Maker

pretty cool, and black is the only color to own.

:hi:

RL

[swag]

65. Very much like a Melody Maker. Good comparison.

I didn't need much. I liked what I got!

[RetroLounge]

74. Pickups look nice.

DiMarzio?

RL

[swag]

82. No, good guess though.

They were a 22-pole-piece Carvin humbucker (obviously) that was a predecessor to this model:

https://www.carvinguitars.com/products/single.php?product=M22V-3

[DarkTirade]

66. How 'bout we hear some guitars?

http://www.stickmanltd.com/practicesessions/indarkness-final.mp3 - Test recording with my bass and my new electric.

http://www.stickmanltd.com/practicesessions/alone2-deutschacoustic.mp3 - My acoustic guitar

http://www.stickmanltd.com/practicesessions/room-strongvocals.mp3 - My acoustic with lots of effects and whatnot. This was recorded before I had my electric guitar. :P Just my acoustic, a pickup and amp, and a microphone. All hooked up to my computer.

And a couple of covers on my acoustic
http://www.stickmanltd.com/practicesessions/workingclasshero2.mp3
http://www.stickmanltd.com/practicesessions/colorful3final.mp3

And some video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz6qHBGKQyk
http://www.stickmanltd.com/practicesessions/hurtfinal.mp3

[opiate69]

78. ok.....

[swag]

79. My 2003 Gretsch 2202 Electromatic Junior Jet Bass.

Short neck, nothing fancy, good solid basic machine.

[Bennyboy]

80. Lucille!

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

84. Buddy Guy's polka-dotted Strat...

Always one of my faves.

[Bennyboy]

86. The National Resonator!

1928 National Tricone
style 1 squareneck

[Guava Jelly]

87. k

:D

[DarkTirade]

97. I see what looks like 'Fender' written there...

:P

[Guava Jelly]

107. Yea it is a fender

And I am doing more posing than playing in the gif.
But hey it normally gets good reviews with the DU babes :D

[DarkTirade]

110. I can play just fine...

but I'm not man enough to have a Fender. :(

Or rather, I can't afford one. :P Same difference.

[guitar man]

88. my main man Warren

with a sweet Firebird...:thumbsup:

[Bennyboy]

90. Warren rules your face!

He has quite the collection. When I was at the Deepest End show, it was like a guitar show and concert all wrapped into one.

[guitar man]

91. yes he does

When I saw the Mule at the Cains last year he had a bunch of really sweet axes with him, I couldn't stop drooling over them...

[driver8]

102. Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick has some great guitars and so do

Tom Petty and Mike Campbell. I love going to shows to see what guitars are going to get played!

[mikeytherat]

92. Big Bottom(s):

The collection:

mikey_the_rat

[DarkTirade]

99. I think somebody snuck an extra string on that there bass at the bottom.

:P

I tried out a five-string when I was at the guitar store the other day. I liked it, but then again that might be because I'm used to guitar.

[mikeytherat]

103. They snuck an extra string onto the Carvin just to the left of my upright bass.

And they took all the frets off it, too! Can ya believe it?

;-)

mikey_the_rat

[DarkTirade]

105. All of them?

That's just wrong... :P

[mikeytherat]

108. Every one. Every. Frickin. One. And did they leave me any position markers?

Not only no, but Hell no. It is almost like, and I mean just like, they looked at a double bass and said, "Hey, let's make the fingerboard just like this! Like an orchestral-type string bass, ya know?"

It's a crazy world.

:rofl:

mikey_the_rat

[DarkTirade]

109. Man, it's like they expect you to have a sense of pitch just to be able to play

an instrument or something... :P

[bbernardini]

93. Rick Nielsen's 5 neck guitar:

<>

One's a 12 string, one's a fretless, one has a whammy. I'm not sure what's special about the other two.

[DarkTirade]

98. The other two make it into a five necked guitar.

:P

[mikeytherat]

111. That is a "Nigel Tufnel-Worthy" response, my friend.

Marty: So, this is your famous five-neck guitar.
Nigel: Yeah, it's my very special custom five-neck. You see, this neck's a 12-string, and this neck's fretless, and this one has me whammy bar.
Marty: What do the other two do?
Nigel: Well, they make it into a five-neck guitar.

mikey_the_rat

[mikeytherat]

104. "When I was 35, this was a dumb idea. But now??? I mean, f**k this, man!"

mikey_the_rat

[Bennyboy]

94. Jimmy Page's Double Neck!

everyone in the LZ gang used to think this was the coolest thing.....

[johnnie]

95. Ripping off Elvis again I see

It's a joke.

[driver8]

96. My father in 1966 or '67 - check out the Silvertones!!

My father is the guy in the middle:

IMG]

[DarkTirade]

101. Got any recordings?

:)

[Forkboy]

106. Behold...The Arctopus...and their War guitar

And here it is in action;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wniXxeTJlyM

However, the guitar that seems to always scratch the itch sound-wise is this baby;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c4QF1ZMvpI

In this instance it's Buzzo playing it, but it really doesn't matter. Angus Young, Melvins, whoever...the sound is always JUST right to my ears.

[midnight armadillo]

112. Pat Metheny's Picasso guitar

[av8rdave]

113. The ultimate guitarist with the ultimate guitar

[Amerigo Vespucci]

114. Here's one of Clapton's:

...and some variations:



The Web Site I pulled these from (www.celebrityrockstarguitars.com/rock/clapton.htm) claims "there are 86 separate and distinct colors."

It's called the Gibson "Fool" guitar, an SG, and I have fond and vivid memories of EC playing it in Cream.

:toast:

[Blue-Jay]

117. Willie Nelson & "Trigger"

No love for Willie?

[musette_sf]

118. RIP Charlie Deal

inventor of the Toilet Seat Guitar: