The Musical Instrument Thread

HecticArt said:
Ditto to both posts.

ESP is making some good looking guitars.
I think mine looks fantastic, and it plays better than anything I've ever picked up. To me, it blows the $4,000 PRS's out of the water.

Go get your kid back Jon. Don't be a deadbeat dad. Show it some love and attention. Play with it often. Don't worry about the pickups so much. You'll have time to tinker with those before you start playing with other people.
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Friday could be the day. We'll see.


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I'm watching this neck on eBay. It's from a Hello Kitty strat. Normal strat neck except for the hot pink fret markers.

The hot pink would rock with my seafoam green body.

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The guitar build progresseth. I picked up this Squier maple neck for $51 on eBay, shipped. (It's not the Hello Kitty neck--that guy never got back to me with questions, so screw him and his lousy 98.4 percent approval rating.) It's a '99 and should work just fine on my '00 body when the time comes.

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I've been meaning for like six months to go down to a local bar downtown and meet with the Blue Ridge Blues Society on one of their jam nights. Never got around to it. Last week I happened to see on Facebook that they needed some volunteers for their 10th annual Blue Ridge Blues and BBQ Festival, so I volunteered to pour beer Saturday night but ended up working at the merch tent and helping tear down after the show. It was fun--I saw some friends and had a seat just to the left of the stage in our downtown amphitheater. Tinsley Ellis, an Atlanta guitarist, was the main act and he was pretty good.

The upshot is that the guy coordinating the volunteers has been looking for some guys to jam with and do some gigs. He has a bass player and asked if I'd like to join them on guitar. The bass player is this crazy old, half-deaf coot who's a really nice guy but can't hear a thing. We're supposed to get together soon. This is kind of what I've been looking for--something other than playing for an audience of one in my basement. I'l let you know how it pans out.
 
That's a lot of gear.
Welcome to Basement Rock!

We've all been too busy to get together and play. I keep hoping soon, but it's just been nuts.
I got an ABC foot switch so I can plug in 3 guitars at once and not have to fark around switching cords between songs. I almost missed coming in on cue at the party we played last year because I got the cords mixed up.

I also got a new 5 way switch for my Guild, and a chunk of pick guard material to make a better looking bracket to mount my midi pickup better,
 
HecticArt said:
That's a lot of gear.
Welcome to Basement Rock!

We've all been too busy to get together and play. I keep hoping soon, but it's just been nuts.
I got an ABC foot switch so I can plug in 3 guitars at once and not have to fark around switching cords between songs. I almost missed coming in on cue at the party we played last year because I got the cords mixed up.

I also got a new 5 way switch for my Guild, and a chunk of pick guard material to make a better looking bracket to mount my midi pickup better,
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What exactly is your guitar inventory, anyway? If the Guild has a five-way switch, is it a strat copy?

The blues guys and I met this evening and played for about three hours. It was great. I brought my tele. They brought in a friend of theirs on drums--he has a 1960s-era kit that he bought when he was 14. The color was silver with sparkles and the whole thing was very cool, very Ringo. Anyway, these guys are great and I'm clearly the weak link, so I mostly played rhythm and let the other guitarist play lead, which he's good at. It was mostly 1-4-5 blues-based stuff so it was easy to follow along. The drummer wants to play Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay next time, which isn't a blues shuffle but it's still easy once you know it and will be a change of pace.

Anyway, there were all happy I came and definitely want to get together again soon. I have a list of 20 or so songs they gave me to work on, plus they said to let them know what I wanted to play and we'd do it. Their goal is to work up some songs and play some low-pressure gigs. I heard the Elks Lodge mentioned, so I'm thinking like $50 for a few hours on a Saturday night. Which is awesome. I remember hanging out with a friend in his basement around 1984, singing Duran Duran tunes and talking about being in a band. He had an actual electric guitar, something I coveted but my parents never bought for me. And here I am, 30-plus years later, about to do it, minus the Duran Duran. Pretty cool.
 
I'd have to do the count again, but 10 or 11. Most of them are more sentimental than they are good to play. There's 4 electrics (Guild, Strat, Toothpick, & ESP) that are great to play. Two off brand acoustics (a 12 & a 6). The 12 is pretty decent to play, and the 6 is ok.) The Guild is a made in USA Strat copy from 85 or so. I've got the midi pickup on that one. I'm coveting the Reverend Pete Anderson right now. It's a big hollow body that can go from a jazzy L5 sound to Billy Duffy balls out rocker with ease. It will settle in the middle for some serious Rockabilly too. That would round out anything I'd be looking for in an electric. Unless I stumble across one of the early all plastic Steinbergers for a sweet price.

Sounds like you've got a good thing in the works with the dudes you've been jamming with. They probably wouldn't have given you all of those songs to work on if they didn't really want to play more with you. They would avoid talking about playing gigs if they didn't think you would fit in with them. Good times! :guitar2:
 
Update: strat still not out of hock yet (poverty sucks!) maybe this week. Meantime I've been giving the acoustic some love.


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My collection has grown: tele, 6 string and jazz bass in the nice to play category; two old 12-fret parlors, one mine from my youth, one my mom's from hers, both marginal; the Frankenstrat I'm buying parts for that's ugly but playable; and a nice ukulele.

HecticArt said:
I'm coveting the Reverend Pete Anderson right now.
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One of those big Gretsch-type rockabilly guitars. You and Brian Setzer. I liked my hollowbody but it was too much guitar.

Jon said:
Update: strat still not out of hock yet (poverty sucks!) maybe this week. Meantime I've been giving the acoustic some love.
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Any word on the law enforcement gig?
 
It ain't a toy boy. Ain't gunna break it.

The Pete Anderson has a solid block that runs from the neck to the bridge inside. It lets you play at high volumes without all of the feedback. I love how thin the 335's are, but they are supposed to be hard to control the feedback. They are about as thick as a an acoustic.
 
HecticArt said:
It ain't a toy boy. Ain't gunna break it.

The Pete Anderson has a solid block that runs from the neck to the bridge inside. It lets you play at high volumes without all of the feedback. I love how thin the 335's are, but they are supposed to be hard to control the feedback. They are about as thick as a an acoustic.
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My Ibanez had that solid block, too. A semi-hollowbody. It was only about 2" thick at the edges and a little taller in the middle as it was arched.
 
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