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[Blueblood]

We have been blessed with many musicians here at BB Central. While some sing in choirs or blow harp, I think the majority of us play guitar or piano. Since we have a harmonica thread I feel the time is right to highlight one for guitar.
It would be a place to display our possessions, declare our wishes, share favorite sites & videos, trade licks or talk technique.

~a little history~

I have no less than thirty guitars myself with a bunch of amps and various assortments of pedals. I'm mostly self taught and my guitar of choice is Fender, and no, not because Mr. Fender’s first name was Leo. They have the ‘feel’ and rawness I prefer and while I’ve had a few brands that were expensive, they were just too pretty to play or simply above my level of expertise.

I currently use a Fender Cyber-Twin to dial in any range of effects or vintage amp models. I try not to use any one guitar more than a week but I always seem to fall back to my pawn shop prize. An ’85 Squier Bullet I got for $70.00! It drips honey soaked Blues and is an absolute joy to play! (the ‘80’s Squiers were awesome and much underrated)

I’ll shut up now and just throw in a couple of pics to get us rolling.
(Cropper, Airman, Syd, I’m counting on ya’ll too!)

One of the reasons I never leave the house..

The Peavy Boys..

The Tele Troupe..

[Syd-Blues]

Ok, my history next?

I picked up my first guitar in 7th grade, as part of class, but I picked up my skillz VERY quickly and was soon better thna the teacher. At that point, I didn't really REALIZe that guitar was actually SOMETHING, you know?

8th grade changed that. (Like alot of things.) I couldn't wait to get to music class, to play the guitar and I quickly was the only one in my class you could tune by ear. That Xmas, I crossed everything off the list but a guitar. My first. A black Squier Strat, that was quickly adorned with a Deadhead sticker and my name carved into it.

Then I got my first REAL amp (which I still have, use, love and adore) a Vox Pathfinder 15. (IT f***in had TREMOLO!) I got some pedals (BF-3 Flanger, Vox Wah, Visual Sound H2O.)

After awhile, I started liking Blues alot more, so I started looking at Blues guitars. First, I tried the easy way out and switch the pickups in the Strat. Didn't work. Next, I really liked the Epiphone Sheraton, but it was too much for me, so I got an Epiphone Dot. I fell in love, and it became my Blues guitar, the most often played, the one with the big strings etc.

The Strat was traded in along with my BF-3 and VS H2O (THE BIGGEST mistake of my life, I miss those pedals so) for a White Mexican Strat. I had been looking for awhile and then it was literally, BAM! I saw it. I had .11 strings put on it, the action raised, so it could be my slide guitar. Slide didn't work to my liking on the thin pickups, so it became the 'experiment' guitar.

I had .12s put on, action lowered a bit, and mashed it into odd tunings.

Now, I am shopping for a SX SJM (thanks to Blue for all the advice) and more and more and more and more pedals.

I consider myself versitile now. I can play anything I want, but am not afraid of Noise. I can slow it down and jam with my buddy on harp. And I've gathered alot of odd tunings, and odd pedals to keep me company.

I've recorded 17 EPs (never released) by myself, and am currently planing on 2, 3 and maybe a record with my current dream band which I handpicked.

Hope I didn't bore y'all.

(Thanks to Blue, and my girls, without them, I'd still be in the basement.)

And Blue, what is that pretty lil thang kinda above and to the rigth of the SX SJM?

[Syd-Blues]

Oh, and I am NOT self-taught. I had lessons with the best of the best. Without him, I couldn't hardly play 'Ode to Joy.'

[Blueblood]

It's an Ibanez 'Jet King'
Fantastic playability and construction
coupled with great Blues and Jazz tone..

http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM04/Content/Ibanez/PR/JTK2.html

[enrico.reb]

My story:

I began to play the guitar very late, i was 17 (now i'm 19...), before i played several other instruments, like flute or piano, but they were not MY instrument... When i first took the guitar i took the feeling immediatly, my teacher was very impressed. I started qith the idea of playing Blues, now i still play Blues, but i also play some Rock and Classical.

My stuff is still a work in progress... for now i use my hand-made electric guitar linked to a Beringer Wah-Wah (economical stuff;)) and then to a Korg A4 guitar effect processor: i use the overdive (setted to a sound closer to Jimmy Page one), the flanger and the compressor (only for some Pink Floyd tracks - like Confortably Numb and some passages of Echoes). Then it's linked to a Yamaha mixer, that allows me to control volume, reverb (better than the Korg) and allows me to use a Delay (for the violin bow solo:P) that is better than the Korg one. Finally we get to the two LEM speakers, with 100W power.

Acoustic stuff is composed by an Eko classical gutar (very old, but with a superb sound), a 12-strings Eko acoustic guitar and an Ibanez acoustic guitar.

My next acquisitions will be: a Marshal Tube Amp, a microphone (for using the speakers also with the acoustic guitars), a flanger and a compressor, so i'll be able to eliminate the Korg, whitch is not easy to use...

My style wants to be similar to Jimmy Page and Frank Zappa ones, with some influences by Ritchie Blackmore and David Gilmoure.

[Cropper Classic]

Blue, I'm not sure I approve of all your porn, LOL

[Cropper Classic]

This thread has inspired me to create a photobucket album of all the guitars I *used* to own.

Coming soon.

[Blueblood]

Boy enrico, that sounds ambitious! Good sources of inspiration as well!
(Maybe in the future we can post some sound clips of our progress)

[Blueblood]

Cropper Classic said:

This thread has inspired me to create a photobucket album of all the guitars I *used* to own...

I'd like to see those again Crop!! I remember they made me smile yet cry at the same time. :D:(

[Dauber]

I've been playing for 20 years. I was bored one day during the summer between eighth grade and high school, so I grabbed my dad's guitar (he's not really a musician, but he has a guitar that he used to take out and play once in a while) and an instruction book I found and taught myself some chords...

I have a Fender Squier II Strat that I got for my HS graduation and named "Clyde" and a Gibson Epiphone 12-string acoustic that I named "Minerva." And as a wedding present to ourselves, my wife and I bought a Fender Squier P-Bass; in the nine years we've had it, I'm the only one who ever played it...

The only other guitar I really care to get is a Rickenbacker 360 12-string.....*drooooooollllll* Amazing sound....and really easy to play, too...

[Cropper Classic]

"Clyde"

That is awesome. I had a Strat named "Pinky" - you can guess the color.

:D

[Syd-Blues]

Mine have names. They're secret.

[enrico.reb]

Blueblood said:

Boy enrico, that sounds ambitious! Good sources of inspiration as well!
(Maybe in the future we can post some sound clips of our progress)

Very ambitious...

We can record ourself with a webcam and put us on Youtube (maye we'll see Syd's face...).

[Cropper Classic]

enrico.reb said:

We can record ourself with a webcam and put us on Youtube (maybe we'll see Syd's face...).

LOL!

[Dauber]

Cropper Classic said:

"Clyde"

That is awesome. I had a Strat named "Pinky" - you can guess the color.

:D

Heh...I named him Clyde because the girl I was kinda-sorta dating at the time asked me, "What are you going to name it?" It was at that second that I thought of Clyde; otherwise I never would have named it! Must be a girl thing -- my wife names everything...her computers, her instruments, cars, our TiVo box, etc...

Minerva's name was originally Athena...but one of our neighbors really pissed me off one day...and he's Greek, so I decided to change Athena's name to her Roman equivalent out of spite. [mind you, I have nothing against Greeks, I just had something against that one Greek that one day. Nothing against him now, either; I was just really mad that day.]

[Syd-Blues]

enrico.reb said:

We can record ourself with a webcam and put us on Youtube (maye we'll see Syd's face...).

I have no face. Look at the avatar. It's an accurate representation of me.

HOWEVER! I am not against the idea.

[Cropper Classic]

Make it so Number One.

[Syd-Blues]

What?

[Blueblood]

He's not tellin' you to do #1, he's saying for us to set up a site for sound clips...


I think.

[bluesharp]

Cropper Classic said:

Make it so Number One.

I love Jean-luc,must be that tight uniform!!

Sorry to go off topic guys!!