Excuse me, I’ve been busy fucking a football for the last few weeks. Is that ook with everyone?
(Yeah, I started the thread knowing jack. I still know jack, but now I know most of what I don’t know.)
Squeegee, I’m really sorry to hear about the acoustic. Do you think perhaps the neck got twisted? What could do something like that?
In other news, I got some pedals from that Best Buy deal. Dano Chromatic Tuner, Chicken Salad Vibrato, Bacon and Eggs Distortion, and a Chili Dog Octave.
Cheap, but interesting! The Chili doesn’t get all the notes if you go too fast, but it’s still fun to play with.
Damnifknow. Maybe they didn’t dry the wood properly? It’s like the guitar was warping as I watched, in real time. I really liked (and still really like) that flat-top “LP Special” I bought from them, so I took a shot with the new acoustic stuff. It was a gamble and I lost, but my first experience was pretty good so what the hell. We’ll see how the return goes and what their cust. service is like, & I’ll report back.
I’m a girl. What exactly do I do with this football thingy again? Is this like, phisting or something? I’m unsure. Please advise.
Anyhow I got the banjo uke back from the luthier. Best $60 I ever spent. He re-cut the nut a bit, dressed the frets, replaced a bolt from the drum head, set up a new bridge in just the right spot, and replaced the strings! It’s really loud and twangy and “punchy” if that makes any sense. I’m thinking if putting a video up on YouTube so you can all see and hear it. I’ve been practicing my basic claw hammer strum for a few days now. It almost sounds like I know what I’m doing. Almost.
I’ve just discovered a vein of William Kanengiser videos on YouTube. For those of you who have never encountered him, he’s one of the founding members of the LAGQ (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet). There must have been a recent interview or DVD of his released - here is a fun sampling.
I watched the clip on “the upside of practicing less” and can very much relate - it was something I was just commenting on to a friend as I deal with a bunch of stressful stuff at work. I look forward to the other ones…
ETA: …and there is a lot of Miles Davis’ “So What” in the intro to that Boogie piece. Very cool.
Can any of you guys recommend a good website to learn to read tablature? I have been fooling around with just chord patterns and such, it seems it’s time to learn something new. I have found a few sites but I need “tablature for dummies” type site.
I wanted show you lot this clip - Dhani Harrison, Sir George Martin and Giles Martin (son of Sir George.) listening to ‘Here Comes the Sun’, where they reveal that there was a guitar solo at one time.
And I was just a little verklempt when Sir George says to Dhani at the end “You’re just like your father!”
Perhaps of interest, howe’er peripheral - Michael Schreiner repairs a friend’s theorbo, following the the guidance of Thomas Mace.
I think I may have linked to Michael S. before - watching him lift the soundboard off a theorbo to repair the ‘harmonic bars’ (bracing, to a modern guitar tech) in this episode is spectacularly cool.
Hey guys. I haven’t written in the thread in a while, but I’ve been lurking and always enjoy reading how you guys are getting along with your guitars.
I wanted to show all you guys one of the band projects I’m involved with right now. It’s a alt-country/“twang”-rock kind of thing with elements of folk and punk as well. Here’s the link: Hidebehind
I post this not as an advertisement or spam so I hope it’s not taken that way and if a moderator feels that it is, then I’ll understand if the post is deleted. I’m actually posting this because I’d like your opinions on the guitar work, tones, and production value overall. This is the first band project that I’ve produced and engineered on my own and I’m curious as to whether it sounds up to par with what’s out there commercially. I’m the lead guitar player so all the leads are me and I also did half the rhythm work.
Be brutally honest - you won’t hurt my feelings. Years of playing music has made my skin pretty thick.
This stuff sounds really good. The musicianship is as good as any out there. It isn’t in-your-face-look-at-how-many-notes-I-can-play, which is a plus. I especially like the way that The Ladder starts out with this bluegrass mandolin and then comes this seamless blend with electric instruments. The guitar work in Elizabeth is really tasty. Production quality is pretty good, too. I have to say, though, that the vocals are an acquired taste.
Thanks, man! Glad you liked it. Our singer does have that whiny, Dylan-esque quality to his voice that can be a little grating to some ears. But personally, I like it and think it fits the music well.
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Oooo - I look forward to listening to this in the next day or so…
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Cool - I look forward to your comments in particular since we seem to have very similar tastes when it comes to music.
I was all set to pull the trigger on a Godin Fifth Avenue Kingpin II a couple of years ago, when I decided I wanted a solid-body instead and got my now-beloved Telecaster instead. But now it’s time to scratch that acoustic itch.
The Godin is still at the top of the list–I like versatility in a guitar, and that one seems to do a lot of things well. I’ve played a few and loved them. But what are some other good acoustic options in that price range ($1K or so) I should try out? I don’t want to spend a ton; I played a $3K Taylor that spoke to me, but I really don’t want to spend that and the lower-end Taylors didn’t do as much for me.
So have any acoustics turned anyone’s crank lately?
Man, can my music kill a thread or what?! :eek: C’mon fellas, it’s not THAT bad is it?
Well, back to guitars - I got a new guitar build brewing. Got a few nice pieces of koa when I was in Hawaii a while back and I figured I better get to doing something with them:
So I need some strings for a semi-hollow electric (shechter). I go to the Gibson forums and do a search re best strings. I get nothing. Either their search function is garbage or that subject never comes up.
Anyone here have an opinion as to the best make?
