Post up pics of your Git-Boxes

[Charlie Sheen]

I've never understood "hero worship" in any arena... Trying to decide which of many outstanding players is "the best" just doesn't make any sense to me...

Bonamassa is outrageously good - but I will say that I get a little tired of being beaten over the head with that fact each time he picks up a guitar... Could just be what makes it out into the public - everyone wants to see fire on the fretboard...

Actually, I always considered Eric & Elliot as "influences". I can see how non-playaz might see them as heroes though...

 

[cekim]

Actually, I always considered Eric & Elliot as "influences". I can see how non-playaz might see them as heroes though...

Just about everything I have ever heard is an "influence" - sometimes just on "what not to do" though...

 

[Charlie Sheen]

Just about everything I have ever heard is an "influence" - sometimes just on "what not to do" though...

Well, we are all a product of our environment. Some of us just chose to be better. And "faster" < "better".

 

[SixtySix]

"faster" < "better".

Yngwie Malmsteen < David Gilmour

 

[FalconGTHO]

I will throat chop anyone that does not agree with this statement. Tha blues are everywhere, in ALL music.

What I don't get is when you talk to people and ask what music do you listen to? They reply I don't know I really don't listen to music. Instant double axe-handle to the face. Get the fuck outta here!

LMAO~! Right on, brother.

 

[FalconGTHO]

My junk:

Not pictured, Hondo acoustic.

 

[ixtlan]

Check this out.

 

[ixtlan]

And one more

 

[ixtlan]

Ok last JB post.
(Hey I is a fan)

Anyway check out this interview.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1329233498/bclid1333277767/bctid1887809477

The boy got heart...

 

[Charlie Sheen]

Yngwie Malmsteen < David Gilmour

My junk:

Cool!

Check this out.

That's kinda funny, he hasn't gotten any better.

Sorry guys, but the blues (or at least the form of music currently referred to as the blues) kinda suck. I don't think an original blues lick has been written in 40 years. However, just to contradict myself, I do have several SRV CDs.

 

[cekim]

Sorry guys, but the blues (or at least the form of music currently referred to as the blues) kinda suck. I don't think an original blues lick has been written in 40 years. However, just to contradict myself, I do have several SRV CDs.

Blues is a lot of fun to play, but....

It's like baseball for me - fun to play - boring to listen to... I loved the years I spent in Jazz Bands playing sax and guitar... But, when I pick something to listen to, its either going to be some form of rock or classical, almost never "blues..."

The pre-whacked "blues method #1" chord progression with a healthy dose of "guitarsturbation" is a blast to do, I do it myself for practice, but watching someone else do it would be a snore...

 

[ixtlan]

Thats why I like to listen to Blues Rock, or Rock Blues, or whatever ya want to call it these days.
Hard core Blues is a bit too depressing for me.
I like the mix they play today.
Sort of a Southern Rock mixed with a Blues of old.
Anyone that learn to play the Git Boxes has my respect for that if nothing else.
I cant carry a tune, let alone make a tune on anything short of a wrench on an engine block.
Hell I am lucky to tap my foot to a tune for more than a minute.
Dirty White boy got no soul I suppose.

:beat:

 

[raverjames]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL05jn6vQA4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vheuPUbHq1o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GSpbuFSr2o&feature=related

Some videos of people better than me.
BTW, Malmsteen is a great guitar player, but also a big douche.

 

[Boss281]

Thats why I like to listen to Blues Rock, or Rock Blues, or whatever ya want to call it these days.
Hard core Blues is a bit too depressing for me.
I like the mix they play today.
Sort of a Southern Rock mixed with a Blues of old.
Anyone that learn to play the Git Boxes has my respect for that if nothing else.
I cant carry a tune, let alone make a tune on anything short of a wrench on an engine block.
Hell I am lucky to tap my foot to a tune for more than a minute.
Dirty White boy got no soul I suppose.

:beat:

I've been playing blues since my teens (that's the early 70s). It constantly amazes me the voices a simple 3 chord progression allows in the hands of someone that "gets" it. Over time, I've strayed into other areas because that's where the money was for gigs - pop, country, some jazz (not a real player but get me drunk and...), contemporary pop - but I ALWAYS come back to the blues. Every once in a while someone pulls out an old standard and adds some zing. While not perfect playing and just pentatonic scale wizardry, listen to "Outside Woman Blues" by Back Door Slam. Simple, not a master player, but I love crankin that bitch on the player in the Mustang, heading home from work after a long day. Eric Clapton and Cream didn't have a clue...

Oh, and I LOVE Joe Bonamassa. His CDs are great, but man, catch the guy in concert and watch when he "gets" it. Jesus.

John

 

[ixtlan]

He never comes to Utard.
I will if he ever does.

 

[raverjames]

And my favorite bassist...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx2vuK5pGTg&feature=related

 

[Buzzystang]

Can't believe I missed this thread!

Since we're all showing off...

In this corner we have:

 

[Buzzystang]

These:

Clockwise, from left: A black Warmoth 12-string Franken-Strat, created out of my first Squire II, an 89 Custom Shop Mary Kaye '57 Strat Reissue (the first Custom Shop production model, before they were the Custom Shop), an Epiphone Casino, a Mexican P-Bass, and a 92 '62 Strat Re-issue. ('59 Bassman RI in the bottom).

 

[Buzzystang]

...and then over to the left, these:

 

[Buzzystang]

...and on the other wall, these: