Post up pics of your Git-Boxes

[raverjames]

Here are my electrics...

The Tele and the LP Goth are all I normally play, since I modded them to sound the way I like. The Strat is nice, but I need to get some better pickups for it. I also get nervous when modding a guitar that cost almost $1k.



Oh yeah, here is my second love that takes up the rest of my den...

 

[cekim]

Eeeek - someone get that man some guitar stands and strap locks for xmas...

You guys are reminding me that I need to look into amps... I've gone digital for effects, both for recording and ease of use - so I have been looking for an amp that does as little as possible, but sounds great doing it...

Here are my electrics...

Oh yeah, here is my second love that takes up the rest of my den...

 

[Charlie Sheen]

Mister Roper are you crazy?! You always add to the collection, NEVER take away!

Time to thin the heard again.

...Fender Strat...

Coolness.

...Oh yeah, here is my second love that takes up the rest of my den...

Nice guitars! Small issue with that second pic though... 2nd shelf down, 3rd bottle from the right. Looks a couple onces "light". You wouldn't be holding out on us now, would you?

 

[cekim]

Coolness.

You still have my guitar's twin? It had natural neck and a sparkly pick-guard as I recall...

 

[Charlie Sheen]

You still have my guitar's twin? It had natural neck and a sparkly pick-guard as I recall...

She's laying around here somewhere...

 

[raverjames]

Eeeek - someone get that man some guitar stands and strap locks for xmas...

No need. I usually keep them all in the hard cases. And I tried the strap locks once but didn't really see why I would need them. Never had an issue with the straps falling off or anything.

 

[cekim]

No need. I usually keep them all in the hard cases. And I tried the strap locks once but didn't really see why I would need them. Never had an issue with the straps falling off or anything.

Eh, its one of those things that never happens until the day that it does...

I got bumped during a gig once and my strap popped off... Managed to keep hold of the neck, but just barely...

From then on, the first thing I do with any guitar I buy is install strap locks...

Particularly nice if you are going in and out of a hard case daily - don't have to fiddle with stiff straps or worry about loose worn out ones...

 

[Charlie Sheen]

Eh, its one of those things that never happens until the day that it does...

And on that day the curse words are flying.

Back when I was poor, well, poorer than I am now, we ghettoed our own strap locks. Removed the strap pegs, put fender washers on them from the back, put the strap on from the back, then re-attached the peg. Cut-up credit cards also make good picks (although soft/thin'light). And don't get me started on the uses of used strings...

 

[JimmyD]

Mister Roper are you crazy?! You always add to the collection, NEVER take away!

I know I could kick myself in the ass for letting go of my '69 LP Deluxe GoldTop back in '91...still hurts

 

[Streetcrayon]

I can't be the only bassist here! Someone bust out that Wal, Pedulla, Ric, or Alembic.

If this thread is for twangers only thats my mistake.

Someones gotta keep the low end. Bass................thats whats rattling your nads!

 

[ixtlan]

Looks like we got a few Musician's here.
I dont know crapola bout Gits.
But I do know me music.

Joe Bonamassa FTW!!!!
IMO never to be humble Opinion.
He is perhaps the best living guitarist in the freakin world.
And if I may be so brave...
Perhaps the best ever.
Blluuuesss Rock!!!
Hell Ya!!!

 

[Streetcrayon]

Blluuuesss Rock!!!
Hell Ya!!!

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!

 

[cekim]

I can't be the only bassist here! Someone bust out that Wal, Pedulla, Ric, or Alembic.

If this thread is for twangers only thats my mistake.

Someones gotta keep the low end. Bass................thats whats rattling your nads!

Nah - there's a couple of bass players 'round here...

I "get by" on my 5 string bass - not the first thing I pickup for a jam session though... More of a utilitarian instrument for me at this point... I'll record the bass part on my loop-station or PC and layer on top of it...

Many moons ago, I was principle Tuba for 6 or 7 semesters running in my University's wind ensemble and symphonic band - so I'm all about the "nad rattling"... Guitar music without bass is !@#$ing folk and we can't have that (ok, I'm making an exception for Dust in the Wind...)...

 

[Streetcrayon]

Nice cekim. I haven't ventured to the 5 string yet. Does haveing that B string lying around really help. I guess it really couldn't hurt, right? I need to get my Ampeg stack before the 5 string. I really love the tone of those tubes man.

I really wish I would have picked it up sooner. I guess playing by ear and tablature works.

 

[cekim]

Nice cekim. I haven't ventured to the 5 string yet. Does haveing that B string lying around really help. I guess it really couldn't hurt, right? I need to get my Ampeg stack before the 5 string. I really love the tone of those tubes man.

Well, having played Tuba, Bari-sax and Trombone, I love the harmonics you get in the lower register... As a bottom of the instrument range, E, just won't do for me...

There is also the matter that both in composition and in covering popular music that I like, you can play the bass part of most drop-D stuff without having to do anything other than reach down a string and adjust the fingerings a little... If I am going to tune/play drop-D by de-tuning on any instrument, I am going to adjust the saddle so it is in tune (which is pain to go back-and-forth)... If you don't, fret 8+ get horribly out of tune and unintentional dissonance in the Bass is not a good thing... So, better to just leave it tuned to E and use another string if you can...

It also helps a lot on the upper register to prevent having to hop all the way out to the 1-4 frets on a lot of stuff... Particularly in the bass part, I like wide intervals when I compose so it gives me a wider range of lower notes since I am not limited to the open E,A,D off of which to build the chord...

The only time it "hurts" is that the vast majority of the time, you are just ignoring that string, but there it is waiting for your finger to flap a little too far off E and tap it... or worse yet, hit the 12th fret B harmonic which will not go unnoticed unless you have a low cut-off freq dialed in (which I generally don't).

I really wish I would have picked it up sooner. I guess playing by ear and tablature works.

I really wish I hadn't stopped... I ran myself into the ground in College keeping up with Composition, Tuba, Sax and Piano whilst an EE major. Guitar was my first instrument, but even at that point, it was already pushed aside...

I was pretty burnt out on music after college, so I just put my head into my EE career and then I had kids a little while into that... Played less and less...

Then, I didn't really touch an instrument for 10 years prior 2007 and I really regret it... Thankfully, the technique and theory came roaring back, so I picked up where I left off minus some calouses...

 

[cekim]

I guess playing by ear and tablature works.

p.s. Of all the instruments I play and have played, I have found standard notation the least useful for guitar... tabs are much more compact/useful (not perfect, there is something to be said for rhythm - which is clumsy in tabs).

It's a little like sheet music for drum-set, next to useless for 99.9% of the time...

From the composition side, its a hassle, I work backwards - recording the crude chord progression and rhythm and filling in the individual notes later.

On most other instruments, I'd be a stronger advocate for learning to read music, which I still think is worth it, but you can go a long way on guitar and add it back in later... Instant gratification (or "more instant") keeps you wanting to learn more... Hitting a wall on an instrument and not being able to improve blows chunks and makes you put it down...

Avoid the wall - "there is no spoon" -the Matrix

 

[Streetcrayon]

p.s. Of all the instruments I play and have played, I have found standard notation the least useful for guitar... tabs are much more compact/useful (not perfect, there is something to be said for rhythm - which is clumsy in tabs).

It's a little like sheet music for drum-set, next to useless for 99.9% of the time...

From the composition side, its a hassle, I work backwards - recording the crude chord progression and rhythm and filling in the individual notes later.

On most other instruments, I'd be a stronger advocate for learning to read music, which I still think is worth it, but you can go a long way on guitar and add it back in later... Instant gratification (or "more instant") keeps you wanting to learn more... Hitting a wall on an instrument and not being able to improve blows chunks and makes you put it down...

Avoid the wall - "there is no spoon" -the Matrix

Man you really hit it on the head cekim. The wall is bad and can get you down. I love it when a song helps you get over the wall. Then you go back to the songs you've been struggling with and bam! You got 'em!

Then you look at Rush, Iron Maiden, or Tool and go maybe next week.

I just love adding to the can-do list.

 

[SixtySix]

Joe Bonamassa FTW!!!!

I'm not going argue with it, he's great... but my pick is Steve Morse, I've never heard anyone as diverse as Steve with the Dixie Dregs and the Steve Morse Band. I even really like what he's done with Deep Purple, not that many people pay attention here in the states with what DP does these days, but it's good stuff

 

[SixtySix]

She's laying around here somewhere...

Hey Stanley, what's that Explorer wanna-be on the right? A Guild? Never seen one like that

 

[Charlie Sheen]

Hey Stanley, what's that Explorer wanna-be on the right? A Guild? Never seen one like that

Washburn A10 (re-issue). An original A5 decked out to an A20 was my "80s-Get-Lucky" guitar of choice. Here's my ugly blue one...