chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
Yup, it is nice hearing stories.
The tale of your guitar journey
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Yup, it is nice hearing stories.
The only “gigs” I’ve played has been in a worship band, so I get it. Did that for about 10 years or so after we moved from western Illinois to NE Illinois. Played about once a month or so and it was a different group most Sundays I played. However, the lineup was generally an electric, an acoustic (me), bass, drums and usually a keyboard (piano or electric.... sometimes both). Since I played acoustic I played rhythm. It was a good group of musicians and I had a pretty good time. About a year ago I went into a self instituted sabbatical from playing. Got to a point where I didn’t want to practice. Wasn’t even feeling the urge to pickup the guitar. It wasn’t fair to the team, so I walked away. I still liked playing. Love music. Still liked playing the guitar..... when I actually sat down with one.
Fortunately, this story has a happy ending. I was able to find my mojo again. Bought the Hagstrom semi hollow and got excited about playing again. Still don’t play as much as I’d like, but it’s enough I keep the callouses on my finger tips.
I played on a worship team for 6 months, but the politics were simply too much for me.
That’s the nice thing about where I played. Wasn’t really any politics and egos for the most part was left at the door when we walked in to practice or play on Sunday. Ego is a tough thing. We all have one. Having that feeling of absolutely nailing it. Wanting to flaunt it. Yet keeping it in check. It’s tough balance.
Now that said. I have gotten home after playing and said to Mrs. IbLive. “I was one stud guitar player today.” Ya gotta be able to brag at home.
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Tony M.
Ambassador
...which reminds me of the time we were
watching some musical thing or other.
Guitar solo commences on whatever we were watching..
Me - "I wish I could play like that."
Mrs. M. - (Looks at me like I'm stupid) "You can."
Yeah. They do a pretty good job of making feel we can do anything.
Sp8ctre
Ambassador of Steel
Love to hear things like this.
My wife recently asked me why I was playing so quietly. I told her I didn't want to bother her with my music.
She told me it sounded great and to turn it up as loud as I wanted! Encouragement is always good...
I have a cheap multi effect box with headphones I play into rather than disturb the house hold. Generally only crank it up in the amp when I’m home alone. 20w into a single 12 can still be heard across the street when cranked up.
Sp8ctre
Ambassador of Steel
It's just me and the wife here. I'm on one end of the house in my music room and she's in the other in the bedroom when I crank it.
Nothing ear shattering, but loud as I want to play. I only use headphones to listen to what I'm trying to replicate and then crank it
loud enough to hear myself play without taking off the cans...
With the not yet broken in Reaper 55Hz, my DSL40C sounds less "right" at lower volumes, as it did with the Creamback, but sounds incredible at higher volumes - exactly opposite of how it used to be.
My wife is pretty cool, even though she doesn't "dig" guitars very much. She announced plans to build me a rehearsal studio....
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HFirst guitar for me was a $22.00 pounds sterling Silvertone at our local Sears clear across Dublin. I never made this long train and walking journey on my own. A joint effort of money I earned and money from my big sister financed this venture. I was terrified because I never went this far away from home by myself. The guitar was a flat top with F holes. I couldn't wait to get it home but the long wait for the guy to go into the storage place to retrieve it was going on and I only have 20 minutes until the last train. February in Ireland was always bitter cold. I kept my finger killer for a long time. I don't remember for sure but I think I just wore it out. I have a stock picture of one just like it.
ChasFred
Ambassador of Smooth Operations
With the not yet broken in Reaper 55Hz, my DSL40C sounds less "right" at lower volumes, as it did with the Creamback, but sounds incredible at higher volumes - exactly opposite of how it used to be.
My wife is pretty cool, even though she doesn't "dig" guitars very much. She announced plans to build me a rehearsal studio....
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Sounds like you need a cabinet for the Creamback and just use which ever one you need for the particular situation. A/B switches work wonders
The 90 watt Creamback was a good speaker, but it didn't deliver the same performance as the Reaper 55Hz, but I might put it in a cabinet just for fun...
BlackSG91
Ambassador of Anarchy
Started playing organ and taking lessons when I was young. I also played lead snare drum in the Navy...played many parades all around. I got my first electric guitar in 1987 which was a black Profile Strat copy. It was a good beginner's guitar until I upgraded to a Yamaha RGX Custom guitar (in black) in '89. That baby cost me over $2,000 at the time not including the case. It's one hell of a guitar and I still have it to this day. My third electric guitar was my Gibson SG Special back in '91. I chose it over a black SG Standard because the Special had an ebony fret board which felt really great. Since then until now I have around 20 guitars but I'm trying to thin the herd because I hardly have any appropriate space to store them all.
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Started playing organ and taking lessons when I was young. I also played lead snare drum in the Navy...played many parades all around. I got my first electric guitar in 1987 which was a black Profile Strat copy. It was a good beginner's guitar until I upgraded to a Yamaha RGX Custom guitar (in black) in '89. That baby cost me over $2,000 at the time not including the case. It's one hell of a guitar and I still have it to this day. My third electric guitar was my Gibson SG Special back in '91. I chose it over a black SG Standard because the Special had an ebony fret board which felt really great. Since then until now I have around 20 guitars but I'm trying to thin the herd because I hardly have any appropriate space to store them all.
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I put an ebony fret board on a 1968 Strat, my Brian Moore came with one. My Martin D28 came with the best one I ever played. Ebony fret boards just feel so great to play.
gasket
Ambassador of the Guitarded
Nice Readers Digest style compression.
I bet if you applied yourself you could get it out to 6 lines.
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
Started playing organ and taking lessons when I was young. I also played lead snare drum in the Navy...played many parades all around. I got my first electric guitar in 1987 which was a black Profile Strat copy. It was a good beginner's guitar until I upgraded to a Yamaha RGX Custom guitar (in black) in '89. That baby cost me over $2,000 at the time not including the case. It's one hell of a guitar and I still have it to this day. My third electric guitar was my Gibson SG Special back in '91. I chose it over a black SG Standard because the Special had an ebony fret board which felt really great. Since then until now I have around 20 guitars but I'm trying to thin the herd because I hardly have any appropriate space to store them all.
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AND YOU have a wonderful Telecaster.