Sometimes, I wish...

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Sometimes, I wish I was a "________(Fill in the blank)____ Guy". I mean, like a "Les Paul Guy", or an "SG Guy", or a "Strat Guy". Guitars would be simpler for me. I used to think I was an "SG Guy". That was before I got other guitars.

My problem is...I really like most guitars - Les Pauls, SGs, Stratocasters, semi-hollows. I like the variety of sizes, shapes, and neck profiles. I like big guitars and small guitars. It's a pleasure to jump from a thin 25.5 scale neck to a thicker 24.75 scale neck.

The same goes for pickups - Single coils, humbuckers, mini-humbuckers - I like them all.

All this makes guitars complicated for me. Sometimes, picking a guitar for a song is easy because the tonality of a song really begs for a certain guitar sound. Other times, it's not so definitive and I have to ponder which guitar to use. Sometimes, I literally make the choice based on what goes best with what I'm wearing.

I have the same problem with music. I'm not a "Rock Guy", a "Country Guy", a "MoTown Guy", or a "Metal Guy". Though I do lean toward being a "Classical Guy", my tastes aren't bound to that genre, either. My playlist may go from Aretha Franklin to AC/DC. It may jump from Bach to the B-52s. It may leap from Paganini to Pink Floyd.

Sometimes, I wish I could just be a certain kind of "______ Guy". It would make choosing, enjoying, and playing music a much simpler process.

Then again...I'd probably get really bored, too.

So... I'm probably happier this way!

Ah well....
 
I am there with ya in a lot of ways. I love them all . . . pretty much. I do not worry about what guitar I am playing when I am playing a particular song.
Chances are anybody hearing me play will not recognize the song any way.

Guitars take me to a happy place.
Music takes me to a happy place.

I change music, and guitars often, probably more than socks . . . . but then most the time I am bare foot anyway.

Smitty I am with ya buddy.
 
i found it..the wish came true..its in Original music....i don't have to worry,,copy...emulate,,,look for tone,,,let er rip everytime i get to play....the gear is fun,sold my Harley when my wife got brain injury,,that is my play money...have no other things..cept my tools,,..playing & creating is my passion...bass-guitar-drums-songwtiting..no genre..no goals other than be free to be me !!
 
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It took me years to finally accept that I am just a Gibson and high-gain amp guy. I tried to for a long time to work Fenders and vintage-style amps into my style and just fought them every step of the way. Once I came to the realization that I was just never going to get the sounds I wanted that way I became much happier. As for music, I am all over the place as far as taste but really only play hard rock and metal.
 
eSGEe said:
Any tuning instability with the Vibarolarocker @smitty_p ???
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One thousand Imperial Credits of the Realm are to be awarded to the Gentleman from Florida for posting a question while under threat from a hurricane.

To be honest, kind sir, since installing locking machine heads and a roller bridge, I experience relatively little tuning issues while using the vibrola.

After all, the “business end” is really is just a piece of spring steel. No pivoting or bearings required.

I use it with little concern for pitch issues.

It won’t dive bomb like a Floyd, but I can use it for its intended purpose with little concern,
 
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I found the one on my Firebird to be ......well........annoying and in the way .......the "edge" poked me in the hand (the corner at the top (low E) side---Im a lazy Git and rest my fat paw on the trem/bridge---

Thank you for the Imperial Credits of the Realm ........I can send you a link to an Item I am watching on reverb and you can send it to me instead (you'll save Credits ;) )
 
Okay...

So here’s the situation....

I’m playing a praise and worship set tomorrow in a church.

Ya’ll can pick the guitar that I play.

There’s nothing about this set that forces the tonality towards a specific guitar,

Here are the options...you pick it...I’ll play it:

1. 1974 Gibson SG with mini-humbuckers.
2. 2014 SG Original 2 with 57 Classics with A4 magnets.
3. 2007 Gibson Les Paul Studio with Seymour Duncan Classico 5 in the bridge and Seymour Duncan ‘59 in the neck.
4. 2006 Fender Diamond Anniversary Stratocaster.
5. 2007 Gibson Les Paul Custom, with stock 490R and 498T. (BTW... this guitar prettty much slays all comers )
6. Unknown year Washburn HB-30 (ES-335 copy) with Seymour Duncan ‘59s. (FYI...This Washburn is a Les Paul Killer. Hide yer Lesters!)

7. Jackson Dinky with Seymour Duncan Trembucker in the bridge and ‘59 Bridge in the neck...and a perfectly setup Floyd Rose.


There ya go go, boys.

Pick my church guitar by 8:00 am tomorrow!!!

I’ll be watchin’ some George Thorogood and some Brian Setzer, in the mean time...
 
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