Would anyone be interested in a guitar/musical instrument sub section?

Damn_Yankee

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I am getting back into guitar after about 10 years away. Going to pretty much have to relearn again. Maybe this time I won't pick up so many bad playing habits. Is there enough interest to get a sub section going on here?
 
Id like to elaborate. Im not a big fan of more subforums, honestly, but if there were one, I'd make a few posts because I do own a few and would like 2 more.
Currently I have a squire strat that i got when I was 14 for Christmas. I was with my parents, a pawn shop special. I will never part with it.
I have a fender Aerodyne bass. A fender acoustic. An Ibanez RG7 7 string (another Christmas present at 17, I was real into numetal lol)
Ive had an epiphone SG in the past and 'inherited' my dads knock-off Les Paul...I traded the LP for the SG and then I dont know what happened to the SG. Should have kept the LP, knockoff or not.

And had a few Fender and Squire basses as well as a Peavey bass. That sucker was HEAVY.

Now I have two I'd like to add - a white Fender tele and a black or white LP, Gibson.
As Im older I can make my own money and buy these 'nicer' things...but it's hard, when I RARELY play, to justify 600 on a guitar.
 
Here’s my one and only.
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I am getting back into guitar after about 10 years away. Going to pretty much have to relearn again. Maybe this time I won't pick up so many bad playing habits. Is there enough interest to get a sub section going on here?

Sure....I too am again trying to jangle the strings. Slowly....very slowly......but having fun.

While we're at it....I have a question.

I see a lot of guitar players wearing some type of slick hat....is that a requirement for advancement in skills? Willing to give it a shot if so.
 
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If there was ever any doubt you were into metal...

Want to start a Carcass cover band?
Lol. Carcass, now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. And that old, reverse neck Jackson on the far left is the absolute best player in that bunch. Thing is such a treat to play. I had it originally setup at LA Guitar Factory in Charlotte years ago. Dude knows his stuff.

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Hell, I've done scrounged around for photos.


One of our earlier drum sets and Izzy.
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Back when I could jump up, land on my knees, roll around on the ground, get tangled in the mic cord, get kicked in the face, and girls thought it was hot AF. This photo could have been taken anywhere. Probably around 2005. I do know that this was taken during some ridiculously bombastic Swans-esque industrial cover of Britney's "Slave 4 U". I remember a guy from the opening band getting completely naked and playing that sawblade contraption pictured above while his tally whacker slung all around at some long gone sh*thole in Johnson City during some rendition of that tune.
(I had a belt on earlier that night.)
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Very old photo. 2003, maybe? I remember this "gig". It was somewhere out in the asshole of Gaston County, in a tool shed behind a house off Marietta. It was at a host from Gaston College's radio station, and was his joint birthday party with his 10 year old daughter's. They had a burn barrel outside and the drummer and my girlfriend taped 5 or 6 spraypaint cans together and tossed them in. Surprisingly, the resultant explosion didn't get us expelled.

What did happen, is towards the end of the night, a dude that looked every bit like Richie Blackmore showed up in a purple sequin jacket, plugged right into the second port of my amp and proceed to play noodly assed Deep Purple style solos over top of our purely rhythmic, atonal, amelodic squall while I bellowed phrases like "Screaming flowers dying" and "clean your cut out with a wire brush". It all came very effortlessly, just like the cops did, eventually.

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Not much to this photo, but I've always liked it. This was the final permutation of the band, when we had moved into full on punk rock electro goth funk dub, or whatever you would have called that nonsense we were doing. I wish I still had that shirt.

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Lol. Carcass, now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. And that old, reverse neck Jackson on the far left is the absolute best player in that bunch. Thing is such a treat to play. I had it originally setup at LA Guitar Factory in Charlotte years ago. Dude knows his stuff.

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Is Ari still around Charlotte? I haven't thought of that place in years. Not that I ever owned anything worth troubling him with.
 
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I just picked up a Washburn acoustic because I thought I would get back into it. Got it home and realized my left index finger where I cut the tip off several years back is to fat to only hit one string.

Anybody wanna' buy a guitar?
 
I have a "few" too.

Funny , I pulled this one and that Marshall down stairs last night to play for the animals. They both left the room...

The first time I heard Unchained as a kid in the early 80's, I ditched the clarinet and piano lessons.

Went down a rabbit hole of EVH videos on you tube tonight. What a virtuoso.

I'd be a casual lurker on the music section and probably wouldn't add any real substance. (Much like any other topic I guess...)20201007_000420.jpg
 
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Is Ari still around Charlotte? I haven't thought of that place in years. Not that I ever owned anything worth troubling him with.

Yes sir, still on Old Concord Rd. Ari is one cool dude. When I bought the Jackson, the tremolo was all jacked up, the nut was way out of adjust, the string height/action was terrible (it's a Jackson, we know better, lol). So, instead of me messing with it forever trying to get it like it should be, I took it to him. I pass his shop every day going to/from work. He offered to set it up, and, to also show me exactly how to set it up, so I could replicate it if it ever needed it again, or I ran across another guitar that needed to be properly set up. Then we sat and talked about his custom guitars, his custom shop classes, and the world as we know it, lol. Guy is gold in my book. I highly recommend Ari for anyone needing work on anything with strings.

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Here's the newest addition. A fathers day gift from "The Boy" and my wife. The head is a '68 Traynor YBA-1. Bassically a poor mans plexi, but I like it better than the few plexi's I've played. The cab is just a 1x15 bass cab just standing in until i get a proper cab.

I'll need to get a pic of the rest of the girls later.
 
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The one that replaced it is better. Though the blue one next to it may be my best guitar.

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If only I could play. I need to get back into it as well.

I expect @GreatGazoo would be interested in this topic, too.
Is the blue one a Strat Plus with the roller nut? I recognize the Lace Sensors in it.
 
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Here's the newest addition. A fathers day gift from "The Boy" and my wife. The head is a '68 Traynor YBA-1. Bassically a poor mans plexi, but I like it better than the few plexi's I've played. The cab is just a 1x15 bass cab just standing in until i get a proper cab.

I'll need to get a pic of the rest of the girls later.

Beautiful guitar! Is that one of the cherry sunburst?

I fondled one at Gruhn in Nashville a while back. Wanted it badly.
 
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