I was just curious how many guitarists we have. I myself was learning a couple years ago, but unemployment stalled the lessons. Mostly I'm into playing metal/grunge. Seether, Staind, Nickelback, Cold (not Coldplay!), Soul Asylum. That sort of sound. I like a lot of different genres, but my heart is in the 90's alternative/grunge and todays post grunge. When I do play around I usually play on my Ibanez acoustic or Ibanez SA Series electric with my Line XI Spider IV amp.
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How Many Guitarists Do We Have Here?
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Posted 9 months ago #
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Me,I play.
U.S.M.C. (SEMPER FI)Posted 9 months ago # -
Does air guitar count?????
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
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Lol I always play air guitar to the few songs I can play
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Does bass count?
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I started playing guitar over 10 yrs. ago... Now I'm a recording singer-songwriter that plays guitar, bass, piano, banjo, mandolin, irish whistles, and harmonica. I was wondering the other day how interesting it would be if I could learn how to sing with a pipe in my mouth. I've tried, but it mainly results in drool pouring down my chin!
Course, that idea would likely grow defunct since I mainly play for different churches. 
I like your choice of music lordofthepiperings... I used to listen wholly to 90's grunge and such but now lean more towards acoustic progressive stuff, and the great folk legends of old. Dang, I love music. It's all too good.
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Bass when I play in public, acoustic guitar for myself. I believe that playing by the fire pit on a nice night has the same positive effect on longevity as pipe smoking. Smoke while you play, double longevity points!
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Another bass player here.
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I'm a bassist who also plays guitar. The hardest part was to lear to play guitar like a guitar player. you almost have to develop a split personality. you can hear some of my nonsense here.
http://www.killersbytrade.com/hearandbuymusic.htm
BTW, I'm not a badass, I'm just socially awkward. – BillyZoomPosted 9 months ago # -
I think it's interesting that there's a lot of bass players. I've met a lot of them over the years, and they tend to be more laid back and cerebral and less "competitive" and more helpful with each other than many of the guitar players I've known... traits it seems many pipe smokers share as well.
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I think you got that right, keeper.
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I started playing guitar over 10 yrs. ago... Now I'm a recording singer-songwriter that plays guitar, bass, piano, banjo, mandolin, irish whistles, and harmonica. I was wondering the other day how interesting it would be if I could learn how to sing with a pipe in my mouth. I've tried, but it mainly results in drool pouring down my chin!
Course, that idea would likely grow defunct since I mainly play for different churches. I like your choice of music lordofthepiperings... I used to listen wholly to 90's grunge and such but now lean more towards acoustic progressive stuff, and the great folk legends of old. Dang, I love music. It's all too good.
*Oops! Another double post... Sorry guys. Mods?
I should be getting better wifi soon, which will result in less double clicking or whatever.Posted 9 months ago # -
Guitar & Bass - good enough to be in a rock band
Piano & Drums - good enough to play at a drunken party
Vocals - I can do Steve Miller to a TMy first major in college was music, then I switched to computer programming, then to marketing.
Played in several bands for about 10 years. Now I just play on my couch.
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Garageband on the iPad is every couch musicians dream. I can spend hours on it and even got the iRig for it.
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I started playing at the age of 7 back in 1963, oophs, gave my age away.
Regards Ken,
I am not young enough to know everything.Posted 9 months ago # -
I would call myself a musician. Hah I play guitar and bass, but I can make some noise on violins, didgeridoo, and keyboards. Does the cigar box guitar count as another? I started off playing bass and I really need to start playing it more often. My finger strength has suffered enormously from these years focusing on speedy guitar playing.
"Enjoy every sandwich."Posted 9 months ago # -
I play guitar mostly. Tack on the side piano, bass, drums, and banjo.
"A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth." - C.S. LewisPosted 9 months ago # -
I play guitar. It is another passion that I have let get away from me. Love the instrument as much as I love just playing it. I have 13 at present. I know crazy! can only play one at a time but I love them just like pipes. I like a different one every day...
Made in AMERICA with parts from IRELANDPosted 9 months ago # -
Guitar and bass for this guy, mostly metal in all its incantations (not going to start the genre arguement here!) and blues, with a few classic rock tomes thrown in for good measure. When I was a kid, my father started me off on the banjo, as my fingers weren't big enough for the fret-board on his acoustic, but I really don't chicken-pick much these days (probably because I don't own a banjo).
Currently playing a Larivee neck-through-body electric sporting an S-D Jeff Beck Special 'bucker in the bridge position, and an EMP Intruder at neck. Noise is made through a Marshall Kerry King signature series head and cab. When I'm sitting around the campfire, I pull out the 1961 Hohner dreadnaught acoustic passed onto me by my father.
On very rare occasions, I'll pull out my great-grandfathers fiddle or mandolin just for giggles.Posted 9 months ago # -
Been playing guitar since I was 18. Took up drums a little while ago. Never been in a band. I don't have enough friends for that.
Got a Fender Stratocaster, Yamaha AES 620, BC Rich cutaway acoustic and a handmade classical guitar. My wife has a Gibson V. She a big Scorpions fan, so we play a number of their songs together.
Simon
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My wife has a Gibson V. She a big Scorpions fan, so we play a number of their songs together.
That is way too frickin cool
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Fender American Strat, Epiphone Les Paul Classic, Ibanez Hollow Body w/ Bigsby, Aria Pro II Cardinal Series ES-350, Martin Acoustic, a mandolin, 2 home-made cigar box guitars, self-built tube amplifier, Fender Deville Amplifier. My band is booked to play Fri/Sat/Sun gigs every weekend next month and we alreay have a New Years Eve event lined up. Yeah, I play.
Phil
Beguiled by the exquisite Arcadia, the days and the years passed from me in delicate rings of smoke,
and I contentedly watched them sailing to the skies. - J.M. BarriePosted 9 months ago # -
I've been known to play a little. Recently I bought a Gibson Nighthawk, which fits pretty much all my needs. Except I am looking to buy a resonator of some kind.
Regards
Michael J. GluklerPosted 9 months ago # -
I play. Hmmmm.....Sounds like we could start a pipe smoking orchestra. We could call ourselves the PUFFERS.
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I've been teaching myself to play for over thirty years, maybe time to get a new teacher...
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Been playing since 1971,.....but a "guitarist"?
Negative.Althought I have had the pleasure of knowing one or two over the years. Guys who could do fills in any key...in any genre while just sittin' around the backyard drinking beer.
Amazing stuff.
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One wrong note is a mistake but two wrong notes is Jazz...
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I have this rare bass (not a picture of mine):
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It is a Ibanez Rickenbacker copy from the 70s. It plays as good as new.
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Looks like a copy of a 70s Rick 4003. I wish I still had mine. It had the "Stereo Rick-O-Sound" which was an extra cable jack you could run to another amp. I started playing a Rick because of Lemmy, since I'm into metal and He's basically God, metal-wise.
I also de-fretted half of a Fender I had because of Jaco Pastorius, yet another bass God. Can't play as many of his songs as I can Lemmy's though. Wouldn't even try live.
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I'll have to take a picture of my favourite bass. I've got an Ibanez GSR 205 which is a pretty nice little instrument but my J.K. Lado, 4-string, 24 fret, neck through, made (presumably) of maple with a rosewood fingerboard, and a P-Bass style pup configuration is my favourite of the two. Unfortunately the vintage hand wound pups gave out a while ago (
I'll miss them. They were so fat) so I will have to replace those sometime.
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Started out in 1962 and have yet to stop.
Various Gibsons, Fenders,Gretsch,Martin and a few Hand Made clutter up the house.Best not list the amps, it'll look like a Store's second hand section
Communicating via this internet malarkey is an ideal way for me to socialise with YOU, the great unwashed and uneducated, whilst keeping you all at a distance. Tones it down you see?Posted 9 months ago # -
I've been playing guitar for 47 years. At last count there are 28 guitars, 2 banjoes, 1 resonator, 1 Epi Beatle bass, a Fender Rhodes piano, electric violin and assorted amps.
My favorite guitars are Fender Roadhouse Strat with a Roland synth p/u, my Reverend Rocco (Eastpointe made), and a Godin nylon string with synth access.
I now play in a garage band, mostly boring classic rock as I prefer jazz; but fun nonetheless. I also teach at our local community center and enjoy working with my students there.
Its the greatest gift my parents ever gave me and I've always appreciated the sacrifices they made to provide lessons and encouragement.Posted 9 months ago # -
If it's got strings, I'll figure out how to work it.
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Hmmm - interesting thread on pipe smokers and guitar players. I've been playing guitar for almost 30 years. Saw a band called "The Drowning Men" earlier this week (and they kicked ass), and they were selling little pins with a picture of a pipe with their band name on it....
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Another bass player here. I used to play in a jazz band in high school, now I mostly play by myself.
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I've pretty much stopped playing altogether in favor if writing and producing other guys. I'm about to sign on a blackmetal guy from Sweden and I'll be doing the lyrics to most of his songs. As fun as playing onstage was, all the bullshit assocated with being in a live band became tiresome for me.
And I refuse to do karaoke, except for once I did Highway to Hell. Everyone in the bar wanted me to do more but I told them that was my farewell perfomance. I finished my Guinness and left.
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This video has a great solo by Pat and just a smoking Bass solo by Richard Bona
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Does a culture based on seperation and competition, of scientific sophistication and mideval religion, offer happiness even as it ravishes the Earth that sustains it?Posted 9 months ago # -
I've been playing guitar, bass, drums, drum machines, samplers, synths...etc...since I was a wee lad of 7. Always been the creative type. I once made a 4 hr recording session with nothing more than my studio and a mic'ed shopping cart and a vacuum cleaner.
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Been playing my whole life. My favorite is my Martin DXME.
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Been playing guitar and singing regularly for about 6 years, but definitely don't consider myself a guitarist (although they do keep paying me). Been playing piano since I was 9, and singing since I was 5. Also play a sax from time to time
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Because I've just got to show her off. Here is my J.K. Lado bass.
Beauty isn't she?
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I've been living with guitars since my next-door-neighbor introduced me to the art back in the mid '60's. The family currently consists of a Yamaha L series flat pickin' guitar that I bought new in 1985 and used, for many years, as a prison chaplain in Tennessee. Since then, I've added an Ovation VXT that I play each Sunday for a small local church and a Taylor NS32 CE. The Taylor is a sweet nylon stringed instrument that can calm even the most chaotic of days. it's good to be among others who appreciate the guitar.
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I played until arthritis kicked in...more on the blues side of things...but also learned a few Pearl Jam songs, a lot of Pink Floyd
I had an ebony Les Paul studio...almost cried when I had to sell that one.
Now, I have mastered Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
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I play Guitar, Bass, and a teensy bit of Piano.
The electric guitar I use is a B.C. Rich Beast with an Invisibolt neck and I run that through a Boss ME-50.
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I've played guitar for 20 years, since I was 14. I started out with a Jackson electric, playing the standard early 90's music, then graduated to classical guitar when I was in college and never looked back. I had an SG for a while but never really played it so I sold it. I have a La Patrie classical guitar, made in Quebec, and I mostly play Bach, or just noodle around folk-style to stuff like Simon & Garfunkel.
I also play mandolin, which suits me well since I have small hands. I play Irish music mostly, and a little bluegrass.
Posted 8 months ago # -
ichbinmüde, I love the BADASS bridge. I had one on my Fender P-Lyte (for the foreign axes, the P-lyte was one of their best ideas, but could have used some EMGs). I played metal, but my brother needed a bass for church band. He had made the mistake if buying A Ibenhad SGR bass and the neck had warped. I likent him the fender. After the service one of the deacons walked up and said "I bet you think you're some kind of Bad ass." My brother was perplexed until he looked down at the bridge. I had the word BADASS blacked in, and he had played the whole service with BADASS in big letters on the bass in view of the congregation. Luckily, all he had to do was mention my name and they forgave him and felt sorry for him.
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I've been playing for a few years. I can show you how to make a lot of noise.
Right now I have a Les Paul, 2 Strats and a Paul Reed Smith.
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That Les Paul is a thing of beauty. Holy Cow.
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