Musicians check in here. If you play, tell us about it!

[DaveP]

I agree. I like alot of the new country. Brad Paisley is a great player.
I like all kinds of music.
My mom sang old jazz tunes in clubs and hotels when I was growing up.
That had a big influence on me as well.

I have a Fender Squire Tele with Fender Custom shop pickups that I installed and a 79 Anniversary natural ash blonde Stratocaster I bought new. I just found out that the Strat is selling for as much as $2600 these days. I'm equipped for country licks. It's too bad that I morphed into being a Les Paul player over the last decade and a half. Still, I like to carry the Tele or the Strat on a gig and play with new tones once in a while. Change is good.

I think that the Strat days of Hendrix and Clapton are what made me start out with a Strat in the first place. It wasn't until the early 90s that I got into the Les Paul. LP sounded strange at first and then became the sound I loved.

 

[Pipeous]

I am up to 10 stringed instruments now in my man cave. can't stop. can't call it MAS anymore it is IAS because I dont even care anymore...

as soon as this crap is paid off I am getting a new mixing board with 4 aux sends and a couple powered mains on stands. then I don't need to worry about PA gear

I recorded a song with my buddy tom last week. I have to go back and finish a couple parts. we wrote a song about the new port mann bridge. they screwed up our hwy since the friggin olympics and it finally opened a few weeks ago and it is a toll bridge for the next like 50 yrs. first week people crossing got bombarded with ice bombs and the damage was huge lol... so we wrote a nice political statement.. music is basic. we tossed it together fast but fun all the same.

I grabbed sony vega moviestudio to work with new computer so we will make some cool video to go with it. need to get the woman to video tape some going across the bridge... I'll cover my license plate so I dont get charged a toll haha

 

[Pipeous]

Not much recording. I work 12hr shifts and they fired a guy so we have been all covering his shifts. Crazy hours. That said I have been looking at a few mandocellos. I think Walt at Gypsy Music will be my next luthier purchase. His stuff is very nice and prices are reasonadle.

 

[beckyblue]

Hi, musicians! Music is the only thing that keeps me sane. I'm finally playing the guitar, instead of just worshiping it, as I have my entire life. My interests are wide and varied, from Van Morrison and The Kinks to Elliott Smith and Spoon. I very recently inherited a gorgeous Les Paul, two beautiful banjos, and two mandolins from my late great uncle, and am determined to play them all, despite my frustratingly weak, little fingers. I will not even touch my new LP until I am more worthy of it. Looking forward to reading all of the posts on this thread to learn more about my fellow vaper/players!

(oh, and I highly recommend this wonderful book to you all: http://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Zero-S...tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1359193927&sr=1-1)

 

[Old Curmudgeon]

I think that the Strat days of Hendrix and Clapton are what made me start out with a Strat in the first place. It wasn't until the early 90s that I got into the Les Paul. LP sounded strange at first and then became the sound I loved.

Hi Dave
I know it's blasphemy to say so, but I always thought strats sounded kinda "thin" I guess.
Nice tone in them just lacking a bit in fatness. I went through two of them myself and now play an Ibanez.

 

[DaveP]

Hi Dave
I know it's blasphemy to say so, but I always thought strats sounded kinda "thin" I guess.
Nice tone in them just lacking a bit in fatness. I went through two of them myself and now play an Ibanez.

My sentiments exactly (on Strats). I've found, however, that the right EQ can put some bones under them and create some nice tones. I especially like the bridge pickup sound of a Tele and the bridge-middle sound of a Strat. Still, I always go back to the Les Paul and feel like I'm home. I like the growl and body of humbuckers.

Once in a studio, the recording engineer said the same things about my Strat and proceeded to do some things on the board. He turned it into a monster with the turn of a few knobs!

 

[DaveP]

Hi, musicians! Music is the only thing that keeps me sane. I'm finally playing the guitar, instead of just worshiping it, as I have my entire life. My interests are wide and varied, from Van Morrison and The Kinks to Elliott Smith and Spoon. I very recently inherited a gorgeous Les Paul, two beautiful banjos, and two mandolins from my late great uncle, and am determined to play them all, despite my frustratingly weak, little fingers. I will not even touch my new LP until I am more worthy of it. Looking forward to reading all of the posts on this thread to learn more about my fellow vaper/players!

(oh, and I highly recommend this wonderful book to you all: Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age: Gary Marcus: Amazon.com: Kindle Store)

Welcome, BleckyBlue! Play those guitars. Work on fingerpicking skills and transfer that to banjo. Instruments are made to be played as well as admired. "One Day" never comes unless you dig in and make it happen. The muscle memory comes with hands on contact. You will find it hard at first, but it will come surprisingly fast as your hands learn the movements and apply what you have in your head. Start with chords.

 

[beckyblue]

Thanks so much for the encouragement, Dave. Yes, I've been practicing my chords -- finally have moved beyond everyone's go-to starter song, "Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore". Though, by choice, I'm sticking with a lot of Pete Seeger and The Weavers, the music I was brought up on. But I am going to stick to my old banged-up Gibson acoustic for a good while longer before plugging in my uncle's, glorious Les Paul (or the vintage Hofner bass I hadn't mentioned) to one of his huge collection of vintage amps. You're right, and I won't continue my decades-long folly of inordinate worship from afar; but I'm really not yet worthy of my uncle's treasures!
Pipeous, I just now read of your "diagnosis". I can see where one might come down with that -- these two mandolins are such beauties to behold! Oh, I'm sorry for babbling, everyone; there really is nothing in the world I'm more passionate about than music. Perpetually in awe of all of you who've mastered your instruments!!

 

[Pipeous]

I am a strat fan, what can I say. all you need to change tone in an electric is a pickup.

I gave away the octave mandolin I built to a buddy. My woman looked strange at me after he left and I just said, I needed room on my stands for a mandola.... I have room on the wall for one more hook too so I can get the mandocello. found Ovation makes a nice mandocello, mc868. so first will be the gold tone mandola with a braggs radius pickup, then the mandocello (both I can order through my fav music store)... then my collection is complete, other than replacing the old with newer/better versions as time goes.

I play this godin mandolin all the time, I absolutely adore it. small frets make it very easy to play. doesnt have the chunk or bark of the loar, but fatigue is low.

My car is finished so doesnt need any more invested and just ordered my saddle bags and trunk for my bike. That opens up funds for more music gear. I have my eye on some nice powered mains and a 24 track mixing board with 4 aux sends....

and as of tomorrow, my juice is all zero nic... I have finally beat the demon

 

[J.R. Bob Dobbs]

I play the djembe, yes i participate in drum circles...no im not a hipster

 

[DaveP]

I play the djembe, yes i participate in drum circles...no im not a hipster

Drums pull a group together. Without a kick drum a band is a loosely arranged bunch of players.

 

[Pipeous]

unless you have a mandolin playing doing chop chords in the background

 

[cactus71]

Hey musicians... how do you get a talented musician to recognize they're talented? I've got a great friend that has, for basically his entire life, been a talented musician... bass, drums, trumpet, keyboard, etc... he'd always complained about the limitations of software so as an encouragement, I sent him a full-blown Pro-Tools setup, and still (even though he's computer savvy) he balks - now it's hardware driven issues - yeah I could say he's a perfectionist when it comes to music. Damn this guy is talented, but won't take it on... even though he's been on-stage and lacks no ego when it comes to talent. But, if, as he claims, it's what he'd love to do, what's stopping him? Anybody else know/feel the way my friend does and can shed some light?

 

[Pipeous]

I am a computer geek myself and I have tried countless recording softwares and will agree that they are limiting. I much prefer working with this little zoom R24. it is more something real us old school guys like to put our hands on

 

[DaveP]

I am a computer geek myself and I have tried countless recording softwares and will agree that they are limiting. I much prefer working with this little zoom R24. it is more something real us old school guys like to put our hands on

Recording software is definitely changing the musical world in that it allows you to take a laptop out to a location and plug good quality mics in through an interface and bring home a decent recording. Previously, that required a trunk full of wires and boxes.

But, I prefer my software to be inside a digital recording console. Hence the Korg D3200 I own.

 

[Pipeous]

as far as recording softwares, I liked a cheaper and simpler mixcraft over others. I have 3 different softwares (cubase etc) and mixcraft is by far the easiest I found to work with.

 

[Pipeous]

Honestly, when I started doing midi recording (during the studio course at columbia academy here) we worked on Atari 1040's and sempte tracks, then went onto pro tools later. my introduction to mac. we had bbs to access but no internet like today at all haha. and I would still rather use an old roland mc500 to do my midi recording and editing over any software out today hands down

 

[FogHawg]

Hi fellas. Thanks for the invite Dave! Old rocker/dance/blues strat player gone acoustic (bluegrass gospel guitar/dobro) here. Nice to see so many musicians in the forum.

 

[DaveP]

Hi fellas. Thanks for the invite Dave! Old rocker/dance/blues strat player gone acoustic (bluegrass gospel guitar/dobro) here. Nice to see so many musicians in the forum.

Welcome to the Musicians' hangout Arowsmit! We have a few regulars and lots of visitors here. It's 6:25 AM here and I'll be leaving the house in about an hour to head to rehearsal at church. In the old days, I would have just gotten to bed at 3am after a 9-1 gig. Times change but the music stays the same!

 

[FogHawg]

TY Dave. I really like how y'all do your rehearsals the hour before service. We do ours on Fri nites, which is ok except we wind up meeting early Sun mornings to go over the stuff again anyway. I suggested your schedule to em, but got a VERY lukewarm reaction. We just started this last March & I'm the only one w/previous experience playing in a group situation. It'll come.