SimonSays28 said:
Just got home - did not realize these were not strung up when I was looking on my phone. Do you have another guitar that you play more often?
I destringed them to preserve their sexy essence during my retirement lol
I do still play from time-to-time just to make sure my skills don't go full Derp. I bought an Ibanez Gio (black) that I use about once a week:
The pictures of the Jackson and Washburn were taken in my home earlier today. The Gio isn't so grand so I grabbed a look-a-like from the web.
I have started playing more often now that my son is old enough to know, love, and respect The Metal. I started to revisit some early Metallica and Iron Maiden for him.
I don't really have a preference for my guitars / basses - at this point I have a quite a few at least 9 of my own, and the other members in the band have about as many. I have access to pretty much any guitar I need at any time - I have my main bass for playing live, but I take whatever my mood dictates for the most part.
The weirdest bass I have is a left handed fretless Jacos knock-off (brand name Vintage) that I have converted to right hand.
Bought it in the states for about $120 while I was getting my Gas Detection Repair Tech cert from Industrial Scientific - just outside of Pittsburgh. Put another $90 into it getting it flipped, so just under $300 CDN - I love cheap instruments. I mean don't get me wrong - I love my Fender's and such to death, but some of the off-brand stuff just really does it for me.
The weirdest bass I have is a left handed fretless Jacos knock-off (brand name Vintage) that I have converted to right hand.
Bought it in the states for about $120 while I was getting my Gas Detection Repair Tech cert from Industrial Scientific - just outside of Pittsburgh. Put another $90 into it getting it flipped, so just under $300 CDN - I love cheap instruments. I mean don't get me wrong - I love my Fender's and such to death, but some of the off-brand stuff just really does it for me.
Let me embarass myself - although this was a year ago - and I usually play 6-string but health reasons forced me to switch to bass.
https://youtu.be/cS1iSTQ8UKo
This was one of my first self-written and recorded tunes, entitled "Indecision"
Played all the bits - at that time I didn't have a bass, so I used a Spanish (nylon strung) guitar for the bass bits.
I also sang in one of the gameplay vids I uploaded to YouTube - I deleted it since, but this is the track... Brain Damage, of course, by Pink Floyd. I have a very deep singing voice, but I have done backing vocals for some songs when gigging (Lady In Black was my first - doing the "aahh's"
edit - found some pics of my guitars:
My first bass:
My spanish and electro-acoustic (Crafter FX550) as heard in the Brain Damage song recording
This was my first electro-acoustic (and a much youger me, when I was teaching guitar at the local school of music...):
This was a nice Ibanez - the Jet King 1 - looked a bit yukky but played very nice:
I like a wide nut, due to my problem with arthritis - I have long-ish fingers but have a habit of catching other strings, so the wider the nut, the better for me. I do have a number of other guitars, but won't bore you with them now - or take up too much forum space.
The best one I had was the standard American Strat. I'd been having a number of issues with some songs and playing them fluidly on the guitars I owned, but when I got that Strat, it all fell into place and sounded great (well, good enough anyway). I'd had Start copies, but the genuine article was easily better than all of them. Now I use a self-built TeleStrat, built with an ash telecaster body and pick-ups and a Strat neck. I plan to change the pick-ups soon and just bought a custom tail plate for it.
Also have a very nice Peavey (Jack Daniels paint job - I'll look for a pic later). I bought it because I had seen so many guitarists using them, when I went to try-outs for bass, so i decided to get one to see what the fuss was about. I do like it - a lot, but I wouldn't like it to be my only guitar.
I use an Ashdown EB220 now - p/x'd my Marshall half-stack to buy it when I switched to bass for bands.
Okay, don't worry I'm off now... 😞
https://youtu.be/cS1iSTQ8UKo
This was one of my first self-written and recorded tunes, entitled "Indecision"
Played all the bits - at that time I didn't have a bass, so I used a Spanish (nylon strung) guitar for the bass bits.
I also sang in one of the gameplay vids I uploaded to YouTube - I deleted it since, but this is the track... Brain Damage, of course, by Pink Floyd. I have a very deep singing voice, but I have done backing vocals for some songs when gigging (Lady In Black was my first - doing the "aahh's"
edit - found some pics of my guitars:
My first bass:
My spanish and electro-acoustic (Crafter FX550) as heard in the Brain Damage song recording
This was my first electro-acoustic (and a much youger me, when I was teaching guitar at the local school of music...):
This was a nice Ibanez - the Jet King 1 - looked a bit yukky but played very nice:
I like a wide nut, due to my problem with arthritis - I have long-ish fingers but have a habit of catching other strings, so the wider the nut, the better for me. I do have a number of other guitars, but won't bore you with them now - or take up too much forum space.
The best one I had was the standard American Strat. I'd been having a number of issues with some songs and playing them fluidly on the guitars I owned, but when I got that Strat, it all fell into place and sounded great (well, good enough anyway). I'd had Start copies, but the genuine article was easily better than all of them. Now I use a self-built TeleStrat, built with an ash telecaster body and pick-ups and a Strat neck. I plan to change the pick-ups soon and just bought a custom tail plate for it.
Also have a very nice Peavey (Jack Daniels paint job - I'll look for a pic later). I bought it because I had seen so many guitarists using them, when I went to try-outs for bass, so i decided to get one to see what the fuss was about. I do like it - a lot, but I wouldn't like it to be my only guitar.
I use an Ashdown EB220 now - p/x'd my Marshall half-stack to buy it when I switched to bass for bands.
Okay, don't worry I'm off now... 😞
Good stuff @Brixmis
I am a strat guy myself - we have 2 Mexi's and 1 American - I prefer the two mexican ones (they are heavier, one is made from swamp ash). The American strat ended up taking about 10 years to really love, it saved our guitar player from a pitbull attack (has some minor bite wounds on it even though the guitar was in a soft case at the time, and a little crack where the neck is bolted to the body.) It has a nice surf sound to it - it weighs much less than our other guitars. It is what I taught myself guitar on.
Also have a Telecaster, and two Epiphones (Les Paul Junior, and Les Paul Special). I am not a big fan of the Les Paul - but I love both the Junior and the Special, they are a little thinner/smaller than a normal Les Paul and they have a bit more bite to them.
My main guitar is a Peavey Raptor with overwound pickups - which just sounds awesome. It has a very late 70s new wave sound to it - like cardboard.
On the acoustic side we have a couple Denver 3/4 sized nylon string's that sound wonderful and a full sized Yamaha nylon string that also just plays beautifully. I have a no-name 3/4 sized acoustic that sounds and looks like something from pioneer times - and a bigger Bravo acoustic that is hard to play but sounds beautiful especially for slide.
Also have a couple acoustic basses - an Epiphone El Capitan (stands nearly as tall as me, LOL) and a Gold Tone Micro Bass
I am a strat guy myself - we have 2 Mexi's and 1 American - I prefer the two mexican ones (they are heavier, one is made from swamp ash). The American strat ended up taking about 10 years to really love, it saved our guitar player from a pitbull attack (has some minor bite wounds on it even though the guitar was in a soft case at the time, and a little crack where the neck is bolted to the body.) It has a nice surf sound to it - it weighs much less than our other guitars. It is what I taught myself guitar on.
Also have a Telecaster, and two Epiphones (Les Paul Junior, and Les Paul Special). I am not a big fan of the Les Paul - but I love both the Junior and the Special, they are a little thinner/smaller than a normal Les Paul and they have a bit more bite to them.
My main guitar is a Peavey Raptor with overwound pickups - which just sounds awesome. It has a very late 70s new wave sound to it - like cardboard.
On the acoustic side we have a couple Denver 3/4 sized nylon string's that sound wonderful and a full sized Yamaha nylon string that also just plays beautifully. I have a no-name 3/4 sized acoustic that sounds and looks like something from pioneer times - and a bigger Bravo acoustic that is hard to play but sounds beautiful especially for slide.
Also have a couple acoustic basses - an Epiphone El Capitan (stands nearly as tall as me, LOL) and a Gold Tone Micro Bass