Any guitar players?

[Dick Foster]

Now that's a player!
Playing is not beating on a guitar nor is it screwing around with all sorts of altered tunings because you lack the necessary skill to play chords and are too damn lazy to learn.
BTW to be a chord it has to have at least three notes not some bullshit two note crap you call a power cord because you're a hack and can't play fer shit. And pissin away a lot of money on gear doesn't make you a player either.
All that said, I play like shit but at least I know it and am trying to learn to really play.

 

[Dick Foster]

I used to play my '62 Fender Strat through either a 1965 Fender Showman (with a single 15" JBL D130) or a 1963 Fender Vibroverb. On occasion I'd also use either a 60's Vox AC-30 or a reissue Marshall Bluesbreaker, but it's tough to beat that Fender clean tone...

Ah another old fart. LOL

 

[Dick Foster]

Hey my fellow USMB guitarists, what was the first song that you learned how to play on the guitar? Can you remember?

Note for note, the first song I learned on the guitar was Crazy Train. A very difficult piece for a 15 year old beginner featuring Randy Rhodes. At the time I didn't know it was difficult.I just thought playing the guitar was very difficult.

The second was Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent

Flight of the Bumblebee. Kidding, think Rising Sun and Bows and Flows of angel hair.

LOL House of the Rising Sun for me too. If it wasn't first it was second or third. Stand by Me was in there early on too.

 

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Gary and Alan had a way of making every song sound
completely different.

 

[Mr Natural]

LOL House of the Rising Sun for me too. If it wasn't first it was second or third. Stand by Me was in there early on too.

Interesting factoid:

The chords to House of the Rising Sun are the same as those for the intro to 25 or 6 to 4.

 

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Epic coffee break

 

[Canon Shooter]

Hey my fellow USMB guitarists, what was the first song that you learned how to play on the guitar? Can you remember?

Note for note, the first song I learned on the guitar was Crazy Train. A very difficult piece for a 15 year old beginner featuring Randy Rhodes. At the time I didn't know it was difficult.I just thought playing the guitar was very difficult.

The second was Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent

Flight of the Bumblebee. Kidding, think Rising Sun and Bows and Flows of angel hair.

LOL House of the Rising Sun for me too. If it wasn't first it was second or third. Stand by Me was in there early on too.

Mine was "Helpless" by Neil Young. D, A, G for three and a half minutes...

 

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Sometimes the simplest tunes are
not so easy to figure out by ear.

 

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New Satch

 

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This dude has some pretty original licks....think Larry Carlton
on coke.

At 2:25 to 2:50 you're like holy fuck ! Way over my head.

 

[DOTR]

A Norlin era Gibson Les Paul with the three ply maple (set) neck & the pancake body, that weighs in @ about 11 to 12 pounds would make an excellent instrument for blunt force injuries & death upon just about any victim.

Man Killed With Electric Guitar: Austin Police Charge Peter Andrew Levay With Murder | HuffPost

Pastor Killed, Beaten With Electric Guitar

Police: Iowa man killed mother with Les Paul guitar

It is also possible to set-up an old tube amp to electrocute someone when they pickup a guitar attached to the amp via cable. All you would need to do is convince the victim to pickup the guitar. It happened to me twice over a period of many years but it was accidental in both incidents. Also, there was not enuff amperage to kill me in either occasion. But it is possible to tweak things to achieve such a dastardly outcome. Jus' sayin' ............

I've been zapped so many times from a guitar amp and PA microphone being out of phase, I can't remember. As long as your feet aren't wet and you're not standing on concrete, you're ok.

That's why you tap the mic with your fingers before you put your mouth near it.

Have you seen Echo in the Canyon? If not stop and watch it now.

 

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Check out this kid....from about 2:00 to 4:30 is awesome for any age.
about 14 or 15 here....


here at 13

 

[Pilot1]

A Norlin era Gibson Les Paul with the three ply maple (set) neck & the pancake body, that weighs in @ about 11 to 12 pounds would make an excellent instrument for blunt force injuries & death upon just about any victim.

Man Killed With Electric Guitar: Austin Police Charge Peter Andrew Levay With Murder | HuffPost

Pastor Killed, Beaten With Electric Guitar

Police: Iowa man killed mother with Les Paul guitar

It is also possible to set-up an old tube amp to electrocute someone when they pickup a guitar attached to the amp via cable. All you would need to do is convince the victim to pickup the guitar. It happened to me twice over a period of many years but it was accidental in both incidents. Also, there was not enuff amperage to kill me in either occasion. But it is possible to tweak things to achieve such a dastardly outcome. Jus' sayin' ............

I've been zapped so many times from a guitar amp and PA microphone being out of phase, I can't remember. As long as your feet aren't wet and you're not standing on concrete, you're ok.

That's why you tap the mic with your fingers before you put your mouth near it.

Have you seen Echo in the Canyon? If not stop and watch it now.

No, I have not. I will look it up. Thanks.

 

[DOTR]

A Norlin era Gibson Les Paul with the three ply maple (set) neck & the pancake body, that weighs in @ about 11 to 12 pounds would make an excellent instrument for blunt force injuries & death upon just about any victim.

Man Killed With Electric Guitar: Austin Police Charge Peter Andrew Levay With Murder | HuffPost

Pastor Killed, Beaten With Electric Guitar

Police: Iowa man killed mother with Les Paul guitar

It is also possible to set-up an old tube amp to electrocute someone when they pickup a guitar attached to the amp via cable. All you would need to do is convince the victim to pickup the guitar. It happened to me twice over a period of many years but it was accidental in both incidents. Also, there was not enuff amperage to kill me in either occasion. But it is possible to tweak things to achieve such a dastardly outcome. Jus' sayin' ............

I've been zapped so many times from a guitar amp and PA microphone being out of phase, I can't remember. As long as your feet aren't wet and you're not standing on concrete, you're ok.

That's why you tap the mic with your fingers before you put your mouth near it.

Have you seen Echo in the Canyon? If not stop and watch it now.

No, I have not. I will look it up. Thanks.

Just released on Netflix.

 

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My favorite online teacher...

 

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Helpful picking exercises

 

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