Guitars, Guitars!

yer daft 'haipeth

I sold a mimimoog (hangs head in shame) and a C3 and a Rhodes!

stephen

Bob

Heresy?

By the way Stephen, I've heard about that new 150, you naughty boy!

I have no way of cutting it to CD, I could stick it on a cassette for you though as I
still have a Walkman Pro somewhere. If you have a CD recorder you are welcome to
bring it round!

Tony,
Shame about the lack of cutting facilities, pretty much akin to my tape replay facilities I might add and unfortunately Funkytown is right on the known edge of The flat earth so that's a bloody bummer too.
Still it's the thought that counts, maybe one day I'll set off across the great divide - many worthy people seem to exist there.

Mr Tibbs.

"Squire Stratocaster...replaced the weedy pickups with Dimarzio ones."

Obviously I can't comment on your specific guitar and some Squiers may well have weedy sounding pickups. Also, it comes down to personal taste. However, the various Fenders (including Jap Squiers) I've owned have had good sounding pickups, and it is often misconceived IMO to replace "weedy" pickups for "hot" sounding devices, especially the Dimarzios and Duncans of yore. I don't know what Dimarzios are like these days, but years ago they were the weapon of choice, along with brass saddles and nuts. Most of such modifications were eventually reversed when players realised something had been lost in the sound. Sure, the gain might be higher, but the inherent Fender tone (especially those lovely highs) gets lost for bloated mid and thrust.

BTW, love those old Vibrosonics with the orange JBL - they make a hell of a pedal steel amp too!

I WISH!!!!

P

I own a 1937, Style O, National guitar. This was purchased by my father in 1939 for the princely sum of nine pounds, including case, I still have the receipt. Mind you in 1939 nine pounds was alot of money for a working class man. The guitar is in superb condition for its age and sounds wonderful. I plan to learn to play bottle neck blues on it when I retire.

Graham.

Thomas

80's Tokai Strat (my everyday "hack")

60's Hofner Committee (all mother of pearl and bird's eye maple!)

60's Hofner Club 40 (bit of a state, but plays okay)

60's Baldwin Burns Vibraslim

60's Baldwin Burns Baby Bison

Hayman 2020 - not sure of age, and desperately needs refret :-(

90's Burns Marvin (one of limited run of 18 made by Jack Golder - extremely rare green sunburst)

70's Fender Telecaster - in rare white ash finish.

All these are used through a Marshall Valvestate 2000 AVT50 combo amp.

And I still want: room to display them all :-(

Chris L

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60's Baldwin Burns Vibraslim

60's Baldwin Burns Baby Bison

Hayman 2020 - not sure of age, and desperately needs refret :-(

90's Burns Marvin (one of limited run of 18 made by Jack Golder - extremely rare green sunburst)

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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.

Tony.

PS Post pictures.

In fact, the main thing I'm waiting for is a digital camera, which I'm hoping will be delivered today or tomorrow.

Will post a link when the piccies are available.

Chris L

Chris' Guitars

Excuse the dubious quality, put it down to inexperience and an extremely cheap digital camera

Chris

Hope you get round to playing them all from time to time. I sold a rare 1936 Gibson (The Gibson guitar & banjo co)6 string guitar/banjo to Steve Howe many moons ago. His collection was so vast I don't believe that he played half of them.

Bob.

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I once owned a very strange little Burns guitar

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Could have been a Sonic, Vista-Sonic or a Nu-Sonic, or even a Flyte - all looked rather wierd, and had pretty low-power pickups, that were VERY prone to feedback - but not as much as my all time favourite: the early, four pick-up Bison! (I've got pics if you're interested)

Bob,
I don't get to play them as much as I'd like - for some reason these people that give me money every month seem to want me to work for them, or something - takes up a lot of my time

Chris

I am one very happy bunny - the ebony fingerboard is slippery smooth and the action is lower than a gnats b*ll*cks. Shame I am such a crap player really ...

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Shame I am such a crap player really ...

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Na, the way to look at it is that you now have an even better way to pretend to play air-guitar, using a real one!

That's a nice axe tho'. I always wanted one of the 70's SG3000's, lovely guitars, and with the long term reliability and stability you from a quality Japanese instrument.

Ah well, maybe sometime.

Chris L

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Well, I did it - I bought a Yamaha SG2000 at the weekend - you can see a photo at the www.machinehead.co.uk website...

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Didn't notice the Yam, but I've just bought the Shergold Marathon fretless!

Cheers!

Tony.

Gosh, this shop must be doing well at the moment! Your bass looks very cool in an understated kind of way.

Dozy

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Gosh, this shop must be doing well at the moment!

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If the Marathon fretless is in anywhere near the condition it appears to be in the picture it is a bargain. I have had a wanted ad for one on the unofficial but brilliant Shergold site www.shergold.co.uk for ages, and have had a couple of basses offered to me as a result, all more expensive and in obviously worse condition (i.e. visible dings, no bridge cover).

This bass will go nicely with my standard fretted Marathon, a picture of which is earlier on this thread. I just hope they pack it well.

Tony.

There's a lot of tasty equipment out there in Naim land. What's everyone doing with it? Frustrated bedroom guitarists? Any gigging musicians? Who's playing what and where?

My gear consists of Fender American Deluxe Strat, Fender Mexican Standard Strat (only a cheapo Mexican but recently set up and plays a treat), Laney 15watt valve & Spider 50watt combo's, Hohner acoustic, Pearl export kit, Ludwig 6½" brass shell snare, lots of Zildjians (10"-20"), Yamaha electronic practise kit.

Used to take the whole thing very seriously when I was younger but the pressures of own business and children have over the years driven me into the spare room or the odd, occasionally very odd, noodling along to the hi-fi.

Cheers

Dave J

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There's a lot of tasty equipment out there in Naim land. What's everyone doing with it? Frustrated bedroom guitarists? Any gigging musicians?

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I did a fair bit of this kind of stuff years ago (mid 80s - early 90s), I was in a obscure indie band which got to the stage of supporting half decent bands at uni gigs all over the place / put a couple of records out / got some Peel play, but we didn't really get further than that. I later started doing bizarre dance and techno stuff (we sampled Can!), almost got signed a couple of times, but didn't. During all this time I financed myself largely by working in studios, buying and selling rare vinyl / analogue synths, setting up guitars, in fact anything I could blag my way in without having to get a "real" job.

I later set up a project studio as a half assed business venture with a friend (who has managed to stay in the industry), but after a year it wasn't making as much money as we wanted, so I bailed out and started working in IT and my friend went and got a sound technology degree.

I'm now a totally happy and non-frustrated bedroom bassist - I really don't fancy getting out and gigging anymore. I've done my time rattling about in the back of a Transit van for hours with drums and amps falling on my head just to play to 17 bemused students 200 miles away… (though I wouldn't have missed it for the world!).

Tony.

I have never played a fretless without fret markers before, boy is it scary adapting to that! My ability to play off key and out of tune is now almost limitless. By saying that, even though I’ve only had it since last night I feel I am slowly getting the hang of it – there are dot markers on the binding so I’m not flying completely blind. This bass brings a whole new meaning to playing by ear, the left hand has to be so accurate, missing by a tiny amount really sounds out. Means you don’t have to tune up to a record though! I recon learning this will really improve my playing generally, the extra precision can’t but help.

Any other fretless players out there? Any playing tips?

Thanks once again for the Machinehead link, I’ve been after a fretless Shergold for years, I never imagined I would land such a good one.

Tony.

I sold a Martin D18 some years back to justify buying TWO HiCaps for the 82 I had at the time.

Trouble is that now I think I'd like another acoustic, but one that plays like the 335. And that would mean selling the 335.

Any suggestions for a fast acoustic?

Regards, CB

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Any suggestions for a fast acoustic?

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I'd suggest you take a look at Takamine acoustics. I've never owned one, but I've played several, and they were all easy to play, even for me, and I've only owned electrics for the last 15 years.

Tony,
The fretless looks very nice, I bet you're chuffed!

If you're interested in some Burns info, take a look at:
Burns Guitat Museum

Some good stuff there.

Chris L