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jimihendrix1

jimihendrix1

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Yeah Ive had my 71 4 bolt Strat since new. My grandparents bought it for me. They also bought me a Carvin ST2400 amp, the Dual Showman Rvb, and 2 Altec Lansing 418H speakers. The Altecs are in the Carvin cabinet. I blew the CTS 5 minutes after I got the ST2400 All of my early gear was bought by my mother, and grandparents. Ill leave it to my 5 years old nephew when I croak.
Ive also got a bunch of the old Mu Tron pedals, and are highly collectable. Maestro Phaser. EP2 Tube Tape Delay. In perfect condition. Original Univibe. Ive got way more pedals than I posted. 8 JBL D12oF Speakers with original cones. 1970 Sunn Coliseum Lead.
 
mudballs

mudballs

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Best memories for me are from music, even outshines my love life memories...this one night i was rhythm guitar at an open mic...i said All Along the Watchtower in Cmin and off we went...but we had a jazz drummer that night and mid flight the guy goes off and im struggling to keep up. I was so deep in that song with those guys i zoned out for the first time. We decresendo and fade out and all i remember is looking up out at the bar crowd and lights in my face and then the roar of applause broke through my daze and i was like whoa that's new..lol. I've gone thru thousands of dollars of gear but those memories man...idc about the gear but man when alzheimers takes those memories...I'll die inside
 
Hollatchaboy

Hollatchaboy

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jimihendrix1 said:
Yeah Ive had my 71 4 bolt Strat since new. My grandparents bought it for me. They also bought me a Carvin ST2400 amp, the Dual Showman Rvb, and 2 Altec Lansing 418H speakers. The Altecs are in the Carvin cabinet. I blew the CTS 5 minutes after I got the ST2400 All of my early gear was bought by my mother, and grandparents. Ill leave it to my 5 years old nephew when I croak.
Ive also got a bunch of the old Mu Tron pedals, and are highly collectable. Maestro Phaser. EP2 Tube Tape Delay. In perfect condition. Original Univibe. Ive got way more pedals than I posted. 8 JBL D12oF Speakers with original cones. 1970 Sunn Coliseum Lead.
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Man you got some cool shit. Id gotten rid of all my gear from back then thru the years. Big mistake, but you live and learn.
 
Hollatchaboy

Hollatchaboy

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mudballs said:
Best memories for me are from music, even outshines my love life memories...this one night i was rhythm guitar at an open mic...i said All Along the Watchtower in Cmin and off we went...but we had a jazz drummer that night and mid flight the guy goes off and im struggling to keep up. I was so deep in that song with those guys i zoned out for the first time. We decresendo and fade out and all i remember is looking up out at the bar crowd and lights in my face and then the roar of applause broke through my daze and i was like whoa that's new..lol. I've gone thru thousands of dollars of gear but those memories man...idc about the gear but man when alzheimers takes those memories...I'll die inside
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Document them, so you can at least always read back up on them. Those kind of memories are irreplaceable and precious. Guard them with your life! Lol
 
xtsho

xtsho

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tyler.durden said:
I didn't know you played violin, that's cool. What brand is that fiddle?
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It's just a cheap $80 one I bought online. I used to play years ago in school along with the Clarinet and decided a couple years ago to take it up again. I didn't want to spend too much just to play around. I seem to have forgotten just about everything especially how small they are. I had a real hard time with it now that I have short stubby fingers but I take it out now and then and have started to pick it up again. I used to play all kinds of music from sheet music. Now I don't remember how to read it. I figure if I make some decent progress with it I'll spring for a more expensive one.
 
Hollatchaboy

Hollatchaboy

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xtsho said:
It's just a cheap $80 one I bought online. I used to play years ago in school along with the Clarinet and decided a couple years ago to take it up again. I didn't want to spend too much just to play around. I seem to have forgotten just about everything especially how small they are. I had a real hard time with it now that I have short stubby fingers but I take it out now and then and have started to pick it up again. I used to play all kinds of music from sheet music. Now I don't remember how to read it. I figure if I make some decent progress with it I'll spring for a more expensive one.
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Sheet music is hard. I have to actually look at it, and think about it, before I can put it into action.

I wish the internet had been around when I first started learning. The music teachers I had growing up made it boring and uninteresting to learn. I've seen guys on the internet who make it way more interesting and easier.

Rick Beato, is really good to watch and pick things up from. He has a really good ear.
 
lusidghost

lusidghost

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I stopped playing guitar for around 10 years and used the time to learn to produce electronic music. I sold my old Strat after getting laid off for an extended period, and only occasionally played my classical. Then I started getting the electric itch, so I bought the Superstrat in the picture almost exactly a year ago from some kid that was in the process of becoming a cop. I paid like $300 for it. It looked like it literally had never been played and still had the sticker on it.

What's weird is I had a far greater understanding of scales and started to easily memorize note placement on the fretboard. When I played back in the day the fretboard was a mystery, and I could only unlock little pieces. Now I'm all over the place. I have no idea why, but the break helped more than all of the learning and practice I put in back in the day. I'm a fairly good piano player, which has always made much more sense to me. Now I feel like my guitar playing is on the same level. I would have never predicted that.
 
lusidghost

lusidghost

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This past year I befriended a very accomplished classical flutist who is currently getting her doctorate in music. I have no formal training, so it's cool to be able to ask her random questions about theory. The trade off is I give her outside of the box interpretations which makes her think. We've never even played together, but we talk for hours. It's a very unique friendship and reminds me of this:
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Hollatchaboy said:
Sheet music is hard. I have to actually look at it, and think about it, before I can put it into action.

I wish the internet had been around when I first started learning. The music teachers I had growing up made it boring and uninteresting to learn. I've seen guys on the internet who make it way more interesting and easier.

Rick Beato, is really good to watch and pick things up from. He has a really good ear.
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I've watched quite a bit of Mark Wood. He plays heavy music on the violin and has his own line of products. He also does a lot of teaching and workshops with young musicians.
 
Rookieoftheyr

Rookieoftheyr

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Really wanna learn how to play one of them three string shovel guitars. If you haven’t seen them before look them up. Cool as all hell
 
tyler.durden

tyler.durden

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lusidghost said:
This past year I befriended a very accomplished classical flutist who is currently getting her doctorate in music. I have no formal training, so it's cool to be able to ask her random questions about theory. The trade off is I give her outside of the box interpretations which makes her think. We've never even played together, but we talk for hours. It's a very unique friendship and reminds me of this:
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Feynman expresses the same philosophy as Richard Dawkins in his book Unweaving the Rainbow. Scientific deconstruction only adds to the beauty of aesthetics, never detracts. I agree completely.




Free audiobook on YT -

 
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Dorian2

Dorian2

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And I thought I was doing wel
thisbuds4u101 said:
75 Gibson Les Paul 46 yrs young and sounds as good as it did when I bought it.
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Are those the original mini's in it? I got my '79 Deluxe in 1985 and have since had it modded with a Duncan Custom bridge(DCJ Maricela Juarez wound) in the late 80's. Then I got the the Neck pup routed for a hummer (Duncan 59) a couple of years ago. It was refretted in 1991, so it's due for another. I'm not concerned about the collector value at all as this guitar isn't leaving my hands. Been playing it since High School in 1986.

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