Who here plays the guitar?

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Drummer Chris said:
I started playing guitar when I was about 22, basically around 1989.
I had already grown up playing piano and had spent 6 yrs on drums at that point, my first guitar I bought was a yellow '73 Strat with a maple neck (U.S model) in Key West Fla.
Started with slide tunings like Open E and open G for some Stones and other blues stuff, since then I've owned many guitars including a re-issue Fender Duo-Sonic, a Gibson Les Paul, some no-name brands and some newer Strats including a nicen early 60's re-issue with a rosewood neck.
My playing is quite rusty lately as I've taken about a year "off" music, but hope to get a Tele soon which I will be playing daily.


DC that is cool that you started playing in your early 20s...good for you......and perhaps i still have a shot at learning the drums.......btw what does open e and g mean?
 

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I play some guitar. Bass is my main instrument, but I've been playing guitar really since my late teens. I took some lessons when I was about 12, but it didn't really take at that time. I picked it up again several years later. I'm mostly self-taught and I pick up whatever I can from watching guys that are better than me. I have no interest in playing leads - I'm strictly a rhythm type player. I love chords.
I've got a cheapo, bottom of the line Strat and a Mitchell acoustic/electric.
 

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i just bought a new guitar recently. a vintage black esp ltd ec-1000. the name sounds kind of cheesy but the guitar is amazing.
 

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I have a banged up old Rickenbacher bass I picked up at a pawn shop in Carlsbad California in 1980. Somewhat proficient...been in a couple of club bands, mostly blues. Dammit that thing weighs a ton.

Jack
 

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Sasquatch said:
I have a banged up old Rickenbacher bass I picked up at a pawn shop in Carlsbad California in 1980. Somewhat proficient...been in a couple of club bands, mostly blues. Dammit that thing weighs a ton.

Jack

When you die, can I have the Rick?? :D
 

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I'm a lefty and have been playing since I was 15. I've owned a few guitars but finally got what I wanted a few years ago in a Fender Telecaster. I played one when I was 16 or 17 and fell in love with the tone. I started out playing a right handed guitar upside down without restringing it (like Albert King) and learned some chords, scales and a few songs that way but when I started taking lessons I restrung it and got my first left handed guitar soon after.
 

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TeleCat said:
I'm a lefty and have been playing since I was 15. I've owned a few guitars but finally got what I wanted a few years ago in a Fender Telecaster. I played one when I was 16 or 17 and fell in love with the tone. I started out playing a right handed guitar upside down without restringing it (like Albert King) and learned some chords, scales and a few songs that way but when I started taking lessons I restrung it and got my first left handed guitar soon after.

After playing a flipped over, un-restrung righty was it hard to get used to a real lefty? Lefties that just flip over a righty freak me out! :wtf: Nothing looks right when it's played that way.
BTW, I'm totally left-handed in every other aspect of my life except for playing bass/guitar. :grinthumb
 

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Yeah, it was a setback. Since a lot is memorization I had to relearn everything. Bending strings was the hardest thing to relearn. I'd pull down on the B and high E string and my finger strenghth just wasn't there when I learned correctly since you must push up on the B and high E. The High E will go over the side of the fret board. I do have a wicked vibrato on the D and G strings though. Also the weight is all misproportioned when you flip it upside down, the knobs are in the way and the tremolo bar... I don't know how Hendrix managed.
 

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TeleCat said:
Yeah, it was a setback. Since a lot is memorization I had to relearn everything. Bending strings was the hardest thing to relearn. I'd pull down on the B and high E string and my finger strenghth just wasn't there when I learned correctly since you must push up on the B and high E. The High E will go over the side of the fret board. I do have a wicked vibrato on the D and G strings though. Also the weight is all misproportioned when you flip it upside down, the knobs are in the way and the tremolo bar... I don't know how Hendrix managed.

Yeah, I've jammed with a few lefties that played the flipped over righties and I asked them if it was weird, but that was the way they learned and were still playing, so they didn't have any other point of reference.
 

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