Anybody ever poked fun or laughed at ur choice of gear?
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kerplunk182
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sorry to go of track...but i must say the ibanez PH-7 is a very nice phaserhaha hav one on my board too
i sold mine already! The switches are so whacked!
zac89: That reminded me of the time when 2 years ago, I went to Swee Lee wanting to get a Fender 60th Anniversary MIM Strat n ended up walking out of a shop with a Squier Standard Strat. I found the latter more playable n the thing really screams at me. I had it for almost 6 mths, playing it like a dream until I sold it to get a Epi LP cos I wanted a heavy distorted sound (big mistake) but tat didn`t last long too cos I miss playing a Strat. I then decided to give the Fender 60th Anni Strat a try n just bought it. But at home while playing tat Fender, I somehow felt something was amiss.
Sold that Fender n got a Squier Standard Strat again n since then, it has been my main guitar. I felt that the Squier had that extra mojo that the Fender didn`t have.
This tale is strange but true. I have since upgraded the parts on my Squier n its definitely a keeperI doubt I`m ever going back to a Fender.
how much did the squier standard strat cost and wads ur view of squier california strats?
faizal_rocks
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van_halen: I got mine at 400+. The Squier California Strats are gd value for the money. I owned one b4 with the H-S-S config.
haha.. how to make fun of the iceman?
its the coolest guitar ever.. would be cooler if it had a floyd rose.
Floyd rose... I hate tuning those things, i actually took the iceman cus it was pointy with a fixed bridge.
MadWerewolfBoy
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they laugh when i play with my fingers... and they still do when i start shreding with my index finger nails... is that considered "gear"?
haha
haha
Whitestrat
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I remember when I was studying in the UK (way back when I was 18 )... I once walked into a bar with a friend (saxophonist) who had prearranged with some of the local guys for a jam. They were bluesmen. I THOUGHT I could hang with them.
When I brought out my guitar (I was playing a JEM77BFP then), they all said: "What the hell is that thing? You planning to maim us with that, boy?" I just grinned and still thought I could survive the session.
When we started playing, the bassist with his old hofner bass with plain hollow wound strings was so smooth, he had such a groove that I was damn enthusiastic to start playing. Then the other guy in the corner with an ES335 started playing.
I felt like dying then...
There was NO WAY I could get any tone from the JEM to match that thing. He nailed every possible colour he could with those strings... He had so much dynamics, and HIS GAIN CHANNEL WAS OFF!!!!! He was playing clean!!!
I really felt like the young punk who's been showed up by the old experienced soldiers... When it was my turn, no matter what I did, I was just dead. There was no tone coming from my fingers. The guitar sounded flat. bland. plastic.
It made me rethink what I thought I knew about tone.
When I brought out my guitar (I was playing a JEM77BFP then), they all said: "What the hell is that thing? You planning to maim us with that, boy?" I just grinned and still thought I could survive the session.
When we started playing, the bassist with his old hofner bass with plain hollow wound strings was so smooth, he had such a groove that I was damn enthusiastic to start playing. Then the other guy in the corner with an ES335 started playing.
I felt like dying then...
There was NO WAY I could get any tone from the JEM to match that thing. He nailed every possible colour he could with those strings... He had so much dynamics, and HIS GAIN CHANNEL WAS OFF!!!!! He was playing clean!!!
I really felt like the young punk who's been showed up by the old experienced soldiers... When it was my turn, no matter what I did, I was just dead. There was no tone coming from my fingers. The guitar sounded flat. bland. plastic.
It made me rethink what I thought I knew about tone.
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i presume u sold ur jem and now purely a strat guy? :mrgreen:
Pastor of Muppets
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im pretty sure pedal snobs look at my board's total absence of anything boutique and think to themselves "amateur"
im pretty sure pedal snobs look at my board's total absence of anything boutique and think to themselves "amateur"
Heh, pedal snobs look at mine and go "does he use any effects at all?" but heck I never get pedal GAS unless i really actually need one.
Pastor of Muppets
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true dat Hydrofly
i love the joy of just jacking in and rocking out.
im more about the songwriting. even the few pedals i have, i wont use unless the song calls for it. i dont want to use effects just because i have them. i use them for very subtle tone shaping (most of my pedal dials hardly go past 3 o'clock). my favorite pedal? my TU2 tuner
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bedokkids
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hahaha oh man man!!!!... is that True,Maddie!?
let's name your finger..
hmm how abt Dunlop Jazz 111 Finger..?
1 more suggestion, during giging. paint it red and wrote the label on it.
a manicurist would do a good job.
im pretty sure pedal snobs look at my board's total absence of anything boutique and think to themselves "amateur"
I'm pretty sure bare-bones snobs look at pedalboards and think to themselves "poseur"!
I've had a little experience when I was just starting out on electric but I had 4 years of acoustic playing by then and 10 yrs of piano.
So, I went for an audition for a show... only had a drummer and me - we planned to use a backing track for the real show. I didn't have any efx back then, just a Marshall MG30DFX amp.
I went to the venue, and there were 2 amps - a Peavey and a MG15. I choose the Peavey since, its a bigger amp = more impressive no? But I didn't know which input to plug the guitar in!!!! Which input?! I asked... can see the giggles and shaking heads.
Then I just went for the MG15... what a joke! A crappy amp over the better one... and a practice amp to boot!
Just drummer and I proceed to play and the giggling, shaking heads & whispering stopped.
We got the gig.
It was quite... interesting...
