Guitar Players
 

Im curious as to how many of you play guitar, and how long you've been playing, what guitar you use, ect. Me, Im using a Epiphone (it looks like a Gibson Les Paul Standard), and Ive been playing for a couple of months now. :)

I attended the G.I.T school (guitar institute tech) - Hollywood California. Graduated with honors and didnt score below 90% in any exam.

Played for many years / come home after 3 years and done guitar lessons for about 3 years.

Burnt myself out from 6 hrs a day practise and then lessons.

Dont touch it no more- have not for a couple of years now

Have played regularly for over 23 years now. Have been through a wide variety of setups over the years:

Guitars:
Sears SG copy (my first electric...sold it)
Sunburst 77 Gibson Les Paul deluxe (stolen from my house)
White Yamaha SBG3000 (sold it...rik emmet and santana used to play these....looks like the offspring of an sg and a les paul)
Cobalt Blue Ibanez RG 470 with a jeff beck seymour duncan in the bridge pickup position (current guitar...have had it for 10+ years). Also have a handmade acoustic I bought from some guitar makers in the philippines...not the greatest but I can get some nice recordings out of it.

Amps and FX (the teen years):
musicman 4 x 10" combo amp
mxr distortion +
boss analog delay
crybaby and morley wah pedals


Then I went modular (my 20's):
Carvin 900wt pwr amp
ADA MP-1 preamp
Multiverb II
White Marshall 4 x 12 cabinet

Current:
Back to basics with a fender blues deluxe and the ibanez. I have a bunch of other stuff I use for recording (j-station amp modeler) and some software modeling programs but I enjoy playing straight amp.

I'd like to really get back to basics and get Gibson Les Paul standard (and an american telecaster standard), Marshall Plexi reissue (SLP1959 100 wt head), and a marshall cab with greenback speakers. Apartment and budget dictate that I won't be getting those any time soon. :)

I could never stop playing...it's so cathartic to me....keeps me from losing my mind completely.

I used to play the bass guitar for about 6 years, but much like Kevin I don't touch it anymore. I have a Cruise Bass. It's a smaller size one because when i started i was in 6th grade, but it was a damn good bass. I miss those days : (
<thinking about past now>

I've played over 20 years but not too seriously. Don't have much of my gear left either. Just a Morris acoustic (<- my first one :))and an Ibanez RG-550 plus a Line6 POD2 amp/cab modeler plus some misc stuff which I don't use much anymore...

played for 15 years - not much for the last year, since the band broke up :(

main gear
axe: PRS
amp: Line 6 head, cab and floor board

Never touched a guitar in my whole life,,,,;) ,,,, I do lead guitar and vocals, I’ve been playing for about 20 years,,Dam Im old:( ,,;)I made a CD when I worked for a Real state company,, Me and a few coworkers got to gather and Formed a lillte band called Disgruntled Employs, we thought about Going on tour but we listen to our selfs and said for get it… :D

I moved kevs of me chair once does that count?

David :)

I played once.. like 4-5 months ago at hybrids house. That count?

I have 2 acoustics that were my parents. One with 2 strings missing. The other 3 strings.

Im getting an electric for my birthday in april however. So ill reply to the topic then;)

ive been playing for 5 yrs - go my yamaha :D
--
planning on getting maybe a marshall quad that'll please the olds :D

I have been playing keys and guitar for about 20 years - wow that is long. I have had the old local bands thing, and a few national releases. Sang understudy with the met, cruiseship gigs, commercial jingels, couple of movie scripts, etc...
creative hell!!!
I now am lost in 3d and the day-job; so the Martin and Ibanez are just collecting dust in the basement. I still have my ART pedals and rack, a few smashed pedals, and a zoom processor, monster cables, and a fender jazz practice amp. My last group Strobe7 got to #2 on garageband.com a few years ago, and we signed with a producer in L.A., but all the labels he shopped in 1999 said we sounded too much like Radiohead, and they dont sell records - right????????????@!!!! whatever. Hey, grow your hair, don't say that, you look too young, you look too old - hated pollitics. I still throw tracks down in Acid when I am inspired.


Got burnt out touring and gigging since I was 17, and now just engineer and Maya. What a trip that so many of us are muicians. To me, this is just musical clay anyways ;)

I know what you mean. Before I got into web design, I graduated Full Sail's audio program and worked in various studios around NYC engineering and assisting for several years....talk about a high rate of burn out. I still have my digital studio here in the apt and write tracks from time to time.

Full Sail in Orlando? Lyman High School, class of 86 here ;)

Yup. I grew up in N. Lauderdale (pompano beach/Ft. Lauderdale area). Went to Full Sail in '92 or '93 when it was only video/audio program...now look at them withe 3D and everything else.

i play bass more than guitar,

current rig:
fender pbass (99 i think)
'72 sunn sceptre head
acoustic 420 cabinet (single 15 folded horn design)

...loud as shit

have been in punk bands for going on 7 years or so... last band toured, released 2 7"s before dissolving and had articles and interviews in maximum rocknroll and short fast & loud (kinda small genre based magazines but big deal to anyone who likes punk)

there's a picture of my old rig at www.intenseyouth.com/tba.jpg ... don't mind the quality of the picture, digital cameras getting bumped around in basements... also.. our drummer, he's not amish, he just has a beard

Few months and it can be found here

I've been thinking of investing in a fender jazz bass. Getting tired of trying to play bass lines with my midi controller (which is rapidly dying on me).

Did you ever see a band called Alter/Ego play?

jazz basses are really nice, especially the older ones if you can find one. my friend had one for a while, the action is just magnificent. he played through an svt solid state head and an ampeg 8x10, it sounded fantastic.

i'd really like to pick up an upright bass sometime but as of right now i have nowhere to put it, nor the money to invest in a half decent one.

Yeah I just need something to record with and ive always been a fan of the jazz bass' sound. I wouldn't go crazy spending money on it but the standard is only like $450 or so. One day...:)

Been playing guitar for some 15 years now...and for the last 10 or so I only play accoustic guitars.

I own an old Lowden L-27F and an instrument that was built for me by a friend of mine (who's an aspiring instrument maker here in germany), who's name is Heiner Dreizehnter.

Not too much more equipment...that's the nice thing about accoustic instruments, that there's no need to run around with huge Marshall stacks anymore, even if you're playing gigs.

Been playing about six or seven years.
Had a shot at playing original music full-time. Had a Marshall half-stack, loads of pedals and a Jackson guitar. Didn't work out so I sold all the gear. Now I just bang out a few riffs now and again on my brothers Ibanez and peavey amp.

Heres what Im playing on. Not too much, but Im on a limited budget right now. :)

I've been playing for about the past two years just goofing around, I wish I had the time to do lessons are actually get some real guitar knowledge, I just kinda teach myself. Ive got an Epiphone Strat replica(only one i've ever seen), a wimpy 15w crate amp, a Boss Distortion Pedal, and a Digitech RP50 multieffects pedal to satisfy my needs:)

im nearly 20 and i have been playing guitar since i was 6. i have an ibanez RG270DX, Epiphone, a yamaha classical guitar and a yamaha acoustic electric. i play in a band and we play Pink Floyd, Guns N Roses, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC etc

well basically i am not a guitar player but a key board player

ive been playing for like 2 years and i play a copy of a gibson SG with a small small small marshall amp

who are your inspirations? mine would have to be metallica :D

test time

Hey Nem, my inspirations are the sacred Gods of Rock Guitar. Known to us mortals as Slash and Angus Young.
I have a physical need to play the Highway to Hell riff at least once a day.

Lurked the forums/site for a while, figure'd I would post :)

I've been playing bass for about 13 years. Most of the gear I use I built myself (amateur luthier, but I have built basses a few for $$).

4 string electric upright, about a half-dozen 5 strings I built myself (34-35" scale, bolt on, neck through, etc), an Ibanez BTB 6 string, a Wishnevsky 7 string (WishBasses rule!), and a MIJ Sting P-bass (upgraded EMG pickup). I've got another half-dozen or so guitars in various stages of completion.. just don't have time to work on them anymore.

I've got QSC 850 and 1850 power amps (one or the other depending on what cabinets I use/gig demands) and a Behringer V-Amp (non rack mount) that I use for a pre-amp. Every cabinet I own I've built myself as well (much cheaper than buying *if* you know how to design a bass cabinet): 4x12+mid+tweet, 2 1x12s+mid+tweet, 4x10, 2x15, 6x10+tweet. I play a lot of jazz, not so much into rock anymore (but I do enjoy the goodness of punk/ska), so a lot of the sound I built is overkill.

nice.. those Acoustic folded horns ARE teh shit. 1970s technology & design and a single speaker and it still blows the pants of anything comparable today SPL-wise..

I've been playing for 23 years this May, playing semi-professionally for 18 years. I've had assorted Kramer's (yeah, the old 80's Heavy Metal guitars with the Floyd Rose), a couple of Gibsons and Gibson clones, and Fenders. My main guitar at the moment is a 1997 Fender American Standard Strat with the honeyburst finish. I swear, it's the first guitar that I've never done any work to. Normally, the first thing I do when I get a guitar is start taking it apart to make it like I want it, but this was perfect from the very first instant I touched it. I'll die playing this guitar.

As for amps and effects, my amp is the Fender Hot Rod Deluxe all tube combo. I've had full stacks of Marshalls and Ampegs and Peavey ( I live in MS), and these Fenders rock. I've not been able to turn it over 2, and I have never had to mike it at a gig. Effects are just a Dunlop Crybaby that I bought in 1986 that I have made some mods to and an old (circa 1964-65) Electro-Harmonix Small Clone Chorus pedal. That's it. I rarely ever touch delay, and just use the spring reverb built into the amp.

Hmmm...I once had a pretty old crybaby (mid/late 70s) - a huge, heavy monster it was, with a solid steel framing.

Someday someone stole it after a gig... :(