Heres A New Forum For Musicians ...and Musician Wannabees!!!!

A place we can get together and discuss the 'wares' and 'styles' of the trade..

To talk about your 'new' Drums...and Guitars ...your 'old' Drums and Guitars........or if you found those new Bass strings that just came onto the market are just the best......

Also post pictures of the garage sale find of the week!!......or the Guitar you would like for christmas ....

Its can all be done here ...so ...lets get things started....and just remember "If it were not for the Musicians and their Instruments.......What would it all be for????"

Gary: I'm currently (with the help of a local musician/cabinet maker) am building my own Bass to replace one I sold last year. Have modeled it after a '62 Fender P-Bass. Am doing a maple neck with a rosewood fretboard, basswood body painted candy blue with a pearloid pickguard. I'm also using NOS alnico pickups, CTS pots, a Solen .1uf Cap, cambric cloth wire and a JAN Switchcraft jack. The enitre pickguard is covered with a metal shield plate as is the rear of the pickup. Also using a Fender PB/Jazz tailpiece and Schaller tuners. Hope to post some pics soon. Just haven't finished the roll of film up yet and lack painting the body.

Wow Dan, you gotta post some picks of that baby!

-Dave

im lookin for a marshall jcm 800 2203 head and 1960 cabs
this amp just has BALLS and can do just about anything from heavy gain to sweet warm clean chanel

i got a ltd H50 double cut its cheep but it sounds good with 60 guage strings on it they take some getting use to but i like the
low end ring i get out of them

i may be a wanna be but it least i can play every string all the way up the neck and back down (power chord junkies suck
like limp bizkit)

Ah Yes, a Musical Instruments forum on A.K. -> good idea!

I just wanted to mention, if anyone is a Martin acoustic guitar enthusiast, then one site to check out is:

http://p084.ezboard.com/btheunofficialmartinguitarforum

By the way, Santa Cruz also makes beautiful acoustic guitars.

haha i'm prolly a youngin among all you guys here but music is mostly what i do.... my rigs.....

16 cahnnel powered mixer, -> computer with a crapload of rack equipment for recording,

90's pearl forum series drumkit

westone thunder 2 bass with 18v actives p/p

franken-bass with 18v emg's in j/p/j

acoustic 106X2 cabs, with jbl's in them and acoustic 405 cab with the orginal ev's or eminence hwatevers in there, dont pull it apart....

home made peavy head,

home made marshall 70's lead head

home made cabs with 15" jensens in them

lots of old 70's lawsiut electrics

a duct tape flying vee (home made)

a fender f-65 acoustic

a couple old traynor and garnet tube amps

a dukane 20-30 watt tube amp being turned into a bass amp

a bogen 100 watt heead being troubleshooted to turn into a guitar head

a 100 watt ampeg clone

and a lot more i've forgotten about

Originally posted by Rockmonton
haha i'm prolly a youngin among all you guys here but music is mostly what i do.... my rigs.....

16 cahnnel powered mixer, -> computer with a crapload of rack equipment for recording,

90's pearl forum series drumkit

westone thunder 2 bass with 18v actives p/p

franken-bass with 18v emg's in j/p/j

acoustic 106X2 cabs, with jbl's in them and acoustic 405 cab with the orginal ev's or eminence hwatevers in there, dont pull it apart....

home made peavy head,

home made marshall 70's lead head

home made cabs with 15" jensens in them

lots of old 70's lawsiut electrics

a duct tape flying vee (home made)

a fender f-65 acoustic

a couple old traynor and garnet tube amps

a dukane 20-30 watt tube amp being turned into a bass amp

a bogen 100 watt heead being troubleshooted to turn into a guitar head

a 100 watt ampeg clone

and a lot more i've forgotten about

wowyou have got to post some pictures of your drum sets im a drummer my self and have been pl,aying for 4 1/2 years I can play metal and rock.

Just picked it up after 27 years of dragging the old Conn tenor around with me. The local Jazz Society has been really helpful and hold jazz jams on Sunday evenings that's certainly helped get back into things. I played all through the 70s in Top 40/funk bands but stopped when the family started up.

Funny, but I've met a number of folks with that same profile, too. Anyway, picked up an alto sax at a yard sale 2 months ago - a student horn - for $75 and have been playing that, too.

Decided to pick up keyboards so am taking piano lessons and a Roland FP-5. Always wanted to play the Hammond B3 and this is my on ramp.

Cheers,

David

I'm a 58 year old rock and roller/songwriter/lead singer/guitar player who got into the biz at the age of 8 and just kept on playing. My current pile of stuff includes Yorkville, Fender, Latin Percussion, home-shop-built PA spkrs and monitors. (nice pretty stuff) couple of Tapco boards, carload of SM-57/58 mics and stands & XLR cable, mandolin, a banjo (somwhere over in East Arkansas) and still singing in a band. Parkinson's disease put an end to my picking, but I still sing. I'll post some shots of our stuff soon. Best piece I have is a 1959 F-70 Caro classical guitar made of very resonant cedar and spruce. Light as a cloud you can scarcely detect it has weight at all, but it has this full, powerful voice with clarity. Authoritative bass without booming.
My first guitar cost $13 in the East Village back in 63. Pieces of it lie in Mom's attic yet.Still pitch songs and have sold a few. Not rich but never give up and very happy to have led my life this way. Nothing like making people dance who hadn't intended to do so when they walked in and sat down. It's a difficult but glorious life and you meet the strangest variety of people.

i may be a wanna be but it least i can play every string all the way up the neck and back down (power chord junkies suck
like limp bizkit)

Dude, Power Chords are the ONLY way to go!

-Pete Townsend & Johnny Ramone

I guess I'm a musician, just not that good. Fingerpicking keeps me going. simple lead. What's wrong with power chords?Listen to some old Blue Oyster Cult.

Theres a difference between power chords ...and reel chords...In my opinion and the two string chords are way too over used ...guitar players today need to learn to do it the right way....just using two strings to play chords is all well n all...but its cheetin'...LOL

Maybe that's why most of this 'New Rock' sucks so much!imho

I'm a guitarist, singer and songwriter. My band is a three-piece outfit called Whiskey Rebellion. We play a mix of blues, old-style metal/hard rock, AOR style rock and country. A musican friend of mine calls it "biker rock" FWIW but every time we ask somebody how they would describe our sound, they compare us to somebody different. I guess each listener picks up on a different element in our songs.

Anybody who would like me to burn you a CD of our homebrew demo recordings, PM me your address. We used to gig pretty regular here in the Detroit area but job-related travel put us on hold a couple years back and we just haven't gotten our head of steam back up. Anyhow.

Hi, my name is Kevin and I'm a gearoholic
(Hi, Kevin)

My main gig setup:

I like to customize my guitars.
98 Gibson SG standard
Earvana compensated nut
Graph Tech saddles
Bowen Handle vibrato with fine tuners

Epiphone Special II
Bridge pickup: 1980 Gibson Les Paul Standard
Neck pickup: GFS Retro-tron Hot Liverpool
Bigsby Palm Pedal B & G string bender
Schaller tuners
Schaller roller bridge
Pull-pot switches for series / parallel and coil cut on neck PU
Extra-tall nut (for bottleneck slide)

1970-something Epiphone 5102TE (also known as EA-250)
Allparts piezo bridge
Allparts frequensator hi-lo tailpiece
L.R.Baggs CTRL-X preamp for piezo signal
Sperzel tuners

Furman pedalboard
Home built 3-way guitar selector based on Aromat sealed relays
Peavey compressor / sustainer
Crybaby wah (standard model)
Rocktron Hush noise gate
Morely stereo optical volume pedal
also
Boss 7-band EQ (for piezo)
ART X-12 MIDI program selector
Arion stage tuner (on side-chain rather than in line)

ART DST Eighty / Eighty amplifier
2 x 12 cabinet with Eminence speakers (home built)

My other toys:
1967 Gibson J-50 ADJ with JLD Bridge Doctor
Harmony Monterey 950 archtop with Fishman piezo bridge and Bill Lawrence neckmount magnetic pickup
Washburn EA20-12 Festival 12 string acoustic / electric with JLD Bridge Doctor
Samick 6-string acoustic
"Plainsman" cowboy stencil junker for messing around with lap slide
late-60s Gibson Melody Maker SG refitted with dual P90s, Bigsby vibrato and Tune-o-matic bridge
Lori Les Paul copy with Gibson 498T and GFS Dream 90 pickups, Palm Pedal tailpiece and Schaller tuners
Peavey USA Reactor (Tele copy)
Peavey USA Predator (Strat copy)
Squier P-bass
Kalamazoo short-scale bass (EB0 body style and pickup, Mustang style neck)

Ampeg Reverberocket R12-R (2x6V6 model with Jensen C12R)
Crate VC3112 (4xEL84)
Oahu practice amp (5Y3-12AX7-6V6)
Frankenstein portable amp (Marshall micro-stack circuit, Radio Shack 30W booster, two Olds 6x9 car speakers, 12V SLA mower battery)
Univox 15 watt solid state amp

That's not counting the PA rig and recording gear. Whew.

"Morely stereo optical volume pedal"

i had that pedal in the early 80's....awesome piece of gear!!!

I'll play....

Bassist since birth, playing since I was 12 (started in 1980)

Here is my Holy Grail and current gear
Click Here to see it (http://www.hartsafire.com/gear.htm)

Benavente Fretless 6 and Fretted 5 string 51 series basses
Schroeder 1212 & 1210 cabinets (also a Mini12 not pictured)
Peavey Tweed Classic 400 (8x KT88, 1x 12AX7 & 1x 12AT7 power section... and 3x 12AX7 dual channel preamp).

:thmbsp:

I also have an early 90s Strat, early 70s Yamaha Acoustic, early 50s Whirlitzer upright piano.

Dude, Power Chords are the ONLY way to go! -Pete Townsend & Johnny Ramone
And amps are useless without Power Cords! :lmao:

And amps are useless without Power Cords! :lmao:

...i say more Celt
the world are useless without Power Cords! :D

clint.

Hey, Mudcat, what's with that last line? We haven't even met...yet!! :banana:
TJ
PS E-mail when you figure out when you'd like to try again.

Hey, no posts here in nye two weeks! Rock 'n roll good! :thmbsp:
P.S. A picture of my boy (Like father, like son).

I have been playing guitar for the last 34 years. Here is a list of my gear:

Axes:
1993 Blonde Les Paul Standard, Duncan SH-4 JB and SH-1 '59 pickups
1993 Paul Reed Smith EG-3
1987 Kramer Pacer American Custom I
1967 Fender Stringmaster 6
1997 Martin D-1R

Rack:
Mesa Simul-Class 2:90
Mesa/Boogie Quad Preamp
BBE 462 Sonic Maximizer
Tubeworks B.K. Butler Real Tube RT-902
Chandler Stereo Digital Echo
Hush Systems IICX
Furman PL-8

Floor:
Mesa/Boogie FU-2
VHT Valvulator
Dunlop Crybaby 535Q
Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
Boss TU-2 tuner

Speakers:
Marshall 1960AV Cab

:D

Urizen! Your list is like a who's who on everything any guitar player ever
wanted to own! Do you have one room in the house devoted to your
stuff? That's my goal, but the wife keeps fighting me on that one. One
day............ :thmbsp:

Urizen! Your list is like a who's who on everything any guitar player ever
wanted to own! Do you have one room in the house devoted to your
stuff? That's my goal, but the wife keeps fighting me on that one. One
day............ :thmbsp:

Thanks! I suppose I am lucky in that respect...no wife! I do have an ex that I will trade for a set of D'Addarios!

Thanks! I suppose I am lucky in that respect...no wife! I do have an ex that I will trade for a set of D'Addarios!
:yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes:

Just looked at your picture Urizen. That Les Paul! Beautiful! Did you retrofit the
pickups yourself? That room is a playground.......... :banana:

Did you retrofit the
pickups yourself?

Nah..I had a local tech here do it for me. He had to custom order the neck pickup for me. I wanted a zebra and Seymour came through. I found this Paul in a local pawn in 1995. The original owner had tricked it out in all gold hardware, including gold Grovers, a gold plated pickguard and even a gold-plated trussrod cover. Looked like "Les Pimp"! :) Incidentally, this guitar is strung with .011's and dropped a whole step. A rumble machine! :smoke: Thanks for the compliment.

Sweeeeet..... :thmbsp:

Your effects rack is somewhat reminiscent of Ty Tabors gear of Kings X.