what fun is listening to music without knowing how to make some! this could be a great forum here, get involved i know hundreds of you here play guitar or other instruments break out that old axe and start rocking again! for the love of the mighty music!

Sure I'd like to be more active but I'm not a very good guitar player. I have been carrying around guitars for over thirty years. I went through a few fender basses and one kay bass learned a couple licks between work and life. So I've been trying to learn for a long time. I can play a few songs now even do simple lead that sounds alright but not as good as I would like. I have a few guitars but I keep the Alvarez handy on a stand and I play Every day.I can do The campfire of picnic table at a beach now. what little I learned was like therapy so in all my moving around I could always pratice what I knew and find it relaxing which is why I kept a guitar with me wherever I moved to. It would collect dust but sooner or later I would pic it up and start playing it again get a little better then move again. year after year or so it would seem. I'm trying not to have to move again and finally trying to get to the point where I can be confident in my playing find people to jam with but now Im almost 50 so finding people is harder let alone just meeting people into music still. I did manage to work on a project with an unknown artist recording a cd. I did lyrics to two songs and co wrote with the three other members one one, I co wrote with the guitar player on the other two. well the project took off but did not fly.I did get the cd on the Juke box at the bar I hung out at in CA. And the bar I was known at In CT So I had a mini music career. with a box full of CDs in my closet. good songs but more Middle of the road not your top 10 record company wants. so i play to relax meditate. have picked up other guitars just for the fact one day I'll be able to play them like they should be. Never to old to learn. Picked up a few good amps along the way also. I'm in if I can help you make something out of this site sure why not. Funny for a r+r heart I play Hank Williams SR.songs plus a few others I dabble in every thing till I put it all together in my own style. Til When. :smoke: :smoke: :scratch2:

great to see at least someone else visit this forum.... its a great thing, i'm a bass player myself, and i'm also not that great, i do play quite a bit around the city now and have some pretty big folk/blues singer trying to get me onto his crew.... its awesome.. i've been getting really big into amp and guitar repair and i just finished up a custom amp for the owner of a local music store who might want to carry some of mine..... we'll see soon

I'd join but I've got a keyboard, and we've got kind of a guitar and bass-centric group in here from the looks of things. But I do suck pretty badly.

nah keyboardists are around here too what we're really missing is percussionists!

...........what we're really missing is percussionists!

I got a few hours on the trash cans ...back when I was a kid!!!!!!

Never did get any positive feedback from ma & dad..or the neighbors though...so I gave it up.......

I 've heard some kick ass keyboards in a lot of the music I listen to. I don't think this will be a guitar thing just a music thing. Trash cans, Reminds me of a Time When some musicians I knew,we closed the bar went back to my place I had guitars and amps hanging around, so Im singing a song I wrote the guitar player's pulling of rhythm and lead, the drummer goes to the kitchen gets pots and pans fills some glasses with different levels of water and started playing I never heard pots and pans sound so good and the glasses holy sh. the whole set up sounded great. nothing ever became of that but we had a lot of fun even got the ladies doing harmony, back up and downright just taking over the vocals. all in good fun. All about the music

yep, i've got a drum kit out in the garage just to bang on, on the side of the table saw we've got a giant piece of tinplate just ducttaped on and that makes quite an interesting sound too

Even though I try and try, I suck on guitar :sigh:

I can play a mean cowbell though! :yes:

-Dave

Hey Rock, as I explained in a previouis thread (10th post in http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=28390), my unbelievable abilities put many people to shame. Many AK members are embarassed by their inability to Rock Out.

That is probably why this forum isnt very active. I am sorry if I cast such a long shadow! :guitar:

I used to be able to play keyboards somewhat. Never have been able to focus on more than one instrument though. Started out on those, went to guitar--sucked at it tremendously, switched over to bass by neccesity around '71 and never looked back. It was *my thing* and I didn't even know it! (Also played alto sax in HS band...sucked at it too.)

haha okay mg, its not your fault....... i'm just looking to get people more involved here becuase i konw theres at least a couple hundred guitar players here..... not to mention the fact that a lot of us are gearheads and tweakers (the good kind) too..... i'm hoping there will be a magical influx of people so i can talk tube vs. SS guitar amps and different speaker types, projects etc.....

Thats Cool. I would not have the faintest Idea on want I'm talking about. but I'd know who to ask when I need something fixed or know who to send it to to get it fixed. Fender Blues Jr. Polytone mini brute II, Fender Redknob Champ 12 with JBL E120-8 speaker. good little amps

yep i just sold an old cab with a jbl e130-8 (15") for 240 canadian which was nice.... the redknob fenders are decent and the blues juniors are great for modding, but i dont recall ever playing a polytone.... hmm

A good clean tube like solid state amp. Picked it up in 78. Some Jazz players Like polytone amps.

The original Polytones were great...not so much nowadays.

hmm, i'm going to have to try one out eventually i tihnk at a music shop last year i tried a polytone bass amp and wasnt impressed, but i'll keep a look out ofr someo f the old guitar amps.... so far one of my favorite amp manufacturers seems to be traynor, just totally awesome amps

Rockmonton:

Oi! What say you? Do you write as well as play? And if so, what is your inspiration?

I've used Fender tube amps and found them great for 70's rock and blues.
Right now I'm using SS, Carvin SX amp, 2x12's-200 watts mostly due to
the fact that it is a great amp and at less $$$. Love the tube sound though! :thmbsp:

well i play, do a bit of writing, but its usually satire and stuff for open stages at school and all (camel toe, Cam the stoner, The teacher is an alcoholic, the bohtan song, the spanish song, half a reason you shouldnt drink. all sortsa stupid things that usually get made up 5 minutes before i go on, but i love to play and tinker with things my inspiration, my largest influences have to be most anything lsd/drug inspired or just plain out psychadellic, floyd, doors, jefferson airplane, grateful dead, a lot of 60's stuff as well as modern RHCP, cliff burton, wooten, i'm primarily a bass player but i know the basics for nearly every instrument there is, just not very well. i'm in it for the hobby man, i've got a few amps and a small recording setup as well as a lot of project space and all. Lotsa stuff to work on. i'm always buying project guitars and amps which is pretty cool and always finding a new way, figuring out new circutry, reinventing the wheel so to say. just having fun and learning some

I've constructed a few of my own guitars. One was a PRS knock-off with Carvin
electronics, not bad. The other was a Warmoth strat clone which had an EMG
pickup in it. Did it for fun. Had a Fender super reverb amp that I miss. It was
all original and even though I think it was only rated at 60 watts, with four
tens it was quite loud. Even gigging with it I never needed to turn it past 3.

When I write a song, I like to start with open, melodic chords then slam some
power chords in there. My friends have told me I use spider chords because
of how your hand is opened up when playing. I've mostly been in a couple
garage bands. In the early years it was all 'bout the chicks. Now it's a hobby.