Guitar Nerds Anonymous

I was about to say I first met @rickster backstage at a Wilco gig around that time... But it was actually a Jayhawks gig... #muchotimeago #verygeriatrico

I had no idea who Wilco were in '96. I may have been going though an ill-advised acid jazz stage at the time. I definitely sat in with a guy who played a 335 through a marshall rack system and stereo chorus out to two 1x12 cabs either side of the stage. #polonecks

I revisited out a load of old home recorded tapes from that time when i borrowed an antique 4 track recently.

One of many embarassing revelations was that I had possibly the worst guitar tone I've ever heard. I'm pretty sure I knew it was bad at the time but I didn't have the money to do anything about it.

It was an early 90s Mexican Strat with nasty thin ceramic pickups into a massive s/s Peavey with a 15" speaker. In a misguided attempt to preserve the purity of (the shitty) signal path i'd probably read so much about in guitar mags i didn't use any effects, boost, compression or nuthin'. It was weedy strat into fizzy pre-amp gain from a nasty early 80s solid state keyboard amp.

Honestly thee worst sound.

Ha. Me too. I spent the latter part of the '80s using a Strat straight into a Roland amp. I suspect it sounded catastrophically bad. Luckily I never used chorus, and even more luckily I don't think there are any tapes... by about '91 had the ES330 and the Pro Reverb and things got better.

@TS... that was '97. Ack. I think you introduced me to Wilco, but I liked Son Volt more at the time.

My other guitar /csb from the '80s concerns a pinky orange Gretsch Broadkaster I bought from the small ads while living in Bristol. I fucking loved that guitar. It was incredible. But I was utterly skint and eventually had to sell it, so it went to my mate Hazel, later of the Blue Aeroplanes. Actually her rockabilly boyfriend bought it for her as a birthday present.

Fast forward a year and Hazel arrives home to find a disgusting Levinson Blade on her couch with a big pink bow around it. The idiot boyfriend had part-exchanged the Gretsch for it. Hazel went ballistic and hurtled down to the music shop where he'd done the evil deal and pleaded for her guitar back. The guys in the shop say, "Oh, sorry, we just sold it to some girl called Polly…"

^ Great story...

I still get chills thinking about late 90s Son Volt shows...

Levinson Blade oh man... That's awful.

PJ has great taste in guitars. Must be weird to have whole threads on Harmony Central about your old guitar. http://www.harmonycentral.com/forum/forum/guitar/acapella-29/1815473-

Hi everyone.
I am currently in a search for my Holy Grail. I am referring to a Parker Fly Deluxe prior 2003 models (which is when they sold the company and stop making them in the US).
One of my mates has a '99 one and since I played it I cannot sleep at night.
Unfortunately they are not popular in the UK and Europe because Gibson, Fender and PRS branding are doing their jobs right.
So if you know someone who knows someone who wants to sell please let them know that someone is out there looking for it.
My budget is around £1000-£1500...

Are you sure you wouldn't prefer a Steinberger?

Yep.

How rad is this picture?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CSJmBX_iXc#action=share

I love Deerhoof. Those guys have evolved to the point where neither of them play anything remotely "normal" from a guitar point of view at any point in a 90 min gig and they still rock the fuck out. Goes without saying that Satomi and Greg are insanely ace.

Also. This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceWWMfhAvD4

Fantastic...

Love that.

Matt Sweeney is a total dude. He's on WTF at the moment too.

http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_637_-_matt_sweeney

There's a Keef one there too which is fun. And a great Obama interview.

Think I'm getting me one of these... Crazy shit...
https://youtu.be/s2O2xaRfje0

it's like someone put The Eagles in a box with knobs on. ameaz

Instant drop tuning... Handy... And all the octaves, also handy...

Have you considered the Digitech Whammy? There is also the Whammy DT which has more goodies..

The Pitchfork is so cheap tho', and doesn't the DigiTech come with an expression pedal? Not really my thing...

I was only really looking for an octave pedal but this does that and a hatful more... Doomy harmonies, 12 string, etc... Total box of toys...

Well if you don't like the expression pedal there is no need to get a whammy.
I bought mine recently and the pedal helps to replicate Morello's pitch and sound effects.
I find the expression pedal handy though because you can have the pedal on and just use the expression pedal when you need to swift the pitch.

Which is why I'm buying a Pitchfork and not a Whammy...

I almost bought an Orville yesterday... Two popped up on my FB feed at this shop I've been meaning to go to in Brisbane... It was my day off and I was having a lunchtime beer in the city so I hopped into an Uber and went for a look... One was a Black Beauty the other was a Standard, both priced just over £300...

Initial excitement decreased significantly when the very nice man told me they were Korean and not Japanese... Tried them both out as well as two actual Gibson LP Standards they had in the shop and there was no comparison... Although both had Seymour Duncan bridge pickups they still sounded thin and weak compared to the Gibsons... Not sure if that would solely be a hardware thing, they were both mahogany and maple topped so should've sounded better than they did...

The nice man's gonna have his tech guy have another look at them and see what they can improve... Very cheap, very pretty and very black, I'm gonna go back for another look at the weekend...

Nice! Let us know how you get on. I have no room for nuffink. Still haven't plugged the acoustic amp in either. Mental.