Guitar Nerds Anonymous

danny gatton in the corner by the dart board. man, if you got drummers like that, let alone guitar players in this country... anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS5XH84mmI4

if you like teles (which i do) this little series is great. jim campilongo doing chet proud:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvua4unz-JI

Tele's are sweet, but this is where its at baby! http://www.makenmusic.com/productImg/Telemaster_FrontFull.jpg
Got an ash jag body on the bench at the mo waiting for a nice old tele neck.

twangtastic. is that yours?

No, Im copying it. I might shove a Seymour mini humbucker up front like Keef's.

Nothing like kids to make you feel inferior.

I was inspired to start learning that Normal Blake whiskey tune dooks linked. When I saw this girl tearing it up much better than I could if I practicised the damn thing for months. Boo Hoo..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhOqUboShqk

she's a witch. burn her.

here's me tutoring the young apprentice (my god son) in the way of the jamerson last weekend. actually i think he was less interested in my astounding technique than the tickly feeling of the strings on his head but still...

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Great picture dooks! Lovely. Looks like 1967.

Hey im being forced to sell my Ampeg Dan Armstrong ADA4 Plexibass with the original hard case if anyone is interested?

£900

fiver. final offer.

Fuck Sultans of Swing and that fucking arpeggio.

Anybody else (attempting to) learn a particular song at the moment?

These Days by Nico. I'm too impatient for it.

Fuck Sultans of Swing and that fucking arpeggio.

Anybody else (attempting to) learn a particular song at the moment?

ha. that's quite a confession. although i'm ashamed to say i have been known to knock out a knoffler impression occasionally. the singer in my old band used to occasionally sneak out the in-betweeny toned opening guitar line in rehearsals and he would invariably be pelted with rubbish and abuse whenever he did. likewise whenever a rehearsal studio had a jazz chorus he (without fail) would plug in, turn the chorus up full and play the opening chords of purple rain. similar reactions from the rest of us. the annoying cock.

can't think of anything i'm battling with at the moment. my nemesis is mr sandman by chet atkins. been struggling with it for years. so far i've got the intro and the verse as fars as "mister sandman, bring me a dream, bumbumbum, make him...." then i get all tied up.

been learning lots of covers recently as i did another one of those rock and roll gigs in april and have bene doing a few with my other band too. nothing particularly tricky though. lots of scotty moore early elvis stuff, some james burton bits from ricky nelson tunes, and in my folky band some nick drake, love, sparklehorse, big star and loudon wainwright (on the banjo!). fun stuff.

These Days by Nico. I'm too impatient for it.

you mean jackson browne ?

i imagine he means the nico version.

i imagine you know that anyway.

you win a pedant point though!

Pedants come hither.

Hey im being forced to sell my Ampeg Dan Armstrong ADA4 Plexibass with the original hard case if anyone is interested?

£900

i can't see it.

oh my sides.

that sucks. super cool bass. why don't you sell the mutant one with the superfluous extra string and keep invisi-bass?

what an absolute beast.. total musician...

YouTube- John Pizzarelli Trio - After You've Gone

that solo is absolutely nuts!

yo. just ordered one of these for my trusty sigma d28-a-like.

http://www.chandlerguitars.co.uk/view_item.php?ItemID=292

going to have it fitted at chandler's on weds morning. rather looking forward to it. shamefully, i've never actually been to chandler's.

oh and don't think i've forgoten about the lfgss guitar nerd noise making session idea. i may have been giddy on ale and fidray feeling but in the cold light of monday afternoon i'm still game.

Aural-gasmic

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Jeff Beck - A day in the life (Beatles)[/ame]

yo. just ordered one of these for my trusty sigma d28-a-like.

http://www.chandlerguitars.co.uk/view_item.php?ItemID=292

going to have it fitted at chandler's on weds morning. rather looking forward to it. shamefully, i've never actually been to chandler's.

oh and don't think i've forgoten about the lfgss guitar nerd noise making session idea. i may have been giddy on ale and fidray feeling but in the cold light of monday afternoon i'm still game.

Just got back form having this done. Sounds incredible, it's totally unobtrusive and now i can play my cherished acoustic with the band without a clunky clangy soundhole pickup.

And they did a quick set-up, fresh strings, fret polish and oiled the fingerboard for freebies while I waited.

Win.

i have some more bits for sale. i hate to do this but i really need dosh atm...

-cornell romany plus. mint condition. (new one with A,B,C and D output stages)- 1k new, £700 ono.
-warwick corvette 5 string. 2 piece bubinga with matching headstock limited to 27 worldwide. double buck pickups. mint. £1700 new, £950 ono
-musicman steve morse in tobacco burst with matching headstock. mint. £1600 new, £850 ono !!!

Wheeeeee! Guitar thread!

I play very badly but I love it. I also make guitars that aren't as nice as jammy's (I think I recognise that fanned-fret acoustic from over on Project Guitar, no?)

Current project: 5-string banjo with a rim from an old tom-tom.