Guitar Nerds Anonymous

I've done a few lessons but i'm not professional or qualified.

I learned the basics from this guy at school. He was nuts but brilliant. Total jazz snob. He told us that hendrix was a "hack who played childish pop" among other things. Don't know if he's still taking private pupils, he must be pretty old by now.

http://www.yell.com/b/Steve+Done+_+Guitar-Music+Teachers-London-WC1A1LP-5041062/index.html

I kind of want to call him myself but am a bit intimidated.

I would like someone less intimidating and willing to teach "childish pop."

yyyyeah fair enough.

i'll ask about.

Im looking for a guitar teacher to help get my girlfriend started. any recommendations?

My GF Is a guitar teacher PM me a phone number and I'll pass it on

yeah. but how good is this guy? what a prince.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9oae5ClxaQ&feature=related[

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just love the picture:

Loving the pipe, Fantastic guitarist Albert King, could bend the fuck out of a guitar.

it's a strong look.

not actually guitar related but i had a fun rehearsal last night. had the best part of a bottle of wine in the pub then went to scar in camden at 9pm. started off with a messy sweaty slightly drunken cover of "i put a spell on you". best of all though, the room has a wonderfully out of tune upright piano in. guitar down, piano lid open, mic in and away we go! fab.

we're also doing a combined souped up version of "waiting round to die" by townes van zandt and "jolene" by dolly parton. works really nicely with the previously mentioned brass finger picks dragging it along a bit like a banjo line. i play the jolene riff quite fast over the waiting round to die chords with just straight four-on-the-floor drums and bass and a shaker for backing... when it gets to the last verse of "...his name is codeine" it becomes "...her name is jolene" and it switches straight into the jolene chords as our lady-singer takes over singing that... hehe. cheesy probably but fuck it if isn't awesome fun.

still loving the freedom of rocking up at rehearsal or gigs on a bike with my acoustic guitar on my back. such a relief after years of lugging amps round in taxis.

Amps are such a pain, As primarily a bass player, you guitarists have it easy (mostly)...

I've never been able to drink, and then pick up an instrument and play it. After a couple of pints I become so sloppy and inaccurate its ridiculous, its like i'm on my own and i playing random notes.

20 years ago today, the world lost one of it's finest blues guitarists.

RIP SRV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWLw7nozO_U

Call me a heathen, but thats about 95% of everything I hate about guitar right there.

Can anyone ID the guitar Josh Homme is using here? I adore it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tn797/Reading_and_Leeds_Festival_2010_Best_Bits/
@ 15:25 in

He plays a lot of Maton Guitars.

Looks like it's one of the MS5xx models.

If you look at his Wiki he's got a few of them.

I love my Gretsch.

Unfortunately I can't take it to uni though because of insurance issues/too much sentimental value to keep in my student house. Reckon I'm going to get a fender strat to fill the electric void this year, or maybe an Ibanez artcore, does anyone play either of these, good/bad experience?

HOTT^

i'd recommend a nice Peerless, I have one and its superb.

If by ibanez artcore you mean another hollow body, I really wouldnt bother. Not that they are bad, but you have the gretsch waiting for you at home. Enjoy having a different type of guitar.

20 years ago today, the world lost one of it's finest blues guitarists.

RIP SRV

YouTube- Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (Long version!)

just seen this, jammy.
he was one of the best, and such a fat tone too. and such a nice guy .
gonna add to this
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuYWhsjFpNM"]YouTube-
Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place In Town)[/ame]

If by ibanez artcore you mean another hollow body, I really wouldnt bother. Not that they are bad, but you have the gretsch waiting for you at home. Enjoy having a different type of guitar.

I was leaning towards the strat because of this, also because it'll be a bit quieter (with headphones) which I'm sure my flatmates will appreciate.

HOTT^

i'd recommend a nice Peerless, I have one and its superb.

Nice guitars, mostly over budget though.

Call me a heathen, but thats about 95% of everything I hate about guitar right there.

lethal, he is everything i have ever liked about a guitar and more, he lived for it, and made the fncking thing either scream or sing, i don't personally think anyone, white or black has any more blues in his hands than SRV.

My favourite SRV tune below.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A43hdpVdSos"]YouTube-
"Life without you" STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN[/ame]

ah, i was in either gonna post that or the one i did.
good man
beautiful song

lethal, he is everything i have ever liked about a guitar and more, he lived for it, and made the fncking thing either scream or sing, i don't personally think anyone, white or black has any more blues in his hands than SRV.

Like I said, call me a heathen. I just dont connect at all with what blues became. Find it all sorts of tacky, soul-less and boring. I guess its just one of those genres/phenomena that some people adore and others just dont get.

Beautiful. Very jealous.

I love my Gretsch semi-hollow.

Thank-you. It was an 18th birthday present, we ended up having to import it from America and everything because everywhere in the UK seemed sold out at the time. Very scary knowing my new guitar was being thrown around on a plane, massively relieved when it arrived in one piece.