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Who's the best Rock Band of all time and why is it Led Zeppelin?
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I play but it has been so long I have a hard time remembering how to play songs I wrote myself, haha. I’m sure that will invite some predictable jabs. Before I lapsed from playing, I took up lap steel, which expects you to use not just thumb-picks but picks on every finger, and I couldn’t get used to having them on my digits, so just got good at finger-plucking there same way as I did on guitar. Lap steel isn’t much different from dobro or laying a reg guitar across your...lap.The shit he does is crazy. He's got that guitar pick on his thumb too. You play? What kind of guitar you got? Right now, I still have my Washburn HSS. Nothing fancy, but it's actually a pretty solid guitar. Easy to play. Really wish I never stopped, or that I would've hassled my parents about lessons back when I was 14. Definitely gonna get a new one though. I'm leaning towards this:
G&L Fullerton Deluxe S-500 Electric Guitar - Alpine White
Solidbody Electric Guitar with Alder Body, Hard Rock Maple Neck, Maple Fretboard, 3 Single-coil Pickups, and Tremolo - Alpine Whitewww.sweetwater.com
Want to give it a play.
since we’re here and I know plenty here are sick of this story as I’ve told it so much, but my axe of record is a ‘77 blonde tele with what I’ve been told is a ‘rare!’rosewood fretboard (I never could deal with maple; too slippery).
i traded a bb gun, a casio, and literally $69 lawn mowing money for it at a pawn shop in rural Oklahoma when I was 13. I saved up to get its harmonics readjusted and the guy offered me $2,300 for it on the spot. When we moved back to Chicago later, I paid to get the harmonics readjusted again because its truss rod is fucked, and was offered $6,000.
Let’s start a band.
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There's something about the tele that really makes me hate looking at it. I think it's the pickguard makes it look asymmetrical and it drives me nuts. I love the strat look. I played decently through HS, but sparingly since. Wish I never stopped because I'd probably be really fucking good. Just picked it up again and am starting from square one, although some of the stuff I used to know how to play has kind of came back to me. I can't fingerpick all that well, but I'm trying.
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once you get the hang of it, you will never go back to a pick.
I want nothing more than to start playing back up again esp since the covid, but being stuck home has actually made work more busy than less
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Speaking of guitar porn, I know gibson are total cunts to deal with but I almost bought a teal es-335 with my bonus while visiting a friend in Phoenix 3 years ago, lol, always wanted one. My wife would have killed me and my flight would probably have crashed on the way home.
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I really forgot how great of an escape it is. I could pass a couple hours easy just fucking up simple chords LOL. As to fingerpicking, I used to know pretty much all of Stairway (as most guitar enthusiasts probably do) and Nothing Else Matters does a lot of fingerpicking as well. Those are probably the two songs I practice the most with it. I like both honestly. Fingerpicking does have that softer sound, but I like using the pick too. Mostly I want to learn bluesy and cleaner stuff to play. I like heavy metal and all that, but Blues and that cleaner sound of Santana, for example, seems like the best release to me.
One thing I've heard about Gibson lately from multiple sources is that it has serious quality control issues now. That said, there's not a more beautiful guitar to in my eyes than the Gibson Les Paul Sunburst.
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i was a zephead when i was young, dumb, and full of cum, and my guitar teacher told me to teach myself my favorite song over christmas break (he was a failed session player who took six weeks off for a booger sugar binge and hookers who got paid with pizza hut but his claim to fame was having once backed up bob seger and the silver bullet band) I was learning how to play using an acoustic guitar my sister had discarded. I taught myself to play stairway to heaven in b flat instead of open chord A over that break, and I love zep if not that song in particular. I suppose the morals of my story are why learn a song you don’t like?; if you are going to learn a song, make it as hard as possible for yourself through ignorance and it’s all downhill from there; and learn how to tune a guitar before learning to play it
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Sorry to blabber on @ijustposthere but i miss that escape too and haven’ been able to recapture that state of mind lately. That said, if you ever find yourself in lap steel or slide territory, may I suggest:
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also i am just spammy now, and I respect jack white’s brilliance if I don’t always enjoy it, but this song is lap steel (not to be confused with pedal steel) meconium
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Share some clips, @Xuder O'Clam !
i also can’t find the original mcglaugjhlin clip with the original mingus band setup but this is p good
i also can’t find the original mcglaugjhlin clip with the original mingus band setup but this is p good
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I love that song but there is an alternative version that came out with the deluxe album which was a work in progress. It’s amazing
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I have mixed feeling about the doxx, because it also ended his performance art which I was enjoying, you know the parts where he owns an estate, closed "billion dollar deals", and has an MBA from U Chicago.
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I don't know of any Mingus with Mclaughlin playing with him.
There is the album Three or Four Shades of Blue with Larry Coryell, and John Scofield. Coryell, and Philip Catherine play on the version of Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.
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I think it was the Mingus orchestra playing with him posthumously. Mingus's widow had a rotating cast of musicians play his songs every thursday at Time Cafe in NYC through the 90s
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I saw David Byrne there once (he was in the audience) and he was wearing like osh kosh overalls lol
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Lol. My best brush with fame was Jim Hall as an audience member at a Chico Hamilton show, with a young Cary DeNigris on guitar, at the Yardbird in Edmonton. Hall was teaching in Banff at the time, and I got a lesson from him!!!!!
I also met Byrne at his Playing the Building installation in New York. I did not make a good impression, so not the greatest brush with fame.
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how do you like Edmonton? My friend moved there to teach from Austin and has become somewhat obnoxiously turbo Canadian
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Ha. I lived in Edmonton in the 90s. I liked it then. Blue collar, and you could be a dirty slob on the bus, and strike up a conversation with the prettiest girl. I miss it, but it has changed quite a bit.
There was a good blues bar there, The Commercial Blues on Whyte. Some great shows, and some ugly fights.
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I saw these guys in Edmonton also. Such a great music scene there in the 90s.