I've been playing for 13+ years now. Started out strictly electric, playing in a metal band, then I switched 180 degrees to all acoustic in college. Now I play mostly fingerstyle and bluegrass stuff. A LOT of Leo Kottke - who is my personal guitar god. I used to have 8 guitars, but realized quality is better than quanity. Gibson Songwriter Deluxe, Martin 000 Cutaway, Epiphone Skunk Baxter Cutaway, Fender Standard Strat, and someday a Taylor LKSM-12!
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Guitar player checking here, it would be out of style if I didn't post some pictures of my setup, I used to own a small recording studio, but that gave way to brewing. I have played guitar for almost 30 years, everything from punk, to HM to jazz to funk: In 1983 my band AMerican Dream recorded an album and toured for a while, I was only 15 when we recorded it, but it is a bit of a cult classic, right now a copy of that record is selling for $ 160 bucks on ebay :
Bass player visits a friend who works at the morgue. Morgue friends tells him that he needs to show him something. He pulls open the drawer and lifts the sheet off a dead guy names Steve. The dead guy has a huge schlong. Bass player says, I HAVE to take that home and show the wife! So they cut it off and the bass player goes home and set it on the table and calls the wife into the room. She walks in and sees the schlong and exclaims, "Oh my God, what happened to Steve??!!"
Ok, not that funny, but I heard it on Bob and Tom this morning.
I play. Lots of Stones. Fender Strat, a 25 year old Yamaha acoustic, and a Quebec Norman acoustic.
I found out that when you're sitting around at a party, the thing people want is to hear a complete song with singing. Not somebody saying, "Well, I've almost got the Dazed and Confused solo down..." (which BTW on an acoustic is not so cool...and I could never get the whole thing anyway damnit! )
So now it's whatever can be played and sung on an acoustic. And yeah, a little fingerwork every now and then!
-WW
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I started playing drums in high school, then I picked up guitar when I started college, a couple years later my Dad got into ukuleles, and they're pretty fun to play, so I got one too. I find that they are pretty easy to do chords on, and they have a nice cheery tone. Recently my Dad and I built a 40in upright fretless bass out of a cookie tin, weed whacker line, and an oak plank.
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