Thread: I've decided to buy...

Originally Posted by Necron99

I have an antique (by now) harmonica that I never learned to play 30 years ago lying around somewhere.

Originally Posted by Necron99

I have an antique (by now) harmonica that I never learned to play 30 years ago lying around somewhere.

You're in, you'll only get one tone out of Betty's pigskin man flute anyway

you're in.!!

Originally Posted by Necron99

I have an antique (by now) harmonica that I never learned to play 30 years ago lying around somewhere.

No Convicts or Cnuts in the band, no offense - we're working on quality here!!!

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

all the frets seem to have moved 3 places, maybe even 4 or 5 places, towards the body and away from my relaxed fretting hand

Should have got one of these.....

As played by Mark Knobfur?

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

As played by Mark Knobfur?

Genius !

Sometimes I wonder why I start these serious threads...

I'm practising, fuk the lot of youse (the bloody D has moved well up the fretboard, sneaky fuker...)

Do you want me to unleash some Shifters outfits ?

How do you feel about sequins ?

ok, had 2 or 3 hours of practise, and this geetar is the dog's bollks, my very favorest ever... lovin it.

^^ didn't see that... well you got it sussed then.

Yup it's a thing of beauty Betty, makes you wanna pick it up and work ya fingers all over it

Originally Posted by Neo

Yup it's a thing of beauty Betty, makes you wanna pick it up and work ya fingers all over it

I wish I'd got an SG 20 years ago...

Thanks for your comments throughout the thread, Neo - nice to have somebody who knows how to play on the thread...

The SG neck is well into the guitar and only 22 frets so very different from me Ibanez. The Ibanez neck is easier to move around but not natural to me. This neck is just like a toy, it's fun and inviting to play. I've just basically been moving all arond the neck and playing sounds I've never played before - it's a very very easy and fun guitar to piss around on. It also feels quality and musical (whatever that means). Enjoying...

Dil, you are so gay that you could become a Shifter groopy, but I prefer you sleep with Stoker, the BucketMan and Issan Chang before me...

Originally Posted by Neo

Standard tuning is EADGBE

Eddie
Ate
Dynamite
Good
Bye
Eddie

I believe that most rock and blues guitarists use 'half step down' tuning


ie. D#, G#, C#, F#, A#, D#

Half Step Down Tuning

^ only the woofters, my frined Mr Pale.

The real men, very real men, all, firstly play SGs (no exceptions), and secondly play Eddie Ate Dynamite Good By Eddie, slightly out of tune (in various ways).

Now, I've had an epiphony this evening. Jimi, 2 bib James as I call him, has just a great fluid and relaxed strumming technique. All that sound that 'sound' that appears to be amazing fret work is nothing of the such, he has a wonderful strumming wrist - that's where the sound lies ladies and gantlemen...

Now, here's something else of note:



That'd be an SG.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Dil, you are so gay that you could become a Shifter groopy, but I prefer you sleep with Stoker, the BucketMan and Issan Chang before me...

So, one more fact about the batty man emerges - he prefers sloppy seconds, thirds or fourths.

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

As played by Mark Knobfur?

Think it was Jimmy Hendicks?

I'm gonna rock Bangkok All Night Long...

My fingers are excited by the touch, I'm alive...

Fuk your sounds, I'm gonna originate me own

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

I'm gonna rock Bangkok All Night Long...

My fingers are excited by the touch, I'm alive...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

he has a wonderful strumming wrist

I'll bet he does, Boo...

The Epi G310 is good; I probably don't need to change the pickups as they are better than I thought they'd be. The guitar is a piece of piss to play - am improving more than every before; should be able to play a 2 cord 2 beat per bar downstrum tune soon...

I quite like this guy and his courses, plays really nicely:




The little amplug is good, but... I might be able to justify a little portable number that I can throw into my luggage when I leave:





3500 baht or so...

Was just musing to meself... Here are me 2 guitars:





Not too different are they? Hmmm. Similar looking and similar prices; the Ibanez is a bit more expensive. The SG is a lot better guitar: better tuners, better sounding pickups, much better bridge. Easier and more fun to play too.

Where's the whammy bar??

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

I'm gonna rock Bangkok All Night Long...

My fingers are excited by the touch, I'm alive...

Fuk your sounds, I'm gonna originate me own

I can't wait to hear your version of 'Bah Bah Black Sheep'.


Here's a great way of learning how to play rhythm and lead simultaneously. Wilko makes it look so easy I'm actually thinking of taking up the guitar again.