The Guitar Player Thread.

Johnny Utah said:
The Bigsby was added, but the seller (A Pawn Shop in AC) had no idea if there were other mods or knew about fret condition.
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I will forever associate a Bigsby on a Les Paul with this guy.

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I saw “Rust Never Sleeps” at the cinema (Movie City 5 in East Brunswick) in the summer of 1979, when I was between 7th and 8th grade. Dropped off by my mother, and picked up by my buddy’s mother. Surrounded by people who smuggled in bottles of all sorts of alcohol. When the lights went out and the “No Smoking” banner came on the screen, there was a hail of lit cigarettes flying.

Still a vital experience in my musical/cultural development.
 
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Johnny Utah said:
They did not know the neck specs, in my experience with eBay that is a huge issue as Gibsons, even standards, neck profiles can vary greatly:

- Fat 50’s style
- Thin Taper
- Thin and wide like the late 50’s Junior DC’s
- 60’s style
- And there are others

Some of these are unplayable to me as I have small hands with arthritis settling in.

The Bigsby was added, but the seller (A Pawn Shop in AC) had no idea if there were other mods or knew about fret condition.

It was a 20 minute drive for me and there were few bidders. Score - the guitar plays great.
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That’s awesome dude. I follow a bunch of players that collect them and are always chasing very different specs. Mark Morton from lamb of god is a huge collector and will usually post a tone video with a different guitar every Sunday. It’s wild how many variations there are. I could see myself going down the rabbit hole real quick. I got super lucky with the Studio I bought in like 2003… every other one I’ve played after that felt like garbage.
 
Soundguy said:
That’s awesome dude. I follow a bunch of players that collect them and are always chasing very different specs. Mark Morton from lamb of god is a huge collector and will usually post a tone video with a different guitar every Sunday. It’s wild how many variations there are. I could see myself going down the rabbit hole real quick. I got super lucky with the Studio I bought in like 2003… every other one I’ve played after that felt like garbage.
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Mark Morton is awesome, I follow a lot of his stuff and have had the privilege of seeing him perform live.

But yes - the combos and specs are all over the place, IMHO that is a good amount of the fun!
 
Johnny Utah said:
Mark Morton is awesome, I follow a lot of his stuff and have had the privilege of seeing him perform live.

But yes - the combos and specs are all over the place, IMHO that is a good amount of the fun!
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I’ve seen mark play at least a dozen times. I even pre ordered a signed copy of his book. I’m a huge Jackson fan because…Metal… but I was so stoked when he moved to Gibson because I knew he had this massive collection that he wasn’t allowed to post about lol
 
ChrisG said:
Update: This apparently sold out very quickly. I intended to go directly to the Count Basie box office for tickets (we live 15 minutes away). By the time I could get there, all tickets were sold. Same with the other area dates. ☹️
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I was lucky enough to get tix for this. Really looking forward to it.
 
2 and a half years and I’m finally getting into learning the last song on Bleed the Future. They won’t play it live because the intro solo is batshit crazy. Rest of the song is so fun to play. Lots of pickup and channel switches so I actually have to use my amp because I don’t have a Midi Pedal for my MacBook yet…

 
Youngest son (17) wanted to see Christopher Cross at MPAC this last week. Justin Hayward (moody blues) was the opener along with some YouTube dude Mike Dawes that does the slap the guitar and make all the sounds thing while playing songs like Jump.

Zach was supposed to go to this with a friend but his friend bailed so I got nominated.

The YouTube guy was good but seemed out of place with this group and he only did like 3 songs solo before playing with Justin Hayward.

Justin Hayward can still really sing great and Nights in White Satin acoustic style was pretty good.

Christopher cross can still play guitar pretty well and his band was tight and very impressive but his vocals were definitely a bit tired.

Another good night out with the youngest tho bonding over music. I’ll take it.


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1speeder said:
Got to see Dweezil play THE actual Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar guitar tonight.View attachment 246678
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I was there, with two other music-geek buddies.

Third time seeing Dweezil, it was so good. He’s a tremendous player, and his bands are always super-fun to watch.

P.S. We got tickets for the Beat/King Crimson thing in AC in December, after Red Bank sold out in minutes. Super stoked.
 
ChrisG said:
I was there, with two other music-geek buddies.

Third time seeing Dweezil, it was so good. He’s a tremendous player, and his bands are always super-fun to watch.

P.S. We got tickets for the Beat/King Crimson thing in AC in December, after Red Bank sold out in minutes. Super stoked.
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My second time seeing Dweezil. Were you at the Dublin House before the show? I thought I saw someone that looked like you there.

Cool. I'm seeing BEAT at the Basie in Oct. I was pretty lucky to get Tix.
 
A little proud dad promo for my son and his band. They have been playing together since the 6th grade (HS seniors now) and they do some local paid gigs. After the first 35 tickets sold they keep the rest.

Yes the name of the band is Lunch. Zach is on the far left he’s the bass player. They cover some great stuff like goo goo dolls , maneskin, Green Day, and a have few originals.

HMU if you plan to come.


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