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Hi, to you all..............forgot to introduce myself before I posted elsewhere............apologies Guys.

Have used Rob's site many times and it only seemed natural to find out who else finds it of use.......

It's easier to say what I don't play...........Heavy metal, grunge and 2000 notes per second stuff, never touch it..............

Apart from that anything goes, Stones, Rock...and Roll, Acoustic Ragtime, Queen...........ah......yes.....and the Blues....Robert Johnson and upwards..........a bit of Rockabilly........Rev Gary Davis........AC/DC........I would call it all 'Good Music'

Anyway here is a picture of my current arsenal............
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..........and then added this at Christmas........
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Welcome Fingers! (Great name) - that's a stunning collection of guitars you got! I also have a Santana SE & AD50VT, there's lots of Vox players here and indeed Tele players so you'll fit right in. Interesting also that you've got both a Line6 Spider and a Vox Valvetronix - there's been many debates on here on the merits of these two amps, it'd be great to get your unique perspective.

Welcome again and enjoy the forum.:DR
 
Welcome Fingers! Please wash them, we dont want any "sticky fingers" on our gear ;)

By the way, you...are....not...related to...Justa...Guyin...NC?
 
Sorry Fingers..... I think he means the.... periods.....Obviously, his looks more like a speech impediment... but he's swedish and we give room for that here..;)



Hey it's a habit..... means mind is thinking and fingers are not......

Welcome aboard Fingers... keep the periods going.... it counts for characters in every post.... Hmmm wonder how many .....I added in my life on the net...

:)

I can try to write appropriate, but it would not be me.
If I wanted to be a writer of words..... ummm... I would have learned some long ago...

;)
 
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welcome Fingers....this is a great forum....i think you will like it here....

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note: this welcome copyrighted 2007...no unauthorized use of this welcome will be tolerated
 
Welcome, Fingers. Was hoping you'd introduce yourself here after seeing your post with the two Teles a couple of days ago. Nice collection of gear you have there. Quite the Brian May fan, I see! I'm likin' that new 335 a lot, too! :DR
 
Justaguyin_nc said:
Sorry Fingers..... I think he means the.... periods.....Obviously, his looks more like a speech impediment... but he's swedish and we give room for that here..
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Ahhh.....I know....give him a centimetre and he will take a smorgesbord
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At last someone else out there that 'speaks' like me.............those periods just give you a natural rhythm.............I live near Stratford on Avon, UK......home of William Shakespeare.........iambic pentameter and all that, you know rhythmic speech.................must be in the water or the air, I s'pose.

Thanks for your kind welcome, Guys........I hope that I can, both, take and add a little something from here.
 
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Hi Fingers
Welcome aboard mate. Nice to see another Fretter with a hearty toy collection. I should get treatment for mine. I hope that doesn't happen for you...or maybe it should...because you'll end up with more toys. Ya, that part I haven't figured out yet.

Enjoy.
 
Welcome fingers,

There are a lot of friendly folks on this site, and lots of good discussions on all kinds of topics surrounding guitar playing, music, etc.

I like your collection of toys!
Tell us more about your 335? Is it a Gibson or Epiphone (I couldn't see the headstock so I wasn't sure). I really like 335's too although I don't own one right now.

-- Jim
 
Welcome Fingers! Love that collection. Are those Martins in the back row? Please do tell. I have been having Martin lust for most of a year now. Lots of other nice axes in that shot too. Could you give us a rundown on them?
 
Justaguyin_nc said:
Sorry Fingers..... I think he means the.... periods.....Obviously, his looks more like a speech impediment... but he's swedish and we give room for that here..;)
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Lol :D

Just kidding....I do this too....sometimes....
 
Well Rob, Ahhh....yes, closest to my heart.......................?

Well..........here we go,

The Kimbara 12 string was my 2nd guitar back in 1977........yep I learned to play guitar on it..............The first time I popped my cherry was standing on one leg in a hammock............why have an easy life.............?

The acoustic Yamaha FG345 II is the first guitar my wife bought me, back in '79. It has the most beautiful sound to it, I love playing everything on it.

The banjo, I was given, for those....."Squeal like a pig, Boy!" moments.....and duelling banjoes................

The PRS Santana SEII........my wife bought me, 3 years ago as I fancied having a go at the electric guitar, along with the Line 6.

It was only a few weeks later that I found out about the Brian May copies..........just had to have one....and bought the lil' Vox at the same time.

The mini May guitar I bought for my son as he is learning to play.........he is stunning at 8 years old......
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The spanish/classical was bought for my daughter to learn on at school and now Jon takes it in...........on his first lesson I sent him in with the mini May and the lil' Vox and he played the intro and solo from "I want to break free"...the Queen toon, you should have seen the look on the teachers face as Jon was playing...........awesome.........he was asked to bring an acoustic in next week.......

Anyway, the Peavy Strat is Jons and very good it is.

So, now I am down to the Keefs Telecasters and 335.......

I had a big surge of GAS for one of these......
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Soooooooo..........as I was turning 50 at christmas, my wife offered to get me one........a Japanese 52ri, modified to have a Lollar Imperial humbucker fitted by Charlie Chandler.........who turns out to be the guy that Keef and Ronnie Wood send their guitars to before they go on tour.

I went to see the Stones 2 months before 'My' Micawber was ready...........Ohhhhh, I just had to get a Tele after that so went and bought the Lil' squier butterscotch, fitted a Seth Lover H/B to it etc etc............

.............Then 2 days before christmas I take my wife to our local emporium to get a strap for the 52ri..............while she is paying for it, present from the kids, I go off to wander, as you do,....................and there was my sighting of an Ebony Sheraton....................my wife came up behind me and said "Mmmm...I love black guitars, shall I get it you for christmas?"

.....................so in the space of 48 hours I got the 52ri and the Sheraton to complete the Keef set.........
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......................and there you have it, a story for each of the guitars.

So, Rob, in answer to your question, they are all dear to my heart.

The Yamaha 6 string is my desert island guitar and the PRS is the electric I go to when learning new bits..........................

Sorry for the ramble....................
 
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Yo Fingers,
Very nice collection of axes you have there! And that is supercool that your kids are players too.

Hey, how do you like your Seth Lover in your Squier tele? Pretty soon I plan to replace the H/B in the neck of my Squier tele...I've been leaning toward a GFS Mean 90 (not exactly a H/B, but I think a p-90 would sound good in a tele neck). Still haven't made up my mind though, and would love to hear your review of the Seth Lover in the Tele.

I got a tele with an H/B neck aiming for that Keef sound too! ...but the stock H/B in mine sounds a bit muddy (although I do like the beefy edge it gives). And I really love chicken pickin' and emulating steel pedal bends with the bridge pick up...man, teles are great, glad I finally got one!

"Well, I hope we're not too messianic
Or a trifle too satanic
We love to play the blues"
 
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Hey.....'G' man......you know I had always liked some of the stuff the Stones did, but it was my guitar teacher who really made me drill down and appreciate Keefs playing.............he doesn't get the credit he deserves.

No flash, no hi speed licks, no showmanship..............but listen to this lovely laid back armchair acoustic..............Yep...thats Keef
 
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Hey there tartist.:D

You sound like one of the guys and you should feel right at home here. So it's your day to vacuum.:rolleyes:

Welcome aboard mate.
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Hee...hee! Oh, and it's your turn to buy a round :D . Careful, there's some single malt drinkers 'round these parts.

Wilkommen! That's German for Welcome. I read it on the sign to Humboldt :rolleyes:

Trev
 
There'd be a whole lot more vacuuming done if it always came with a round....of course, I wouldn't vouchsafe for how *clean* the carpet actually got.

Do you play that banjo? I hope so!
 
Fingers said:
Hey.....'G' man......you know I had always liked some of the stuff the Stones did, but it was my guitar teacher who really made me drill down and appreciate Keefs playing.............he doesn't get the credit he deserves.

No flash, no hi speed licks, no showmanship..............but listen to this lovely laid back armchair acoustic..............Yep...thats Keef
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Wow, Thanks for posting that Fingers! It's great to hear Keith just by himself doing some good old fashioned Travis picking...great stuff. Love those bends he was throwing in there, very expressive. Wish he would release more material like that....I've heard there's a sequel cd to their acoustic cd "Stripped" which is available as a bootleg (I guess maybe its more acoustic stuff that didn't make it onto "Stripped")...been meaning to try to track down a copy of it.
I like a lot of flashy players too, but when it comes to creating ingenious riffs with a serious groove, Keef is the king in my book. The flashy lead players get most of the attention, but there is just as much of an art to rhythm playing as lead playing, and rhythm playing can be even more demanding (playing "Brown Sugar" always gives my fingers quite a workout!)
 
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tot_Ou_tard said:
Do you play that banjo? I hope so!
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Sure do..........in a very remedial fingerpickin' way..............love some of the old bluegrass...............my aim with it is to play 'Muleskinner Blues' as per Don Mclean on his 'Solo' album..........stunning...................and of course 'Foggy mountain breakdown'...............if I end up playing them as I want, then I will never learn another banjo toon..............

Summer BBQ's with the banjo backed by an acoustic guitar, playing twelve bar bluegrass...................who needs beer?..................Well I do I suppose!!!!!!!

By the way Keef plays a mean piano..........he can play both soulful and also do a crackin' Lil' Richard boogie........................proper bloke.....eh?
 
Welcome Fingers, that is a well stocked arsenal you have there!

M29
 
Fingers said:
Sure do..........in a very remedial fingerpickin' way..............love some of the old bluegrass...............my aim with it is to play 'Muleskinner Blues' as per Don Mclean on his 'Solo' album..........stunning...................and of course 'Foggy mountain breakdown'...............if I end up playing them as I want, then I will never learn another banjo toon..............
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Coool! Has anyone ever made a banjo with pickups?

A little banjo shred, or perhaps some soulfull banjo blues?

I'll guess your name...B.B. Fingers (the BB stands for Banjo Blues)............
.......................................Wooo............Hoooooo.........baby..that's...yo..nahme.......................Wooooo...........................hoooo.............I.tell yooo....thatz...........yo....nahme!
 
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I had a dream a couple of weeks ago that I could play the banjo...(maybe its because I've been listening to the Best of Flatt and Scruggs cd a lot lately).
I've never even touched a banjo...is the tuning anything similar to standard tuning on a guitar? I've been considering buying a cheapo student banjo one of these days, but if the tuning's way different that would be a big deterrent for me. (Everytime I pick up a mandolin I am befuddled as to how to play it because their tuning seems to be upside down from that of the guitar.)
 

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