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Hi I'm a "geezer" and a Newbie to this forum also. I've been playing over 20 years, and I'm just now getting serious after a 10 year period of little musical activity. I really like your collection, and I think you're doing a good thing exploring different instruments and styles as long as you can afford it. I particularly like the Ibanez Artist series - great solid body LP style and semi-hollow 335 style guitars. I had an AR350 "Super Edition" which I really liked, but I couldn't get used to the locking nut / tuner system with the Pro Roc R tremelo bridge (I don't really use the whammy bar). So I sold it and now I'm awaiting delivery on an AR500 with active EQ and tri-tone switches (coil-splitting and phase shifting). I've been doing the same thing as you in exploring guitars - buying and selling over the past two years - to try to develop my style and settle on some real "keepers." The keepers so far are a Martin HD-35 - great for flatpicking and strumming; a
Breedlove J25 - great for fingerstyle, flatpicking and recording; a Burrell "ergonomic" acoustic/electric - very nice and easy to play hours on end; a 1989 Heritage 535 - better quality and tone than a Gibson 335 I bought and sold; a Hofner New President - classic jazzbox; and a Hofner Verythin John Stowell Signature in Antique Violin Finish - cross between a jazzbox and a 335. I'm hoping the Ibanez Artist AR500 solid body (mainly for blues) will round out my current collection of keepers. I'm currently gigging, jamming, open-micing and recording. I'm developing a web-site where I hope to post MP3's of some of my recordings soon.
d_gassie <d_gassie@...> wrote:
47-year-old Newbie here… just signed up today so I'll post on this
one.
I've been playing for a year and am enjoying myself immensely! Can't
play much but am making progress. Most of what I've learned has been
from a wonderful group of folks over at the Strat List. My dream is
to learn how to play the Blues but I love classic Rock as well.
During this last year, I've been through a surprisingly large number
of guitars, having bought and then sold, most of them. I've kept two
and am waiting for a Fender Lite Ash Telecaster to come in by the end
of next week. After that, there are two more guitars I'd like to buy
sooner or later; A Gibson BluesHawk and Gibson Standard Les Paul. I
don't have an acoustic either but would love to find one I like, is
easy to play and won't melt my credit card.
Right now I have…
An Ibanez Artist with DiMarzio Evolution pups and a brass nut. Very
nice sound, action and a real joy to play. It's a mahogany body with
a maple cap so the sound is very much like that of an LP.
An Epiphone Sheraton II in Ebony modified with Seymour Duncan Phat
Cats (P90s) and a RS Guitarworks rewiring kit, including pup switch.
The P90s go with this guitars character very well. Great sound and
playability. Brass nut on this one too.
Fender Blues Junior with JJ tubes, which at only 15 watts, is way too
loud for my practice room. I'd love to get that saturated tube sound
at a lower volume level and by using pedals, it's getting close to
where I like it.
Yamaha DG60fx solid-state amp. IMHO, really nice clean setting but
nothing else is much use.
You can see some of my gear here:
http://public.fotki.com/dgassie/guitarras/epitele__before_and/
=D
Dan
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> nice gear tehre randy,
>
> I am a retired bass player! i still have some basses,
> (my fav is my old precision) and a couple of valve
> amps. -including a Goldentone bassmaster. from the
> sixties.
> My electrics; Mostly Gibsons, favs: 65 ES330, 66 Guild
> StarfireIII,
> but now I play more acoustic than anything:
>
> Martins and Gibsons: love em both.
>
> Favs: Original first year of HD28, A custom shop
> 00-18, a beautiful vintage D12-35, Hummingbird, L-00.
>
> After all those years as a struggling Muzo, I feel
> VERY LUCKY to have all these instruments in my studio.
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