LIV
Active topics
  1. You rock a damn lot, mate... You don't happen to know Edge's cap brand, do you?

    Thanks a looooooooooooooooooot
  2. By the way, Alex, thanks for the explanation about hollow guitars making no feedback, etc. You rock too



  3. OFCOURSE I know the brand of cap he wears but "a secret is something you tell one other person and I'm (NOT) telling you... child". - LOL

  4. Thank you. Good to hear it was helpful. Now I wish I could play as good as explain...

    Alex


  5. I'm sure you play fine. As long as you play better today than yesterday and that is the trend... improving over time with practice... you will be fine.
  6. Geniouus xDDDD I'm sure you play really really good... You don't have to be a perfect guitar player in order to be happy with your playing. It just consists of improving over time, practicing and enjoying your skills, big or not - I'm the worst player I know, butI feel great when playing. That's all folks.
  7. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]Geniouus xDDDD [..]I'm sure you play really really good... You don't have to be a perfect guitar player in order to be happy with your playing. It just consists of improving over time, practicing and enjoying your skills, big or not - I'm the worst player I know, butI feel great when playing. That's all folks.


    Exacty! I am no "The Edge" but my playing is better today than yesterday.... I'm a "The Edge" in training. =O)

    I am Jeff guitarist 2.0 - new and improved. BUT - with LOTS of room to improve TONS more.
  8. Just to throw my tuppence worth into the ring, everyone gets better the more they play - I'm so much better a player than I was when I started out, hell, even just a few months ago (having the opportunity to play my guitars pretty much day in, day out definitely helps - and I would never profess to being a guitar maestro, I'd just say I'm decent without being amazing), but I think the thing is everyone's style is different. We may play the same music or what have you, but everyone has learnt to play it differently and has come up with their own techniques, which is what makes music so great in my opinion

    Hoping for an Epi. Explorer this Christmas...

  9. Originally posted by WojBhoy:Just to throw my tuppence worth into the ring, everyone gets better the more they play - I'm so much better a player than I was when I started out, hell, even just a few months ago (having the opportunity to play my guitars pretty much day in, day out definitely helps - and I would never profess to being a guitar maestro, I'd just say I'm decent without being amazing), but I think the thing is everyone's style is different. We may play the same music or what have you, but everyone has learnt to play it differently and has come up with their own techniques, which is what makes music so great in my opinion

    Hoping for an Epi. Explorer this Christmas...




    The Epiphone Explorers are pretty decent guitars. It's probably one of the better / more consistent of the Epiphone models.

    Hope you score one under the Christmas Tree (or Hannukah bush... or Kwanzaa plant... or Festivus weed...)
  10. Yeeees....I hope so too, because then I could play 11 O'Clock etc. and feel some sense of authenticity. I say play 11 O'Clock, it's more 'attempt to play' lol...

    ...but yeah, anywho, on the subject of guitars in general, when I saw Alter Bridge play the UEA in Norwich in early November, me and my friend noticed a really bizarre hollow-bodied guitar during the soundcheck, and later on during the encore, Myles Kennedy (who, for anyone who doesn't know, is lead singer and also a great guitarist in his own right, and by that I'm referring to lead guitarist Mark Tremonti who is an awesome guitarist - although as lead guitarists go, I still prefer Edge though ) used it to play a Robert Johnson cover (I think it's called Travelling Riverside Blues?) with a slide, strange thing. Later found out it was a Dean Resonator (http://www.deanguitars.com/myles_kennedy.php) - for the record, I don't like Dean guitars, on an aesthetic level above all else, but it just struck me as a sincerely bizarre guitar in the same way as when I found out about the Bond Electraglide...
  11. The "strange guitar" was a resonator guitar, just as you said. The most famous manufacturer of reso guitars is Dobro (which is a subdivision of Gibson nowadays). These guitars don't use the body as main sound source but a single- cone or three- cone metal resonator. This makes the guitars sound very metallic. In 99% of the cases reso guitars are used for slide playing with open tuning and a bottleneck. A lot of reso guitars are even factory- made with a square profile neck, so that you can only play them laying on your legs - similar to a lap steel or hawaii guitar.

    Resonator guitars are often used for Delta Blues and other kinds of acoustic blues music. This works especially good when combined to a normal steel- string acoustic guitar and / or a bluesharp. I recommend listening to "Trimmed and Burning" and "Slow Burn" by Darrell Mansfield and Glenn Kaiser.

    Alex
  12. Originally posted by Alex:The "strange guitar" was a resonator guitar, just as you said. The most famous manufacturer of reso guitars is Dobro (which is a subdivision of Gibson nowadays). These guitars don't use the body as main sound source but a single- cone or three- cone metal resonator. This makes the guitars sound very metallic. In 99% of the cases reso guitars are used for slide playing with open tuning and a bottleneck. A lot of reso guitars are even factory- made with a square profile neck, so that you can only play them laying on your legs - similar to a lap steel or hawaii guitar.

    Resonator guitars are often used for Delta Blues and other kinds of acoustic blues music. This works especially good when combined to a normal steel- string acoustic guitar and / or a bluesharp. I recommend listening to "Trimmed and Burning" and "Slow Burn" by Darrell Mansfield and Glenn Kaiser.

    Alex


    Those are nice!! Mark Knopler plays them on the "normal" way. Very nice!

Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.