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  1. 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...)
  2. 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...
  3. 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
  4. 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!

  5. Awesome guitars.

    So what is everyone hoping for under the christmas tree or kwanza bush or whatever all of those things strat mentioned were

    I'm hoping for a Tonelab LE. I'm like 90% sure I got one. My mom buggered up nicely! She called me from work, telling me to check the family email. Here's how it went.
    "Hey, I think there was an email for you from Long and Mcquade (guitar store if you didn't know) saying your order is in"

    "Mom I didn't order anything..."

    "Oh. Hold on I'll ask your father if you should look at it...................................No don't look at it"

    I'm very tempted to read it anyway, because it's still there. But I don't want to ruin it for myself. I'm sure it is the tonelab, but still. Anyway, way to go mom! Now I'm 100% sure that's what it is Because that same day I was in that store, before that convo went on of course. And they had a couple tonelabs in. They've NEVER had them in. I bet when they ordered (hopefully) mine they ordered a few, just to make something out of it. Yay! Hooray for tonelab!
  6. 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

    Cheers for the response Alex, great stuff, really informative

    Re. other Alex's question concerning Christmas etc., like I said earlier, with any luck I might be the recipient of an Epiphone Explorer (natural finish, I don't do 'ebony'!) come the 25th but I'm not expecting anything, I never do - however, it's the only thing I've actually answered with as far as ideas go whenever people have quizzed about whether there's anything specific I'd be wanting as a present for Christmas; I just know I'd be one step closer to dying happy if I were to get an Explorer sometime in the near future...
  7. Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
    Cheers for the response Alex, great stuff, really informative

    Re. other Alex's question concerning Christmas etc., like I said earlier, with any luck I might be the recipient of an Epiphone Explorer (natural finish, I don't do 'ebony'!) come the 25th but I'm not expecting anything, I never do - however, it's the only thing I've actually answered with as far as ideas go whenever people have quizzed about whether there's anything specific I'd be wanting as a present for Christmas; I just know I'd be one step closer to dying happy if I were to get an Explorer sometime in the near future...


    Yea man I love my explorer. Mine is a Gibson, but before I bought it I played an epiphone as well. The epiphones are very very good in comparison to the gibson. Probably one of the better epiphones you can get actually. Plus. you just look fucking cool playing one. They are just so damn cool looking.
  9. Yea I saw that a while back. Very cool clip. I always thought that wasn't the same sound he had on the vertigo tour though. It seemed a little more crunchy, almost with a little overdrive while on tour. Plus, as long as we're on the topic of explorers a little bit, here's a new clip with mine. Hope you guys like it, it's new york.
  10. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Yea I saw that a while back. Very cool clip. I always thought that wasn't the same sound he had on the vertigo tour though. It seemed a little more crunchy, almost with a little overdrive while on tour. Plus, as long as we're on the topic of explorers a little bit, here's a new clip with mine. Hope you guys like it, it's new york.
    [YouTube Video]


    Superbly done. New York is one of my favorite songs. I've played along to it a couple of times with my Telecaster, but it's never sounded this good.

    A question for those who know more than I do (which is all of you): in that BBC guitar series, Johnny Marr demonstrated his Rickenbacker/Fender amp sound. Any idea what kind of effect he is using? Is that just the sound of a Fender Twin Reverb amp? It sounds so good!

  11. When plugging in he plays a few dry chords, probably with a little spring reverb. When starting to perform he has some "jangle" background which makes me believe he might use an "octave up" pitch shifter, most likely to make it sound closer to a twelve string guitar.

    Any other suggestions?

    Alex
  12. Originally posted by AAV711:Superbly done. New York is one of my favorite songs. I've played along to it a couple of times with my Telecaster, but it's never sounded this good.

    A question for those who know more than I do (which is all of you): in that BBC guitar series, Johnny Marr demonstrated his Rickenbacker/Fender amp sound. Any idea what kind of effect he is using? Is that just the sound of a Fender Twin Champ amp? It sounds so good!

    [YouTube Video]

    No idea lol, but I agree, it sounds pretty damn good
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