Guitar

[ilovebender.com]

I'm gonna start writing about guitars, feel free to join in! :D

Am listening to Vernon Reid right now, well Living Colour - Cult of Personality, but, it's on the solo and i'm just admireing his sound.
Sound like Di Marzio to me, I don't know though.
Like it though :D

I like guitar :D lol
I am scared though! lol
like, I might not be a metal player.
Practise does make perfect, but, on the fly, I think i'm a blues guiatrist at heart, or classic rock.
Which sucks as I do like playing some Metallica.

But I may not be a Metal Player. :(
I was playing along to my friends Metallica selections on Youtube and I was struggleing to find the right note, single note playing, and that's just not right.
lol, I know different tuning and all, and I had 2 guitars 'on the go' out of the 10 that are just here, one in E and one in E Flat (D#
But,in E, he played some old school blues, to rock to Jimi Hendrix,like, a progression of it all, I had it all pretty much down under my little finger,j/k, but, I was running rings around them, guitar soloey wise.
until it got up to Hendrix, than I began to look for notes again. :P
Hendrix has a thing called a Hendrix chord, I was looking for some of those.
I couldplay Guns N' Roses whislt singing along, thats how confident I am of pulling that off.l

[KING ZOIDY]

While i don't play the guitar i do enjoy it.

[ilovebender.com]

You're never too old to start learning.
Self taught or taught ect...

[KING ZOIDY]

I'm not old damnit lol but my step-dad play's alot and he teaches me some stuff

[Punisher]

The guitar...ahh.....It rocks my soul. God bless the guitar. And the band members of The Killers who rock it.

[ilovebender.com]

THE WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEJA!

Lol, substance abuse, darn pot head me.
was playing Sim City on Snes :P and, something in me just clicked and all I could think about was THE WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEJA!
Now, when I say I could not think about anything else, I had some strange thought of, What the hell THE WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEJA! is, or was, and was it something I heard on TV once?
I don't know, but, for some unknown reason, me trying toplace this THE WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEJA!
almost drove me more nuts than I already felt in the first place thinking of some random WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEJA!
So I just played guitar to some how hope to get my mind off THE WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEJA!
I like myself playing, I think I look cool, I like holding the guitar, almost throwing it around, well, all that exhitbition stuff kinda comes naturally to me, so me trying to do something just looks like the sex! lol
Anyways, I wanted to save my sanity, so I jumped for my fave guitar, just now, and, wrote some really wild guitar peice, infront of the mirror LMAO. But I liked my technique, the sound, the timing, the way how it made me feel, I just wrote something, totally freakily inspired called THE WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEJA!!!

I might YouTube it.

I sure hope that this has nothing to do with Ouija boards, lol, some spooky stuff has happened in this house these past 2 days, I just hope theres nothing, if anything, out to get me in here (this room) but f**k them if there is anything to f**k because I just jumped for my guitar and wrote something awsome! - Not that I'm saying there is anything supernatural about it, I just could not for the life of me stop thinking WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEJA! or VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEJA!

... I must admit, even for me though, that was odd.

[Yoshirama]

Joe trohman rulz!!!!!!!!

[ilovebender.com]

I spend my money on weed and guitar... sometimes that's not a good combo.
Though I have my fun j/k

I want a Gibson Les Paul, from the Custom Shop.
I feel playing on one of them will imrpove my guitar playing.
The weight & sustain and the craftman ship of that guitar.
I want an American one too!
I love Seymour Duncan
I have Di Marzio's too, and I want to mix & match with this one guitar I had an Original Floyd Rose trem put on.
I want to have Dimebag Darrels SH-13 put on to that guitar at the bridge, but use my Di Marzio X2N in the neck.
I have like 3 guitar projects I'm working on now.

[ilovebender.com]

http://digimoth.com/myspace/sc/feline.jpg

Anyone heard of them?
Feline Guitars

[Punisher]

Feline's are cats! And I love cats and guitars. I must have one.

[ilovebender.com]

They have some great guitars.

http://www.felineguitars.com
I'm proud that the owner/founder of this business Feline Guitars, I know on a first name terms basis, always with a smile, I've known that man since I was 16, he pointed me in the direction of the studios in town too. lol

ALMOST FELL OFF MY SEAT WHEN I SAW THIS
http://www.floydrose.co.uk

This is a list of songs I know on the guitar.

GUNS N' ROSES - WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
GUNS N' ROSES - IT'S SO EASY
GUNS N' ROSES - NIGHTRAIN
GUNS N' ROSES - MR. BROWNSTONE
GUNS N' ROSES - PARADISE CITY
GUNS N' ROSES - MY MICHELLE
GUNS N' ROSES - SWEET CHILD O' MINE
GUNS N' ROSES - MAMA KIN
GUNS N' ROSES - PATIENCE
GUNS N' ROSES - ONE IN A MILLION (LIVE BOOTLEG VERSION, NOT ALBUM VERSION)
GUNS N' ROSES - RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO HELL
GUNS N' ROSES - DON'T CRY
GUNS N' ROSES - DOUBLE TALKIN' JIVE
GUNS N' ROSES - NOVEMBER RAIN
GUNS N' ROSES - BAD APPLES
GUNS N' ROSES - DEAD HORSE
GUNS N' ROSES - CIVAL WAR
GUNS N' ROSES - KNOCKIN' ON HEAVENS DOOR
GUNS N' ROSES - ESTRANGED
GUNS N' ROSES - YOU COULD BE MINE
GUNS N' ROSES - NEW ROSE
GUNS N' ROSES - DOWN ON THE FARM
GUNS N' ROSES - BUICK MAKANE
GUNS N' ROSES - HAIR OF THE DOG
WET WET WET - LOVE IS ALL AROUND
GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY
NIRVANA - SMELLS LIKE A TEEN SPIRIT
NIRVANA - POLLY
BOB MARLEY - NO WOMAN NO CRY
METALLICA - ONE
METALLICA - FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
METALLICA - ENTER SANDMAN
ALICE COOPER - ONLY WOMEN BLEED
JIMI HENDRIX - PURPLE HAZE
JIMI HENDRIX - ALL ALONG THE WATCH TOWER
JIMI HENDRIX - HEY JOE
SLASH - VOODOO CHILD (HENDRIX COVER)
BLACK SABBATH - IRON MAN
BAD COMPANY - FEEL LIKE MAKING LOVE
N.E.R.D - LAPDANCE
PAPA ROACH - BETWEEN ANGELS AND INSECTS
LED ZEPPELIN - STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
LED ZEPPELIN - WHOLE LOTTA LOVE
THE WHO - SEE ME, FEEL ME
MARILYN MANSON - SWEET DREAMS
SLASH'S SNAKEPIT - MEAN BONE
KANSAS - CARRY ON WAYWARD SON
CREAM - SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE
OASIS - SHE'S ELECTRIC
EARTH ANGEL
LENNY KRAVITZ - ALWAYS ON THE RUN
LENNY KRAVITZ - FLY AWAY
LENNY KRAVITZ - AMERICAN WOMAN
CARLOS SANTANA - EUROPA
CARLOS SANTANA - BLACK MAGIC WOMAN
CARLOS SANTANA - SAMBA PA TI
CARLOS SANTANA - MARIA MARIA
ALIEN ANT FARM - SMOOTH CRIMINAL
PINK FLOYD - MONEY
THE THEME TO THE GODFATHER
BEENIE MAN - STREET LIFE
SNOOP DOGG & DR. DRE - NEXT EPISODE
THE SPICE GIRLS - VIVA FOREVER
SUGABABES - ROUND ROUND
ERIC CLAPTON - LAYLA
ERIC CLAPTON - TEARS IN HEAVEN
SHAMPOO - TROUBLE
ELVIS PRESLEY - LOVE ME TENDER
HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS - NIKI FM
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
'THE SNOOKER SONG' - I don't know what it's actually called.
HEART - BARRACUDA
WILD THING
EMINEM - LOSE YOURSELF
DEEP PURPLE - SMOKE ON THE WATER
EYE OF THE TIGER


I do my own versions of BAKER STREET & ACHY BREAKY HEART... on guitar.


... Those are to name but a few.
I can get the jist of a song aswell, and play along, it's how I cover the rest of the Guns N' Roses repertoire lol
But those, and acouple of others, are songs that I've learned ect...

(Watch this post, it may be edited should I think of anymore that I know how to play)

I've learned, learning, still tweeking NICKELBACK'S HOW YOU REMIND ME.
I even sing a long, there's like, 4 or 5 chords, and it's in drop D, and like, 2 ways of playing like 2 or 3 of the chords... I like it though.
Nickelback, fave Canadian rock band lol.

God I love guitar sometimes. :)

This is my twitter thread lol

MY LES PAUL!

My broken Epiphone Les Paul I purchsed off eBay with a broken neck, and a bent truss rod.
A replacement truss rod has been ordered!
I spoke to the guy yesterday. Hopefully that will fit my Les Paul project, and the guitar will play again.
I'm going to have it rebuilt to Slash Les Paul specifcation... ish'
Finger's crossed still that I don't have to bury that guitar.

(It's like a step under my ultimiate dream guitar, I figure, I get this fixed, and next step is to get in my dream guitar)

There's these things that I do latly, which is like a power chord minus the index finger, so it's the curse finger and 4th finger only, and also, 1 finger, like, your index finger power chords, which is like the same concept, musically, but, it's also good for a root note, I just like to hammer on from another 'broken power chord' (i'm calling 1st 2 finger power chord a broken power chord.) so, I'm playing these broken power chords, hammering on to one and pulling off the other, and vicer verser, I like to do that sometimes latly. Bending those are fun, and that the 1 finger power chord with your index could also apply to your 4th finger, one finger power chord way, if you wanna do some fast hammer ons and pull offs but also, I say is needed, if you ever want to bend one of them.
I thought i'd add that to this thing. :)

I want to have a guitar built for me.

I've decided.

I want to think about the long term.

It'll be like a Les Paul shape.
Arch topped, with something decent in the neck like mother of pearl or trapozoids that light up... HOPEFULLY. lol
My own design, of course, for the paint job. 'the guy doesn't build through peices, I'd try and get him to, or, take his advice for the greater good of the guitar's tone) lol

It'll cost me like £2, 000
but that's okay!
It'll take like 2 years to build anyways, and it'll be made in Croydon :D lol, so, I get to keep tabs on the progress of the guitar, as it's being built at no loss to me.
I can pay through a very fair and very personal payment plan, and 200 or 150 a month is cool with them, and it's cool with me.
I don't mind eating rice and pasta for a little while to save on my food budget lol
But i've made up my mind.
As soon as my current repair and restoration plus customisation of an Epiphone I am paying for is out of my hair and in to my house, i'd put in that order to finally have one built for me.
Can't wait, to be honest, and I've had the basic concept for what I want that, funny enough, I haven't budged on, ever!
Since I was 13 or so, so, I already know what I want, that's a huge plus for me.

[KING ZOIDY]

Stepdad is a guitar player, he's got an Ibenez (can't spell im tired :P) from when he was in the Navy during gulf war

3 Dean guitars, one is Bumblebee Slime

[ilovebender.com]

Ibanez are cool, I guess, though I personally prefer Jackson.
Dean are cool, though I don't like the shape of the head stock...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/trebor_illusion/epiphonebroken1.jpg?t=1256488460
This is what my CURRENT guitar project looked liked when I bought it in July 2009.

It's an Epiphone Les Paul that I have had repaired.
The truss rod was dented, it was a hassel getting it fixed, the break went through the neck to the broken fret board.
New machine heads were needed, I went for classic green key style.
I'm not sure if I've got Grover/Gotoh or who ever, I just know that the machine heads are new, of quality, and are vintage green key style.
The electronics;
I have a brand new 'American' toggle switch installed, and I also went for brand new, bigger Vol/Tone pots.
I've had a set of Seymour Duncan APH-1s installed (same pickups as guitarist Slash).
I've had the Jim Dunlop Straplock system installed, that I use on all my guitars.

I have been informed that my guitar is now in one peice and playing again with all my desired electronics and stuff installed, I've just got to pay for it and finalise the knob/selector switch colours.
I want like a pink/purple toggle switch for this Epiphone Les Paul, or... An amber one, like Slash's Sun Burst Les Paul.
Though I like his music and use the same pickups, I want to remain unique. :P

It is October 25th 2009.
I should have this guitar payed for by late November 2009.
I last saw this guitar in July 2009, I bought it off eBay as a broken guitar for spares or repair.

I will post pictures of it once I get it home.

The break in the neck, I have been told, does show a scar, and I might get the back of it repainted, but, I'd happily wait until 2010 for that.

[ilovebender.com]

I've just invented the 'Slideing Bend', or the Slide/Bend...

The move pretty much speaks for it self, but basically, you try to slide and bend at the same time, but I've found I slide to a bend, hence the term Slide/Bend or Slideing Bend...

I just wanted to write that here, incase I forget it :P

[nacirema]

theres no better feeling than smashing a guitar into pieces.

i've done it well over 50 times, and it never gets old.

i too love the guitar, and play it.

i think it spawns from 4th grade when i took my violin and turned it the other way, and my teacher was like 'here try this, it's a guitar'. i caught on and started really playing when i was 12 or 13, i can't remember but it's been a awesome ride since.

[ilovebender.com]

I like taking broken guitars and haveing them pimped :)
I have them restored, then customised.

New guitar comming anticipation excitement :D

[nacirema]

i got rid of all of the broken guitars i had, after takin parts of course.

i had a oil drum filled with broken necks and a wodden crate full of bodies.

[ilovebender.com]

I'm learning a song called coma by guns n' roses.

My favourite guitar broke :(

'somehow, I really don't know how'
Broken headstock.

[nacirema]

i don't have a favorite guitar.

altho i still own the first electric i ever got.

it's body is cracked and it's been thru three necks, but it's still a champ.

[ilovebender.com]

I do, and it's broken :(

it's the 2nd guitar I ever bought, which happened to be in the SAME week as the 1st, all those years ago.
It's the first guitar that I ever had fixed up and also the first ever guitar I had cutomised... Also the first guitar and only that the guy said was worth anything and has it's own museum in Germany lol
... At that point I was like wtf, but, it's true, they have my guitar, the origingal spec one in this museum near the factory of it.

[nacirema]

my first guitar was a jackson/charvel model 2.

but i only have that and a fender jagstang.

oh and some ibanez acoustic i found at a salvation army in chicago for 45 bucks.

[ilovebender.com]

I want a Gisbon Les Paul or a Gibson SG Double Neck or Gibson Flying V... I like the Fender Stratocaster.
I love buying my own pickups and having them fitted into my guitar.
I learned that, to do a pickup justice, you have to change the electronics too, so that's volume/tone pots/switches/jacks ect...
Also, the wood of everything, includeing the fret board matters too, when it comes to pickups.

[calvin]

i play
i have a fender squire
i'm getting an xplorer in a month or two

[ilovebender.com]

nice head stock, I like pointy headstocks, I want a jackson flying v now that I think about pointy headstocks.

[salala]

More of a bassist but I started on the guitar and i've still got my first two. First one I got when I was about 9, a Prince classical, then several years later an Encore strat copy. All my guitars have have been cheapies - I thought I bought an Epiphone 335/ dot. Turned out to be a fake. Funny thing was I knew the bloke who sold me it for £300. He didn't care. Bar Steward.
I love a good thrash now and again, just strumming to The Who or Queen. I'm always too clumsy and impatient for solos. I do like my blues though - Clapton is god! He's actually who got me in to playing the guitar. First song I learned to play properly was Tears in Heaven. Since then, I just learn what I want to. Or what I can be arsed to learn :)

[nacirema]

the only strat i ever owned i thru of a three story building.

i came to the conclusion as i've grown older and started to appreciate guitars that pre-CBS fenders are the only way to go.

i'm not a fan of gibsons at all, they suck, too heavy..altho i would buy a SG..but only if it was a 60's or 70's version. i've grown to love martin acoustics and i would kill jesus christ himself for a martin d-18e. but right now i'm really diggin on fender mustangs and jaguars..i want one badly.

[ilovebender.com]

the last Jackson I played on I wanted, it was too easy, the neck was thin, the fret board was great, I started playing and I found it gave you what you wanted on a plate, and this was just after I was playing a Gibson les paul from this vintage guitar shop across the street... I love the feleing of the Jackson, but it was too easy, I like how the Gibsons make you play, for real, I could play on this Jackson in my sleep, that's how mind boggleing user friendly it was.
If I could afford it, I'd have it, but, it really does give it to you on a plate.
I think both guitars were cool though, I got love for my old school Les Pauls, but only the ones with dual humbuckers, p-90s can go to hell. :)

[nacirema]

the les paul has just always been awkward for me, and it's weight is a huge issue too.

it does make you play compared to any other guitar but it's just the action of it and the floating bridge screw me up all the time.

[ilovebender.com]

I like that, compared to a Jackson which for me, was just mind shatteringly too easy, I like that old weight, the tone/sustain... I like locking up my muscles in my upper arms for sustain, I like getting a Les Paul to do all the things that I have done, but make no mistkae, that Jackson I played on, this V shaped Jackson, which retailed at 2,800 pounds, was f**king sweet.

[nacirema]

i'd play a shoe box and a stick before i played a les paul.

out of the two most recognizable guitars, les paul and a strat, strat all day, FTW.

[ilovebender.com]

I like how Les Pauls are built 'the Gibson ones', I'm a geek when it comes to things like guitar tone, 'not amp tone'.

[nacirema]

oh i feel you on that tip, amps are not what needs to make your tone.

that's why i'm partial to vintage guitars...it's age that gives them the best tone, the woods also a factor but mostly age.

[ilovebender.com]

yea, these new high end guitars are fantastic, but, you feel like you've earned it more, with an old Les Paul, I think.

[nacirema]

i don't buy new instruments.

and all my guitars i've bought i drop and chip so people can't take them to the pawn shop, LOL.

[ilovebender.com]

I miss these guys iNRfIGO-4ac Axis of Evil

lol, I love pawnshop guitars, but recently they're all sh*t.
That and Ebay are my sources for used guitars.
Although, 1 guitar project I traded with a mate in exchange for another guitar project, but the one I traded, I bought at a pawn shop lol.

[nacirema]

i only buy from pawn shops, the only things i buy new are stomp boxes cuz i stomp the sh!t out of them.

and only boss pedals.

[ilovebender.com]

I've used BOSS, I had the DD-2... I've ued their metal ones.
Right now I'm usuing a multi effect, a pretty decent one too, from Korg.
I've got a bunchof effects... And a guitar slide, try getting a guitar slide.

I've got that FreeSpeech guitar talker thing from Danelectro, it's like the Heil Talk Box but the Heil Talk Box requires a stacked amp scenario, as it plugs direcect in to the head cabinet, so I've got the other one, the one that guy in Bon Jovi had, the slightly cheaper more user friendly one... I need to order a brand new mic for it though...
The Big Muff Pi (New York) from Electro Harmonix, I've got it, slightly over rated in my opion but, does exactly what it says on the box so, I can't complain.

[nacirema]

i got the big muff too, hate it.

[ilovebender.com]

same LOL

over rated, great for single coils though, but still...