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Various Non-Bald Discussions => Autos,Toys and Hobbies => Topic started by: slowhand on March 16, 2007, 09:55:29 AM
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I've noticed that there are quite a few musicians in this forum. So I was wondering, what's everyone playing on? Tell me all about your instrument of choice!
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I've got an acoustic Washburn that's absolutely beautiful and has great tone. Then I also have a Dean acoustic-electric that's not too bad considering the deal I got. The action is a little high on the Dean, so I'm probly gonna take off the saddle and sand it down a bit. We've already tried to straighten out the neck with very minimal success.
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I have two guitars which I haven't played in many many years ... Encore semi-acoustic & Squire Strat. Nice guitars (for cheaper versions of the originals), good enough that my brother gigs with them as much as his ESP.
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I have a few harmonicas. My favorite is my Lee Oscar.
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I'm an all acoustic guitarist and I have an old Dorado acoustic that my grandfather gave me about 12 years ago. I've bought other acoustics and I just keep going back to that one, I love it. I do have my eye on an Alvarez that I played at a local shop though. :)
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I play an Ovation Acoustic guitar. Just bought all new strings for it.
Also have a Yamaha Electric guitar that's gathering dust.
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I personally have been playing an old Harmony Monterey Acoustic that was handed down to me, but I think it's about time I invested in something a little nicer.
I also play on my Fender FM62SE acoustic/electric mandolin. I call her Jenny :@`
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I personally have been playing an old Harmony Monterey Acoustic that was handed down to me, but I think it's about time I invested in something a little nicer.
I also play on my Fender FM62SE acoustic/electric mandolin. I call her Jenny :@`
I love the sound from a mando, nothing like it
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Piano, keyboard and organ
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Electric bass, digital piano, and trombone
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Some spoons & a triangle...................
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I have a tenor saxophone. Don't get to play much, but that's my own fault.
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Got to say I love the sounds of a good sax. I've thought about learning to play it myself, but I'm just not too comfertable with brass of woodwinds.
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Drums - been playing for 33 years.
Got my first drum when I was 12 (1974). Started playing on my friends drum kit at 14. Got my own drum kit at 16. Got into the L.A. rock scene at 20 (1982). Made a decent mark during the big-hair rock scene in a band called Letchen Grey...selling about 80,000 records world wide under management with Guns & Roses and Great White.
Go to Google and with quotation marks search "Letchen Grey" and we're all over the place still.
Got out of the music business in 1991 and started playing on various worship teams (church bands) which I've been doing ever since.
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Looked you band up and your name came up Robbie Blackmore. No relation to Ritchie is there? ;D
Hope that's not prying to much, I mean about posting your last name.
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cajun accordion...I still suck after a year and half of trying to learn :( its been hard learning up here in virginia where NOONE plays this instrument...but since i'll be in Fl. i'll be going back to La. alot getting lessons ,handmade out of curly maple in Lafayette,La. by Junior Martin ..... heres a pic of it...
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Looked you band up and your name came up Robbie Blackmore. No relation to Ritchie is there? ;D
Hope that's not prying to much, I mean about posting your last name.
No worries, bro.
I met Ritchie a ways back...we both raised a pint in honor of the same last name....no close relation.
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Man that is one sweet squeezebox there Kajun!
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Dang, that is a good looking insrument. What is that scrub board looking thing called.?
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cajun accordion...I still suck after a year and half of trying to learn :( its been hard learning up here in virginia where NOONE plays this instrument...but since i'll be in Fl. i'll be going back to La. alot getting lessons ,handmade out of curly maple in Lafayette,La. by Junior Martin .....
fine instrument kajun. actually took the stage once with cayenne and a buddy that plays the accordian. only time i was ever even remotely "with the band", i was playing the washboard w/ wayne toups' old band. was a very fun night. gotta love Lafayette.
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cajun accordion...I still suck after a year and half of trying to learn :( its been hard learning up here in virginia where NOONE plays this instrument...but since i'll be in Fl. i'll be going back to La. alot getting lessons ,handmade out of curly maple in Lafayette,La. by Junior Martin .....
fine instrument kajun. actually took the stage once with cayenne and a buddy that plays the accordian. only time i was ever even remotely "with the band", i was playing the washboard w/ wayne toups' old band. was a very fun night. gotta love Lafayette.
You go, Boy!!!.....on stage with a classic ensemble!!
BTW....Kajun....that is a sweet lookin' piece of equipment O0
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Sweet axe Kajun. My Mama (RIP) used to play the squeeze box. Daddy never.... (oh you know). ;D
Nutha Drumma here. 5 piece Premiere converted to vdrums. Using Roland TD-3 brain. Still have acoustic cymbals and just picked up a sweet sounding 17" Zildjain medium crash yesterday... :@` Robbie ;D has me beat, I've only been playing for 30 years. :-\ And if you search for any of the bands I was in you get squat :-[ No sir, my claim to fame is that Burton Cummings (Guess Who)... (the band...) (not the band called "The Band" but the band called "The Guess Who"), (Damned Canadians and there confusing band names) called me an @$$hole. :o O0
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Ha ha I guess I should've searched the web before saying you'd get squat if you did.
http://dev.coolforever.com/m/browse.cfm/item/249390/
This was my studio effort. The Flaming Aardvarks were a Blues/Rock quartet with a real raw sound. Unfortunately we were better before the recording but our fifth member and best guitarist left shortly before we went into the studio.
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thanks folks i think shes a beauty too! maybe one day i can do justice with it lol....
Tom...the scrub/wash board is a "frottoir" ...pronounced fraught twaa
Paulie ..Wayne Toups is da man! here's a clip of him i found on youtube playing a traditional song... the Bayou Teche Waltz
http://www.youtube.com/v/Z86s3qA8E0Y
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johnny plays as good as wayne . if you can beleive that.
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i believe it...theres some great players out there that haven't got the exposure wayne has.....does he play with cayenne?
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he did for a littlw while. you ever hear of shakey ground at some of the festivals in this area? he played with them too.
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nah sure havent..been quite awhile since i been to some festivals
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i picked up the squeeze box once. then he told me what they cost and i very gently set it back down.
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yup...mine damn near cost as much as a small car lol
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Currently my electric is a Black Fender Standard Stratocaster with a maple neck, and my acustic is a Sigma DM1-ST.
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Damn fine piece of equipment Kajun!
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Played Alto & Tenor Sax through HS and college and piano all thru elementary and middle school. I was the only kid in our family that had either the aptitude or interest in music. When I parents moved to Vega$, they still had the piano & didn't want it anymore, so I inherited it. Now my daughter has taken up the interest. She's actually quite good and has inspired me to get out some old sheet music to test my memory. It's been a lot of fun to watch.
She also has gotten into guitar. Santa Schro got her a full sized Yamaha acoustic. I decided that we'd have a friend of ours, Terri Hendrix, autograph it (for those of you that don't know her music, check her out, phenomenal talent www.terrihendrix.com ). Anyway, I shipped it down to her in San Marcos, TX, she autographed it and sent it back. When Nicole got up and came down stairs and saw the guitar, she was amazed and I had to explain to her the pull that Terri has with Santa.
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I'm a percussionist... my current gig set up consists of:
14" Ashiko (for bass) African - Custom build.
10" Batajon (wooden headed Ashiko) - Custom build.
10" Dumbek - Egyptian.
10" Darbukka (w/tamborine built in) - Turkish.
14"x7" Bodhran (w/kangaroo skin head), irish - Custom build.
14"x7" Bodhran (W/goat skin head & black walnut frame), irish - Custom build.
Bones - 4 pair of actual bone & 6 pair of various hard woods.
Spoons - 6 or 7 random metal spoons, and 1 pair of wooden spoons.
Washboard - nothing fancy, yard sale special.
Zildjan tamborine.
I generally play hand drums with my hands (duh), But I keep a nice pair of nylon brushes for effect sometimes.
My hand drums are made by: http://www.givingtreemusic.com
My Bodhrans are by http://www.metloef.com & http://www.delsdrums.com
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I'm a trumpet player and went to college on a music scholarship. Now I teach every fall and a Drill Designer.
Yep, band geek.
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Band geek here too! I played the trombone in middle, high school, and college. I have been a guitar player for 26 years and I am currently play a Fender Squier Stagemaster, Peavey amp, and Boss effects. It all started after watching " The Buddy Holly Story " on tv when I was a kid.
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Funny you should mention movies, I started playn' after watching Crossroads. and can't bear to part with any that I buy. Current inventory
- Washburn HOB electric - throw around guitar.
- 2 x Gibson les pauls - one sunburst, one blk
- 1 fender telecaster
- 1 Takimini 12 string acoustic
- 1 Gibson BB king, Lucille (my Personal Favorite) blk
My 8 yr old has her's on a stand beside mine - fender strat, hello kitty hot pink. :*)) auto graphed by Toni Iomi of Black Sabbath
My 13 yr old son play's (or tries,) drums
My 11 yr old daughter is piano
Can you say brady bunch family. My wife hates it when we try to play together. She also hates the fact that there are so many guitars "cluttering up" our living room. Both my daughter and I play on Peavy amps running through a DigiTech GNX3000 guitar workstation.
My playing style depends alot on my mood. Angry = Metal electric etc. Lately I've been hooked on Jazz and Blues.
LET'S JAM
OOPS forgot to add I can't read a note of sheet music, chords are fine notes, no way josie
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I mostly use a older Fender P bass that was gave to me by my uncle he says its from the 60s but the serial number is not all there anymore so I don't know. I use a Ampeg SVT-810E with Ampeg B-4R Amp Head. I worked all last summer for it. My mother says its to loud and a waste of money but I love it.
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First guitar was an American Standard Fender Strat. When I turned 16 I got a Gibson Les Paul Standard instead of a car. Marshall mini stack for an amp. Later I got a mid priced Takamine acoustic/electric to play around the house. Sold the Les Paul to the guitar player from Jackyl (they are from nearby) a few years back. Still have the Strat and the Tak.
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Found some more pics of my '80's band, Letchen Grey. You can see (and HEAR) more at:
www.myspace.com/letchengrey
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robmeister rockin the house!
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tearin' up another hotel room somewhere in the midwest....yeah that's eye liner on the robmeister!
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No fun at all.........YEAH RIGHT!!!
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Mark Andersen tearin' it up
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What was the best part of your legendary career Rob?
The chicks?
The booze?
Tearin up hotel rooms?
The chicks?
Or getting paid to play your music? That's my ideal right there.
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The chicks?
The booze?
Tearin up hotel rooms?
The chicks?
Or getting paid to play your music?
YES!
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....and the worst part would have to be knowning that there are pictures of you wearing that get up like on the hotel bed. right? ha haj/k brudda. that is ALLLLL 80's for sure.
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Don't forget the eyeliner too
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One more drummer. You really can't have too many.
I started in 1968, in a small Texas town, with some really fine musicians. Played every at the YMCA every weekend starting off, every school dance, then migrated to bars, clubs and every other payin job after that. We played rock until the Country thing hit big time, so I switched. We were the bar band for a BYOB place that packed 1000 people in every Saturday night. Thats were I met my wife.
Also like Robmeister, I retired about 10 years ago and started playing in Church. Still miss the band camaraderie.
I have an 20 year old set of black Pearls and some really old Zildjans that just get better with age.
We MUST put a band together for our next reunion!!!!
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Currently, in the office, I have a Peavey Max 126 mini-bass amp, connected to a Behringer GE-7 eq that I use as a booster/distortion pedal. Still playing my first 'lectric: Maple fretboard, Squier Strat, that I've modified heavily with Kent Armstrong "Hot Rails" and "Motherbucker" in the bridge, Locking Tuners and Hipshot Tremsetter. Jazz to Death Metal and everything in between, though nothing very good :P