Ever since I was a kid...

Sort of like Rudolf Schenker and his flying V's, ya?

Did they slash the price for him?

craigb


Sort of like Rudolf Schenker and his flying V's, ya?

A guy back home who owned one of these - IIRC, it was one of only 250. It was stolen a few years later. I remember spending one afternoon on the deck at his home playing it through that little silver box which acted like an amp w/ a couple of effects (can't remember the name of the unit). 


Since the intro of Symptom of The Universe was one of the very few things I could play back then, it's no wonder he left me by myself out there after 20 minutes of me playing that riff non-stop. lol

That's one strange thing. I can't say that I ever really had the wall-of-amps fantasy - I have always been much more pragmatic about these. I wanted one of each. :P

Woah man, that was quite the rig! Most I owned was my '59 Bassman re-issue and a little Marshall combo.

I just remembered - that little device I mentioned earlier, it was called a Play Bus. First "amp sim" kind of thing I've seen or heard. Man I used to wish I had one. But I couldn't even replace broken strings on my guitar. lol




I guess I had my first experience of GAS in that house. There were guitars and gimmicks like that everywhere! 

I'm not sure the Play Bus sounded that good. But to my ears back then, it was mind blowing. We're taking way back in maybe 1985. None of us kids had amps yet.

In fact, my best buddy had figured a way to hook up our guitars via his dad's 8 track tape deck and mess w/ the cartridge which would generate this weird kind of fuzz - that's basically all we had for distortion. I don't know how this could work, it doesn't seem to make any sense, but it did work.

To our ears, it was glorious man. We thought we sounded as heavy as Celtic Frost. lol

SF_Green

Rain


I had this strange obsession w/ owning many copies of the same thing. 

When I started playing guitar and decided that my dream guitar was a black strat, I wanted black strats. Only black strats. If I could have bought 50 guitars, they'd all have been absolutely identical.

I've since switched to Les Paul. 

The black and cream ones, w/ amber knobs, just like the one I have (well, except mine's a Epi.) I'd want dozens just like this one. Once I'd pass the magic number of 50, then maybe I'd start a collection of all identical sunburst ones. 

Long story short, I hate Jeff Beck! ;)

Your plugin collection must be absolutely horryfying!!

Heck, Bapu has more plugins than he does posts.
 
(Think about that!)

Rain


I realized yesterday when installing Digital Performer that I had 115 3rd party plug-ins installed on my machine - which I'm guessing is not much by anyone else's standards but I'm actually quite shocked because I hardly seem to use any of them most of the time.

True, a few of them like POD Farm are broken down into a bunch of plug-ins, others are broken into mono and stereo components and there's T-Racks which account for over 20 of those. OTOH, all my Waves plugs are hidden under the WaveShell.

Anyway, it may be time for a clean up.

I know I'm due for a clean-up.  I was just thinking that earlier today.  I've got you by 2x not counting your Waves plugs.  I have quite a few things like POD which break into many objects, but still...

Looks like a cool book. Added to watchlist. :)

craigb

"From the very beginning when I used to hear those solos on those old records I used to say: now here is an instrument that is capable of spewing forth true obscenity, you know?  If ever there's an obscene noise to be made on an instrument, it's going to come out of a guitar... Let's be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth.  That's why I like it... The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that's my idea of a good time."

--- Frank Zappa

            You are sorely missed!  

Rain


3 already seems like a lot when it's time to put on fresh strings. Though I'm starting to consider adding a (cheap) acoustic to my rig, just for fun. A nylon strings one would also be nice. Haven't played one in 20 years. 

A classical acoustic is definitely something I would like to get.

Did you use to play nylon/classical regularly, Rain?  What type of music did you play on it?

SF_Green

craigb

"From the very beginning when I used to hear those solos on those old records I used to say: now here is an instrument that is capable of spewing forth true obscenity, you know?  If ever there's an obscene noise to be made on an instrument, it's going to come out of a guitar... Let's be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth.  That's why I like it... The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that's my idea of a good time."

--- Frank Zappa
You are sorely missed!

+ several million

I wonder if Beck has a black Les Paul I could borrow?   What an outstanding collection.  I love 2 colors of Paul's the best, one be black and the other Ice Tea.

I started out on a Rick when I was 14.  Got my first Paul, antique sunburst when I was 20, played it for 10 years.  Then, I switched to Strats, playing them exclusively for about 10 years.  Caught the blues bug, i guess.  Five years ago I picked up a LP Studio and it was like an old lost friend, I've been playing pretty much Gibson's since.  Last year on my 50th birthday I sold a black Epi LP with Gibson PU's and got an Epi Dot sunburst to celebrate the  birthday.  So now it is The LP Studio and the Epi Dot as my main 2 gits.  I loved the look of that Black LP and some day I will have another.

I believe it is the shorter scale that I like.  I have smaller hands and the shorter scale feels more natural to me.  Easier on old hands for string bends as well.  

Cool pic! Love the cable - I still have one of those somewhere around. :)

I started on a über cheap sunburst LP copy - I'm guessing that this very bad picture dates for early 1985, when I was 12.

I've worn the heck out of that Run to the Hills shirt. :P