Musician's Thread
I am wondering if there are any other musicians on these forums - if so what do you play? Do you write / record music? What got you into playing music? What is your gear? I play bass guitar, guitar...
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Let me embarass myself - although this was a year ago - and I usually play 6-string but health reasons forced me to switch to bass.
https://youtu.be/cS1iSTQ8UKo
This was one of my first self-written and recorded tunes, entitled "Indecision"
Played all the bits - at that time I didn't have a bass, so I used a Spanish (nylon strung) guitar for the bass bits.
I also sang in one of the gameplay vids I uploaded to YouTube - I deleted it since, but this is the track... Brain Damage, of course, by Pink Floyd. I have a very deep singing voice, but I have done backing vocals for some songs when gigging (Lady In Black was my first - doing the "aahh's"
edit - found some pics of my guitars:
My first bass:
My spanish and electro-acoustic (Crafter FX550) as heard in the Brain Damage song recording
This was my first electro-acoustic (and a much youger me, when I was teaching guitar at the local school of music...):
This was a nice Ibanez - the Jet King 1 - looked a bit yukky but played very nice:
I like a wide nut, due to my problem with arthritis - I have long-ish fingers but have a habit of catching other strings, so the wider the nut, the better for me. I do have a number of other guitars, but won't bore you with them now - or take up too much forum space.
The best one I had was the standard American Strat. I'd been having a number of issues with some songs and playing them fluidly on the guitars I owned, but when I got that Strat, it all fell into place and sounded great (well, good enough anyway). I'd had Start copies, but the genuine article was easily better than all of them. Now I use a self-built TeleStrat, built with an ash telecaster body and pick-ups and a Strat neck. I plan to change the pick-ups soon and just bought a custom tail plate for it.
Also have a very nice Peavey (Jack Daniels paint job - I'll look for a pic later). I bought it because I had seen so many guitarists using them, when I went to try-outs for bass, so i decided to get one to see what the fuss was about. I do like it - a lot, but I wouldn't like it to be my only guitar.
I use an Ashdown EB220 now - p/x'd my Marshall half-stack to buy it when I switched to bass for bands.
Okay, don't worry I'm off now... :(
https://youtu.be/cS1iSTQ8UKo
This was one of my first self-written and recorded tunes, entitled "Indecision"
Played all the bits - at that time I didn't have a bass, so I used a Spanish (nylon strung) guitar for the bass bits.
I also sang in one of the gameplay vids I uploaded to YouTube - I deleted it since, but this is the track... Brain Damage, of course, by Pink Floyd. I have a very deep singing voice, but I have done backing vocals for some songs when gigging (Lady In Black was my first - doing the "aahh's"
edit - found some pics of my guitars:
My first bass:
My spanish and electro-acoustic (Crafter FX550) as heard in the Brain Damage song recording
This was my first electro-acoustic (and a much youger me, when I was teaching guitar at the local school of music...):
This was a nice Ibanez - the Jet King 1 - looked a bit yukky but played very nice:
I like a wide nut, due to my problem with arthritis - I have long-ish fingers but have a habit of catching other strings, so the wider the nut, the better for me. I do have a number of other guitars, but won't bore you with them now - or take up too much forum space.
The best one I had was the standard American Strat. I'd been having a number of issues with some songs and playing them fluidly on the guitars I owned, but when I got that Strat, it all fell into place and sounded great (well, good enough anyway). I'd had Start copies, but the genuine article was easily better than all of them. Now I use a self-built TeleStrat, built with an ash telecaster body and pick-ups and a Strat neck. I plan to change the pick-ups soon and just bought a custom tail plate for it.
Also have a very nice Peavey (Jack Daniels paint job - I'll look for a pic later). I bought it because I had seen so many guitarists using them, when I went to try-outs for bass, so i decided to get one to see what the fuss was about. I do like it - a lot, but I wouldn't like it to be my only guitar.
I use an Ashdown EB220 now - p/x'd my Marshall half-stack to buy it when I switched to bass for bands.
Okay, don't worry I'm off now... :(