Post by CTGull on Oct 17, 2017 18:37:49 GMT -5
My electric days are long behind me. When I got back into guitar about 6 years ago I wanted to be the next Peter Frampton. Then I remembered I can't solo, but I'm good with chords. Then the Seagull S6 found me.
But well before that, in the early 80's, my Father took my 5 year younger brother and I to NYC to Manny's or Sam Ash. Don't remember which one. I bought a sunburst Fender Squire bass and my brother got a red Ibanez 6 string electric guitar. It didn't take long to figure out he should have the bass and I should have the guitar. He picked up single note stuff and I picked up chords.
In the mid 80's I traded a moped for a 1962 Gibson ES125T, which I still have but haven't used in decades. The moped had been stored in a friend of my Father's basement after I got a car. His friend found he had Parkinson's and couldn't ride his motorcycle anymore. It worked for me!! He got to ride around a little and I got a 20+ year old Gibson. Yep, I liked that deal.
Somewhere in the 80's I built my own pedal board from a piece of plywood, aluminum angle (edging), made a long wire enclosure for jacks and the power supply, and brackets to hold effects. I also built a big effects switch box, with heavy duty stomp switches, jacks, and LED's to tell when something was plugged in or had been turned on. There was A LOT of wiring in that thing and I soldered all of it!!
I'd guess in the late 80'/early 90's I sold everything to my brother EXCEPT the Gibson.
Fast forward to about 8 years ago when our middle son wanted to learn to play guitar for the middle school jazz band. He had zero experience and 2 months to learn. We found a local high school whizz kid who could play guitar like he was possessed. He's since graduated from Berklee. Our son didn't do well, I learned more than he did. There's no way he was learn to play all those jazz barre chords in time. Then he got sick with some mystery illness that plagues him to this day.
So he stopped but I bought Gibson's Learn and Master Guitar 20 DVD set. There's a great support forum. Much like this one. I had more fun with that than working with the DVD's. I floundered with that for a couple of years until I heard my Seagull calling.
60+ guitars later, here I am!! Not including the 27 I fixed and donated to the schools, with a few still hanging around. Yea I've had a few guitars around here.
But well before that, in the early 80's, my Father took my 5 year younger brother and I to NYC to Manny's or Sam Ash. Don't remember which one. I bought a sunburst Fender Squire bass and my brother got a red Ibanez 6 string electric guitar. It didn't take long to figure out he should have the bass and I should have the guitar. He picked up single note stuff and I picked up chords.
In the mid 80's I traded a moped for a 1962 Gibson ES125T, which I still have but haven't used in decades. The moped had been stored in a friend of my Father's basement after I got a car. His friend found he had Parkinson's and couldn't ride his motorcycle anymore. It worked for me!! He got to ride around a little and I got a 20+ year old Gibson. Yep, I liked that deal.
Somewhere in the 80's I built my own pedal board from a piece of plywood, aluminum angle (edging), made a long wire enclosure for jacks and the power supply, and brackets to hold effects. I also built a big effects switch box, with heavy duty stomp switches, jacks, and LED's to tell when something was plugged in or had been turned on. There was A LOT of wiring in that thing and I soldered all of it!!
I'd guess in the late 80'/early 90's I sold everything to my brother EXCEPT the Gibson.
Fast forward to about 8 years ago when our middle son wanted to learn to play guitar for the middle school jazz band. He had zero experience and 2 months to learn. We found a local high school whizz kid who could play guitar like he was possessed. He's since graduated from Berklee. Our son didn't do well, I learned more than he did. There's no way he was learn to play all those jazz barre chords in time. Then he got sick with some mystery illness that plagues him to this day.
So he stopped but I bought Gibson's Learn and Master Guitar 20 DVD set. There's a great support forum. Much like this one. I had more fun with that than working with the DVD's. I floundered with that for a couple of years until I heard my Seagull calling.
60+ guitars later, here I am!! Not including the 27 I fixed and donated to the schools, with a few still hanging around. Yea I've had a few guitars around here.
