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Post by Hugh on Apr 17, 2008 16:36:05 GMT
Albert Collins started with chicken wire stretched across a board, and could blow them all away no matter what he played.
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Post by roddy byers on Apr 17, 2008 20:25:03 GMT
i must get a chicken coop.
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Post by Hugh on Apr 17, 2008 21:21:33 GMT
;D
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Post by roddy byers on Apr 18, 2008 8:18:53 GMT
The egg first or the chicken?
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Post by stevo on Apr 18, 2008 16:33:41 GMT
Albert Collins started with chicken wire stretched across a board, and could blow them all away no matter what he played. I started with a cheapo classical and it sounds like it was made from chicken wire...at least the way I play it it does!!!
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Post by roddy byers on Apr 19, 2008 11:29:43 GMT
My first was a classical Selmer-£8!
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Post by stevo on Apr 19, 2008 14:18:08 GMT
My first was a classical Selmer-£8! ....and you tell that to the kids of today and they won't believe ya!
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Post by stevo on Apr 19, 2008 14:19:35 GMT
Albert Collins started with chicken wire stretched across a board, and could blow them all away no matter what he played. I started with a cheapo classical and it sounds like it was made from chicken wire...at least the way I play it it does!!! The way I play any guitar sounds like nails being scraped down a blackboard, not sure their is much of a market for those sounds!
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Post by roddy byers on Apr 19, 2008 17:13:03 GMT
I HAD SOME REALLY RUBISH GUITARS WHEN I STARTED, SO IT ANOYS ME WHEN I SEE LEARNERS PLAYING FENDERS AND GIBSONS.
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Post by roddy byers on Apr 19, 2008 17:13:27 GMT
B.
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Post by Hugh on Apr 19, 2008 20:32:25 GMT
One of the best blues guitarists that I met years ago, was from Manchester and is living here somewhere. I asked him about his battered olive green Strat (same colour as this forum), and he smiled and said it was a Korean copy he'd bought in a pawn shop; but he blew other pretenders off the stage.
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Post by Fred Perry on Apr 20, 2008 11:23:47 GMT
Most learners I know play Squires (all made in Korea not Japan now I believe). Maybe even Epiphones if they're really into gibsons I suppose. I suppose it would be easier to learn on more expensive guitars as they've got a lighter string action on the fretboard. But they'll never get to appreciate their own guitars as much that way. I've played some right dodgy things over the years (strings about a centimetre away from the frets even!). I actually think that helps learning.
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Post by roddy byers on Apr 20, 2008 15:25:38 GMT
Suffer for your Art*
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Post by stevo on Apr 20, 2008 19:37:36 GMT
The great Chuck Prophet still plays his Telecaster Squier as it's his favourite guitar, he has others but much prefers his old squier....."A bad Workman blames his tools"
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Post by roddy byers on Apr 20, 2008 19:59:58 GMT
I used a Squire when i was part of the band Glass house with several Selecters and soul singer Ray King..it stayed in tune great.
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