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[Rubbershorts]

Gibson Les Paul Standard 120th Anniversary edition

Epiphone Casino re-issue

 

Been trying to play for decades. Never had a single music lesson and it shows

 

I lack a musician essential...................................timing

[Designer]

I lack a musicians essential.................................................................................... an instrument       

[stuart bowes]

if all else fails and you have no talent at all you can always just play the drums 

 

no I jest of course

 

I've tried that as well and it's also not easy

[Gaz66]

Played since '91. Been through more amps, pedals, processors and guitars than I can remember.
Been in quite a few bands over the years with good success on the pub/club circuit.
Totally self taught which, looking back was a blessing as I learnt feeling rather than being "robotic"
Settled, eventually on Les Paul, jcm 800 half stack and tubescreamer.
Arthritis got the better of me now so handed over the reigns to number one son 👍

[Rubbershorts]

I lack a musicians essential.................................................................................... an instrument

The wife wishes that's what I was missing.

[stuart bowes]

at least it isn't bagpipes, you'd be single quickly 

[bluequinn]

Yep, I fit the profile somewhat. Before I got a licence and cars swallowed up my cash watches were my expensive hobby and I bought a few Omegas and a Heuer Monaco before deciding I had all the watches I wanted.

 

I have been playing the guitar for well over 35 years. I'm into music generally and also play bass, piano and drums, and about ⅓rd of the saxophone. Can't read a note of music and never had a lesson though. I have a Gibson Les Paul BFG, a Gibson SG standard and a mexican Fender Stratocaster, plus a Variax 700, a Hohner Steinberger 'cricket bat' bass, and fretted and fretless Squier Jazz basses.

 

Not into guns, though I have fired a few and used to be a pretty decent shot. Totally love bicycles though, and the more gentle sort of kayaking. 

[Rubbershorts]

Yep, I fit the profile somewhat. Before I got a licence and cars swallowed up my cash watches were my expensive hobby and I bought a few Omegas and a Heuer Monaco before deciding I had all the watches I wanted.

 

I have been playing the guitar for well over 35 years. I'm into music generally and also play bass, piano and drums, and about ⅓rd of the saxophone. Can't read a note of music and never had a lesson though. I have a Gibson Les Paul BFG, a Gibson SG standard and a mexican Fender Stratocaster, plus a Variax 700, a Hohner Steinberger 'cricket bat' bass, and fretted and fretless Squier Jazz basses.

 

Not into guns, though I have fired a few and used to be a pretty decent shot. Totally love bicycles though, and the more gentle sort of kayaking. 

 

 

Road or MTB? I see you're in Charente. We ride MTBs in the Clermont Ferrand region in the summer. It used to be the Alp and Pyrenees but we down graded as we advanced in years.

[bluequinn]

Road or MTB? I see you're in Charente. We ride MTBs in the Clermont Ferrand region in the summer. It used to be the Alp and Pyrenees but we down graded as we advanced in years.

 

Having lived in London for 20-odd years it was mostly fixed gear or good old 3 speed hub gear, with the odd road bike thrown in. Never really got on with dropped bars though, so I always sold them quickly.

 

Currently I have a 1974 Raleigh Superbe, a 2010 Brompton S2, a 2009 Cinelli Vigorelli fixed gear, a 1960's Harry Quinn track bike (which never gets ridden), and my wife has a Pashley Princess, a Laura Trott flat bar urban thingy 

I had a beautiful BMC Alpenchallenge with belt drive and an 11-speed hub, that was fast and fantastic but the frame cracked, the warranty paid out and I used the cash to buy his and hers Kona Mahunas so my wife and I could dip our toe into the off-road stuff. Still not really done any of that!

[Steam]

at least it isn't bagpipes, you'd be single quickly 

Whats the difference between a trampoline and bagpipes?

You have to take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline.

[r.tec]

A taste of what we did, rehearsing in my basement. Long ago and when I listen to it now I think this one was a good band. Recorded with a tiny digital twin-track handheld recorder.

Hope you like it:

https://www.soundcli...?songID=9885766

 

[stuart bowes]

 

Whats the difference between a trampoline and bagpipes?

You have to take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline.

 

 

 

definition of perfect pitch - lobbing bagpipes into a skip from 20 yards

[Raggie]

Whilst I couldn’t consider taking up as an instrument (unless,wait, I bet there is a midi version you could play through headphones? <off to search>) due to neighbours as no volume knob, I actually do appreciate the martial sound of massed pipes.

 

Mind you, when the octopus was asked after he bought a sex toy and got bagpipes in the post, his Amazon comment was ‘total crap. Couldn’t get its knickers off.’

[Shooter63]

I'm actually in the market for a new guitar and being a les paul player the idea of paying the thick end of a lot of cash for something that spends a lot of time propped up in the corner of the front room and having to drag it across the room due to the weight I'm seriously considering getting an Eastman which seems to tick all the boxes, lighter, no stupid splitting options, seems a win win to me.

Shooter

[r.tec]

Last year I bought a "Vintage" LP copy from Music Store Cologne. It did not cost a leg or an arm. Before one leaves the store you can give it to a guitar tech to look over it. This did not take five minutes for him before he said that it was right out of the box. But heavy as led (zeppelin) but with a sustain from here where I sit to the next supermarket 3 km away! He further said normally he adjusts the originals at least 20 mins to get them right.