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Hi Folks, I'm James! I'm a guitarist, singer/songwriter based in the midlands.
Q1: Where did you username come from? - Literally my name, wish I could change it now!
Q2: Where in the world/country are you? - Newark, Notts, UK
Q3: What's your main musical ambition? - Got my first solo album coming out this year, I'll start there.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? Best I'd have to say my quirky "parts-caster-plus", not sure what I'd do without her.
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? No Woman, No Cry (it's a long story)
Hi everyone, I'm a guitarist/songwriter, 52 years old. Getting an extremely late start at this guitar thing, but committed to it now for certain. Glad to be here in a musician's community.
Q1: Where did you username come from?
Just me name.
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
Originally from Birkenhead but now living in Switzerland, with lots of countries in between.
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
Release albums of my music...and have people listen to them!
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
Gibson ES-330
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
"Ashes to Ashes," Bowie
Hello everyone!
New on here. Mostly came on for trades, and possibly to find some band members soon!
Q1: Where did you username come from?
It's my name! (unimaginative, I know)
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
London
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
To get back on stage at some point soon - my band are relatively niche, so that might be ambitious. We re called DED MEAT and write songs about food, the question of whther to be vegan or not (I'm a butcher, my mate the drummer is vegan!) and recycling/sustainability. Fleetwood Mac we ain't.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
I recently purchased a brand new Fender American Ultra Strat in Texas Tea. It is THE ONE.
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Q1: Aconite Thrill were an exciting band from... I want to say Hertfordshire somewhere? I don't think they do it anymore, but the name always sounded incredibly cool to me. So I stole it.
Q2: I'm in Manchester, UK.
Q3: Main musical ambition would be to nail that sweeping part from Selkies: The Endless Obsession. It's not going to happen.
Q4: I'd be hard-pressed to get rid of my 2013 PRS 408. If I ever list it for sale, tell me to take it down.
Q5: Just one is impossible. I'll go with Hopesfall's 'The Bending'
1. User name: One of my passions is motorcycling, and I’m fortunate to have a few Harleys. My fist was bought in 2003, and is a “Softail” model.
2. Where am I: Originally from Belfast, but have living in South east Scotland for > 30 years.
3. Musical ambition: To restart learning from basics (including theory) so I can competently play with others or in public without feeling incompetent!
4. Best bit of gear: I only have 2 guitars bought circa 40 years ago. A Yamaha CJ-838S acoustic which I bought cos I loved the curvaceous shape! Second is a Kawai Performer electric guitar which I recently found in its case under a bed in my mother’s house when helping her move into a flat. Plan to buy an semi-acoustic like an Epiphone Casino or dot, if I can justify the budget!
5. Best track: Love all blues and some jazz, but anything from Van Morrison or Rory Gallagher (for this Belfast boy!).
Cheers all & look forward to contributing (although I expect I’ll be learning more than being able to contribute any knowledge!!)
My name is Keith, I'm 67 years old, from Bromley, Kent, I've been playing for 57 years and have been gigging for 50 years, mainly as a semi-pro but with a five year period of pro gigging, way back in the last century, after which a "sensible" job waylaid me. I guess I'd consider myself a "jobbing" guitarist, having gigged in most popular music styles over the years.
Q.1. Ah, the perennial dilemma - how many Strats are "enough" ? Just when I've thought "no more" another creeps under the Radar, so to speak.
Q.2. Bromley, Kent.
Q.3. To keep studying, learning and keep playing as much and as well as the newly ongoing battle with Osteoarthritis will allow, so far so good.
Q.4. This is a real tough one, probably my 1968 Firemist Silver Tele Custom, which I've owned for 45 years and has great sentimental value.
Q.5. Another tough one. So many to choose from - I'll go with Steely Dan's Kid Charlemagne right now.
Thanks very much for admitting me. All the best to you all.
Cheers
Keith
Hi Guys, nice to meet you all.
Q1: Where did your username come from?
It's part of an old address.
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
England - about as far from the sea as you can get!
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
Modest: just to play rhythm in a decent classic rock covers band.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
My partscaster Strat. Mexican Classic Player body, US standard neck, Callaham bridge and trem. It has outclassed every other guitar I've ever owned.
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
Whole Lotta Love, Still gives me chills.
Q1: Where did you username come from?
My best friend called me so once and it became until today
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
Spain
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
To gain a decent following with my band
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
There are several I love but I would choose my Tokai LS320 Goldtop for a sentimental reason
I have some interesting gear such as a Fender Iwanade telecaster from 1990, a truly treasure I play through a Ceriatone 2005 made chassis (a prototype really) 5e5-A amp we crafted a cabinet to with a 15" Weber P15N. I also own a fantastic Navigator by ESP 4 strat style witn a 9'5" radius, a tone monster ans some really good Tokais I have carefully chosen through the years, a lot of guitars as you see.
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
Q1: Where did you username come from?
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
I came across site looking for an alternative to Ebay for buying/selling guitar pedals...
Q1: Where did you username come from?
Made it up.. influenced by strat next to me
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
UK
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
Keep playing
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
‘79 JMP 50w.. killer tonez
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one
Be Steely Dan but which would depend on my mood... likely off Royal Scam
I'm a bass player who attempted to make it as a classical player while I was at the Royal Academy of Music at the same time as Simon Rattle, Annie Lennox (played flute in one of the orchestras I was in), Joe Jackson and Irvine Arditti. Quite a good year I should say. My ways strayed into jazz, and I freelanced in the UK and then Norway for 6 years which I loved and where I started songwriting and put a band together. Sad to say I burned out with the stress of organising a rock band and first went to see a psychologist and then in a kind of eureka moment decided to become one myself and specialise in musicians. And here I am 5 books and around 2,500 musicians later.
I love making things and starting projects and I have a small workshop. Haven't built an instrument yet but have built tube microphones, preamps and amps. If I had more space and a proper bench I'd love to build my own bass. I used to play a WAL fretless I got from Wal himself but these days I've gone short scale and play a Gretsch G2220. Nice bass. Short scales are something else, as anyone who plays one knows.........
Welcome to the Forum,top,honest guy,great player,tons of experience.
Fretboard Forum will greatly benefit.
Hello guys,
Q1: Where did you username come from?
I use this handle quite a lot, because one of my bands was called Hudson Super 6, but also because the guitar has 6 strings.
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
Derby, UK.
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
Just to keep making records and playing. I’ve been a professional bass player for most of the 90s, started playing guitar seriously a couple of years ago and I’ve been signed to a major label and several indie labels. I now run a label of my own, as well as still play in bands.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
My 1962 Jazzmaster reissue.
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Summer before university I always wanted to go on/organise picnics, so my friends ended up nicknaming me Yogi, upon my dad hearing it first thing he adapted it to "Yogmaister"
Q2: Where in the world/country are you?
I'm in Manchester, UK
Q3: What's your main musical ambition?
Currently playing bass for a friend's band, first band I've been in and actually played live, so want to help them get more gigs. But my main ambition is to start a band that is more my type of music and where I play guitar and go from there.
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
Sold nearly all my guitar gear a couple of years back so currently it's a 70s Shaftesbury 4003 bass copy. Otherwise it would have been my peavey classic 30 combo (on the search for a another one).
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
Would have to be Procol Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale
Look forward to chatting with you all!
Q1: Where did you username come from? It's my name!
Q2: Where in the world/country are you? UK
Q3: What's your main musical ambition? Just to keep playing to amuse myself!
Q4: Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? PRS SE Angelus acoustic
Q5: Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? Comfortably Numb
Another refugee on lockdown looking to amuse, be amused and maybe learn something!