Who Here Plays?

Guitar, that is. Most of my money goes towards things with engines and four wheels, but I can set aside a bit every now and then.

What kind of gear you got?

While I haven't played in a few years, I still have a '66 Fender Mustang and a left-handed '62 reissue Strat with a Stewart-McDonald neck. I keep the Strat polished and hanging on the living room wall, so I have to look at it every day in hopes that the passion to play comes back someday.

Other than that, I still have my old analog Tascam 8-track, an old Zoom rack-mount multi-effects unit, (cheap, but has some nice 'verbs on it), a Sans-Amp, and a Sundown 100-watt half stack.

And a couple milk crates of various old stomp-boxes, some of which still sound better to me than most of the new stuff. Among those would be my "babies", which are my two original Crybaby pedals. Both made in '68, bought several years apart, but have identical serial numbers up until the last digit. One ends in 5, the other ends with a 9. They each sound totally different.

I play. I have a 1996 Epiphone Frontier. Its a reissue of whatever Paul McCartney played. I also have a cheap Fender Mandolin, and think I am getting another for Christmas.

I've got an early-'70s (I think '73) Gibson L6-S. It's shaped like a Paul but with a plain painted body like an SG, a maple neck, and some interesting on board electronics: a 6-position pickup switch that can make it give a lot of different tones.

I've got a small, cheap, 12" Yamaha amp that actually sounds pretty good when you crank it up.

I'm in the "need more time/desire to play" class myself.

greg bennet interceptor pluged into a random 50 watt marshal. i really want a hollow body like a super 400 but those are like a challenge car and a half.

I have a violin that i get out every few months because i kinda enjoyed playing it.

Got a Bass back in HS and meant to learn to play it, haven't really gotten around to it, just had some fun times playing around with it.

Peavey Forum 4 string with active electronics and a 100watt Kustom amplifier with digital effects.

I think Baxter is into chinese mandolins IIRC...

Guitar - Takamine Acoustic, '77 Ibanez Les Paul Copy, and a home built. No amp anymore, but I always was a Boogie man.

Bass - Ibanez 4 string, ESP 5 string, and some no-name acoustic. Hartke 7000 Amp and Boogie 210 cabinet

Let's see...

1) '06 Gibson Les Paul Vintage Mahogany Worn Brown finish 2) '05 Epiphone Dot Studio (335 copy) Worn Brown 3) Jay Turser Les Paul copy black with interesting fretboard inlays 4) Ovation Celebrity Shallow body acoustic/electric black 5) CC Clark strat style electric, red and cheap and a Mesa Boogie 2 X 12 100 watt amp plus some various electronics.

Also need much more time to play.

If I was going to buy another guitar it would probably be the Al Di Meola signature PRS Prism.

I used to play bass, don't so much anymore. I went through the whole band/gigs/recording thing for about 10-years before I got sick & tired of it all.

I keep thinking that once the kids are grown I'll build a decent PC-recording rig & lock myself in a room and go crazy for a year or so. We'll see if I ever really get around to it though.

Gretsch, Mofo. I don't know squat about mandolins, chinese or otherwise.

I've got a Gretsch Clipper, 6120 DSW, 125th Anniversary and some sort of little Electromatic solidbody. Also have a Dean acoustic, a fretless Fender Jazz bass, a bastardized Tele with Kay pickups and custom wiring, and various disreputable amps.

You'd think I'd actually be able to play.

I worked a music store repairing electronics ans selling guitar gear while I was in college. I picked up an intersting collection of stuff. For amps, I have a mid 70's Fender Twin and pre CBS Princeton Reverb. Guitars include Peavey Falcon (Strat copy), a G&L SC-2 (sounds like a really good telecaster, looks like a generic 80's electric) and a '62 Stratocaster replica.

I play about 30 minutes per year now that I have been thinking of selling most of it off. Anyone have a suggestions for websites or forums that would help me figure out value?

Les paul studio of unkown year.. i bought it used and it's got some scars.

A Ibanez acoustic I got silly cheap, nice guitar but noone wanted it. Had rust on the strings in the music store(like stalagtites of rust).

A crate vintage club 50 tube amp with a 14" speaker in it.. It's loud.

I haven't played in YEARS and I keep wanting to sell my stuff but my wife will not let me.

I don't play, but I do drive:

Taken near Dell City, Texas

I use to play but sold the guitar to pay for my first car. It was a Hammer Cali Deluxe and Fender twin amp, nice little setup.

I've been wanting to it up again so I picked up a cheap Mitchell acoustic to try and get back in the swing of things. Still have my Fender amp, once I get going again I'll get another electric.

Oh I've also played piano, violin, and saxophone.

I have Paisley Franken-telecaster and an old Conrad acoustic. I am looking at buying a Gretsch hollow body but I know I should save my money for other things.

As far as an amp, all I have is a 65watt Marshall Valvestate

Look at the Electromatics, like the 5120. Incredible value. Not the pro-line Gretsches, but they're very, very nice, and WAY cheaper.

I've got an old neck-through Cort with Carvin pickups that weighs a ton and sounds awesome, a sparkly silver Danelectro Guitarlin, a Mysterious Sunburst Rickenbacker bass, an old Suzuki Acoustic, a small Peavy 1X12" combo amp, a small Peavy 1X12" combo bass amp, a small Crate 2x12" combo amp, and a Pearl 5 piece kit.

What's mysterious about your sunburst Ricky bass???

Main rig: '63 Harmony H59 Rocket III (early one with the six knobs around the perimeter of the lower bout) > Dano tremolo (stupid little thing does great trem) > Line 6 Delay Modeler (for the slap back tape echo) > Yamaha T100C (100w tube combo designed by Soldano before he was on his own; it's Scotty Moore's amp for a big club, so it's good enough for me). I'll be moving to a Peavey Delta Blues before too long, and I may try one of those Dano Reel Echo boxes. Actually, the T100C's going up for sale, if anybody needs a killer tube combo amp that does great Boogie-ish/Soldano-ish (duh) distortion, which I have no use for in a country band.

My backup/drop-tuned guitar is a Dano Hodad with coil tap and phase switching. Again, stupid thing sounds great. Korean built, so it's very well made. I'm planning to put a baritone neck and a tremolo on this thing.

Just got a killer newer Ibanez Artcore - AG75, maybe? Traded an old hand drum for it. Two 'buckers, big ol' hollowbody, though a little smaller than a 175. Great damn guitar. Ibanez can do no wrong in terms of construction, in my opinion. Great value.

Got a mutant 70's 330-style hollowbody with a Japanese body, a sawed-off Hofner neck and two P-90s. Looks like the routing was done by a drunk blind man, but it plays great. Love that Hofner neck: wide, flat, thin, smooth and fast.

The pride of my collection goes back to my grandfather, though. He hired a guy out of prison in the '60s, and Clyde, the ex-con, wound up owing him money. He paid my grandpa with a solidbody electric (sort of Les Paul style, heavier than lead, with one DeArmond at the bridge) and a tenor banjo, both of which he made by hand in prison. They're pro-quality instruments by early '60s standards, and they have his last name right there on the headstock. So, yeah, I play a guitar made in prison.

(Clyde played on a record made in Marquette prison in '62, called The Lifer. It was written by another inmate, Alexander Gliva, and performed by inmates, recorded in the clink; since they couldn't exactly go down to Houston to record on Longhorn, the studio sent the engineer into Marquette to record it. Clyde got out in '64, worked for my grandpa, and went back to prison in '68 for the murder of his girlfriend and her husband. I met his family earlier this year, and they told me that Clyde reported to his daughter that killing them was like stepping on an ant. Pretty hard dude.)

Also passed down from my grandfather was a '48 Epiphone Blackstone archtop. Gorgeous guitar. It's not worth much monetarily, but this was his guitar. He died before I was born, so these guitars and the stories from my mom are the only way I know him. That Epi means the world to me.

Alex wins.

Yes, Alex does win.

I mess around a bit with my Japanese Strat, or the Gibson S1 through a Crate head on my Ampeg halfstack. I don't play well, but the more distortion goes up, the better it sounds! If I'm lazy and want to go unplugged, I've got a Sigma 6 string to play.

I also keep a tambourine close by, in case the ladies stop by. Nothing is sexier than a girl slapping a tam. on her hip.

Here's a link to a good friend of mine's site. If you click on the gallery, the blue left-handed bass is mine.

Tunesmith Guitars

I've seen some pretty amazing instruments come through his shop. He had a late 1800's Martin that was part guitar, part lute, and some other real oddities.

Funny, I've actually been playing A LOT in the last few weeks. The only guitar I have left is the first one I ever owned - 80's Ibanez, nothing fancy (no Floyd,) DiMarzio Al Dimeola humbucker, and my trusty Fender M-80 head and Carvin Cabinet (that hasn't been used since High School )

My bass is a berkeleying behemoth, and I love her. It's an old Peavey that was given to me. After playing shows, my back and shoulders would hurt for weeks.

petegossett wrote: What's mysterious about your sunburst Ricky bass???

Well, I'm pretty sure it's a copy, but all of the hardware and electronics are Rickenbacker. It looks like a 4001, but it has a bolt on neck. And it's made in the USA, and I've never seen a US made Ric copy. I've had a few people look at it, and no one can tell me what it is.