FAO Knoxxy And all guitar players out there

[Theo]

In one of my first bands, a four piece grindxcore group, none of us had a decent enough garage (thus is the benefits of living in a cotton industry town!), so we would hire a rehearsal studio at a little underground place next to a mill. The rooms were always un-ventilated, and a little bit grubby, but we'd always pile into my car, instruments on our laps. We needed three trips - Drums first, amps second, axes/mic stand third.. cost a bloody bomb in petrol!

Anyhooo.. the gXc we played was usually based around pentatonic scales played REALLY FAST.. that is until I brought in a fresh knowledge of Mixolydian We parted ways when they decided pop punk was a better direction.

[Jonlad]

i play a tom delonge strat, which is a nice guitar if you want a simple 'plug in and play' Like some of the other guys said, id go for a squier strat.

[Butuz]

Ive got a Squier Sandard Tele 20th anniversary edition in sunburst - its a bleenin loverly guitar, feels great, IMHO feels like a far more expensive guitar. I cant play yet, so i cant comment on how it plays

Bear in mind, it doesnt really matter how good you are, or how good your guitar is - if youve got a cheap ass crap practise amp you'll never sound like your rock and roll heroes

http://www.butuz.net/images/tele3.jpg

You all need one of them Personally i think every Hexus member should buy one off me

Butuz

[Skii]

Very nice Butuz, looks a fantastic set up.

I shouldn't drool, almost makes me want to start playing again

[CrapshoT]

[QUOTE=Theo]In one of my first bands, a four piece grindxcore group, none of us had a decent enough garage (thus is the benefits of living in a cotton industry town!), so we would hire a rehearsal studio at a little underground place next to a mill. The rooms were always un-ventilated, and a little bit grubby, but we'd always pile into my car, instruments on our laps. We needed three trips - Drums first, amps second, axes/mic stand third.. cost a bloody bomb in petrol![QUOTE]
ah my younger days i remember times like this those were the days, weekly trips to rehearsal studio the old miners hall they were indeed some of the finest moments of my life you must hold on to memories of days like these unless youre lucky enough to move on to better things but as in most cases
just damn good memories that make you feel good everybody no-matter how bad get their 15 minutes of fame just some use it better than others !!!

[Alex]

I don't think you necessarily need a 'good' make to start off with, there's plenty of people out there making imitation guitars which are really good value for money, especially to start with. I got a Crafter imitation PRS for £210 the other day, played around with it for about half an hour instore and compared it to some more expensive guitars from more expensive well known makes, and it was just as good as some for around £300.

Best bet is to go into a decent guitar shop and ask for advice, play around with a few different guitars, try a few different shops, may as well get something thats right for you. Where are you based, someone near you may be able to reccomend a few ood shops.

[Bazzlad]

My first guitar was a classical acoustic. Disgusting to play due to having the widest neck in the world, and I refused lessons, prefering to teach myself. My mom wouldn't buy me an electric until;
"You can play properly"
I was at school, no job, no money, I bought a broken Japenese electric guitar for £20. Fiddled inside, somehow fixed it, cleaned it, and cared for it. One of the best guitar's I've ever had. (It's in 2 pieces now after stage rage!)
Then I went into Sound Control and bought a new strat copy for £80.

When my band got our deal, my dad took me into sound control and said,
"you can have any guitar in here"

A salesman pounced coming out with
"You'll be looking at the Les Paul or classic fender ranges then"

My answer
"no"

After searching for 2 hours I found the best guitar I've ever played and bought it
Peavey V-Type EXP

http://www.peavey.com/products/shop_...code/2/v-t.cfm


(Styled like a SUPER telecaster - 2 humbuckers)
£350 - Unbelievably light, Great tone, for gigging or recording and actually looks like a rock guitar rather than the les paul "old man" look.
I'd seriously recommend giving it a try.

[Knoxville]

wow, someone dug up this thread, what did you get in the end skeps dude?

[Skeps]

wow, someone dug up this thread, what did you get in the end skeps dude?

Gibson Epiphone G-400 SG Korina ( not sure if I've posted pics on here before )

[Knoxville]

Ahh yeah, remember you posting a pic of that a while ago, can't remember where though

Nice one, carlsberg don't make guitars but if they did they'd probably be sg's (slight bias showing through there but i don't care )

[Rob]

but its a bit fooked, the strings are way too high from the fretboard due to bad repair.

High strings should be a fairly easy remedy. If it's the headstock end you just need to get a new 'nut' (The little bridge that the strings sit in on way to tuning heads). It's not a complicated job, I've changed a couple on my guitars now. Any decent muso shop should sell you one for a couple of quid.

[Knoxville]

http://wdmusicproducts.co.uk

they sell plastic, graphite and bone nuts for all kinda of guitars starting from about 80p

they also do loads of other stuff like custom scratch plates etc.

[Rob]

Oooh! Graphite sounds sexeh! Trouble is I only got my old classical guitar now... Think it might be a little overkill

[Knoxville]

Yeah that might be a step too far to be fair, unless you're gonna fit a floyd rose at the same time

[killgORE]

OMG.. I read through this entire thread ready to stamp my love of the pacifica all over it..

These guitars are the business and I learned on my brothers one... The day the git asked for it back. I died a little inside, and that part of me never came back *sighs*

Lost a lot of my electric guitar speed playing because I have no electric in my flat. Its back @ mums. But keeping going on a westfield acoustic. Usually jam some acoustic stuff at the moment. Bit of led zepplins acoustics is always fun.

If you have a guitar.. I see no reason to ever stop playing ! stopping is for quitters.

[CMC]

www.gak.co.uk

epiphone explorer gothinc, with floyd rose locking tremolo, all for £279 what a deal like, perfect if your a metal type player