Reply With QuoteWelcome to the Fret! I'm not horribly far from you. We had a conference up there a couple of years ago.
Regular Fretter
Michigander
Hi all,
I'm Bill from Indian River MI, a tourist trap and vacation land for down Stater's. I cater to cottage owners and their landscaping and maintenance needs but am very, very close to retiring and handing it off to the kids. I love Olympic archery, traditional archery and fishing and photography. Married for 30 years, mostly happy, especially now. Life is pretty good, praise the Lord!
Winters are long and spent indoors most of the time loading the wood stove. I decided I'm going to strike up guitar playing again after years away from it. I own a Seagull S6 acoustic and a Squier Standard Tele with a Warmoth 1 3/4" nut Fat U shaped neck with a 10 amp Fender amp.
I have justinguitar.com DVD beginners guitar method set and that's going along fine. A lot of it is a refresher course but fun. I have so much to learn and look forward to meeting and talking with many of you.
Bill
Reverend Rawk
Welcome to the Fret! I'm not horribly far from you. We had a conference up there a couple of years ago.
Axen: Jackson DK2M, Fender Deluxe Nashville Telecaster, Reverend Warhawk 390, Taylor 914ce, ESP LTD Surveyor-414
Amphen: Jet City JCA22H and JCA12S cab, Carvin X-60 combo, Acoustic B20
Effecten: "Thesis 96" Overdrive/Boost (aka DVM OD2), Hardwire DL-8 Digital Delay/Looper, DigiTech Polara Reverb, DigiTech EX-7 Expression Factory and CF-7 Chorus Factory, Danelectro CF-1 Cool Cat Fuzz
"I wish Imagine Dragons would be stuck in an Arcade Fire for an entire Vampire Weekend."--Brian Posehn
Regular Fretter
Welcome! Glad to have you here.
Guitars:
Fender 2006 MIM Fender Stratocaster HSS in 3TS
Ibanez RG 570 with a bridge Invader
ESP M II Deluxe with a Tune-o-Matic bridge
Eleanor, the magical, mystical Road Worn wonder Tele
Blackstar HT Club 40
Hopeless Noodler
Welcome aboard The Fret!
-Sean
Guitars: Lots.
Amphs: More than last year.
Pedals: Many, although I go straight from guitar to amp more often lately.
Luke Skyrawker
Hi and welcome Bill. I hope you'll find our community useful for your resurgent endeavor.
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
Contributing Member
Welcome Bill!
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
- j. johnson
Valar Morghulis
Welcome to The Fret, Bill!
You'll find many of us have returned to guitar playing after time away. Looks like you have some good gear to start with.
Be sure to check out Robert's video lessons he posts here or at http://www.dolphinstreet.com/guitar_video_lessons/
Guitar: Gibson SG Standard Natural Burst, Squier CV 50's Tele, Hell Guitars No. 2, Squier CV 50's Strat, Reverend Club King 290, Taylor 522e 12-Fret mahogany,
Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar Bass Short Scale
Amp: Fender Super Champ X2 Head, Egnater Tweaker 15, Fender Mustang I, Acoustic B20 1x12 bass amp
Pedal: Budda Budwah wah, Wampler Ego Compressor, Electro-Harmonix Soul Food, Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive, Wampler Velvet Fuzz, Seven Sisters Eve Tremolo, TC Electronics Gravy Tri Chorus & Vibrato, Catalinbread Echorec, TC Electronic Alter Ego 2 Delay, Hardwire Supernatural Ambient Verb, MXR Carbon Copy, Catalinbread RAH, Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker, BYOC Mouse 2.0 Distortion, BYOC Boost/OD-2
Advanced Fretter
I started with Justin Guitar too, though I just used his online stuff, and gave him a donation.
I get more out of lessons with a real person though, so I don't much do the whole online lesson thing anymore.
Regular Fretter
Grettings from S.E. Michigan - Welcome to the Fret : )
Regular Fretter
Thanks for the link, Tig. Robert sounds like a great teacher as well.
Bill
Master Fretter
Hi Bill. Nice to have you here!
Guitars: Gibson LP Studio, MIA Fender Precision, Carvin C350Originally Posted by Spudman
Amps: Genz Benz Shuttle 6.0 + Avatar B212 / Genzler 12-3, Acoustic B20
Pedals: Pod HD500X, Diamond Compressor, Tech 21 VT Bass, Sonic Research Turbo Tuner
Regular Fretter
Welcome aboard!
bigG
Guitars:
Gibson Les Paul Studio Faded Cherry Mahogany, Peavey HP Signature EXP, Epi Sheraton II, Fender Standard Fat Strat, original 1982 Made in the USA Fender Bullet (w original HSC)/ 2005 Martin HD-7 Roger McGuinn Signature Edition (#102 of 250), Martin M-36 (0000), Martin OM-21, Martin 000-15M, Hohner EL-SP Plus Parlor acoustic
Amps: Swart Space Tone 6V6se, Swart Night Light Power Attenuator/compressor/stereo line-out, Peavey Windsor Studio, Vox AD50VT, Fender Super Champ XD, Vox DA15, Marshall MG10KK, '83 Peavey Bandit 65
Pedals: Cry Baby 535q wah, Bad Monkey OD, Boss DS-1, Sabine FuzzStortion, HardWire RV-7 Reverb
www.swartamps.com
www.ericjosephelectricguitars.com
Carpe diem, brother, cause you don't know how many diems you have left to carpe.
Displaced Texan
I'm glad you joined The Fret, welcome!
Regular Fretter
Welcome Scout!
Brr. Michigan in winter. At least, I bet it's warm now though.
Visit Crash Pad at:
http://www.CrashPadBand.com
http://www.facebook.com/CrashPadBand
Gear List/Pics:
http://krashpad.fortunecity.com/brian.html
Read a review:
http://www.ink19.com/issues/july2002.../crashPad.html
Regular Fretter
Hey Bill been to Indian River many times. My brother used to live in Brighton, Michigan and we would hunt and fish up there. Stayed at the Star Gate Motel a couple of times and ate some wonderful meals at the lovely Brown trout restaurant. Also ate at Vivios Italian place a couple of doors down, and a great little breakfast place that also sold bait.
We stayed at the Star gate because they would allow our hunting dogs. We also stayed in a place about a 1/2 mile further out of town in some cottages. I don't remember the name of that one. We also stayed up by Mackinac a couple of times but hunted in the indian river area for Grouse.
A wonderful vacation spot for sure. My brother has since moved back to Canada to retire but we are planning another trip up there this fall.
Small world to be sure!
We really liked the hospitality up there and everyone was very friendly.
Spent many hours on the two tracks throughout northern Michigan many great memories.
The Blues is alright!
Guitars: 1968 Gibson SG, 2005 Gibson SG Standard, 2006 Gibson LP Classic Gold top, 2004 Epiphone Elitist LP Custom, 1996 Gibson Les Paul Standard. 2001 Epiphone Sheraton II, 2007 Epiphone G400.
Fender Strats: 1996 Fender 68 Reissue CIJ, 2008 Squier CV 50s, 2009 Squier CV 50s Tele Butterescotch Blonde
Amps: Blues Junior Special edition Jensen in Brown Tolex with Wheat front, 65 Deluxe Reverb reissue,1970 Sonax reverb by Traynor, Avatar Custom 2/12 Cabinet with Eminence Legend V1216 speakers,
2008 DSL100 Marshall Amp , Fender Super Champ XD,Fender Vibro Champ XD
Effects and Pedals: Fulltone Fulldrive II, Fulltone OCD, Fulltone Mini Deja Vibe, Fulltone Fat Boost, Dunlop Crybaby Wah, Boss DS1, Boss DD20 Giga Delay, Boss TU2 tuner, Boss BD2, Ibanez TS9 Tube screamer, Zoom 505. Radial tonebone hot british.
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