Reply With QuoteHey man, good to have you here! You've found a great place to hang out. It is full o friendly people. Thanks for joining and make yourself at home!
Regular Fretter
Howdy, Robert
I was pleased to find out this forum is your baby, Robert. I have had Dolfinstreet as a favorite for some time. I have stalked around at Gear page, Harmony central, and am a refugee from the fender forum. I am a 62 y.o. f*ck, in construction and hating my life as I should have spent it on guitar. I play everyday, now. Competent, but wanting to get better. I'm looking for a way to get out of working all the time, and just get good before I die.
I have a MIA Stratocaster Delux. 50th anniversity 2 tone sunburst, and it, for whatever reason the gods have, is my main guitar. I also have 2 real nice Tele's.
But, I realized tonight, I'm just not a Tele guy. I dig Mr. Paisley, and have all his stuff, but, man, I cant play clean on a Tele. Popa Chubby, Matt Schofield, are my main heroes.
I play blues in a traditional way with lots of stretching into the next tone ,but I am working on developing a tight, punchy style that moves into position up and down the neck. That is my goal for now. No more straining.
I found your forum after googling "Is stratocaster the best guitar ever?" Ha ha.
Anyway, I find you to be a real gentleman, and I am glad to be here.
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements...
Hey man, good to have you here! You've found a great place to hang out. It is full o friendly people. Thanks for joining and make yourself at home!
The Law of Gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens.
Master Guitar Academy - I also teach via SKYPE.
Regular Fretter
Welcome! Teles can be hard to play. Used my '52 RI at practice last night on a Jason Mraz (sp?) song and all those jazzy chords were a challenge to say the least.
Despite that, I'm still a Tele man over Strats. Different strokes!
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Valar Morghulis
Welcome to The Fret, Taurus!
I like Tele's, Strat's, Les Pauls, and most anything with P90's or TV Jones pickups, etc., etc... (I guess I'm a guitar slut)
This is a good place full of great folks that are enablers of GAS, so try to fight sudden impulse buying of gear.
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
Canucklehead
Welcome to the Fret Taurus!
Cheers
Gearlist:
Electric: Ibanez 'AS103', Fender Dlx Nash Pwr Tele, Fender Squier '62 JV Strat, Squier '51, Squier 60's Classic Vibe Strat, Epi Elite LP Studio, Hagstrom Swede Acoustic: Larrivee LV-03RE, A&L AMI, Yamaha FG340-T Bass: Yamaha BB 450 Amps: Roland JC-120, JC-50, Peavey Classic 30, Fender Super Champ XD Pedals: Marshall Guv'nor Plus, Danelectro Cool Cat Drive, Transparent Overdrive, Digitech Digiverb, Bad Monkey, Ibanez TS-9, Boss AC-2, CE-5, CS-2, DD-3, DF-2, DS-1, FV-100, GE-7, OC-2, PSM-5, SD-1, TU-2, DVM~BYOC 'Lush Puppy' Chorus
Displaced Texan
Welcome aboard, Taurus! I share your goal in life -- to get get good before I die -- as well as your opinion of Robert, a class act to be sure.
Advanced Fretter
Nice to have you here Taurus, I also end up here after following the Dolphin Street web page !
Guitars:
1978 Fender Telecaster Thinline Custom USA, New Nash TL-72 Thinline Telecaster, 1965 Harmony Meteor, H71, 1986 Fender Telecaster Esquire MIJ, New Martin J-41 Special, 1933 National Duolian, 1941, New Eastwood Mandocaster 12 strings
Amps:
Tweed Vibrolux Custom Denis Manlay, 1976 Fender Deluxe Reverb Silverface
Regular Fretter
Thanks for the warm welcome, all.
Brian, it's that damned 'ashtray' on the Tele that makes it a struggle for me. I've thought about taking the bridge off, and milling down the flange on the upper edge. I can mute the heavy strings on a Strat without even thinking about it. With the Tele, I'm droning like a sitar half the time.
Jipes, you live in Alsace, where the make Fischer-LaBelle? Unreal, man.
Advanced Fretter
Not far indeed, love that beerOriginally Posted by Taurus
Guitars:
1978 Fender Telecaster Thinline Custom USA, New Nash TL-72 Thinline Telecaster, 1965 Harmony Meteor, H71, 1986 Fender Telecaster Esquire MIJ, New Martin J-41 Special, 1933 National Duolian, 1941, New Eastwood Mandocaster 12 strings
Amps:
Tweed Vibrolux Custom Denis Manlay, 1976 Fender Deluxe Reverb Silverface
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements...
Haven't heard that one! French beer is not common here.
Jipes, have you tried anything from http://www.unibroue.com?
These guys also make great beer - http://mcauslan.com/
The Law of Gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens.
Master Guitar Academy - I also teach via SKYPE.
Advanced Fretter
No Robert I think I have drink once the Blanche Chambly but I usually drink beer only when I'm playing gigs. At home I favour white wine
Guitars:
1978 Fender Telecaster Thinline Custom USA, New Nash TL-72 Thinline Telecaster, 1965 Harmony Meteor, H71, 1986 Fender Telecaster Esquire MIJ, New Martin J-41 Special, 1933 National Duolian, 1941, New Eastwood Mandocaster 12 strings
Amps:
Tweed Vibrolux Custom Denis Manlay, 1976 Fender Deluxe Reverb Silverface
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