Welcome to The Fret, Hampus! You have many fellow Swedes here, as well as many who have returned to the guitar after time away.
Hey!
Now that I passed 30, and some, I'm taking up playing the guitar again. I first started playing when I was eight or nine or somwehere around that age but I never really learned the basics about music, just the guitar. Something I suffered from later. When in high school, playing in bands i discovered I had a problem (serious problem) with timing and rythm that put me off playing until just recently. I only picked up a guitar a few times during the last 12 or 13 years.
Anyway, i'm starting from the basics and I think my problem is in my head, as I seem to do better with the timing and rythm when I'm a bit drunk go figure...
As my guitar, a very nice Fender Heartfield Talon IV was stolen last year, I'm now playing my old nylon stringed acoustic, for better or worse. If I ever find who stole my guitar I'll rip his arms off and beat him up with the bloody ends! I'll get another one eventually though, when I think I deserved it.
That's me
/Hampus, Sweden
Welcome to The Fret, Hampus! You have many fellow Swedes here, as well as many who have returned to the guitar after time away.
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
Welcome to thefret Hampus. Sorry to hear about the guitar. Those are pretty nice. Do you have any pictures of the guitar? We can help keep an out out for it.
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
Tjena Hampus! Where are in Sweden are you? I am Swede who moved to Canada in 1999.
Welcome to the Fret!
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.
Hejsan!
Down south, Malmö. How's Canada treating you?
/Hampus
Canada is great. Come visit!
I am from Umea originally.
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.
Canada is on my list of places to visit. Umea is nice, although it's been two years since I was last there.
/Hampus
Welcome aboard, Hampus!
Welcome Hampus!
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
Welcome!
Glad you joined our happy group.
Guitars
Wilburn Versatare, '52 FrankenTele(Fender licensed parts), Fender USA Roadhouse Strat, Fender USA Standard B-bender Telecaster, Agile AL 3000 w/ WCR pickups, Ibanez MIJ V300 Acoustic, Squier Precision Bass,
Amps
Ceriatone Overtone Special, Musicman 212 Sixty-Five, Fender Blues Jr., Peavey Classic 30, Fender Super Reverb, Traynor YCV-40 WR Anniversary w/ matching 1x12 ext. cab, Epiphone SoCal 50w head w/ matching 4x12 cab (Lady Luck speakers), Avatar 2x12 semi-open back cab w/ Celestion speakers
Pedals
Digitech Bad Monkey, Digitech Jamman, DVM's ZYS, Goodrich volume pedal
Welcome aboard!
-Sean
Guitars: Lots.
Amphs: More than last year.
Pedals: Many, although I go straight from guitar to amp more often lately.
Welcome to TheFret Hampus!
I wish I had pictures. The hard drive fell in the floor and broke. I had just backed up all my photos on it. More than 10.000 pictures lost I might have some of them backed up on an older HD somewhere though. It's a shame that it got stolen, it was an awesome guitar. It was a Talon IV from -91, Montego Black (black with discrete sparkles), Floyd Rose Pro Tremolo, 24 frets with shark fin inlays, with a small pink inlay above the bigger one on the 12th and 24th fret. Very fast slim neck, 17" radius and 25.5" scale length. DiMarzio humbuckers at bridge and neck and a single coil inbetween.
I remeber buying it as a teenager, I was maybe 16 or 17. I had an old Fenix strat that wasn't very good, but it was all I knew. I went to a local music store with the intent of buying a real strat and I saw this one sitting in a stand. It was second hand and in superb condition except for two dents on the top of the head. I asked to test it and after playing the lousy Fenix it was like seeing the light, such difference. It was priced at 5000 SEK ($700) in -96 or -97, sold new for around $1100 in -91. Too much for me, but I gave them the down payment and asked them to keep it safe for me, then saved up for months handing out around 2000 commerial leaflets a week on my bike. Probably the best guitar I'll ever own/hve owned. And now some one else is feeling her up
My next guitar (saving up again) will be a Hagstrom (Hagström) Viking. A totally different guitar but I don't play the same music as I did then. As for playability, I find that it matches the Heartfield quite well.
/Hampus
Edit: Info about, and pictures of the guitars can be found here: http://heartfield-central.com/