Welcome to The Fret, VP! Happy to have you with us here. : :
That was a little intro solo BTW!
Hi All:
My name is Viking Power and I am a long time guitar lover from the Seattle, Washington, USA area.
I have taught myself(to little avail) how to play guitar and bass over the last 23 years with a long break during the last 10 years or so.
I am now taking guitar lessons (my first was January 10th '09). Yay me! I finally convinced myself that you can still be cool AND take lessons: .
My genres of interest include (but aren't limited to!):
- punk
- surf
- rockabilly
- metal
- blues
- ska
- reggae
- psychobilly
I currently own an Epiphone Dreadnought-style 6 string acoustic, but am itching for an electric already !!!!!!!!
Welcome to The Fret, VP! Happy to have you with us here. : :
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Welcome VP, you may get V(i)P treatment here!
How did you come up with the name "Viking Power"?
The Law of Gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens.
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Nice to meetcha VP! I am a born and raised Tacoman, and lived in the Tacoma and Seattle area for the first 35 or so years of my life. I still am a Seattle to Olympia/Aberdeen sound fan, and like all your genres. Welcome!
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
I was also born in Tacoma... well, Madigan (MAMC) actually. I returned to WA, (Bremerton,) to take a professing position at Olympic College 94-97 before losing interest and moving on.
Welcome VP!
Cool Rocket! I did not know that. I have been many times to Ft. Lewis though I consider that more in between Lakewood and Spanaway, and my Dad is from Port Orchard, and a Navy man, so I am very familiar with Bremerton. Even ate at the Officer's mess there once.
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 to the gang!!
Been taking lessons for a few weeks and already off to the dark side. Seems about on schedule.
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.
There's also a negative side."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Guitars: Dean Sweet Wood 00R, Martin D2R, Guild D60, Guild D35NT, Morgan Monroe M30, OS baritone Uke
Good One!Originally Posted by Robert
Originally Posted by Robert
Viking Power came from two sources:
-I'm descended from the Vikings who settled in Normandy and then conquered England. I know, that makes me pretty cool, huh? Please note the sarcasm!
-Second source is a giant of a man from Norway named Svend Karlsen. World's Strongest Man 2001. He likes to yell "Viking Power" after each strongman heat. Now, he is actually pretty cool! :
I'm ex-Navy myself. Did 8 years. Been out since '96.Originally Posted by sunvalleylaw
Welcome aboard TheFret. You will find a fine cast and crew here to assist in your path to being a better guitarist - at least it is helping me :
You should fit right in here - I started playing in 1973, and then in '74 stopped for 33 years - now I'm re-learning - both with my old acoustic and some of them new fangled electric guitars that are taking the world by storm :
Once more, welcome.
Gil
Where ever you go, there you are
a 1973 Léro Model 58 Dreadnought; a 1998 Ovation 1861 Standard Balladeer Natural; Taka - a 2005 Squier '51 Black
Yume - a 2006 Squier Standard Strat Cherryburst; Houbi - a 2008 Fender VG Strat Blizzard Pearl won via fender.com
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Me too... Boomers ("41 for Freedom"), Retired in '89.Originally Posted by Viking Power
VP, welcome to the Fret!
I have a cousin that lives in Bremerton but other than that I know absolutely nothing about it.
It seems to me that welcoming a viking is like going looking for love at a crack-house. Nothing good can come of it.
But here goes nothing:
Welcome! Please pillage quietly, I have to work in the morning.
& ABSOLUTELY no raping or it's back to the high seas for you!
I pick a moon dog.
welcome!
"I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to whoever will take it... seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me."
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You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself." - Evel Knievel
Starting off with a solo!
Coolest. Intro. Ever.
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Welcome tol the fret Viking.I know you will like it here :
OG lose some PM's.good news is on the horizon.it said you were full up. :
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Velkommen Sir!