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Post by slasher on Jan 17, 2014 14:10:23 GMT
I borrowed a Fender Strat and amplifier some years ago. Quite fun, indeed a blast, but I don't think the family were impressed. So unless I was to join a loud band I could not really see the point. I was in a folk band for a while but we were fully acoustic. I once attended what was described as an "Acoustic Night" locally, only to find that absolutely everyone plugged-in*. Only acoustic and squeezebox for me.
*including instruments that could only be played plugged-in---solid bass, keyboards....
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Post by jonnymosco on Jan 17, 2014 17:07:18 GMT
But can you tell if an acoustic guitarist started on electric? I didn't, never really have and unlikely that I ever will.
Jonny
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Post by ararat66 on Jan 17, 2014 18:54:25 GMT
Started acoustic, went acoustic and electric and semi acoustic, back to acoustic when I left home at 19, stayed there ever since. I would still like an electric ... I'd LOVE a 335.
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Post by alig on Jan 17, 2014 19:12:30 GMT
Started acoustic, went acoustic and electric and semi acoustic, back to acoustic when I left home at 19, stayed there ever since. I would still like an electric ... I'd LOVE a 335. Leon Got one I'm planning to punt this year... Alasdair. |
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Post by the23rdman on Jan 26, 2014 18:21:40 GMT
I have two electrics to one acoustic right now and I've been pondering this question for most of the day. Although I do love my Tele I find that I'd much rather sit and noodle with an acoustic doing a bit of fingerpicking.
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Post by vikingblues on Jan 26, 2014 18:47:53 GMT
I have two electrics to one acoustic right now and I've been pondering this question for most of the day. Although I do love my Tele I find that I'd much rather sit and noodle with an acoustic doing a bit of fingerpicking. Ah, good - not just me then. Not a Tele in my case but that 2:1 ratio (4:2 to be exact, but same proportion) is just the same as is my preference for playing acoustic. If this continues for several months I'll have a very difficult task to try to justify still having 4 electrics. Though hopefully that 4:2 will be at least 4:3 by then!  |
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Post by the23rdman on Jan 26, 2014 20:43:54 GMT
I have two electrics to one acoustic right now and I've been pondering this question for most of the day. Although I do love my Tele I find that I'd much rather sit and noodle with an acoustic doing a bit of fingerpicking. Ah, good - not just me then. Not a Tele in my case but that 2:1 ratio (4:2 to be exact, but same proportion) is just the same as is my preference for playing acoustic. If this continues for several months I'll have a very difficult task to try to justify still having 4 electrics. Though hopefully that 4:2 will be at least 4:3 by then! The ratio will definitely be changing at some point soon. I'm likely to buy either a dred or 12 string because my Recording King is not an ideal strummer. The problem I have is the age old one of not enough space and a wife that doesn't entirely understand the need for more guitars.  |
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Post by leoroberts on Jan 27, 2014 11:50:12 GMT
Explain to her that it's more expensive to change a wife than get a new guitar |
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Post by the23rdman on Jan 27, 2014 12:14:07 GMT
Explain to her that it's more expensive to change a wife than get a new guitar I have made similar suggestions. She seems to think that I would miss that part of my anatomy though... |
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Post by sigmadel on Feb 8, 2014 14:11:51 GMT
With no gigs in the pipeline for some time my brother in law asked me up for a jam with him and his daughter who plays a bit of bass . He has currently 5 electrics and owns my American strat , and an Epi Les Paul and SG . He's just bought a Burns Cobra too so anyways he's given me my SG back and I'd kinda forgotten how much fun it is . Its pure rocknroll and easy to play as I'd done the set up myself . I got some new strings from stringbusters three sets of dadarrio for 9.80 and some heavy picks . And bingo . Now I'm still an acoustic man but rock music is in my bones and I suppose always will be .
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Post by Akquarius on Feb 9, 2014 12:42:42 GMT
But can you tell if an acoustic guitarist started on electric? I didn't, never really have and unlikely that I ever will. Jonny Andy McKee mentioned having started on an electric, as far as I know. That's the only one I've heard of, though. |
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Post by jonnymosco on Feb 9, 2014 18:45:04 GMT
Interesting... also, is it possible to spot a steel-string player who started out on classical?
Jonny
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Post by terrymac on Feb 18, 2014 14:23:20 GMT
I have three Gibson acoustics and a Les Paul Custom which lives in its case for months at a time.
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Post by clydeslide on Feb 18, 2014 14:30:28 GMT
Interesting... also, is it possible to spot a steel-string player who started out on classical? Jonny Maybe so, I always think my left hand is a bit of a give-away. Although I've developed some bad, steel-string habits |
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Post by curmudgeon on Mar 26, 2014 19:14:53 GMT
I am acoustic guitarist - 15(ish) years of riding a drum kit with Marshall stacks either side of me with consequential hearing damage was enough screaming electric guitar for me.
A pretty young lady promised me certain "delights" if I took her to the Cambridge folk Fest to see a guy called Tom Rush who captivated men, women (and me) with just a voice and an Epiphone Texan convinced me that the was another way to play music and entertain by caressing eardrums rather than assaulting them.
I can no longer go to electriuc gigs and when in doubt - I take earplugs.
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