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- Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:16 am
- Forum: The Blues Room - Your Songs
- Topic: Mining the Sea
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6304
Re: Mining the Sea
This is lovely! I admire the way you can play in different tunings. I have trouble keeping track just when I switch to open G (DGDGBD) for slide. You may not be playing blues, but I can certainly hear the emotion in your playing on this.
- Sat Feb 17, 2018 6:19 pm
- Forum: Blues Guitar Playing
- Topic: Do you use Blues Licks to solo?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 18007
Re: Do you use Blues Licks to solo?
I started learning electric blues by wearing out vinyl and phonograph needles. I learned licks, then deconstructed them to see why they worked. I would then put them back together in various ways, work on phrasing and dynamics, and make up my own, as well. I look at that as gettion a basic vocabular...
- Sat Feb 17, 2018 5:45 pm
- Forum: Blues Guitar Playing
- Topic: Hello from Texas
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12475
Re: Hello from Texas
Howdy from Northern New Mexico.
Lots of great blues players from Texas. One, (an acquaintence of mine, friend of my bass player) is Carolyn Wonderland. She just landed a spot as guitar player for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
- Fri Jan 26, 2018 12:08 am
- Forum: Guestbook, Site News, Admin Notes, Forum Rules
- Topic: Spammers and stats...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13029
Re: Spammers and stats...
You do a great job, Gerd. I only wish that I could participate more. This is a great forum, I have steered a couple of people here from a facebonk guitar page I frequent, but don't know if they have checked it out.
- Sun Jan 14, 2018 7:14 pm
- Forum: Gear
- Topic: Update on the new Sheraton.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8466
Re: Update on the new Sheraton.
Did you modify the PU's it by yourself? Those are the stock pickups in the 2016 model. I haven't done anything to it but play it. My brother did a set up on it and changed the strings to .11's before he mailed it to me. I am liking it a lot. It even stays in tune very well. (that's important... my ...
- Sun Jan 14, 2018 2:36 am
- Forum: Gear
- Topic: Update on the new Sheraton.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8466
Update on the new Sheraton.
25734017_10209487763505188_1572632394893530458_o.jpg I've been gigging with the new Sheraton for a few month now, and I have some conclusions... I like the Probucker pickups better than the '80 Gibson 490's that I had put into my '69 SG recently. They are very responsive and the coil tap feature is...
- Sun Jan 14, 2018 2:15 am
- Forum: The Blues Room - Your Songs
- Topic: Tom’s Boogie
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5412
Re: Tom’s Boogie
Damn nice boogie. I wish could listen without interruptions, but my internet connection is lame.
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:24 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Keeping me busy ....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14962
Re: Keeping me busy ....
Aawww!
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:19 pm
- Forum: Gear
- Topic: Pickups replacement for BB King tone
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8168
Re: Pickups replacement for BB King tone
If I were you, I would work on playing technique and amp settings before changing pickups. I have a Sheraton and really like how the stock Probuckers react with my amp. If you must change the pickups, try some Gibson 57's or Lollars.
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 6:35 pm
- Forum: The Blues Room - Your Songs
- Topic: The new Sheraton!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5940
Re: The new Sheraton!
Thank you, gentlemen.
Gerd, you are absoutly right, I do have a good band.
I may try to do some kind of vid showing the difference between the tapped and not tapped sound on this guitar. The coil tap function is more useful than I expected.
Gerd, you are absoutly right, I do have a good band.
I may try to do some kind of vid showing the difference between the tapped and not tapped sound on this guitar. The coil tap function is more useful than I expected.
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 6:31 pm
- Forum: The Blues Room - Your Songs
- Topic: Blues for Michael
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5903
Re: Blues for Michael
Very nice!
I like the tone from the Cube.
I like the tone from the Cube.
- Sun Oct 22, 2017 4:53 am
- Forum: Gear
- Topic: Epiphonic Blind Test
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10304
Re: Epiphonic Blind Test
And the Winner is BlindBoy :clap: :clap: :clap: :thumbsup: Woo Hoo! :high5: I wasn't sure, but I agree with VB that many new high end guitars have pickups that are not the same as the vintage ones. My favorite Strat pickups that I have tried are my mid 70's pickups on my Strat and the mid 60's vers...
- Wed Oct 18, 2017 1:19 am
- Forum: The Blues Room - Your Songs
- Topic: The new Sheraton!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5940
The new Sheraton!
This is from the second time I've plugged this new guitar in. It is very different from the Strat that I am used to, but I really think I will be able to find the magic in it.
https://youtu.be/n-emcBV7RcA
As always, please forgive the poor recording quality and all mistakes.
I like this guitar!
https://youtu.be/n-emcBV7RcA
As always, please forgive the poor recording quality and all mistakes.
I like this guitar!
- Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:53 pm
- Forum: Gear
- Topic: Epiphonic Blind Test
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10304
Re: Epiphonic Blind Test
:icon_whoknows: They sound very close to me. I agree with VB that the first one sounds a bit more articulate and the second one a bit thicker. My experience with Gibson and Epiphone (I have and play both) tells me that this could be a toss up. So, simply to cover the bases, I'll guess that the secon...
NGD!
This doesn't happen very often. This beauty showed up in the mail today.
- Thu Oct 05, 2017 3:06 am
- Forum: The Blues Room - Your Songs
- Topic: Squier Blues
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6073
Re: Squier Blues
Nice!
I always like to see someone play with fingers, rather than a pick. Sounds good.
I always like to see someone play with fingers, rather than a pick. Sounds good.
- Thu Oct 05, 2017 3:02 am
- Forum: Blues Talk'n Web
- Topic: R.I.P. Tom Petty
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6023
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Very sad. I wasn't that big a fan, but he had some songs that I really liked playing. Another great one gone.
- Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:45 pm
- Forum: The Blues Room - Your Songs
- Topic: Over Three Months
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5774
Re: Over Three Months
:clap: :clap: I really like the Empty Bed Blues. I have enough trouble playing well in standard tuning that I don't even try alternates (aside from slide). This reminded me of something Mississippi John Hurt might do. I thought that the Google titled piece sounded very cool. What a fun approach to i...
- Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:12 pm
- Forum: Blues Talk'n Web
- Topic: Sorry
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8238
Re: Sorry
Very sorry to hear this, Gerd. Health issues can be overwhelming. I hope you can improve soon.