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Post by The Bad Poodle Experience on Nov 3, 2014 21:17:56 GMT -7
Was listening to tapes of my band rehearsing back in high school. This is a short snippet of me on guitar and my buddy in drums in his mom's living room in a los Angeles suburb back in 1979. Dig the les Paul standard into the fender silver-faced twin. If you can make it to the end you can hear how i might have been a little into Jimmy page when i was 15.
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Post by simpleton on Nov 5, 2014 0:53:02 GMT -7
That sounded like a good time. Sweat, creativity, and a willing home to let you shake rattle and rock and roll...Man you sure played better in high school then I did. Great tone as usual, maybe it was/is in the hands?
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Post by The Bad Poodle Experience on Nov 5, 2014 11:00:25 GMT -7
thanks buddy...
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Post by Pete aka shouldb on Nov 13, 2014 8:27:00 GMT -7
Crikey Ian - 15 and playing a Les Paul Standard through a Fender silver face?? I got my first electric at 15...... a crappy Kay SG copy and no amp! Had to play it through my parents' gramophone (I rigged up my own cable converter so I didn't blow up the Mic In socket...... but I blew it up anyway! ). A Gibson guitar and a Fender valve amp might as well have been Moon rock and Martians to me in Northern Ireland back then! Oh, and the extent of my playing at 15 was strumming the few chords I knew, and working out the riff from Lyin' Eyes! Jimmy Page was still a couple of years in my future ........... Great stuff!!
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Post by The Bad Poodle Experience on Nov 13, 2014 9:52:01 GMT -7
Pete,
As my dad was vp of sales for the company selling the Kay, Teisco Del Rey and Checkmate brands in the 60's and 70's, i had my share of crappy Kay SG copies and horrible sounding checkmate amps. And, because I was the youngest of 3 boys, we always had guitars in the house so i started at 8 or 9 years old. When I started making noise about having a "proper" fender or gibson guitar, my dad would tell me that I was merely going to pay for a name and that i could just as easily slap a pickup and strings on a scrap of lumber for a lot less money (sounds like a salesman!!!!). So, it took some doing to get that les paul and fender. Not complaining though....
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Post by Pete aka shouldb on Nov 13, 2014 11:39:19 GMT -7
Pete, As my dad was vp of sales for the company selling the Kay, Teisco Del Rey and Checkmate brands in the 60's and 70's, i had my share of crappy Kay SG copies and horrible sounding checkmate amps. And, because I was the youngest of 3 boys, we always had guitars in the house so i started at 8 or 9 years old. When I started making noise about having a "proper" fender or gibson guitar, my dad would tell me that I was merely going to pay for a name and that i could just as easily slap a pickup and strings on a scrap of lumber for a lot less money (sounds like a salesman!!!!). So, it took some doing to get that les paul and fender. Not complaining though.... Man, that sounds familiar!! Great you had such a musical household growing up - that really helps! My kids all got exposed to music from birth, and the eldest is now Head of Music at a local school, a part time opera singer, and gigs a jazz band...... I think I overdid it a bit there I had a mother who sang in the local church choir, and that was it....... dad and brother TOTALLY tone deaf! HAHA! ..... some might say that about me too, come to think of it
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Post by The Bad Poodle Experience on Nov 13, 2014 14:28:05 GMT -7
Hey Pete...
I've been looking at those DZPL guitars....the Zenyatta, not the Strettavia. I've got G.A.S. for a vintage sunburst. oye!
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Post by Pete aka shouldb on Nov 13, 2014 15:56:55 GMT -7
Yep, that is a beauty! I reckon with my PRS in house now, my "need" would move away from a Strettavita as well, to something other...... maybe semi-hollow, maybe a Zenyatta, who knows?? I need to get Christmas out of the way fist though, so I have plenty of time to consider
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