You have any of your recordings on line?
Nah, I basically just set everything up and did a recording of Wind Cries Mary and Blitzkreig just to make sure I knew how it all worked. I just sit here and play while the Spurs games are on. I'm going to do some bass videos for my youtube account at some point.
I'll do a couple of samples just so people can hear how good the Behringer sounds.
Can you post some of your work later?
Sure, but it's not like I have any writing ability. I'll be playing someone else's stuff.
http://www.guitarcenter.com/Epiphone...70-i1150103.gc
Well, i went to Guitar Center, didn't buy one cuz I'm want to see if I can find it on ebay for cheaper.
This is the one that's around my price range, the one DR posted. I love the way it looks, but it's a bolted on neck, the one I really loved was an Epiphone Les Paul STND, better, but it was 519. DAMN! I want it, but I don't want to spend over 300 rite now.
This is one
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ayphotohosting
What do you think about the Cheaper one here? Anyone? Remember I want to play U2, G&R, Aerosmith type suff.
Featuring the legendary Les Paul!
What's so special about the Les Paul Special II Player Pack? The super-low price for starters, and that's not all. The Epiphone Les Paul Special II is made with a bolt-on mahogany neck, basswood body, smooth 22-fret rosewood fingerboard, dot inlays, and chrome hardware. This baby is every bit as handsome as its uptown cousins. Dual humbuckers—700T at the bridge, 650R at the neck—deliver long, singing sustain and true LP tones.
This package also includes an Epiphone Studio 10 amplifier with 10W power through an 8" Electar Labs speaker; rugged gig bag; instructional video; pitch pipe; plus a strap, cable, and picks to put it all together. Everything you need to get going!
Epiphone Les Paul Special II Player Pack Features:
- Epiphone LP Special II
- Mahogany neck
- Rosewood fretboard
- Basswood body
- 650R neck humbucker
- 700T bridge humbucker
- Chrome hardware
- Epiphone Studio 10 amp
- 10W power
- 8" Electar Labs speaker
- Master volume
- Boost switch
- Gain control
- 3-band EQ
- Headphone jack
- Also includes
- Gig bag
- Instructional video
- Pitch pipe
- Strap, cable, and picks
I'm headed to Ebay right now, this cheaper package I posted here is 259 or 269 at the store.
This one might be a pretty good starter guitar for around $300, might be able to find it cheaper elsewhere...
http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/p...tar?sku=517233
And since you dig GnR you could always upgrade the axe with a couple of these down the road...
http://accessories.musiciansfriend.c...ver?sku=301059
Lot of good information here ..
I personally would recommend the Epiphone Special ii. Cheap, LesPaul model (thus, very cool and perfect pickups for your "style" of music), and still a very quality guitar for the price, probably < $230 with tax.
If you have the money, I'd also get a cheap keyboard. You might snag one on special for less than $100. It will do wonders for training your ear and understanding music theory, besides the plethora of sounds and beats that can now accompany your guitar playing and get you learning rhythm and time.
Thought I'd give my me-50 a plug =P
Definitely the easiest multi-FX pedal for me - those digital ones just don't do me justice. I'd rather play with the knobs to get the sound I want, much easier micromanagement, and the tones are nearly flawless for a $300 (relatively inexpensive) investment.
I own an ME 50 as well. Compared to the other options, being digital multi-fx or a plethra of pedals, it's a great addtion to have.
I use it with my amp at home as well as live through a sound board. It sounds awesome. The only drawback might be the difference in sound level with the flanger effect.
When you're ready to start getting into effects the ME-50 is the way to go.
I have a Beringer Virtulizer Pro Rackmount which is nice, so I'd imagine the V-Amp a pretty cool toy.
Personally, I'd spend some time at www.harmony-central.com. They have user reviews on guitars, amps, effects, ect. It's been incredibly useful and informative. If I need to find out about a product I go there.You want to know how well a product will work, ask your fellow peers and professional musicians.
IMO you shouldn't need to spend more than $200-$250 to get a decent guitar properly setup.
Good luck.
Dude you better get one of the complete packages amp N Guitar for 250-300 that has been posted here. Don't be so worried about quality right now.
Save your money for the effect pedals. trust me with the right effects you can't tell a 2,000 dollar guitar from a 400.00 dollar guitar.
You may find out after 5 days your not meant to play guitar, I have seen it happen many times.
Besides learning on a cheap guitar makes you have to play harder. The strings are raised you have to press down harder and when you finally do go to a good 800.00- 1,200 dollar guitar it will be a very easy transition.
Stop talking about Guns N Roses you will be lucky to play smoke on the water after a month.
LMAO +1
BTW, the solo on "Crazy" is something on my list to learn as well. It'll be a little while before you can jump into stuff like solos, though. After you've picked up the chords and start to learn songs, John Mayer's stuff is really fun to play. I bought the "Continuum" tab book and found it pretty easy to pick up. You like his music more 10-fold once you start to play it
I played from 1979-1986 and to this day can't even play the solo from Chicago's 25 6 to 4
Besides if you haven't been playing or taking lessons since elementary school chances are you will not really be American idol material.
That's why it's cool to get drunk smoke a joint turn off the lights light up your black light and just have fun. Real guitar playing is a discipline and hard work your better off playing Keys or Base if you don't want to be frustrated.
Where is Manny Duff and JT they are serious guitar players they should be helping my young brother through these difficult times.
JT has a sweet Gibson LesPaul with a mini Marshall stack that rocks.
I recently picked the guitar up again after many years. Yamaha Acoustic is what I'm using right now. I still suck but I'm working on it.
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Mouse, with your tough love, I chose to get this, it was 269, 291 with tax. I'm about to open it up. Thanks for all the advice and i'll practice on the songs you recommended too. Thanks abunch, and i'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks to everyone for your advice and help, I decided I didn't want to spend over 300 in the beginning, Mouse didn't let me get sidetracked.
Awesome! Congrats and have fun!
This is so weired I went and bought this today!
You believe me right?
Brah unless you post pics of you playing the Guitar, and a quick music video on YouTube I can't give you props just yet.
Can you learn smoke on the water by Monday?
Make sure you don't over tune the last two strings they can break on you did you get extra strings? Back in my day they had these strings called slinky they was great for stretching them across the neck like Jimmy does during all along the watch tower.
PS: get you distortion and a hard s case that material case is not going to work. One bang with the neck and it's ruined!
29.00 dollars free shipping
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Behringer-FD...3A1%7C294%3A50
35.00 dollars free shipping
http://cgi.ebay.com/Boss-BD-2-Blues-...3A1%7C294%3A50
Ended up getting this http://www.guitarcenter.com/Laguna-U...47-i1375180.gc
Little more than I wanted to spend, but have been "playing" for about 5 hours straight. Cant feel the tips of my fingers on my left hand. HA.
Not a bad choice at all.Mouse, with your tough love, I chose to get this, it was 269, 291 with tax. I'm about to open it up. Thanks for all the advice and i'll practice on the songs you recommended too. Thanks abunch, and i'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks to everyone for your advice and help, I decided I didn't want to spend over 300 in the beginning, Mouse didn't let me get sidetracked.
Interesting. That Line 6 probably makes better sounds than any other amp in it's class. I'm borrowing the 75 watt version of that for my likely ill-fated foray into rhythm guitar. It would be close to perfect for my needs if I could just call up more of it's hundreds of presets with the pedal board that I have for it. I might drop the three bills for the super-duper one if it works out.
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The amp was the reason I spent a little more than I wanted. All in all, I am quite happy with the purchase. Guitar is a uva lot harder than it looks.
Jackson's lower end guitars are decent.
http://cgi.ebay.com/JACKSON-KING-V-E...3%3A2|294%3A50
These guitars are alder body which is better than the basswood used in most low end guitars. There are some decent high end guitars made from basswood, but it's not the same kind of basswood.
All this guitar talk and not one picture? I call BS!
without reading the whole post and not even knowing if you already bought one here goes. if in no real hurry, wait for guitar center to have another huge sale, might be a while though bc here in houston i heard them advertising last weekend for one. not sure if they are decided regionally or not. def check out pawn shops but obviously make sure you play it and make sure EVERYTHING works and then before you buy make sure you look up prices on ebay, craigslist and brand new on the exact model to be sure you are even getting a deal on it. you can get a decent guitar for under 300 but definitely not one htat is a lifetime keeper. alot of bands like GNR etc use les pauls, the epiphone versions are somewhat affordable and a used one might be in your price range. its all about playing it befreo you buy it. i wanted a les paul fo ryears and finally went to buy one and hated it. the whle thing. ended up with a PRS that i liked a ton better. wish i still had it.I rather have an old 300 dollar used guitar from the pawnshop (worth 900.00 or more) than a new 400 dollar guitar from the store. I never did like guitars made after 1989.
There is a certain feeling you get with a heavy solid body Gibson with some history behind it around your shoulders that helps the creative juices flow when playing it.
As long as it hasn't been dropped and has a tight straight neck your in business.
And you can keep the guitar for life and not have to worry about having to upgrade to the next level. Pulling it out of the case you can feel the magic starting to begin.
My 3 favorite guitars are the Gibson double horn SG solid body. I saw one in Fayetteville NC for 800.00 on sale I should have bought it when i had the money to this day it haunts me. It was a dark brown wood grain with a very high gloss it was like Angus Young was calling me out.
I like Gibson because the neck is almost flush with the body and pickups and its easy to get my small fingers around the neck.
My second choice is the Vintage Early 1970's GIBSON LES PAUL DeLUXE SUNBURST
notice how close the neck and body and pickups meet.
may the easiest guitar to play if your serious. And a sound like no other. A buddy a mine in the service had the Gold edition very sweet.
And last the Gibson flying V only because Judas Priest is the best heavy metal band in the world and I am a huge Randy Rhodes fan.
But to be honest my first guitar was 40.00 dollars i got it at the PX on base it was a fender copy looked like th one on the left.
It had a real trashy punk sound to it and at that time 1980 punk rock was cool. I love to play My Sharona and DEVO. Many of my buddies wanted to use it. No matter how many times i dropped it or tossed it out the window it still would not break and still sounded great.
But the guitar i miss the most was the one i had to pawn to buy a water pump for my Camaro back in 1983 it was a Hondo II solid body
heavy and had custom pickups its the guitar that I learned how to play bent for leather it reminded me of may days at Bragg, I wonder if by chance its back in the pawn shop on west Avenue.
Sometimes you can get attached to your first guitar so keep that in mind when your buying one.
Good luck!
mouse whats wrong with guitars after 1989? all mine ive ever owned were after that and are fine. also im pretty sure all les pauls, regardless of year, are heavy as . one of the things i dont like about them.
also is hondo the brand that the guys from gibson formed after gibson got bought out?
Hondo II was a copy guitar back in the 80s but was well made.
Pics of the amp I'm borrowing?
The pedal controller I will probably end up getting for it:
Mostly I just need something to set between songs and forget it. This one will allow me to pull up 36 presets, which is good since we play various styles of crap.
Any of your work on you tube?
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