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I should be OK putting heavier strings on a 3-barrel Tele as long as I stick to a plain 3rd, right? I got some 11-50s because fingerpicking on 9s kinda sucks.
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a_gelatinous_cube posted:We should start a midlife crisis returning to the guitar crew. Hi. Can I be in the crew?
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Sep 4, 2021 15:19
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I remember taking an endless amounts of poo poo from my friends and acquaintances in high school for thinking Metallica was super lame and steely Dan was awesome. I have been vindicated
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Sep 4, 2021 15:39
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a_gelatinous_cube posted:We should start a midlife crisis returning to the guitar crew. I'll be the manager because my midlife crisis happened about 15 years ago. 
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Sep 4, 2021 15:41
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I swear, I'm so much better at this whole thing when I remember to stop holding my breath through the hard parts. I'm going to start writing little breath commas in my music like a 6th-grade trumpet player.
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BDA posted:I should be OK putting heavier strings on a 3-barrel Tele as long as I stick to a plain 3rd, right? I got some 11-50s because fingerpicking on 9s kinda sucks. It should be OK with a wound 3rd, because that's what it would have come with when Telecasters first came out in the '50s.
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Sep 4, 2021 16:18
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BDA posted:I should be OK putting heavier strings on a 3-barrel Tele as long as I stick to a plain 3rd, right? I got some 11-50s because fingerpicking on 9s kinda sucks. Teles aren't usually super finicky. I run 10-52 on everything but I threw 9s on my Tele and it didn't really change much. Small neck adjustment was all it needed. Going back to heavier strings will just take reversing the trussrod adjustment.
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Sep 4, 2021 16:21
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Harton posted:I remember taking an endless amounts of poo poo from my friends and acquaintances in high school for thinking Metallica was super lame and steely Dan was awesome. nah
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Sep 4, 2021 16:24
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duodenum posted:nah Hot take incoming Lol Metallica writes music for 13 year olds
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Sep 4, 2021 16:44
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Harvester of sorrow lol
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Harton posted:Hot take incoming 13 year olds have better taste than old folks tbqh
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Sep 4, 2021 16:50
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13 year olds need music to be mad to, just like 45 year olds need music to drink and be ironically nostalgic to It's not a battle, it's a pipeline.
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Sep 4, 2021 16:56
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Harton posted:I remember taking an endless amounts of poo poo from my friends and acquaintances in high school for thinking Metallica was super lame and steely Dan was awesome. Steely Dan sucks. Metallica sucks.
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Sep 4, 2021 17:09
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Harton posted:Hot take incoming Kilometers Davis posted:13 year olds have better taste than old folks tbqh you are both correct mentally 13 4 life screw being a boring old gently caress i outgrew metallica a long time ago but papa het is still the high watermark for heavy rhythm guitar also steely dan is the most boring loving poo poo ever but it's not like my musical tastes are any better. Like what you like dance how you wanna dance. As long as you're rockin the gently caress out then you do you booboo
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Sep 4, 2021 17:14
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Metallica sucks, especially post-AJFA Metallica, but Steely Dan is just impossibly lame, suffocatingly boring old man fart sniffing dentist music.
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Sep 4, 2021 17:18
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Lol trap sprung
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Sep 4, 2021 17:20
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Sorry everyone I knew what I was doing when I posted it lol.
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Sep 4, 2021 17:22
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https://youtu.be/YhQ5Dg6gdEw owns https://youtu.be/xAOMEqMXiXI owns
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Harton posted:Sorry everyone I knew what I was doing when I posted it lol. Joke’s on us, everybody. He was just pretending to have no taste.
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Sep 4, 2021 17:23
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Just play Steely Dan like metal problem solved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwmTk-BQB1k
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Sep 4, 2021 17:35
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Harton posted:Lol trap sprung I just noticed how much your new AV loving owns
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a_gelatinous_cube posted:We should start a midlife crisis returning to the guitar crew. Signing up! My guitar has a nice comfortable beer gut to rest against this time around.
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duodenum posted:Joke’s on us, everybody. He was just pretending to have no taste. Lol you sound like my wife. She hates everything I play
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Gramps posted:I just noticed how much your new AV loving owns I love my beefy dog!
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Harton posted:Lol you sound like my wife. She hates everything I play shes not the only one that thinks that 
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Spanish Manlove posted:shes not the only one that thinks that Lol!
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another midlife crisis guitargoon here I stopped playing to focus on 20 years of alcoholism quit drinkin and picked up my old squier and here we are surrounded by guitars. I work from home so I can play whenever and there is always one within reach buy more guitars it will fill the hole inside of u
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Thumposaurus posted:Just play Steely Dan like metal problem solved this is further proof that the songwriting and composition are good. the songs transcend their often indulgent aesthetic, although a self-aware grossness of indulgence is an important part the whole deal
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Sep 4, 2021 21:11
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i listen to weezer and the pixies and remo drive and modern baseball. also puccini
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I'm also midlife crisis guitar goon, with a good dose of retail therapy. I really should invest in therapy therapy to be honest, but I've got some more gear stuff to take care of first.
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Thumposaurus posted:Just play Steely Dan like metal problem solved Deeply jealous I didn't come up with the band-name "Witch Taint" first.
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The Pixies are very very good
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Baron von Eevl posted:The Pixies are very very good i was talking with my friend about this but yeah. i deeply admire the amount of culture, experience, and romance that black francis puts into the songs on surfer rosa and doolittle. it’s what everyone who copied them kind of missed. they’re a very artistic band just by virtue of who they are, not because they’re trying to be. when i was a kid, it was hard to kind of conceptualize what punk was, because it just sounded like pretty vanilla rock music. i’d only heard stuff that already had so much punk influence, that going back to like, blitzkrieg bop or whatever felt pretty plain. i realized recently that the pixies did that. they’re responsible for synthesizing that punk energy with something more meaningful and romantic. they’re also a band full of understatedly great rock musicians. kim deal gets a lot of praise, but joey santiago is basically the ideal lead guitarist to me, and david lovering is a wonderful rock drummer too.
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i actually think pixies are far and away the most important/influential rock band, from today’s point of view. doolittle is in its 30’s, and it still sounds fresh and interesting today. the music of the beatles did not stand up as well over time.
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The closest I ever got to The Pixies was Last Splash, which is a great album.
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So I found out someone local who teaches guitar, after I helped my sister tune a fender dreadnaught my parents had that they had one at some country music festival, I really liked making it go twang. It’s been a month and I try to practice every day, finally getting to the point where I can reasonably play notes with reference and remembering some basic notes. Next lesson I am going to start on basic melodies. So far really enjoying it despite practicing the same things over and over getting a little boring and my fingers perpetually having blisters. I think I am going to purchase a electric sometime during the winter. So my question is what should I look for in a electric? I know the OP has recommendations for guitars but not what makes a good electric I feel. Electronics seem a low requirement as replacing that stuff seems relatively easy. Unsure if design changes much on sound but I assume it affects it in some way. Wood of course would be a major factor unless I am completely incorrect.
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duodenum posted:The closest I ever got to The Pixies was Last Splash, which is a great album. The Breeders are cooler than Pixies anyway.
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One project completed, finally put the original pickguard and pickup into my '67 Melody Maker.  I was going to swap back to the old bridge, but the original bridge is intonated for a wound third and the neck bends like a wet noodle. 11s are out of the question as a result, 10s with or without a wound third are questionable, so I'll stick to the intonatable bridge and 9s on this one. Yes, the real answer is 12s and tuning down to B or C, but not with the Melody Maker pickup. I do want to find the missing part of the Vibrola but I'm not paying a couple hundred for an original or $50+ for a full new one hoping it will fit. Should just take it off and throw it in a safe place.
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Jeesis posted:
Wood makes gently caress all difference to the sound of an electric guitar. Pickup make and arrangement matters, as does the type and quality of the amp. Buy something that "feels" good in the hands to play and get a Boss Katana amp.
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landgrabber posted:i actually think pixies are far and away the most important/influential rock band, from today’s point of view. doolittle is in its 30’s, and it still sounds fresh and interesting today. the music of the beatles did not stand up as well over time. lmao
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