Dirt posted:

I once bought a guitar with a scalloped neck because of him. That poo poo sucks, and I feel bad about buying it. Ritchie Blackmore is the only other guy to pull off the scalloped neck thing. It is so weird to play with.

Any of you ever try it?

StickySweater posted:

This was one of the most memorable posts from the other thread. A solid brass guitar. $24,000 and 76 pounds (34 kilograms). Can you even imagine how that thing must feel sitting on your lap?

Verizian posted:

That really needs a grip hole.

Anime Reference posted:

Figures Kahler would be the one to try to make a multi-scale trem.

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

s.i.r.e. posted:

When I was a TA in my guitar professor's class, this older lady was taking the Intro to Guitar Class with her daughter and they had the most bizarre guitars, they had a hinge on where the neck and the body met, so the neck would fold on top of the body. The strings went completely slack and they would just shove them into the sound hole. They had custom cases with them and they packed up nicely. I have no clue what they were or who made them.

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

God drat I'm getting carpet bombed on Facebook with these ads for the "ToneWood Amp" which is a speaker you put inside of your acoustic guitar and strap a dsp processor on the back. OMG THERE'S DELAY COMING OUT OF THE SOUNDHOLE!!!!

It seems kinda cool but also seems cornball as gently caress and it seems like they know this which is how their strategy is "advertise constantly to people until they no longer have the will to NOT buy one."

If I flag the ad as not for me will it actually go away? Off to Facebook to try!

Anime Reference posted:

https://reverb.com/item/7156469-washburn-hss-strat-style-body-custom-toasted-aqua
Meth involved?

Concatenation posted:

Are you thinking of one or other of the line 6 variax guitars?

The stevic sig looks pretty envelope-pushing but who even needs this much functionality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv0CwZHY0kM

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Currently building a BE-OD clone and making some incredibly awful 'custom' artwork for it

hexwren posted:

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-line-6-dl4-is-quietly-the-most-important-guitar-pedal-of-the-last-20-years/

stillvisions posted:

NAMM is coming up! Who's excited for:

- A fundamental redesign of the guitar that serves no purpose other than costing $5000
- A microtonal touch controller that's kinda shaped like another instrument
- "Beautiful tone" demo videos in a noisy room without a line input
- People complaining that a new synth doesn't have every feature known to man while costing less than $500
- Anger over mini-keys
- New modular synth robot farts!

CheesyDog posted:

The biggest disruption is that there are some great guitars for less than $500 now

The Muppets On PCP posted:

https://dubaldomusic.com/shop/brands/ernie-ball-music-man/ernie-ball-music-man-john-petrucci-majesty-nomac/

Kilometers Davis posted:

This is why I really need to get a MIJ Ibanez soon

Japan makes wonderful stuff, I’m weaboo garbage deal with it

Wark Say posted:

What. Why. No.

Is John Mayer salty with Fender or something?

Wark Say posted:

Is that Bill Bailey?

quote:

We played at many high school dances but people did everything but dance. We took our gigs very seriously in a very un-serious way. Joe Despagni was the band’s right-hand man, and he would build these elaborate light shows with smoke pots and everything.

I remember this one gig at the high school. We’d start preparing the stage show days in advance, driving around through Old Westbury where the rich people lived and sneak up on their property and steal their flood lights for our show. What a bunch of derelicts. If we had a few beers we’d play this little game of sticking our rear end out the car window at people who were in the streets (wow what fun).

Around that time, I was taking guitar lessons from Joe Satriani. He was about 4 years older and we worshipped Joe. He could really play the guitar and we could barely speak in his presence except a “Hi Joe” and a smile. His house, where I took lessons, was like hallowed ground for us. He was very different (did I say different?) at that time too. Totally reserved and in control, very laid back and sophisticated, where I was constantly getting thrown out of classes for going into uncontrollable laughing fits.

So one night we’re doing our “sticking the rear end out of the car window” thing and it was my turn. Ah...I spied an unsuspecting couple having an intimate conversation under a warmly glowing street lamp. Perfect suspects. I pulled down my pants, rolled down the window, and stuck my butt out, waving my hands as the driver of the car madly blows the horn.

In the middle of this little display of infantile brilliance, I realize that the couple I’m shaking my skinny little 16-year-old rear end at are none other than Joe Satriani and his girlfriend. Our eyes met, and I was stunned. It was too difficult to retract my buttocks into the car so the only thing I could do as we drove by was wave and yell “Hi Joe!!”.

I don’t know about you, but as I’m writing this I’m having one of those uncontrollable laughing fits. I can hardly type. God, I’m still so juvenile sometimes.

So we got our flood lights and Joe Despagni is going to build these flash pots. We had to go to JC Penney’s and buy these powdered rocket engines and peel them until we had a huge pile of explosive gray powder. Despagni would strategically place these on the stage, giving us 4 small explosions and one huge one for the finale.

Back then I wanted to be Jimmy Page. I even tried to play the guitar with a violin bow. There was this one point in the show when I was doing an unaccompanied violin bow solo with a tape delay unit. I would strike the guitar with the bow and when it echoed back I would point the bow at a designated area where a flash pot would go off. Well, on this particular night, they were all working but the last one. I could hear Joe yelling “I’m gonna set off the big one!”. I was standing there in pose from the previous ignition and knew that as soon as I so much as move my little finger, Joe was going to Let-em-go!

That was all well and good, but the problem was that the final mega-flash pot was situated between my legs. I was petrified and confused. I whacked the guitar with the bow and hit the deck in an attempt to evade the effects of the blast.

When I came to, my clothes and face were stained with sulfur and my eyelashes were singed off, but the audience was loving it and that made it all worth it.

I think in my next guitar lesson Joe Satch said something in regard to the streaking whiteness of my passing buttocks, and I was just “Wha...wha...what do you mean??”

cdc posted:

Accidentally bought this because I got a good deal on it.



Posting it here because it's a purple flame maple top with gold hardware and bat inlays.

Plays and sounds great though.

Dr. Faustus posted:

I get the hate on Vai, he's a goof-ball. I still love the guy, of course, but I'm an old who grew up worshipping him (he played Jack Butler in Crossroads, which is kinda like the Rocky of guitar nerd movies, and my guitar nerd friends and I must have watched that dumb movie 45 times back then) and the stuff he did with DLR on Eat 'Em and Smile and Skyscraper is simply amazingly awesome. Very earnest love for that stuff, it was the soundtrack of my Junior and Senior years of High School (with Van Halen's 5150 rounding out a great summer).

Kilometers Davis posted:

A lot of modern players want to have this flawless combination of perfect playing and perfect production but don’t seem to experiment or let themselves fail enough. I understand it though. I’m working on an EP and I never make progress because I’m always chasing something better and more refined. The internet has been wonderful for music/guitar but also invites many new ways to self criticize and compare yourself to what you feel is expected in the modern industry.

GreatGreen posted:

edit: Satriani talk: Am I the only one here who thinks it’s weird that Joe Satriani, the dude known for having like the most encyclopedic knowledge of theory you’ll find in a guitar player, and who seems to have given guitar lessons to about a third of every amazing guitar player you’ve ever heard of, only ever seems to release albums on technical par with “reasonably-confident-with-the-instrument bluesdad?”

GreatGreen posted:

Yeah sorry maybe that wasn’t fair. I’ve been listening to his latest album though and there’s really... just not a lot to it. Like he’s just kind of meandering around and playing at about 15% of his ability the majority of the album. Not just from speed perspective, but a melodic one. A lot of stuff he’s playing is pretty stock sounding.

I realize not every guitar album is supposed to sound like a Paul Gilbert Shred-a-thon but it just seemed really odd to me.

fzA455 posted:

Anime Reference posted:

The fact that Joe Stump is clearly worse than Yngwie Malmsteen is proof that Yngwie does, in fact, have redeeming qualities.

Gnumonic posted:

Yngwie, *especially* when he's improvising, has a tendency to forget that he's playing in a rock band and that despite the frilly shirts, he isn't Paganini. As a consequence of this, he tends to start/end phrases on "weird" beats, and the guitar parts are frequently somewhat disconnected from the rhythm. I don't mean that he's playing out of time or making mistakes-- technically speaking he might be the best guitarist ever, I believe that his 7-tuplets are perfectly arranged and all that -- but the guitar often doesn't accent the strong beats in the music. I assume this is perfectly intentional and that in Yngwie's Swedish brain he's doing something brilliant that mere mortal like me can't appreciate. (He doesn't always do this, but it annoys the poo poo out of me when he does.)

Concatenation posted:

no they're not idiots

having trouble working out where on the awful to awesome line this sits, I'm thinking so awful it becomes awesome but I'm not sure:

Jonny Nox posted:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/synthwatch/audioweld-synthwatch-worlds-first-wristwatch-synth

Lester Shy posted:

I understand taking a right handed guitar and stringing it backwards if you're left handed, but I cannot wrap my head around just flipping the guitar over and playing like that.

It sort of makes sense for playing lead. Albert King was able to get all of those insane 2 whole step bends because of that (he also tuned down to something wacky like CFCFAD) but anything with chords must be a total pain in the rear end. I think the guy from the Ataris played that way too.

OutOfPrint posted:

It's an Eastwood, so by default it's kinda both. Is that an 8 string mandolin?

OutOfPrint posted:

I've had two Eastwoods. Their Sidejack DLX Mostite clone was my first and was a really solid guitar. I currently have a black Hummingbird, though, and it's become my rock guitar of choice: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQsEDjpHOg

It's fun to play and sounds great, but that tremolo is really finicky.

Fors Yard posted:

Watched this recently and explains that it was basically Lars' fault and the producer wanted to make a separate mix that he thought sounded better but it was too late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmFgeFh2nlw

Wark Say posted:

I've learned to accept their lame-rear end attempts at being funny due to their occasional forays into interesting guitar playing territory and that some of their songs absolutely loving rip.

The Muppets On PCP posted:

pretty sure some assistant or set dresser just went to a guitar shop nearby and found the most gaudy thing on the racks

Gnumonic posted:

What the gently caress Yngwie. Like how could you think this is a good idea? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvH1Wl6J50Y

Edit:

Honestly at this point Yngwie's best impersonator is just straight up superior to the original. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzjOPyAsn4M&t=192s is better neoclassical shred than anything Yngwie's done since the 80s.

Gnumonic posted:

"Rich man's got a ferrari blues!"

I don't disagree with any of this really. Just meant that 2019 Joe Stump is (rather obviously) a far better musician and guitarist than 2019 Yngwie. I probably listen to Yngwie's 80s albums once a week. You expect people to rest on their laurels I guess, and grats to him for the Ferrarris, but Joe's actually made some effort to...improve... over the past 20 years whereas Yngwie has somehow gotten dramatically worse (at composition at least).