LPCustom Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 What is your favorite recollection from playing guitar? It could be during a gig, playing for someone you love or some breakthrough you had. I know what mine is. What's yours? Born on the Bayou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pappy P Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Riding my 10-speed and carrying my guitar with me up to Bachman lake at 2 am and playing in the moonlight. Most likely sounded bad, but it was fun. That was back when you could do that with out getting shot, beat up, robbed or raped or all the above. www.birdblues.com My Stuff On Sound Click Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadStrum Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Jamming with my friends back in college and singing off-key Pier. * Godin Freeway Classic * Seagull M6 * Timothy S10J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticsound Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Definitely some time playing my acoustic in college, with a bunch of friends singing songs. And I believe, no matter who you are, Madstrum is right... lots of people singing off key. But what great times! Actually, the more I think about it, the best time ever was an impromptu jam at the 1989 Beatlefest in Rosemont, IL. (Chicago.) I love the Beatles, but had never been to Beatlefest. It was our first, real date. I ended up playing my acoustic with a bunch of other players in the lobby just outside the convention area. We played for a few hours and more than once had large crowds listening and watching.. and applauding. And more than once the whole crowd was singing. Somewhere I still have recordings of it, although they were recorded on Denise's micro-cassette recorder. I think my favorite we played was Paul's (Wings') Band On The Run. Thanks for reminding me, LP! It's easiest to find me on Facebook. Neil Bergman Soundclick fntstcsnd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Ferrington III. Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Uhmm... buying my first bass or the first time my first real band headlined and I realized people at the pub were standing on tables to get a better view. Band MySpace My snazzy t-shirt empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funk Jazz Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 in 2002 i got hired by Terrence Simien to sub his guitarist. we headlined the big new years eve concert here in SLC. i had to learn 90 minutes of material in less than a week, but it was a shining moment playing in front of 5,000+ people!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardtail Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Originally posted by LPCustom: What is your favorite recollection from playing guitar? Getting attention from the girls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Strat Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 One of the coolest things ever was when I was playing all this heavy stuff when trying out a Marshall stack in Reliable Music (went out of business ) and this older, heavy-weight colored gentleman came up to me and asked me how I was getting my chunky palm-muted tone. It was cool. Another "Kodak moment" would have been the day I snagged my '61 Fender Princeton and a '65 Silvertone 1482 for $100. BlueStrat a.k.a. "El Guapo" ...Better fuzz through science... http://geocities.com/teleman28056/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar55 Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 I had a band in the mid-seventies, 2 guitars, bass, drums and lead vocalist. We were doing Classic Rock before it was classic :-). The cool thing was that back then we could jam on stage and people were into it! We would take a song like Buffalo Springfield's "Bluebird" and extend it with aranged parts and improvizations, resulting in a 13-minute song and would get great reactions from the crowds. Not so easy to do that today. Also, the other guitarist was a complete inspiration to play with and I learned so much from him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skipclone 1 Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 Headlining a multi-band show at The Chance in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and having the house go totally nuts. This is the same stage where I had seen Allan Holdsworth and Steve Morse, among others. Playing a strat with a drum circle in Woodstock, not only had the body once been owned by Jimi Hendrix, but we were playing in his former residence. Same old surprises, brand new cliches- Skipsounds on Soundclick: www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandid=602491 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 Hmmmm... In no particular order... My high school talent show. I was one of those kids everyone ignored...until then. That remains the largest crowd of people I've played for...and that was back in the day when hearing someone actually play live music was novel. I can still remember the sound of 2000 of my peers cheering. Sitting in with a band in Michigan during a return trip to my stomping grounds. I did a Johnny Winterish version of Johnny B. Goode...and let's just say the scenery was awesome, and pressed right against the stage. Playing a special song written for a special someone, to that special someone. Ahhh...long ago and far away. That's probably the best one. "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar55 Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 I forgot to mention opening a show for James Brown and getting to meet the Man. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPCustom Posted September 29, 2005 Author Share Posted September 29, 2005 Mine was the first time we tried an acoustic opening with a single person under a spot for about three songs. The crowd applauded appreciatively. About 15 seconds later, the spot came back on with the same person center stage playing the opening bars to our opening song of the set (Long Hard Ride -- still on acoustic) and the house was quiet as a tomb. Then we all joined in as the stage lights came on. The first time we tried it, I felt giddy. The audience really went wild. People were still whooping it up halfway through the song (lasts about 4 minutes). Born on the Bayou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prague Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Having the infamous hulk of a high school bully come up to me at a big outdoor kegger we were playing at. He's all nice and shit and calls me by my first name (I didn't return the gesture). "Yea, I remember you. How's your hot sister Cindy? Damn, she's a babe". He didn't touch me after I said that and then I snubbed him. Ahhh .... revenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myles_rose Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Playing through a Marshall JTM-45 with a Gibson Firebird and trying to keep quiet as it was 2am or so at my parents house. I had to ride the guitar volume knob continually but my friends there said I was doing a good job. Later on we realized the amp was still in standby when I stopped playing. It is amazing how well the guitar's tone and volume controls worked even with the amp off! Folks from the 60s will get this .... folks that even tried the same method in the 70s and beyond might get it but it did not work anymore as the recipe changed. http://www.guitaramplifierblueprinting.com/images/6.JPG http://www.guitaramplifierblueprinting.com/images/5.JPG http://www.guitaramplifierblueprinting.com/images/42.JPG http://www.guitaramplifierblueprinting.com/images/13.jpg Myles S. Rose www.guitaramplifierblueprinting.com www.la-economy.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/mylesr www.twitter.com/myles111us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Ellwood Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Myles!! http://www.thestringnetwork.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Ellwood Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 I guess some of my earliest and greatest memories where of playing in these two places..warming up the crowds for the big acts and knowing those famous guys where right of stage from us...what a great place to learn the craft!! And here are some posters from the Grande Ballroom in Detroit that alot of us cut our teeth in warming up the big acts! http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/ellwood1/grande6.jpg IMG]http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/ellwood1/grande4.jpg[/img] http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/ellwood1/grande3.jpg http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/ellwood1/grande2.jpg http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/ellwood1/grande10.jpg\ http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/ellwood1/grande9.jpg http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/ellwood1/grande8.jpg http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/ellwood1/grande7.jpg http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/ellwood1/grande1.jpg http://www.thestringnetwork.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Ellwood Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 Here are some pictures of the Grande Ballroom and the East Town Theatre where lots of us local bands got to play: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/ellwood1/EastTowntheatre.jpg http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/ellwood1/Grande1.jpg GrandeBallroomPano.jpg[/img] http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/ellwood1/03grande_full.jpg http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/ellwood1/bluecheergrande.gif GrandeBallroomPano.jpg[/img] http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/ellwood1/030905-GrandeBallroomPano.jpg http://www.thestringnetwork.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricochet Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 http://www.12string.net/albums/The-String-Network-Community/ricguitar.sized.jpg This was playing at an open mic at JJ's House of Music in Bristol, Tennessee. Hadn't noticed Jimi on the banner behind me till I got this picture. My daughter saw it immediately and said "Look, Daddy has a friend!" "A cheerful heart is good medicine." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmptinesOf Youth Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 sorry i dont have anything to contribute...just curious what happened to the stickied art thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmptinesOf Youth Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 actuallly one morning at like 5am, playin some finger pickin thing with the d chord, very nice and mellow, kinda reminded me of bron y aur, did that for like an hour while the sun was coming up...ill never forget it...just felt so right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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