[courtney2018]

Originally Posted by Popsyche

Courtney, that hurts! A year and a half? Do you have 20 years on some other instrument?

No, just guitar. To be clear though, I started playing guitar back in the late 80s, but I never had any lessons or anything. I just figured things out on my own. By the time I went to college I could play rhythm "ok", but I couldn't solo a single thing. I had no idea about theory. The articles in guitar magazines were WAY over my head.

I didn't have time to play in college so it was just put away.

Fast forward to about a year and a half ago and a coworker friend of mine started telling me this story about how he and his friend that plays drums jammed for a few hours, and that he played guitar. That made me break out my gear and start playing again. I quickly got into theory and stuff and this is where I'm at now.

There's alot more I want to learn theory wise, but I know a good bit already. I'm not as fast as I'd like, but I'm getting faster. I hear alot of great songs in my head and I'm hoping to put those down in the coming years. Regardless of whether I get signed or not I just want to make my own music. The funny thing is that I know a few riffs from other well known songs that I learned in the late 80s, but I've never learned an entire song of someone elses. It's never really interested me that much. Now I can make my own stuff and that's what I really enjoy.

I guess you can count what I did early on as experience, but it had been so long since I did that I lost just about all of it. I pretty much started from scratch a year and a half ago....not totally, but kinda.

[Popsyche]

Well, you certainly picked it back up fast! What gear did you have stowed away for those years? What's the oldest guitar you have?

[courtney2018]

In 1989 I saved up all my summer money and any money I got from there on until the spring of 1990 to get an Ibanez Roadstar 570 in Lipstick Red. I had bought a no-name-brand guitar from JCPenny for $100 that looked like a Steinberg. I was very much into Vito Bratta at the time so I went with that.

I played that for a year or so and then got the 570. It's got some dings in it, but it still plays like brand new although I've got it covered up and "in retirement". That's my baby. I don't nothing else to happen to it, so I've got it put away.

Then there's the Crate amp my dad bought me back then. It's a 120W Limited Edition G120CXL. I don't think they made too many of them because I've never been able to find any information, pics, etc. on the net about it.

I've also got a an original Dunlop Crybaby and a DOD Hard Rock distortion pedal. I don't like the Crybaby. Doesn't seem to be enough wah in it. Anything to do with wah I use an Ibanez Weeping Demon. I love that pedal!

Before I got the Crate I had bought a mini stack. I actually found it on the internet recently, but I've since forgotten it's name. It was a cheap amp. I think I paid like $200 for it or something. But at the time I had some majorly big sound and a sweet setup.

The Steinberg look-a-like I sold to my friend which also has the mini stack.

I just wish I would've kept up with it. I would be so much farther along now if I had. But oh well. That's how it goes I guess.

[Popsyche]

Cool! Those Roadstars are great guitars. My first was a really cheap nylon string thing, which I filled with fiberglass from an old oven, and jammed a crystal mic in it to play Black Sabbath. My second guitar was a Hagstrom S200 which I wish I still had. I had to hand rewind the pickup as it had a break in the windings. I haven't stopped playing since I was 12!

[Mattmc74]

My first guitar was a really busted up Hondo strat copy.

[courtney2018]

Originally Posted by Popsyche

Cool! Those Roadstars are great guitars.

Yea, which is why I bought 3 RG 20ths. I just love that thin neck.

I've also got an acoustic but I never play it. My dad bought it for me one year for Christmas. It's a Washburn. It's sitting beside the 570. I guess it's in semi-retirement.

So how did your acoustic sound after you filled it with fiberglass?



@ne14muddin >>>
Hondo? Don't they make cars? Oh wait...that's Honda. I've heard of Hondo, but I've never seen one.

[Mattmc74]

Hondas are good- - Hondos are crap!!!

[Popsyche]

Originally Posted by courtney2018

Yea, which is why I bought 3 RG 20ths. I just love that thin neck.

I've also got an acoustic but I never play it. My dad bought it for me one year for Christmas. It's a Washburn. It's sitting beside the 570. I guess it's in semi-retirement.

So how did your acoustic sound after you filled it with fiberglass?



@ne14muddin >>>
Hondo? Don't they make cars? Oh wait...that's Honda. I've heard of Hondo, but I've never seen one.

Are you still up? Hondo was one of the first importers of Japanese guitars over here in the dark ages.

My acoustic sounded like ass, but it was all I had! I ran one channel of the stereo tube hifi amp I had into the other channel, and did my best with "Sweetleaf". This was WAY before Washburn existed.

[Mattmc74]

Mine was really bad!!! Then I move up to Ibanez RG550

[courtney2018]

Yea, still up. I've been watching Lost Season 3. Just about to go to bed though.

Sounding like ass is something I know about. That JCPenny guitar sounded EXACTLY like that.