Topic: The Guitar Thread

Talk about your gear, your favourite guitarists, your playing, your playing style, favourite guitar-centric albums, favourite guitars, the whole shebang. Ask questions, talk about whatever you like with regard to Guitars, Amps & Pedals. Feel free to share stuff of your own making as well - as long as it's all guitar-related.😉

I'll start things off with a couple of remarks, my favourite guitars are those made by Fender, Telecasters and Jazzmasters specifically, I play jazz, free jazz and jazz hip hop fusion occasionally. I have owned Fender guitars before and hope to in the future, my current setup is a headless BatKing Travel Guitar with a ProCo You Dirty Rat Pedal and Fender Mini Twin Amp. I also own a Steinberger Spirit Guitar.

Favourite guitarists are probably currently Julian Lage, Matthew Stevens & Mike Walker, all from the jazz world obviously.

I'll bite. Acoustic rhythm player, finger picker. Lefty but play right handed. Mainly play a 90's Yamaha Compass and a silent Aria classical for noodling late at night. Favourite player list could go on forever but top 5 that spring to mind..

John Martyn
Danny Kirwan
Johnny Marr
Andy Summers
José González

I’m currently running a Gibson SG and a refurbished Epiphone SG. Sold my Mesa Stiletto and just have a little Marshall combo at the moment. My acoustic is an Art & Lutherie wild cherry. The list of amazing guitarists is essentially never ending but some evergreen guitarists for me personally:

Ian D’sa. No one writes progressions quite like him and his tones are consistently interesting and unique. I can pick out a D’sa riff within 3 seconds of hearing it.

Calum Graham. Beyond being a talented player, he’s a really great songwriter, bringing a pop sensibility to his songs without sacrificing complexity.

Tom Morello. Just a relentlessly creative force who intimately understands his equipment and does some wonderful things with it as a result.

Ayyy, finally a topic for me!
Love to play guitar and have a ridiculous number of them in my collection.
Mosrite guitars are my personal favorite and I've got five different versions. Also have a bunch of Gibs, Fenders, Ibanezes, and the stray Gretsch, Guild, Charvel, Airline, Rickenbacker, PRS, etc.
I mostly play electric but I've got a Martin D-18GE as my main acoustic along with a surprisingly awesome Yamaha FS-TA TransAcoustic.
I wish we could post photos on this forum (can we post photos on this forum?) because I love looking at pics of people's guitars.
Favorite guitarists are John Squire, Dave Navarro, Duane Dennison, Robert Quine

@Shigurui @Jimmer-jammer @Ed_Shed I added to the opening post a bit, saying you can post links to your own guitar playing here as well, bands, solo stuff, etc.

Thanks for all the replies, by the way. I'll just start things off with a link to my SoundCloud page, which I know Jimmer is already aware of.

@Ed_Shed I believe you can post pictures here but just to be safe I'll ask @antdickens for clarification?

@Black_Swordsman @Ed_Shed yes, you can post images using the img tags

[img]https://link.to/image.jpg[/img]

and upload using a service like: https://imgbb.com/

I'm currently using Ibanez for both lead and bass. It's a good entry level brand I'd say. I restrung my guitar with 11's from Rotosound.

Favourite guitarists would probably be Page Hamilton, Les Claypool and Ben Weinman.

Oh sweet. Here's some of the Guitarmy

@Ed_Shed Wonderful collection. Like the cat, too, looks like it's just chilling, taking in the scenery.🤣

Cheers my man, nice to hear.
That cat is my little buddy. I have a whole ridiculous TikTok account (@friskydaddy_vs_quincycat) set up of me playing guitar to him while he sits and looks bored. Good times.
Anyone else got guitar pics to share? I'd love to waste some time drooling over axes.

@Ed_Shed That’s so rad, man! Some really interesting pieces in there.

Bleeding heck, some great collections and kit in this thread! I will probably make people cry with what I have (tight budget)

I have a Guvnor Electro acoustic which I've probably had for like 15 years. Very battered and had lots of impromptu playing in the first few years.

My electric is an Epiphone Les Paul cherry sunburst. I really like this guitar and it's great for recording rhythm and lead into the computer. Had this for similar amount of time to the Guvnor

My bass is a Glarry, which I got for my birthday earlier in the year. I mainly got it to record basslines into my tracks on the computer as I was playing them on guitar and transposing them down before. Cheap but does the job I need it for

Not guitars but I have a carlsboro e drum kit for playing in midi drums as well as a little midi keyboard for playing tunes in. My mic is an AT2020. I kind of want a proper electric piano but the one I've been looking at is about £300 on average, bit more if I want the stand with it

I'm an old fart (53yo but supercool) and played an Epiphone LP off and on for 20 years, never took lessons, just plunked around on the board until 'Heart of Gold' came out. In Sept 22 I decided to get serious and began weekly lessons and then [cough] accumulating guitars and amps and gear. Still obsessed with it and play daily, jam with a few groups of people, and have as my personal goal for 2024 to perform on-stage for a paying crowd (they don't have to have paid to see me). As it happens, I may be doing a stage at a cool DC club in April so fingers crossed.

Please indulge my indulgent vomiting upon this thread like a lord

@Ed_Shed Love the Cat 😻

I'm well and truly a lapsed guitar player. I used to have a Strat knockoff and Vox amp but I left it with an old friend who incidentally isn't a friend anymore.

I love,

Jonny Greenwood
Bert Jansch (and Pentangle)
Jimmy Page
Leonard Cohen
Annie Clark
Wes Montgomery
Howlin' Wolf
Not very rock and roll but I've had years of joy from these players

@Bundersvessel Why do I not connect with Annie Clark? I can't figure it out. I'm sure there's some latent sexism present, though I do love Marnie Stern and Joni Mitchell does things I can't even wrap my brain around so I don't even try and just revel. But I have tried and tried (well, better to stick with one 'tried') to get into St Vincent including seeing them live and it leaves me so cold. I remember telling my buddy, "I don't think St Vincent I would ever be friends," I said. It's true.

@Ed_Shed It is just the way some things are buddy. I was introduced to her via the David Byrne collaboration, whom I adore so I was invested straight away almost by default. Luckily I’ve really enjoyed her output over the years.

Keep on rocking friend 👍

Brownsound just shredding it 😅