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Pete Townshend

Speaking for the "stoner" bass players, I'll nominate Geddy Lee of Rush.  Some of his stuff was damned near impossible to duplicate when I was serious about playing.  These days, my mid-70's vintage Fender Precision doesn't get much action, though I still think it's a classic guitar, albeit perhaps not on the same level as the McCartney bass.  I put a Badass bridge on it, but kept the original hardware just in case.  Someday I'll probably be glad I did.

While we're at it, I'll nominate Alex Lifeson also from Rush for guitar...those Rush boys were tremendous musicians...the opening to Spirit of Radio is fantastic and sounds very tough to master...the bass line was much easier, but still interesting.

ahhhhh...the memories...

I can’t find the file anymore but I used to have a mp3 that I downloaded from Pete Townshends website that had a John Entwistle bass solo from the last tour before he died, 2002 I think.  Damn It was amazing, with I could find it.

Let’s add Phil Lesh to the list.

Max Calavera (Sepultura)

Justin Broadrick (Godflesh / Jesu)

Alex Newport (Fudge Tunnel / Nailbomb / Theory of Ruin)

Page Hamilton (Helmet)

Angus Young (AC/DC)

Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath)

Keith Shields (My Bloody Valentine)

Brad Laner (Medicine)

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Mike:

We already got the great Angus Young on the list. Iommi was a good catch.

What about Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction?

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Dave Navarro is a great guitarist, but the cross dressing vampire schtick he has bums me out.

I totally agree with Bill’s list, but would like to add Nile Rodgers, possibly

one of the best scratch guitarists and has played with the majority of the hall

of famers on the list, and of course Sting.

Gitar!

Frank Zappa! (if you don't know Zappa slings an amazing axe I suggest you go listen)

Did you say?

Jeff Beck

Ernie Isley

Mike Bloomfield

Joe Perry

Trey Anastasio

Gary Hoey

I know I'll draw fire, but I'm just as much in love with Clapton as others are. I've been listening to him since the Yardbirds and there's no doubt he's great, but I like others better and I think he has a certain celebrity wind to his back.

Favorite Bassist

The Ox

Bootsy Collins

All this having been said, picking bests is a really old idea that never works.

Joe Satriani and Yngway and Al di Meola... They play the hell outta the gi'tar but they don't seem to have direction.

Tom Scholz (Boston)

Mick Abrahams (Tull)

Well, in fact, each member deserves "Bestage" in Jethro Tull (Too bad they were mercilessly overplayed on radio Gaa Gaa).

Oh and one more thing...

Nobody is more of a Who Fan than I... But... Townshend is nowhere near a "Great Guitarist" in my ear's mind.

He has more of the most famous lick of absolutely anybody, and he was inventive as a son of a gun, and he influenced tons of guitarists, but most of what made the Who, WHO was covering up for the fact the Pete wasn't a virtuoso lead guitarist.

As I say, I don't hold this against the guy (although I will admit that I'm a little cheesed off at the guy for his current attitude towards Daltrey) and they are my #1 band, and his solo work too!

Wait!

We left off Johnny Winter too!

How about you make this a top 200?

Butterfield is still on every music device I own! I don't live a month without some Chicago blues making me more deaf!

I love to listen to the long version of Who's That Lady? by the Isleys.

We white boy rockers were missing some mean guitarring on the mo' side of town!

No list can be started BTW without Chuck Berry!

As to the Allmans  Dickie Betts. Duane Allman's performance on Layla is enough to make me want to puke each time I hear it. He is just completely lost, I can't believe they let that cut get out!

Got big Allman and Dickie Betts fans in this office. One of my guys spent three nights at the peakin at Beacon this year.  

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Oh and one more thing…

Nobody is more of a Who Fan than I... But... Townshend is nowhere near a "Great Guitarist" in my ear's mind.

Didja ever hear an album called “Super Session”?



Mike Bloomfield, Al Cooper and Stephen Stills. “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It

Takes A Train To Cry”.



Yowza!

Let me know when the category veers towards jazz influenced players.

I’ll start with Pat Metheny.

[quote=Whomitmayconcer]

Gitar!

Frank Zappa! (if you don't know Zappa slings an amazing axe I suggest you go listen)

Joe Satriani and Yngway and Al di Meola... They play the hell outta the gi'tar but they don't seem to have direction.

Also true!

I nominate Chuck "Bear"y:

http://www.last.fm/music/Chuck+Berry/_/Johnny+B.+Goode

FD: I haven't been a stoner for a long time (at least 2 decades). The onLEH kind of POT I smoke these days trades on the NYSE and the TSX.

Jerry Garcia

what about george harrison, don felder, joe walsh. i am a big beatles and eagles fan

little bit country little bit rock-n-roll

led zeplin

http://www.misterguitar.com/  chet atkins

johnny cash    roy clark

I hear that this guy Sanjayah is capital t capital b The Bomb!

Make a record and release in it India, you'll be wealthy beyond your rajah dreams! 

OH!

Back to the list: Leslie West!

If we're going to do a "Best" debate, I'll throw all my weight behind Jeff Beck.

The guy is like 62 years old and if you heard his last album "Jeff" you know this guy can still blow most others off the stage! (having said this, I have to admit that I really don't know how much of his appeal to me is a result of having been cleaned up in the studio. His "Live at BB King's" is one of those discs that I stuck in a draw and haven't taken back out it just so muddled.

This allows me to comment on the Pete Townshend live issue. I agree Maxstud, the guy tears up the stage when he's on it. (I stopped going to live Who shows after Quadrophenia, and he mainly played acoustic and had Simon and some other guy filling in the Townshend stuff as he tried to protect what little hearing he has left.)

If you never saw the 9/11 concert, I'd recommend it highly! dozens of acts and The Bleedy 'OO owned that concert!

Point is though that Townshend does it with the power chords. The guitar ending of "Cry If You Want" is running through my mind as I write this. It rocks, but it doesn't shred. Again, Moonie and Ox did most of the shredding for this band.

The Power chord hit me in a different spot on the soul than lead. When Jimi opens up on Izabella for example it "flicks my bean" so to speak but power chords are more like a violent mosh pit sort of experience. Power chords are why I'm also a Clash fan.

I always have to laugh when I hear Ramoneacks whine "They invented punk rock, why didn't they ever get as popular as the Clash?" Well, maybe because it took more than just banging on instruments to be interesting (after the first song, and half way though the second by which time you realize it sounds exactly like the first one.) 

Well, I'll use that as a pivot point to twist the conversation towards listening modes (it sort of brings us close to on topic).

I can't see how the satellite radio companies can survive. You mention a band that I ought to listen to, I flick to Rhapsody, I'm listening to that song!

I was going there to pop on some Kinks, got sidelined into Starka's Super Session trai to cry and then hit Work Song on a Bloomfield album.

I would be hard pressed to say which I like better, the guitar in East West or the guitar in Work Song (both on the EastWest album). East West is ridiculously good! But Work song is too and it has "more" soul.

There are days I feel guilty for still listening to these guys 40+ years after I first started to... But I've heard damn few who surpass some of that music.

After this, Kinks.

I won't give iPod that much credit.

The credit goes to the mpeg guys and the guys at Real.com.

These guys (using my money) kept trying and trying to bring this baby to life. Idiot geeks like me who bough Sprak drives and zip drives and bought the MPeg programs to rip our albums to digital.

Then came Rio. The Rio Volt was the best player for guys who burned their own mp3 sized files to a cd (I still have the first ones I burnt, what's cool is that they play on my "cd changer" car stereo, so my "6 disc" changer has the equivalent of almost 120 albums in it.

While I'm album oriented, I use the "rental agreement" model of Rhapsody for my mp3 players. I have the clunky 5 gig h10 and the girls each have a couple of gigs each on their mp3 players. Everybody's music is 14.95 a month. They have hundreds of songs and they can change them when ever to what ever. Me?  I was flipping around and found this guy "Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials" and so I took on two of his albums. He mean good, wicked good! It cost's me no more to have him or to toss him if it turned out he stank! With a Fm transmitter from Marshalls for $20, I put the mp3 on random and play the mp3 player over the car stereo.

Ipod popularized the process, that's for sure. But it's like Xerox all over again.

I think the artist is comped based on the number of people who listen to the songs, sort of like radio royalties, 2 cents per person per song?  

Prince

Ian Moore

Eric Johnson

Frank Marino

Brian May

Ted Nugent

Got Jimi's "Blues" album on (low volume).

Yeehaa!

Coming in late:

Alvin Lee  Going Home 

Johnny Winter (ok more blues than rock)

Gary Moore   Still Got The Blues For You,  incredible guitar playing.

Graham Parker   still rocking today

I still have my Martin D-10 Dreadnought, that my parents bought for me back in the mid 60's.   I know.  I'm old.

My brother also was a professional musician and has his original Fender Stratocaster (dont know the year but I think , amp and of course wah wah pedal, plus a collection of other guitars and an origial Moog Synthesizer. 

It's tough to comprehend that the format we grew up with -- the album -- is essentially dead.

I love the ability to burn my own music CDs and have about 10 gigs of music downloaded from the net and copied from CD's that I have purchased.  From the 1920's to now, country to jazz to blues to rock.  Everything except rap.

Some songs need to be experienced in a complete album setting.  The Eagles Desperado album must be heard in it's complete order.  The songs make up a story.  You miss that when you just hear Tequila Sunrise or the title song out of context.

Johnny Winter (ok more blues than rock)

I have been thinking about this, and I think that in order for someone to be a "Great Guitarist" they would have to have been a couple of things

1. Consistently better than "good".

2. Must be doing something of his her own.

This is where I think a whole lot of really good craftsmen are separated from the artists.

Robin Trower is as good an example of this as I can think of. Here was a guy who could actually sound like Jimi Hendrix. Yet he never achieved sustained success. I thought at the time that I really didn't care about Trower, and I wondered why. The answer, I thought was that something was missing (it may be that I just felt as though I were betraying my Jimi fandom by "cheating" with RT).

I think the greats though built on what came before, or shattered what was there. Like the guy who did "Surfer Music" Guitar. It wasn't the greatest virtuoso playing but it struck a nerve.

There are plenty of guys who play what has been done, even if they can do it better, they're still just good, or maybe even really good, not quite great.

As to RRBD's each to their ownness comment. The line that came to mind "You're living in your own private Idaho!"

I agree with rLAW I have no iea what my children listen to, I look at their mp3 players and I watch what they down load from Rhapsody, but there isn't the sort of embarassment that I had when Goats Head Soup came out and there I was playing it when on came Star Star in the miidle of a family function.

Or even when Roger screamed "What is it? I'll take it! Who is she? OOOh I'll Rape it!" err... next song...

Meanwhile, once we were in the car and Now That's What I call Music some number was in the cd player. I took it out and threw it out the window! That made an impact! (they don't listen to cds anymore.)  

To be sure that I'm clear... I absolutely agree on Johnny Winter!

He fits both criteria IMHO.

OK Now I'm screwing around on my lunch cruising for rock memories of you tube.  See what you started!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jl8nyXookP0&mode=related& search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4O_YMLDvvnw&mode=related& search=

Wait for the guitar solo at the end. He can make that guitar cry and sing.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBcNOp0EZBc&mode=related& search=

For God's sake put on a shirt.

Edgar Winter wasn't too bad either in his own way.

Beck and Clapton

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5ZBeerUD-zc&mode=related& search=

Here....waste your lunch hour like I did.  Loving this thread.

I knew I knew that song, From Secret Policeman's Ball (or Other Ball)

Thanks for the lynx!

Do you know? Is there a way to download those to my mp3 player (actually my daughter's have the video capabilities, but I do have those micro sds (which just blow my mind. Walmart had 2 gig micro sds for like $50, it'll be days before all your DVD's are quaint collectables and you'll just slip a micro sd into the TV to watch a movie in HD) so I can store my vids and watch when she's not looking!)

I have Jeff Live with BBKing on the DVR. Jeff keeps goading BB into a guitar duel, BB is "No way man, I don't want none of that!!"

[quote=Whomitmayconcer]

I knew I knew that song, From Secret Policeman's Ball (or Other Ball)

Thanks for the lynx!

Do you know? Is there a way to download those to my mp3 player (actually my daughter's have the video capabilities, but I do have those micro sds (which just blow my mind. Walmart had 2 gig micro sds for like $50, it'll be days before all your DVD's are quaint collectables and you'll just slip a micro sd into the TV to watch a movie in HD) so I can store my vids and watch when she's not looking!)

I have Jeff Live with BBKing on the DVR. Jeff keeps goading BB into a guitar duel, BB is "No way man, I don't want none of that!!"

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you may want to google "you tube grabber" or something like that. i haven't used it very much, but it's a little program that can "grab" clips from youtube.

Thanks for the hint, I'll look at it.!

What do you guitar playin guys think of those headless guitars, like the one Johnny Winter is playing in that vid?

That's Steinberger right?

[quote=Whomitmayconcer]

What do you guitar playin guys think of those headless guitars, like the one Johnny Winter is playing in that vid?

That's Steinberger right?

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I hate them. My main guitars are a '52 Reissue Telecaster and a Martin HD-28. I bought the Martin brand new in '95 and it's been fun watching the wood change color. The tone is much richer than it used to be. I have a few others that I don't play too much. I still have my first axe - a 1981 Peavey T-60 that sounds/plays so sweet.

[quote=Bobby Hull]

I hate them. My main guitars are a '52 Reissue Telecaster and a Martin HD-28. I bought the Martin brand new in '95 and it's been fun watching the wood change color. The tone is much richer than it used to be. I have a few others that I don't play too much. I still have my first axe - a 1981 Peavey T-60 that sounds/plays so sweet.

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I have a D-18 I bought new in '93 and have enjoyed watching/hearing the changes you mention.  Not the punch of the 28's, but great tone.  My main player is a Gallagher G-70  (it has got the punch!).  No electics here, just acoustics!

[quote=Whomitmayconcer]

What do you guitar playin guys think of those headless guitars, like the one Johnny Winter is playing in that vid?

That's Steinberger right?

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I don't like them esthetically, but I suppose it would depend on what you are used to using.  I love the feel of my Martin D-10 and am used to the heft, shape and overall experience.  When I switch to my older Gibson or classical gut string piece of crap it just doesn't feel right.  Kind of like having sex with a stranger.  Oh wait....maybe that wasn't the best analogy

But then, I mostly play acoustical instruments. It probably is different for electric.  There is an interesting story about the guitar that Gary Moore uses and how the sound from the pickups is  distinctive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Moore

(was Babbling Looney.   If I ever recover my password I'll post back there....but a rose by any other name and all that stuff.)

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Okay guys, so now we have our own off-topic, non-industry thread in which to talk about the greatest of all musical instruments: the electric guitar.  To pick up (there’s a pun) where be left off on the other thread, let’s see if we agree on the greats (in no particular order).

[quote=skeedaddy2] [quote=rrbdlawyer]

Okay guys, so now we have our own off-topic, non-industry thread in which to talk about the greatest of all musical instruments: the electric guitar.  To pick up (there's a pun) where be left off on the other thread, let's see if we agree on the greats (in no particular order).

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Since it appears the markets have dodged a bullet, I submit:
 
How about Slash, Gene Simmons and Peter Frampton?
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Slash doesn't get credit for as good as he it. Frampton rocks. Gene Simmons plays bass. Anyone can play bass.

damn! I was going to throw Slash up there but I thought you would flame me.  Going to see VR this month -

Regarding KISS… What do you get when you take away the make up, fake blood and pyrotechnics?  A sub par rock band.

[quote=Mike Damone]Regarding KISS... What do you get when you take away the make up, fake blood and pyrotechnics?  A sub par rock band.[/quote]

A bunch of ugly Jewish guys.

[quote=Mike Damone]Regarding KISS… What do you get when you take away the make up, fake blood and pyrotechnics?  A sub par rock band.[/quote]

You get a self made marketing machine.  For Gene it’s all about the money.

Kiss sux.  Tom Morello?

[quote=drewski803]Kiss sux.  Tom Morello?[/quote]

There is nothing cool about making your guitar sound like a casio keyboard.

Why collect guitars if you don't play?

Are they collector items?

Yes, guitars can be collectors items, but I doubt if anyone posting here about their guitar(s) purchased them as an investment.  I once played enough to have a nice set of callouses, but alas...my guitar sits in a case in the closet gathering dust, but perhaps appreciating...

…and I liked KISS (where’s the lightning bolt font on here?!!)…still do…they were kings of the nighttime world…and they understood marketing very, very well…

[quote=Bobby Hull]

[quote=Mike Damone]Regarding KISS... What do you get when you take away the make up, fake blood and pyrotechnics?  A sub par rock band.[/quote]

A bunch of ugly Jewish guys.

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An anti-jewish statement, pratoman, if I've ever seen one! 

Shalom

So this weekend I'm listening to the MP3 player (which has stuff on it I don't even know about!) and it's on "Random" and up comes this guitar noise which sounds like somebody using a chainsaw to cut a f 14 Tomcat fighter in half.

I'm saying to myself... I remember this! What the hell is it! Pibroch (Hat in hand) from Songs From The Wood by Jethro Tull! All I can tell you is that the player came off random and I've been playing the bejesus out of that song ever since!

Songs From the Wood was IIRC a pretty roundly despised album and it did seem more than a little tame in the face of Stadium Rock that was all the roll in 1977 when SFTW was released. But I can still semi-remember the long haired version of me cruising around with the power chord opening of the song blaring at full distortion!(I got the ringing in the ears to prove it too!)

Recently I've found a whole lotta new Stevie Ray (well, new to me).

A nephew told me also about www.archive.org which has a huge collection of free music and more. If you've never seen it it's worth the long strangetrip especially if you are a Grateful Dead fan!

I guess I have to say that, pretty much, yes. I've been aware of SRV and had bits and pieces of his work (I wll also say that the video for Little Wing is just about the finest in my mind) I aways kind of thought of him as George Throughgood type of good (GT is another guy that I'm peripherially familiar with, I will say though that his One Bourbon, One Scotch One Beer is the foundation of probably 25% of all male to male conversation among whites of a certain age "I don belee you lookin for no job! I saw you las friday you was leanin up against a post!" "But I'ws TIred!") But that don b'front me!

SRV speaks to what I was saying about Robin Trower. He's good, he sounds like Hendrix (Trower) but there is sumpthin missin'. SRV managed to replace LSD with Blues in Jimi music, so you (as in "me, the non guitar playing listener") don't even get into the "technical" aspect of "who's better and what's impossible for anyone but Jimi to play" and so on.

I won't say that SRV is showing me anything new about him that I didn't know, I'm really enjoying the long jams tho'.

RRB,

Let me ask you these two questions..

1. What guitar player (living) would you most want to play guitar with?

2. If it were simply a matter of money (and assuming you ahd lots of extra of it) would you pay for the experience, and how much?

Same question to other serious players reading.

[quote=Whomitmayconcer]

I guess I have to say that, pretty much, yes. I've been aware of SRV and had bits and pieces of his work (I wll also say that the video for Little Wing is just about the finest in my mind) I aways kind of thought of him as George Throughgood type of good (GT is another guy that I'm peripherially familiar with, I will say though that his One Bourbon, One Scotch One Beer is the foundation of probably 25% of all male to male conversation among whites of a certain age "I don belee you lookin for no job! I saw you las friday you was leanin up against a post!" "But I'ws TIred!") But that don b'front me!

SRV speaks to what I was saying about Robin Trower. He's good, he sounds like Hendrix (Trower) but there is sumpthin missin'. SRV managed to replace LSD with Blues in Jimi music, so you (as in "me, the non guitar playing listener") don't even get into the "technical" aspect of "who's better and what's impossible for anyone but Jimi to play" and so on.

I won't say that SRV is showing me anything new about him that I didn't know, I'm really enjoying the long jams tho'.

RRB,

Let me ask you these two questions..

1. What guitar player (living) would you most want to play guitar with?

2. If it were simply a matter of money (and assuming you ahd lots of extra of it) would you pay for the experience, and how much?

Same question to other serious players reading.

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Whomit...seriously.....SRV is GT type of good? GT can't even play guitar without an open E tuning and a finger slide.

Bobby,

I have no idea what either of those means. Actually I guess I know what a finger slide is.

What I meant was that my impression (before) was that SRV... I didn't realize he was as good as he was.

Too bad Eric Clapton had him killed!

Anyone familiar with Jonny Lang?

Assuming that I could play guitar (which I can not).

I too would go with the heroes. But I'd choose from  Townshend,  Anastasio and Beck.

Townshend is my childhood hero, even though he has grown to be a major dork. Playing with townshend would be the fulfillment of a childhood dream.

Anastasio would be a marathon man to play with. I find him to be innovative and deferential to the guitar players of every sort and so he seems like he'd be fun to jump from genre to genre and back again.

Jeff Beck is my favorite though and I would love to have it "on my resume'" that I played with Jeff Beck. What's more, jeff seems to be the down to earthiest of guitar players. He seems like the kind of guy that would respect the man who can do it himself, whatever that "it" is (an example being the way Jeff's passion is working on cars, not working on guitars.

How much I would pay would depend on the venue. Let me put it this way, If I were paying for my brother to play with one of these guys On Line (so say I were giving it as a birthday present) I'd think that $500 would be the top end I'd pay for say a three song set. Or say a 1 hour set if there were say 4 other good players playing at the same time.

If it were just a studio type setting where they cut a song face to face, that might be a $2,000 hour. (although i can't imagine that JB would do the gig so so little money)

In a club setting between 10,000 -15,000 (again, assuming I had boodles of money to spend for a 15 minute gig, plus a grand finale with say ten guitarists. (now, this would be a juried event, so that only people that pass a quality test before they can approach Jeffery with a guitar!) The question being, how much would one have to pay Jeff Beck to do a small show? How many guitarists could you divide that cost by. If you could get him for $150,000 could you find 10 guys willing to pay $15,000 (plus their own costs)?

Stadium setting (more than one thousand people). That I would not want to do, it takes away the intimacy of the experience.

I’d give anything to play with my grammar school buddy, Derek Frigo. He played in a band called Enuff Z’nuff. He died a couple of years ago, but he was in a league of his own with a guitar.

Ok, yeah, that's why I said "living" because you'd have to know that there are loads of people who would give anything to play with, say, Jimi, or John.

But what big time guitar player would yu pay money, assuming the money weren't the issue (we have a point where we'll say, "I know I could pay it, but I won't.") to play with, and how much would you pay?

Alvin Lee or Gary Morris.  I'd pay money just to sit in the same room and listen to either of them.

By the way: my early guitar teachers back in the early 1960's in the Bay Area were Rolf Cahn and Jorma Kaukonen.  Once with Eric Von Schmidt not as a teacher but who sat in on lessons with Rolf occasionally.  Those were some interesting days, to say the least.  They got even more interesting in the late 60's and early 70's. 

Jorma taught in a guitar store where I bought my Martin after my Gibson was stolen. (Actually my parents bought for me )   He was a sweet guy, older than me and of course I had a crush on him.  Never even suspected where he would go to and how he would affect the music scene. We went to Berkeley to take folk, blues and classic guitar from Rolf and used to go to the Jabberwock to just soak up the music.

Memory lane.

[quote=Whomitmayconcer]

Ok, yeah, that's why I said "living" because you'd have to know that there are loads of people who would give anything to play with, say, Jimi, or John.

But what big time guitar player would yu pay money, assuming the money weren't the issue (we have a point where we'll say, "I know I could pay it, but I won't.") to play with, and how much would you pay?

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I'd pay a king's ransom to play with Dust Bunny. We could play with each other's Martins and make beautiful music together.

Hmmm. I don't know if I should be flattered or afraid. 

If I didn't think it would cause internet stalking I would post links to some ancient photos of my with my Gibson and then the Martin, just so you know I'm not making it up.

Coming up this month (on my birthday BTW) is the 5th anniversary of the death of The Ox. The lead guitarist who happened to play lead on a bass.

Townshend said that 'John played lead on the bass and  Keith played keyboards on the drums,' Townshend was the rhythm section on lead guitar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Entwistle

I think it would be cool if we could all decide on a time where we could all hoist a pint at the same time in memory of John Entwistle! Wouldn't hurt my feelings if you thought 'Happy Birthday to Whom It May Concern', too.)

[quote=Dust Bunny]

Hmmm. I don't know if I should be flattered or afraid. 

If I didn't think it would cause internet stalking I would post links to some ancient photos of my with my Gibson and then the Martin, just so you know I'm not making it up.

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Which model of Martin do you have? I have the HD-28.

D-10 dreadnought  1965

To Whom It May Concern:

Though we have all had our differences in the past and have enjoyed verbal jousts.

Happy Birthday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVl39LBZGMw&mode=related& amp;search=

Enjoy

[quote=Dust Bunny]D-10 dreadnought  1965[/quote]

Is that a Washburn?

[quote=Bobby Hull]

[quote=Dust Bunny]D-10 dreadnought  1965[/quote]

Is that a Washburn?

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I mean Sigma.

[quote=Whomitmayconcer]

Coming up this month (on my birthday BTW) is the 5th anniversary of the death of The Ox. The lead guitarist who happened to play lead on a bass.

Townshend said that 'John played lead on the bass and  Keith played keyboards on the drums,' Townshend was the rhythm section on lead guitar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Entwistle

I think it would be cool if we could all decide on a time where we could all hoist a pint at the same time in memory of John Entwistle! Wouldn't hurt my feelings if you thought 'Happy Birthday to Whom It May Concern', too.)

Excuse me typo . Made me go look

It 's a Martin D 18   about 1965 or 66 . The memories all blend together eventually.

No-one laugh at the hair styles or dresses ....it was the 60's for God's sake.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f213/Lugnut67/Martin2.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f213/Lugnut67/Martin1.jpg

and a really older one with the stolen Gibson, probably 1964

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f213/Lugnut67/Gibson.jpg

Aaah to be so young again.  At least I still have the guitar.

Cool photos...you're just the wrong color for the Supremes...

Thanks for sharing...

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Excuse me typo . Made me go look

It 's a Martin D 18   about 1965 or 66 . The memories all blend together eventually.

No-one laugh at the hair styles or dresses ....it was the 60's for God's sake.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f213/Lugnut67/Martin2.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f213/Lugnut67/Martin1.jpg

and a really older one with the stolen Gibson, probably 1964

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f213/Lugnut67/Gibson.jpg

Aaah to be so young again.  At least I still have the guitar.

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Will you let your Martin go for $235?

How come you're holding a G Sharp chord and the other girl is holding an A Minor?

I’m waiting for a G-String joke.

my band has a band nazi. what do i do? here is the situation, our drummer brought his wife in the band(big mistake), and she has been trying to change us from a classic rock band to a band playing many current songs. i am 43 and i am the youngest in the band, the oldest in 57. i do not want to do this. the other negative is that they live down the street form me and we play at my house.

Yeah ev’rbody funny, now you funny too!

How come you're holding a G Sharp chord and the other girl is holding an A Minor?

Because she didn't know how to play the guitar very well and the publicist thought we should have a photo with both of us playing. 

You notice she doesn't play in the other photos

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How come you're holding a G Sharp chord and the other girl is holding an A Minor?

Because she didn't know how to play the guitar very well and the publicist thought we should have a photo with both of us playing. 

You notice she doesn't play in the other photos

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Please don't try to trick me anymore, ok?

Just to be sure everybody is aware (and thank you Babs for your wishes) The Ox passed on June 27th of 2002.

At 4:30p eastern time on the 27th I'll raise a glass while playing Postcard in memory of John. Hope you'll join me!

Eric Johnson

Adam Jones (Tool)

David Gilmour (Floyd)

It's almost 4:30!

I gotta get a pint!

Rock On Ox!

http://www.rockandrollfantasycamp.com/website_/index.html

Maybe my idea will work afterall!

Any/Everybody aware of this place.

I've lost 10 grand faster and for less fun!

i want to get a wireless remote for my gitar and bass.

any suggestions?

Look for By the edge of the stream on YT just a beautiful guitar song :)

http://toquemaisguitarra.com.br