Hey folks, thanks for adding me to your site. I have been a guitar player on and off for 45 years now. I gigged in wedding bands when I was young, and now that all of my kids are grown and gone, I have picked it up again. I have owned more than 20 guitars in my lifetime, it has always been a bit of a hobby to buy and sell them. I sold my entire collection 3 years ago when we moved south, and I have been carefully building it up again. Here is where I am at currently:
1. Fender Duo Sonic HS: I just bought this offset. Musicians Friend had a Candy Apple Red "blem" model with a maple fingerboard for $335, so I snatched it up. I had owned a vintage mustang years ago, and I have to say that I like the playability of thew Duo more. I think part of it is that I am very much partial to maple fingerboards. There was no visible blem on the guitar, so I feel it was a great deal at that money. I am going to get locking tuners and a new nut, but I will probably stay with the pickups. The humbucker is every bit as vibey as my Les Paul. Fender MIM is really really good. I played some really crappy guitars in the 70's for nearly the same money!
2. Fender Stratocaster Elite: I got this last year, always wanted a top end strat, and I do love playing it. The compound radius neck took some getting used to, but after putting some Gibbons 07/38's on it, it plays really nice.
3. Gibson Les Paul Studio: I bought one of the new studios with the bound neck. I had never owned a Les Paul, so I felt that it was time. I love the tone and everything except the rosewood fingerboard. It is a bit too grainy for me, but I am thinking that it will get better as I break it in.
4. Taylor 312CE Acoustic: I have also always wanted a Taylor, and I view that as an upgrade from the Takamine that used to own.
I also recently bought one of those hip little JoYo amps, I bought the Meteor model, which has the Orange sound. I paired it with a british celestion cab from SubZero, and it has tone for days and that wicked Orange crunch. I am a big fan of Joyo, for $150 you get a tube preamp/amp with an effects loop as well as Bluetooth in for backing tracks. I have an original CryBaby, and an assortment of pedals.
I'm a rock / blues player, not awesome, not terrible. I spend a few hours playing every other day, and am enjoying playing again. I just love electric guitars, have always been a guitar geek. I do my own setups, to me that is part of the fun to get the git box dialed in.
Rock on..
GatorFL
Greetings from sunny Florida
- Larry Mal
- PAT. # 2.972.923
- Posts: 19673
- Joined: Mon Nov 29, 2010 4:25 pm
- Location: Saint Louis, MO
Re: Greetings from sunny Florida
Welcome to the site!
Back in those days, everyone knew that if you were talking about Destiny's Child, you were talking about Beyonce, LaTavia, LeToya, and Larry.