| Author | Message | ||
     Jerry_haughton |
thanks Sandblast! i'm excited too, can't wait to actually hold the thing. hope it isn't too long before i can strum a chord or two... | ||
| Pdxs3t |
Jerry...Sure is pretty, lookin forward to hearing it over the phone one day soon!  | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
thanks Jim! didya get the re-stringin' done on yours? | ||
| Pdxs3t |
1 more to go (Shel's Classical) | ||
| Bertman |
Very nice Jerry, I can almost smell the cedar from here! I brought the acoustic down to work today and played it off and on when customers and tech's weren't bothering me. "I got blisters on me fingers" | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
thanks Bertman. | ||
| Kevyn |
Jerry, That's a real beauty there! I'm wondering...ya' know how every motorcycle has a sweet spot where it really gets 'right' and is just rolling along and the rider and bike flow together... ...if maybe guitars have a sweet spot where the sound is just perfect to the players ear and each note is harmonious with the next...and the player and the guitar flow together into 'their' song... ...let us know after a few hours with the D25! Thank you for opening this thread. Thank you to all who have 'chimed' in with some of the most excellent discussion ever on this board. Life is a process of self discovery. Creating music is perhaps one of the most enjoyable and elegant events of our time here on earth. Blessing and light to each and every one out there, thank you all again for opening this door. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
thanks for the cool words, Kevyn. this has indeed been fun, for sure for me, and it appears to many others, as well. i'll post some pix when my new Garrison arrives. the thought of actually learning how to play it - as opposed to simply gazing at it every day and enjoying its beauty - is rather daunting to be honest, but i hope i catch on soon enough. and if i can find that sweet spot you mention, well, that would be most excellent. thanks again Kevyn, and everyone else. FB | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
ps: special thanks to Newfie for turning me on to Garrison guitars. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
pss: EXTRA special thanks to Denise - this delightful acoustic guitar sojourn is pretty much all her fault, and wouldn't be happening without significant support (moral and otherwise). someday i hope to be able to play her a song. | ||
| Newfie_buell |
Glad to help out. Just make sure yourself, Denise and Baby Bart make it up this way next year. You have a spot to crash for a bit while here. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
thanks Newfie, we'll be there. almost forgot! i owe a big thanks to Brad/BluzM2 (and his son Carl), for turning me on to this particular Garrison guitar. this G-25 was discovered by Brad at My Music Store in Golden Valley, Minnesota. the guitar had a small ding in the top, and the price was marked down as a result. Brad was kind enough to e-mail me pix and a detailed decription of the guitar and the wound, along with contact info for the store owner (Jim Harms) whom i spoke with early last week. at my request they spent several days doing a "cellulose fill and microsand" on the blemish, and as you can see by the pic above (or CAN'T see, in this case), they did a nice job. best of all, Jim cut me an even better deal on the guitar than Brad had been quoted earlier by a store employee, and covered the cost of the cosmetic surgery on his own nickel. Brad, you went above and beyond IMO with all your e-mails and pix, and i really appreciate your enthusiasm and support - thank you! with your help i'm getting a great guitar at a great price, and the connection between this Garrison and the good folks here on BADWEB is very, very cool. thanks again everybody. FB | ||
| Bluzm2 |
Jerry my friend, I was my pleasure! I go a lot out of it too! It provieded me the opportunity to renew some old friendships at the music store. I don't get in there too often anymore since Carl's no longer at home. Usually only get there when he's home on leave. New Years resolution for Brad- Learn to play guitar better! Brad | ||
| Pdxs3t |
Jerry...hope you don't mind my hijacking your thread for a moment. Been going through a bunch of photo's this morning for my website and while I was doing so, came up with the idea of posting some of the really cool shots I have taken of various guitar players.  Jeremy King - Vital Signs A Rush Tribute Band  Trudi "T-Bird" Keck - Whole Lotta Rosies, An All Female AC/DC Tribute Band  Lead Guitarist (Name Unknown) - Whole Lotta Rosies, An All Female AC/DC Tribute Band  Ted Nugent - The Motor City Madman!  Jeff Horton - From The Wild Dogs Playing Lead For Singer and Song Writer Barbara Cecil  Monty Moss - The Monty Moss Band  Brian Hadley - Mojo Posse  Dan Bates - Crazy Train An Ozzy Osbourne Tribute Band  Scotty Crawford - Full Throttle  Guitarist - The Porch Dawgs  Vic Eden (Guitar) And Mike Gratten (Bass) - Knockout John (Message edited by pdxs3t on January 22, 2006) | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
don't mind at all, very nice series of photos Jim. BUT...you must edit in caption material for each pic, i.e. who the artist is, the date and venue, cool memories or recollections of each shot, etc. you up to it??? | ||
| Pdxs3t |
Hows that for a start, will fill in more in just a bit. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
cool! | ||
| Viros |
That garrison sure is nice Ferris .. cool choice..  These are the guitars i got laying around my apt.  this is what i play 90% of the time.. its the most inexpensive thing at the store but its priceless to me  thats a friends squier strat next to my oscar shcmidt 335 clone..  my close friends american strat which is worth more than all my cheapo guitars combined. | ||
| Viros |
 Another friends Fender jazz bass built in mexico...the thing was smashed on the ground at show and still plays  Ive had this for a few weeks its an early peavy model which my friend is seling to me for 150, along with the amp.. check out the amp guys its an old sears..  you guys think i should jump on it for 150 dollars? i got no idea what its really worth and had no luck with google. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
thanks Viros, and thanks for the pix! very cool. FB | ||
| Djkaplan |
Soooo, Jerry..., what kinda electric axe you wanna get now?  | ||
| Kevyn |
Thought I'd share a pic...  ...still trying to finger out some chords and working on some strengthening exercises | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Daniel, that's a tough question, but one that's fun to think about. first things first for me, for sure, which is to put my new Garrison to work releasing some pent up creative energy. even tho i got the guitar for a song (two or three songs, actually), it's still a big investment in terms of dollars, and i suspect it'll be an even bigger investment in time trying to make this investment truly an investment. first things first, in other words. all that said, when the time comes i hope to make a connection with an electric with the same passion as i did my acoustic. like i've said already, the fact that several BADWEB'rs had a hand in my decision-making process, up to and including the very Garrison guitar i'd end up buying, is special to me, and i hope that i'm as lucky when it comes to choosing an electric. Kevyn, your '72 Telecaster is a BEAUTY! if you don't mind i'd love to hear more about it. FB | ||
| Kevyn |
AFIK...alder body, maple neck, 'Vintage' style 3-string saddle strings-through-body Telecaster bridge, Wide Range dual-coil humbucker at the neck, single coil at the bridge, volume and tone controls for each pick-up and a three way switch that lets you choose one or the other pickups or both, 'bullet' style truss rod and micro adjustable neck...pick it clean and neat or hammer it down and dirty and all the places in-between! Shopped around quite a bit and settled in local at Eddie's Guitars...set-up by their master technician(adjust bridge height/alignment, inspect, tune)and was hanging on the stairwell out of view...not sure why; store was filled with American Strat's and Tele's. Talked with 2 salesmen---both avid players who could switch from a classical style to blues to jazz to ballad style picking to raunchy rock 'n roll...both raved about the Custom Telecaster, one had purchased the same model and modified the pickups to suit his playing genre--hard rock..."if you don't want to pay the price for an American Telecaster, this is the one"... From the Classic series. Hecho (at Fender's 'state of the art' production facilities) in Ensanada, Mexico. http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0137502306 Unfortunately, this story is not over; as evidenced by an S2, SS and XLCH in the garage I'm afraid that there is another Telecaster lurking in the shadows... http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0262000561 Think Crimson Red Transarent...the Seymour Duncan pickups can be 'swithched' into single coil mode for that 'classic' Tele twang...if all the reviews are to believed, this one sounds similar to a Gibson Les Paul until you 'switch' to the single coil mode. The 'fat' frets are highly polished and real easy to play around. Very thin profile, radiiused edges, carved maple top over a mahogany body with a mahogany neck for maximum sustain... My finger nails are trimmed to the quick, the tips a bit sore from 'pressing' but after a few minutes of warm-up exercises I can span most of a 4 fret space and still get a clean note and strum! Jerry, you are going to have one helluva good time pickin' and strummin' Thanks again for opening this door (Message edited by Kevyn on January 23, 2006) | ||
| Pdxs3t |
 Jim Corso - Lead Guitarist Purple Dragon (other band members not pictured, son Josh 13 on bass and son Kyle 12 rythm guitar).  | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
cool stuff Kevyn, overwhelming even, for someone who has yet to strum a chord on an acoustic. not sure what a "humbucker" is, but it sure sounds cool! | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Jim Corso - Lead Guitarist Purple Dragon me 'n D have tears in our eyes from laughing so hard!!! love the PACBOG shirt! | ||
| Pdxs3t |
Purple Dragon is only a studio band (the boys bedroom) but we hope one day to be able to play 1 song in its entirety, at the same time and in the same key! Isn't that a cool t-shirt (not too many of em around), found it in my closet this morning. Been a year or so since I last seen it, its holding up pretty good for being 8 years old. Put it on this morning just for the pic. (Message edited by pdxs3t on January 23, 2006) (Message edited by pdxs3t on January 23, 2006) | ||
| Captpete |
Guitar pics, huh? Well, let’s see. The first one I remember having was probably as a junior in high school. My buddy and I each got guitars and then took lessons once a week from this old geezer. (Probably half my age today.) As I recall, the lessons were all the same; he just kept trying to teach us how to play Under the Double Eagle. I never did get that, and from there my memory fades out. No pic of that one. The next one I remember was when I first joined the Army. No lessons, and it was just as well ‘cause that one didn’t last very long. It got busted over some guy’s head during a drunken night in the barracks one weekend. My platoon sergeant was making home brew in his singlewide, and had us over for a Saturday afternoon tasting. It was pretty good. We bought his entire inventory and headed back to the barracks to share. Turned out it was even better than we thought. We were drinking it out of canteen cups (I think they hold a quart), and those things had some pretty flimsy fold-up handles on ‘em. Later in the evening we all ended up doing our version of the Chubby Checker thing, the paratrooper twist. There was a good bit of spillage that ensued, and we discovered that when that stuff mixed with the heavy and very shiny coat of Johnston paste wax on the linoleum barracks floor, it got real slippery. So slippery, in fact, that with a little running start, you could slide across the floor just like you were on a frozen pond in winter. That evolved into a sliding contest, and we got better and better. But in order to achieve new records, it required a little more of that brew than the spillage was providing, so we took care of that. But the floor was getting so darned slippery that it was difficult to get a good running start before you got to the starting gate, where the hallway met the double doors of the bunk room. So we took care of that as well. We solved that problem by scattering scouring powder in the hallway for traction. I still remember that sergeant’s name, Sgt. Muse, and when he showed up at the barracks Sunday morning and saw the destruction, I’m sure he knew his career was over unless he did something quick. His spit-polished barrack floor was ground down to bare linoleum, pieces of that guitar and foot lockers scattered about, and thirty or so teenage guys snoring off their drunk. I do remember how bad the hangover was when it was my turn to be awakened by being pulled from my bunk to the floor and then immediately put to work. No picture of that guitar. The next one was just before I got out of the Army. No plywood in that baby. It was solid wood all way around. And about ¼-inch thick. I decided to refinish it – it was painted pea-green to start with, I think, and I sanded on the thing forever to get rid of that paint. I probably took in down to 3/16’s of an inch. And then I brushed on some clear varnish, or maybe shellac. I do recall that it was by far the best guitar I ever owned for making calluses. But a buddy and I had dates, once (in three years), and decided we’d take these girls out in the woods and have a little campfire. We had great plans, but all we got was drunk and mosquito bitten. The next morning, I realized that I had left the guitar hanging on a tree by the campfire, and we tried, but we never could find that place again. No picture of that one. I guess I gave up on guitars for a while, for the next one I remember was probably ten years later. I was working the winter as a ski patrolman for a mountain in Vermont, and shared a house with two other guys on the patrol. They were both pretty good pickers and singers and they started playing in this little local bar just for fun. It was just a pick-up sort of deal and occasionally other musicians would sit in and jam, and I wanted to get in on it, so I went out and bought that 12-string. I know it was cheap, ‘cause I was skiing for $2.30 an hour and paying for food, beer, gasoline, and rent out of it. But it was cheap, so I bought it without even playing it first and took it back to the house. I guess I must have had the heater turned up too high on the way, ‘cause by the time I got it inside to show it and my three chords off to my roommates, the damned neck had warped so badly you couldn’t play it. (Or maybe I didn’t look real close before I bought it.) I was heart broken. But one of my buddies said, “No problem… watch this.” He tuned it to open E, and said, “You’re going to be our slide guitar player.” They made me memorize tonic, dominant, and sub dominant, and the abc’s of the E string. Then, when they’d start a tune, they’d announce the key, I’d find my starting point, and they’d take turns nodding to me when it was time for a chord change. Well, I didn’t add much but a plunk or two when I was pretty sure I had the slide in the right place, but what the heck… I was part of the band. The very top social accoutrement in that neck of the tourist-infested woods was wearing that ski patrol jacket to the bars, and number two was playing music. It wasn’t about music so much… mostly hormones. Never did get a picture of that one. But I was starting to have fun with the music in spite of the hormones. At the end of that season, I bought my first fishing boat, an old 58-foot derelict shrimp boat down in Georgia, and one of my roommates decided to come down to fish with me. He showed up about a month after I had started working on the boat, toting his Guild, and ready to go to work. We’d play in the evenings, and I guess he was getting tired of that stupid 12-string because one day he told me that he had stopped at a music store and found a great beginner’s guitar for me – for only $150. We went into town to check it out, and I bought a Japanese-made, plywood top Fender F65. Pretty much a copy of a Martin, but the neck was true and it sounded pretty good. I was inspired to learn three more chords, and practiced them all summer while we fished on the beach and tried to keep up with the ice and fuel purveyors. The next summer another ski patrolman friend came down to fish with me, and he also brought a Guild with him. This guy was a great musician, but had a horrible voice. Well, maybe it just wasn’t good. Voices are musical instruments, you know, but we don’t have much choice about what we are given. He convinced me that I had gotten lucky in that department, and that I should try singing. No way, I said. I’ve tried singing along with records, and just can’t do it. He explained that the reason I couldn’t was because my voice was so low pitched that all the records were in the wrong key for me. Anyway, to make a long story short, he convinced me to learn one song, picked the appropriate key, and I’ll be damned… it was one I knew the chords for. The next thing I knew, I was singing lead and playing rhythm while he was playing lead and singing harmony. His voice wasn’t much of an instrument, but he was a musician, and played the heck out of it. We practiced the D/S outta that song, and were sounding pretty good. Boy, it was fun! During part of that summer, we were fishing out of Beaufort, S.C., and one evening at the dock he suggested we take our guitars to the bar with us. No Effin’ way, Jose! But he broke out the bottle, mixed a couple of drinks, and started working on me. An hour or so later he had convinced me that no guitar players had been shot in Beaufort for over 50 years, and I said I’d try it. And I came home hooked. I played that guitar for five or six years, and one night I left it in my unlocked truck outside a hotel room in St. Augustine, FL. (I think I was in a hurry.) The next morning, it was gone, and I don’t think I ever took a picture of it. Shortly after that, I lost my fishing boat, and went to driving sailboats for a while. And that’s when I found that old ‘64 D28 in a pawn shop in Newport, RI. It was beat up worse than any guitar I had ever seen. Someone had played it with finger picks, but without a pick guard, and had nearly worn a hole in the top. And the neck was pretty badly out of whack. But it had a wonderful sound. And a price tag of $600. (Probably too much.) But there was a luthier in town, and the guy in the pawnshop told me that he would let me take it to him to see if he could fix it and what it would cost. He could, it wouldn’t cost that much, and I bought it. When I went to pick it up, I noticed two or three of the guitars this luthier had built hanging on the wall. One thing led to another, and they came off the wall and I listened to them. They were small guitars, compared to the D28, but they sounded great, Not the same as the Martin, with it’s big fat bass, but still good. And they were loud. Especially for such small boxes. And I ain’t afraid to sing loud. I’ve always loved black walnut as a furniture wood, and he had a piece that he could use for the sides and back, and that did it for me. And we talked about what kind of neck I wanted. I’m just a six-chord frammer, and I wanted a little wider neck than normal ‘cause I get tangled up in those narrow ones, and I also didn’t want it quite as fat as normal. Oh, this was fun. And I gave him my last $100. It was November, and I was getting ready to drive a sailboat down to the Caribbean, and I told him I’d bring him some more money when I came back in late December to take the last one of season down, and then send him some from that delivery. Then I’d pay the balance when I started bringing them back in the spring. It was going to take him that long to build it anyway. Unfortunately, both those axes are in the States, so I can’t take any pictures at the present. But I found one of the Seagull  | ||
| Captpete |
I'll be darned. We just had a little bump of an earthquake while I was posting the above. Maybe it'll make the fish bite. |
