me and my strat = 10 year relationship

Baliset

guitar deity
Jul 31, 2002
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1993

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2003

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You and the guitar are both so much more rock now... KEEP ON ROCKING GREGORY "BALISET" MASSI!!!!! .. (btw- thanks for the tab of the Birth Pains solo.. that shit is scary hard.. but im gettin it.)
 
ChromeLife said:
You and the guitar are both so much more rock now... KEEP ON ROCKING GREGORY "BALISET" MASSI!!!!! .. (btw- thanks for the tab of the Birth Pains solo.. that shit is scary hard.. but im gettin it.)

wow thats a compliment i never thought i would hear. i mean my stuff usually isn't very complex although i found myself doing some weird subdivisional stuff in my lines that i never am consciously aware of when i was analyzing that solo rhythmically.
 
Baliset said:
wow thats a compliment i never thought i would hear. i mean my stuff usually isn't very complex although i found myself doing some weird subdivisional stuff in my lines that i never am consciously aware of when i was analyzing that solo rhythmically.

I find it quite hard to mimic the feel in general.. i have the most touble with the part where you pull off with all 4 fingers, then skip down a step(i think) and do the same pattern.. i am not used to using all 4 fingers like that.. since alot of patterns are just 3.. you do very interesting stuff.. the entire thing isnt real hard, but its full of shit i would never think of to do.
 
i (don't) wish i had a pic online of me, i would guess, at similar age. i had the same exact top half of face as you did, mr massi. same hair, everything.

actually, that might not bode well for your future...

i wonder if the younger massi would fear the current massi?
 
my first guitar was also a black strat- only mine was a squier, so it was cheap. but i bought it with the $ i earned from working at the donut shop in high school, so that was a feat. it is now owned by a friend- i basically gave it to him for $40 a couple yrs ago for him to learn on it since i was not using it. he's in the market for a new guitar now, so i'll probably try and buy it back from him.
 
what did the bullet look like? was it more metal?

also, the very first guitar i had was a $6 youth-sized acoustic guitar my dad bought for me- that was all i had from about age 11-15 and learned the most on (chords & stuff). but my first "real" guitar was the squier.
 
my first real axe = kramer focus5000 strat copy w/floyd rose. of course, the bridge was the worst thing about it.

now I have too many guitars that I don't play often enough.
 
not only am i wearing higher education t-shirts but i also am bending and fretting the same notes. and yes i am giving away that it was indeed a planned idea i have had for awhile to make this photo retrospective.
 
aw, man! the canned quality of the photo idea could have been so much more interesting had you let people think it just "happened" that way. i would've totally tried to deceive people. what does that say about my character?