Post pictures of your instruments

[NAD]

Some sort of lyre. This one is better:

Someday I'd love to collect ancient instruments, but only if I could set them up in a museum type atmosphere so they wouldn't get ruined. Well, until I drank a few draughts of mead and trashed them, 1280 A.D. style.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

In my personal opinion

7 string >>>>>>>>>> Baritones

but then again, thats because I'm too lazy to retune my other floyd rose equipped 6 string which I'll get a picture of eventually in here. Although I'm not too lazy to retranscribe solos for seven string

The main reason I got a 7 string was, yes NAD, to play ko--- I MEAN... PLAY DOOM!!! DOOOOOOM!!!!

(also to learn some nevermore and DT, as well as to write doom)

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

I fucking despise floyd rose tremelos. Ive had a Jackson Warrior XT for 4 years and it is perfect, except when a fucking string brakes. It cant be like a regular guitar, ohh no. I gotta clip the damn balls off or string it backwards, and take 20 minutes just to replace the high E. Anyway Ive also got a fender 66 Telecaster, Ibanez Gsr 100 and 250 basses, Martin and Yahmaha Acoustics, and my cluster fuck drum set with parts ranging from gibralter to DW to pearl and back across the spectrum. Its a 8 peice, 17, 18, 19" crashes, 6, 10, 12" splashes, 18" china, 22" ride, 14" hats. No pictures tonight, Im lazy.

 

[Caelum Adustum]

I don't think floyd rose bridges are that bad once you get used to them.

 

[NAD]

Yeah I've got a drumset, an acoustic guitar, and a drum machine, but I don't really count those as my main squeezes.

Nothing wrong with tremelo bridges, as long as it isn't your own guitar.

 

[NAD]

I can't, it's sentimental. I remember going to jam many moon ago I dropped it in the street and a chunk of paint got ripped away, revealing that the damn thing was made out of particle board. I think it weighs more than both my other basses combined.

 

[NAD]

I think it would cost 530750238x more to ship it than its worth. Get an Ibanez SoundGear, those are sturdy and cheap. Or an American P-bass, those things get better with age and dents. Some people don't like the baseball bat neck but come on, it's a bass!

 

[NAD]

All basses sound the same anyway

When buried in the mix, yeah.

Not sure if it's the same over there but in the US there are so many brands that make awful P-bass knockoffs that you can get brand new for under $200, which would probably be $50 at a pawn shop. One of my buddies got a great Takamine acoustic for $40 recently, just because some dumbass wrote a "poem" on the back.

Check this out, SX basses are flooded on eBay:

$109, brand new! Shit I might buy a couple just to throw them at people...

 

[lizard]

check periodically in MusiciansFriend's scratch and dent area for good stuff that can't be sold as brand new. sooner or later your stuff is gonna get a ding or scratch anyway, so might as well start with it.

I do have a lefty Squire P-bass special and it was good I went cheap to start because I'm too lazy to practice. I recently bought a Yamaha keyboard and I'm doing a bit better with that - watch out Gunter Werno!

 

[NAD]

Note to self: stop looking at extremely expensives basses like you have been all morning now.

Eh, my next bass won't be for some time and I want a 70's era P-bass with lots of "character" anyhow.

 

[lizard]

NAD have you checked out the Trey Gunn (ex K. Crimson, right?) Band? this vid with the 10 string WARR guitar is amazing.
http://www.warrguitars.com/video.html

 

[NAD]

I've witnessed him in concert play not one but TWO Warr guitars AT THE SAME TIME OMG IT WAS SO AWESOME. I'm really sorry he left King Crimson, but that's a good excuse for me to finally pick up some of his solo stuff.

Thanks for the link!

EDIT: Just watched the video, man that guy is good. Stuff is fairly reminiscient of current King Crimson, sans all the atonal METAL elements though.

 

[lizard]

I know Behold the Arctopus uses one of those, and I think they show up in the Gordian Knot projects also.
http://www.seanmalone.net/Video/index.html

jesus I forgot that had Levin and Bruford...I'm going to have to listen to some of that tonite. four day weekend, woooo!

 

[NAD]

Yeah any day now I'll send my $6 off for that Behold the Arctopus demo. Credit to the Kayo Dot forum for helping me discover them.

*wishes KO. would / could play out here*

 

[lizard]

did you see xfer's pic of him listening to Arctopus on headphones with his eyes closed? Mia (the violinist) sez, "looks like you're whacking off while listening to Behold the Arctopus."

 

[NAD]

Yeah, cracked me up. I noticed his title quickly changed to I JERK OFF TO ARCTOPUS too.

 

[lizard]

Dude! I knew Zappa was prolific but this is just madness!

Lost Frank Zappa Unearthed

"Joe's Corsage" begins a deluge of previously unreleased recordings


Joe's Corsage, the first in a series of unreleased Frank Zappa recordings, is available at zappa.com. The album consists of demos from 1965 -- the year before Zappa's Mothers of Invention released their debut album, Freak Out! -- with bits of interviews interspersed throughout.
"We wanted to stay as close to the bone as we could," says Gail Zappa, Frank's widow. "Frank Zappa was a composer, and he had a bad habit, which was writing music. To support that habit, he became a bandleader and began playing other things that he liked to hear in different context, and you can hear that throughout his music."

Joe's Corsage (the title a play on Zappa's 1979 multi-part concept album, Joe's Garage) is the beginning of an avalanche of unreleased material, which will include complete albums like the guitar-solo-based Trance-fusion and the synth-heavy Dance Me This, as well as live recordings and "other little nuggets the fans know about and have been waiting for." Zappa died of cancer in 1993.

"We're sitting on forty album projects in various stages of completion," says Gail Zappa, who adds that the material was put on ice due to a ten-year deal with Rykodisc. "That period ends in October, so we'll open the doors to the vault."

 

[Don't Blame Me I Voted Satan]

im an air guitarist here r my instruments

 

[NAD]

We're sitting on forty album projects in various stages of completion

In. Fucking. Sane.

@ Don't Blame Me I Voted Satan: Please post mp3s or videos if you have them!

 

[MajestikMøøse]

damn, I need a cheap bass, a cheap keyboard (all I care is if it has decent settings and a MIDI out) and a cheap set of drums or a some drum sequencing software. Oh and some home recording equipment. Fuck. I need more money.