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arkady wrote:Hi BeatleFan
At two months of playing you should not even be thinking of playing barre chords. It's way to early the physical strength needed just won't be there.
I'm gonna respectfully disagree with this.
You should be thinking barre chords the instant you pick up the instrument. I think what needs to be tempered at two months is the expectation that you'll play them cleanly. But there is no reason at all that developing the needed hand strength to play them should start on day one.
Barre early, barre often!
I'm a tube guy. "Better" is a subjective opinion, and I do think they sound better.
Advantages. Some fact, some opinion.
Watt for watt, they'll be louder than solid state amps.
The tone is warmer.
Drawback: is having to replace the tube every now and again.
Roger Guppy wrote:As I have access to how many posts members have made, for interest sake, I will list the top 10
James McCormick 1264
Gitaardocphil 1012
Upyerkilt 993
Old Doll 737
Roger Guppy 717
Badeye 593
Bootlegger 550
Jerome O'Neil 528
Admin 465
Jets60 427
As you can see only three people have posted more messages than Old Doll and I do agree that she has been, and still is, a much valued Member of Chordie and would make an excellent Moderator. She would certainly be my first choice if an opening arose.
Roger
I'm #8! Woohoo!
/ buffs nails on shirt....
The man does for the English language what a blender does for tequila, ice, and lime juice. Yeah, it's all scrambled up, but it seems right when you finish it, and too much makes you feel funny. 
Keep the thumb on the back of the neck. Practice. Then practice some more. Then when you're done, practice a little.
And don't forget to practice.
We had two rules when coming up with a name.
No verbs.
No "The <something>"
That was the Tele I owned. And it was beloved.
I love these. I've got a stack of 'em at home my eight year old wrote. She doesn't like me to sing them, though.
The ryhthm player in my band plays an Epi LP. The crunch coming out of it at high gain is awesome. You can hear it on "Alcohol Talking" from DDG's myspace, below. Please forgive the lousy recording.
The Tele was the original electric solid body design, and came out in the early 50s. I've only owned one ('69 hollow body re-issue) and I loved the neck on it. But anyway, it was the single coil that gave it that twang sound, and running that through a vintage tube will not only reproduce that sound, it will actually be that sound.
The only drawback to Teles for me is the buzz you get through them.
upyerkilt wrote:I just read.....nope, I never read it. I just saw how much dribble I typed last night.
I was going to delete it, but I think I will leave it on to teach people, especially the younger folk.
this is what drink can do.
Haha!! Posting while drink is a time honored tradition. It should have it's own thread.
One word. Telecaster.
Or, in three words. Single coil pickup.
Another misunderstood teenager! Oh noez!
James, as always, nailed right down.
Get the book Scales over Chords. It's based on the CAGED method, and it works.
CAGED roxes my soxes.
OK! Got some better recordings up there now, and we put up a new song replacing the Cash cover.
Alcohol talking is played with the Les Paul, as God intended, and we sound as if we're in a much larger shoe box. 
That one was originally written for a female singer, so we had to tweak the lyrics a bit. It's a "close down the bar" style tune. Lots of room for fun in it.
Thanks for the positive feedback. We're having a good time with it, and hopefully will be gigging soon.
We're doing some more recording tonight with a better mic setup, so hopefully we'll get the balance worked out. We've got some more songs that I think are better, but the quality of the recording was so poor it wasn't worth putting them up.
In the meantime, there's some more pics up, and I've added the lyrics to "Alcohol Talking." The guy that wrote "I Miss Me" doesnt' get on line all that much, and our drummer is a complete ludite.
I've no desire to be famous at all.
Rich, on the other hand, is a different kettle of fish.
I'll see what I can do. I don't pay too much attention to the lyrics, either. We've got 'em on paper, so I'll have to type 'em in.
SouthPaw41L wrote:bonedaddy wrote:Q: Are we not men?
A: We are Devo
They were a bit before 1990 tho weren't they?
Devo is exempt from any barriers of time. They're just cool like that....
Quoted for truth.
Alright! After hours in the basement with crappy mics and busted strings, we managed to eek out a couple of tracks that didn't suck so bad even our own shameless selves wouldn't promote them.
This was done on a Fostex MR-8 digital recorder with two directional mics. One hanging from the ceiling, and the other in front of one of the five amps, which is why you get that awesome "professionally mixed*" sound. We're going to do some more recording, hopefully on a four or eight track device, in the near future. Prolly update the track list at that point.
http://www.myspace.com/deepdishgravity
* By professionally mixed, I mean "Crappy directional mic in front of an amp."
Enjoy!
Viet Nam, by a large margin, followed by all that hip swing that came out of WWII.
I'm going to wager that a large portion of our American audience doesn't know about the Falkland Island War. I'll confess that I had no idea it had it's own soundtrack. What's the story on that?
I love my POD2, but I wouldn't perform with it. It's a great practice tool, but the amp sounds still sound a wee bit artificial.
Because the capo is going to change the key of the instrument, but if you fret E on 12, it's still E. So you have to change where you're soloing at accordingly.
If you've got the cappo at the 3rd fret (G), you'll need to start that solo at the 14th fret if you want to keep the same solo intervals, or find another spot to start at G. You might try finding the relative minor of the key your in (or major if you're in a minor key already) and solo there, too.
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