Search options (Page 152 of 159)

Thanks, Beamer;

A friend of mine recently bought a POG2, and gets some very cool sounding organ effects from it. We were fooling around with Deep Purple's "Child in Time", as he did the organ and I the guitar ... came out very well. The digital age has removed a lot of limitations.

Thanks for the help, my friends;

I hadn't seen the previous discussion started by Amy, so appreciate the link ... all good info. After playing a few yesterday, it looks like the BOSS will be the winner, but I'm moving up from the ME-25 to the ME-70 (http://www.long-mcquade.com/products/12 … cessor.htm). It's got a few more options that I may never need, but too much is better than not enough.

Good stuff, Chordie ... thanks!

And yet another version due to large hands, I barre the D and G strings at the 2nd fret with my index finger (knuckle inverted) and the B string with my middle finger. This leaves the ring and pinky finger free for sustains, 7th's and the like.

A friend who runs an auto detailing shop swears by a product called "Colloidal Silver". He uses it when someone has spilled organics into a vehicle's carpeting (milk, blood, etc.) and it permanently kills and prevents bacterial decay, which causes the smell.

As an addendum, I own a Ford Ranger 4WD (4.0L motor), and it stinks because of the amount of gas it guzzles ... whatta pig!

Looks like I'm doing it all wrong;

I use my thumb, and both the index and middle finger to hold the pick, with a very slight amount of the point protruding. This was an adaptation from years ago, when I was constantly losing grip on the picks and sending them across the room or into the sound hole. The move to softer picks was to accommodate this firmer grip, but at least I can play a song through without pick-less interruptions. I've noticed that bassist Chris Squire (Yes) holds his pick this way, and suspect it's because of having big hands ... also my problem.

Roto ... that's a great attitude to have about "going this way once". In Robert Travers' 1964 book "The Anatomy of a Fisherman", he mentions that exact sentiment in a list of reasons why he fishes. We're only going this way once ... why waste the trip?

And it just hit me: here we have you from New Zealand, BGD from Las Vegas, and me in Eastern Canada, having a conversation about our passion for getting "that right sound" from our guitar. Talk about a global village!

Hey Zurf ... I was trying to work my way through your grammar, and now have a headache (LOL). Are you related to Yoda? Seriously, that's good advice on getting it right before speeding up.

My kids used to enjoy Fred Penner and Bob Schneider, and I expect much of their material can be found on-line.

Back to the original question, there are times when it can be too loud, a lot of which depends on the venue. I recall a RUSH concert at the Halifax Metro Center several decades ago. The HMC only seats about 12,000, but it would seem the engineers had set the volume levels for a much larger place. As a result, a LOT of the actual music was just indistinguishable noise. When practicing at home, loud is good, but not so much that I have to stand in an opposite corner (facing away from the amp) to avoid feedback.

"Life's a Long Song" (Jethro Tull)
"Shine on You Crazy Diamond" (Pink Floyd)
"In the Gallery" (Dire Straits)

Right you are about MHB ... it's much more complex than most of his material. I play it on classical using fingers, and it's not bad. Some of his tunes that I was thinking of were "Moonshadow" and "Where Do the Children Play".

I understand that Rick Wakeman (former YES keyboardist) is the composer of the music portion of MHB itself. A person never knows how much of this is gossip / hearsay / misinformation / etc.