CURIOSITY KILLS THE GUITAR

Hi Docphil,

I Hope your well and pain free!   

I love Acoustic for its relaxing feeling! Love all  music, but cannot do the real

noisy stuff anymore, the stuff  that leaves your ears ringing for a week!

Sure Doc, i cry if someone Shouts or  Raises there voice to me! So real loud noise and i dont gel anymore...

Have a good Evening Doc!

Old Doll.

Well dearest OLD DOLL and fellow chordian Don Corleone (original nickname), and of course guitar girl ( I saw your name already a lot, but I never had the pleasure to ask if you are a US citizen.
What Don tells about the mood determinating which instrument to use, well Don, you took the words of my mouth.
More, the songs I play, existing songs, or own compositions, and the same thing listening to music: there are moments I listen to "sugar sweet ballads" changing or switching to bands like Smashing Pumpkins or Metallica, INCLUDING THE SONGS I PLAY, (also from ballads to heavy rock) are almost 75% influenced by my mood. This is so fascinating that I will make again a topic, because it is (not because I am a man of science) real interesting to see what other people, do. I think that most of us own and an acoustic and an electric guitar.You all are a great help, and as I always SHOUT
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CHORDIE RULES

I like your question. ive been playing for years religiously, and im lucky enoph to have collected a veriaty of different guitars. some days i play electric when i wanna get loud or dirty. and yes the acoustic does sound Heavenly. but there is a word full of Semi hollow, fully hollow, nylon strings vs steel, and even really fun stuff like acoustic resanators. some days i play one guitar others i play all of them even the bass. and i guess it all depends on what sounds u wanna make.

ps. my fav guitar is still my gretch electromatic (fully-hollow electric)

i used to play electric when i had i micraphone(my old keyboardist stole it)) now i just play acoustic because as guitardocphil said it sounds so heavenly. i try fingerpicking on the electric but it doesnt sound as good as an acoustic.

If someone asked me what I like to play: electric or acoustic, my answer would be very similar with DON CORLEONE. As I told already I am blessed to have a nice collection, but you can't play them all.
I play 80% acoustic, and 20% electric.
WHAT is the easiest way to start playing: for me definitely ELECTRIC. The neck is long and thin, and it is a lot easier to play, but then I changed my mind, if you start playing acoustic, you will play easier the electric. Plug it in, add some distortion, some delay and a few other effects, you will play so loud and mistakes while playing are a lot more difficult to spot, using electric. Skip all effects, take a crystal clear sound OR take an acoustic, and you will hear every little mistake.
A strange fact: because I play and acoustic and electric, I am really surprised that I was able to play typical electric songs acoustic, using the same riffs and licks as on an electric.
Who else has a similar experience?
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GITAARDOCPHIL SINGS; THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN

I played my acoustic for 5 years before I got my electric--just a few months ago.  I remember hitting my first chord...and it was wierd, the sound was coming from across the room...not from the insturment.  I know, you're all saying "duh" it's an ELECTRIC guitar; the sound comes from the amp!  But with my acoustic, there is this organic quality to the playing experience....the sound is coming from the insturment...seems to be resonating from me, sometimes.  There's this intmacy with my acoustic that I don't know if I'll get from my electric.  Don't get me wrong, I love to crank up the gain and go crazy...but I have to say I'm an acoustic guy.

I too currently have a 'selection' of guitars in my home, and the one I'm picking up the most is my hollowbody electric.  But I seldom play it plugged in.  I love the sound of a straight accoustic, but this particular guitar is far and away the easiest to play that I have ever touched.  Plus, it sounds great too.

I've paid attention the last 5 days, and strange enough, I played 6 minutes on a Gibson Flying V, faded, and compared to other Gibsons, cheap. I tuned the V, and tried it out (last time was long ago), a killer, but in my situation very difficult to play (I can not stand right for 2 minutes) and is there a kind of solution to play while I sit dawn?
Acoustic: 60 minutes. My best acoustic is the martin D-45V, but she has to be tuned a lot (caused by old strings), in fact I prefer the HD-28, she never lets me down, and the sound blows everything away. So, final conclusion: more acoustic. But as some people know, due to an accident, and being home for almost 3 years, still a fact that I don't accept, but since 1 September, I started to reorganise my live. There was a time that 09.00h was still the middle of the night for me, even when I went to sleep at 23.00. Now, when I open my eyes, my day starts. As usual, I don't eat, I have more a kind of Brunch between 12.30 and 14.00h, I start to see my email, followed by chordie, being on line 4-5 hours, and late in the afternoon.I rest more, watching a movie, BUT I HAVE TO AVOID THINKING ABOUT MY DAY, and while resting, it is also guitar time.
Playing acoustic: you hear every mistake, the style is more a J.Fogerty style using a lot of similar licks, like used in Susie Q, and I have to admit that my skills are improved a lot since chordie, I always find an answer on a lot of questions here. Playing electric with a Flying V, through a Cybertwin!!! Thank God that there are only 2 houses where I live, and the second is 100 metres from my house, so Cyber on 4, is already to loud, but it works fine when I feel bad.

Ditto! Only I'm a poor high school kid. I'd play both if I could though.

I have both...most of the time I play electric...and each electric has it's own sound and personality (acoustics too!) for backyard jamming and country stuff I'll often play an acoustic...