What do you play?

Any musicians among this group? Surely must be. Saw a photo of Angus Young yesterday and reminded me of a cherry red Gibson SG I bought about 20 years ago for the stiff price of $300.00 . Had an old Ampeg tube amp set up. Played that for about 5-6 years and switched out to an acoustic, selling the SG for around $150–(Damn, I kick myself-some are going for $2,000.00 now!!) I’m down to my acoustic and an old accordian I play for the kids now, mostly just scare my dog. Any other " I wish I didn’t get rid of that" stories?

Yeah, there’s actually a bunch of musicians here. There are a few threads around but I can’t remember what they were. I play piano, poorly mind you. We have a bunch of instruments in our house so once in a while when we have parties everyone grabs their favorite instrument and we make a bunch of noise. My neighbors must love us.

My first reall instrument is bass guitar. I sort of play an number of other instruments. Though my current thing is electronic music because there is something very gratifing about being able to hear a composition as it’s being worked on instead of trying to find people that can and want to play it. It’s like having a huge orchastra with out any clashing egos or opinions. if you want to check out a limited selection of some of the songs I’ve made this way check out “propaganda thru propagation” on myspace that’s me by the way. Though I really love the most just being able to jam with people and get our creative juice collaborating. P.s. my axe is a beaten to hell once I get the money to fix it I’ll be happy mid 90’s fender JP bass with just the P pickup. I’am of the school that the best bass sound can only be made with acient strings (I hate when I break one).

Electronic music?- Do you mean mixing your own? Have you ever heard “Switched on Bach” with the early MOOG synthesizer?( Pretty far out material) I totally agree -finding folks to play who have the similar tastes and attitudes seems to be the toughest part. I’ll have to check your space out, Bob.

I play harmonica fairly well. They have a jam session in a local pub every week and I go and play there sometimes. Stefan

Here are my 2 axes of sonic mayhem. I play in a metal punk band called Astrum. http://www.myspace.com/themightyastrum

I play piano as well as guitar, with an Epiphone Casino being my current axe. Not very good, but I enjoy playing!

yes I mean doing all the stuff from laying out the tracks and mixing it down. Oh yeah one song I have up online is me jamming on a toy-keyboard sounds kind of like an acordian a little bit.

I met an accordian player once that told me this story: He and his band mates were touring and parked their van somewhere. The van was locked, but the accordian was left in plain view on the passenger side seat. When they ruturned some hours later, both windows were smashed in and 10 other accordians had been thrown into the van. True story.

Wow!? Lol Random act of Bad ass Kindness?

@Xander- Nice story! I guess you either love the accordian or you’re in the process of finding a place to dump one!! The folks that go one step further than covering other’s songs and write their own tunes are the most impressive to me. The first band I was in we called the Rabid Infants -even had a poster of a cute ,small child with Liquid Paper dribbling out his mouth. …well ,as the saying goes," Dont quit your day job".

I was forced to learn the Saxophone by my parents 25 years ago. I quickly learned to love it and excelled greatly. It took me to Paris for the grand opening of Euro Disney. That was an experience… Since then I’ve acquired a clairnet, trumpet, piano, tuba (no longer own). Now the wind instruments don’t get used much anymore mainly due to the time available to play and young children that need sleep. I bought myself a Yamaha acoustic guitar two years ago in an attempt to teach myself. It’s working wonderfully. I just bought a used Epiphone LP studio…I’m having a lot of fun with that. Someday I’ll be confident enough to play guitar in front of people (other than family) and then I’ll take some voice lessons.

I play guitar, bass, harmonica, mandolin, and violin (though it sounds like i’m torturing cats).

I play guitar and six-string banjo mostly, but also a bit of bass and drums. Guitars: Fender Tele, Gretsch Nashville Chet Atkins Special, Fender Mustang, Yamaha SG1000, Washburn acoustic, banjo is a Rally.

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I’ve been playing the trombone for oh, maybe 20 years now. Played in a Detroit bar band for a couple of years and the local community college jazz band, I still play occasionally when I can (don’t want to startle the baby or set the cats a-yowling). I’d like to learn more piano and organ; not only do I keep hounding my wife to let me put a piano in the living room, but I also crave to find and rescue a theatre pipe organ to put downstairs (google Leon Berry and his Beast in the Basement). hehehe…

My user name is RockerTony on several other music and amp related sites. I own about 20 guitars and 6 amps. 2 Fender Strats ('74 hardtail FrankenStrat and "91 Strat Deluxe), 5 Gibsons ('85 Black Les Paul Studio, '07 Les Paul Double Cut Worn Cherry, '08 Reverse V, '08 Wine Red Explorer Pro, '09 Holy V) 2 Epiphones ( model 400 SG copy and a Fying V copy) a Schecter with a beautiful curly maple top, an ESP EX400 with a beautiful spalted maple top, an Ibanez SX340, a Strat built from a kit with EMG pickups that a friend helped paint (I call it Purple Haze), a Floyd Rose with locking strings set-up, a Carvin V220 with Mahogany body and neck with a walnut top, very, very, beautiful lite brown stain finish, a cheap Silvertone copy of a Van Halen Music Man, 2 basses (Hamer Slammer and an Ibanez model ?, 4 acoustics…a cheap Rogue 12 string, another cheap Silvertone 6 string, a Yamaha small body 6 string and a Tacoma RoadKing 6 string. I think that’s all of them! Then I own a Carvin Legacy head with a 4x12 bottom and a 2x12 bottom, a Peavey Windsor head and 4x12 bottom, 2 modified Epiphone Valve Junior heads and 2 Valve Jr bottoms with Weber speakers in them, a Crate V18 combo with 2 12’s (modified), a Crate V5 with a Weber speaker, 2 amps that I built myself called Über Amps, and a Valve Jr combo (modified). Who knows how many effects pedals and 5 or 6 microphones (I sing, too). I won’t even get into my sound equipment here! Whew! I have too much stuff!!! I’m playing a wedding gig October 10th, so I’ll get to use some of this stuff!

I play 4 string electric bass guitar and some six string guitar. I have a “Ferarri Red” Carvin b-4 fretless and a p-bass clone I’ve upgraded with Seymore Duncan 3/4 lb pick ups and a baddass bridge. My bass rig is a Carvin 160 watt combo “Pro Bass 200” with a fine 15" driver and horn. My six-string is a nice black Epiphone Les Paul and I play it through a Fender Champion 30. I tend not to go for effects beyond what I can dial in from the amp.

Tom502 those Crass symbols take me back :slight_smile: I attempt to play electric guitar,when in the mood,Les Paul,EMG’s through a line 6 spider amp.

I had a 20th anniversary Les Paul Custom with a wine red finish that I bought when I was teenager. It had 20th Anniversary on the 15th fret marker. That guitar was stolen out of a dressing room at a club in Las Vegas. My own fault for not putting it away after we were done playing. I went out to watch the second band, get drunk, and hit on some women. When it was time to leave, the guitar was gone. I think about that guitar all the time. It was one beautiful instrument, both visually and playing wise. It would be worth some major money today…One of the reasons I don’t drink any more!