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Post subject: Are there any other Neandrethals around who pick guitar?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 10:22 am
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Are there any other philistine-Neandrethals around this community who just (bleep)ing love to pick up a guitar and play...

...and are not especially sensitive to or even care in the slightest, (as long as it's well set-up and quality) about

scale length
neck shape
fret size
fingerboard material
string gauge
flats or rounds
HB or single coil
hardtail or vibrato
body wood
tube or solid state
(Ha, or Fender or Gibson!)

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No preference at all for Strat or LP or Tele or SG or 335 or Firebird or...

...let alone particular vintage. 'Long as it's a nice axe well set up, the joy of playing is there.

Personally, 'keep different guitars and bases set up for low-ish action, good intonation and do not give .0274953 of an inner-city Chicago rat's bu-bu about the above stuff. Just pick one up, plug in and play.

This unsophisticated body and knuckle-dragging mind seem to adjust automatically to the above 'minor ' variables. And while ashamed at not being able to differentiate between preference for a shallow C ou U neck or maple or rosewood, 'just love this instrument family and will play until no longer capable.


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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:02 pm
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Oh Yeah! Finally a topic I can identify with. To me all the discussion, rants and raves, and know it all posts aren`t worth a darn. I have several guitars and bought them because I like them and like to play them. One of my favorites is a guitar I paid $45.00 for on E Bay. I have a MIM Standard Strat also, But pick up the cheapy most often because I like the tone for blues better. I just like to play. Don`t have to be expensive, or don`t have to please or impress anybody. I do like my MIM maple neck. If a guitar is set up decently I am happy with it. I do have a nice amp. I ain`t going to name things as I already know, somebody will say theirs is better or make a suggestion to change things. I ain`t gonna. There is such a thing as being happy with what you have. I don`t need all the details, and if I want to change things I will do my homework and spend my dime, right or wrong regadless of what anybody thinks. May be a blues songin all this


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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:02 pm
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 2:33 pm
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Another intelligent post...

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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:31 pm
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Another intelligent post...

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shut it
whould you have perferd me to post "what?", then i will next time
so sorry to insult you :evil:

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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:35 pm
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You didn't insult me...

You're just showing your intelligence...

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Rasputan2 wrote:
You didn't insult me...

You're just showing your intelligence...

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oh whatever, im done with this post

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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:13 pm
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Let's not get hostile.

I agree that one shouldn't be too concerned with the details. I wasn't raised in a wealthy estate so I've had to learn to use whatever was available - usually crappy inexpensive equipment. As I've improved my playing, my expectations have grown though. It is nearly impossible to play Satriani/Malmsteen/Metallica on a cheap acoustic with action like electrical lines. :) But then one should be playing the type of music that fits the instrument. You wouldn't be trying to play Satch Boogie on a flute - it'd be an interesting exercise but you get the point.

You hand me a guitar, I'll play it - doesn't mean that I'll find it particularly well designed for my style though. If I had a nickel for every time that I played a hard-tail guitar and went reaching for the vibrato bar. ;)


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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:29 pm
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I've got $2000 guitars and I've got $300 guitars. I like em all or I wouldn't have bought em. Actually, one of my favorites is a $200 Epi Dot Studio 335. Nice neck, cool 335 tone. I put in some SD Phat Cat P90's and it's rockin machine. Real crunchy.

I don't care much about neck radius. I mean how long does it take to get used to a slightly rounder or flatter neck? Sure I have my preferences, but it's nothing worth being anal about.

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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 6:45 pm
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...and are not especially sensitive to or even care in the slightest, (as long as it's well set-up and quality) about

scale length
neck shape
fret size
fingerboard material
string gauge
flats or rounds
HB or single coil
hardtail or vibrato
body wood


Well, I care a little about some of that stuff, but it doesn't stop me from playing. I play for fun, I don't (normally) gig and I live in an apartment so most of the time I listen to myself through headphones if I'm electric. All my guitars get played everyday, that's what I I bought them for! A ding or two doesn't upset me (too much). As for the picking part, I grew up (more or less) acoustic so I play a lot of fingerstyle including the the electric stuff (even the SG).


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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 6:56 pm
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I don't know about that "care the slightest bit" part. I mean everyone has their own sense of estetics. I prefer a maple neck. That doesn't mean I won't play a rosewood neck, but I'm pretty sure I won't buy a guitar with one. I'll play a guitar with 9's on it, but I'll buy 10's for mine all the time because I prefer them. I'll use a solid state amp but I prefer the tone of a tube amp (I own both). I prefer singles over humbuckers.

I'm not sure what the point is on this thread. I mean everyone has their own preferences. After you've been playing long enough, everyone does. I've never met anyone who's said "no man, I won't play that guitar because it has a basswood body and a maple neck". If we didn't have preference we'd all be playing the same guitar.

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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:00 am
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Good thread. I started out with an acoustic I recieved from a friend with horrendous action, cracks in the finish. It was awful... But i loved it. Eventually I moved on and have since developed preferences in guitar types and features.

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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:37 pm
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I also have expensive guitars. My acoustic is solid rosewood back & sides, and A cedar top cutawat fishman etc. I have nice electrcs also including L.P. And a jazz Box. I`m just saying that it don`t matter to me as long as they play well & sound good. The one I got off E Bay for $45.00 is a strat style SSS, I was amazed. Well constucted, & solid mahogany, Although trhe reviews say they suck, But this one sure don`t.


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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 1:37 pm
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I have paid as little as 139.00 for a guitar and as much as 3,000.00 and
as someone said earlier I liked them both in fact I pick the cheap one
up more then the other . I just leave it setting out handy. Right now I only
have five and I play each at least oncs a week depending on mood and
music style.


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