Re: Any Guitar Players, ADD is an up hill battle

[Anonymous]

Well Ed2020….”is there anything better than that”…….hmm…… not with your clothes on!!!!!! Hahahahahah. Sure stay on it 2020, I’m sixty and gig and love it. Blues and school rock and roll and rock-a-billy are my thing….everything came from blues anyway. you learn that you can move on to whatever you want. It was the late great Ray Charles that said…. you can sing and play blues….you can play anything!!!

Here is how it goes though: first find the gig, noon pick up the rented PA, drive X miles to the gig, set up later that afternoon, do sound check, go for supper, start at 9: 00…play (4 sets of 10 tunes each) until 1:30, tear down, pack up, drive home X miles home, unpack all the gear, hump it into my basement, next day get up and take the rented PA and bins back. We do it all for $1,500 per night and we are not cheap….. trios play for much less.. We are a six piece band….you figure it out??? I don’t do it for the money!!!

No idea what a Fretlight guitar is. A guitar to me is very personal…. screw what anybody says is the best. It has to feel right to you when it hangs around your neck and when it sits in your lap. The neck has to feel good in your hands…they are all different. Most shops allow people to try guitars for a week and change them out try another and another until you find the right one…..any good shop anyway. Same with amps…if it’s a good shop. I prefer off-shore guitars, I’ve had expensive Fender Custom Shop guitars but I prefer and play a Epiphone, Semi-hollow body, Sheraton, with hot-rod Gibson Humbucking pick-ups thru a Peavy transtube with a second 12inch slave cabinet. The sound is gritty and smooth and puts the boutique rigs to shame!!! blah blah blah

I get carried away….. it’s one of my passions for sure. Like I said I would put the theory down… or read it as you maybe need to. But it’s not required for sure not to just have fun……

Can I ask what do you want to play???? What type of music??? Give me a song??? Oh ya a good tablature site is for most rock. blues and pop tablature is…… ultimateguitar.com. Use your browser type in ultimate guitar.com it has a search engine in it, or type in tablature – the name of a song and the band, likely it will come up. Also “songster” shows tablature for songs in real time or slow time along with an electronic accompanyment. Woooohoooo

Ripping off a solo is where the ADD people shine, we can think so far ahead and react quickly that when you are in the midst of a solo your RIGHT THERE!!!! It’s the best!!!! We play again this Sat night…sixty miles from home….I’m pumped!!! Eddie and the House Rockers… we have facebook somewhere my Bass man takes care of that, check it out!!!!

toofat (just another blue stringer )

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