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  • Morning folks,
    I'm Paul, 45, from Newcastle upon Tyne, i'm a guitarist, petrolhead, runner, and Tea addict.
    My username is inspired by Peter Paul Gaultieri aka Pauley Walnuts aka Winghead from The Sopranos, still my all time favourite TV show.
    My continuing musical ambition is simply to be happy when i play, i gave up long ago trying to emulate my favourite players and comparing myself to other guitarists.
    My favourite bit of gear is my Fender American Vintage '65 Strat, i'm a bit of an anorak for the vintage detail and after years of missing the mark in that respect Fender finally hit it.
    I couldn't possibly narrow it down to 1 favourite track but i suppose Sultans Of Swing by Dire Straits is special to me as it's the first song i learned to play completely from beginning to end.
    ;-)
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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 26753
    Haven't been in for a while. Saw @TTony tonight. Thought I'd say a big hello to anyone that remembers me, and apologise to anyone who hoped I wouldn't be back. Can't say I'll have as much to say as I used to before, but hey, that might not be a bad thing.
    @Phil_aka_Pip ;Hello matey! Welcome back :)
    The Assumptions - UAE party band for all your rock & soul desires
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  • blueskunkblueskunk Frets: 2867
    Haven't been in for a while. Saw @TTony tonight. Thought I'd say a big hello to anyone that remembers me, and apologise to anyone who hoped I wouldn't be back. Can't say I'll have as much to say as I used to before, but hey, that might not be a bad thing.
    Hey @Phil_aka_Pip glad your back
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  • @stickyfiddle @blueskunk
    Thank you kindly :)
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  • smigeonsmigeon Frets: 282
    edited October 2017
    Hello all,

    I've lurked on and off, both here and at the previous MusicRadar site, for years, and I've also posted a bit - usually impersonal one-liners. And I've bought and sold a couple of guitars via the forum.

    And I'm now finally getting around to introducing myself.

    Q1:  Where did your username come from?
    I made it up one day off the top of my head. It seems to allude to a small pigeon or pidgeon :-).

    Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?
    Originally from Cumbria, now in Lancashire.

    Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?
    After playing rock/pop for many years in local bands, I'm getting increasingly interested in jazz. Sorry for the cliched life trajectory :-). In this vein, I've recently done a few open-mics and amateur scratch-combo gigs playing ASM/jazz stuff, and am keen to do more. I'm retired now, and after years in a time-consuming "responsible" job, I finally have the time to focus on this. I'm still a relative novice at the jazz stuff, but learning more every day.

    So I'm keen to take up opportunities play jazz/ ASM stuff with others around the Lancaster/ Preston area. Apart from that, I still play in a "pub rock" type band playing all the usual stuff, and I love that too. I sing a bit with the rock band, but am too shouty and untutored to do justice to jazz/ASM singing. But I try.

    Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
    My Gibson ES330 is currently my favourite guitar. I use a tele and strat for the pub rock stuff, and the 330 gets used for the other stuff.

    Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
    I'd be hard put to pick a track - I like music generally and tend not to get attached to specific recordings/tracks. I'm familiar with rock/pop stuff over the decades, of course, but recently I've been listening a lot to "classic" female singers (Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, etc); sax players (e.g., Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon); and jazz guitarists (e.g. Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Joe Pass, Django Reinhardt - I like his later electric stuff more than the acoustic gypsy jazz stuff).

    So, hi everybody!

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  • TTonyTTony Frets: 27344
    Welcome @smigeon - now you've introduced yourself, you can really get stuck in
    ;)
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  • NiteflyNitefly Frets: 4902
    Haven't been in for a while. Saw @TTony tonight. Thought I'd say a big hello to anyone that remembers me, and apologise to anyone who hoped I wouldn't be back. Can't say I'll have as much to say as I used to before, but hey, that might not be a bad thing.
    @Phil_aka_Pip ;Wowsers, Phil!  Good to see you back! 

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  • Nitefly said:
    Haven't been in for a while. Saw @TTony tonight. Thought I'd say a big hello to anyone that remembers me, and apologise to anyone who hoped I wouldn't be back. Can't say I'll have as much to say as I used to before, but hey, that might not be a bad thing.
    @Phil_aka_Pip ;Wowsers, Phil!  Good to see you back! 

    You're very kind, thank you :)
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  • Hi all, i'm Kev, 45 and living in Oxfordshire, UK. I dabbled briefly with guitar in my early teens but puberty, pubs and girls got in the way and i just stopped playing. Realized i spend far too much time on the computer and was talking with the wife about how awesome it would be to be able to play an instrument. She said 'if you spent half as much time strumming a guitar as you do on the computer you'd be playing along to those songs you listen to before you know it. Don't know why but that just give me a kick up the backside and i thought i would give it a try as i did start spending a borderline unhealthy amount of time playing computer games. Picked up a bass and started dabbling but, as awesome as bass is, for the type playing i am wanting to do (just messing about in the house, no intention of joining a band although that would be a cool thing to do in a couple of years), guitar will be more fun for me so will be looking to sell the bass to help fund a guitar and some lessons or an online course, will cross that bridge when i get to it. Looking forward to having a read through the forums here, looking at some 'guitar porn', getting my first guitar and starting to learn. My fave guitarists are Zakk Wylde, Kirk Hammett, Joe Perry, Mick Mars and Jim Root to name but a few.

    Q1:  Where did you username come from?

    I play some online games and this is the name i use if i have to create a character.

    Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

    Oxfordshire, UK

    Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

    To become good to the point where i can pick up a guitar, start playing and think 'that sounds pretty decent'

    Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?

    Nothing - yet (hence why i joined to have a read through and get an idea what to buy as first guitar)

    Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?

    Ozzy Osbourne - Hellraiser

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  • boogiemanboogieman Frets: 12314
    Haven't been in for a while. Saw @TTony tonight. Thought I'd say a big hello to anyone that remembers me, and apologise to anyone who hoped I wouldn't be back. Can't say I'll have as much to say as I used to before, but hey, that might not be a bad thing.
    Hey up @Phil_aka_Pip. I just noticed you'd sneaked back in.  ;)
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  • boogieman said:
    Hey up @Phil_aka_Pip. I just noticed you'd sneaked back in.  ;)
    Hey Up matey! yep I snuk back in after a social drinky with TTony. He lives close enough to pop over to my local occasionally :) Hope life is treating you well.

    And while I'm posting, a big hello to @Darkskythe @smigeon and @PauleyWalnuts.


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  • DLMDLM Frets: 2513
    @Phil_aka_Pip Welcome back! :)

    Ozzy Osbourne - Hellraiser

    @Darkskythe Tune! \m/
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  • As I've moved from just being a lurker to being a lurker with login, I thought I should post this.

    Q1:  Where did you username come from?
    He's a character in Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais, which I just had a copy of hanging around when I was first looking for a username. I went through putting in the names of characters until I found one no one had chosen before. I've tried changing it for a more sensible one, but it never really works. So I'm Grangousier pretty much everywhere. It's a great book, by the way. Very funny in a medieval sort of way. 

    Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?
    London

    Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?
    To play music as much as possible, which mainly means clawing back time from everything else. 

    Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
    A Godin LGX SA.  I got it in 2002, when it was already a few years old, to use with a VG88. I really should have something fancier, but I think I'd just leave it in the case as I'd be afraid to break it, and what would be the point of that? By the time I got the Godin it had already seen active service, so I was less precious with it, even though it is a lovely guitar. Everything else I have is either cheap or destroyed, not necessarily by me. 

    Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
    I've been looking at this for three days. It's literally impossible. 
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24578
    As I've moved from just being a lurker to being a lurker with login, I thought I should post this.

    Q1:  Where did you username come from?
    He's a character in Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais, which I just had a copy of hanging around when I was first looking for a username. I went through putting in the names of characters until I found one no one had chosen before. I've tried changing it for a more sensible one, but it never really works. So I'm Grangousier pretty much everywhere. It's a great book, by the way. Very funny in a medieval sort of way. 

    Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?
    London

    Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?
    To play music as much as possible, which mainly means clawing back time from everything else. 

    Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?
    A Godin LGX SA.  I got it in 2002, when it was already a few years old, to use with a VG88. I really should have something fancier, but I think I'd just leave it in the case as I'd be afraid to break it, and what would be the point of that? By the time I got the Godin it had already seen active service, so I was less precious with it, even though it is a lovely guitar. Everything else I have is either cheap or destroyed, not necessarily by me. 

    Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?
    I've been looking at this for three days. It's literally impossible. 
    Welcome! Do post in the "calling all lurkers" thread with a pic of that Godin ;)
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  • Long time lurker here, hi to all

    Q1:  Where did you username come from?

    Part of my bands name real name Adrian

    Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

    Bristol, UK

    Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

    Just to be out there "doing it" as often as possible

    Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?

    PRS CU22

    Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?

    Comfortably Numb - Pulse Live Version


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  • TTonyTTony Frets: 27344
    Hello @Franssen - thanks for the introduction and welcome to theFretBoard.


    If you find a couple of minutes, we'd really appreciate your comments on;
    http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/116043/why-i-joined-and-what-im-looking-for-here?

    :)
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  • FatPeteFatPete Frets: 683

    Q1:  Where did you username come from?

    Very funny story, glad you asked... Oh, wait, no it isn't. Just a misheard comment, I'm actually a lanky streak of...

    Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

    Milton keynes, UK

    Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

    Probably to compose/record something I'm actually happy with.

    Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?

    Warmoth Tele 

    Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?

    I'm hopeless at favourites. Today I'll say Deep In The Woods by The Birthday Party. Ask me tomorrow and it might be Zappa or Neil Young or Radiohead or...

    Trading feedback: Trading feedback
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  • TTonyTTony Frets: 27344
    Welcome @FatPete and thanks for the intro.  

    If you check the post immediately before yours, there's something else that we'd like your thoughts on
    :)
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  • Hi everyone! Been checking out this forum for the last few months. Happy to have discovered it after living in the U.K. for the last three years.

    Q1:  Where did you username come from?

    From an Bossa Nova tune.

    Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

    I'm originally from Singapore, but living and studying in Oxford.

    Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

    To improvise well on guitar and bass.

    Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?

    My trusty American Standard Stratocaster from 1990— a gift from my grandpa.

    Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?

    Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23, recorded by Vladimir Horowitz.

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  • Q1:  Where did you username come from?

    A Stirling Moss quote... "that bend, it's absolutely Harry Flatters, old boy"

    Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

    Edinburgh

    Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

    To enjoy myself

    Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?

    Epi Les Paul, Silverburst, Ghost Suckerpunch Pickups

    Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?

    No idea, something by Ginger Wildheart, probably.

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