What weird things did you believe when starting?

IvisonGuitars

I thought that once you got all the tuning pegs in a straight line, the guitar was in tune.

Also, when I bust my first string, I got a replacement and threaded it through the bridge ferrules fine then through the tuner....but only about 10mm through....I was winding that bastard string on for about an hour and a half....you couldn't see the post for excess windings....

Barrivee

I believe http://www.theweirdthings.com

guitars4you

ICBM said:

mbe said:

When I was a kid I thought you plugged the electric guitar into mains wall socket.

It can be done, with a combination of enough determination and stupidity… I once saw the result. Surprisingly, the owner didn't die.

I've seen it as well and hard to believe the thinking behind it

Otherwise I can't think as to what I thought of going back over 40 years ago now - However based on my time behind the counter I'm afraid I've seen and heard many suggestions and ideas and some raised above

57Deluxe

Bridgehouse said:

professorben said:

57Deluxe said:

Oh yes - Telecasters were for Rhythm work and Strats for Lead...

This is actually true tho, but you mean landfill instead of Rhythm yeah? 

I meant to ask - do you loathe telecaster basses just as much?

I loathe Basses full stop. BUT I love my Teles!

Sassafras

ICBM said:

mbe said:

When I was a kid I thought you plugged the electric guitar into mains wall socket.

It can be done, with a combination of enough determination and stupidity… I once saw the result. Surprisingly, the owner didn't die.

A case of natural selection failing in its duty.

DefaultM

I seem to remember plugging an amp in to the schools tape player so that I could play through both at the same time.
I'm not sure how I did it, but the smoke that was coming out of the tape player suggested that I shouldn't have.

professorben

Bridgehouse said:

professorben said:

57Deluxe said:

Oh yes - Telecasters were for Rhythm work and Strats for Lead...

This is actually true tho, but you mean landfill instead of Rhythm yeah? 

I meant to ask - do you loathe telecaster basses just as much?

What's a bass?

EricTheWeary

miserneil said:

I thought that once you got all the tuning pegs in a straight line, the guitar was in tune.

I may have misremembered this but the story as best as I recall it was Stu Hamm ( now a super technical rock fusion type bass player) originally wanted to play bass to be like Danny Partridge from the Partridge Family. So he would watch the show and try to copy the angles of Danny's tuning pegs over onto own his bass in an attempt to be in tune.
Everyone has got to start somewhere. 

Nikko

Rocker said:

When I played a button accordion, the Paolo Soprani was the instrument 'to have', the instrument that serious players played.

When I turned to guitar, I thought that Gibson Les Pauls were 'top of the tree' and the instrument serious players played.  Fender, I thought, were stepping stones before finally getting a Gibson....

...whys that 'weird'?

Sassafras

I used to believe that Sex, Drugs and Rock'n Roll was the answer to a happy life.
Turned out I was absolutely right.

ICBM

professorben said:

What's a bass?

The thing they let you have if you want to be in the band but you aren't good enough to play the guitar.

starwarsnosebleed

I had my first guitar about 6 months before coming to the conclusion 'maybe i should get it tuned up'. 
I think it was one of my older brothers friends that tuned it up for me.

WOW. i thought id better not let it go out of tune, so i marked with black permanent marker the positions of the tuning pegs on the sides of the headstock!!

...then realised what a twat i was.

grungebob

I thought the fact I sounded shit was because I had cheap gear, took more years than i'd like to admit to say I now know that to not be true. I sound like me on an expensive guitar or a cheap knock off.