Introduce Yourself

Bridgehouse

Welcome newcomers!

gpw5150

Hi All - Noob!

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

Urm, easy to remember and part of my email address!

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

North London

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

Middle aged covers!

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

Panama Conqueror amp

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

If I had a tail - QOTSA

RMBarradas

Hi everyone, I've been looking for somewhere like this so I can read and talk about music and gear, and maybe find some people to play with!

Q1:  Just my name's initials and my surname

Q2:  I'm from Portugal, but I've been living in London (NW) since October

Q3:  Just find some people with the same interests as me and play live as much as we can. I'd rather play smaller gigs with a crowd that is really enjoying their time that big ass festivals that people attend just to post on their social media

Q4:  Bugera BC30 (Don't be fooled by the brand, this guy is a beast!)

Q5:  Really hard question... I'm gonna go with "Crackerman" by Stone Temple Pilots

PiRaSSiC

Hey there! Leonardo from Florence, Italy.
Stumbled upon this forum as it seemed to have a great deal of knowledge and an amazing classified section.
So please welcome an Italian and soon former European fella  

jdgm

Hello

1) Initials
2) South East UK
3) To play better and more musically
4) One of my guitars or amps
5) It changes but "Guy LaFleur" by Steve Khan/Eyewitness is always a big fave

Best wishes to all!

Erskine

Hello there. I joined yesterday when I Googled some advice on Laney amps.

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

Taken from the place where I live.

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

Scotland

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

To improve!

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

I am not sure. I think it would be my Eric Johnson Stratocaster. It is a lovely guitar and I would never sell it.

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

Comfortably Numb. There are loads that are contenders but I still love Gilmour's playing on it.

Ddigger

Well the initiation process here is not onerous…

I don’t have to tell you about my ‘gal’, or what sort of pups she has, or how I would really like to upgrade to a MIA or show you photos of my questionable taste in sofas that is covered by 15 versions of the same guitar.

 

My answers are…

Q1:  It’s my job.

Q2:  Scotland

Q3:  Make the missus happy.

Q4:  Pick of destiny (NOS, not available in the shops…)

Q5:  Midnight Moses, Sensational Alex Harvey Band.  Any live version, but this one is pretty definitive…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EZCTy9byfA

 

Just like to say that I don’t spend too long online and I looked around for a useful/interesting guitar site (it was a tortuous process – however Offset Guitars is very good indeed) and I can see that there are many people here willing to make their extensive and useful knowledge and opinions available without being an arse about it.

 

When things get technical, electrical or historical, I’ll be in touch.

 

Thanks,

 

Ddig

4stringer

I joined to today to post an ad looking for a guitarist!

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

I'm a bass player!

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

Glasgow

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

At the moment it's to find a guitar player

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

I own a Wal but that might not mean anything.

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

In the Dead of Night by UK

Bridgehouse

4stringer said:

I joined to today to post an ad looking for a guitarist!

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

I'm a bass player!

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

Glasgow

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

At the moment it's to find a guitar player

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

I own a Wal but that might not mean anything.

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

In the Dead of Night by UK

Bass players are welcome! Please stay

TTony

There's been a bit of an influx of new members, and I've got a backlog of intro posts!

So,

Welcome @jaymenon - good to have another Norfolk resident  with us
Welcome @gpw5150 ; - think we've already got a good few Londoners here, but always room for more
Welcome @RMBarradas - you'll find plenty of people to talk with here, and a fair few willing to play too
Welcome @PiRaSSiC - our welcomes to Florence, and I guess Europe will survive without us
Welcome @jdgm - I pretty sure that I'd never heard that track before - but Spotify just sorted that
Welcome @erskine - Comfortably Numb is becoming one of our jam session regulars.  You may - or may not - prefer the original
Welcome @Ddigger ; - Ahh, but 5 answers to some easy questions isn't the whole of the initiation process ...
Welcome @4stringer - looking for a guitarist?  You might just have come to the right place.

Jkwds

Hello, my name is Jack 

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

It’s my Instagram name.

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

Just under Colchester in Essex

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

Im just happy to be here. Maybe one day I’ll have the guts to play a pub gig.

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

My Ibanez CMM1, I was a big You Me At Six fanboy so I needed to the get the Chris miller signature guitar. It was the first “nice” guitar that I saved up all my money for when I was 16. 

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

This is hard because it depends on what mood I’m in. But Two Steps, Twice - Foals never fails to cheer me up and get me moving. 

WildWayz

Hi guys - how do you remove yourself from certain notification posts? 
ie to remove myself from this one

TTony

@WildWayz ;

When you signed up, it looks like you clicked just about all the boxes under notification preferences.  To calm things down a bit (you must be getting quite a few notifications!)

• Go to the forum homepage
• Click the black cogwheel underneath your username, top left of the screen
• Select "Edit Profile"
• Then select "Notification Preferences"
• Amend your notification preferences as desired
• Certainly unclick the "notify me when people comment on discussions that I've participated in".

That should sort it.

DeeplyDazzled

Hi, late 50,s, enjoying a mild mid life crisis, 12 guitars, and a drunken imagination.

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

Deeply Dazzled is the first track on a Bill Nelson album "After the satellite sings"

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

Wales

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

Ambition is for wimps

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

Eastwood Astroluxe Cadet

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

Starman - David Bowie

mrspanky34

Hello there, new to the forum but enjoying playing guitar. Sound terrible still but my Son has started playing, he loves it and has a lot more talent!

my name comes from school nickname - no idea why...

i am from NI but living in England now. 

I play to relax and have fun. 

Inhave twow guitars. Electric is absolutely entry level but have a nice Tanglewood Acoustic. When I got it, it sounded funny so I brought back to the shop for some advice. He told me, nothing wrong with this guitar, sounds great, could it be anything else? (With a smile)

Best song is Wish you were here or maybe Runaground by James.  

I look forward to talking more, D

Homerun66

Q1:  Where did you username come from? Homerun is the name of my favourite guitar strap, 66 is a random number!

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you? North Manchester, UK

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition? To keep on playing and discovering new fx

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? Currently its my Fender 52 Tele

Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? Hard to call but probably Pat Travers Hooked on Music

thumpingrug

mrspanky34 said:

Hello there, new to the forum but enjoying playing guitar. Sound terrible still but my Son has started playing, he loves it and has a lot more talent!

my name comes from school nickname - no idea why...

i am from NI but living in England now. 

I play to relax and have fun. 

Inhave twow guitars. Electric is absolutely entry level but have a nice Tanglewood Acoustic. When I got it, it sounded funny so I brought back to the shop for some advice. He told me, nothing wrong with this guitar, sounds great, could it be anything else? (With a smile)

Best song is Wish you were here or maybe Runaground by James.  

I look forward to talking more, D

 Runaground by James,  Great Track, good choice.  Welcome.

munckee

thumpingrug said:

mrspanky34 said:

Hello there, new to the forum but enjoying playing guitar. Sound terrible still but my Son has started playing, he loves it and has a lot more talent!

my name comes from school nickname - no idea why...

i am from NI but living in England now. 

I play to relax and have fun. 

Inhave twow guitars. Electric is absolutely entry level but have a nice Tanglewood Acoustic. When I got it, it sounded funny so I brought back to the shop for some advice. He told me, nothing wrong with this guitar, sounds great, could it be anything else? (With a smile)

Best song is Wish you were here or maybe Runaground by James.  

I look forward to talking more, D

 Runaground by James,  Great Track, good choice.  Welcome.

Seconded.  top band.

edwn

Hello,

I love playing guitar but am still awful at it after thirty years of trying ... :-) As a bassplayer I always mistrusted the B string so the past few years I have been using P4 tuning (EADGCF) which is more logical to me for riffs and lead lines, and the fancy jazz chords I like are all possible ... works on my 8 string too (EADGCFA#D#)

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

edwn is Web 2.0 version of my name and is the moniker I use for my botany-oriented prog-folk endeavours ... (yup, it's actually even worse than it sounds ...)

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

I live in the woods in leafy Surrey

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

To keep writing a song a week as I have been doing since 2008. Oh, and to get a good clean sound ... what a mystery that is! I'm currently eschewing an amp and instead going DI through a focusrite Trakmaster using its compressor, tube emulation and a dollop of eq ...

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

The tele I made out of some ash and sycamore that fell down in my garden. I call it the rustic-caster as it's all unpainted and woody ...

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

Uncle Remus by Frank Zappa -- like all Zappa you just ignore the politically incorrect lyrics and enjoy the playing -- George Duke's piano, Tina Turner on BVs and Frank's mind-bending guitar tone ...

harry

Hi
Just started learning the guitar at the younge age of 56. Been at it for about nine months and to be honest I’m pretty much addicted to it. Only acoustic as that’s what I really like, ballads and some country and folk, with a little rock  thrown in.
Managed to get a few simple songs under my belt but finding it really difficult, but not going to give up as I love it.

Q1   Username is my dogs name.

Q2    I’m from South Wales

Q3  only ambition is to learn to play some of those songs that I’be heard over the years.

Q4   I have a faith Venus guitar but my collection will grow.

Q5    November Rain