Introduce Yourself

PeteC

Hi - my name is Pete.  I'm 56 and live in Leeds. 

I have played guitar since I was about 15. I've gigged plenty and been in some pretty decent bands.  Over the years I got into electronics and have built an awful lot (or a lot of awful !) pedals , amps, outboard gear and even my own valve mics. 

I have a home studio full of mainly DIY valve gear , and a nice set up based around a Mac with Logic Pro.   

I am semi retiring this year , and have been reading up for the past 3-4 years on guitar making and getting my woodwork chops together.  My aim is to build a few guitars each year and a few really nice amps to go with them.  Eventually I want to be able to offer a bespoke amp and guitar combination.   

I will be restricting myself to the simple Classics - Marshall and Park inspired amps , and Gibbo Juniors , and Teles.  

I've learnt tons just reading some of the builders posts in the excellent Making & Modding section here. 

I'm keen to meet up with anyone in the North that is interested in classic amps and classic guitars. 

Great Forum, glad I found it. 

Q1:  Where did you username come from?   My name ! 

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?  Leeds, England. 

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?  To keep on making music and making gear to make music !  

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? - My self built Park 1210 Rockhead clone. Or maybe my early 94 McCarty Goldtop. 

Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?  Probably Whole Lotta Love if I had to pick just one 

JohnS37

TTony said:

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

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

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

Q1. OK, it’s a name I have used before on forums, so it’s easy to remember if I have to log in
Q2  I live in Gloucestershire, UK
Q3. As an old geezer I abandoned musical ambitions some time ago, though I recently bought a pedal steel and would one day love to become half decent on that
Q4. I have in the past had a few star items, but I had a decades-long phase when I wasn’t playing much, and they were all sold.  I now have ten guitars and four amps, but mostly budget or rescue items. My cheapest guitar cost £4.36 (only about four years ago . . ).

 I spend most of my musical time writing songs and recording them in Logic Pro.  I only play guitar, but I do have a Roland guitar synth, so that helps me with the other instrumental parts.  I don’t do any of it very well, but I reckon some of my songs are better than my voice, if you know what I mean.

I have always been in love with the studio recording session, and should have taken a different route when I was a student, jamming with some real musicians - even had a night with Mick Taylor when he was playing with the Stones, and Smile (forerunner of Queen) were our college band.

Mattster

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

Just an extension of Matty 

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

Ipswich, UK

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

To meet Mark Knopfler

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

PRS custom 24 

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

Manics design for life.

MartinBush

Q1:  Where did you username come from? - My first name plus the brand of vintage radios I collect...

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

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition? To play well enough to write songs

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

Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one? Amazing Dope Tales by Jobriath (not a guitar track as such, but there's some good guitar on there)

YorkieBarre

Hi all, my name is Paul and I play blues/rock using both acoustic and electric. I've played for about 3 years now, acoustic only at first and then electric too when I developed arthritis in my hands. 

Q1:  Where did you username come from? - a play on the fact I live in York and play barre chords (when strictly necessary).

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you? UK, York - the beating heart of God's own country ;-) !!

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition? To play blues and blues rock to a passable gigging standard before I curl up my toes. 

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - My Fylde Falstaff ebony/spruce acoustic guitar, hand made by Roger Bucknall. A better guitar than I'll ever be a player sadly.

Q5:  Your #1 ever track - so hard to pick just one, but possibly 'Need your love so bad' by Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac in 1968.

Hurling_Fruitmig

Q1:  Where did you username come from? - Showing my age but it's a Douglas Adams character. HF was the founding editor of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the man who coined the phrase "time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so".

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you? - (Old) York

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition? - To improve and actually 'learn' to play rather than struggle on with the bunch of ingrained self-taught bad habits I currently rely on.

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? - My now ancient, but new when I bought it, 1988 Squier Telecaster.

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

SaltyDog

Q1:  Where did you username come from? - Not to sure, it's a handle I've been using for years.

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you? - Glasgow, Scotland

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition? - To continue enjoying music

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

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

Blindwilly3fingers

Q. 1
Well my mince pies aren't as good as they once were. I lost the little finger on my left hand when I was  20. And Willy fitted with the other 2 parts better than my Christian name.

Q. 2
I'm from North West Kent, southside of the Thames delta

Q. 3
I had a couple of guitars as a kid was never very good and then at 20 lost little finger on my left hand. Didn't touch a guitar for 35 years, gave up smoking a couple of years ago and treated myself to a guitar to see if 3 fingers would be enough to play Bo Diddley. Now my ambition is learn as much as I can. 

Q. 4
Got mainly low budget gear my fav being the cheapest guitar I own a Harley Benton gold top P90. 

Q. 5

I'll gor for Free - Be my friend the full 5.30 version with the little bit of Kossoff magic right at the end. 

Rich31k

Q1:  Where did you username come from?   It's just my name/age (a bit ago).

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

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?   Enjoy playing songs I like just for fun

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one?  I've only been playing a couple of years, learning with Justin Guitar, so haven't had chance to build up much gear. Bought a Les Paul Standard in Seafoam Green during the sales at GuitarGuitar. Love that.

Q5:  Your #1 ever track - again, just the one?   Probably "Karma Police" Radiohead

greejn

1. email for work   2. Frome, Somerset   3.Making a living playing guitar   4 Collings i-35   5.A case of You (Joni Mitchell) I am into jazz guitar, archtops, Telecasters.

m0rt

Hi, Ben here. Live not far from Chester, in North Wales

 Q1:  Where did you username come from?

m0rt - used it for years for various things.

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

North Wales

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

To gig, acoustically.

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

Tough one. the "best" isn't the favourite and I am in the process of obtaining the favourite.

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

 Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

TJT1979

Hi all.

I've actually been a member for a little while but not very active. The forum here is good and far less bitchy than many others! I will be selling a few bits and pieces in the UK next year, so will probably become a bit more active here.

I am 40 and English, but currently living in Argentina. Before that I was most recently in Cardiff then Bristol. My family are from the Brighton area and Devon. I get back to visit fairly regularly.

I listen to rock mostly.... Beatles, Nirvana and all the other grungy bands, Veruca Salt, Toadies, The Hives, McLusky (look them up! The first album is amazing), etc... you get the idea.

I play in a cover band. Guitar and backing vocals. Nothing huge but we have fun and lots people come to see us play so I guess we can't be too bad! We're getting into writing our own material which is great.

My main guitar is a now very modded Divill B100, but with a good Firebird pickup in the bridge and the neck P90 removed. I am actually partway through building a couple of solidbodies. Will try to remember to post pics when they're done. I have some nice looking Fletcher pickups on the way which I'm looking forward to.

My amp is an Ampmaker P1800 which I love. Kind of a more modern, slightly hotrodded 1974X circuit. Played through a homemade oversized 1x12 with a Fane F70 speaker.

I am not really into pedals, but have a handful I built from Fuzzdog kits. The SHO clone is the one I use the most. I have a couple of other nice pedals which I don't use much (just the clean boost seems too much at times. Straight into the amp is fun!). The best of these bought pedals is probably a PedalPAL JCM Emulator, which I bought in the US. It sounds great but simplicity rules so it doesn't get much use.

Looking at the list of gear, you'll see that I mostly buy/sell gear in the UK despite living abroad.

In the next few months I will be starting part-time work with a mate who makes high-end Flamenco guitars. Looking forward to learning lots of new stuff (and getting use of his workshop for my electrics).

Also starting singing lessons soon. Not quite sure what to expect but it can't get worse!

I am rambling so will stop!!

Cheers!

Kiplum

Q1:  Where did you username come from? - It's a mixture of my nick-name and my surname - fairly uninspired, I know!

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you? Cambridge, UK.

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition? I always want to improve but, really, just to (keep) enjoy(ing) playing.

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear?   Martin OM-28 Custom.

Q5:  Your #1 ever track?         Honestly, my "best" track changes like the weather.  This morning it might be The Boxer. 

landychris

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

My name is Chris and I have a Land Rover

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

Gloucestershire/Worcerstershire border (UK)

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

Have fun

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

my AW4416 multi track recorder

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

War Pigs

6G6

Q1:  Where did you username come from?

My favourite small power tube!

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you?

London

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?

Creating amps..one day

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

My self assembled self sourced daphne blue strat

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

Europe, “Superstitious” 

les287

Q1. my name and the number of my flat that I lived in after getting divorced

Q2. the wirral peninsular (a little sticky out pit of land between wales and Liverpool)

Q3 to learn how to write hit songs

Q4 define best? my go to guitar is my 39 year old westone thunder 2

Q5 yeah by the wannadies

RickLucas

Hello everyone. My name is Rick and I have been a member for a while. Time to introduce myself. I have been playing for 30-odd years and have been interested in guitars, amps and associated paraphernalia since I started. I am in Lancashire. Forums like this can be a great source of information for everyone, beginner or seasoned pro. It used to be all about Strats for me, but recently I have been playing Gibsons more often than not. I have bought, sold, regretted selling, traded, regretted trading and had stolen all sorts of stuff over the years. I now have a one-in, one-out policy to try and minimise the clutter.  

charlola

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Gazz

Hi all, just joined today so I thought I'd say hello and to follow the tradition -

Q1. My username is taken from my surname and a nickname for many years.

Q2. A little village in Derbyshire.

Q3. My main abition is to enjoy playing guitar and, I hope eventaully, be a half decent player.

Q4. I guess my one and only (for now anyway) Ibanez RG

Q5. #1 track, that's a really hard one. Depends on my mood I guess. There's so many. Maybe Thin Lizzy Whiskey in the Jar, ask another day and it'll be different.

RyanNoisyHammer

Q1:  Where did you username come from? Hi my name is Ryan and I have a little business called Noisy Hammer, so hence the name. 

Q2:  Where in the world/country are you? Im in Norwich in the UK.

Q3:  What's your main musical ambition?  I play bass guitar, and used to be in a punk outfit called Ducking Punches. And also I build guitar cabinets. I would be happy being able to do those for as long as I can.

Q4:  Your "best" bit of gear - just the one? Orange OB1 500 Head.

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