Back in the days of hair I had the ten string Bich with more switches than Jodrell Bank. Wasn't a practical 'cabaret' guitar.Danger Mouse wrote:I actually do have a guitar that can do lots of different sounds, my Mockingbird with its coil taps and phase switches can cover a lot of ground sonically.Molly wrote:I'm hardly the most versatile player myself though I can play both kinds of music: Tom & Petty.Danger Mouse wrote:My BC Rich Gunslinger is a great guitar for playing metal. I only play metal, so it is as versatile as I need it to be.
My 'range' gets smaller and smaller by the day. By the time I'm in a nursing home I'll be playing bass*.
* Lighthearted pop at those four-stringer guys.
It doesn't do metal very well though, so it isn't versatile enough for me.
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Dude, playing northern workingmens clubs doesn't qualify as 'cabaret'. UnlessMolly wrote:Back in the days of hair I had the ten string Bich with more switches than Jodrell Bank. Wasn't a practical 'cabaret' guitar.Danger Mouse wrote:I actually do have a guitar that can do lots of different sounds, my Mockingbird with its coil taps and phase switches can cover a lot of ground sonically.Molly wrote:
I'm hardly the most versatile player myself though I can play both kinds of music: Tom & Petty.
My 'range' gets smaller and smaller by the day. By the time I'm in a nursing home I'll be playing bass*.
* Lighthearted pop at those four-stringer guys.
It doesn't do metal very well though, so it isn't versatile enough for me.
1/ You played at 'The Talk of the Town', all of them, in every 'town'.
2/ You wore jumpsuits.
3/ Nobody chucked beer at you and told you to play something they know.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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And a raffle half way throughBg wrote:Dude, playing northern workingmens clubs doesn't qualify as 'cabaret'. UnlessMolly wrote:Back in the days of hair I had the ten string Bich with more switches than Jodrell Bank. Wasn't a practical 'cabaret' guitar.Danger Mouse wrote:
I actually do have a guitar that can do lots of different sounds, my Mockingbird with its coil taps and phase switches can cover a lot of ground sonically.
It doesn't do metal very well though, so it isn't versatile enough for me.
1/ You played at 'The Talk of the Town', all of them, in every 'town'.
2/ You wore jumpsuits.
3/ Nobody chucked beer at you and told you to play something they know.
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Kiwi thing, but I could never understand meat raffles at the pub. A big polystyrene tray covered in meat with glad wrap over it that got carried around for half the night as they tried to sell tickets. Then if you won you were just handed the tray. So you'd sit there for another couple of hours drinking jugs of DB Draught with your meat pack festering away on the table.Olderama wrote:And a raffle half way throughBg wrote:Dude, playing northern workingmens clubs doesn't qualify as 'cabaret'. UnlessMolly wrote:
Back in the days of hair I had the ten string Bich with more switches than Jodrell Bank. Wasn't a practical 'cabaret' guitar.
1/ You played at 'The Talk of the Town', all of them, in every 'town'.
2/ You wore jumpsuits.
3/ Nobody chucked beer at you and told you to play something they know.
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Oh... All of those things. We were a proper 'pro' cabaret band. Two 40 min 'spots' with bingo in the middle.
"Play 'Simply the Best' the great unwashed masses would shout. We never did.
No jump suits but defo 'stage clothes'.
"Play 'Simply the Best' the great unwashed masses would shout. We never did.
No jump suits but defo 'stage clothes'.
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That sir is tender, aged beef. Beautiful.Danger Mouse wrote:Kiwi thing, but I could never understand meat raffles at the pub. A big polystyrene tray covered in meat with glad wrap over it that got carried around for half the night as they tried to sell tickets. Then if you won you were just handed the tray. So you'd sit there for another couple of hours drinking jugs of DB Draught with your meat pack festering away on the table.Olderama wrote:And a raffle half way throughBg wrote:
Dude, playing northern workingmens clubs doesn't qualify as 'cabaret'. Unless
1/ You played at 'The Talk of the Town', all of them, in every 'town'.
2/ You wore jumpsuits.
3/ Nobody chucked beer at you and told you to play something they know.
Yum!
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Shitting like a goose after you've eaten it thokdawg2a wrote:That sir is tender, aged beef. Beautiful.Danger Mouse wrote:Kiwi thing, but I could never understand meat raffles at the pub. A big polystyrene tray covered in meat with glad wrap over it that got carried around for half the night as they tried to sell tickets. Then if you won you were just handed the tray. So you'd sit there for another couple of hours drinking jugs of DB Draught with your meat pack festering away on the table.Olderama wrote: And a raffle half way through
Yum!
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That's if you got that far, normally you'd get about half way home, staggering along with it tucked under your arm, then you'd give up and dump the lot over the windscreen of a parked up mk4 Cortina.Olderama wrote:Shitting like a goose after you've eaten it thokdawg2a wrote:That sir is tender, aged beef. Beautiful.Danger Mouse wrote:
Kiwi thing, but I could never understand meat raffles at the pub. A big polystyrene tray covered in meat with glad wrap over it that got carried around for half the night as they tried to sell tickets. Then if you won you were just handed the tray. So you'd sit there for another couple of hours drinking jugs of DB Draught with your meat pack festering away on the table.
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This reminds me of a mate who worked for Partco car parts suppliers in the UK. They were sent away on an all expenses paid 'team building' weekend at a nice, posh country hotel. He got peckish late in the evening so ordered an £80 lobster from room service. By the time it arrived he couldn't be arsed so used it to jam the window open. LOL
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yeah instead of Bingo/HouseyOlderama wrote:And a raffle half way throughBg wrote:Dude, playing northern workingmens clubs doesn't qualify as 'cabaret'. UnlessMolly wrote:
Back in the days of hair I had the ten string Bich with more switches than Jodrell Bank. Wasn't a practical 'cabaret' guitar.
1/ You played at 'The Talk of the Town', all of them, in every 'town'.
2/ You wore jumpsuits.
3/ Nobody chucked beer at you and told you to play something they know.
And heres a couple of the most famous northern 'cabaret' stars:
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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Re: Your most versatile guitar?
G& L American Legacy and Taylor GS7e (which is not satin finished like it looks in the photo).
Neither are my favourite guitar but between them, I can do everything I play and everything I'd ever want to play.
These will probably be the last two standing in Slowy's collection.
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meh, just get some piezo's on the G&L and you can sell that Taylor.
I use a Taylor IR and I swear its exactly the same as the real thing. Bearing in mind I'm deaf and have tin ears.
I use a Taylor IR and I swear its exactly the same as the real thing. Bearing in mind I'm deaf and have tin ears.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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I think the initial point I was making was that, my strat covers lots of sonic territories, we know an acoustic can cover acoustic and an electric can cover electric, but can it do strat/tele/humbucker versatility. Ah well, blame the white wines.
The strat fails on tele sounds, but hey I could just kick in an eq with all the top freq maxed......
The strat fails on tele sounds, but hey I could just kick in an eq with all the top freq maxed......
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I'm a non-gigging bedroom doodler... this thread just made me realise I care naught about versatility.
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but how do you play bon jovi, dead or alive? You can't pause and swap guitars!!!!codedog wrote:I'm a non-gigging bedroom doodler... this thread just made me realise I care naught about versatility.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.