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Who Is Tony Jones?
My name is Tony and like any kid in their early teens in the 70’s I was another wannabe Ritchie Blackmore and Jimi Hendrix.
When I was growing up, in my teens, almost all the kids had an instrument to play. There was plenty of inspiration around. Loads of good underground bands like J.C.B, The Abbs, we also took inspiration from Deep Purple, SAAB, Focus, and Santana. All that sort of stuff.
Everybody in the streets would be playing guitars, some had a drum kit
I had a friend called Peter Dockerty that showed me a couple of riffs n’ things to put me on the right track
I was really good at the ‘air guitar’ stuff though, like everyone else. I could barely do a ‘3 chord trick’ in them days but thought I was the ‘kiddie’
We used to go to the local club, where Brian Bird sang, Michael Reddman played lead, Steve Brunock played Bass, and Monster always had his Ludwig drum kit.
We would do things like ‘free bird’ and cover versions of a Cardiff band called ‘Budgie. Oh yeh and one of the twins done a rendition of Stephen Grossman’s ‘hotdog’ really good stuff
Oh yeh, and one other thing, I could never work out why I was the only kid that liked Hawkwind! All my other mates hated them!
30 plus years later I can play a bit now, after years of practice and god now’s how many guitars later.
I will be trying to encourage & help people to play the guitar by posting lessons, tabs, tips n’ things like that, also any suggestions would be good
How Many Guitars Does One Man Need
My earliest memories of listening to music were listening to my mother play clare De Lune or the Sabre Dance on a rickety old piano. The Beatles were around then but I preferred classical music. When I started secondary school I followed the fashion listening to “skinhead Regge”.One night while I was visiting a mate I heard his older brother playing his LP’s and this wonderful new sound was filling my ears. Blues based electric guitar. Not the sort of thing that was on the radio or Top Of The Pops. This was Led Zeppelin, I was hooked.
My only single I owned at the time was “cottonfields” by The Beach Boys which got binned rather rapid. The next single I bought could not have been more different, the classic “Black Night”. Around this time I met Peter Docherty (now a lifelong friend). He used to carry his acoustic guitar everywhere with him. I thought he was amazing the way he played “house of the rising sun”. He showed me the 4 chords to “my sweet lord”
And by that Christmas I got my very first guitar. It was a cheap nylon strung Spanish thing. I was happy just to strum a few chords thinking the music I am listening to is far too difficult to play. My 2 dream songs I would have loved to play at the time were “living loving maid” and “black dog”.
At school one morning a mate said he had worked out the intro to “Sylvia” but when he played it to me something was not quite right. A few days later I had worked out the chords and a basic lead for the song. My playing was getting better. This was the time to buy my first electric guitar. It was a black Columbus Les Paul copy costing £40 new and a Selmer 15 watt amp…whoops there goes the neighborhood everything on “10” while mam & dad were out.
School days had come and gone along with the Les Paul copy.
I had also seen off an SG copy a fender acoustic and several other guitars. I was now working in a steelworks and with more money than sense I bought a CBS Arbiter double neck.
The thing was a monster. Six months down the line that was replaced by a white & cream Fender Telecaster. It even had the chrome bridge & treble pick-up guard. Ok I’ll own up I was playing some Status Quo covers like “gerdungilla” and “in my chair”. Zep was still out my range or so I thought although I was playing “tangerine” and “bron-y-aur stomp” and the acoustic bit to “stairway to heaven”.
One night while I was in the pub gassing to my mates one of them said he was going to get tickets for Rory Gallagher live in the Capitol theatre Cardiff. I had never heard any of Rory’s songs but went along anyway. He was fantastic, such energy and his Strat sounded like nothing I had heard before.
“Walk on hot coals” “too much alchohol” sensational stuff and the encore was “bullfrog blues”. The ticket cost 60 pence!
A few weeks later I bought a Strat copy. When I got it home I showed it to my mam then went upstairs to my bedroom. A while later my mam was puzzled by what she could hear coming from upstairs. Instead of some R&B she could hear BANG BANG BANG and rasping sounds. I had put the Strat on the bedroom floor next to Rory’s “against the grain” album and with a hammer & chisel I was trying to make my strat look like his. By this time the selmer amp had gone and I was using a Novanex 30 watt with a wah wah peddle and a wem copycat. By now I have owned several guitars and various effects peddles but I had still not found “that sound”
I had Tubular Bells and Hergest Ridge in my record collection but when Mike Oldfield released Ommadawn I sat up and took notice how good a guitar player this guy was. And “THAT” tone on his guitar…..amazing. By the time I had heard “incantations” I wanted this tone but how? Was it a studio effect or some sort of peddle, I did not know. Lets face it get a strat , clean tone , bridge/middle pick-up bit of reverb and hey presto you have the Dire Staits tone but Oldfield?
Crank up the gain add a distortion peddle add some power chords and like magic you sound like Black Sabbath …but not Mike.
My novanex had now made way for a H&H 100 watt bass amp that I got off my dear friend B.B. I traded him a sony cassette deck for it. The telecaster had gone too. I now had an Ibanez flying V. After a few weeks I went back to the music shop where I got it and asked them to replace the bridge pick-up with a Di Marzio super distortion one. When this was fitted it was out of phase with the Ibanez neck pick-up and gave a very unusual tone when both pick-ups were selected. Still not the Oldfield sound though. There was a band in work playing cabaret sort of stuff and I was asked if I would like to play rhythm I said ok and turned up at their next practice. They knew I played guitar but had not heard me. Jeff the lead player said “lets see what you can do” so I played “caroline” real bad. Hum…..ok was the reply. Then I cranked up the H&H and belted out William Tell. I was the lead player after that moment. The one and only gig that I played with “Easy Street” was the works club on a Saturday night. The rest of the band turned up in black velvet jackets shirts & ties.
I turned up in tight levi jeans , cowboy boots and a flat cap.
I can still see myself ….. legs spread wide apart …edge of the stage….flying V bouncing off my knee belting out a ripping solo to “imagine”???????? this is not for me.
The flying V was a bit of a pain when playing sat down so I sold it and bought a black Squire Fender Telecaster. Got rid of the huge H&H and replaced it with a Pevey 15 watt. By this time I am now married to my first wife who had little or no interest in music and with a lack of motivation I slowly lost interest in the guitar. Just maybe a bit of a strum on my Eko.
Fender USA as I recall were having problems and my Tele was gathering dust. I was still listening to music though…AC/DC ,
Outlaws , Van Halen and my all time fav band Hawkwind.
The “Hawks” were easy to listen too. Just sit and enjoy the music without working out how its played in my head. Warrior on the edge of time is a classic album by them.
I was having a conversation in the local pub one afternoon about guitar styles when Eddie Van Halen popped up. As it happened one of my mates had a video on him “Van Halen Live In New Halen” which I borrowed off him. The video sparked my interest in the guitar again but my Tele was struggling a bit for power. I needed a new guitar. I was in town one morning to pay the electric bill. The showroom was at the far end of town and to get to it I had to walk pass Gwent Music! Walking passed something bright yellow flashed in the corner of my eye….one sharp u turn and I was in the shop trying out an Ibanez RG 550 with a Floyd Rose locking trem , free pair of cheap sunglasses with every bright yellow one.
Got it home and it growled like an angry bear. Still not the Mike sound. The first decent thing I can remember working on with yellow peril was “Europa” followed by “The Loner”.
The black Tele was sold and I bought a Rat distortion peddle , a flanger , a chorus and a boss delay. The Pevey was replaced by a 15 watt Marshall. A few months later I bought a Yamaha pacifica solid 12 string and a Jim Duncan 6 string electrocustic. My wife found this to be too extravagant and was none too pleased about it. I bought some brackets and wall mounted my 3 new guitars in the little bedroom in our house.
My room , somewhere I could escape from “soap operas”.
I had a Panasonic twin tape player that I could record sound on sound , not quite what was to come much later but it was something I could work on. I spent a good morning and a bit of an afternoon recording a 3 track own version of “stairway to heaven” which after several bum notes I was pleased with. The track was 7 minutes long but seemed a lifetime to record. Armed with my walkman and stairway tape I headed for the pub. Mike the barman and friend was going to have a bit of this. He is a jazz fan first and foremost but loves all kinds of music and I would value his opinion. Some time before he had heard my “Europa” and said “good but there is room for improvement” a comment I took on board and made “improvements”. Any how he loved stairway. For Mike to rewind the tape and play it again was like getting the thumbs up from Simon Cowell. My wife had come home from work now and after we had our evening meal I began to play the tape to her …3 minutes or so into the track her attention turned to Coronation Street.
I have once again found myself in town again…I remember now my wages were paid direct into the bank and I had to draw the money out once a week. I had a little look in Gamblins Music window and saw a little blue funny shaped guitar made by Pulse it was only £60 …it looked like a puppy in a window and I had to have it. It was about 2 weeks or so after that when I bumped into a friend who had fallen on bad times. He had a 3 month old black Gibson Les Paul Standard for sale… he wanted £300! I stood there for 3 seconds and felt something in my mouth…it was his arm, I had just bitten it off. I gave him the money and the pulse to be going on with.
I took more flak than a second world war Lancaster bomber when I got the Gibbo home.
3 or 4 months later after a grueling 6 till 2 shift on a sunny Sunday morning I popped into the local pub for a pint with my mate Murph. Murph’s a guitar player too, and a very big YES fan. I said the Les Paul is for sale for £500 and he knew his mate Mike would be interested in buying it. I said ok just let me know sometime in the week. Several pints and a big Sunday lunch later I headed for an afternoon snooze only to be woken up about an hour later by a thump thump at the front door. I opened the bedroom window and I will never forget what I saw….there was Murph waving £500 quid at me shouting “F**K Mike I’m having it” he still owns it to this day.
The very next morning I was on a train to Cardiff to buy a U.S.A Strat.
One sunny afternoon in Murph’s garden we were jammin’ some blues but nothing much was happening when I said to him “play this” it was the rhythm bit to the end of “freebird”
I thought we had something there and when I got home I worked out all the chords and some rudimentary lead. Murph being who he is sent for a backing track for it. I still play to it now. A few weeks later Murph was having one of his legendary bbq’s and he wanted me to join in on a little acoustic set with a few friends but me being me just turned up a little bit hungry and very thirsty. I remember I did sing freebird though…..well I was told the next day I did! That night on the way home I must have set off a dozen car alarms and a 15 minute journey took nearly an hour.
On holiday in Majorca I made friends with a Spanish barman named Pedro and on his night off he took my wife and I to a bar that was managed by his cousin Ramon. In passing conversation with Pedro I had mentioned I played guitar. We arrived at Ramon’s about 6:30 ordered some drinks and sat and chatted. I looked around and saw there was live entertainment at 8:00….a guitar/vocalist. Have I been led into a trap? Pedro got up after a while and had a word in Ramon’s ear he came back to the table and said it was ok for me to play the guitar seeing as the bar was nearly empty. After some persuasion I got onto the stage and sat at a tall stool and started playing some smooth jazz chords and some slow 12 bar blues. I finished one piece and there was some polite applause. Some passers by had started to take their seats , order drinks thinking I was the entertainment for the evening.
I played for about 40 minutes then went back to my seat, the bar was by now about half full. 8:00 came and the real act started playing and his first blockbuster was “Viva Espania”
To my amazement after 2 more songs people were starting to leave. We had a great night at Ramon’s, drinking and eating REAL Spanish food and at the end of the night Ramon asked me if I would play again the next night but I said “no, sorry I am on holiday”. About an hour after we got home there was a knock at the door, it was Murph, he had borrowed my strat for the 2 weeks I was away. He asked me if I had heard of a Zoom 2020 peddle board. I said no and he explained how good they were well within an hour I had bought one. One of the patches on it coupled with my Ibanez sounded awesome….ALMOST MIKE.
I was not one for change but the Zoom was very good and it made all my peddles obsolete. My Hi Fi consisted of a Technics turntable , amp , 15 band graphic equalizer , cassette deck although I preferred my sony reel to reel and 4 wharfdale denton speakers. My pre-recorded media came in a cardboard cover and was round, 12 inches in diameter with a whole in the middle. I preferred doors with handles and when I drew money out of the bank it was handed to me by a human being and not some whole in a wall. Video recorders were rather neat though. I did however concede defeat and bought a Technics CD player. Technology where will it ever end!
Thanks to Murph (his name is David but he will always be Murph to me) I now have some good backing tracks and a neat little “set” that I played in order like I was doin’ a gig.
Starting with Black Magic woman and ending with Freebird with some Tush and Johnny B Goode in the middle. I found Europa a pain in the ass and always left it out. But I always played “The Loner” I did not know at the time how important this track coupled with “yellow Peril” would become.
I decided one day to ask the landlady of the local pub if I could play some of my songs in the bar one night. Not as a paid entertainer just informal just for my mates. She said it was ok and I did just that. I started with Black Magic Woman which was a mistake because John “Buck” Buckley was there and he loves Santana and I must have played it 5 times that night. I played along with 2 or 3 backing tracks then I asked if anyone would like so sing something providing I knew the song. Well would you believe it the first request was for House of the rising Sun. Rough tough and hard to bluff Fred Evans sang Pink Floyds “Mother” and to my amazement sang it with loads of feeling. I played along to a few more requests then back to the backing track stuff. The Loner went down particularly well with one of my friends, Helen her name was and not to bore you with personal stuff became my second wife. The loner became “our song” and I still get slated if I duff up any of the notes to this day.
On our 1st wedding anniversary we went for a nice evening meal and while we were having some tia maria coffees, and being a “Paper” anniversary Helen gave me a piece of paper.
It was a bill of sale for a 50 watt Marshall valvestate 2000.
Wow I thought. Then I thought a bit too powerful for a second floor flat, but loud enough to play a small gig with. Helen always mentioned about playing in a band again.
We were in the pub one afternoon watching the football when I struck up a conversation with a rival supporter. The game was crap (we were loosing) and the conversation turned to music. He said that he used to be a drummer, and I said I play guitar at home just for fun, I also said I had a few backing tracks. This was my 1st conversation with Andy O neil. I invited Andy over one evening for a drink and a chat about music. He fancied the idea of singing to the backers and me playing. Andy had a great voice and a way with words. Using a Yamaha keyboard we made our own backing tracks and wrote some of our own songs. A few weeks into practicing Tracy Roberts joined us on backing vocals and I called the band Trilogy.
Now and again while we were practicing some of Andy’s old band members would turn up for a listen and on one occasion one of them said to Andy “where the F**k did you get that guitarist from?”
We were now ready to play a gig. Andy had arranged us to play in a small pub away from the local where we practiced at and on the night several of our friends had turned up, those
friendly faces were just what I needed because I was getting nervous. 5 minutes before we were ready to play Andy said “can you play something while I introduce us?” the only thing that came into my head was the riff to Whole Lotta Love so I belted that out. The gig was going well, Helen was buzzin’ all my nerves had gone and I was loving it. We all had a great time and at the end of the night I was asked to play The Loner as an encore. Helen thought I had played that well she bought me an Epiphone SG with a fishbone sunburst finish that I had spotted in a music shop some weeks earlier.
We played another gig more local and that went well too, and again I was asked to play The Loner as an encore.
Some weeks later we had some differences of opinion and we parted company. We had got an act together, practiced to get it to sound good and played two gigs and I had proved a point.
I have not played guitar outside the flat to this day. For Christmas that year Helen bought me a Fender Banjo and on boxing day afternoon I played it in the local and my mates loved it. Everyone stopped what they were doing to listen. I only had the thing 5 minutes!
One rainy day we decided to go to the museum I don’t know why it’s not my thing. Anyway to get there we had to walk pass Speed Music and as one does stop and look in the window. There were the usual suspects, big amps expensive peddle boards and the like. There was a line of guitars wall mounted down one side of the shop and sticking out towards the end was a big Fender strat headstock. We went in to investigate and low and behold it was a used 1978 Fender Strat for sale.
The guy wanted £400 for it. Helen said “you got the money GET IT” so I did. No world war 2 flack gunners in sight!
I now had 2 strats, an Ibanez, a Yamaha 12, an epiphone SG,
And a Jim Duncan Acoustic oh and a banjo. By that Christmas the Zoom 2020 was replaced by a Zoom 4040.
That’s it I have all that I need. I got that wrong!
B.B. (Brian Bird) called in one morning and as usual he was armed with cd’s he had downloaded for me including several by Molly Hatchett. I thought they were fantastic and would love to have them on DVD. B.B. said “I’m on the case” and a week or so later got me “Live in Loreli” DVD. Salt of the earth B.B. a great friend who is sadly missed. He’s up there somewhere fixing God’s printer. Anyway on the DVD Brian Basset is playing a Fender Telecaster, a seed is now planted in my brain….I WANT ONE! Guess what I had for my next birthday…..a 20th anniversary Squire Telecaster butterscotch blond with a maple neck and a white scratch plate that I changed to a black one to match Basset’s one on the DVD.
There now I have everything. WRONG!
One evening while watching TV I said to Helen “you know what …I don’t have an acoustic 12 string”. I got a sideways look. Then I told her about my mate Michael John. I was over his place one afternoon listening to his David Bowie renditions. Something didn’t sound right and Mike started to tune up. Mike’s got a short fuse, many moons ago when he was in school he belted his English teacher. This guitar would not tune up and Mike saw the red mist, threw the guitar on the floor and put his size 10 Doc Martin through it. What was once a great Suzuki 12 was now a pile of firewood. I would never do that to my Yamaha APX5 that I bought some time later. I NOW have everything? Not quite.
By now I am really enjoying playing the guitar and I had embraced the computer age. WOOHOO I can hear Helen shout. I had posted several guitar video’s on YouTube. My mate Glenn’s son Daniel was popping down for a guitar lesson once a week and he was picking it up fast. We had some fun playing a scaled down version of “Dueling Banjo’s” taking it in turns on who plays the banjo and who plays guitar. Helen took a photo of the 2 of us, me with the banjo and Daniel with my Dobro in black & white. It just spelt D.E.L.I.V.E.R.E.N.C.E.
Oops I forgot about the Dobro!
Got up one Sunday morning…(sounds like a blues song) and all I said was it would be nice to have the real sound of a Dob.
Well one phone call to Cranes Music in Cardiff just to check to see if they had one and there you have it, or rather I have it.
You would think by now all I am short of is a conveyor belt and 2 sliding doors. Murph’s nickname for me is “Mr Eccentric” and over the next few months I was going to live up to that and a bit beyond.
The Zoom 4040 was getting on my nerves a bit, it was lacking something so I went online and I found Line6. I read about their new peddle board called Pod X3 Live and with another birthday looming I had one. The Zoom 4040 I gave to Murph to try and spark an interest in the guitar once again.
One of the effect patches suited the Zep stuff I was playing but it did not feel quite right Jimmy Page plays a Gibson Les Paul I thought to myself….hang on a minute….i haven’t got a Les Paul. This played on my mind for a bit but in the end I gave in and bought an Epiphone Les Paul Custom Limited Edition. There I am happy again. Soon after I had a Line6 newsletter emailed to me and I read about their Spider III amps I did not want to replace my Marshall but I did buy their 15 watt which is a little beauty. I phoned Murph to tell him about them and to my surprise he said “I got one”
My 50th birthday was looming ever closer and Helen wanted to buy me something special so one day we headed for Cardiff…destination Gamblins Music Centre! I had seen something “Special” online that they had in stock. We went into the shop and had a look around but I could not see it.
So I asked the assistant “excuse me but where are the PRS guitars?” “follow me SIR” was the reply and we were taken to a small air conditioned room with no windows and only one way in. There on the wall it was…a Paul Reed Smith Swamp Ash Special Blue Matteo Finish complete with the bird inlays in the neck. It looked amazing. Played and sounded like a dream. That sound “MIKE’S” sound. After 20 or so minutes I took it to the counter and said “I’ll have it…does it come with a spare set of strings” he gave me a set of Ernie Ball .008 and Helen gave him £2150. While he was out the back getting the case I held the little blue thing as careful as I could. Something in a glass case to the right of the counter caught my eye. It was to play on my mind when I got home. It didn’t play too long though 6 days later we were back in the shop the assistant said “is everything ok?” thinking to himself god hope there’s nothing wrong with the PRS. I said “fine….can I have a look at that” and pointed to a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with burstbuster pickups and a 1950’s neck which I bought 10 minutes later.
The pod X3 live can connect to the PC and I had downloaded a trial version of one of Line6 recording tools but it was a bit complicated for me to use. After looking online I found this little tiny box called a Boss Micro BR that I bought the next day. 4 track mini recorder with 60 guitar patches built in and it had a dedicated website where MBR users can post their work. Some of my first posts were cover versions of classic tracks like The Loner, Another Brick In The Wall and so on.
I found it a bit odd that no-one had posted Johnny B Goode?
Baring in mind this is a guitar based site. So one day I posted my version based on a backing track for the Jimmi Hendrix cover. I must say it drew very flattering comments from some of the members. Then I posted some of my own compositions and they were well received. One of the members asked me “how do you get that TONE” I replied that I used a certain patch on the MBR. He replied that when he used the tone it sounded nothing like me. The piece that I posted was an instrumental played to a backing track and sounded like Mike Oldfield. One of the MBR members asked me if I could play the intro then leave the rest so he could add vocals, a lyric he had composed. I did this and emailed it to him. He then emailed the “song” back to me and I added the final guitar parts. I posted it on the MBR site and he posted it on soundclick and it reached No14 on the internet chart. That was the first collaboration with James. The second was a cut down version of a blues number I was playing called “can’t stop smokin’ blues”. James’s lyric was witty about how smokers are treated like lepers now there is a smoking ban. The third was a road trip country sounding song. What with the cover versions and the collaborations I was running out of backing tracks real fast. I remembered the days with Andy when we used to make our own using an old Yamaha keyboard and mentioned it to Helen. Well within a week or so she bought me the mother of all synths it was a Korg M50 and I used that on collabs with James and for some instrumental stuff that I like to play.
Sometimes after checking to see if there were any comments on my posts at the MBR site I would “just “browse Cranes Music or Gamblins music websites looking at different instruments when I came across a white Gibson SG special.
The bodywork was whitewashed and the 3 pickups did not have covers, and the pickup selector looked like it came off a 1950’s gas cooker! The photo said buy me …. So I did.
Now I have enough guitars? WRONG! There’s more to come.
Murph popped down one evening for a natter and can of cider. While listening to one or two things that I had recently recorded he mentioned that sometimes my style of play would suit a semi-acoustic. I had never owned one but I had played a few in the past. Well the next thing I know I am in G.M. Music trying out a Washburn semi. I was not very impressed with it.
Then Helen thought I should try the Ibanez in the window. It was amazing so I now own an Ibanez AS103 Custom, flamed maple natural finish.
Back a while ago Murph gave me a bass that he thought was crap. I tarted it up a bit by painting it like a zebra but the tone pot did not work and I could not get any treble. I did use it on 1 track that I recorded but it was a bit frustrating not being able to adjust the treble so I went and bought a cheap 24 fret Gigsby bass.
While I was composing this article I discovered something totally amazing. Gibson had developed the world’s first “Robot” guitar. It has an on-board computer that analyzes the pitch from the strings and if they are out of tune it sends a signal to servo’s housed in the tuners and if by magic turn themselves to put the guitar in tune. You guessed it I got one….the ultimate posers guitar….a Gibson Flying V Robot metallic red
I have come a long way since I had bought that 1st Les Paul copy. Many guitars had come and gone and I sometimes think where they are now? And recording has changed so much from cassette tapes and analogue microphones with hiss and background noise to the 4 track recorder I can put in my top pocket.
Since being married to Helen selling a guitar to buy a new one is no longer an option. The only headache I get is where to put them all!
How many guitars does one man need?
I am now the fortunate owner of….
Paul Reed Smith-Swamp Ash Special-Blue Matteo Finish
Gibson Les Paul Goldtop-Burstbuster pickups-1950’s neck
Gibson SG Special
Gibson Flying V Robot
Fender Stratocaster-U.S.A. 1978
Fender Stratocaster-U.S.A. 1990
Ibanez AS103 Custom
Ibanez RG 550
Epiphone Les Paul Custom-Limited Edition
Epiphone SG
Squire Telecaster-20th Anniversary
Yamaha Pacifica 12 string solid body
Yamaha APX5 Electrocustic
Jim Duncan Electrocustic
Dobro Resinator
Faggard 6 String Lap Steel
Gigby Bass
Lindo Backpacker
Korg M50 Synthesizer
Roland GR-20 Guitar Synthesizer & G3 Dedicated pick-up
Line6 Spider III 75 Watt Amp
Line6 Spider III 15 Watt Amp
Line6 Pod XIII Live
Line6 JM4 Looper
Boss Micro BR 4 Track Recorder
Jackson DK2s sustainiac
2 sliding doors, a conveyor belt and not forgetting a cuddly toy.
I am asked particular question every year “what would you like for Christmas?”
My answer is always the same……
“a set of strings please”
This was to be the end of the story…….wrong.
I am not one for reading manuals so I do not know how to record to the virtual tracks on the MBR and I felt I needed more tracks to work with so I bought a Boss BR600.
Now I have 8 tracks to play with.Wads.
One of the members on the MBR site posted a “shine on” challenge so I recorded my take on it and posted it there.
I then had a listen to other members posts.
One member “48” Mike McGrath posted a cracker playing guitar and a Korg Kaossilator. The Kaoss started playing on my mind and I decided to get one. The little box is light years away from Rolf Harris and his bloody annoying stylaphone.
Mike is always searching for the “Perfect Tone” his main style of music is the blues which he excels at. I too keep looking for new tones and feels to improve my playing. One day I searched youtube for an instruction video on dialing in “dual tones” for my pod x3 live. I found a great video there and the guy doing the demo was using a Jackson DK2S he said “the S stands for Sustainiac” I got interested. So I Googled it. Then read some reviews about it. Next I went straight to Gamblins , Cardiff on-line store. The price tag was £800…..umm a bit pricey!
A few days passed….er ummm 1 day passed. I logged onto GAK UK and found a black one at a cut down price of £550.
So now I own a Jackson DK2S.
The FINAL total is 19 guitars , a Banjo , a Korg M50 and a Korg Kaossilator.
I was at the new guitar site we fondly call TW. (long story) and I read that 48 Mike had sold 5 of his guitars. This is something that I can’t do…I value my life too much….Helen would kill me.
I rekindled some great memories writing this its been fun………and EXPENSIVE
A.Jones (skint)
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