foomanfat wrote:Ooooh ooooh, I want in!
I really don't dig strats and scalloped necks scare my poor technical abilities.
Also, I'd have to say my preferred shredder of sorts is Al Di Meola.
And, while I think his tunes are cheesy, I have nothing against Yngwie (aside from his treatment of fine guitars).
There, I've officially added nothing to this topic.
(The above statement is not sarcasm)
mind linking some of his shreddy stuff you like?
I LOVE him in Return to Forever and all of his fusion stuff from those days, but haven't really been introduced to his later mats :/
SPACERITUAL wrote:htsamurai wrote:I've always loved the idea of a scalloped neck, I hope to play one some time soon but around here they don't really get stocked...at all :/
When i lived in florida there would be at least three or four of them sitting in the local sam ash every time i went in. Apparently there was some dude that had a yngwie cover band or whatever and was constantly buying them then selling them when he found a lighter one. One time dude was actually in the store when i went in....it was an experience. He was all decked out in leather pants and one of those those cheap rayon button up shirts that they used to sell at spencers that had like DRAGONS AND MANGA DUDES on them. He had a silk scarf tied around his head and some big clodhopper boots with flames on them. i almost fucking died laughing bro cause there this guy was in the middle of sam ash with a strap doing around the worlds with the guitar....i asked one of the guys who worked there why they let him do that and he was like that guys account is probably 10% of our total guitar sales every month. many lols were had by me and my friends that day.
As for how the guitar itself played....i really didnt feel too much of a difference for what its worth. Theyre usually pretty well put together as, from what i was told when i asked about it, they used to be put together by the guys in the custom shop like the old ritchie blackmore sigs (the one with two single coils, a roland pickup and scallops) but built on the production line. Kind of like a custom production guitar...i guess its because they werent ever in that high demand so they just did a couple batches a year. In the end it still felt like a strat to me which is a really bad thing. I've always liked the looks but can never manage to bond with strats....they just arent right for me. My hand always hits the volume knob, my pick always hits the middle pickup, the million-way switch feels weird to me, and i can never raise the action at the bridge high enough to compensate for the giant clunker body so it always feels like i have to wrap my arm around a fat guy to get to the strings. Im just more of a jazzmaster kinda guy.
In response to my earlier post i guess i sounded really mad or something but that really wasnt the case. I just get annoyed really easily with the whole "LOL U NEED 2 PRAKTIS MOR SO U KAN MAKE SOLOZ" mentality. Everyone i went to highschool with was like that. Its like the music wasnt even good if it wasnt meshuggah or TECHNICAL DEATH METALS. Although somehow WEX BORLANDS was the best guitarist ever and the guy from THE SLIPKNOTS was best drmmr.
massively agree with this. Can we throw all the Tool fanboys in there too?
"Omg, Maynards singing about my life man, you just don't get it. You've never been there."
I started playing guitar towards the end of my freshman year of highschool, I'm 21 now, so it's been about 7 years or so.
I was sooooooooooooo one of those guys, I know I said somethings like this on multiple occasions "oh..you listen to 'that'? Listen to real music, steve vai and yngwie malmsteen. noob, you'll never be a real guitarist."
I was never the leather pants wearing, bandana around head having, guitar smashing guy....
..I was that long haired prick with the guitar that would go talk crap to everyone else with a guitar, CAUSE I HAD A REAL FENDER AND NOT A SQUIER AND PLAYED BLUES.
but I do love those really flamboyant guys who feel the world revolves around their crappy band
subversive crap-talking is the best, "hey dude I heard your amp cutting out during your set." "no man, my amp doesn't cut out. You're hearing things." "yeah you're probably right, I really need to learn to play better." *get on stage, show up the idiot w/ the 3 mile long pedalboard of boss pedals*
I'm so much more like the folks on this board nowadays anyway (not that theres really an ILF mold per se, but for the most part everyones just relatively laid back and used to being at the receiving end of the abuse :/ ), but still love me some technical playing. It's just that the vast majority of it is jazz and often times has no guitar in it.
this thread reminds me of the hiphop/rap threads we've had here where people fall into that typical guitarist mentality of "RAP SUCKS"
then someone will be all, "hey man, shut up and dig the beat OR get the hell out of this thread."
then everyones like, "yeah man...I just don't like lil wayne..."
it wasnt until the last few years that I will sit down and just let my shit feed back.
Was when I leaned my bass against my amp and it started to feed back in a droning pattern 
