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by **1four5** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:52 pm

Here's a couple pics.
Right

Left

by **1armbandit** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:51 pm

Looks like a great time 1fer. Let us know next time so we can come and heckle some! :lol:

by **maxx england** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:43 am

1arm, how's your guitar career going? You haven't told us anything for a while.

by **1armbandit** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:21 am

I thought I'd be famous by now. Oh well I guess I better keep practicing.
I modify my pick holder every time I put it on. My right arm ends at the elbow so the first version was an extension almost like a forearm. Now I'm down to just an inch or so off the end of my arm and that points straight down. If you were holding your arm out in front of you.
That has really improved my strumming, I can strum both directions now without looking and hit the strings I was aiming for.
I have to play lapstyle, the angles don't work out for playing upright.
Go ahead all of you. Hold your guitar normally and try to strum with your elbow.
:shock:

Don't do that anymore it looks funny.
I can do a fairly good 12 bar with the Stevens bar and get a pretty good speed out of it. Not ready for prime time though. I need to force myself to work on the cords now.
I'll keep working on it, you keep watching the telly for my big premiere.

Jack

by **maxx england** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:29 am

What tuning are you using? I use open E mostly, and held "standard" but the new acoustic I have in A, and I tend to use that lap style (don't know why, it works just as well the other way).

by **1armbandit** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:14 pm

The reso is in open G. The electric and acoustic are standard.
I should play with some different tunings just for fun.

Website · by **ricochet** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:13 pm

Yep. I've discovered my Gibson jumbo sounds terrific in Open E with light strings. Very different from the reso. And I love to play electric slide in Open E.

by **leftyguitarman** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:24 pm

Thats awesome that you are playing! If I could reccomend a tuning, open C#.Tune to open D and tune down a half step. Sounds amazing on a reso.

by **jeffl** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:59 pm

Nice pics,onefer! Your hair's gettin' kinda long though ain't it...? Hey,btw, you might kinda like these kids' act...I sold a van to their parents. http://www.sawtoothbluegrass.com. They are 2 sets of brothers who inherited their musical genes well. They do some great 4 part mountain gospel tunes as well. They're gettin' up to $1000/gig. BTW,they got a rock band too, but I don't even know if they've got time for it anymore.

Website · by **ricochet** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:38 pm

Made me think of Charlie Daniels' line about Elvin Bishop:

Elvin Bishop sittin' on a bale of hay,
He ain't good lookin', but he sure can play!

:wink:

by **1four5** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:59 am

Interesting you should say that about the hey...they actually had about 50 bails of hey out in the streed that people were using to sit on all day for the various acts

Oh yeah...about the hair...I got my last haircut (ever) about a month ago...last Monday, after 21 years, 1 month and 12 days in uniform...I RETIRED!!! E7 retirement is pretty good...for now, i'm not planning on working...but we'll see! There's a lot of house projects I want to get done...and of course a lot of playing!

Website · by **ricochet** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:36 am

Hey, congratulations on retiring!

by **1four5** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:19 am

Thank Rico! Dispite what you hear on the news, the airforce is actually reducing it's size and going to more and more contract work, they offered me a retirement package I couldn't refuse! They showed me the paperwork and told me I had 14 days to make my decision...I told them no I didn't because it was signed in about 4 seconds.

...and hey 1arm, if you come all the way to Kansas to heckle us...your going to have to join us!

by **1armbandit** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:48 pm

1four5 wrote:...and hey 1arm, if you come all the way to Kansas to heckle us...your going to have to join us!

I live an hour and a half up the turnpike Dean. Don't think I won't come down there! :lol:

Jack

by **1four5** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:54 pm

Holy smokes...that'd be like Emporia or thereabouts...we are definately going to have to hook up sometime! (depends if you can stomache old cowboy and western swing)...but you know, when we get Tom (lead guitar/vocals) going on blues...theres stuff comes out of that man that's incredable. I'ts just hard to get him going...like life is too good and we gotta do all happy stuff :shock:

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