Did you see part one? I felt like posting all my guitars online simply for something else to look at, and I thought others might enjoy.
I still plan to blog about some of the more interesting ones. Hopefully you guys enjoy the content. Thanks for the likes on social media. I don’t think anyone else started to use the #AllMyAxes hashtag. Oh well. Ha ha.
Show me some of yours in the comments, tag me on social media, or use your own hashtag!
Since the world is a bit strange right now, I decided I wanted to see more guitars on social media. Maybe it’ll start a trend, maybe not.
I like classic guitars, I like modern guitars, I like classy guitars, I like ugly guitars. I like guitars. I like playing them. I like looking at them online. I like looking at them on my wall. I like looking at them in the store. I like hearing them. I like arguing about them on the internet. I also like other assorted stringed instruments.
Maybe this will make the world a little brighter. Maybe people will like these guitars. Maybe people will argue about these guitars. Maybe absolutely no one will notice. Who knows?
Below the collage, here are the ones I have posted so far via Instagram with the #AllMyAxes hashtag, minus today’s. The rest will be in the next post. This is the bulk of my guitar collection. The rest of the stuff in the house are my ukuleles and mandolin, the wife’s ukuleles, and the kids’ guitars and ukuleles.
There is a little bit written about each guitar if you click through to Instagram or follow me on Facebook. I hope to blog more in-depth about each of them, or more than I have in the past anyway… reaching out to some manufacturers and designers, especially for the most interesting ones.
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Epiphone Les Paul
Dewey Decibel FlipOut (Lit CIgarette)
Indy Custom FlyCaster by Indiana Custom Guitars
Waterstone Voltaire by Mod Guitars
Glen Burton GB2009-RWB
Galveston B.B. Stone
New York Pro Stargazer (by Galaxy Guitars USA)
B.C. Rich Dagger
Fender Stratocaster (MIJ)
No-name LP copy w/ chalkboard paint
No-name acrylic Strat-style with LED’s
Cort SG-style Doubleneck
Esteban Midnight Legacy
Bohemian Moonshine
Six Flags Batman Logo Guitar
SX Country 6-String Banjo (from Rondo Music)
Fender Gemini IIE (G-IIE)
Xaviere RTS 550D Rich Tonewood Series (from Guitar Fetish)
OK. Now post yours on your social media! Tag me (@AiXeLsD13 on most everything). Post them in the comments here. Use #AllMyAxes or your own hashtag!
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Want a bonus video of my daughter and me playing a short snippet-sized cover of the Ernie and the Berts classic “Everybody Poops?” Of course you do!
So, did you read the last post about the Guitalele & Guitar Center’s price match guarantee? The whole thing is pretty awesome, especially if you’re a musician and you actively purchase gear. It’s worth checking out, so click that link.
Once you’ve read that, this will make sense:
The gig bag & the stand are a perfect fit! Thanks again to Luke for the excellent customer service, and to YaJagoff for sparking it!
On the Saturday before Christmas, we were headed to a family gathering & gift exchange. On the way, we stopped at Guitar Center in Monroeville so I could pick up a book of Christmas Carols that I had seen at the Guitar Center in Robinson. I didn’t find the same book, but was pleased with two that I did find.
Guitalele GL1 (Photo credit: matsuyuki)
Usually, I’m the one who lollygags in guitar stores, but the wife has taken up the ukulele, and over the past few years she’s the one that lingers near the ever-growing uke section at music stores. In Monroeville’s Guitar Center, the ukes were right by the music books, so we both started looking. Bethany was the first to spot our newest acquisition… The Yamaha GL1 “Guitalele“. We both were fascinated by it, and I played with it a little as she asked “Do you want this as an early Birthday present?”
At first, I said no and went to hang it back up, but flipped over the price tag and saw that it was $99.99. She gave me the “just get it” look, so we both new I just landed an early birthday present. I do enjoy the wife’s ukulele, but the GCEA tuning did always mess with me. Now I can play the ukulele without having to play the ukulele. Although, if tuned “properly” the guitalele should be ADGCEA. Of course, I dropped it to E because I didn’t like pretending it was a guitar with a capo on the 5th fret. Although, I may have to get thicker strings or just suck it up & put it back in the A tuning. They’re sort of like rubber-bands at this point.
Well, that’s just the first part of the story. The second part stems from some interactions on Twitter. I’ll try to post it all here as it happened, thanks to @YaJagoff and Luke from Guitar Center.
A simple question. I gave the easy, flippant, and predictable answer. Rock musicians are supposed to rail against the establishment and big business, right? Well, Guitar Center proves to be awesome here…
These are the links I sent to Luke at Yourvoice@guitarcenter.com:
I only half-jokingly asked “Any chance I could get a gig bag or stand for free?” I mean, it never hurts to ask, right?
I was met with a response saying I was getting both of them for free! We discussed shipping details & the right size gig bag in a few more email exchanges… but they’re now on the way to me via UPS.
I’ve written to companies before, but I’ve never had any of them seek me out on a social media platform in a conversation that wasn’t even addressed to them. It’s pretty cool that Guitar Center believes in their price guarantee so much that they actively go after any perceived detraction. It’s also cool that they’ll not only go up against brick-and-mortar stores, but online retailers too.
That being said, the “little guys” could argue that they have no way to compete. They can’t buy in quantities & therefore probably not at such a low price… so there’s no way they can pass on such savings. Free enterprise, supply & demand, competition, it’s all very interesting & a continually evolving battle.
At any rate, I win out here… with a free gig bag & stand. So, thanks to Ya Jagoff!!! & Luke for helping to set the whole thing into motion! I’ll post some photos of the gig bag & stand as soon as I have them.
So, does the Guitalele count as a guitar in my “13 Guitars in 2013” goal?
The Classic 6
So, thanks to Guitar Squid, I saw a cool contest today from Rock Solid Guitar Stands. All I needed to do was get a picture of my axes, upload, and beg for votes. Simple enough, right?
Plus, any excuse to break out the guitars & take some photos is a good excuse. One of these days I’ll learn to take awesome photos, but for now these ones will work.
Guitar problem? What problem?
:::== The Wife’s Lanikai LU-11 Ukulele ==:::
:::== Six Flags Batman Logo Guitar |·| New York Pro Star Gazer (Strat Copy) |·| Dewey Decibel FlipOut Guitar |:| Fender Stratocaster (Japan) ==:::
:::== Fender G-IIE |·| Gotham Bat Paul (no name LP copy) |·| Galveston B.B. Stone |·| Epiphone Les Paul |:| Ibanez 627-12 ==:::
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You can vote once per day, so please help me by voting once a day if you can remember. Don’t worry, I’ll be constantly reminding you via various social media outlets, I’m sure. So…
I thank you in advance, and I thank you multiple times (hopefully).
Here are the photos, that I took… Well, the best of the lot, anyway. I liked ’em enough to share:
So please, vote. Tell your friends to vote. Vote daily. Did I mention I need your votes?
So, all of these guitar-related search terms led people to my blog in the last 30 days…
Search Terms for 30 days ending 2012-01-20 (Just the guitar ones)
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Search |
Views |
| six flags batman guitar | 8 |
| flipout guitar | 3 |
| internet scams lori sandra | 3 |
| batman guitar | 3 |
| ibanez 627 | 3 |
| six flags batman guitar s11 | 2 |
| ibanez guitar trippy | 2 |
| guitar from six flags | 2 |
| batman logo inlay | 2 |
| bat man flying v tuitar | 2 |
| custom batman guitar | 2 |
| guitar lessons poster | 2 |
| guitar squid quit band | 2 |
| six flags dc comics batman guitar | 2 |
| why is the stratocaster so common shape | 2 |
| batman guitar pick | 2 |
| guitarz blog | 2 |
| lit cigarette guitar | 2 |
| square guitar | 2 |
| korean-made-gitarre bb stone | 2 |
| ibanez627 | 2 |
| guitar shapes | 2 |
| flip out guitar | 2 |
| turner guitar cases | 1 |
| galveston guitar b.b. stone | 1 |
| dewey decibel’s flipout guitars | 1 |
| millenium falcon guitar | 1 |
| dewey decibal bottomout | 1 |
| galveston guitars | 1 |
| fender g ii e | 1 |
| epiphone les paul batman guitar | 1 |
You people need to leave comments. Looking for the Dewey Decibel FlipOut, Galveston B.B. Stone, or Six Flags Batman guitar? Have one yourself? I’d love it if you actually left a message, or shared a photo of your axe!
So, recently I stumbled up on a site called Ax Vault, where you can catalog your guitar collection. I took some updated photos of all of my guitars for use there, and thought I’d share them here.
I’m always wanting more, always thinking of ways to modify these & clean them up. When I see new ones, I want them. Especially if they’re odd. It’s a sickness.
There are more photos if each if you’re interested in a gallery at Photobucket:
You can check out the specs (as far as I know them) on the guitars on my collection page here:
Ax Vault | AiXeLsyD13’s Collection
I’ll be a while until I correctly catalog all the relevant information. I must admit that I cannot identify tone woods or fretboard woods simply by looking at them, and I’m not quite sure how to identify some of the pickups. There’s also a current glitch in adding photos… as in I can’t add any more or edit the ones there. I like the idea of the site though. It’s a great way to keep track of my guitars, serial numbers for the ones that have ’em, and to spark conversation between guitarists.
I’ve blogged before about my FlipOut and my B.B. Stone, I’ll have to blog about the others some day! Up next will most likely be that Batman Logo guitar, once I get it all ready to play out.
I’ve had a task in mind and in progress for a few years now, I need to make new camp song books. It’s for a church camp where I participate several weekends out of the year as well as a full week during the summer.
I’d like the books to be usable by other groups if they want ’em, and have even thought about scrapping the book idea entirely and just using something to feed the projector that the camp has… but then you deal with the whole song being too much for a screen, and someone’s got to “flip pages”… could turn into a mess. I’ve also thought about putting them all on an easel… but I’ve amassed a collection of ridiculous proportions. Also, neither of these are practical at night around a campfire which is my favorite camp song setting.
There’s also the “what to include” trap. We have a book with a lot of songs that are (to me) traditional, I’d like to add some newer ones, and have even entertained the idea of writing some of my own. Some of the songs that I like, or that people want to sing, I really don’t have good chord progressions to back them up… and I need to get those. Some songs, I have 3 or 4 different chord progressions and they all sound off or terrible. I try to dumb it all down and change the key so I’m playing G, C, D, Am, & Em mostly. Some songs have the dreaded Bm. B, Bm, & Bm7, how I hate you. I’m not a great guitar player by any means, but if you can strum through some chord changes… you should be able to play anything in the book. Yeah, the songs can be corny or goofy, but I feel that it’s an important group fellowship dynamic to have that sing-along time. It’s also a memorable part of the whole camp experience.
There’s also the alternate lyrics/verses issue. People really take liberties with hymns, and it’s always been that way. With some songs, I have a plethora of verses. Some songs have alternate melodies or arrangements. Some songs have lines changed or have been lanced with inclusive language. (On a side issue, I know I’m UCC and on the whole it’s an incredibly liberal organization as far as Christian Churches go… but I don’t understand who’s so offended by gender-specific pronouns and why they need to change old hymns – Just write new ones and don’t mess with the words people have been singing for decades, or don’t sing the songs that you don’t like.)
I guess I generally like things to be more fluid than final, and I never have a “perfect” book idea in mind… but I need to get one done. Here are some ideas that I’ve had…
I’d appreciate the thoughts of any other camp song people, songwriters, guitar players, or any other musicians out there… or anyone who’s interested in becoming one.
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