guitar players?

**0rion** · 08-09-2006, 11:33 PM

I recorded a Skynyrd concert on INHD last week. 2 hours of rocking and some awesome guitar. Medlocke and Rossington are amazing. I need to learn to play slide. I tried once years ago but never really followed through on it.

**Sarge** · 08-10-2006, 04:21 AM

Been playing since I was 6. And thats a long long time

**jad628** · 08-10-2006, 04:58 AM

I'm NOT any good, but I pick a little.

I'm left-handed and I have a mid-level "stock" Fender Stratocaster in cream with white pick guard and a custom made Kramer acoustic/electric in black with a small hollow body and an electric neck and head. It (Kramer) was previously owned by a local blues artist named Tootie Hogan. I've never smoked in my life, had that guitar for at least ten years, and it still reeks of cigarette smoke. It is definitely better than me!!! I've never seen another one.

BTW, love that Stevie Ray stuff Sarge!

**Sarge** · 08-10-2006, 05:28 AM

Yup....SRV could flat ass jam with the best.

**Sarge** · 08-10-2006, 05:30 AM

Originally Posted by 0rion

I recorded a Skynyrd concert on INHD last week. 2 hours of rocking and some awesome guitar. Medlocke and Rossington are amazing. I need to learn to play slide. I tried once years ago but never really followed through on it.

Hardest thing about playing the "slide" is learning not to press the string down to the fret board. Obviously you can move the slide while the note is still vibrating. It's hard to overcome. Bonnie Rait does it well....you cannot feel the frets and that screwed me all up...you have to get used to feeling where you are with the back of the neck and your thumb...I know I know....practice some simple slides man...like this....found this on the net...but it is one that is used to teach slide.....
In this lesson, we’re going to play in open-D tuning: from the sixth string to the first, D A D F# A D. You can check your open strings against the tuning track to make sure you are in tune. Tuning: D A D F# A D
Open D is a good beginning point for slide because it allows you to play a wide range of melodies without ever leaving the high string, and the high string is the easiest string to play cleanly on with the slide. Let’s start with placing the slide directly over the fret you want. Play Example 1 by placing the slide on the high string directly over the fourth fret each time there’s a four in the tablature, and playing the open high string in between (the zeros in the tablature).

**jad628** · 08-10-2006, 06:08 AM

George Thorogood always impressed me with his "slide" style. Seems effortless for him.

What kind of guitars do you guys prefer overall?

Growing up and loving everything Ted Nugent did, I really wanted a Byrdland. In 1984, I went into a music shop in Nashville (somewhere near Hickory Hollow Mall) and saw a left-handed Byrdland. I was in LOVE!!! Then I saw the price.....$2800. In 1984 dollars that was really a lot!!! Especially for an enlisted man.

Needless to say I found happiness with an Ibanez (Les Paul ripoff), then a Yamaha (Strat-type body), and finally this Strat. Almost got an Epiphone hollow body (it was Tootie's as well), but let it go.

Still wish I had a Byrdland!!!

**snaggeltooth** · 08-10-2006, 09:43 AM

best slide player is Joe Walsh , and he has some cds about how to play. Ricky Medlocke is a VERY good anything player . You should get Blackfoots Highway Song , its a live Cd and has great slide work..

**0rion** · 08-10-2006, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by snaggeltooth

best slide player is Joe Walsh , and he has some cds about how to play. Ricky Medlocke is a VERY good anything player . You should get Blackfoots Highway Song , its a live Cd and has great slide work..

I have pretty much everything Blackfoot ever recorded. I've seen them live 5-6 times and have met and talked to Medlocke 3-4 times. Yeah, I'm a fan.

**ss~zoso~ss** · 08-10-2006, 01:16 PM

shit, ne one heard of Jimmy Page?

check out their dvd released in 2004 totally worth the $19

he is my favorite player

**ss~zoso~ss** · 08-10-2006, 01:17 PM

i have 2 guitars a Ibanez electric Mid 80's model, and an Epiphone Acoustic

and a marshal mg30dfx

**snaggeltooth** · 08-10-2006, 01:24 PM

yea but Jimmy is not really known as a slide player ... And I forgot about my boy Johhny Winter ... One of the true great slides...

**ss~zoso~ss** · 08-10-2006, 02:55 PM

in my time of dying, great slide song

**snaggeltooth** · 08-10-2006, 03:21 PM

not saying he cant play slide . Just saying he is not known as a slide player . Kinda like Brian May he plays slide part in Tie Your Mother Down , but he is not someone you think of when someone says slide player ...