My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
I'm not a guitar collector. I own some guitars because I play.
I couldn't not play a Les Paul guitar. Les always used to point to my Strat and say, 'Why do you have that piece of crap around your neck?' I'd say, 'Yours are too heavy. I had to drill holes in it.'
.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive
If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars aren't good for learning lead, because you can't play up very high on the neck and they take heavier-gauge strings which makes it hard to bend notes
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.
Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.
Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'
I play a PRS Custom 22. I learned on a Custom 24. It was set for a country guitarist, so it had a really high action.
I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.
A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.
I absolutely remember when I decided upon playing Ernie Ball strings, and it was right then and there at the guitar store up in Seattle when I picked up my first guitar ever. They said, 'What kind of strings should we put on it?' And I just looked at the brightest color package and said, 'That one!'
As for the first guitar I actually bought, I believe it was a Cherry Red Kramer! I think I bought it because Eddie Van Halen played Kramer, and I remember it had a Rockinger tremolo on it.
Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.
I don't believe that heavy strings make it all that much bigger-sounding. If anything, it can mess up your fingers, and you can get tendonitis, which is not cool.
I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.
I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.
I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.
Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.
The first guitar I ever owned was a Kay SG copy. That cost like $35. Man, that was a terrible guitar.
I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned that a lighter-gauge string offers superior playing comfort ... try it, you may like it.
A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.
