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When it comes to special occasions like birthdays, graduations, Easter, Christmas and others do you have trouble finding that perfect gift? Did you ever think about giving someone an electric guitar? How about giving someone a complete electric guitar package.
How about, if they already play guitar? The perfect gift might be one of the many guitar accessories that are available. You might want to think about a guitar related gift for their room. Even the most avid guitarist wouldn’t say no to a rug in their room with guitars all over it, or a guitar lamp made from a real guitar.
If you don’t want to spend that much look around for one of the great leather or polyester guitar straps that are available.
As I’ve gotten older, I have gone through phases of infatuation with just about every genre of rock music. When I first started listening to music in my early teens, I listened to hard rock and heavy metal—the stereotypical style for the inevitable stages of adolescent angst. I then moved on to “more mellow” music: grunge. This led to a stint with classic rock, and, after going to college, I adapted a formulaic affinity for indie. With the exception of the heavy metal, I still listen to all of the genres periodically.
Watching my brother’s music tastes evolve has been quite amusing, as I’ve seen him go through an almost identical transformation. Recently he has branched out from heavy metal into grunge and the sounds of the custom guitars from the classic rock era. Although I dislike pigeonholing anyone, I am fairly confident that he will begin to appreciate the counterculture of indie music sometime soon.
Just a few simple steps can keep your electric guitar looking new and playing new. The same thing applies if you purchased an acoustic guitar, or a bass guitar.
From the time you made your purchase you should have picked up some guitar polish and some soft rages, or maybe you purchased an electric guitar package that has guitar polish and special rags in it. These two guitar accessories when used often can preserve the finish on your guitar, cleaning the strings can result in making them last longer also.
You should get into the habit of keeping your hands clean when playing your guitar along with wiping the guitar and strings down after every use. The oil given off by your fingertips can be one of the biggest reasons your strings would have to be changed often.
With the right playing habits and just a few simple steps mentioned above there is no reason your electric guitar can’t have an outstanding appearance like it did when it was new.
When I was growing up, my friends and I would spend hours in the garage emulating our favorite rock bands. We didn’t always have the best instruments—usually just discount electric guitars from the local pawn shop—but we certainly played with gusto. When we first started out, I’m slightly embarrassed to say that we were into the hair metal band craze of the 80’s.
Thankfully that fad was killed and cooler heads prevailed. Not that I am a huge Metallica fan, but I certainly appreciate the silver bullet that they dealt to hair metal. Reminiscing on those days playing with my friends, I often wonder what the music we put out sounded like. I’m sure that we didn’t sound nearly as good as we thought we did, but that wasn’t really the point.
I have bee playing bass guitar for 45 years, some of it has been on stage but most of it has been just for me. I took lessons when I was in Junior High School which was followed by being a member of several bands.
In my 20’s I had to give up playing bass professionally in lieu of a full time job, it was a difficult thing to do. Although I gave up playing in bands I still played for me, if I heard a song on the radio I was interested in I would learn it and play it.
I now play for the enjoyment of it, it’s relaxing and it’s fun. For anyone reading this blog your never too old to learn, whether it’s an acoustic guitar or you pick yourself up an electric guitar package, do it for yourself you’ll be glad you did.
Did you ever purchase something just to find out you need something else to make it work properly? Like buying a hockey puck without a stick, or a hockey stick without a puck. How about purchasing an IPOD alone that didn’t come with ear buds or some other device to produce the sound.
The same thing applies to purchasing a guitar. Whether it be an electric guitar, or even an electric bass guitar, without an amplifier the results would be same you can practice for yourself with the guitar but it would be awfully hard to hear anything without a bass amplifier or guitar amplifier.
From a logic’s stand point it makes much more sense to purchase an electric guitar package or a bass guitar package. Your wallet will thank you for this also as it is less expensive to buy a bass or electric guitar package. Along with an amplifier you would receive a guitar tuner ( also a necessity ), your guitar isn’t any good if it is not in tune ( bet you didn’t even think about that one ),
For your first purchase you bought a stratocaster electric guitar package with a 10 watt amplifier, you have had it for some time, you practice and play often and have decided you would like to get another guitar. You really have quite a few choices, you can purchase another strat guitar, telecaster style guitar, Les Paul style guitar, or even one of the jazz style guitars, and don’t rule out an acoustic guitar.
All the guitars mentioned above will play and sound different from your first strat. But why not take it to another level, instead of buying just another guitar consider picking up another electric guitar package. With your first purchase being a package with a 10 watt amp think about electric guitar packages with a 20 watt amplifier for your next purchase.
By having a second package with a 20 watt guitar amplifier you not only have a guitar with a different sound, you will also be able to use one amplifier as a preamp feeding the other amplifier giving you a greater range of sound possibilities. Don’t forget the other extras you also get when buying a package.
These are some of my favorite guitar riffs see if you agree with my choices. My choices are all played on electric guitars.
You can’t talk about great guitar riffs without talking about probably the most recognize guitar riff of all time “Smoke On The Water” by Deep Purple. This riff tells you it doesn’t have to be complicated to be good as this is one of the easiest riffs to play. Another riff that you never get tired of hearing is “Whole Lotta Love” by Led Zepplin. It is played by Jimmy Page on a Les Paul electric guitar and 100w Marshall head amp.
One more great riff to mention is a song written by Ozzie Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, and Bob Daisley, “Crazy Train”. With Ozzie on vocals and Bob on bass the guitar riff played by Randy Rhoads is probably one of the hardest to play, but man does it sound good.
AC/DC is a hard rock band with a terrific lead singer in Brian Johnson along with one of the best recognized guitarists on the planet Angus Young. Brian Johnson actually took over as the bands frontman after Bon Scott at the age of 33 was found dead of alcohol poisoning in 1980.
Angus Young is one of the co-founders of the group along with his brother Malcolm. The electric guitar package you always see Angus with is his signature Gibson SG electric guitar along with his Marshall model 1959 100 watt guitar amplifier. Along with his wild style of playing you can also see him parading back and forth across the stage wearing his signature schoolboys outfit. His patented duck walk and his high energy style has made him the guitarist that is most often copied by such groups as Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, the Cult and others.
This article is to pay tribute to the behind the scene people who make the concerts you see possible. Roadie is the broad term used to describe those people who do everything involved except the performance itself. When you think of a roadie you think of someone who sets up amplifiers and electric guitars but if you look closer you’ll find they do much more.
Under the umbrella of a roadie you’ll find guitar techs, bass guitar techs, keyboard techs, lighting techs, tour managers, and even techs in the use of fireworks, there are many other titles Most bands give credit to their roadies with a few word on the jacket cover of an album, but their has been some exceptions.
Jackson Browne pays tribute to his roadies with the closing song of every show “The Load Out, Todd Rundgren had roadie Jan Alejandro play piano with him and the band on a song John Marshall a guitar tech for Metallica has replaced James Hetfield the bands rhythm guitarist on several occasions.