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Guns N' Roses So Fine

Guns N' Roses Estranged November Rain

Welcome. I've personally never bought a Gibson that I haven't loved. I've liked high end Gibson Les Paul guitars, and wanted to love them, but didn't; like a Tom Murphy (somebody's if not his) Les Paul or a chambered '59 reissue - I've liked those guitars, but I didn't love them - I've played some entry level Gibson, an £400 - £500 brand new Gibson SG and went home/loved my then only 1 Gibson even more for it; both of my Gibson guitars were love at first play. One was love at first sight/prices tags on display and budget in mind, and the other looked like; (UK analogy) like 'Marmite' - like you either loved it, or you didn't - I loved how it sounds/plays unplugged/wood hardware alone with out the pickups, but on guitar tone alone, not so much how it looked - If I'm honest. But it was love and... What I didn't like was the gold hardware/black plastic, cream toggle switch and Gibson zebra head pickups with a red sparkle top; it was a lot going on, very vibrant. The shop in London in 2011 sold me it without its scratch plate, so I assumed it was black, thankfully it was transparent and that could match anything and, I had never heard of that or seen that before, but I got home with my first Gibson, and I put the scratch plate on myself because I actually think it looks cooler and it's been on ever since, because it's there, but it's transparent, and it's stock. The stock pickups, when I had the pickups I like put in, my guitar looked/still looks sexy. The black pickups really tied up the black and red and gold and then years later/late last year, when I got my Gibson R7, I swapped my Gibson R7's toggle (not cream, like brown/orange/something, that one that comes on a Gibson R7) with the Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul Stnard, and now it looks even cooler, like redder, while my Gibson R7 looks even cooler, 'fresher' with cream and gold top and black with chrome (tone pros) aged bridge. I think, tonally, go for the best guitars. I've spent good money on bad guitars before I worked out you can polish a turd so much, but the real deal/real McCoy is always better; if not in sound, definitely in feel/playability. When looking at kill pots, you're going to want to pay attention to pickup type like is it an active or a passive; if it's an active guitar pickup, you're going to want a 25k value capacitor kill switch for active pickups (and a battery). If you buy a solid bodied guitar, and want active pickups with a Shadow SH 124 Kill and a battery box; get a battery box with a door first of all and then remember as long as there's a lead/cable in the input of the guitar, that battery's getting used, so after playing, pull the guitar cable out to save that battery and your tone with a guitar with a battery box. Wood is where you want to go. The music's in the wood, dream guitars start from the best. Try and not cut out wood if you can help it for that battery box if you want to active pickup kill switch a solid bodied guitar. £1, 000, 000.00's worth of fun for a fraction of the the price. If I'd have known that sooner, I'd have saved money, but lost out on experience with high end parts on entry level guitars. Buy used indeed for the best price, same guitar, but as another user has said, someone else would take the depreciation hit.

Today;

I decided to start learning this song because; It's local. I have that accent (White boy South London/patios) - and for a quick second I got paranoid about my accent sounding goofy, I ran to the one song I'd heard this accent go mainstream outside of maybe The Madness, but, Guns Of Brixton, I like this song, it's local, I have that accent, I decided to learn it. I'm going to focus on the lyrics and the guitar (slide pretty much), and just remember that bassline in my head. - Now I know how I want to go forward. Or just record a bassline and then play along to that and record the guitar part. Either way, watching myself helps me see what I do in general so I can work out what I want to do vs. what I do and work out what not to do too.

Which guitar straps do you use? Are there any that you absolutely love? I have a bunch of guitar straps on different guitars; however, on my Gibsons (Les Pauls) I like/love a strap called BearStrap. https://www.bearstraps.com/ They're handmade and they're leather and they're long, strong and thin. I like my guitar straps long, so I have some of the longest ones made (62 Inches) but they come in shorter sizes too. Me and a BearStrap strap if you're on Instagram: Me and a BearStrap strap if you cannot see/aren't allowed to view Instagram without signing up/on YouTube (something maybe more universal). I use Bearstraps, who sell out of places I know up and down Denmark Street, and the gentleman who makes these straps, Rupert, makes very cool guitar straps by hand, makes his rounds up and down Denmark Street, I am so blessed with London's guitar culture (can find a lot of nice American guitars in London) and the straps I love, I thought were from California (because of its name)... Turns out it's British and the guy hand makes distributes these long thin leather guitar straps I love. What straps are your favourite (so far)?

I today I picked up my guitar in E Standard (which it's hardly ever in), It's been in E Standard for a couple of days... I was forcing myself to not forget Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi and I decided to learn You Give Love A Bad Name (again, I worked it out once but never played it, so I was on that this week more than Wanted Dead or Alive, in E Standard (rare for me). Thankfully I can dive into my YouTube history and bring up my jam today. (Newest.most recent first): 10:00:13 10 Hours of Gravity Falls' Theme Song Kaio • 1.7M views Now you can listen to this theme song 920 times in a single video! I know, I know, it's 10 hours and some seconds. You don't need to tell me. ;o Gravity Falls is Copyright Disney. I'm Kaio. Not Di... 34:29 The Beatles - Help (Full Album) SkyLive Jr • 6.3K views The Beatles - Help (Full Album) 4:25 Heart Barracuda (1977) CLASSIC HITS • 15M views 1977 6:31 Eagles - Hotel California (Lyrics) Chili World 144M views Hotel California lyrics Eagles lyrics, 1976! Hotel California Eagles Lyrics Rest In Peace - Glenn Frey (1948-2016), thank you for this great song. After Lemmy and David Bowie, another legend took... 6:02 Gerry Rafferty - Baker street MrMusicweekly • 8.1M views *I don't own the rights to this song* New music every week. Subscribe, rate, comment. Lyrics: Winding your way down on Baker Street Light in your head and dead on your feet Well, another crazy day... 3:32 Smooth Criminal (Alien ant farm) Backing track (w/vocals) TuTuxD6 • 13K views Alien ant farm 5:58 Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine standard Tuning Backing Track with vocals Luka Cuturic • 2.7M views For every lazy guitarst... Or someone... The backing track for one of the best songs ever... 8:11 Stairway to Heaven Backing Track (with Rhythm Guitar during Solo) Schleichwerbung2 • 361K views Solo starts at 5:52 By the way you should start playing on the fifth click. I made this track using two other backing tracks and cutting them together. You will probably hear when the track cuts ... 4:54 Bon Jovi: Wanted Dead Or Alive Guitar Backing Track Drippy • 85K views Great for use in one-person performances 3:41 You Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi - Guitar Backing Track (With Vocals) Adam Pieper • 204K views Tuning: Standard Download here! http://www.guitarbackingtrack.com/play/bon_jovi/you_give_love_a_bad_name_(4).htm Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/AdamPieper1 Like me on Facebook! https://... 5:22 Kansas - carry on wayward son [Guitar Backing tracks] Tutarras • 10K views WATCH FREE GUITAR TUTORIAL LESSONS HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2BO2hguxZeoUpwGQe8DKzg MIRA NUESTROS TUTORIALES DE GUITARRA AQUI: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV07Kh2DyliM9nPK9DnmZW... 5:44 GnR You Could Be Mine (standard tuning) Stevil Chuffpus • 6K views 6:08 You Could Be Mine - Drums Only - Pauly Greenwood Pauly Greenwood • 46K views www.paulyGreenwood.com This is a Drum jam track, ive uploaded this for a friend who is going to use the audio in a project. To see the full version ....click on my videos. 5:57 Guns and Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine - Standard Tuning - EADGBE BWM Guitar • 376K views 4:21 Lenny Kravitz - American Woman Lenny Kravitz 27M views Official video of Lenny Kravitz performing American Woman from the album 5. Buy It Here: http://smarturl.it/s9t86y Originally by Canadian rock band The Guess Who, covered by Kravitz for Austin Po... 3:54 Lenny Kravitz - Always On The Run Lenny Kravitz 7.8M views Official video of Lenny Kravitz performing Always On The Run from the album Mama Said. Buy It Here: http://smarturl.it/95fghm Directed by Jesse It's funny how I remember that now, like in a lot more detail than some of the songs I remembered playing today before I decided it'll be quicker to go to my history of what I played, sometimes playig a song over and over until I was happy with my guitar... I got self conscious about the aftermarket MusiCap capacitors on my used R7, so I decided to (still love my guitar) and attack it/play it another way to compensate to get it to where I wanted to be; I'm fussy with my tone and glad I have it/this guitar. I also remember wanting to relearn the theme to Gravity Falls and using it as en excuse to go back into Eb tuning, which is pretty much my default on any given guitar, unless it's a guitar I have with a certain tuning or set in mind, then it's probably in that alternate tuning, but the last song I was playing tonight, was also me returning back to Eb after a day or two in E Standard. I meant to tune back sooner, but while I was in the tuning, I decided to milk it and more and more songs kept on popping in my head that I wanted to play instead today. Guitar's fun. I must have played/can remember playing 7 minutes of Gravity Falls at one point - but then that was after stopping and re starting and figuring out somethings really quickly about tuning and where I wanted to be and what I wanted to do a couple of times and what I was doing and how to try and get my tone where I wanted it... about 7 minutes 33 after all of that, but I was in Eb again, which always feels good to touch base with/I had fun. I remember (looking at the above YouTube history) that I liked playing Help! too, I must have played that 2 or 3 or maybe even 4 times, just because. Like I found the whole album, but really I was playing the first track over and over, and I gave up trying to playing You're Gonna Lose That Girl on account to not having actually learned it and wanting to play so restarted back to track 1, the song I knew how to play; Help! (I was in Standard E, thought I'd cease the opportunity)... I remember having to restart Stairway at least 8 or 9 times, sometimes on purpose just to go over something that threw me, but I played it all, yeah, was fun.

The only people I call is the 1 800 Toll free number for Gibson. My Gibsons both have serial numbers not available on the internet, and the internet says if your serial number isn't online, phone Gibson. You could call them from all over the world, I've called them at least twice, and they have educated me on my Gibsons/confirmed what their records say my guitar is. Add in whatever you need to dial out/your international calling code if you're not dialing from within the US, then +1 for North America and then it's: 1-800-444-2766 an example, my 1996 was actually sold to me as an 1983, and my 2005 was confirmed as the correct year and colour, but wasn't relic'd and so I found out an owner before me modded it/then I found it was upgraded with MusiCap capacitors; Gibson let me know what I had and what I didn't have. -that's actually why I'm here, to see how this community feels about MusiCap capacitors. I like my guitar, I guess, is this an upgrade or a fail? I mean, it sounds great (because it's a Gibson) but what is it doing to my tone?