J.R.M.30! Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 Acoustic guitars are not boring! To me you need both to appreciate their differences. When I play my electric I usually go back to the acoustic almost like tracing back to the holy grail of guitar. Acoustic represents stripped down to the bare bones marriage of wood, string, flesh, as in a finger and dare I say plastic, as in a pick! If you think acoustics are boring than you'll think electrics are boring after a while! Wait and see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quapman Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 Who said acoustics were boring??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capmaster Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 Acoustic guitar sounds are great. Since my preference is steel string, I decided to go with piezo equipped solidbodies. I missed the tone of the pure wire, and in a rock'n'roll band it's hard to keep up with drums, bass and another guitar when playing hollowbodies. No problem with piezo-acoustified solidbodies and natural sounding amps - from "wired" to "unplugged" just by stepping onto a footswitch, that's what I like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis G Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 My first love was the acoustic, and that's what got me into playing. Gravitated to electric to play in the band, but for the "down & dirty it's just guitar kind of sound", nothing does it like an acoustic. That said, there's a lot you can do on an electric that just doesn't happen on an acoustic quite as well, so that's why we all have GAS LOL!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Who said acoustics were boring??? +1 CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Who said acoustics were boring??? Prolly some candy a$$ who can't play anything with strings fatter than 8 or 9! Also probably said by someone who can't sing, because a singer can always get his or her point across with an acoustic. I love my acoustics just as much as I love cracking plaster with a Marshall and a Les Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzoboy Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 If anyone thinks that acoustic guitar is boring,sit them down and have them listen to Andres Segovia,Pepé Romero,Julian Bream,Alerio Diaz or Elliot Fisk's incredible transcriptions of all 24 of Paganini's Caprices.If classical isn't up their alley some of Roy Clark's or Glen Campbell's flatpicking or the fingerpicking of Bert Jansch or Howard Werth would definitely change their minds if they are either bit appreciative of virtuosity.Even the enthusiastic and deft strumming of Pete Townshend on songs like Pinball Wizard,Magic Bus,Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand and several others or Donovan Leitch,Lennon,McCartney and Harrison.All of these guitarists are great acoustic players too.Acoustic guitars aren't boring-just some people who play them don't have the passion and ability to play them well enough to capture and hold people's attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PingPongBob Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Hot damn...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 I'd say to Check out some Tommy Emmanuel, sometime! CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Or, how about a little "Chet Atkins?" And, some humor with Jerry Reed... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJJzGYIR2RI CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 I've never heard any guitarist say they thought acoustics were boring but any excuse to air this is welcome... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpmOTGungnA P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 The odd and oddly wonderful thing about guitar is that, acoustic or electric, each guitar is a dozen or more instruments. It's the player that consciously or unconsciously makes the determination of what that instrument might be. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeman Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 I appreciate the acoustic guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis G Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 I've never heard any guitarist say they thought acoustics were boring but any excuse to air this is welcome... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpmOTGungnA P. And to take nothing away from Django (how could you?), enjoy some of this guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 And to take nothing away from Django (how could you?), enjoy some of this guy?... Magnificent in all respects! That's made what was an already very pleasant Sunday complete! Thanks so very much for posting, Dennis! P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis G Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Magnificent in all respects! That's made what was an already very pleasant Sunday complete! Thanks so very much for posting, Dennis! P. Got your pm P. Thx. Yeah, Joscho is just another in a long line of "who?" guitarists until you actually hear them play and then you go "WOW". Glad you enjoyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEVIL Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 nothing wrong with acoustic guitar imo, I just have have the money to get one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender 4 Life Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 acoustics.....boring.....are you kidding? acoustic guitar is a completely different animal from electric...it's the "vintage sound", the "pure sound". and "entry level" acoustics are great for "finger strengthening" and hand training. let's be honest...how many of us here trained our hands as youngsters on "less than stellar" acoustics? I know I did! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Hayden Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Willie Nelson disagrees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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