OT/How many HAMBers play music?

Ur a Brave brave man 5wcoupe.

 

as is many i too pick a g string or 2

a JG custom

 

Try real hard on my 4 guitars...one Strat w/Texas Specials, an Artcore hollow, Schecter 006 Deluxe, or my '65 Teisco De Rey. I don't play my dad's bought-new '65 Strat. I'm afraid of damging it in one way or another. I play through either my Fender Frontman 25R or my dad's '65 Twin Reverb. Glad he kept that worthless crap.

 

i play alittle guitar, and alot of bass!

bass being my 1st choice... george

 

I pick on a '97 Strat every once in a while hooked up to a Crate KX-50 amp with an RP70 processor in between. Also have an old Arita acoustic and have been playing piano/keyboard since i was 6ish.

 

Vocals, percussion, toyed with woodwinds, and way back in the dark ages (whisper...) the violin. Jazz and gospel, and I love swamp rock and surf music.

 

Usta play the fiddle but quit for awhile. Now I'm playing mandolin in a old tyme/early country band. The "Tie Hackers".
I own a: A style luthier made
F style Michael Kelly
Home made Mandolin banjo
Johnson Octave Mandolin

Normal Norman

 

Been rockin the guitar and singin for 10 years. From the misfits to hendrix, cash to robert johnson.

 

Another blues harp wanker!! ~Sololobo~

 

I have around 60 instruments but my main guitar is a 52 tele , I play everything from acid 80's rock to bluegrass and old country and alot of rock_a_billy

 

Made my living for many years working my guitars. Too many nights..weeks...years on the road.
Settled down in 82...still have most of my guitars..some of my studio stuff..and still play.
Daughter plays classical piano..and rock/punk guitar...

 

Been playing the drums since I was 4 and I'm 42, build my own snare drums and kits..when i have the time.

LBCD=Long Beach Custom Drums!!!

This is my Band...

 

My rotten father told me when I was a kid that my musical talents ended at playing the radio.Then went on to say AM only.
1957 Fender
58 Supro
48Supro Lap Sreel
3 Kay Archtops
Lyle 335 copy
63 Guild Starfire
Kawia Jazz Box
Stand Up Bass and set of orange flake bongos.
And a Train Whistle.

 

LOL @ the train whistle ((( boxcar willie rules )))

 

drummer, texas blues, delta blues, blues blues.

 

Acoustic bass, play with a couple sixteen piece big bands and a jazz trio. Made a living at it in the '70's - early '80's, makes a better hobby than an occupation.

 

Ah, another swing and jazz bassist! You're on the money about it being a better hobby than occupation. When you're relying on music for your living you tend to take on all sorts of crap gigs ..... eg: playing mickey mouse in a shopping mall

 

I play guitar and drums.
Guitar=blues and punk rock, depends on what mood I'm in at the time.. I've got a Fender Jaguar that is old as the hills, a Les Paul, 2 SG's, a gretsch and a few oddballs.. And a Fender Newporter acoustic.

I play drums in 2 bands, "At:1" and "Los Gatos Locos".

 

I play guitar, drums, and bass. I have been playing the drums for 6 years, bass for 5 and guitar for 4 years. I have a Pearl 5 piece set. My bass is a Fender P Bass and a fender amp. I have several guitars. I have a 74 Fender Mustang (Re-fretted it myself), a 96 American Strat, Fender Acoustic, LaValencia Classical, Heit Deluxe, an old Domino acoustic that is older then dirt, and Fender Princeton Deluxe amp, and a 65 Fender Bandmaster Head going through a Marshall 2x12 cab. Right now a friend is borrowing my Marshall cab and left me his RedBear 4X12 cad to use.

 

Here's a joke for all the harmonica players on here.
I noticed there are several harp blowing HAMBers......

This was included in an email from the president of the Nashville, TN
Blues Society who sends out a reminder of their weekly jam session.
Since I attended some of the jams this past summer, I'm now on their
mailing list.

A harmonica player dies and goes to heaven. There's a long line at the pearly gates, and some dude is going around telling folks in line that they can check out Hell while they are waiting for their spot by just going over to the red elevator over there (points).
"You know, if you don't like it, just get back on the elevator and come back up."
So, the guy thinks to himself, "hey, gotta check it out...maybe it ain't so bad after all."
So over he goes, gets into the elevator and down he goes... the elevator stops, he gets out and the Devil himself is there to show him around. Off they go and pretty soon, he's thinking to himself that maybe this ain't so bad after all...they stop in at a nightclub, and there's a great little band inside who's playing their asses off. He spots some famous folks he knows... "Hey, ain't that Little Walter over there?" They leave, and he finally asks the Devil, "Wow, those cats were smokin'. This place is great! But one thing... there's got to be a catch to this...What is it?" The Devil turns to him and says, quite matter-of-factly,
"No solos."

 

That's funny. Thanks.
Started with a Fender Mustang
Telecaster
Fender 'Flying Vee' Bass
Ovation
Ohana Ukelele
I play through an old Peavy Festival stack.
Don't play much better than when I started, but I'm alot louder.

 

Started my first punk band called "Anti Affect" in 98 when i was 13 i played bass...I now sing in my current band that started in late 02 called "The Howlers" its a mix of Psychobilly and punk check it out www.myspace.com/thehowlers

 

I play the hairy banjo, but only when I'm on the hamb.

 

Here's a photo of Jangleguy playing at the HAMB drags last year.
I play drums with malice..no talent, just malice.

 

Started when I was 6 years old. Never took music lessons just seemed to have the ear for it. Chuck Berry to Skynard. High School dances to Bars. Been in a few bands.
Lead guitar, Bass, Drums, harmonica. not the best, but have been paid to play and always had a good time rockin.

 

i play the drums for this band: www.ployforextinction.com

 

I sing and play acoustic guitar in my both bands, Jack Baymoore and the
Bandits and Tennessee Drifters. Authentic 1950' Rockabilly, Rock'n'roll and
Hillbilly Bop in J.B. & the B. and 1950's country a'la Johnny Cash and the
Tennessee Two in T.D. You'll find them if you click on the pics below.

Met HAMBers Axle, Nads, Sledge and many more when I played my first
Viva Las Vegas back in 1999. Oh boy, time flies...

 

I've played drums since 5th grade but, not continuously.

As I like vintage cars and trucks, I play on a vintage American made Rogers blue metalflake drum set.

Steve
Hosting-
Sunday April 11, 2010 8th annual Nostalgic Show & Go! Phoenix www.nostalgicshowandgo.org

 

I took piano lessons for 9 years almost all the way through my high school years. I got pretty good at it, but my piano teacher didn't like me mixing blues and ragtime into her favorite classical pieces. I'd do it just to piss her off. She was always on my ass... but looking back on it, she made me a better player.

It's been a long time since I played regularly, but I hopped on the piano at my parents house and it slowly came back to me about 60%. I'm finally making plans on moving the piano to my house so I can pick up where I left off years ago. I'm kinda excited about it.

-Chris

 

We're opening up for a band consisting of Robert Gordon, Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats), the guitar player from Roxy Music and the bassist from the Sex Pistols on Jan 23 at the Abbey Pub in Chicago. We're pretty stoked. We've opened up for Lee Rocker before. Now if we could just corral that other guy...