[kj] Advice on picking up guitar

[Brendan]

Yeah I suppose, but some ppl are saying that it makes sense to learn on an
acoustic because it conditions your hands, and if you learn on an electric
you won't probably ever be much chop at acoustic. And becauase it's harder
when you switch to electric it feels much easier. Dunno really!

I love acoustic guitar too, but listen mainly to electric. And I
completely forgot to put Geordie in the list, but it goes without saying

:)



> Most of your fave guitarists play electrics.....so you've answered your

> own

> question it seems ;)

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> From: "Brendan" <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>

> Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the

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> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"

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> Subject: Re: [kj] Advice on picking up guitar

> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:41:07 +1200 (NZST)

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> Cheers all for your advice, appreciate it.

>

> I'll ask for some advice from two of my sisters' boyfriends (different

> sisters, both boyfriends called John, both musicians, go figure), one is a

> drummer and fellow Soundgarden freak, the other was lead guitarist in a

> moderately popular NZ band from back in the day (The Warners, remember

> them Bongo?) and he's a bit of a demon on the guitar, to my ear. Both owe

> me favours for computer and gym help but would help me anyways.

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> My favourite guitarist is Kim Thayil from Soundgarden, other favourites

> are Hendrix, Page, Frank Zappa, Brian May, Pepper Keenan, Jerry Cantrell,

> Dimebag, Steve Morse, Slash, Joe Satch, Petrucci, Steve Vai,  Josh Homme,

> Jack White,  Angus Young, Adam Jones, Kirk Hammet, SRV, David Gilmour...a

> lot of whom would be regarded as sounding great but not technically the

> greatest.

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> PS: (Not my words):

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> My favorite Kim Thayil quote:

> "I can play guitar better than 95% of the guitarists out there.

> Unfortunately, the top 5% are in the music business, so that puts me at

> the bottom!"

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> My favorite quote about Kim:

> "I learned a lot from Kim- like how to win an argument without being right

> (laughs)."- Chris Cornell.

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>  > On 25 Sep 2007, at 15:20, powens wrote:

>  >

>  >> Chuck Prophet has played the same Squire Telecaster all his life so

>  >> nothing wrong with (the right one of) those

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>  > someone was telling me that apparently early Squires are quite sought

>  > after.

>  > mark burgess played a Squire Precision when I saw the Chamelons a

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