From the vintage section of that shop in Donny, I got a 1958 Hagstrom... http://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halvakustisk_guitar_-_Hagstrøm_Viking.JPG It was Music Ground Stan.
@Kempton If you're looking for reviews for guitar gear. Check out Rob Chapman on Youtube. He goofs around a bit, but is generally informative.
Sorry mate.................I've got a 30 Watt Roland Cube for practice with some effects on it which is OK, I always reckon anything less than 30 watt is difficult to have a jam with and its really light (an 8 inch speaker I think) so its quite portable. If your going to spend any amount of cash, go for 50 watt. I got an old 50 Watt Laney Valve amp for about £180 a few years back but I had an electronics engineer for a mate to mend it if it went wrong. Its brilliant!!!
Sorry to be lazy and not read all the posts. I'm sure someone's beaten me to it but tell him to save a bit more and get a Godin. I've played and owned a good few guitars over the last 25 years and these really do stand out. Cheers Chris ps, just read up the page a bit. Amps--- Doctored Carvin top and 4Xsteel cone Electro Voice cab for shredding and general hooliganry. 1974 100w JCM 800 lead for everything else!!
If you're looking for a good practice amp I would recommend the Yamaha THR10. It's portable, runs off batteries if needed, sounds good like a tube amp but at low volumes and it's hall effect is one of the best I've heard. I love mine and I've not seen a poor review of it. It even comes with recording software.
I've got a Laney practice amp(though less than 50w), don't you find it a bit tinny, I didn't really like it at all?
Its an LC 50 Mk 1, a bit of a poor man's Marshall. I used it gigging for a neutral clean sound, and a mildly distorted rock sound. I think the thing is hardly working at quite high volumes. I quite like a trebly sound so maybe it suites what I'm trying to do. I have tried a 30 Watt Laney LC 30 Mk II and wasn't impressed with it
Mine's a 30w and it's way too trebly for me, though I suppose it depends on what you're playing through it and what sound you want. I'm a Marshall man(not a practice amp) and I run it through a 500w PA, my neighbours hate me, particularly as I run a drum kit through the same PA.
Why don't all you bedroom guitarists get together and do this: [video=youtube;FQrLZFXTl58]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FQrLZFXTl58[/video]
I'm pretty fortunate as both my neighbours are deaf (not from me) , they play their stereo louder than I play guitar. If your a Marshall man I can understand why you didn't like the Laney. I'm somewhere between American and British sound so I like a versatile sound. I usually use pedals to get some of it so I like a loud clean sound I can mess around with.
i hate that kind of thing with a vengeance. it's the kind of thing springsteen loves. utter toss. 47 guitarist? why? what's good about them all drowning each other out? nothing, it's crap.
while i rememember, lack of playing for ages means i'm back to soft fingertips. anyone got a way to hurry new pads?
Just saw on the BBC that John Lennon's Gretsch, that he played Paperback writer on, and gave to a school friend, is come up for auction and is estimated to make £600K.
Things like this often make me think I should give up, an 8 year old Japanese girl proves that starting at an early age can be a benefit... [video=youtube;5YXpfcZy2Sk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YXpfcZy2Sk[/video]
Wow she's good, having been in a few homes in Japan, and how close they are situated, I don't know what the neighbours must think.
Paul Gilbert is in Racer X and he's a beast. I do feel inadequate when you see little Chinese kids shredding like a beasts.
