General Music Chat

I do Kung Pow chicken!!!!! I'm the singing Chef!

Blair, You cook? As in like a real Chef, kinda cook? Or you just jerkin my chain a little?

Yea, I really cook. My wife and I cook for our Bishop, family and some of the staff 1 sunday a month. Make breakfast for about 30 to 40 people.
Have also cooked for 150 homeless before. And love making of BBQ. Great ribs, chicken, brisket. homemade sauses and rubs. A BBQ bean dish that everyone loves. First all you taste is the sweet of the brown sugar, the your mouth comes on fire from the Cayan powder. Even my wifes 84 year old mother loves them.
do some good stir fry, and Italian. My wife is the master of southern cookin. Collard greens, Cube steak in onion gravy that will melt in your mouth, etc.....

Man thats cool. My wife, well she can make a good meal out of just about anything. Has not always been that way. I can remember telling her if she made potato chip chicken or bought another box of helpers helper I would leave her.
Oh, sorry Ryan. Hunger distracted me. I really like using Ernie Ball Super Slinky strings on my Squiers and Strats. You can set the action to the botom of the Fender recomended hight above the fretboard. Makes it real playable without any fret buzz. Lots of folk frown on using string lube but I have found that if I clean at the end of each day with Fast Fret stick I get just the right amount of slick and it keeps the strings clean. Wipe it on the whole neck front and back It helps keep the wood and finish conditioned. I dont use it before I play cause then it just to slick to have good control on your strings. Be sure to wipe it down with a soft cloth after you clean to reduce residue build up.

sans, my 1st bass was a T-40. My goodness what a heavy monster that was! Rough to play, too. Didn't like it at all.

My 2nd was a Fender Jazz. I liked it much better, but wanted a full 2 octave neck.

My Aria Pro II has that, & so does my Ibenez 5 string. I'd like to upgrade my p/u's on the Aria, though.

I hear ya Philby, and you should see how small my hands are! It is a wonder I could play it all. I could forget doing chords. I was going to go back on the Bass just before we found Eric. That man can play some Bass. I always say we are a four man band with one musician ERIC.

Cin and I bought one of our boys one of those Squire amps a couple of decades ago. My bassplayin' son Ryan is still useing it for noodlin' on!

Over the course of 58 years, I taught myself two songs on guitar. Rockey Raccoon (Beatles) and Triad (David Crosby)

Ryan,
If you get tired of gitfidlin', switch to keyboard. Ive been told there ain't enough of us.

Howlin'

HJ, I would recommend keys to anyone learning to play music, & I think it should be a required course in elementary school, for at least two years. (I was appalled to hear that in many areas, music & art classes are considered "fluff" & have been considered to be discontinued.)

Keyboards give us the basics for all forms of music. Learning keys makes all other instruments easier to understand.

I wish I had spent more time on the keys as a child. I think it would have helped my overall musicianship & creativity if I had.

Keys? Whats keys precious?
Keys? Keys? We dont need no stinking keys!
Just kidding guys put the guns down.

HJ, I would recommend keys to anyone learning to play music, & I think it should be a required course in elementary school, for at least two years. (I was appalled to hear that in many areas, music & art classes are considered "fluff" & have been considered to be discontinued.)

Keyboards give us the basics for all forms of music. Learning keys makes all other instruments easier to understand.

I wish I had spent more time on the keys as a child. I think it would have helped my overall musicianship & creativity if I had.

I second that.
Of course when I was young you couldn't have convinced me that keys or piano had any value whatsoever.
Now that I'm not young, I really wish I had been flogged into piano lessons as a kid.

With out Keys I wouldn't get anywhere. Into the house, car, anywhere.
Yes keys are important.

Hey there, I nearly bought one of these Fenders last week, I just love the look of it and it sounds good, action is easy. But reality struck and I bought a Crafter accoustic (which is what I needed), but I reckon I'll get the Fender Squier one day.....good luck with it

Lazzie, if you're just starting to learn, I think you probably made the right decision.

Good to hear from you.

sounds like a good plan to me too, I've always thought acoustic was better to learn on, amps and effects tend to get int he way of simply learning to play nice clear chords and hearing every note...Distortion is fun, and once you actually know how to play it's useful, but it's way too easy to hide sloppy playing with a fuzz box. That's why 90% of the time I practice on my acoustic, or the Cort CL1500 hollowbody unplugged.

I don't remember all the comments made about Squier guitars, but I've had one (strat) for over 10 years and I love it, if you're picky you can find really good Squiers, especially some of the earlier ones, and when you find a good one it's a keeper. Mine is my favorite guitar. I've played dozens of American and Mexican strats since I got it, only a couple have come close to matching it for sound and playability. Most guitar players are surprised when they get close enough to tell it's a Squier, since it sounds so good they don't expect a cheap Korean Squier. But stay away from the Chinese ones...I've played it so much I'm starting to wear the finish off the maple fretboard, I've filed the frets back into shape 3 times to remove the grooves, one more and it'll need a refret job...Nothing but the pickguard has been changed, and the cheap pots broke and had to be replaced long ago. Otherwise, it's mostly stock and a tremsetter and roller trees have been added to help it stay in tune better.

These are my favorite Squiers..



It's a Squier Stagemaster.. I just bought one last month for $125 on ebay. I have 3 now.. As long as people are selling 'em that cheap, I'm buying.

Solid Alder body, Neck through slim Fender neck, Floyd Rose. What more do you want?? The craftsmanship is really good on these guitars. I just buy 'em, gut 'em, and drop Dimarzios in 'em. Great guitars.