Musicians! Post your instruments!

[modskin]

I don't think I've seen a thread like this yet... I may be wrong..

Post up pictures of your noise-makers! Guitars, basses, amps, everything!



Left: My Gretsch 6129T Silver Jet. My dad gave me this guitar when I graduated high school. I will never sell it and it'll probably be buried alongside me. I love this guitar.

Middle: Ibanez AF75D. The deep-body Ibanez Artcore hollowbody. This is the guitar I dick around and write songs on. It was hand pinstriped by this 17-year-old kid named Chastin a few years back at the Re-animators Car Show in Atlanta.

Right: Epiphone Custom Shop 1957 Les Paul Jr. reissue. I wanted something similar to Mick Jones and Johnny Thunders. This is what I could afford. It sounded pretty great, but I sold it a couple months ago to a guy from Israel.


Here's 2 instruments that I wish I had back. I bought them for a fucking steal ($150 for both) and ended up selling them right after I moved to NYC and more than doubled my money. I just didn't have room for them, and I was buh-roke. I wish I had sold something else now in order to keep them.



Left: Danelectro U3.
Right: Danelectro DC Bass.


My shred guitar (not that I ever shred on it):



1987 Kramer Striker 300. It has a Floyd Rose vibrato on it. That means if you hit a pinch harmonic and yank on that whammy, it sounds like a goddamn Zero diving on a torpedo run. This guitar is currently in pieces because I'm refinishing the body.


My everyday bass:



Squier Vintage Modified 70's Precision Bass. Cheap, sounds good, looks good. I use it mainly to record with. I swapped out the black pickup cover to a white one. Looks like Simmo's P-Bass now..


AAAAAND... The newest addition to the arsenal (got it yesterday).. A mid-60's Farfisa Combo Compact organ.







It needs a lot of cosmetic work (new upper faceplate, new Tolex covering) but it sounds great and the spring reverb still works on it. I've seen these things go for a ridiculous amount of cash, but I found this one on Craigslist for mega cheap and couldn't pass it up. Sounds just like 96 Tears..


I've also got a no-name baritone ukulele and a Casio SK-1 Sampling Keyboard that I don't have photos of.

[BostonBeaneater]

Cool organ!

[Dr. Medulla]

Sounds just like 96 Tears.

Worth every penny just for that, I would think.

[modskin]

Sounds just like 96 Tears.

Worth every penny just for that, I would think.

Yep. The last one I saw in a shop was in pretty good condition and they wanted about $1200 for it. I got this one for $300 and it needs another couple hundred in cosmetic work done to it. Everything works awesome as far as the electronics and tuning goes, but it's definitely showing its age.

[Inder]

Keen gear, 'skinny. That Gretsch is badass.

I don't have any terribly exciting instruments -- blue/green-with-cream-trim Epi Les Standard, dark red Yamaha RBX bass, black Fender acoustic -- but they make pleasant noise when I hit them.

My bass amp is lovely:

[Wolter]

I dont' play an instrument, but I would like to state that more things in life should sound just like 96 Tears.

[Heston]

My trusty Fender Tele


Epiphone Dot


Korg Triton


Jew's Harp


Also have a serviceable bass and numerous percussion devices.

[Inder]

Also have a serviceable bass and numerous percussion devices.

Oh -- I forgot to add that I also have a tupperware box full of bran. It's a wonderful shaker.

[modskin]

I dont' play an instrument, but I would like to state that more things in life should sound just like 96 Tears.

Right now pretty much everything in my bedroom sounds like 96 Tears or a hockey game circa 1972, cause I've got this thing fired up and plugged in..

[Heston]

Also have a serviceable bass and numerous percussion devices.

Oh -- I forgot to add that I also have a tupperware box full of bran. It's a wonderful shaker.

I recently made a great washboard-type instrument by gaffer-taping some old drumsticks together, sounds wicked!

[Wolter]

I dont' play an instrument, but I would like to state that more things in life should sound just like 96 Tears.

Right now pretty much everything in my bedroom sounds like 96 Tears or a hockey game circa 1972, cause I've got this thing fired up and plugged in..

DESTROYER.

OF.

WORLDS.

[Dr. Medulla]

I dont' play an instrument, but I would like to state that more things in life should sound just like 96 Tears.

Right now pretty much everything in my bedroom sounds like 96 Tears or a hockey game circa 1972, cause I've got this thing fired up and plugged in..

RCS and I are going to dig up a table hockey game and play a best of seven in your apartment. You will continue to play, even if blood gushes from your fingertips, until a champion of the universe is established.

[Suzanne H.]

This is just to prove that I HAVE A GUITAR. I have no proper pictures of it. I wish I did.


I barely touch the thing anymore and I can't at all call myself a musician... I intend on re-teaching myself guitar over the summer, though, just to get my skills up beyond basic power chords.

I also have a bass amplifer, but no bass to go with it. Win! But luckily, the bf now uses it to practice for gigs when he's in town, so it has some use.

[Special Patrol]

Don't have a camera, but I believe this is the correct model:



I also have a violin that I'm awfully bad at playing, a lousy synth, and an acoustic guitar. But I mainly play bass, for now.

[Kory]

http://www.coryfoster.com
go to the 'rack' link at the top right.