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cgod  ·  4125 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Hubski Band: What musical instrument do you play?

Guitar, bass and tenor saxophone. I haven't played much for the last five years or so, no pics as I don't feel like digging my gear out of corner of the basement it resides in.

The Tenor Sax is a Selmar Mark VII can't remember what year, but not one of the very desirable in the MIIV production history.

Guitars are a Fender Jaguar (Japanese) and a Madeira Acoustic.

Amp is a Fender Princeton Reverb II.





thenewgreen  ·  4124 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sweet amp. I used to have a Fender Super Reverb but pawned it in college. Really wish I hadn't.

I've always wanted to learn how to play the saxophone but I don't have one and I have no experience with wind instruments. You been playing a long time? Did you learn in a formal setting or teach yourself?

Most stringed instruments are intuitive for me, but wind... that's a whole new ballgame.

cgod  ·  4123 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I learned in grade school and went on to study it in college for a year. Played Sax in some ska and soul bands after high school. To be honest I don't really enjoy playing it very much. Playing saxophone takes over your whole body and is limited (generally) to just playing one note at a time.

I found as I matured as a musician that I really liked being able to express harmonies which guitar was pretty suitable for. I wish I had learned piano, maybe I'll buy one for my kid to play and get a chance to pick it up. I have a variety of other instruments as well now that I think of it, but none that I play as well as saxophone or guitar, bongos, flutes (wood and metal), harmonicas, slide whistles, glockenspiel and probably something else that I'm forgetting.

I'm actually a pretty decent blues and soul saxophonist, but a piss poor jazz player. I'm a rock when it comes to soul guitar playing, not that it's hard, mostly a matter of good taste and listening skills.

That fender amp was designed by the guy that went on to design mesa boogie amps, I believe it was the only model he designed for fender. I think it's one of the finest fender tube amps and was lucky to have it land in my lap when I was in high school. It kicks the living shit out of fender twins on tone and versatility.

I was pretty uptight about guitar tone. I only use analog gear. When I played in a bands I was always on a campaign to get guitarists to stop using those big digital effects boards and solid state amps. I always play the heaviest strings I cam get on my electric guitars and disable whammy bars by hammering a chunk off wood into the bottom of the mechanism. I would really like to get a big heavy Gibson electric someday, it would probably get me playing again.

thenewgreen  ·  4123 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My friend brian used only outboard gear, no digital for ever and then one day bought one of those big digital monsters and it sounded like ass. It was so thin and weak and just phony. So much so that anyone could have noticed, you didn't need to be a musician to tell the difference. Thank god he returned it. He had just gotten tired of carrying around so many pedals etc. Nothing like the real thing though.