I changed my mind.....new guitar is on the way to me!

[Mr Boochie]

I still have one old glass Corocidin bottle + a couple of other old glass pill bottles, a length of copper - a trick I copped off Johnny Winter - and a really nice length of glass made from the neck of an old Mateus wine bottle (green). I cannot count even estimate the N of slides I have possessed in the last 50+ years, but it has come down to these 6 or 7 specimens, one copper the rest glass.

I like the copper pipe on the Telecaster. Like a cheap man's pedal steel — without the pedals.

BTW... have you ever played on a B-Bender Telecaster? Some early Eagles tunes had that sound. Bernie Leadon.

Ol '55.
Eagles "On The Border." Asylum Records. P-10342Y. Warner-Pioneer (Japan) pressing. 1974.
Run-out: P-8447Y1 1-A-12 23 〄

 

[Mystic]

I like the copper pipe on the Telecaster. Like a cheap man's pedal steel — without the pedals.

BTW... have you ever played on a B-Bender Telecaster? Some early Eagles tunes had that sound. Bernie Leadon.

Ol '55.
Eagles "On The Border." Asylum Records. P-10342Y. Warner-Pioneer (Japan) pressing. 1974.
Run-out: P-8447Y1 1-A-12 23 〄

I have played a lot of Teles with the B-Bender installed. It is an okay device but not in my personal wheelhouse as my Guitar Education came via Chicago Blues, where "bending" is accomplished by (mainly) the fretting hand on the board ... with an occasional assist from the fretting arm pulling back on the neck -- Hendrix loved this trick as did SRV.

"Ol 55" is a great number ... Tom Waits penned it, yes?

 

[onepixel]

This spring I got an used inexpensive Takamine acoustic/electric guitar and Roland Cube amp.
I started bouldering at the new rock climbing gym last winter.
My fingers and arms were getting pumped and stiff.
I suck, but the guitar helps and it's fun.

 

[DesertRatt]

I suck, but the guitar helps and it's fun.

Ha ha..yeah, that's how I feel. I suck, but I don't care....the process is GOOD. And, since getting the "nylons" I'm slowly getting better with it. Less buzzing, better finger control, most chord shapes sounding clean, right hand learning to alternate bass. I'm definitely beginning to enjoy it as I did say 5 years ago. Not as tuneful yet, but I think that is coming. I picked out 15 songs only to put in my practice book. And, nothing will be added until I get them all clean. Must be horrible for the wife to hear that same repetoire endlessly, but it seems like the right approach. Good luck!

 

[onepixel]

Ha ha..yeah, that's how I feel. I suck, but I don't care....the process is GOOD. And, since getting the "nylons" I'm slowly getting better with it. Less buzzing, better finger control, most chord shapes sounding clean, right hand learning to alternate bass. I'm definitely beginning to enjoy it as I did say 5 years ago. Not as tuneful yet, but I think that is coming. I picked out 15 songs only to put in my practice book. And, nothing will be added until I get them all clean. Must be horrible for the wife to hear that same repetoire endlessly, but it seems like the right approach. Good luck!

Found this music book at the Friends of the Library for $1.
And Youtube has a bunch of stuff to play with.

Keep playing and have fun!

 

[Mr Boochie]

I have played a lot of Teles with the B-Bender installed. It is an okay device but not in my personal wheelhouse as my Guitar Education came via Chicago Blues, where "bending" is accomplished by (mainly) the fretting hand on the board ... with an occasional assist from the fretting arm pulling back on the neck -- Hendrix loved this trick as did SRV.

"Ol 55" is a great number ... Tom Waits penned it, yes?

Correcto!

I tried a friend's B-Bender. It's a bit hard getting used to pulling on the neck strap. But the tone is unique. Resolving chords. That's for sure.

I went to school with Peter Lindley, David's younger brother. David could play the B-Bender! So sweet-sounding in the hands of someone who knows how to play guitar.

 

[Mystic]

Correcto!

I tried a friend's B-Bender. It's a bit hard getting used to pulling on the neck strap. But the tone is unique. Resolving chords. That's for sure.

I went to school with Peter Lindley, David's younger brother. David could play the B-Bender! So sweet-sounding in the hands of someone who knows how to play guitar.

Dave was my "just around the corner "neighbor when I lived in Claremont. Seemed that Dave could play anything with strings.