matonanjin

The title is a bit of a misnomer. It doesn't really discuss albums that you can use to learn or practice guitar. But Rick Beato, Rhett Shull and Dave Onorado discuss the best guitar albums that motivated them to learn guitar. It was especially interesting because the 3 guys are generationally separate so there is that different perspective on guitar music. Rick is not my generation but close. He has some of the same favorite guitar albums as I. There is a LOT of discussion about the best guitar albums ever. It was also enlightening because I can get somewhat pompous and condescending about today's music. The younger two guys raved about a few newer guitar albums, while I recognized the names, I don't know anything about them. I do need to check them out. No doubt some of our younger guitar slingers on here will recognize them😉 Rick has had these guys in a few other videos that were interesting. One was about "Analog vs. Digital vs. NO amps". The latter meaning just a modeller. Rhett was recently touring and used only a Kemper or Helix, I can't remember which. And Rick has a lot of other interesting content in his channel. I am looking forward to your comments about these albums.

Sad but true, @DianeB. It's looking increasingly like I won't fulfill one of my bucket list items, seeing Clapton in concert. I posted a year (or more) ago about his cancelling his LA concert because of his peripheral neuropathy. Then he held his Crossroads concert last year in Dallas and I couldn't go. Since he has those every 3 years it's doubtful he'll have another. Lot's of my generation guitar heroes are retiring..........or worse.

Neil, everyone probably does know that, the Blues Jr. does have such a reputation as a great little amp. But I didn't realize that the current production model is Blues Junior IV. I do love my Junior III. It was nothing but pure dumb luck that I ended up with it. I got my first "good" guitar, a Les Paul, in a package deal with the the amp. I had no idea what I was getting as far as an amp. My only complaint on the amp is the reverb, not the tone but the reliability. I just got it out of the shop a couple days ago, for the 3rd time, getting the reverb repaired. I don't know if that is a characteristic of the amp or a factor of us living in the country in a very dusty environment. Or maybe a combination. In chatter in a couple other forums it seems it does occur with some regularity. Others have talked about changing out the chamber.

Made my day!?!?! Made my day?!?!?! If ever there was a correct time for WTF?!? If jealousy makes one's day then, yes, made my day, Tom! 😬😡😉😮

@Eracer_Team-DougH, the background singers were Jade and Juanita. Mahalia was not on this cruise. We need to have @Tom M post his picture with Jade. I'm still mad. I'll say no more.😡😉

Thanks, @NeilES335, @Popeye and @fray for your amp recommendations and contributions to this thread. And, yes, the puppy coming to check on its human is always a good sign. And probably one meaning good tone.

Yes, it is! Of course, I didn't have as good of vantage point as this person.😬 Josh Smith, Tommy Emmanuel and JB. Reese Wynans on Keys!

tj, you were leaning. Did you jump? Care to share with us if you did? I realize I am necroposting here. I'm doing this for two reasons. #1, and perhaps most importantly, I always wanted to say "necroposting"😉 14 month old thread? Is that necroposting? #2 When you posted about Bugera it completely escaped my attention. But about a month ago a guy started a thread about Bugera amps in another forum, asking for advice. This time it registered. Wait a minute! What's that little amp my jam buddy uses? I sent him a text and, sure enough, he uses a Bugera 15. And it sounds awesome. 15 watts of delicious tube sound and tiny. Perfect for jamming. I started doing a little browsing and came across this. A Bugera G5 Infinium tube amp head. I'm a little suspicious about the market for a 5 watt head for a practice amp. I think most people that are looking for a practice amp are going to want a combo, like my buddy's. But it is still interesting. 2 channels, clean and distorted, tone controls and a "morph" control to go from American to British sound?, and 1 and 0.1 watt attenuation! Reverb. And great tone. I'm thinking about it. I recently bought a Quilter 45 Microblock (45 watt) amp. I have no idea why. But I bought a speaker cabinet and put a Celestion Rocket 50 12" speaker in it. It sounds really good. So I have the cab. And maybe I'll do something similar with a 8" speaker to go to my jams. And btw, if anyone else is looking for a little amp. I mentioned the Bugera 15 of my jam buddy. They are no longer manufactured. But a guy on eBay is selling some factory reconditioned ones. He has 4 of them left: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bugera-BC15-15-Watt-Vintage-Guitar-Amp-Warranty/174201333108

Members of Steve's Guitar Gathering family were on the Keeping the Blues Alive at Sea Cruise. And met up! And what a great time it was! And it was especially nice meeting and hangin' out with other GG members. There were 4 members and spouses from here on the cruise but unfortunately we weren't able to connect with @BluesMan67. Next time! Pictured below are (L to R) Diane and @Dan Brown (in the cap) , Barb and Ron Petersen (yours truly, matonanjin), and Sheila and @Tom M (Tom Moore). That is Nassau, Bahamas in the background.

That worked! Thanks, Doug.

No, Doug, I expected that to work but it didn't. I think it was @William Nelson that thought it was a firewall issue. He took it home and printed it from his tablet. I tried printing it and the little revolving circle came up that told me it was doing something, thinking. But nothing happened. I sent it to my Canon Pro-100 printer. If I go to the print que for the printer there is nothing in the que. I also have a utility for making pdf's from a file. it saves as a pdf on my hard drive. If I send to it nothing happens. Just weird.

There was some discussion yesterday in the chat regarding problems printing out the pdf for the lesson. Some could print it. Some could not. I realized too late that I fell into the latter category. I still can't print it. Did anyone that was having difficulty figure this out? Care to share how you resolved it?

I think a lot of people are especially excited about this one, @Steve Krenz. I know I will be there.

@Randy120, thanks for that link. You even provided a link that addressed my very scenario!! 😁😎 (In my case, a 45 watt amp. Close enough!) "In practical terms, this means if you connect a 50-watt amp to a speaker rated at 50 watts (or more), then you’re good to go. However, connect a 20-watt speaker to the same 50-watt amp and you run an increased risk of the speaker failing at some point down the line ... probably in the middle of your showpiece solo."

No, Doug. Thanks for the response but I didn't explain well. I confused things talking about it. I know the Celestion is a 50 watt speaker. It's good with the Quilter. My concern is running the Quilter 45 into the little 20 Watt Orange 8" cab.

Great idea for a subject.

Will I blow it up? Calling you electronics experts! In a moment of uncontrollable GAS, when Musicians Friend had one of their Stupid Deal of the Day, I clicked on a Quilter 45 Microblock Amp. Which was a perfect example of just that, GAS, since I didn't have a cab at the time to play it through!😬 Since then I have made a cab with a 12" Celestion Rocket 50 and it sounds great. It turns out my clicking without thinking has been fun. But! The 12" cabinet is still too large and heavy to take to my weekly jam. I'm thinking about an Orange PPC 108 8" cabinet. It's really tiny and my local store has one so I could grab it before my jam Wednesday. It's 8 ohms but only 20 watt rating. (I can not find any smaller speakers that can handle more than 20 watts.) If I play at the low volumes typical of our jams will I blow out the speaker or, worse yet, blow up the amp? I'm willing to risk trying it if my only risk is the speaker. But I don't want to risk the amp. The impedance match so I don't think I should melt the amp. But I want to check with some of you that know more about this than I do.

Welcome back, Dan. I'm sure you had a great, relaxing time and are, as you said, "Eager" to get back to it. Sometimes a little break is just what we need in our practice. I know there are those that preach we never take a day off practice but I have found sometimes that break can be just what we need. Maybe I'm self justifying. My wife and I are taking off one week from today for a cruise to the Bahamas and then a few days in the Keys. My wife was very relieved to learn the guitar is not going with!😮

@Randy120, Robbie is a great player and I have a couple of his TrueFire courses. I also watched one of his TrueFire broadcasts to promote his courses. As you said, he "has some good ideas. " Interestingly, he is also, apparently, a recognized interior designer in Nashville.

I just received a promotional email from Premier Guitar on their Ebook, "Guitar Pedals – Mastering Guitar Effects by Rob Thorpe". And if you purchase this you get 10 other eBooks as a bonus.. If you go to this link you can see the list of freebies. I'm going to order it. And I should have done so before posting this so I could have reported. But I didn't. But it's only $20. And for those of us going down the rabbit hole of tone obsession it will probably be interesting. If you go to that link it will then link you to a full description of the book. when I get a chance to read some I'll add a reply with my thoughts.

Ben, congratulations on the new guitars. It's always fun seeing your new acquisitions. I especially like that first one. Beautiful. I've never heard of a "Dark Fire". And I never thought I would be congratulating you on a new Tele!!!!!😮 And congratulations on the first ever, at least that I have seen, quadruple NGD!😁😎 If I had to bet on who would have accomplished that it would have been on you! 😉 Ron

I wanted to say that Neil! You beat me to it😂

@Simira, very, very pretty. Very enjoyable. And a nice job of recording it. I sure hope that you will participate often in the Monthly recording challenge to document your progress.

@NeilES335, very nice. And nice job on the recordings, doing both the melody and rhythm. Very, very pretty.

Neil, I'm not so much wondering about where the human fits into this. I have software that slows down a song that I am trying to learn. That software will loop a section. It will combine these. I have software that will change the key. Now this, Spark, will download the song and display the chords for me. I don't even have to try and figure out the chords. I have GuitarPro to play the song for me and I will try and play along, again slowing and looping. Who knows what other learning tools I have on my hard drive that I've forgotten about. I haven't tried it but I've seen the guitar with lights on the fretboard that actually show one where to place fingers when playing a song! All these tools and I'm still struggling to learn!😲🥵 Remember stories of Clapton and others playing the lp on the turntable and then moving the needle back to the start of the section he was trying to learn? Repeating it over and over. The old days analog looping😉. They were able to learn having to do it like this and I struggle with all my tools? It gives me pause.