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Sounds like a good trade!!😉😂😎

Great points, guys. My first "good" guitar was my Gibson LP. I went shopping after I had been learning for a while. I was in the store and had tried a few when the salesman said that they had a used LP/Fender Blues, Jr. 3 combo package. They were like new. I said to him that I really wasn't interested in used. My wife was the one that forced the issue and said, "At least look at it." The salesman brought the guitar and it was immaculate. It looked like they had just unboxed it. I came to find out it was that very common story. The salesman relayed that whoever had bought it was going to learn guitar. He took it home and put it under his bed in its case. It remained there for a couple years until he just recently brought it back to the store and sold it back. I've had great success buying used and every guitar in my sig, except the Epiphone Casino and Strat, were purchased used.

I had the pleasure of seeing Joe and Kirk, along with a lot of others, jam at the Artist Jam on Tuesday night of the Keeping The Blues Alive at Sea cruise. It was, as you would predict, awesome. Kirk also played rhythm for Joe at one of his concerts on the cruise. I also got to meet Kirk, got his autograph, and chatted with him (and Josh Smith) on that cruise at the autograph session. Just a really humble, pleasant guy. Kirk has a new (not all that new now) album called "Hold On". Really great. My favorite cut is "Gotta Right".

Which Hal Leonard "Blues Guitar"? There are so many of them. I have Chicago Blues Rhythm Guitar by Bob Margolin that looks really good and I hope to start in the very near future:

Yes, there is. Confusion that is. I have always just assumed it was a reference about Chicago and came about as a result of the exodus of people, including blues guys like Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy, from the delta south to Chicago looking for jobs. I further thought it came about the same time. It really represented Chicago blues to me. I never realized it was written by Robert Johnson long before this migration. Thanks a lot @Triple-o and @Dave White (for confusing me😉)

Chris, To answer your question, "Yes", you've got it correct, assuming that you are using the pentatonic form 1. You could also, if you want more of an open string sound and ringing, play the E minor using open strings. It would be like the F minor only moved "down" one more fret. So: I can't, of course, speak for Steve. But I suspect he wants us to use the different forms doing this exercise. I tried to. So just using the first bar of the exercise, Cm, you could, as you did, play form 1 at the 8th fret. You could also play it using (red is the root) form 2 at the 10th fret form 3 at the 3rd (or 15th) fret form 4 also at the 3rd (or 15th) fret form 5 at the 8th or 20th fret I hope that I haven't confused more than helped. the whole idea is that with each key, with the different forms, you can play all over the neck. These are just for Cminor. The next bar in the exercise, Dminor, you can play all over the neck. Those graphics, btw, were stolen from this really cool, helpful website, Free Guitar Source. You tell it what minor pentatonic key you want. You then move your mouse across and it will highlight the different forms on the keyboard. Or you can tell it all. @ChrisJ032, sorry for the long answer to your question! I hope it was more helpful than confusing. The short answer is "Yes"😂

Doug, I can't help with aany suggestions but I'm glad you started this thread. My Kindle is getting really "long in the tooth". Apps are taking forever to load. I'm going to have to replace it sooner than later. I've got lots of songs and, of course, lots of L&MG videos stored on it. So I am looking forward to the suggestions.

Thanks, Diane.

I just finished up Jeff Beck: Still on the Run. Really interesting, fascinating. From the Showtime page: "Documentary following Jeff Beck from his earliest days growing up in Wallington, Surrey with his home made guitars, teenage friendship with Jimmy Page and the influences of guitarists such as Les Paul, Cliff Gallup and James Burton." Interviews with: Eric Clapton Rod Stewart Jimmy Page Slash Ronnie Wood David Gilmour Lots more I'm forgetting. An interesting part was when Clapton was describing his latter time in the Yardbirds. He was thinking of leaving and the group sent him to go check out Jeff Beck as his replacement. He said he saw Beck and said, "Man. I'm in the wrong business." Unfortunately, you may need Showtime channel, or a streaming service like Hulu with the Showtime add-on, to watch this.

Ask anytime you want and ask anything you want! I, I'm sure you suspect, love talking guitars and especially love talking about my PRS guitars!😂😎

@William Nelson, I'm glad you received the couple responses you did. I love the sound of a 12 string guitar and one is probably going to be on my shopping list at some point. (Not soon. There are a couple other items on that list first.) So I was counting on this thread being educational for me. When you hadn't received any responses at first I was about ready to bump this. But, thankfully, Randy and Henk responded with a couple informative posts. And besides, I like the way you think! "it gives me an excuse to haunt the guitar stores"😉😎

It was a 1954 Les Paul Custom. Interesting because it had 3, rather than the usual 2 humbuckers. But do you know the entire story about the guitar? Frampton was on tour in 1970. The guitar was on a cargo plane that crashed and Frampton assumed the guitar was destroyed. It was returned to him decades later. NPR story about the guitar. Guitar World Story.

Hey, Neil, thanks. I definitely see what you mean. But I have been complementing L&M for a few sessions now. And most of the materials in 15, bending, H-O, P-O, etc. I've been working on for a while. And the concepts of pick-ups, pedals, etc, I'm familiar with. I've already spent lots on pedals! 😉😆😮 I'm finishing up the last couple exercises in 15B the next couple days and will be moving on to 16.

I know this is a guitar group. But as the drummer for Cream, and later Blind Faith, and as these groups, and more specifically Clapton, have influenced so many guitarists I thought we would allow this. Ginger Baker, Cream's Volatile Drummer, Dies at 80 I also highly recommend the documentary, "Beware of Mr. Baker". "Volatile" is charitable!

@RaptorRich, for me it sometimes encourages me to do just as you have: to publicly state goals or plans like this. It is some form of public accountability. I'm not sure what behavioral psychologists would call it. 🤔 But I have, on occasion, done something similar here. Best of luck to you and from what I have heard, the GG 2020 will be a great experience for you. Keep us posted on your progress.

Sad when people have a dirty mind like that, isn't it?!?!😆😉

seems like Godzilla by Edgar Winter would be a good candidate!🤔

View the Live Lesson here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaKLy681H8BN4DYQkGF_UUw

And here is more information, another photo, regarding that, @Dave White😉

50 Years (and 4 days) ago today the Beatles and Sir George Martin release the album, Abbey Road. The name comes from the address of the EMI Studios (3 Abbey Road, Westminster) where the album was recorded. In 1970, the studio changed its name to "Abbey Road Studios" to reflect the popularity of the Beatles album. You Beatles fans: comments?????

I streamed it. Very interesting. I thought we had a conversation about it here. that was probably over at our previous home.

@rkl312, congratulations! Enjoy it!

And I am thinking similarly about the '55 Strat at $5,500.

Here is the actual auction.

Chris, I can't provide a comparative statement about the ME80- vs. GT1. I'm not familiar with either but I'm confident Randy is going to provide you with valuable information. But the processor vs. individual pedals is a topic that has provided fodder for a lot of heated arguments on forums. Not here...at least not yet.😮 But to me, your logic as a beginner is a very sound one. Why not spend a couple (or few) hundred bucks on a multi-effects processor and get hundreds of pedals and dozens of amps instead of a hundred bucks, or more, per pedal?!?! This is going to provide you the opportunity to test drive a lot of different pedals, and amps, and decide what you like for your tone. Then you can decide if you are a pedal guy or a multi-effects guy. Or not😉 I have a pedal board with 7 or so pedals and I run into a Fender Blues, Jr. 3 amp. I also have a POD HD 500X multi-effects board running into my DAW and a couple monitors. I will use one set-up for weeks or months and then switch. I can't decide. But it's fun.