Jack Flash Jr wrote: For me: changing treble strings (getting it to sit nicely and neatly in the tuning peg)

I hate restringing the treble side of a 3+3 headstock. Fender style single sided ones are just so much easier.

Squonk already mentioned it but... having the time to play and ZERO inspiration. You pick up the guitar and it's "plang plang plang".

Other days, when you have no time, that's when you come up with some awesome riff that you KNOW you'll never repeat coz you didn't record it and now you have to leave ?

I Agree with pretty much all above, adding:

1) Stepping on my cable and get it unplug from my guitar >

2) That the guitar Strap snaps out, dropping my guitar to the floor (several times )

Psean wrote:

Jack Flash Jr wrote: For me: changing treble strings (getting it to sit nicely and neatly in the tuning peg)

I hate restringing the treble side of a 3+3 headstock. Fender style single sided ones are just so much easier.

There is a way! And I will tell it to you as soon as I remember it! All my guits are perfectly in tune ?

EDIT: Here you go. Skip to 7:04
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Also... Corksniffers annoy me.... Can't we just take them all, stick em in a room with glowing hot tubes on the floors and walls and then fill the room with GERMANIUM chloride gas?

dojedagonzalez wrote: 1) Stepping on my cable and get it unplug from my guitar >

2) That the guitar Strap snaps out, dropping my guitar to the floor (several times )

1) wrap the cord through your strap once THEN plug in. It wont pull out.

2) Strap Locks. Or adjust your playing technique so that you're at least holding the neck enough so that IF it fails you can just grab the neck before it crashes to the ground.

hey its all about playing .......

2 things grate me and I guess the first one is more about life per se , big ego's......playing a guitar well does not make one god...nope not even Clapton....it just makes one a good guitar player,,cept eddie cos he is god u understand

second is GAS..damn it is expensive

Chocklit_Thunda wrote:

Psean wrote:

Jack Flash Jr wrote: For me: changing treble strings (getting it to sit nicely and neatly in the tuning peg)

I hate restringing the treble side of a 3+3 headstock. Fender style single sided ones are just so much easier.

There is a way! And I will tell it to you as soon as I remember it! All my guits are perfectly in tune ?

Also... Corksniffers annoy me.... Can't we just take them all, stick em in a room with glowing hot tubes on the floors and walls and then fill the room with GERMANIUM chloride gas?

dojedagonzalez wrote: 1) Stepping on my cable and get it unplug from my guitar >

2) That the guitar Strap snaps out, dropping my guitar to the floor (several times )

1) wrap the cord through your strap once THEN plug in. It wont pull out.

2) Strap Locks. Or adjust your playing technique so that you're at least holding the neck enough so that IF it fails you can just grab the neck before it crashes to the ground.

Ahhh...straplocks... CHECK THEM OFTEN... They start to wear out and can pop loose... That's what happened to my guitar... Ironically... the new set I had ordered arrived two weeks too late to save my guitar.

Looking after the nails on my right hand. If they get to a certain length then the guitar starts sounding good, but also they start knocking against things and get chipped and torn. Sometimes putting my hand in my pocket to grab my car keys can be enough to tear a nail.

Also, and in case you hadn't noticed, they grow! A little each day. So I suppose I could file them every day - but even then it's how much to file, what angle blah de blah.

And you have to have them just so. Especially the little bit that turns down to meet the side of the finger. Get that sucker the wrong shape and it snags on the strings - not a lot, but just enough so you notice and that's off-putting.

Protecting and maintaining right hand nails is the biggest schlep for me. Generally a torn nail happens a couple of days before some occasion on which I HAVE to play.

Left hand is easy. Necessary, but easy. Just cut 'em down to nothing and file any rough edges away.

Last night I cut them back a chunk. Now everything feels different and the 3rd string has got quieter.

Meh.

1) Not having a jam room/ studio in my small town house and having to set up my rig every time I want to practice because I keep my guitars in their cases and carry bags because the thought of them getting dust in nooks and crannies I can never clean makes me cringe.

2) Smudge marks on my PRS copy which reappear as soon as I start playing making those 5 minutes I spent wiping her down seem like a waste of time

3) My sound engineer at church who keeps telling me my Guitar-> Wah -> Fender Mustang 1 Amp -> Marshall 2x12 solid state (modded speaker out from Mustang goes into "CD in" jack to make use of larger 12 inch Celestion speakers which make me sound fuller and less tinny) is weird. I have some choice words for him that I can never say out loud because we are in church every time he goes on about my "weird" set-up.

4) Sharkfin picks

5) The fact that there is no law against Cash Crusaders selling and marketing their First Act, Sanchez and Ritmuller stage props as guitars.

6) People who believe playing Guitar Hero somehow makes them actual guitar players.

....a-a-a-a aaah. I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders now. Very cathartic, this.

Kush wrote: 1) Not having a jam room/ studio in my small town house and having to set up my rig every time I want to practice because I keep my guitars in their cases and carry bags because the thought of them getting dust in nooks and crannies I can never clean makes me cringe.

2) Smudge marks on my PRS copy which reappear as soon as I start playing making those 5 minutes I spent wiping her down seem like a waste of time

3) My sound engineer at church who keeps telling me my Guitar-> Wah -> Fender Mustang 1 Amp -> Marshall MG250 DFX (modded speaker out from Mustang goes into "CD in" jack to make use of larger 12 inch Celestion speakers which make me sound fuller and less tinny) is weird. I have some choice words for him that I can never say out loud because we are in church every time he goes on about my "weird" setup.

4) Sharkfin picks

5) The fact that there is no law against Cash Crusaders selling and marketing their First Act, Sanchez and Ritmuller stage props as guitars.

6) People who believe playing Guitar Hero somehow makes them actual guitar players.

....a-a-a-a aaah. I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders now. Very cathartic, this.

Have you demo-d the difference to him? And often, from what I have seen so far, "sound engineers" at church will just be guys who want to help out and don't have the training or knowledge to do it properly... eish... YMMV tho...

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Do I hear an amen?

Hahaha, good one! My solution is to play loud. My mate popped by last nite, but I couldn't hear him knock or call the phone because I was bangin away on the bass, rather loudly ?

My top 3 :

• Fasle marketing of guitar products. I bought a Korg G3 (decades ago) coz' Dimebag Darrel (RIP) endorsed it. Tried for 2 years to get a Pantera tone only to discover a while later that he'd never ever actually seen or used one. He eventually apologised for ever associating his name to it...
• Re-stringing steel string acoustics. A job I dislike so much, I just don't play em anymore.
• Reputable shops that sell new guitars that are badly setup

Being 31 y/o and having arthritis and not being able to play as often and for as long as I like. I'm busy recovering from a problem with my strumming arm elbow. And I've really been really wanting to play lately but can only manage 5min then I'm done.

So it boils down to not being able to play due to injury/sickness.

But the big problem with not being able to play for whatever reason is that your GAS increases significantly. At least mine does.

And +1 on the wife. Either I'm being too loud (while playing eclectic with headphones on) or the "could you please do..." just as I start playing.

Paddy wrote:
And +1 on the wife. Either I'm being too loud (while playing eclectic with headphones on) or the "could you please do..." just as I start playing.

Or the "How many guitars/pedals/amps do you need?" one

? Hah, this thread is comedy gold! And a little thin on solutions :-[ ?

Kush wrote:
3) My sound engineer at church who keeps telling me my Guitar-> Wah -> Fender Mustang 1 Amp -> Marshall 2x12 solid state (modded speaker out from Mustang goes into "CD in" jack to make use of larger 12 inch Celestion speakers which make me sound fuller and less tinny) is weird. I have some choice words for him that I can never say out loud because we are in church every time he goes on about my "weird" set-up.

? This has happened to me.
My setup is a little different though (Strat -> TC Polytune -> AMT vol pedal -> Craig Amps Dual Drive -> MI Tube Zone -> BBE Sonic Stomp -> Eventide delay -> one out to a Boss princeton pedal (and to FOH via H&K Redbox) and one out to a Craig Amps Brit 15).
Our FOH (is a qualified engineer and does know what he is doing) kept griping about how much easier my life would be if i just used a multi-effects pedal (he does have a point). He then told me what amazing tone his son was getting from a Boss GT10 (not slating it and the GT10 is capable of a lot).
I suggested his son come out and play with us.
Roll to next week, son arrives with a Jackson and said GT10 in hand, plugs the headphone out to the desk...and 3 things happened:

1. He couldn't hear himself and neither could the rest of the band.
2. His tone was quite terrible (obviously the pedal wasn't tweaked to go straight to FOH)
3. Our FOH guy tells me i should just stick with my current setup.

?

Arjun Menon wrote:

Paddy wrote:
And +1 on the wife. Either I'm being too loud (while playing eclectic with headphones on) or the "could you please do..." just as I start playing.

Or the "How many guitars/pedals/amps do you need?" one

haha! As some of you know, I'm currently contemplating reducing the number of guitars I own to less than one, and I've already sold one guitar and some other gear. The wife has let me know that she thinks it would be a very bad thing indeed if I were to not hang on to at least one.

My wife's most famous line "Why do you need more guitars when you can only play one at a time?"

I think I should ask her about her shoes.......

Squonk wrote: My wife's most famous line "Why do you need more guitars when you can only play one at a time?"

I think I should ask her about her shoes.......

I'll go make up the spare room, buddy.... ?

Chocklit_Thunda wrote:

Squonk wrote: My wife's most famous line "Why do you need more guitars when you can only play one at a time?"

I think I should ask her about her shoes.......

I'll go make up the spare room, buddy.... ?

And I got bust the other day when we were at a gathering and someone asked me how many guitars I have. I said "seven". From the other side of the room came this voice "Seven, I never knew you had seven..."

Then I tried to explain that 7 was a small collection compared to some of the others on the forum.

And I don't have a LP or Strat yet!! Man being married is tough ?

Arjun Menon wrote:

Kush wrote:
3) My sound engineer at church who keeps telling me my Guitar-> Wah -> Fender Mustang 1 Amp -> Marshall 2x12 solid state (modded speaker out from Mustang goes into "CD in" jack to make use of larger 12 inch Celestion speakers which make me sound fuller and less tinny) is weird. I have some choice words for him that I can never say out loud because we are in church every time he goes on about my "weird" set-up.

1. He couldn't hear himself and neither could the rest of the band.
2. His tone was quite terrible (obviously the pedal wasn't tweaked to go straight to FOH)
3. Our FOH guy tells me i should just stick with my current setup.

?

? Yeah, that really showed 'em. For me, I do not bother trying to explain myself because when I think of the effort it takes to buy and sell gear, tweaking it and trying it out, and the journey I went on before settling on my current set-up, a righteous fury overtakes me (think clenched fists, flared nostrils ... maybe fade-into intro riff for Eye of The Tiger and then abruptly cut it) and the thought also dawns on me that he will probably never get just what it means to a player to constantly be trying to find and pin down that tone that one hears in one's head... its a lost cause. BTW he too is a qualified engineer, very good at what he does but sadly lacking an appreciation of what it is the rest of us do.

Squonk wrote: My wife's most famous line "Why do you need more guitars when you can only play one at a time?"

I think I should ask her about her shoes.......

You sir, are a scholar and a gentleman. One more retort to add to my arsenal of come-backs which currently consists of one "you can never have too many guitars/ gear " line. ?

Although, I must say, I am one of the lucky ones, my wife respects my time with the guitars and is happy to let me jam for hours undisturbed. She only speaks out when the old GAS gets me.