Hi All!
I recently joined the forum and I LIKE it! So this is where I tell about myself?
I hail from Obzervatory in Cape Town and during the day I'm a student at the Observatory in the same suburb. At other times I may be various things depending on level of inebriation but I'm aiming to someday be a decent guitar player (This is probably only possible at the lower levels of inebriation).
I've been playing on and off for 9 years, got my current guitar in 2000 and LOVE it! Started trying to play Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, AC/DC type stuff then moved on to metal. A couple years later I realised I was prob closer to the mark in the beginning (I rediscoverd the blues). So thats where I'm now. Blues and Blues rock in the fashion of Albert Frost, Dan, Gary Moore, ZZ Top, Bonamassa and the couple hundred awesome youtube rockers...
My gear is the following:
15 year old Epiphone Les Paul Standard in cherry sunburst. It has a bolt-on neck, I've never seen another like it. I replaced the stock pickups with a Seymour Duncan JB and an Alnico II Pro. I feed it 11 gauge Ernies periodically. It needs a fret job.
I also own a Marshall VS15R (my first amp from 2000) one of the best 15W solid state amps I've heard, a Peavey Valveking 112 (good for harder rock) and I recently purchased AJA's Blackstar HT-5 Combo. The HT5 is f*****g fantastic! The Peavey is going up for sale in a week or so when I'm back home.
I've never had any effects but I'm thinking of a good boost pedal for the HT5 (OD1/TS9?)
That's about it.
Cheerio!
I recently joined the forum and I LIKE it! So this is where I tell about myself?
I hail from Obzervatory in Cape Town and during the day I'm a student at the Observatory in the same suburb. At other times I may be various things depending on level of inebriation but I'm aiming to someday be a decent guitar player (This is probably only possible at the lower levels of inebriation).
I've been playing on and off for 9 years, got my current guitar in 2000 and LOVE it! Started trying to play Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, AC/DC type stuff then moved on to metal. A couple years later I realised I was prob closer to the mark in the beginning (I rediscoverd the blues). So thats where I'm now. Blues and Blues rock in the fashion of Albert Frost, Dan, Gary Moore, ZZ Top, Bonamassa and the couple hundred awesome youtube rockers...
My gear is the following:
15 year old Epiphone Les Paul Standard in cherry sunburst. It has a bolt-on neck, I've never seen another like it. I replaced the stock pickups with a Seymour Duncan JB and an Alnico II Pro. I feed it 11 gauge Ernies periodically. It needs a fret job.
I also own a Marshall VS15R (my first amp from 2000) one of the best 15W solid state amps I've heard, a Peavey Valveking 112 (good for harder rock) and I recently purchased AJA's Blackstar HT-5 Combo. The HT5 is f*****g fantastic! The Peavey is going up for sale in a week or so when I'm back home.
I've never had any effects but I'm thinking of a good boost pedal for the HT5 (OD1/TS9?)
That's about it.
Cheerio!
