Most people don't know this, but I'm a guitar freak. My style is hard rock, and this generally carries it's own connotations. However, I've been playing for 35 years, and the bands that I grew up admiring and modeling where just that, hard rockers. I play everything from the Beatles to COC. My favorite work is stuff from 1965 through 1980, such as Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath, Zeppelin, Badfinger, Floyd and 1000's of others that I can't think of right now. But, I pretty much like all music forms. I'm just more suited as a hard rock musician, style wise.

Currently I own/play:

Fender Strat (American Deluxe) - "My PLayer"
Fender Strat (Aerodyne)
Gibson Les Paul (Standard)
Gibson SG (Tony Iommi)
Fender Precision Bass (American Deluxe)
Guild (semi-hollow electric)
Guild (acoustic)
Ibanez (S5470)

I sing and have other instruments, but the AXE is my thing...

I live waaaaay out in the country, so I can crank it up pretty loud an no one is around to complain. I'm a daily player and wondered if other members were musicians, played in groups...etc.

I know that Wally Hayes, Neil Blackwood, Rob Frink and a couple of others are players. But I wondered who else were musicians around here...

Any players here?

What do you own/play?
What style(s)?

Cooool!

I had an eletric guitar and two acoustic guitars.

My favorit songs to guitar are AC/DC, Deep Purple, Sabbath, Judas Priest.

And I play Brazilian Folk Guitar. It´s a acoustic guitar with 5 pairs in EBG#EB.

http://www.voaviola.com.br/imagem/viola_caipira.jpg

Wow... that thing looks like a piece of art!

I love Brazilian style folk!

Have you ever heard of Rodrigo y Manuela?

Check this out!!!!

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Listen to it all...
:)

Alex

Here's a couple of mine, the Les Paul and SG.

These are more like "Black Arts"!

Very nice!

I love SGs (Iommi and Angus forever!) and your guitar it´s fantastic.


Rodrigo Y Gabriela are mexicans. The diference of mexican and brazilian folk style are the influences. The mexican music had a spanish influence, and the brazilian folk had a portuguese style.

This is a e players of brazilian folk guitar:

Viola Caipira - Trio Carapiá - Malandrinho(Tião Carreiro) - YouTube

This is a master of brazilian folk guitar:

Tião Carreiro e ParaÃ#so (Solos De Pagode) RARIDADE! - 3ª Parte - YouTube

Yes, I knew that wasn't Brazilian folk. I guess that I should have stated it, but I had listened to that RyM track for the first time a couple of weeks ago and wanted to use this thread as an excuse to show everyone how kick a$$ those two are on acoustics. Their names were posted in Spanish and that's what made me think of posting that link here.

Is that Carriero in the first part of the video from a later interview? It looks like they're on the Brazilian version of the Hee Haw set!!! What year was the guitar part done in?

Speaking of Hee Haw looking sets, have you ever listened to Roy Clark?

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This is a crappy video, but it's a good version of the song!!!

This is this Roy Clark I remember...

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I know Roy Clark. Very nice!

A friend of mine saids: Good music it´s good music anywhere!

This interview was mad in 1980. Tião Carreiro dies in 1988 and many brazilian guitars players follow his style and tecnics.

This is another brazilian folk guitar player calls Mazinho Quevedo. He plays Trenzinho Caipira from Heitor Villa Lobos classic song. In my opinion, he is a best brazilian folk guitar player..alive...:)

"Trenzinho caipira", por Adriano e Mazinho Quevedo - YouTube

But I like the USA folk too! Tony Rice is very nice!

Tony Rice All Star Jam plays "Nine Pound Hammer" - YouTube