Happy National Guitar day

[Traildogbob]

To all my fellow jammers. Hopefully trump does not cancel it too.
AXS TV is bringing it all day honoring guitars.
And thank you DUers for the hearts. 🥰 It makes me a happy picker.

[justaprogressive]

1. What is AXS TV?

Ah I see, a streaming subscription model based on one's cable providers....

alas I'll just have to return to my 12,000+ guitar-centric album collection...


Happy National Guitar Day to you!

[Traildogbob]

2. Channel 340

On Direct. Music channel.
Not sure if other TV, Sat, Cable or Net carry it.
I will look for others for ya.
Mike Campbell from the Heartbreakers is now going through his collection (Huge) and telling how each one inspired a song with Tom and the band.
$50,000 Les Paul ‘59.
Tom sat on his first Gibson and broke the neck in studio, and ugly firebird the dealer sold him for $100.00 babysit was ugly.
This is so much more fun than trump news.

[Traildogbob]

3. I just googled it

And it seems most all TV providers carry it as well as streamers. Check it out. Lindsay Buckingham interview with the great Dan Rather on now.

[Fix The Stupid]

4. There is a Gibson special with Mike as well...

Highly recommend it...

His guitar hanger 'contraption' will blow your mind...

And I think you're missing a "2" in front of that value for the '59 Les Paul...and the bastard has 2 of them I believe...

[Traildogbob]

5. I was glued

To that segment. The ‘59 stories and the Firebird first Gibson he owned were great. That ceiling contraption holding his babies was so nice.
I almost trip over guitars in my tiny house, and have to closely watch my big bulldozer black lab navigating through.
And friend once said “you have guitar’s sprouting out of the floor”.
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Not sure how to post a link, my brother sent me this.
He was lead guitarist with a local band that was Jackie Wilson’s band for 4 years.
It sums up why we started and where we are at.
Guitars = lots Girls
Turns out guitars end up being lots more guitars, not so much girls.
Happy day to ya.

[Fix The Stupid]

6. Dam.. I could have wrote all of that....

I swear...I bring home one more and my wife is going to lose it...

Actually, she's great about it... I don't spend any $ on anything else, so she realizes this is OK...could be much worse...alcohol, drugs, gambling, etc...

But, running out of room....Almost every corner of our tiny house has 1 or 2 in it...3 or 4 under our bed...couple in the closet, I have 3 in my barn... Yeah...that's a little much. I'm around 18 or so...

There is a lot worse things we could be addicted to...collecting guitars is pretty harmless.

It will NEVER end either...just when you think you scored the ultimate axe - another one will catch your eye and down the rabbit hole we go again...

I built a Strat and a Tele... learned a lot from that and highly recommend it... the price of these kits went thru the roof though...not sure the value is there anymore...could buy a $150.00 Squier, put some time and $ into it and have a great instrument...some of these DIY kits are north of $300-$400...and the quality just isn't there...

But yeah, Mike Campbell? Greatest guitar player in rock history, playing with the greatest keyboard/piano player in rock history with the greatest singer/songwriter/frontman in rock history...That band was like catching lightening in a bottle...I thank my maker everyday that they actually ran into each other at the same time and place in history.

I could go on and on with these subjects

[Traildogbob]

9. Thank you for sharing

It is an addiction. A good one.

[SamKnause]

7. Mark Knopfler playing his guitars gives me more joy than I could ever measure !!!!!!!!!

I am grateful guitars were made.

I am grateful to all the great guitar players.

I am especially grateful to the mystical, musical, genius Mark Knopfler.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. I've Got 15

So, I can celebrate 15 times!
Honestly, I didn't know there was such a day.
Also, I've spent the winter hunting down little independent music stores. One a week.
I found one that was super cool about an hour from my house. (Small town to our west.)
Guy must have 300 vintage instruments in there, including a wooden biscuit resonator from the late 40s. I played it and boy was it resonatory!
He also had a piano from 1908 that was still pretty much in tune.
All kinds of old amps, mandolins, & other stringed instruments.
I hung around almost 2 hours.

[TxGuitar]

11. Didn't know the day existed but glad it does

I’ve been very lax in playing lately (divorce and all) but I think I’ll fire them up after work today.
I’ve had as many as 14 guitars but then I watched a YouTube of Rick Nielson’s guitar collection and he had literally hundreds and I thought “why have that many guitars?”, which made me look at my collection and I realized I only played quite a few of them once a month after tuning them up and polishing them. So now I have 3: a Cory Wong Strat (amazing guitar), an Ed O’Brien Strat (also amazing but without italics) and a Taylor T5z Classic (which I’m about to sell).

I know I have 2 artist models but I swear I didn’t seek them out for the names. The Cory Wong is the spankiest, Stratiest Strat ever, and the Ed O’Brien has a Fernandes sustainer pickup which is fun (it also houses my Fishman Triple Play MIDI ‘pickup’).

So Happy National Guitar Day to all!

[Traildogbob]

12. A few minutes playing

Them are a few minutes the world does not seem to be crumbling. Thanks for sharing your love of the instrument.
Cheers