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Thanks heaps for posting this thread Archie-- I needed the kick in the *** to start practising guitar again.
 
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I just learned, Motorcycle Driveby by Third eye Blind. Pretty badass song if you've never heard of it. Definitely a challenge to play for me
 
Archie Moses said:
I just learned, Motorcycle Driveby by Third eye Blind. Pretty badass song if you've never heard of it. Definitely a challenge to play for me
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That was the first song I ever taught myself, probably 15 years ago. Still play it just about every time I pick up my guitar.
 
Chris-L said:
That was the first song I ever taught myself, probably 15 years ago. Still play it just about every time I pick up my guitar.
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There are a lot of good covers of it on youtube. It's a hard song to finger pick for me because the pattern is backwards from most songs I finger pick. I hadn't heard that song in like a decade and randomly thought about it a few months ago. Now I blast it all the time. It's like one of those songs that no one really knows but should.
 
Yeah, always been one of my favorite songs. That whole album is full of songs that didn't get enough play. God of wine, the background, narcolepsy. Legit one of the most solid albums ever. If you're into finger picking you should try dust in the wind, its a little overdone, but super fun to play. I'm working on that one, I could send you some tab.
 
Haha, wow, I got mentioned in a thread before even posting.

Yeah, my parents bought me a guitar when I was 14 because I was bored in school and they thought I needed an outlet or something. It was an acoustic Ibanez, still got it in the basement. I'm in a band now. 5 guys ranging from 28 to 52 and from mailman to cameraman. I play everything, basically. Rhythm guitar and backing vocals more than half the time, quite a bit of bass, lead guitar and lead vocals on a few songs, and as of recently, drums on Seeger's Turn the Page. We're basically a straightforward classic rock cover band. We play pubs, mostly, and obviously on the weekend. It's not bad, play about 3 hours every night with breaks, get about 80-100 Canadian per person.

This is from a recent gig playing for a motorcycle club. Thankfully, the video's too blurry to make out their logo right under me. They frown upon any pictures or video being taken at their events. I'm the guy in burgundy who's barely moving while playing/singing. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JrIAdJN0Ao

I also write and record some of my own stuff that isn't quite the same genre as the stuff above. I don't really have any recent recordings up, but here's a video from a wedding of a close friend some 6-7 years ago. I wrote this and played it with the best man backing me up on sax before the ceremony or something like that. He hadn't seen his sax part until about 5 minutes before this when I gave him the sheet music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asr5GlsJH4w

Oh, and for gear heads.

My main guitar is a basic Les Paul Epiphone Standard. The one in the second video is a rare Epiphone Chet Atkins acoustic-electric. It's unusual because it has nylon strings. My bass is a Squire J. Drums are an electric kit from Costco, no idea what brand. I got a couple of small Marshall amps, one bass and one guitar. 15 and 20 watts. I find that I don't really need a bigger amp for performing, as we usually bring a mixer and mikes with us and just mike all the amps and connect them to the house PA. I don't really like the idea of playing with just amp power. It only works for super small places. Also, our drummer is so effin loud, he drowns out even serious amps, so miking stuff works better.

I'm also not a huge fan of effects. The gain/chorus/delay on an amp is good enough for me.
 
Here's a video of a cover project where we played weekly at The Royal for most of 2014.

Before you ask, both of the females are married - the brunette is married to the male lead, actually.

I'm on bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scregFIlgBs
 
Like Archie, I consider myself a hobbyist, not a musician. But I have devoted a lot of time to it. So, I thought I'd post a little of my stuff.

I've been in two bands, and these are a few of the songs I wrote. In Forget The Dogs I sang (by default, not by choice) and played rhythm guitar.

[video=youtube_share;xKtB15G2OpY]https://youtu.be/xKtB15G2OpY
 
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