Posted 2016-05-11 9:42 AM (#525146) Subject: Guitar Superstitions...
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You have any??
One for me is that I always.. always.. play an intentionally fouled up chord with some dead strings or a fret buzz as the very last sound before I put a guitar away. Another one is.. well.. maybe later.
So I'm a weird duck. Certainly no big news there. I'm just curious if there are any others who'd care to divulge their own instrument superstitions/traditions.
Posted 2016-05-11 12:42 PM (#525152 - in reply to #525151) Subject: Re: Guitar Superstitions...
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stephent28 - 2016-05-11 11:49 AM
Never take the "G" string off your guitar and give it to your girlfriend/spouse and assume that is what she wanted for her birthday.
After doing that, I would be afraid that she would use that "G" for a Garrote!! Never close both eyes at one time after making that doozie of a mistake! LOL!!!
You guys are Hilarious!!! I Love It!!!
I think the only reason that I am not superstitious, is because I never remember what I do from one time to the next, on any given thing. It makes it hard to re-do any one thing time after time.
Posted 2016-05-11 5:55 PM (#525167 - in reply to #525146) Subject: Re: Guitar Superstitions...
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Location: NW Washington State
I avoid guitars that Bob Gee Darkbar has played while wearing "that shirt". I'd also be afraid of any guitar that was buffed using "that shirt" as a polishing cloth.
Posted 2016-05-11 6:09 PM (#525169 - in reply to #525146) Subject: Re: Guitar Superstitions...
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR
I don't know of any "superstitions" other than Not letting strangers play my guitar.
That's not really a superstition...
If you come up to me outta nowhere and ask to play my guitar, you are an asshole.
If you want to play other people's guitars, go to Guitar Center.
Posted 2016-05-11 6:27 PM (#525170 - in reply to #525146) Subject: Re: Guitar Superstitions...
Joined: October 2005 Posts: 4066
Location: Utah
Superstitions? No. Traditions, yes. There's one particular song which is the first I play on a newly acquired guitar, and the last song I play on it when I sell it to a new owner. Weird? Yup.
Posted 2016-05-11 6:37 PM (#525172 - in reply to #525170) Subject: Re: Guitar Superstitions...
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FlySig - 2016-05-11 6:27 PM
Superstitions? No. Traditions, yes. There's one particular song which is the first I play on a newly acquired guitar, and the last song I play on it when I sell it to a new owner. Weird? Yup.
Not weird at all, I like that FlySig! It makes allot of sense, and it is really Sweet!
Posted 2016-05-11 9:24 PM (#525176 - in reply to #525146) Subject: Re: Guitar Superstitions...
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah
I just play. No time for that stuff! But I do knock three times on the side of an airplane as I leave the jetway and board the plane. It works great cause I haven't crashed yet!! Did it twice more today!
Posted 2016-05-11 9:34 PM (#525178 - in reply to #525146) Subject: Re: Guitar Superstitions...
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@Arthur-- "Not letting strangers play my guitar."
I can go with that, too., Arthur. Musical instruments can definitely have a personal boundary line. In fact, if a 'total stranger' is THAT close to my guitar I would probably be concerned by how/why they got that close to it in the first place.
Posted 2016-05-11 9:44 PM (#525179 - in reply to #525146) Subject: Re: Guitar Superstitions...
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@FlySig-- "There's one particular song which is the first I play on a newly acquired guitar, and the last song I play on it when I sell it to a new owner. Weird? Yup."
That's a good one, FlySig. Doesn't seem weird to me. I do the same thing with new computers since way back in the 80's. The VERY first thing I do with a new computer is type out the full first verse to Bennie and the Jets, then keep it on there for the life of the machine. Where that superstition came from I do not remember.. lol.. but I have done it a few dozen times.
Posted 2016-05-12 7:42 PM (#525201 - in reply to #525146) Subject: Re: Guitar Superstitions...
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Damon.. that was fun to watch, no doubt.. but I'm still with Cavalier.. hoping for a wine glass slide with no spillage. Heck, even with spillage would be fine as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, good show.. thanks for posting.
Posted 2016-05-13 2:45 PM (#525234 - in reply to #525146) Subject: Re: Guitar Superstitions...
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Aha Nancy I think the old ways are running deep under a thin veneer with you.
I've got a good percentage of Highlander but it is mixed with a long list of other trouble makers like French Huguenots and over here some Blackfoot or Crow, All the European end were evicted or had to run to the wilds over here. All agree on a trust in nature because it is a lot easier to hide in the forest! As a man of science my conclusion is life might as well be fun.
Now for Damen I've put some thought into the wine glass routine and think a slow blues or Hawaiian melody could be done with the side of the glass. I realized that I have a easier shortcut and could use the base for a slide on my lap steel.
Posted 2016-05-16 1:51 AM (#525283 - in reply to #525146) Subject: RE: Guitar Superstitions...
Joined: August 2002 Posts: 638
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Hey, Everyone,
I'm with OMA on the not letting strangers near my guitars rule. Even "friends" at church who were/are, "trying to help", have done real damage to all of my guitars at one time, or another. "Horror of Horrors!", is all all I can say on that score. I remember reading an article in Guitar Player Magazine when I first started playing. It was something about, "10 Rules For Beginners Guitar Maintenance. "Rule #1 was: Don't play someone else's guitar. You have your own. Play that one. Every guitarist should have a big sign somewhere on their case, or inside on case the lid saying, "GUITARS ARE LIKE TOOTHBRUSHES. DON'T USE OTHER PEOPLES!" Yuck. It still makes me cringe. I got mistaken for a terrorist/criminal of some kind?for the first time, while doing prison ministry in the mid-eighties. We went to the largest federal prison in CANADA at the time, and yes, the prison guards had to inspect my Ovation guitar. Somehow, they mistook my Herco case humidifier for a big chunk of heroin? and the entire team got placed in a holding cell for at least 20 minutes! Once they figured it was just limestone, they were quite disappointed, and embarrassed, at the same time! "Nothing to see here. Move on. Goin' thru!" Never let your Guard(Father) down, people. My guitar is now a weapon of missed destruction. And did it ever get my goat, too!
Mike S.
Posted 2016-05-16 2:37 AM (#525285 - in reply to #525284) Subject: RE: Guitar Superstitions...
Joined: August 2002 Posts: 638
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Hi, OMA,
The guy who thought up that saying already beat me to the punch, almost 50 years ago, when I first read it in Guitar Player Magazine. I have a photographic memory, so I am just a mountain of useless information. There's some stuff, I'd really like to forget! I could be my own internet, but I don't want to go there. I win the money on, "Jeopardy!", every day, but they won't let me go there, because.. I AM CANADIAN! So..we bribed Alex Trebek with,.. "The Key To The City of Ottawa", last week, and now he says the producers and lawyers are working on something to let CANADIANS actually go on the show again. Auditions are still in EL-eh?
Mike S.
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