Hello Fellow Guitar Players

I'm not a fellow guitar player, but you'll find plenty here who are.

Welcome to the forum.  If you like a good cup of "Joe", you've come to the right place.

Nice avatar pic.

Angus Young was a user of wireless as of 1976, understandable with his stage antics!!

Welcome David!

Good morning Guys & Gals (gotta' be polite...)

Thanks for the warm welcome - stefanhauk, JBFan4Life, dknight16, ahsmith33, Jlowther, cindyron...and the rest of the crew.

ahsmith33, I’m a HUGE RUSH aficionado.  I grew up studying the guitarists (began playing at 8 y/o) in the ilk of "Alex Lifeson", "Robin Trower", "Neil Schon", "Black Oak Arkansas – Early Shawn Lane", "Jeff Beck", "Rick Derringer with Danny Johnson – remember 'beyond the universe' & 'comes a woman'?" et cetera.  I played for several years in a metal/progressive hard rock band and we showcased many RUSH classics.  Namely all of "Fly by Night", "2112", "Permanent Waves – not many folks know this was in reference to a woman’s hair style, hence the album cover", "Moving Pictures", "Signals", "Roll the Bones".  Then my Canadian power-trio hero’s lost me for the reason that RUSH more-or-less moved away from guitar based progressions.  "Moving Pictures" (1981) for me is perhaps like the first "Van Halen" first album and self titled album "Van Halen" (1978).  The tone and guitar work are simple, yet very affective.

And the list goes on. . .

Hi David,

I assume Mr Fripp is near the top of your list of favorite guitarists? His 72-74 version of KC is my favorite. Powerful stuff! Welcome to the forum.

Yah, all of it, still do for warm up occasionally.  When I heard it ("Fly by Night" circa 1975) back in the day I was ~10 y/o.  I felt like I had been injected with an organic drug.  Then off of FBN came "Anthem", then "The Twilight Zone" ("2112" circa 1976) then came "Xanadu" off of ("A Farwell To Kings" circa 1977) – I was officially a hooked RUSHaholic as a youngster.

Oh yah.  "Mr. Robert T. Fripp" who needs no introduction.  Rob was doing things to guitars that should have been outlawed back in those days.  One of my all time favorite KC creations, ("Discipline" circa 1981) namely "Elephant Talk".  I got one word for ET –"Bad-Ass".  When I heard ET as a young bloke it was instant woody time.  BTW – the bass line of ET is done on Tony Levin's "Chapman stick".  My Father, "Fred Gerlach" was the luthier that designed and mass produced the "Emmett Chapman" stick back then.  If you are so inclined you may read about Fred from my sig "The Patriarch".  I could go on and on with KC. . .they were beyond their time and truly fantastic.

Honestly not much of a LP fan, I’ll be more than happy though to test drive your "Robin Trower" custom strats.  I bet they almost play themselves.  Ron, curious, are you stringing up your strats with Robin’s initial Ernie Ball light gauge set: ".010, .012, .014, .020, .032, .042." or Robin's current heavy gauge set: ".012, .015, .018, .026, .036, .050" tuned down a whole step (2 semitones)?

When I first heard ("Robin Trower Live" circa 1976), I was completely hooked on Robin.  His singing violin smooth tone was just mesmerizing for me on that particular LP.  I immediately took it upon myself to learn every song on that LP.  I’m looking forward to seeing Robin again once he decides to pass through San Diego or Los Angeles - the man is timeless. . .