Favorite bands :
All Time Low,
Anberlin,
Arm or for Sleep,
Asian Kung-Fu Generation,
Atreyu,
Bayside,
Brandenb urg,
Bullet For My Valentine,
Chasing Victory,
Coheed and Cambria,
Cool Joke,
Default,
Dim itar Nalbantov,
The Evening Raid,
Every Avenue,
L`arc~en~Ci el,
MCR,
Modest Mouse,
The Ocean Electric,
The Pillows(Provided the music for FLCL),
Porno Graffitti,
Protest the Hero,
Silverstein,
A Skylit Drive,
Slipknot,
T he Spill Canvas,
Steve Vai,
The Waiting Game(IL),
The Weakend,
Underoath
Favorite guitarists :
Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Vai, Dimitar Nalbantov, Angus Young, Travis Stever, Claudio Sanchez, Rush's guitarist Alex Lifeson, JerryC, Bob Kilgore, Joel Mabus, and Nick Thomas.
Favorite bassists :
John Paul Jones, Mike Todd, Mario Angel Paraskevaides
Favorite books :
The whole Harry Potter series, Native Son, anything by Tom Clancy or Chuck Palahniuk.
Favorite tv :
Scrubs, Family Guy, occasional South Park, etc.
Favorite movies :
Bourne Identity, Bourne Ultimatum, Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, Sin City, Donnie Darko, V for Vendetta, 300, Akira, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, Saw 1 and 3, and Collateral.
I got my first acoustic guitar the christmas I turned 13. I really wanted an electric guitar even more, so I begged the whole year and that next christmas I got a Fender Squier Electric and a Crate 10w amp...In these two objects lay an enormous amount anticipation. How funny that I grew to hate both of them very quickly.
Around that time I had discovered Steve Vai. He played Ibanez guitars, therefore(being 14, almost 15) if I wanted to play a good guitar it had to be an Ibanez, so for my 15th birthday I asked for an Ibanez. I had my sights set on a blue one with shark tooth inlays and a really neat whammy bar. I got AN ibanez, though admittedly not the one I wanted...It wasn't a bad guitar, it was at least an Ibanez. Much of my disappointment stemmed from the fact that it didn't look as cool. I grew to really hate the tremolo bridge that this guitar had because it threw the guitar out of tune and it couldn't raise the pitch at all >.< But still, I told myself, at least it's an Ibanez -_-
It was around this time as well that my uncle, Rich, realized that he was in no way meant to ever hold a guitar and "loaned" me his huge(to me, having never seen a full blown marshall stack) Crate amp after overhearing me bitch about the annoying buzzing emitted by my puny practice one. So naturally I got attached to the amp, loving it's distortion and yada yada yada. However, that christmas Rich decided he was gonna "get his band back together" and my period of renting the amp ended. Noting that I was essentially ampless, my Papa Gary bought me a really cool Roland MicroCube. It's a really neat amp, it mics really well and all of the electric guitar things you hear on this page were miced from that.
Mic'ed you say? Yes. Mic'ed. Oddly enough, my 9 year old laptop has a built in microphone, which I discovered by accident, which works really well for mic'ing the tiny roland amp ^_^
So anyway, time went on and I continued playing my not-as-cool-looking-but-still-an-Ibanez Ibanez more and more, coming to love it. Complications with pickups arose(and I really wanted a new guitar), leading me to get another Ibanez guitar back in August. I really love this guitar; it's sleek and white, it's got a flat neck and plays really easily, and I made sure not to get a guitar with a tremolo bridge xD
Funny thing happened with this guitar though: it got me a free Line 6 Spider III. I bought the guitar from Guitar Center. I took it home, having not tested it in the store once it was bought, and started trying to play. I noticed right away that the bridge pickup didn't work(since initially that was the one I exclusively used). Instead of saying something, I just figured I'd play w/ the neck one instead. Then, while recording the final solo for D37, I turned down the volume on the guitar, so I could edit the track really quick. After that was done real quick, I turned the volume back up to be greeted with...nothing at all. As it turns out, the pots were really loose and the wires had snapped right off. We called the warranty company who said we could either a) send it in and they would send us a new one or b) they would just send us a check for 300 bucks(how much I paid for the guitar on sale xD). Naturally we chose b, since I knew exactly what was wrong. I went to Elderly Instruments and had them fix the guitar for 10 bucks, then I went up to guitar center and ended up buying a Line 6 Spider III(suggested by an employee). So I've been p. pleased w/ the thing, it's(i think) 65w and has a lot of pretty cool settings, and for free...well who could complain?
But yeah so that's pretty much the story about how my instruments came to me. Initially when I started playing guitar(the first two years), I was practicing like crazy, like 14/15 hours a day >.
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