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Little Martha – Rick McCargar
Gibson Les Paul Traditional Plus top, Gibson SG Standard Ltd Edition in Pelham Blue, Fender Elite Stratocaster, Fender Elite Telecaster, Ibanez Artstar AS153, Alvarez MDA70CE
Guitars I owned at Mizner Park – Double neck Gibson Les SG, Gibson ES-335 quilted top, back and sides, Jimmy Page Signature Gibson Les Paul Standard, Gibson SG Supreme P90s
My current electric guitars: Fender Elite Tele – Fender Select Strat – Gibson Les Paul Traditional – Gretsch G5422TG – Ibanez Artstar AS153
Rickson 335 Semi-Hollowbody guitar Serial No. 1 – bass-bout-side shot
Rickson 335 Semi-Hollowbody guitar Serial No. 1 – treble-bout-side shot
Rickson 335 Semi-Hollowbody guitar Serial No. 1 – full front
Rickson 335 Semi-Hollowbody guitar Serial No. 1 – angled body back
Rickson 335 Semi-Hollowbody guitar Serial No. 1 with Gibson SG, Les Paul and Fender Select Strat
My three best electric guitars:Fender Select Strat – Gibson Les Paul Traditional – Gibson SG Standard
My 2016 Gibson Les Paul Traditional – 2015 Gibson SG Standard – 2013 Epi Bonamassa Signature Les Paul
2016 Gibson Les Paul Traditional – 2015 Gibson SG Standard – 2012 Epiphone Bonamassa Signature Les Paul
My three acoustic guitars
Fender Super Sonic 22 guitar amp
Lenny and Roxy in front of Marshall 1987XAmp with Marshall 1960AV cabinet and Rivera RockCrusher – tags fixed
Blackstar HT-1R 1-watt combo tube amp
Five main guitars in floor rack
My New 2013 Fender Select Stratocaster HSS!
2013 Fender Select Stratocaster HSS
2013 Fender Select Stratocaster HSS – side
2013 Fender Select Stratocaster HSS – full in case
2013 Fender Select 2016-09-06-at-6-38-11-pm while playing SRV Texas Flood from 1985 Montreux
Gave the Gibson Songwriter Deluxe to my daughter for graduating Summa Cum Laude from Old Dominion University’s School of Nursing, had to sell the Rickenbacker and the Fender Deluxe Player’s Strat and gave the Anniversary Vox Heritage amp to my son so he could enjoy it while I’m still around.
Guitars on the wall far exceed the beauty of typical art.
Just a few of the Guitars I’ve lost over the years:
Guitars i owned, but had to sell..
1999 Gibson SG Supreme w P90s – cherry sunburst with AA Maple cap.
Ibanez Mini Tube Screamer Guitar Effect Pedal
TC Electronics Tone Print Pedal 960803001 HOF Mini Reverb Electric Guitar Single Effect
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Very nice collection, almost need a Les Paul to top it off. Unusual guitar stands on the left too ( I like wall mounts ).The sunburst Stratocaster is classic (I’ve got the VG) and it looks like Fender is well represented although its a bit hard to tell what the 12 strings is; Martin dreadnought maybe. Uncluttered space to play in too…… all in all I’d say your a pretty lucky guy.
The 12 is a Martin as you surmised.
I had to google the VG Strat. What a great demo at the 2007 NAMM. You must love it.
Years ago, before I lost my business, I lost a collection of truly great guitars. I just added a photo of a few of them to my “gear” page:
Very cool, you have an eye for classic, guitars, pedals and riffs. Is that a tube screamer back there ala SRV? I love the white pearl pickgaurd too, hopin to pick one up myself down the track. Thanks for sharing – I get off on that kind of stuff.
My last birthday my wife got me a custom neckplate for my “Freddy” Fender and I was wrapped. Kind of a nice non-invasive way to customize;
http://www.toysforguitars.com/
As for the VG I do love it mainly because I like playing Keef Richard’s open G. I don’t much use the DADGAD tuning or the baritone tuning. The 12 string is great because your still playing 6 strings so it makes it an easy guitar to play. The downside is the batteries – you have to use NiMH which is OK but you wouldn’t want them fading on you half way through a live solo (not a problem I have). In fact for someone like me who doesn’t have the money or space it is a good all rounder.
We do love our gear. The only time a guitar yells at you is when you ask it to.
Good link, thanks.
I do have a tube-screamer, but the green pedal shown was a phase pedal if I recall. Mine is a Overdrive Pro TS-808.
The gold hardware on that strat looks REALLY nice – if mine was sunburst instead of black, I’d definitely swap out the chrome!
Thanks. After losing my SRV strat, I was happy to be able to get one that had at least a bit of the same look, if not sound.
How old is that Vox amp? Heard a Nolatone Chimey Limey the other night that reminded me of early Vox amps. Hard to find that sound any more. Equally as hard to describe, but when I heard that Chimey Limey, I felt sort of nostalgic.
Vox amps are selling rather well over the past decade, so you should be seeing more of them around.
My amp is the 50th Anniversary, Limited edition – all hand-wired, in the hardwood cab, one of 400 made. It has two channels, the 1958 and 1963 Top Boost, and it’s hot-rodded at the factory. The amp is only five years old. Great amp, but heavy.
You can coax about any sound you need out of it with a little help.
Nolatone is making some interesting TV style cabinets for their amps. Nostalgia sells…
The Vox page for the amp:
http://www.voxamps.com/heritagecollection/ac15h1tvl/
ugh. Second attempt to try to write this. Love the look of your Vox and have always thought they sounded great. Wasn’t sure if yours was vintage or not. Have you heard the Chimey Limey? Reminds me of the old Mersey Beat sound. Hard to duplicate.
The Chimey’s use 12AX7 tubes for their preamp, and EL84’s power tubes. That is the same setup Vox uses in their top boost amps, so that would account for the sound of that era.
I was born in ’57, so when Vox released the limited edition amps, I had to have one. Over the years, I’ve gone through a lot of amps of different configurations. I need to find a better camera, because the sound captured by mine doesn’t do the amp justice.
Do you have an iPhone? You’d be surprised by the quality of the digitized sound on the new 4S. You sure have some nice gear!
I do have an iphone, but the amp distorts the microphone on it at the distance required to be sufficiently near me such that those who wish to learn the licks can see my hand/finger position.
Thank you, I made them all in…. shop? Are you buying that? If so, I have more.
Got any oceanfront property in Tucson, by chance?? 🙂
No, but I thought about buying land outside of 29 Palms years ago. Joshua Tree National Park was just south, and we were 40 miles from the big fault line, so there was just a chance…
Last year I moved to Virginia to be near my daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren. The last thirty-years were spent in Palm Beach County, FL. Tired of the monotonous, hot and humid weather. This moderate climate, with all four identifiable seasons, is wonderful.
Ah, I do relate. I also enjoy the special changes that each new season brings. It breaks the boredom of the previous season. Love the Joshua Tree area, though. Lovely. We moved where we are to be near our daughter, son-in-law and new granddaughter, Ingrid, as well. Prior to Portland, we lived in Massachusetts and before that, nearly two decades in Houston, with weather similar to where you were in Palm Beach County…except muggier and with thicker air and meaner mosquitos. New subject….Do you remember Emitt Rhodes? Always compared him to the Beatles….He has just come out with a new recording. Bought his entire collection on iTunes this afternoon and have been enjoying the walk down memory lane. Always loved his music.
Just listened to a few of his songs. I don’t recall having heard of him.
He was big in England in the late 60’s. Did you like him at all?
Just took a few minutes to listen to additional songs. Nothing really caught my interest. Nothing disagreeable, just nothing remarkable. In fact, the word that keeps coming to mind is “generic.”
By today’s standards, you’re right, but back then, he was pretty cutting edge….when that whole Beatles thing was going on. He reminds me a lot of Harry Nielson.
After our last exchange, I read his bio. Basically seen as a McCartney clone. I didn’t see any cutting edge work done by him years after being done by McCartney. We’re just going to have to agree to disagree.
Harry Nielson, on the other hand, is a classic, and was loved by John Lennon, as a friend and contemporary.
http://www.fanpop.com/spots/john-lennon/images/26571876/title/john-harry-nilsson-photo
Probably just me feeling nostalgic, because I listened to Emitt Rhodes a lot when I was growing up. I digress. Not for everyone. Don’t know if you have Netflix, but there is a fantastic documentary about Harry N. on their streaming Netflix. Watched it the other night and was very impressed. I am a fan.
Yes, I did happen to catch and enjoy the “Who is Harry Nilsson” doc.
A question from yesterday. Why Tucson?
Because I got the lyrics to George Strait’s song wrong? lol!
Too funny. I thought it was somehow related to the boats in the background of my Gravatar. Now, I see it was absolutely related to my comment. We both failed that one.
Want to learn more about failure? Stick around! I can teach you that stuff easily! lol!
I see in your blog that you live in VA After 26 years of living in Philadelphia I am finally moving back home, I was born and raised in Va. I’ll be moving to Capron. Are you near Capron? I would also make a request for a lesson. I have been asking folks on Youtube for a long time to do my favorite Hendrix song as a lesson, but to date no one has done it. It’s Villanova Junction. I just think it is the most beautiful of all his songs. I really love the version from Woodstock. So if you could do this song as a lesson I would very deeply appreciate it. I love all the lessons you do. I am 51 and have been playing for a relatively short time. Can not afford lessons, so I just watch youtube and try to play what I can. Thanks, Tom Branch
Hello Tom,
Yes, I moved here about two years ago to be near my children and grandchildren. They are in Norfolk and I didn’t want to be too terribly close so that I was intruding, so I bought a home in Portsmouth, only to learn that the tunnel is in need of repair, and that they plan a fifty-year toll…which is now being fought after the fact.
Just googled Capron and learned that it is about fifty-five miles west on US 58. So it’s an hour-plus drive.
Regarding Villanova Junction, it’s a Wes Montgomery style piece with quite a bit of really smooth octave runs. Much more difficult to play well than it would appear.
Having never tabbed it out myself, I don’t know how close this is, but it could give you something to start with:
http://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/jimi-hendrix-villanova-junction-tab-s39285t0
I tab out each piece myself, and haven’t put that on the list because I’ve never had a request for it, and tabbing is quite time-consuming because I use a program called CAPO to slow down each song so I can nail the piece note-by-note.
If interested, try playing with the songsterr piece, and see if you think it’s close. What you could do is use it as a way to teach yourself how to improve your ear.
When I started, I actually just wore-out records by placing the record-player needle on the approximate spot I wanted to learn, and picking it up and putting it back down as many times as it took to figure out what was being played.
The newer programs like CAPO (probably others too) make it much easier because you can slow any piece of a song down to any speed you like, it keeps it in pitch, and you can loop it so it plays it over, and over until you get it.
You would be surprised how fast your ears develop when you apply yourself in this fashion.
If you choose to try that, let me know if that tab was good. If it doesn’t seem close, then starting from scratch (what I always do) is a viable option. If that is the case, it will probably be months before I get around to it.
Thanks for stopping by and for your generous remarks,
Rick
Did you have to jettison the 6/12? If so, what a shame. Found your site while searching for Allman Brothers stuff. Nice work on Bluesky, I have a Ditto looper, and you can layer as many parts as you like, and it works beautifully on the tunes with dual guitar parts. Great site, keep up the good work.
Yeah, the Gibson had to go, like the others.
Thanks for the kind words.
The ditto is a great idea, and I’m thinking of picking one up. Currently, I used the looper in my tc electronic FlashbackX4, but it would be nice to not have to pull that out every time I just wanted to do some looping.
Thanks for taking the time to comment!