The best easy electric guitar is a Kramer
Above is a Kramer Baretta Special. It comes in only two colors. Black, and Vintage White. It is arguably the most basic and most easy electric made right now. Perfect for beginner guitar players as well as adults that want a guitar that has absolutely no frills and just works.
In America, we sometimes see a few Fender Japan guitars make their way into guitar stores. Most of the time, it's for a signature model such as the Fender Mustang Kurt Cobain signature model; that's a Japan build 100%.
Years ago, I wrote driving a dorky car and getting away with it. Six years ago, in fact. I figured it was time for an update on what I think will be future classic cars.
As said in the original article, any car that was made 25 years ago or earlier is considered a vintage. Year 2015 is close enough at this point, and 25 years prior to that was 1990.
What "dorky" cars were made in '90 that could be considered classic vintages now?
Here are my personal picks.
If you want to make the songwriting process go faster, put down the guitar temporarily and pick up a bass.
House Of 1,000 Pleasures is a song from the band E-Z-O. It's from their debut album, and you probably never heard of it until you heard it here. How did I find out about it? A friend of mine let me borrow a compact cassette of it back when it was new in 1992. And where did he get it from? No idea, I never asked. Probably some other kid he knew.
Even though my Garmin nuvi 40LM has free lifetime maps, I decided to give the free OpenStreetMap database a try anyway.
The experience was... interesting.
I've been a GPS user since 2005, and recently I bought a backup unit, a Garmin nuvi 255[/epnt]. The price was a little over 30 bucks. Used, of course.
My standard advice to anyone thinking of buying a vintage solid-body electric guitar is this:
Don't do it.
But being there are going to be those of you who are going to do it anyway, this is a list of things you need to know before buying one.
Above is a set of strings I just bought that will be coming in the mail soon, the Dunlop DBN45105 bass string set, as in a 4-string set. I figured that since I use nothing but Dunlop DEN0942 strings on my Jazzmaster and am very happy with those, maybe the bass strings will be good too.
I play both guitar and bass, but for the longest time I knew nothing about how to pick the right bass string, so I figured I'd write up a quick guide on that.
New bass in the barn.
