DAMMIT! I'm being assimilated!

[decay-o-caster]

I'm an electric guy. I kinda prided myself on not even OWNING an acoustic. So I figured visiting the Healdsburg Festival was as safe as I'd ever be around high-end hand-built guitars.


Then I saw her. The dame was in a booth surrounded by lovelies. She gave me a look that'd make a good man weak and a weak man good. Or something like that.


I came home with the Shelley D. Park Encore Selmer-style and I just can't get over how much I love the voice of that guitar. It lives on a stand next to the sofa so I can pick it up even when I'm on hold on the phone just so I can listen to the sounds of the strings up around the 9th fret.

But it was okay, because I'm still an electric guitarist with an electric guitar style and electric licks and electric tunes and that's how I want it. They just sound different on this guitar is all.

Until last night. I downloaded Stephen Stills' "Just Roll Tape" from iTunes yesterday - a bunch of solo acoustic demos he made after Buffalo Springfield broke up and before CSN formed. And I was reminded of "4+20" from the first CSN album (not on "Just Roll Tape"), and for some reason I had to work out the opening riff of it, so I did. Normally that would be WAY too F'-me-I'm-sensitive for me to play. But it just sounded so good on the Park!

What is the strange power this guitar has over me??? Is "I Gave My Love a Cherry" next???

I mean, c'mon, guys - I don't WANNA be an acoustic guitarist! :eek:

;)

[re-animator]

There is some unbelievable presence and undeniable acoustic sound quality from a good acoustic guitar. The beauty also lies in its simplicity. Justy ou and the guitar, and your sound. No effects, no distortion to cover your ass, just guitar playing in its purity. its like a good steinway piano... something about a well-built acoustic musical instrument is undeniable and beautiful to say the least.

[riffmeister]

I'm an electric guy. I kinda prided myself on not even OWNING an acoustic.

Well, there's your first mistake. :p

Happy pickin-n-grinnin! :D

[Pa'ani]

Congrats on your new "Dame" sounds like a beauty!

[suttree]

welcome to the collective :MMM

[scott58]

Wait til you see what it does for your electric playing. I started out on electric and then got an acoustic. It changed everything and I mean for the better. I wanted to learn travis style finger picking so I let my finger nails grow a bit grabbed a thumb pick and never looked back. Haven't used a flat pick in 6 months and don't miss it a bit. I'm faster on my electric now then I've ever been. Get good clean strikes with all 4 fingers and everything just seems bigger and better now.

[decay-o-caster]

It's certainly a comeback to all those guys who say a Tele is the most unforgiving guitar. First of all - Teles are cake - JAZZMASTERS are tough, electric-wise. :)

But this Park feels like it's on the verge of exploding - so much energy transfer with each note, and you can feel the guitar coming alive the harder you pick it. And every flub is right there for the whole world to see and hear. But man she sounds sweet when you get it right!

[davess23]

My own personal bias, and who the hell am I anyway, so please nobody get your knickers into a knot:

I'm convinced that to really appreciate the guitar you gotta play both electric and acoustic. Two sides of the same coin, alike but different, and both equally fascinating. So...congratulations. Now you can spend some quality time exploring all sorts of other wonderful things about your chosen instrument.

[gkoelling]

Every so often I think about buying another acoustic but I've been able to hold off.

I just don't play them. I've owned a few nice, higher dollar guitars and they never saw the light of day, literally. The last two might have come out of their cases every 6-12 months for about 5-10 minutes.

I have nothing against them, they're just not for me.

Congratulations on finding a new instrument that works for you.

[Ogre]

I learn more about the guitar and music playing my acoustics. There is an organic, woody sound that I just love. It's also great conditioning, and makes playing electric almost effortless.

[HeeHaw]

I too am being assimilated. I have some very nice electic guitars, but my passion has become the acoustic, especially since I picked up a shiny new j-45.:)

[blueswah]

Your hands/ fingers get stronger playing an acoustic.
A good one has tone, harmonics to thrill your ears.

Like anything "manual" it'll make one appreciate the electric more and vice -versa.

Plus as you pluck up toward the enck or down toward the bridge the tone, the feel everything changes so much more dramatically and is more noticeable.

[jhammons01]

Once you get an Acoustic....then you start downloading all the Heavy Metal bands "un plugged" acoustic sets.......the big ideas start rolling around in your head. My latest has been the Def Leppard acoustic stuff. It is a blast to play.

And yes, you need to be much cleaner with an Acoustic....it does make the electric distorted compressed fuzzed chorused reverbed guitar MUCH easier

6 string acoustic, 12 string acoustic, 6 string Electric, Bass....all within reach of my desk chair....you never know what "feeling will hit you" Plus many times I just don't feel like hooking everything up

[Voxy Foxy]

someone's getting older...GRANDPA GUITAR!!!!


congrats on the new acoustic dude!:D