Things you could'nt care less about that the vast majority of guitar players luv...

[Phantasmagoria]

1. Music theory (lulz..)

Of course when I first said on this board that I preferred not to use any theory cuz it just got in the way & ****ed up my flow when improvising I was piled on/ridiculed/bullied (well pathetic attempts were made)/threatened and what have you.. not that any of that got anyone anywhere and after the dust settled & all the frothing at the mouth (lol..why?) subsided there was nothing for the resident maestro's to do but stick their thumbs up their collective asses and sit on them nice & hard

Now you have a guitar improv god like current internet darling/man of the moment Matteo Mancuso saying the exact same thing...he tries "not to think at all when he plays" cuz it ****s up his flow. (Damn!! )

Of course when I mentioned that and posted up his video (where he pretty much echoed almost everything I said earlier) it was ignored cuz it's one thing to ignorantly pile up on some random dude on a forum like an idiot w/ your buddies and say he's "wrong" and then throw a bunch of retarded low IQ jibes and insults his way and another thing to do it to Mr. Mancuso and publicly show yourself up for the moron that you are

2. Brass FR tone blocks (prefer pot metal..sounds more natural to me)

3. Thicker strings ( I find 9's ideal. They're great for solo's and Tony Iommi's rhythm tone w/ 8's is a zillion times better/meaner/heavier than any modern downtuner's I've heard playing with ridiculous guages like 12-13'w or w/e rubbish it is that they use for their djentscapade's )

4.Fixed bridges (no I don't need the "more sustain" they supposedly offer. Plug into any half decent gainy amp and I'm good to go/sustain for days w/ any half decently set up guitar)

5. Les Paul's/PRS's ( ok cuz grand-pa looks & personal taste..but there's no way I'm ever paying $3000+ or w/e it is they cost for one)

And lots more to come..

Post your's if you have any

[GuitarStv]

****ty improv done by someone who can't follow changes.

[beaubrummels]

Matteo Mancuso plays a hell of a lot better than anything I've heard in other people's 'flow' clips. There's a difference between what people say in an interview/conversation and what they actually do on the instrument. Some people don't think about theory, while still using it all over their work when they play.

[Phantasmagoria]

This is like when everyone insisted that EVH was well-versed in theory when he himself always siad he knew nothing about it. Believe it or not it IS possible to not know theory and play like Eddie did. As for Matteo that's what he says in every interview & I don't feel the need to put words in his mouth/do my own interpretations of what he says cuz I believe him

[Phantasmagoria]

****ty improv done by someone who can't follow changes.

* see above/OP post for references to resident maestro's who you will never hear actually play anything*

[Mincer]

In the spirit of the the thread, I don't care much about low end and high gain. I never play power chords (at least hardly ever), and the music I generally play would sound terrible with anything more than Tube Screamer- level of gain.

[Phantasmagoria]

Thank you Mincer!

^^ Now that's what every one should be doing staying ON TOPIC instead of getting sidetracked into taking more pointless jabs...

Post YOUR peeves ( don't you worry about mine )

[beaubrummels]

People who claim to be musicians and refuse to learn anything about music. (For the record, EVH was a trained pianist, and a well-known BS-er in interviews.)

[Phantasmagoria]

People who claim to be musicians and refuse to learn anything about music theory. (For the record, EVH was a trained pianist, and a well-known BS-er in interviews.)

Fixed ^^

Hard to let go huh?

[Phantasmagoria]

People who claim to be musicians and refuse to learn anything about music theory)

Like this f'n neoclassical metal GUITAR GOD \m/

[Phantasmagoria]

or were you thinking more this guy

[ICTGoober]

Silverburst anything.

[Rex_Rocker]

Silverburst anything.

Seventies anything guitar-design-wise, for me.

[solspirit]

Silverburst anything.

Not a big fan of it either, too gaudy. It makes me think of Ace, he's the only guy that looked ok with it.

[Mincer]

I don't generally like gold hardware, either. But my '82 Strat has it, however. I didn't buy that- my stepfather bought it for me, so I didn't really have a say in it.