Musicians here?

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Been playing in bands for 35 years till benzos took over. I play lead/slide guitar, dobro, and mandolin. Love jam bands and would like to start a new one as soon as I am able. Most of my guitars are in the closet now, play my Taylor some when I am feeling it. Even played a gig last weekend, my once a year show, wiped me out for days.

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Does your name reflect your taste in guitars?  I've had my Gibson SG for decades and I still love that thing. Best guitar I ever owned.

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I'm looking for a square shouldered Gibson acoustic, and a rosewood Martin too right now, both. I worked hard, suffered, and I got to look forward to something. I have Guild F-30s now. Love em.

 

I have a strat, and an Epiphone Wilshire electrics too.

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Damn that's a nice collection, drad! Epiphones are actually nice guitars for the price. My first guitar was an Epiphone. I had a Gretsch Country Gentleman that played like a dream. I payed over 10 grand for it and sold it for 5 last year due to my extended sickness and inability to work. Sad sad sad

[[Be...]]

I bought an Epiphone decades ago.  It's sitting in the closet.  I tried to sell it to a used guitar shop but the guy said the bridge was coming up and he wouldn't take it. 

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Ha -- Just bought my son an Epiphone  - not the inexpensive one. ..  - First song he wanted to learn on it was Badfinger's "Baby Blue"  - hard but awesome.  WBB

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Lennon and McCartney both played epiphone casinos. Johns appeared in Help, and, after he stripped the paint off of it, in Let It Be (The films). I love the batwing headstock on the Wilshire.

 

Becks: What kind of guitar is this? Type, model, size?

 

ETA: WBB: Your son has great taste. I remember when that was a hit.

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I bought an Epiphone decades ago.  It's sitting in the closet.  I tried to sell it to a used guitar shop but the guy said the bridge was coming up and he wouldn't take it.

Get it out and play it! There is a joy that comes from playing music that can't be described. You don't have to be a rock star even Mary had a little lamb will make you feel good.

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Get it out and play it! There is a joy that comes from playing music that can't be described. You don't have to be a rock star even Mary had a little lamb will make you feel good.

 

Agree!!!^^^^  Playing my bass alone is the most mindfulness that I can get.  Great therapy!

[[Be...]]

It's a Gibon 6-string Epiphone.  I don't like it.  The neck, or whatever you call it, is too thick and I can't get my fingers around it to play chords and the strings hurt my fingers too much.  I like the Keith Urban guitars I see on the shopping channel.  Strings easy to press down and thin neck for small hands.  I'm too sick now to even sit up and play a guitar now.  I don't even listen to music anymore since I got off the pills.  It hurts my ears.  My sensitivities are way off the charts.  I'm mostly bedbound and sofa bound for all but 5 hours a day.  I also was diagnosed with Memory Impairment and Amnesia recently and couldn't play again even if I wanted to.  Mentally I can't do it now.  I'm very ill since I got off these pills and have early-onset dementia.  Enough about me.  But playing guitar again will never happen. 

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I'm sorry to hear that Beck. Maybe a keyboard? I found a really nice one at goodwill for 10$ that does everything. Start slow and low.  Just making the effort might help your brain. You'd be surprised how plastic it is even when damaged.

[[Be...]]

I never liked the piano and I've been traumatized by it and I'll explain.  My one sister played the hell out our Story & Clark when I was young and it used to get on my nerves.  She would get up early and go into the living room and play classical music for hours while I was trying to sleep.  The piano was only about five feet from my bedroom.  I was never an early riser since I got brain damage when I was teen from a drug OD.  It was like torment to me.  She's been playing the keys at her church now for decades.  She was very good.  My other sister taught piano lessons.  I never took an interest in piano.  I don't like or listen to music anymore.  It makes me sick since I got off the pills.  I used to love music and have hundreds of CD's and music videos under my bed and in the backroom.  My brain is damaged now and it doesn't like music now.  My favorite guitarist was Cat Stevens.  I used to date a guy who did a Cat Steven tribute in the clubs and he looked just like him and even bought the exact same replica guitar he played.  He said he paid over a thousand bucks for it.  It was beautiful and sounded very good.  He even permed his hair to look like Cat.  I really enjoyed watching him play and sing.     

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Never to late to turn over a new leaf Beck. I just try to keep you upbeat because I hate to see these drugs beat anyone down. You can make these new keyboards sound like any instrument you want guitar sax drums flute trumpet you name it. Even weird sound effects. Could be fun!

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Becks - I used to sit and stare at Cat Steven's photo on his first album.  I was so in love.  I am jealous of your look alike experience boyfriend.

 

I played and played the piano.  My Dad even bought be a decrepit old baby grand with a cracked sound board but I loved it.  It had ivory keys even.  It was about the only thoughtful thing I ever recall him doing for me.  But by the time I was 15 or 16, my mother would yell from the kitchen her criticism of my Mozart while she cooked.  That combined with the over all misery in the family inhibited my playing and I eventually gave it up.

 

Forty years later  - i got that ole piano out of my mom's house, had it restored, and play old hymns off the internet on it. That is until the Bflat goes out of tune which is about every six months.  I play only for me and when no one is around to criticize.  WBB

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confused1.  Thanks, but I hate music now, and I can't even sit up anymore to play anything.  I'm couch and bedbound for all but 5 hours everyday.  I'm extremely ill and severely depressed with dementia.  No interest in anything now.  I feel like I need to throw up almost all the time and I collapse to the floor alot and can't even walk much.  I'm in a constant state of panic 24/7 and my OCD is off the charts.  I'm really sick since I got off these pills 4.5 years ago.

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My parents always encouraged all us kids in our hobbies and they never complained about my sisters playing the piano all the time.  My father always wanted me to play the clarinet for him in the living room.  He even bought me a cheapy guitar when I was about 10 years old and I tightened all the strings too much and brought the entire bridge up.  End of that guitar, but it was full-size.  BTW, my fave Mozart record is his early stuff when he was only about 8 years old.  So simple, his compositions were then. 

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I've always liked listening to piano, but absolutely hated playing it. I was always a terrible note reader, anyway, and always preferred playing on electronic keyboards, or hooking it all up to a PC via MIDI, USB and digital music interfaces and downloading all these virtual synthesizers and all that, and that was so much fun to do, coming up with these little compositions and new sounds and all. I even took a couple of music recording classes circa 2005/2006. Looking back those were two really, really good years. Pretty ok, average life, actually, but from this benzo wd vantage point, those years looked like heaven, honestly.

 

One advantage of most keyboards/synths is plugging in the headphones in, so no one gets bothered

 

Yes, my mother was clasically trained in music and had 12 years of rigorous music lessons, in addition to becoming an Electrical Engineer, as well. I don't know how in the world she did it. No clue at all. But what happened is that due to all the rigorous music training, she lost the desire to play. In her early 20's, she could play Brahms so beautifully, but she lost the desire. I think one of the reasons she never sent me to any music lessons and let me just learn how to play on my own was so that I would not lose the desire to play. I made a lousy decision to take a second level piano class in 2006, and it just killed off my desire to play for a while. All that discipline was messing up with my improv ability to create melodies out of nowhere. It was later on that I started playing again. I mean, I already had a job where I had to be very structured and super-focused and it consumed so much mental energy, that when I got home, playing keyboards for furn was just such a great way to unwind.

 

These days it's hard. I sat down and played some songs, and some of it actually came back, although my fingers feel a bit shaky and I keep forgetting certain chords, parts of melodies. Seems like it's all there, but it still obscured enough by this benzo fog. And it sure takes a lot of focus/concentraion to play, which causes an uptick in anxiety, so I only do it once in a while.

 

Yes, this process is frustrating because I literally had no fear of sitting down in front of the keyboard and just playing away, mistakes and all. I didn't care. It was just being in the flow. Now, when I sit down in front of the keyboard, I feel a bit apprehensive.

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Ex taught me to play electric guitar yrs ago. Cannot play in the appt., cause of the nabes. Not a day goes by without listening to my fav rock guitar players through my headphones.

 

Jimi Hendrix is definitely the best. As far as I'm concerned.

 

My fav song by him will always be "Little Wing". Forever dedicated to my Kitty.

 

https://itunes.apple.com/pl/album/little-wing/id344799413?i=344799976

 

I can discern every instrument, every note.

 

Good it's possible to at least take pix and write in the appt.

 

Art and Kitty keep me alive.

 

Oh, and self-help audiobooks.

 

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