"Do what you want, man, that's what Page does" Your best advice so far, and a suitable end to Get The Led Out Fridays. I'll miss them, but _as the eagle leaves the nest, 's got so far to go_ . . .
Great comment about Page and his “pauses”. I’ve always called it stuttering. And if you listen to one of his idols you’ll hear plenty of it. Hubert Sumlin with Howlin Wolf, I would consider to be Jimmy’s main influence in terms of his phrasing and attack. That is precisely were so many people mistakingly accuse him of being “sloppy“. It’s part of the style. And to me? It’s so damn cool. Much cooler than all those perfect muscle memory shredders. Great lesson here!
He’s “sloppy” like painter Denny Dent was sloppy. It depends on ones perspective. If someone stood 1-2 feet away from a Denny Dent mural they’d say it was sloppy AF. They need to back up about 25-30 feet. Same with Pages playing. People calling Page sloppy aren’t seeing the forest through the trees.
Minor to major isn't too weird, Page, Nugent, Schecter have done that. Doing it smooth like you demonstrated is special! Thanks for a great vid, Robert!!
Page's solo style is so unique. It sounds a bit like a nervous person with tourettes. The Moby Dick riff has to be one of the best guitar riffs ever, and he "wasted" it on instrumental track, which is mental. :D
"The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair." Is A Very Comparable Riff To Moby Dick. And That's Not An Instrumental Song. Try It Out, If You Haven't Already Heard It, Or Know it. It's A Phenomenal Song. But I Personally Love A Good Instrumental. One Of The Best Was Eric Clapton's Rush Soundtrack. "New Recruit." "Preluden Fugue" "Cold Turkey", Etc. Were Some Of The Best Instrumentals I've Ever Heard. 👍👍
1 Heartbreaker 2 Black Dog 3 Whole Lotta Love 4 Kashmir 5 Immigrant Song 6 No Quarter 7 Out on the Tiles 8 How Many More Times 9 The Rover 10 Misty Mountain Hop
Sup Robert! Fan of your channel and playing style. I just thought about something 🤔 Deep Purple has some great tracks from their classic early 70s era. Blackmore is a badass guitar player. Would be cool to see a video in this style about DP, maybe break down Blackmore’s style and what u think of his playing.. using the Strat of course 😛 Cheers 🍻
Rainbow Dio-era too!! So many great riffs in those 3 albums!! This is one of my favorites but it comes from a live performance. You should do that intro Robert! 😁
Thanks again Robert! Jimmy is my absolute favorite. He just makes it so easy to improvise and extend things to your hearts delight! I've been workin' on "Ramble On" recently, big fun brother! ✌💀👽🎸🎶🎵🌹
Sorry. Jimmy Page did not do the up the neck part on the recording of Whole Lotta Love, until toward the end. I got the whole multitrack and the guitar does not go up and do a 12-11 until the last stanza..
Hey all you Zeppelin fans. A Zeppelin tribute band " Get the Led Out" is playing February 13, 2019 at Lima Veterans Memorial Civic center in Lima, Ohio @ 7:30pm
Robert, from one ginger to another, yes it does begin to happen even to us huh? We get to spend more time without it, but eventually it begins to show on us as well, and it's such a sad day when it does. What am I referring to? I think it was just the lighting but those long hairs of yours seem to be showing some graying going on buddy lol. When I was younger I hated my red hair, "Hey red", ugh I hated being called that!! I so wished I had black hair like my parents had. But then I started noticing all the black and brown haired people getting grey, and yet I was not! I did not see a grey hair on my head until I was about 50! Oh my once dark red chest hair turned ghost white by 45 and my beard was a cool white and grey, but my head was still as red as always. Then one day I was shaving and I saw them!! Lol..
At the start I notice you're using your middle finger on the low G. If you use your ring finger you can easily add a sus4 or do a G6, or even add2, and use the middle finger to do melodies and runs, all without changing hand or finger position. A lot of metal people use four fingers to play a G, with the ring finger on D. However, the other way offers more flexibility, eh? I don't do metal, other than to teach stuff to kids who want to learn it, but I enjoy your channel and find it entertaining and informative. And, of course, Jimmy Pge was in the first-ever metal band, THE YARDBIRDS. Listen to HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO, LITTLE GAMES, AINT DONE WRONG, OVER UNDER SIDEWAYS DOWN, I'M A MAN, and many others, and tell me it ain't metal. And it appears that John Bonham copied Jim McCarty's drumming on DAZED AND CONFUSED. Sure sounds the same. I used to gig with Adam Mitchell, who wrote some KISS songs with Ace Frehley. And the first Ricky Geddy Lee ever played was my 4001. I won't mention that asshole Gil Moore. It was difficult to play with him, with his timing problems. Oops, I mentioned him. LOL.
Hey Robert I was watching your live feed Saturday night and someone said you should hook up with scarred guitars . lmfao they are hacks when it comes to guitar builds , he actually painted a muslady strat copy with a paint brush , and said WOW that looks nice . I disagree , it looked like shit and sounded like shit . and to top it off , he put his logo on it . LOL . keep rockin .
I am surprised I don't hear you speak more about Ace Frehley, he played a lot of very similar riffs as the ones you are showing us today from Page, who I am sure Frehley got his from. To be honest Robert, I think Ace Frehley does them better and more consistently, especially live lol, than Page did! Give the old KISS song, Let me go Rock N' Roll a listen and you will hear him doing these riffs all over the place, the Live version is much better though! And the thing with Frehley is that I have seen him demonstrating these riffs like on a video and he just rips them off flawlessly everytime. He has one he does in their song I want you where they are playing the open E (low E) and he does this quick little 10 on the high e and 12 on the G and bends the G to an E and I have never seen anyone really do it as clean as he does it and as quickly while also playing that open E into it and out of it!
@Kilo Mintoni Something you find amusing there Kilo Mintoni? Let me guess, you are another one of those, "Ace Frehley sucks" types? Well if you are let me just say this in response. 1) I never said nor do I ever claim that Ace Frehley is THE greatest guitarist ever. 2) I also never said that Frehley was better than Jimmy Page, although he did win the "Best rock guitarist in the world" title in 1977 and 1978. LOL of course that list was based on fans and not musicians judgment. 3) Frehley IS a much better guitarist than what he is often given credit for and if you take a listen to the 1977 KISS album "Alive 2" and hear his solo for his song "Shock Me" you will hear him tapping some during that solo, you know the thing that everyone says no one in the rock world was doing before EVH came along? That album was recorded in 1977, Van Halen did not release their first album until 1978. Frehley used a pick not his finger but he was still doing before EVH became famous for it. 4) Most professional recording artist rock "stars" who play lead guitar will often times cite Frehleys vibrato and bends work as some of the greatest there are in rock music. 5) Frehley is not the most technical player out there, lol in fact he is very very much "not" technical and he himself admits this. But, he can hold his own against most other rock guitarists and has proven so numerous times. What I think I like the most about Frehley's guitar playing is he is so unconventional and "non" technical, he just plays the damn guitar and has inspired thousands of others to do so, most of the 80's hair band guitarists cite him as their main influence as to why they even picked up the guitar. He plays with a relaxed style that I really like and is actually kind of difficult to mimic since it is so unusual. He seems to more "stab" at the strings rather than moving the pick up and down like most of us do and yet, he rarely messes up, how the hell can he do that lol.
@Kilo Mintoni Cool story man! I became a fan in 1977 so at about the same time as you did. I agree with you, his live stuff is better than the studio versions. I did sort of fall away as a big fan of Ace and KISS after about 1982 or so. I got married and had a family and didn't have time to focus on things like bands and members of bands. I like a lot of Ace's solo stuff but his solo's to me I think are better I guess "technically" but they lack that feeling of his early work in KISS. I tend to more like a slower solo that has a lot of bending and vibrato work with very little effects or fancy playing techniques. LOL I guess that 's why I wasn't so much into the guitar of the hair metal bands like most guitarists were back then.
@Kilo Mintoni I started to "pick" the guitar when I was about 9 because of my step dad's playing I just loved to hear that big 'ol Gibson Hummingbird ringing out those gorgeous acoustic chords, still to this day it gets me lol. Never had any lessons while living at home, well, serious ones anyway. Then at the ripe old age of 17 I got married, ah the things we do when our home environment is horrible and we just want to get out of it huh? So because I married so young of course money was always tight, plus having a wife who refused to work didn't help to pay the bills. So of course luxury items like a decent guitar were out of the question. I usually had some type of an acoustic and I remember having one electric at one time but I couldn't tell you what it was. Then in 2013 since my kids were grown up, youngest was about 27 at that time lol. Plus In had been driving Semi truck since about 2006 and now was making really good money, I decided that I could get a guitar and use my lap top at night when I pulled over to actually learn how to play the guitar. I was 48 at the time and even though I had started at about 9, would you believe me if i told you that when I first started to get serious about the guitar in 2013 after "picking" it for the last 38 years or so, I did not even know what the strings were called!! Lol. Since 1977 my "dream guitar" was a Gibson Les Paul, you know, like Ace played!! Also, I wanted a Ibanez Iceman, yup, Paul lol. So in 2013 I found out I could buy a new guitar on payments, despite how good or bad a persons credit was so I took a chance and ordered an Epiphone Les Paul "Prophecy" , since I had only ever really held a Les Paul and not played one, and my hands aren't huge I was concerned about the neck size, the prophecy Les Paul was designed as a shredders style with a very slim and fast neck, so that's why I got that one. It arrived in the beginning of July, 2013 and my guitar learning for real adventure began lol. The next month, August, I finally had enough after 31 years of being married to a, umm let's just say less than desirable woman, I left her and 6 months later the divorce was finalized. LOL all of my kids, 3 plus a sort of adopted one, were of course upset that their parents divorced, but EVERY one of them said they couldn't understand what in the hell took me so long to leave her! I was raised in a broken home with a horribly abuse step dad, I knew the kind of "man" she would have gotten hooked up with had I left her when the kids were younger and I was not going to allow that to happen. I also knew I would not be able to win a custody suit because back then it took a lot for a man to get the kids in a custody battle and no way would she let me just have them because they were her meal ticket. So, it started in July of 2013, my guitar learning lol. I finally was able to learn the name of the strings lol, I always thought the G string was the high e. The first song I wanted to know how to play was the old KISS song Mr. Speed, so I found a couple of lesson video's on You Tube and within a month I was playing it, not well but still it sounded close lol. Fast forward to today and after having several on the job accidents that left my right leg and right upper arm with permanent nerve and muscle damage, then in 2017 I broke my spine and that did it for me and my working career. Now I have plenty of time to get better at the guitar, lol a much lower monthly income though. I have and have had several Gibson Les Paul's, Strats, Teles, an Iceman of course lol, and quite a good variety of brands and styles. I can play the guitar and find it not as daunting as I once thought it to be. I don't play with others, gigs and such, but I have a few online friends who play and we help one another out and one day we are going to set up a "virtual band practice" since the main three of us all live in different states. Because of my right leg and now my back of course, I have to play sitting down, which if you did not know, an Iceman guitar is like THE most comfortable to play sitting down, I want an Explorer because I think it would also be comfortable to play sitting down because an Iceman is basically an Explorer with a little different style. I mainly play classic rock stuff when i play along with bands but I also play along to just backing tracks I find on You Tube that I am allowed to download for free. And those are a mixed variety of genre, mostly blues and blues rock. I don't get into "fast" music or shredding. I play lead when I am using the backing tracks, but for the most part I am a rhythm player. I have recorded some of my own original stuff and quite a few people who have heard it have recommended I try to do it professionally and sell the songs, but I more do it for myself plus I don't have professional recording equipment, just a mic and my lap top and "Acoustics Lab multi track recorder" I have a Reaper recording thing but I can't figure out how to use it lol. So anyway, there's my story, believe it or not that is the summed up version LOLOL.
I saw videos of you many years ago. You were way lame and less experienced surprised me a bit but glad you kept it up. 😀 (because now you're not). 🙌🤘🎸😃
"Do what you want, man, that's what Page does"
Your best advice so far, and a suitable end to Get The Led Out Fridays. I'll miss them, but _as the eagle leaves the nest, 's got so far to go_ . . .
1:36 Is my favorite Page lick.
Rsrs
Great comment about Page and his “pauses”.
I’ve always called it stuttering. And if you listen to one of his idols you’ll hear plenty of it. Hubert Sumlin with Howlin Wolf, I would consider to be Jimmy’s main influence in terms of his phrasing and attack. That is precisely were so many people mistakingly accuse him of being “sloppy“. It’s part of the style. And to me? It’s so damn cool. Much cooler than all those perfect muscle memory shredders.
Great lesson here!
Sloppy? Hendrix is sloppy. Page is more technical then sloppy lol
I love the "sloppy" sound of Page
Not sloppy. Loose.
David Ozab
Less in the musical sense of “loose” and more like the proverbial “loose cannon”... sounds awesome.
He’s “sloppy” like painter Denny Dent was sloppy. It depends on ones perspective.
If someone stood
1-2 feet away from a Denny Dent mural they’d say it was sloppy AF. They need to back up about 25-30 feet. Same with Pages playing. People calling Page sloppy aren’t seeing the forest through the trees.
More zeppelin please
Minor to major isn't too weird, Page, Nugent, Schecter have done that. Doing it smooth like you demonstrated is special!
Thanks for a great vid, Robert!!
Page's solo style is so unique. It sounds a bit like a nervous person with tourettes.
The Moby Dick riff has to be one of the best guitar riffs ever, and he "wasted" it on instrumental track, which is mental. :D
I always thought the same. Moby Dick's riff is so good, it shouldn't just be used as an intro to a giant drum solo. It deserves his own song
"The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair." Is A Very Comparable Riff To Moby Dick. And That's Not An Instrumental Song. Try It Out, If You Haven't Already Heard It, Or Know it. It's A Phenomenal Song. But I Personally Love A Good Instrumental. One Of The Best Was Eric Clapton's Rush Soundtrack. "New Recruit." "Preluden Fugue" "Cold Turkey", Etc. Were Some Of The Best Instrumentals I've Ever Heard. 👍👍
I’m glad I’m not the only huge fan of the moby dick riff. It’s one of the first ones I learned on guitar
that similie is hilarious
1 Heartbreaker
2 Black Dog
3 Whole Lotta Love
4 Kashmir
5 Immigrant Song
6 No Quarter
7 Out on the Tiles
8 How Many More Times
9 The Rover
10 Misty Mountain Hop
tricky putting that second riff altogether at speed ...thanks man great video.
Sup Robert! Fan of your channel and playing style. I just thought about something 🤔
Deep Purple has some great tracks from their classic early 70s era. Blackmore is a badass guitar player. Would be cool to see a video in this style about DP, maybe break down Blackmore’s style and what u think of his playing.. using the Strat of course 😛
Cheers 🍻
Rainbow Dio-era too!! So many great riffs in those 3 albums!!
This is one of my favorites but it comes from a live performance. You should do that intro Robert! 😁
I can get down with that early Deep Purple
C´mon ! youv´d left us all dazed & confused. van hallen ? knock it off !
Leave that for the kiddies of saturday morning
It would be fun to dedicate each month's friday to a specific band.
Thanks again Robert! Jimmy is my absolute favorite. He just makes it so easy to improvise and extend things to your hearts delight!
I've been workin' on "Ramble On" recently, big fun brother!
✌💀👽🎸🎶🎵🌹
YES! Ready for 5150 Fridays! 🤘
I've always been crazy about VH. 🎸
Thank you! You are one of my favorite guitarists on RUclips😁
As usual... ROCKIN!🤘🎸🤘
Thank you ROBERT 🙏
Great stuff man! Always need more Page tutorials, thanks!
Aw yeah, 5150 Fridays! That will be sick 🙂 Thanks heaps for Get the Led Out Fridays, Robert. They have been fantastic!
3:10 the Hendrix "all along the watchtower" lick just before the verse
Your lighting is really good in this video. That Les Paul really blends nice with your background color tones.
I'll miss Zep Fridays but this is a great way to go out
Nice! Great playing, great teaching. Thanks
Awesome lesson -- are the tabs still available anywhere?
Nice sound ! how are you getting it ? drive , reverb ?
Thanks for all the videos on Zep! kind of sad it's over but i've been wanting to learn some Van Halen, so this is perfect! Thanks!
Please Do Eric Clapton In His Cream Days, Robert !!! Loved The Jimmy Page Videos !!! 👍👍😎
This is such a great lesson - you really do JP very well
Always some great inspiration from your channel love it!
Really love your lessons Robert and insta!
Lovely Les Paul there
When are GET THE LED OUT fridays coming back ?!?
Always helpful to slow the play back speed on youtube
Not sure if you already have something in mind....but a Whitesnake lick of the week would be fantastic!
The hint of country was always behind Page. Country was a huge seller in the day....
Because Zep listened to a ton of Elvis.
Beautiful guitar
Pink “Floyd Friday’s”
Be nice to cover Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits, “What it is “, Boom like that...
That one lick is also similar to the one in the Heartbreaker solo
Get the AC/DC on! :D
Sorry. Jimmy Page did not do the up the neck part on the recording of Whole Lotta Love, until toward the end. I got the whole multitrack and the guitar does not go up and do a 12-11 until the last stanza..
How did you get the multitrack? I've been wanting to get multitracks for other songs but don't know how.
Yes answer this please ☝️
your hair looks great
Now that you have that sweet, sweet Stratocaster, I think you need John Frusciante Fridays
I wish I could take guitar lessons from you.
Wow that opening lead o the intro was awesome, was that Roberts stuff or somebody else
Great video more please
Hey all you Zeppelin fans. A Zeppelin tribute band " Get the Led Out" is playing February 13, 2019 at Lima Veterans Memorial Civic center in Lima, Ohio @ 7:30pm
Robert, from one ginger to another, yes it does begin to happen even to us huh? We get to spend more time without it, but eventually it begins to show on us as well, and it's such a sad day when it does. What am I referring to? I think it was just the lighting but those long hairs of yours seem to be showing some graying going on buddy lol. When I was younger I hated my red hair, "Hey red", ugh I hated being called that!! I so wished I had black hair like my parents had. But then I started noticing all the black and brown haired people getting grey, and yet I was not! I did not see a grey hair on my head until I was about 50! Oh my once dark red chest hair turned ghost white by 45 and my beard was a cool white and grey, but my head was still as red as always. Then one day I was shaving and I saw them!! Lol..
Middle position, huh? Where are you setting your volume knobs for each pickup?
Righteous
Great show today! Idea for future after searching your content - This channel has no content that matched "Terry Kath."
Awesome video Rob! What amp or software amp modeler are you using to get that tone at the beginning? It's darn close to the perfect Jimmy tone.
At the start I notice you're using your middle finger on the low G. If you use your ring finger you can easily add a sus4 or do a G6, or even add2, and use the middle finger to do melodies and runs, all without changing hand or finger position. A lot of metal people use four fingers to play a G, with the ring finger on D. However, the other way offers more flexibility, eh? I don't do metal, other than to teach stuff to kids who want to learn it, but I enjoy your channel and find it entertaining and informative. And, of course, Jimmy Pge was in the first-ever metal band, THE YARDBIRDS. Listen to HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO, LITTLE GAMES, AINT DONE WRONG, OVER UNDER SIDEWAYS DOWN, I'M A MAN, and many others, and tell me it ain't metal. And it appears that John Bonham copied Jim McCarty's drumming on DAZED AND CONFUSED. Sure sounds the same. I used to gig with Adam Mitchell, who wrote some KISS songs with Ace Frehley. And the first Ricky Geddy Lee ever played was my 4001. I won't mention that asshole Gil Moore. It was difficult to play with him, with his timing problems. Oops, I mentioned him. LOL.
Be sad to not see any more Zeppelin vids. Hope the next band (after Van Halen) is Queen! 👑 🤞 🤘
I love Jimmy Page, but I believe the main riff for Moby Dick was written by John Paul Jones (just like Black Dog).
I love the commercials?
Wow. This is my first led out friday and you're already ending it.
Hey Robert I was watching your live feed Saturday night and someone said you should hook up with scarred guitars . lmfao they are hacks when it comes to guitar builds , he actually painted a muslady strat copy with a paint brush , and said WOW that looks nice . I disagree , it looked like shit and sounded like shit . and to top it off , he put his logo on it . LOL . keep rockin .
Thanks
Truly epic
When you don’t own a guitar so you play those licks on a Mandocello
Magmarok like John Paul Jones
I figured you would be dedicating some time to the new band soon...
I want to get more led out though.
guys check out the silver thinkers, they're amazing, their riffs and licks, solos and songs are EPIC! PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT !!
Oh by the way I have a question . if I was to buy a brand new Gibson classic , would it be hard too put chrome covers on the pickups . ??
Take you 20 minutes
Could you cover some Marcus King band?
Tabs link doesn't work
Where's the jam at the end? 😎
If only the page feel could be bottled. I would definitely have a large one.
I am surprised I don't hear you speak more about Ace Frehley, he played a lot of very similar riffs as the ones you are showing us today from Page, who I am sure Frehley got his from. To be honest Robert, I think Ace Frehley does them better and more consistently, especially live lol, than Page did! Give the old KISS song, Let me go Rock N' Roll a listen and you will hear him doing these riffs all over the place, the Live version is much better though! And the thing with Frehley is that I have seen him demonstrating these riffs like on a video and he just rips them off flawlessly everytime. He has one he does in their song I want you where they are playing the open E (low E) and he does this quick little 10 on the high e and 12 on the G and bends the G to an E and I have never seen anyone really do it as clean as he does it and as quickly while also playing that open E into it and out of it!
@Kilo Mintoni Something you find amusing there Kilo Mintoni? Let me guess, you are another one of those, "Ace Frehley sucks" types? Well if you are let me just say this in response.
1) I never said nor do I ever claim that Ace Frehley is THE greatest guitarist ever.
2) I also never said that Frehley was better than Jimmy Page, although he did win the "Best rock guitarist in the world" title in 1977 and 1978. LOL of course that list was based on fans and not musicians judgment.
3) Frehley IS a much better guitarist than what he is often given credit for and if you take a listen to the 1977 KISS album "Alive 2" and hear his solo for his song "Shock Me" you will hear him tapping some during that solo, you know the thing that everyone says no one in the rock world was doing before EVH came along? That album was recorded in 1977, Van Halen did not release their first album until 1978. Frehley used a pick not his finger but he was still doing before EVH became famous for it.
4) Most professional recording artist rock "stars" who play lead guitar will often times cite Frehleys vibrato and bends work as some of the greatest there are in rock music.
5) Frehley is not the most technical player out there, lol in fact he is very very much "not" technical and he himself admits this. But, he can hold his own against most other rock guitarists and has proven so numerous times.
What I think I like the most about Frehley's guitar playing is he is so unconventional and "non" technical, he just plays the damn guitar and has inspired thousands of others to do so, most of the 80's hair band guitarists cite him as their main influence as to why they even picked up the guitar. He plays with a relaxed style that I really like and is actually kind of difficult to mimic since it is so unusual. He seems to more "stab" at the strings rather than moving the pick up and down like most of us do and yet, he rarely messes up, how the hell can he do that lol.
@Kilo Mintoni Cool story man! I became a fan in 1977 so at about the same time as you did. I agree with you, his live stuff is better than the studio versions. I did sort of fall away as a big fan of Ace and KISS after about 1982 or so. I got married and had a family and didn't have time to focus on things like bands and members of bands. I like a lot of Ace's solo stuff but his solo's to me I think are better I guess "technically" but they lack that feeling of his early work in KISS. I tend to more like a slower solo that has a lot of bending and vibrato work with very little effects or fancy playing techniques. LOL I guess that 's why I wasn't so much into the guitar of the hair metal bands like most guitarists were back then.
@Kilo Mintoni I started to "pick" the guitar when I was about 9 because of my step dad's playing I just loved to hear that big 'ol Gibson Hummingbird ringing out those gorgeous acoustic chords, still to this day it gets me lol. Never had any lessons while living at home, well, serious ones anyway. Then at the ripe old age of 17 I got married, ah the things we do when our home environment is horrible and we just want to get out of it huh? So because I married so young of course money was always tight, plus having a wife who refused to work didn't help to pay the bills. So of course luxury items like a decent guitar were out of the question. I usually had some type of an acoustic and I remember having one electric at one time but I couldn't tell you what it was. Then in 2013 since my kids were grown up, youngest was about 27 at that time lol. Plus In had been driving Semi truck since about 2006 and now was making really good money, I decided that I could get a guitar and use my lap top at night when I pulled over to actually learn how to play the guitar. I was 48 at the time and even though I had started at about 9, would you believe me if i told you that when I first started to get serious about the guitar in 2013 after "picking" it for the last 38 years or so, I did not even know what the strings were called!! Lol. Since 1977 my "dream guitar" was a Gibson Les Paul, you know, like Ace played!! Also, I wanted a Ibanez Iceman, yup, Paul lol. So in 2013 I found out I could buy a new guitar on payments, despite how good or bad a persons credit was so I took a chance and ordered an Epiphone Les Paul "Prophecy" , since I had only ever really held a Les Paul and not played one, and my hands aren't huge I was concerned about the neck size, the prophecy Les Paul was designed as a shredders style with a very slim and fast neck, so that's why I got that one. It arrived in the beginning of July, 2013 and my guitar learning for real adventure began lol. The next month, August, I finally had enough after 31 years of being married to a, umm let's just say less than desirable woman, I left her and 6 months later the divorce was finalized. LOL all of my kids, 3 plus a sort of adopted one, were of course upset that their parents divorced, but EVERY one of them said they couldn't understand what in the hell took me so long to leave her! I was raised in a broken home with a horribly abuse step dad, I knew the kind of "man" she would have gotten hooked up with had I left her when the kids were younger and I was not going to allow that to happen. I also knew I would not be able to win a custody suit because back then it took a lot for a man to get the kids in a custody battle and no way would she let me just have them because they were her meal ticket. So, it started in July of 2013, my guitar learning lol. I finally was able to learn the name of the strings lol, I always thought the G string was the high e. The first song I wanted to know how to play was the old KISS song Mr. Speed, so I found a couple of lesson video's on You Tube and within a month I was playing it, not well but still it sounded close lol. Fast forward to today and after having several on the job accidents that left my right leg and right upper arm with permanent nerve and muscle damage, then in 2017 I broke my spine and that did it for me and my working career. Now I have plenty of time to get better at the guitar, lol a much lower monthly income though. I have and have had several Gibson Les Paul's, Strats, Teles, an Iceman of course lol, and quite a good variety of brands and styles. I can play the guitar and find it not as daunting as I once thought it to be. I don't play with others, gigs and such, but I have a few online friends who play and we help one another out and one day we are going to set up a "virtual band practice" since the main three of us all live in different states. Because of my right leg and now my back of course, I have to play sitting down, which if you did not know, an Iceman guitar is like THE most comfortable to play sitting down, I want an Explorer because I think it would also be comfortable to play sitting down because an Iceman is basically an Explorer with a little different style. I mainly play classic rock stuff when i play along with bands but I also play along to just backing tracks I find on You Tube that I am allowed to download for free. And those are a mixed variety of genre, mostly blues and blues rock. I don't get into "fast" music or shredding. I play lead when I am using the backing tracks, but for the most part I am a rhythm player. I have recorded some of my own original stuff and quite a few people who have heard it have recommended I try to do it professionally and sell the songs, but I more do it for myself plus I don't have professional recording equipment, just a mic and my lap top and "Acoustics Lab multi track recorder" I have a Reaper recording thing but I can't figure out how to use it lol. So anyway, there's my story, believe it or not that is the summed up version LOLOL.
wut amp was used on this video
Woah i got here so fast
i knew it was going to be VAN HALEN
HOT DOGG!!!!
Replacing Zepp... I thought I liked you.
FuzzyDancingBear I’m pissed off that I can’t give this comment 500 more likes 😂
Awwwwwwww hot dog!!!
Hot Dog!!
Moby dick riff comes from bobby Parker’s watch your step
❤️
I thought u grew a beard at the beginning
By God you can talk!
RIP Zeppelin
Bro you would definitely look more handsome with your hair short
Eh I care about music not looks
Robert Baker I respect that
I saw videos of you many years ago. You were way lame and less experienced surprised me a bit but glad you kept it up. 😀
(because now you're not). 🙌🤘🎸😃
Hot 🐶 so cool.
Noooo more led pls
I've been playing lick wrong for years, you've set me right. 😬