new member, introducing.

[jean]

Hello members of this forum an Michael.
I've been lurking a lot on this forum and decided to join.
I'm 43 year old electronic musician from Rotterdam. I make electronic experimental music, stuff like this

 
And more ambient stuff.

last year I got sick from burnout and was sent home from work. I felt like I didn't like making music anymore, which for me that was unnacaptable......cause music is important to me.

So, I tried to play guitar.....which I abonded years ago, when I cut my left index finger.
I started listenen to old delta blues and thought, hell I'm gonna devote the time being of from work to guitar.
3 months down the line.......I'm slowly getting beter, but still loving it.

I play on a Johnson tricone, that I got for real cheap new and was setup and playing correctly by the shop. I did the mushroom mod and stripped the paint from the t bridge.......wow what a difference.

Ok enough of my blabla.......hope to lear more from you people, and hopefully I can contribute to this great place.

[Michael Messer]

Hi Jean,

Welcome to our forum and thank you for your kind words.

Your music sounds cool. Thank you for posting it.

Keep in touch and best wishes,

Shine On
Michael

[pete1951]

Hi Jean, Welcome Home!
Your music has a lot of rhythmic similarity to some of the `boogie` beats, you should be able do this on your new guitar!
Pete T

[mikenewport]

Hi Jean, welcome aboard,

I wouldn't claim to be able to appreciate your music but it sounds well put together and do you know what, I can imagine some slide guitar picking out the melody over the top of that track.

Your very brave tackling a tricone rebuild, have you had much experience working on guitars?

Mike

[jean]

Thanks for the welcome.
Pete1951, could you elaborate on boogie beats? Sounds interesting.

Mikenewport.
Considering the tricone, I read a lot on the internet and deciced that it was maybe brave or foolish.....but I gave it a try.
I got lucky because, it seems that the Johnson tricones are like a lotery ticket. Mine was a new old stock model from a store that went down.
The store had done a setup. There is a nut bone in there, action is great an so is intonation.
The guitar just missed some bite.......so I took i apart.

Inside job was reasonable, except for a pies of the neck stick touching one of the cones, so I took a vice and cut it away,
Next was the mushrooms( that had a huge improvement on sound)
Then I thought, I might as well take all the paint of the bridge.
Put it back together, no rattles........and see sings an barks now.

Now I have to get out of these same old riffs and licks, I've been playing last weeks.

[thebluesbear( al)]

Hi Jean

welcome im just down the road from you in antwerpen.......like the clip of music

al

[pete1951]

Hi Jean, This is the sort of thing I was thinking of
Pete T

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Pretty neat with earl hookers guitar... Earl Hooker was quite a unique slide player...with Wah Wah pedal!

Cool music, Jean. A guitar would fit in there someway