QUOTE(raoulduke666 @ Aug 23 2007, 05:36 AM)

well i play (well TRYING to play

) accoustic and electric guitar. Mostly play accoustic just to learn then once I get better, then Ill go back to my electric. Ive got an Alvarez Accoustic and Ibanez GSZ120. I listen to all rock but right now just trying to play easy stuff like Johnny Cash, The Who and some other little stuff but my dream is be able to get good enough to play in front of a crowd just to show how passionate I am about music. But my dream guitar is either a Gibson Double Cutaway or 1958 Les Paul Standard.
Keep trying, you willl get there. Thhe Ibanez GSZ120 looks really nice - is it light? The '58 Standard is really heavy, I think it is made from three differrent woods if I am remembering the right one. Not for long gigs

I went for the studio series, far lighter with a true Gibson sound, I would thouroughly recomend it if you are gigging, but for a personal, yeah, the '58 would be magic.
I have the abovementioned Les Paul, an Epiphone Les Paul Standard (sounds just like Capeo's white one does :- Yo Cap, does yours have the gold hardware?), I also have this really bizzare stratocaster copy, it looks a great deal more like an Ibanez, and have a very slim body with a full Floyd Rose on it, 2 humbuckers and a single between, I never have been a big Fender fan, but this is quite out there, for my Tele playing, I have a Vester copy, I really liked the neck, and the pickups in the vesters just seem to have the sound I want through a Marsahall. The Semi acoustics I carry are a Yamaha 12 string and an Epiphone 6 string with cutaway, I have an Epiphone Texan too

love that, twas my first love, but it is not semi. I can't do it to her either. I love her just the way she is. Yo Cap, did you know Epiphone used to onw Gibson. Gibson bought them out eventually! Both high quality instruments IMHO. I'll have to post a pic of this wierd hybrid thing I picked up in a junk shop, it has a very Gibson body, with f holes, one of those really thin semi acoustics, so it's not really an acoustic, and a definite fender neck. Wierd, has a bit of a tinny sound, it's quite good for Chillie Peppers stuff. I have aways favoured zoom products for effects, I know they are not considered the best by some, but I seem to get excellent results, and love the compact form. Great value for money too. Hard to dimm the excellent sound of a Marshall anyway

I have used an electronic Washburn amp on smaller vanues, but the rich sound of the Marshall is hard to beat. It's just that even a 50W head blasts the smaller venues too much. I like the park amps for home practise, just set it flat and plug the zoom in.
You are in good company, that sig say to me Jimmy Page, one of the finest to ever pluck a string. I love playin Babe I'm Gonna Leave you, keeps the fingers nimble that one

I am more than heavily infulenced by SRV, named my daughter the same, well, not the Vaughn bit, but you get the idea LOL, I love Blues, Rock, Jazz, Swing Blues, Rat pack, geez, anything wih real instruments, just not Death Metal, bit over the top for me. I dabble with keyboard and Sax too, Gosh, raving a bit, I'll be back!!
Keep Rocking on. Music makes the world go round.