On My Mind
Here’s some stuff that fills my head:
One is songwriting.
This guy in the video below is named Glen Hansard. He’s the front man for an Irish band called, “The Frames” and co-fronts the former “Swell Season” (may it rest in peace). When this guy talks and sings, I can’t stand how much of a genius he is. This little story (though sometimes his Irish tongues lets the more sharp words cut through). He has such great stories. And they might not have a lot of weight to them, but he makes it so they do. He’s brilliant.
Something else is guitar.
My pal has one of these. I played it while leading worship (well, during rehearsal, really) and really liked how it played. Electronics weren’t top-notch, but enough. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
A Gretsch G5120. Not my first choice, or second, but my third.
I’m on a Gretsch kick. I’ve been back and forth about solid and hollow bodies, but I’ve come to the conclusion that different guitars are simply different guitars. Unless I want some Line 6 Variax crap (yep. I said it. I hate them.), I’m going to be dropping some serious dough on this stuff.
I tried this guy out in a music store in West Chester, PA and was blown away by it's playability. Pretty smooth with a good tone versatility to it. I coveted it for about an hour.
This is my ideal guitar. I have a maple neck at the time being, and I really love it. I have my sound in it. BUT. I love a rosewood fretboard. It just adds a whole different animal to tone.
This thing has a great punch to it. Every time I put it on the neck pickup, I feel like being in a dim-lit club; tearing up a blues line.
Something that comes with an obsession with guitars, so comes an obsession with effects pedals. The great ones.
I have an obsession with overdrive pedals. I only have two, but I would love a third. Right now, my ODs are only a Fulltone Full-Drive Mosfet 2 and an Electro Harmonix English Muff’n.
I wouldn't mind adding this guy as my third overdrive.
Though a healthy portion of my music is folk, I lead worship and play guitar for various worship teams, so I end up doing a lot of different tricks with delay pedals. This is probably my next purchase:
An analog delay. It sounds thick and old. Fills a room like a champ from the demos I've seen.
That’s what’s on my mind.
Lots and lots of guitar stuff.
