[atlantaprog] Re: female guitarists

How do you like the Valvetronix?
I liked it when I played through it, was thinking
about getting the desk top unit for recording.
Hal
UncleEggsy@xxxxxxx wrote:

>In a message dated 11/26/2003 12:30:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
>lordonly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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>>>Does ANYONE still recognize classic vintage amps
>>>anymore *sigh* *shaking head*  lol
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>>I have a 1960 Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gentleman 2x12.  2 channels, 5
>>guitar inputs plus a phono input, bright circuit, tremelo, and tuner.
>>Pretty advanced for its time.  It'll distort nicely if you drive it with a
>>hot pickup and run it wide open.  I wonder if that was considered an
>>unavoidable design flaw at the time?  ;-)
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>Fender Strat Plus+Rickebacker 330+Vox Valvetronix modeling amp=My electric 
>guitar setup.  Of course, I probably play my beat up Washburn acoustic that 
>I've 
>had since I graduated from high school a bit more than I play electric.
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>I have a few vague theories on the female guitarist thing to bounce off you 
>cats.  
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>Guys seem to be wired to be more prone to obsessive, compulsive, borderline 
>autistic, lock yourself in a basement for hours and ignore everything else 
>even 
>though people think you're kinda kooky behavior.  That would explain the 
>largely male followings for things like sc-fi fandom, sports, music collecting 
>and 
>also the electric guitar.  A lot of women, at least the ones I seem to meet, 
>think that kind of stuff is a mark of silliness and geekery.  Most of the 
>female musicians, including ones that I know personally, that  I think are 
>just 
>insanely gifted seem to come largely from backgrounds of either classical 
>music 
>or folk.     
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>Another factor is that women didn't get a decent chance to get into the 
>electric guitar game until the late 70s, early 80s and, by that time, so much 
>of 
>the electric guitar landscape had all ready been codified and established by 
>male players from Charlie Christian to Eddie Van Halen.  To be honest, I don't 
>know that there's much of anything left for someone of either gender to do on 
>the instrument that would be particularly striking and original.  It seems to 
>me 
>that all the bases have been covered and all that's left to anyone, as far as 
>electric guitar is concerned, is just various degrees of influence blending.  
>I'm reasonably happy with my playing, but I can't say that I have anything 
>innovative to say with the instrument myself.  
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>CH
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