Welding Tips and Tricks

I have always found that some creative people in the metal working trades also enjoy music. Some just listen and some actually play and instrument. Myself? I play guitar, mostly my Martin 00016 flattop but I can also lay it down with my Fender custom shop Tele. I also play some pedal steel.

Anybody else?

Guitar here. Haven't played in about 5 years but was actually considered good at one time. Mainly acoustic. Still have a Takamine electric acoustic around here somewhere maybe pick it back up someday. Got really into bluegrass and then I just got busy with life and the rest is history.

i had and played a Penco 12 string i bought in the early 70s.
arthritic hands ended playing about 8 years ago.
Penco copied Martin and i think was sued an forced
out of business. Japanese made, a real beauty with
excellent sound. days gone by.
craig

Play trumpet in pep band, concert band, and jazz band

And choir...

Tried to learn some acoustic guitar and never really had the skill set or the dedication. But still try now and again.

Fooled around with guitar years ago. Wasn't really any good at it. Much better as a live sound and recording engineer. Worked in a studio and had a live sound business for a while. Love music. Listen a lot. Mostly classic country.

ldbtx wrote:Fooled around with guitar years ago. Wasn't really any good at it. Much better as a live sound and recording engineer. Worked in a studio and had a live sound business for a while. Love music. Listen a lot. Mostly classic country.

Well... You are on my good side for sure-classic country-right on

Drummer here!

rahtreelimbs wrote:Drummer here!

How do you now a drummer is outside your door?

He doesn't know when to come in

Don't get mad my welding instructor who is a drummer said that one.

Everybody's favorite drummer joke around the studio I worked at was "What do you call a guy that hangs around with musicians?" "A drummer"

That was first told at the studio by a drummer, also.

Imagine the band we could have. A bunch of guys with black stained hands and dirty nails in steel toed boots with the toes wore off and flannel shirts and dirty jeans. Gosh we would have to beat the women off with sticks

What type of music? Heavy metal?

WildWestWelder wrote:What type of music? Heavy metal?

We'd play everything probably.

Yeah I went to this jazz clinic today at another school and had previously gone to an honors choir(uckkk!). I walk in with a camo hat, steel toed boots, jeans, and some thick t-shirt or farm shirt. Everyone else is kind of dressed up and look at me like I'm a freak or a little weird. Although at the Jazz clinic, the other schools drummer was wearing boots and a John Wayne and American flag t-shirt so it wasn't too bad.

We kind of stick out like a sore thumb in a crowd like that. Especially when you arms have a lot of small round marks from burns and people look at you weird for that.

Edit: maybe we should get a thing going for fabtech. That will give us some strange looks.

I played alto Sax in high school, and discovered I'm a good "technical" player. I can make each note at the time I'm supposed to, but there's no music in me.

So, I'm a listener. I listen to damn near everything. The list of music genres I don't like is short. I can't stand corporation radio (the same six songs hour after hour), so I listen to the public station and my XM/Sirius, and explore on youtube.

Steve S

Otto Nobedder wrote:I played alto Sax in high school, and discovered I'm a good "technical" player. I can make each note at the time I'm supposed to, but there's no music in me.

So, I'm a listener. I listen to damn near everything. The list of music genres I don't like is short. I can't stand corporation radio (the same six songs hour after hour), so I listen to the public station and my XM/Sirius, and explore on youtube.

Steve S

So like most- you play the radio. I find it to be the most simple to learn but once you get into the guts-it gets wild at times.

...and that's why I like Sirius/XM and the public radio. Unlike the classic rock station, or the hick-hop station, I will hear at least two songs I've never heard before every damn day.

I don't understand guys who listen to the classic rock station every day. It's the same handful of songs I've already heard 50K times, over and over. Then, it's interlaced with ads for weight loss and pecker pills.

Steve S

Been playing guitar for 25 years. Electric mostly, but I do have a nice Spanish classical guitar from the Manuel Rodriguez family of luthiers. I also have two Dean 4-string basses, one fret-less. I mostly try to learn stuff by Yngwie Malmsteen.

Oscar wrote:Been playing guitar for 25 years. Electric mostly, but I do have a nice Spanish classical guitar from the Manuel Rodriguez family of luthiers. I also have two Dean 4-string basses, one fret-less. I mostly try to learn stuff by Yngwie Malmsteen.

Malmsteen exercises will give you carpal tunnel...

Kenny Wayne Sheppard is another I like, though quite different in style.

How about Joe Bonamassa?

Steve S

Otto Nobedder wrote:...and that's why I like Sirius/XM and the public radio. Unlike the classic rock station, or the hick-hop station, I will hear at least two songs I've never heard before every damn day.

I don't understand guys who listen to the classic rock station every day. It's the same handful of songs I've already heard 50K times, over and over. Then, it's interlaced with ads for weight loss and pecker pills.

Steve S

We have a couple classic rock stations in Chicago. One is what you describe and the other has a pretty diverse playlist and I regularly hear songs that no one else plays...but they have their usual drones that you hear 5 times a day. Never hear any pecker pill commercials though

Otto Nobedder wrote:...and that's why I like Sirius/XM and the public radio. Unlike the classic rock station, or the hick-hop station, I will hear at least two songs I've never heard before every damn day.

I don't understand guys who listen to the classic rock station every day. It's the same handful of songs I've already heard 50K times, over and over. Then, it's interlaced with ads for weight loss and pecker pills.

Steve S

At work, we listen to everything from Alison Krause to Rob Zombie. It is not unusual to hear bluegrass, dub-step, old school funk, heavy metal, country and folk on the same day.

I've seen Bonamassa in concert twice.

I used to play the radio. Now I usually play the 300 disk CD player.

WoodpeckerWelder wrote:
At work, we listen to everything from Alison Krause to Rob Zombie. It is not unusual to hear bluegrass, dub-step, old school funk, heavy metal, country and folk on the same day.

I'd fit right in, then. If you look through the CDs in my truck, you'd find Queensryche, Five for Fighting, Linda Ronstadt, and Neil Diamond, and many others that don't seem to belong together. I seldom play them since I installed the satellite radio, but once in a while I remember what I spent on them and blow the dust off.

Steve S

Poland308 wrote:I've seen Bonamassa in concert twice.

Haven't been to a Bonamassa concert, but have seen a few broadcast on MTVLive channel. Next time he plays a festival in New Orleans, I might just go. I hate going into the city during festivals, though. The way these people drive gives new meaning to "population density"...

Steve S