[rwolfe12]

Hi, I'm Ron
Newbie to the site as well as to the wonderful world of guitar playing. A little about me:

I've always had a love of music, but never a knowledge of it. My past experience lies pretty much in the area of platic childhood recorder flutes and a few notes hunt and pecked on an old out of tune acoustic my family had lying around. I spent hours in my room figuring out the opening riff of Smoke on the Water.

About a year ago I met a really wonderful gal who plays piano and keyboards and is a singer. We met through our mutual interest in Harleys but we went to a number of concerts together and that musical bug hidden deep inside me strated clawing its way to the surface until one day I happened across a flyer from Guitar Center and my heart started racing. I did some research, but there is a limit to what you can do when you don't play, and believe me, I do NOT play, although I'm getting there.

So, off I go to the store and what do I come home with but a beautiful new Epiphone Les Paul Custom in vintage cherry sunburst, plus a Marshall 30 Watt practice amp. Yep, I know the Gibson purists will cringe, but hey, it sounds pretty darn good for a starter guitar and many folks would consider it worthy of almost any level of talent, and for me, it's perfect. Man I am soooooo stoked and I have been struggling away with the Hal Leonard home course DVD and book, plus exploring a few things from my cable company On Demand service. I'm not through anything end to end yet, but have learned stuff from several rock & roll songs that I like. I couldn't get the built in effects on my amp to match what I wanted so now I acquired a serious pedal fetish and have picked up a few over the past 2 weeks.

Of course I also took advantage of one of those "No Payments for a Year" sales to pick up a Takamine G series acoustic which is nice for when I want to sit and practice some chord progressions.

I'm about due for lessons and will probably start those after the Christmas insanity has tapered off. I can't wait to finish my first song end to end. My voice is awful, but I suspect my girlfriend will be encouraging despite that. She has now started playing the bass she has had for a year, so I'm dragging her along with me, and we're having a blast practicing together.

OK, I better stop here and go do some reading as well.

Cheers,
Ron

[Kirk Lorange]

Welcome Ron ...so, you were bitten by the guitar bug! You've come to the right place here, we're all obsessed. Stick around!

[allthumbs]

Hi Ron. Nothing wrong with Epis. My #1 is an Epi.

[Clancy]

Hi there Ron,

Glad you found us. Welcome.

Clancy

[Fingerswontstretch!]

Reply to your introduction: YOU GO GIRL. NO, not really, but good on you!!!! I hope your gf inspires you with confidence, and well, we all need that in order to sing/song write... I love to song write myself, and well, you GO. Let yourself teach yourself that you can do it without anyone, that it actually comes from within... I have faith in you, because it sounds like you want to achieve your goals... GOOD ON YOU AGAIN. Take care, and I look forward to hearing what you've got for songs when YOU are ready...from one songwriter to another. Keep on keepin' on... ~Fingerswon'tstretch.

[sale]

Welcome aboard

[rwolfe12]

I truly appreciate the warm welcome, and when I get to that point of playing my first song, I'll make sure to grab a recording of it post up.

Until then, I'll be browsing around here as well as some other sites and combining a mix of self-teaching with a few lessons when I think it's time to do that.

I'm off to exchange a case for my Takamine as they gave me one that's too small. What do you think the chances are I'll walk out of there with just that?

He he, I know - it's hopeless!

Cheers!
Ron

[nowhere-man]

Hi Ron, welcome. Browse a few other sites by all means, some good stuff out there, but I'm sure you will keep coming back to this one. It's the best.

[sctoddc]

Hi Ron, welcome to the home, lots of great people here; and all are more than willing to help.

Todd

[coldethyl]

Hello Ron

Nice to have you with us.
Enjoy the site!

[lorirocks]

Hi Ron. I'm from the S.F. Bay Area too. Only now we live near Stockton.

I love Epipohones! I have two Epiphones. My Epiphone Les Paul Standard has the most flawless finish. I upgraded it with some real Bill Lawrence pickups.

Anyways, just wanted to say Welcome.

[tpolitz]

Hey rwolfe, glad to have you here! I'm very new to the guitar also and look forward to learning. This is a great site and such friendly and helpful people.