First, a quick catchup on yesterday: I do keep all of my guitars in their cases when I'm not playing them. I learned a hard lesson with my Martin D-28 after that last big quake up in Seattle in 2001.
Interesting question about genre. I'm pretty versatile. I spent so much time playing rhythm, backing my singing, that my growth as a lead guitarist was stunted. I mostly flat-pick on the acoustic, but I'll fingerpick on a James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot or Paul Simon tune when needed. When I did a solo act, I liked to do a quarter to a third on the acoustic guitar, and I still try to use it in my band.
I love the blues; like most players I'm drawn to the darkness of minor blues. I don't like playing the blues all the time, though--I find it boring. My parents liked and listened to country music, and there's a lot of "Classic Country" I really like. Buck Owens will always be a favorite--I love the Bakersfield sound. And I loved Chuck Berry and Elvis and Little Richard and Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis when I was just a kid--and that grew into The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Hendrix, Cream, Santana, etc. And as my taste for the guitar grew, so did the scope of my listening--into flamenco, classical and jazz.
So, I know I'm not The World's Greatest Guitar Player, and that's fine with me. I want to be known as an entertainer.
But I guess, I'd have to say as a guitarist, I'm the "Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None."
Here's a pic of my Furman pedalboard for my electric. (I have another one for my acoustic guitar.) This photo is slightly dated, as I recently bought a Boss Pitch Shifter/Harmonist, and it went on the board in place of the Line 6 Echo Park. The Rocktron Short-Timer and the Boss PS go through my effects loop. I can't speak highly enough for the Short-Timer. It doesn't do nearly what the Line 6 could do, but what it does is does very well.
The chain is:
DOD FX10 Preamp
Boss Compressor
Boss TU-3
Real Tube 901 (with a Groove Tubes GT12AU7 tube)
Thomas Organ Crybaby Wah c. 1971
Boss CE-3 Stereo Chorus
Boss PH-1r Phasor
Nothing real high-tech or exotic or boutique, but it's paid for. I still have some pedal gas. I'm looking for a distortion box that would give more of a Marshall sound than I get from the Mesa's. Thinking about replacing the Boss Chorus with the Digitech Hardwire chorus.
Here's the acoustic board:
Boss Compressor
Boss TU-2
MXR 10-band Graphic EQ
DOD Performer Series Chorus
DanElectro Mini Delay
Radial Pro DI Direct Box.
The DOD Chorus is one of the best I have ever heard. I think this board is going to go through some changes pretty soon. I'm thinking about going with the Fishman Aura direct box, so some of those pedals might go away. I also have a couple of Boss DD-3s kicking around so one of them might find a spot on here.
Amps that I gig with are usually:
Mesa Mark IVA 112 EVM combo with a Mesa 112 Theile cab underneath;
Mesa Mark III Simul-Class, Reverb, EQ, 112 EVM combo with a Mesa 112 Theile cab underneath. This rig is very rare blonde tolex, and really beautiful;
Mesa Mark III Coliseum 200-watt head, Reverb, EQ and a Mesa Halfback cab with C90s/EVMs;
Mesa Maverick 212 V30 combo, usually with Mesa Horzontal Recto 212 V30 cab underneath;
Mesa DC-3 112 V30 combo, usually with the 112 EVM Theile cab underneath.
I love them all, but they do have some different characteristcs. The Maverick in particular is a very different sounding amp than the Mark Series amps. I try to pick the size of the amp to match with the size of the gig. But I also have some amp gas; like for a Mesa Mark V combo, and Electro-Dyne combo, a Stilletto Ace combo, a Lonestar, and a Heartbreaker 212 combo. Probably not all of those are going to happen.
Good music, and a very nice job on the Lunch Reports!
Bill