Pictures: You & Your Guitar

[BrunoBlack]

Originally Posted by JayBee1404

1963...

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I’m thinking Gerry and the Pacemakers, with jacket & all. Excellent!

[stephenT]

Me and the Waterloo w/ Ross w/ his LG-0.

[Winfielder]

This is my Yamaha LS-TA.

It's kind of cool how 'plugged in' it sounds with the transacoustic feature turned on.

[Bob from Brooklyn]

The only one I have handy..

[H165]

1962 - my first guitar:


And the same guitar 5 years later:

[TBman]

Here's me with my Avalon....

[3notes]

Originally Posted by TBman

Here's me with my Avalon....

I love the tune you have posted in your signature at this time.!! Fantastic. And you never told us you're a lefty.!!

[TBman]

Originally Posted by 3notes

I love the tune you have posted in your signature at this time.!! Fantastic. And you never told us you're a lefty.!!

Thanks 3!. I'm not a lefty although many in my family are.

[Rev Roy]

Enjoying my custom Martin.

[Wade Hampton]

I don't have any pictures of me playing guitar, mainly because whenever anyone wants to publicize me and my music, they choose images of me playing other instruments. (There's lots of guitar players out there, not nearly so many playing other stringed instruments.)

Here's a photo of me grabbed as a screenshot from a video of me playing dulcimer in April, 1981, six months after I won the United States Mountain Dulcimer Championship at Winfield, Kansas in September, 1980:

Me Playing A Spruce & Brazilian Rosewood Waterman Dulcimer

The clothes I'm wearing in that photo are typical of what I wore in performance during those years: I'd wear a suit and tie, start the set wearing all of it, then I'd take off the coat once I warmed up. When I'd finish a set I'd put the suit coat back on for my break, using it exactly the same way as a sports warmup jacket.

That was a handy set up - I kept my picks in the right vest pocket and my capo in the left. I never had to wonder where they were.

Yeah, I know, with that mustache I look like Yosemite Sam in a three piece suit!

This next picture was taken around 2002, for our church directory. I knew it would be a small photo on the website, and wanting to liven it up beyond being just another chubby-faced middle-aged white guy I decided to grab my Gibson Mastertone mandolin-banjo, fondly known as "Stubby."

Me and Stubby, Both Louder Than Human Decency Allows!

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A Gibson Mastertone mandolin-banjo is essentially the tactical thermonuclear weapon of the acoustic musical instrument family. I got one when, in an earlier incarnation of the Praise & Worship group I now lead, there was a woman who thought the world wanted to hear her playing complex tambourine parts in every. single. song. If a little bit of tambourine is good, a whole lot must be even better!!

Since my mandolin is in basically the same register as a tambourine, she drowned me out. So I got Stubby in self-defense...

This last photo was taken two or three years ago at the Anchorage Folk Festival:

Me Playing A Spruce & Koa Blue Lion Dulcimer

That's the dulcimer I've used onstage the most, although in the past couple of years I've mainly been using the walnut Waterman, the first one Duane built for me. But Blue Lion is my longest standing Artist Endorsement agreement, ever since 1983.

They still make dulcimers, as opposed to Duane Waterman, who stopped making them three or four years after I got my two.

Anyway, that's what I look like, shown over a spread of almost thirty years.


Wade Hampton Miller

[jpricewood]

Now the mystery of what we all look like is gone lol.

[IMG]8167C977-3028-4B53-BF55-F2B2588F3CE9 by Jared Wood, on Flickr[/IMG]

[Tnfiddler]

[Methos1979]

Me, the guitar and the better half of our Acoustic Duo, screen grab from a pandemic streaming live session a few months back.

[JayBee1404]

Originally Posted by Haasome

I’m thinking Gerry and the Pacemakers, with jacket & all. Excellent!

Those jackets were called ‘Beatles Jackets’ because they were worn and popularised by The Fab Four. We’d just started the band when the Beatles broke in the UK - those jackets were a must-have, although I never managed the hair!

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[LeftyKev]

Originally Posted by TBman

Here's me with my Avalon....

Lovely lefty! Lefties unite!