A lot of guitar players obsess with effects pedal, better known as stomp boxes. A lot of guitarists would collect a shitload of them. Not me. Why? I’ll tell you why I don’t collect stompboxes too much. Simply the answer is stomp boxes is a cover up of a musicians bad playing. Effects make your playing sound better. That’s how I feel about them. The only pedal effects I would touch are overdrive and distortion pedals, so I can get a rock sound out of an electric guitar.
I would stay away from other effects pedals such as wah, delay, chorus, fuzz, etc. All that is pretty silly, in my opinion.
I’ve always liked to play pretty clean when playing electric.Effects are overrated. If I wanted a pedal collection, I would’ve started a long time ago, but I only own very few pedals. Not too much. I do own a wah pedal but don’t use it a lot.
I’m not a gear junkie like a lot of musicians are. I would like to start a big guitar and amp collection someday, but I can’t afford it right now. I do have a few guitars and amps around the house. I do plan on buying a new acoustic guitar though. My Ibanez acoustic/electric is busted and it’s not worth the money getting fixed. Next time I’ll buy a regular acoustic guitar without the electric plug-in, ’cause regular acoustics are better. That’s why I play my Ibanez Hollow Body electric guitar instead.
I just want to play guitar that’s all. I’ll buy a new guitar if one of mine gets busted and I have busted a few guitars over the years.
I’m very happy with my Ibanez Hollow Body Art Core electric, it’s an amazing sounding guitar, and I hope to keep it for a very long time. I do plan on buying a solid body electric guitar down the road with a whammy bar someday. I want to try experimenting with whammy bar techniques sometime.
Hope everyone had a great Father’s Day today. Hope you spent some time with your father’s and family members. I did. Had a nice lobster dinner.
Today I went to Whipple City Days Festival in Greenwich to see a Johnny Cash tribute band perform, Harold Ford and the Cash Band. They were very good, they played old and new Johnny Cash covers. Everything from “Folsom Prison Blues” to, “I Hung My Head”. I’m a big Johnny Cash fan, that’s why I went.
Last night, I watched “The Boondock Saints” movie on Netflix for the very first time and it was one of the best action movies I’ve seen in years. Review coming up soon.
Kev
K'Brocking 
Kev, man, sometimes you generalize too much. Yes, some guitarists can use effects to mask their lack of ability, but that hardly covers all. If you were to look at the amount of effects the Edge from U2 has per show, then he would fall under your category of crappy guitarist. So would David Gilmour from Pink Floyd: I have heard him use all the pedals you categorize as silly. Then there are some guitar players you might not know who I think are absolutely phenomenal despite their lack of solo ability. One of them would be Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine. The guitar tones he created on their album LOVELESS were absolutely stunning, and he did them without the use of countless overdubs like people originally thought. As always, I’m not trying to change your opinion…just offering my thoughts on the topic. One of the best things about music is that it can change over time. Something you thought sucked last year might be your favorite thing this year. Just keep in mind one thing that most guitarists forget: there is a lot more to being a good guitarist than simply having the ability to play a solo like Hendrix, Page, Satriani, or whoever.