Moe's Gear Vibe

Well, it is defined up top as: "A Guitar Forum"

This I guess I did know.



I find Moe's to be a gathering point for a group of people having a common interest in music, instruments and playing. Additionally, at this point most of whom have been together long enough to feel some comradery and mutual respect with and for one another.

lol, Pinetree. yep we own all types of gear. I look for that type of insight really

And for the record, I haven't bought a gun since 2008!

Then again, the last one was a doozy (with my last rat, now gone to the cheese wheel in the sky):

lol Lesterstrat, not familiar with the Disney connection, but always looking to talk about new gear from anyone.

I come to MT2 for the articles...

For me it's mostly a force of habit by now. My one and only regular forum. I don't even post that often, but I check in pretty much daily at least.

I could have cared less about the Fender part of the old place. It has always been about the people for me. A community of respectful and like-minded people with a common interest.

^ Yep, he sez !

I joined back in 1999 when I purchased my second Fender, a USA made Telecaster. I had the Precision Bass since 1981. I played the Concert bass in 1961, Christmas of 1962 I got my first bass, we were in Germany at the time, my first bass, was the  Framus. The only other option I had was the Hoftner, the one Paul McCartney played, I still have the Framus and it works just fine. I didn’t like the Hoftner it had terrible neck dive. I wasn’t a Beatles fan any ways. We covered a lot of Motown, Jimi Hendrix 

It was the purchase of the Tele that led me the FDP, to learn more about the Tele. The FDP was pretty tight, we had a group that got together in Delray FL for jams. We had FDP’ers come from as far away as the footlhills of the Hymilaians, Deep showed up at one, Dolimite was usually the host.

I don’t play the Tele too much, most of my guitar playing is on the Cordoba C9. Same kind of deal with the Ibanez PNB14E acoustic/electric bass. Serious rehearsals, and gigs I use the ‘81 Precision or the Guild Starfire. The number of times I’ve played the guitar on stage, it has always been Acoustic and solo,and less than a hand full of times.

Some of us have known each other for going on 20 years now, despite--in some cases--never having met.

We all have things in common, but we all see the world from our own shoes.

I come here to be completely inundated with your [the reader of this post] vision of the world. Not because I'm voyeuristic or lead a boring life, but because my narrow view of reality is a sorely incomplete representation of how the world actually works.

And I do appreciate everyone's contributions here.

Thanks especially to Mike, our Lead Giraffe Wrangler for keeping the lights on.

Cheers to all,

Geno

Oh, and if I want to find out who died recently, I come here. It’ll be here faster than it’ll make it to the obituary column of the paper.

We’ve no association with Fender or any other brand. Honestly, I signed up at the old place in 2007, and there wasn’t really any Fender affiliation over there during the entire time I was there, it was all before.

I found the old place looking for info on my 1978 Stratocaster. If not for Fender, I probably wouldn’t have found it. I assume many others are in the same boat. As a result I am sure we have a lot of Fender fans who own a lot of Fender instruments.

There are two more instruments I want, and one is a Fender. The other is a Gibson. I barely play anymore and will likely never buy either one.

But this place continues because we’re like minded in that we’re musicians. On other issues, we’re not like minded at all. That keeps it interesting, for me anyway.

This forum exists solely because of the strength of its members. Fender doesn’t keep us here. Financial arrangements don’t keep us here. We’re here, operating for free, for as long as the membership cares to be here.

^This for me as well.

Isn't this place 'AI'?