Originally posted by kimbob
I'm impressed. Aproximately %12 of you life has been spent playing guitar.
If you want to play country leads a pentatonic major scale works nicely.
How do you like the 65 Delux reissue? I recently purchased a used Marshall Valvestate 8240. It's got 2 12s and 40 watts per side stereo with stereo chorus and reverb and channel switching. This thing is really hot. You can crank it and it's not blasting loud. It has a a nice warm full tone with lots of sustain when it's craked. It's great for small venues. Stick a 57 in front of it and let er rip. I like it so much I just had to tell somebody.:cool:

The Fender Deluxe Re-issue is excellent, especially for my kind of music (as pickin4life says "f***ing hippy music", what a moron). It does not have distortion (only drawback for those heavy metalers out there), it only has like a slight fuzz distortion if you crank it. But it is worth the money, definitely. You can always get a distortion pedal, is my opinion. Marshal Valvestate is sort of a Hybrid between Solid State and Tube, if i remember right, and i know my FDR (ha! fender deluxe reverb, franklin D. Rosavelt) is a pure tube amp) is a 100% tube amp. It still has Reverb (hence the Deluxe 'Reverb' 65), and an optional Tremelo effect, but everything else is sooo pure.

Is the Ionian Mode a good one for country? I prefer to use the ionian over pentatonics, but i do use both, along with dorian, phrygian, mixolydian, lydian, minor, and chromatic (and some others).

12%? I think You mean 12% of my life i've OWNED a guitar, otherwise i would have to be playing 24 hours a day, everyday, no sleep. But yes, so far 12% of my life i've OWNED a guitar (that percentage is rising too).