Yosemite National Park & Ernie Ball

[kbaim]

Going to Yosemite for a couple days in June to recharge.

Bringing Steve Morse with me

And my new little roland microcube amp than runs on 6 AA batteries.

Hoping for divine inspiration which always seems to occur there.

Anyone else take their guitars with them on vacation?

KEITH

 

[peter71]

This is going to sound silly, but I always either have my classical or my mandolin in the car with me. See I commute from Tacoma to Redmond everyday (this is a reference that anyone in the North Western part of Washington will understand). It is only a 45 mile drive, but it usually takes me anywhere from 1.5 to 3 hours, depending on traffic. So when I get stuck at lights or stuck in traffic, I play my guitar. The last three songs I have written have come during traffic jams on the freeway. Although one of them was a really terrible song about two guys fighting, because I passed a wreck that caused to guys to start fighting.

I guess I am not very creative.

But I always take my Sil with me on long trips and a chord or scale book to practice with. Don't bring my amp though...

 

[Jimi D]

I used to fly with a cheapie Steinberger Spirit - that was a great guitar, but after 911 I didn't feel too comfortable shouldering something that looked like a rifle case through airports, so I gave it up for just hauling along anything that I feel like bringing (nothing too pricey, of course)... If there's a GC somewhere near where I'm headed, I can buy a guitar for the duration of my stay and return it on the 30-day money back guarantee before heading home

 

[pack-rat]

This is going to sound silly, but I always either have my classical or my mandolin in the car with me... So when I get stuck at lights or stuck in traffic, I play my guitar. The last three songs I have written have come during traffic jams on the freeway. Although one of them was a really terrible song about two guys fighting, because I passed a wreck that caused to guys to start fighting.

Imagine if you see two guys fighting on the side of the road and you whip out the mandolin "C'mon guys let's sing Kumba-ya"

Seriously bringing a mandolin is a great idea in the car. I have a few tin-whistles that i keep in the car from time to time. Takes up less space and if I get ripped off it is no big deal.



I just bring my acoustic when I go camping.
Yes, kind of cliche, but is still fun.
I have a fair amount of folk song covers, Woody Guthrie, John Denver, Pete Seger.
I don't mind if other campers will come up with their families to roast marshmellows and sing along with my family.
Never been to any campgrounds in the states, but wouldn't mind travelling down there if I could afford it.
We have so may here in Canada. I really love being away from civilization.

 

[peter71]

We have some cool camp grounds here in the states, but I think the ones in Canada are probably pretty comperable. The thing is here, and it could be this way in Canada, you have to really be careful what camp ground you go to (at least in the Pacific Northwest) because sometimes you go to ones where the sites are about two inches away from each other. There are also tons of people around with lots of civilization poking its crazy head out all around (motor homes with DVD players, radios, CD Players, Cell Phones, Flushing Toilets...)

So you if you really want a "Get away from the peeps" experience you have to search a bit.

But I digress, or something...

 

[kbaim]

Hey peter71,

A mandolin probably fits better than a guitar while in the drivers seat.

Last summer I was in olympic NP and had my Blue Dawn Luke with me. Had breakfast at some place on some lake up there. Got there before they started serving, so I served up some of my own tasty creations (er...songs that may or may not be easily digested by others)

KEITH

But in yosemite, I'll have an amp with me

 

[peter71]

Actually I am thinking of bringing my banjo next week. It is pretty small and makes a rather happy sound. That way it can sooth my road rage. Sometimes I get a little angry on the Mando and kind of rock out... it is a rather saucy instrument!

 

[pack-rat]

Actually I am thinking of bringing my banjo next week. It is pretty small and makes a rather happy sound. That way it can sooth my road rage.

That would be pretty funny to see

you never hear a sad song with a banjo

 

[thindave]

"... Oh death, and grief, and sorrow, and murder..."

Ok, who knows who told that joke?

 

[pack-rat]

not me...

 

[thindave]

Ahhh, revealing my age here...

It's an old Steve Martin routine about how you can't sing a sad song with a banjo... This was from back when records were 12" and made out of plastic...

He is an awesome banjo player, by the way...

 

[koogie2k]

I travel extensively because of my job...so the OLP goes with me. We all know about my last trip with it...if not, look for my post about airports!

Anywho....my wife (being Italian and from New York City) would probably kill me if I took my six string with me on a family vacation. I can understand that I guess. I am fortunate in that my wife is very secure knowing I am not in my guitar room writing music to score chicks... She really likes when I play and loves the classical especially. But when it comes to "family time" there is no talking about job, music, my next guitar (hopefully a Blue Dawn Pet), money, and other things. It is family time. Something i really like by the way.

So, for travel time....guitar is with me at all times.

Family vacations.....no. By order of the wife....hehehehe

 

[pack-rat]

Ahhh, revealing my age here...

It's an old Steve Martin routine about how you can't sing a sad song with a banjo... This was from back when records were 12" and made out of plastic...

He is an awesome banjo player, by the way...

lol

that is where i got it from, but it was so long ago i forgot the rest of the stuff

I got a couple of his albums for my 13 b'day back when he used to do his act
He used to play banjo at Disneyland

 

[peter71]

I LOVE THAT BIT! Of course any time you bring of a comedy routine that makes fun of Richard Nixon, you are dating yourself. He got a grammy for his Foggy Mountain Breakdown remake a few years ago.