Alan, thank you very much. You are one of my instrumental heroes on this forum, so the compliment coming from you sure means a lot. It takes me a few weeks of trying to not do as good of a job as you can in a couple of hours! And it's hard to go wrong with a Gretsch and a Gibson as your first guitars. I just heard a song yesterday played and sang by Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed called "Gibson Girl". It's a neat little ditty if you have time to look it up.

DC, thanks for stopping by and commenting. Ha, I'm afraid I don't have the space or money for one of those great big racks. This one just sits on my desk next to my recording computer. It's getting pretty old now, but it's a lot of fun to mess with and has a lot of different sounds - if only I could learn how to use them!

Thanks for commenting Bob. It's good to hear from one of the experts.

I've missed hearing from you too Marty, sure is good to hear from you now. Your one of the most fun folks on the forum IMHO. I kind of like that term Alan came up with, "Ambient Western", though I'm not sure what it means - or how to spell it! Ah, par for the course.

Thanks a bunch Tom. I'm still struggling a lot with playing lead. I've got a ways to go to learn how to play like you do I'm afraid. Yes, I've seen Ozone mentioned a lot and bought a copy last year. But that's when things all went to heck and I've not even pulled it up on my computer yet. I hope to get some tutoring from Dave Cuny sometime soon and start using it.

Brad

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