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ged_ohagan
05-16-2003, 11:12 PM
iv heard ppl talkin about there axes in total guitar mag is this just another name for guitar or what does it mean ???
furiousnewf
05-17-2003, 12:08 AM
yip
potshot
05-17-2003, 04:22 AM
Yeah, it just means guitar. However, IMO, to truly justify the term "axe", a guitar must be one of those evil looking things like the ones BC Rich puts out :D
Sentinel
05-17-2003, 05:50 AM
Or you could consider Gene Simmons' 'axe' bass guitar as an axe. :)
Koala
05-17-2003, 06:29 PM
Yeah id say simmons took the term axe to a whole new level
Michel
05-17-2003, 10:48 PM
Look for the Al DiMeola Kiss My Axe CD .....She is so.....No i mean ...The Axe
If you want to see What an Axe is:p
B'Bye ...
metaljustice83
05-18-2003, 05:04 PM
I remember when someone told me to pick up my "axe", I was like ?????????? he's like yea you've never heard it called that?? I'm like nope. I still don't call em axes......at least I don't think I do
Koala
05-20-2003, 04:56 AM
Dont axe me about axes.
Bongo Boy
05-23-2003, 04:28 PM
Originally posted by potshot
Yeah, it just means guitar. However, IMO, to truly justify the term "axe", a guitar must be one of those evil looking things like the ones BC Rich puts out :D I tend to agree--it just doesn't seem to make sense to refer to an archtop jazz box as an 'axe'.
metaljustice83
05-26-2003, 04:54 AM
I agree
Sentinel
05-26-2003, 11:06 PM
That's true about the jazz guitars. :) But that's where it all came from. What I read was, way back in the olden days :), when jazz guitarists would practice their stuff that was off-the-wall, they wouldn't want to annoy the other people in the house, so they would go out back to the woodshed to practice. Hence, that's where the term 'woodshedding' comes from. And why guitars are called 'axes', and why a player's technique is called 'chops'.