Say hello...

I'm new to this forum,I got interested in westone guitar's last month. I was at work, I work with some younger guy's (I'm 55 but still play show's with my band) and my son, one day he noticed this co-worker tossing this old guitar in the dumpster he told the guy to ask if i wanted this guitar he didn't know what he had. He was about to throw away a 1990-88 westone spretrum GT with complete Kahler tremleo system, No pickups. this is my first westone it's a white crackle finish,neck and body are in awesome shape. I plan to restore and play this Bad boy!

He was going to throw it away?? Those can go for a decent bit of money! Good job saving it, and welcome!

Welcome indeed!! We now need to see what you've got....

Name - Mike

Age - 28

Location - Central, MS

First guitar - Aria Strat-style body

First Westone - Spectrum IA WE2400(don't technically own them, in process of acquiring from uncle)

Later Westones - Haven't gotten to that point yet.

Musical style/favourite bands - The more distortion, the less chance the crowd will realize you have no clue how to play.

Current Westones - Soon to be owner of 2 Spectrum IA WE2400's(uncle says they're 88 and 89 if i remember correctly)

Other instruments - a few Hames Dulcimers in the showcase.

Favourite instrument - ahem....synthesizer

No need to be ashamed of synthesiser leanings, there, Mike - a few of us do admit to playing keyboards in addition to rabidly promoting our favoured guitar brand!! I have an Alesis QS-6 which I have been known to play from time to time but it is very hard to adopt 'Rock-god guitar hero-type' poses behind a synth!!

I've got a tiny little keytar that I've no idea how to play, but it's fun to pose with!

Well....technically this is a computer program....but yeah. I used to use mixcraft 5, but got tired of all the bugs not being fixed(it was a paid version)....switched to the bug-less Audacity and have had no probs whatsoever, though it's slightly more limited in functionality, it's still better since it's 100% free.

Wish I knew whatever happened to that Aria....all I got is a pic of me playing it when I was 8. If I remember correctly, dad had the gain and volume turned up so high, my mom couldn't hold camera steady. (just pretend that's a head-banger smiley)

howdy mikey!

nice to see another fellow southerner 'round these parts........if not for my m. python experience....i barely understand a werd these guys are sayin'.......


"How y'all are!?"

I's doin purdy good, how boutcha self? I had the worst experience EVAR in nawlins....it was during labor day weekend(decadence festival)

i'm northbound as we speak, headin up to visit the yankee folks for thanxgivin' holidays. gonna hit up some winder shoppin while i'm at it, sees abouts what kinda gittards i kin scrounge up. dese redcoats ainta gurna know wtf we's talkin bout hea....awww i cant even find a single americanized smiley in the list.

fo'-sho', dey ain't gon' unna-stood it, but, dey sho' do take a NO-duss tuit!

we gon' be hairin' 'bouttitt- sooooo-nuff!

y'all hesh, now!

o'vrunnoutt!

I understand everything you guys say, but then again I live in Florida so I guess I've just gotten used to it.

"cheeze it, mikey! they're onto us.......they've sent in a floridian spyyyyy!"

i say, dat warn must be one of dem atlantic rednecks....he live down on dat ohshun and has da name like a winch!!! dere's too many texans in mississippitty....we gots another one of dem gas pipelines runnin thru da state and so evrybody dat comes to work on it has texas tags....Lord i pray we survive dis economy....dem texans taking our jobs!!!

just kidding texans, we really dont mind....heck, if the gas line blows up, we dont lose any numbers. ok that was mean

Hi All music band, I introduce me :

Name - Rico
Age - 36
Location - France, Angers

First guitar - Aria Folk 1990

First Westone - 1995 Spectrum FX 1986

Musical style/favourite bands - Temple ( swiss group extra-terrestrial of my first guitar teacher), Red Hot Chili Pepper, Guns 'n' Roses, Eric CLapton (Eric are the best ), stevie ray vaughan, satch or joe satriani, etc...etc...

Other instruments - Classic guitar not cheap to beguinning

My dream : I would like a 12 cordes fender or ovation, a big marshall 100w lamps, a ukulele to enjoy play certain song, and o bg battery to play all around the night....

Favourite instrument - I like all the tropic instrument of my isle where I live 10 years (djembe, bongos, cayamb, houler, ...)

Newcomers are ALWAYS welcome! Good to have you here.

Pro_Rico wrote:Hi All music band, I introduce me :

Name - Rico
Location - France, Angers

Does this make him an angry frenchman? just wondering....not really, i jest

A BIG Westone "G'day" from me, too.... nice to see newcomers; (I get a bit bored with the regulars!!!)

Rico, is that Angers the one just south of Le Mans?? When I go to France I go through St Malo, just to your north!! And if you're looking for an electric 12, then Aria Pro II and Vantage both did very very good ones indeed!!

http://www.matsumoku.org/ggboard/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6694

http://www.matsumoku.org/ggboard/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5905&hilit=va912

http://www.matsumoku.org/models/ariaproii/st/st.html

The Vantage seem to pop up in Europe quite often, and there is a swedish bloke on another forum with anST1512 that he found in Sweden, so they're out there, man!!

Hey, yes small French which plays a little guitar for these last 20 years. He has also a big sense of humor and likes travelling, where from my Creole origins of the Indian Ocean. Of beautiful sensations and different rhythms in these very warm countries.

Never going to states but dream to win at the bingo to visit your beautiful continent from west to east by the road 66 for example.

Yep, kisses to the young ladies in passing and to all European who post on this beautiful sîte.

Effectively Angers is between Le Mans (Circuit of 24 hours known well by aficionados) and Nantes (beautiful student city near atlantic océan)

Rico

corsair wrote:A BIG Westone "G'day" from me, too.... nice to see newcomers; (I get a bit bored with the regulars!!!)

HELLO and Welcome to everybody from me too!

Hey John, what's so boring about our regulars (or in my case, not so regular), huh, huh?

Yes guys, the Mother of you all is still very much alive and still kicking ass!

I just popped in to welcome all of the newbies and to wish you all a VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS. Let's hope the New Year is better than this one has been and that I get time to take up the reins once more... I miss you guys!



Polly :queen: :flower:

Right back atcha Pol!
Please hurry back. Corsair is cute, but he looks really silly in pink Wellies!

Hi,

My name is Pelle Adema. I'm 15 years old. I live in the north of the netherlands in a city called groningen.
The reason for registering is I want to bring my Westone spectrum DX back to the shine it deserves.

cheers.

G'day, Pelle; welcome here and I'm quite sure the lads and lasses in here will; be able to help you get your Spectrum back into fighting trim!!

My personal perversion is for the Spectrums and I have a few of them and one lone Electra Phoenix so you're in good hands, because Barry - our pet Canadian - is also a Spectrum man.

Now as I said when I answered your post in the Tech section, we need to see what you've got, mate.... because we like looking at other peoples Westones! Oh, OK, and because we can see what we're dealing with!!

corsair wrote:...you're in good hands, because Barry - our pet Canadian - is also a Spectrum man....

You called?
Yup, love 'em. I gots 4 of 'em!
Hi Pelle, and welcome.

Thanks for the warm welcome and the quick responses in the technical section of the forum.

Cheers.

My name's Chris Roberts. I'm currently playing in two groups: F.A.T.E. and another group unofficially named Collins. I own a Westone Genesis I and I reside in Charleston, SC. I also frequent open mics as a solo acoustic act, as well as campus events at CofC. I'm a Psychology Major at CofC, and dabbling in Music Theory and Comp classes as well. Looking for Westone pieces currently. I need a Bendmaster Deluxe Tremolo Arm and the pieces for the nut as well. Your help is all greatly appreciated in advance! I'm just a nice guy like that!!!

ChrisRoberts wrote:My name's Chris Roberts. ...I'm a Psychology Major at CofC..

Sounds like the intro to a 12 step program.
No matter, we won't hold that against you. Welcome!

Looking for Westone pieces currently.

Ain't we all? Nice to hear you have a Genesis, not too many here. You will post pix yes?

Barry wrote:Nice to hear you have a Genesis, not too many here. You will post pix yes?

When I get back home I'll take some pics and post them. Hahaha. Glad you're not holding the AA meeting intro against me. All I need is the nutpieces, a tremolo arm, some new knobs, and a set of screws for the backplate. Be on the look out for the pics.

My name is Oscar and i'm from Sweden. I have a Thunder IIA guitar and a spectrum LX.
I bought the Thunder when i started playing guitar maybe 13 years ago, and i've owned the spectrum for maybe 7 years. Bought the spectrum a month or two before my band disbanded, woho...
I don't play much guitar at all nowadays, since i figured out i don't have much talent and wasn't willing to replace that with hard work

Hej Oscar å välkommen
Var i landet håller du till?

See boys...we´re gonna take this place over as well. All within the sneaky viking plan of world dominance. Bit by bit...day by day...

I'm watching you, Jesper.... can you feel my beady eyes on you???!!

Racing wrote:Hej Oscar å välkommen
Var i landet håller du till?

See boys...we´re gonna take this place over as well. All within the sneaky viking plan of world dominance. Bit by bit...day by day...

Jag är västgöte, å håller till i Borås på högskolan dagtid, hos flickvännen i alingsås en hel del övrig tid, och bor ute på landet några mil norr om borås. Var bor du själv?

speaking of vikings, i guess it's suits quite well with a pic of me, that's from 1 year ago:


(Text translates to: 'No to everything!' Got a bit inspired by swedish election-posters earlier this fall, and made my own)

Scary!! ... and cold!!

Shrek for PM.

Hello there.

See!!!
This internet thingy makes the world a small place Oscar cause i´m about 60km west of you
Jajamen....Göteborg...Å ses väl som en av de verkliga Mats tomtarna i landet. Mao,om du har intresse e du mer än välkommen å hälsa på vid tillfälle. Hänger ett halvstöddigt gäng här,men det intressanta e kanske mest att jag gör alla mina egna jobb kring det. Allt från ombandningar till gud vet vad. Mao,behöver du hjälp med ett eller annat e det bara att säga till för SÅ långt e det fan inte mellan Borås å Göteborg.

That said boys..i´ll refrain from using more "vikingish" (Except from when called upon for making further plans for world domination)

John BTW.
You´d better.
We´re viking and we´re coming your way....

Hello everyone,
My name is Steve (user name rebuild, which I may change later). I have been playing Westone's since 1986, when I purchased my first Dimension IV brand new. I have owned 7 Westone's since then and my current line-up consists of 3 Dimension IVs ( red, white, and black ) and a black Dynasty. I own 9 vintage strats (1969 thru 1979... I like the large headstock years), an alpine white '96 Les Paul, a black Ibanez Gem, 2 decent acoustics and several lower brand strat copies which play well and have cool colors. At one time I even owned a Westone electric, which was covered in blue snakeskin.
Needless to say, my favorites are the Westone's, which is why I am happy to have discovered this Westone Forum. Over the years, I have had to make replacement parts myself using a Dremmel and large grinder and metal files. Recently, I stumbled upon a machine shop in my area, and asked them to duplicate the tremelo string claws for my Westone's and they did a perfect job... and a whole lot faster than my old barbaric methods.
Anyway, just wanted to say hello to all of you, and share my Westone story. I have been a forum member for about 7 hours now. Hope to hear from you. Bye for now.

Hello! My name is Jeff, I'm 26 years old (for the last 11 years). I played guitar obsessively as a teenager until I was draw away by "other interests". I recently have rediscovered how much i LOVE playing the guitar, and the skills are coming back to me far better than I ever would have expected.

My first guitar was a Westone Genesis II XA1630 1987 anniversary edition in "black cherry" or whatever they called it. I call it purple. I will own this guitar forever. I love it. It was given to me by my mother who struggled to afford it, and even 20-some years later, this is STILL a GREAT guitar. When I removed it from its case a few months back, I was worried that the neck would have warped, the fretboard cracked, or some other misfortune, but not a thing wrong with it. Well, correction, the only thing wrong with it is that my younger step-brother was a little hard on it for a while, but it's still in great shape.

I had an EMG 81 installed in the bridge position 20 years ago, had an EMG SA installed in the neck position, and after a 20 year break, I'm having an SA-X installed in the middle position. I'm pretty excited about it. The only other mods to my guitar was a replacement of the original Westone string lock. It was damaged, a stripped screw I think, and it was replaced with a Kahler style locking nut.

I have a Fender Squire J-bass, mostly a toy, but I would like to get up to speed on filling in bass lines either for recording my own accompaniment or to get my feet wet playing in a band. I've got a Takamine acoustic G-series 6-string, which, by the way, is a *really* nice acoustic for the price. I've got a cheap 5-string banjo which I would really like to learn to play better, but its a frustrating instrument for me to say the least. I've got a Les Paul Studio. I love them all for each of their individual characters. I bought the LPS thinking I'd get a better distortion tone, but so far I think the Westone with the EMGs is the closest to the sound I've been searching for.

As far as music I like and would like to play, I still like the 80s hair/metal bands, but I like country, jazz, bluegrass, pop, you name it, I've probably got a favorite. Lately, I've been particularly enjoying Zac Brown Band, Fates Warning (Parallels), Andy McKee, and my all-time favorite hair band, Dokken. (Yes, I still like George's playing.)

I currently live in St. Petersburg, Florida which is in the Tampa Bay area. I would like at some point to find some people to play with, but I've got a bit more catching up on practice to do before I put myself out for too much scrutiny.

Great to find this site!

Welcome to the forum, Jeff! And hooray for another Floridian!

Name - Steve

Age - 53

Location - Totnes

First guitar - Zenta FT-2T (Telecasterish)

Musical style/favourite bands - Rock, pop, something approaching jazz... Purple, Zep, Crimson, Faust, T.Rex, Free, Mahavishnu, Focus...

Current Westone - 1984 Thunder 1A, almost unplayed, one fairly careful owner before me, just bought it (Jan 2011).

Other instruments - Burns Sonic Model, Eccleshall Barracuda, Eccleshall Scimitar, Epiphone Firebird, Ridgewood Strat, the bits for another Strat project, Hohner acoustic, Raimundo classical, Guyzer bass, Roland V-drumkit , Marshall 30th Anniversary combo, analog.man Beano Boost, iMac, Pro Tools

Favourite instrument - The Thunder's too new to judge, not even finished setting it up so I'll have to say it's a tie between my Burns and my Eccleshall Scimitar.

Great lost guitar - A 1964 Gibson Firebird III bought for £495 in 1979 and sold for £275 in 1981 (wince).

Still want: Gibson Lou Pallo Les Paul & a real Telecaster. I have an Eccleshall Special acoustic being built.

Hi all, my name is Ian, I'm 41 and live near Cambridge in the UK. I've been playing guitar for about 25 years...god that makes me feel old, and makes me wish I'd practiced harder.
My first guitar (and still my favourite) is a Westone thunder 1 in natural, i hated it when my Dad took me to buy my 1st guitar but in hindsight I'm really glad he persuaded me to buy it. I also have a '92 strat with a deluxe bridge and TBX tone control (waste of time), Ibanez RG570 in a blue to black sunburst over flame maple with a super distortion in the bridge position, Yamaha APX 400 electo acoustic. amp wise I've got a Acoustic Sound Contol g100t (very similar to a mesa boogie Mk3) built in the 70s or 80s...sounds awesome but a bit loud for home use , a boss se50 for reverb/delays etc and a Danelectro Daddy-O overdrive for extra boost.

I could never get rid of the Westone and hope that one day I'll find the guitar that surpasses it...mmmmmm...although I think Jazzia'a brown 'burst, flame maple thunder looks like a good bet!

My favourite guitarist is George Lynch but listen to all types of music, especially if it features guitar.

I'm glad to have found like minded Westone lovers!!!

Welcome one and all; so many new faces to keep us long term lags amused with your funny questions! Interesting that you're all "of an age" , too....

Hi I'm Rob, 19 at the end of the month, been playing 4 years (bass) I live in Stockport.

First bass: Dean edge09 playmate

First westone: Raider 1 bass

Other basses: Tanglewood rebel fretless

Music: Rock, Classic rock, Prog rock, 80s metal

Favorite bass: all of them

Raider wrote:...Favorite bass: all of them

Nice diplomatic answer Rob! Welcome to forums. Where exactly is Rockport? The members here are from all over the world.

Sorry, Greater manchester, UK

Only got 3 basses so they're all favorites

I know what you mean Rob, I have 13 basses and love them all. Welcome!

Hi!

Seth, from Lafayette, Indiana, in ye ole US. Been playing guitar for 13 years and have gone through a few guitars over that time, wheelin' and a dealin'. Just recently picked up a Westone off of craigslist yesterday. It is definitely a project in the making and will make a thread about it. Got, now, 9 electrics and 2 acoustics, rack rig and a 2x12 w/Celestions. I'm in a band, symphonic metal with a front woman! I listen to rock/metal/some country(Brad Paisley)/classical, and 80's tunes. Well, time to make new threads and glad to meet you all!!

Welcome here TG.
"Symphonic Metal" Isn't that one of them there oxymorons?

Look forward to seeing your resto thread!

Hello, as you may have seen I've been making a nuisance of my self for a bit now, without saying hello.

Not to give to much away, in the 1960's my first guitar was a beat up Angelica dreadnought with a big acoustic voice, armed with C, F ,G7 & couple of friends we got up at the local folk Club just for fun & though my taste in genre's have changed over the years I've only ever played for my own amusement. Not to forget Skiffle, which was another name for not being able to afford a proper instrument but the sounds we got out of a Tea chest, broomstick & a piece of string plus what ever was lying around & a posh guy with the only Guitar was amazing. There wasn't a lot of music shops around then or the money to buy instruments, just think of the gear that should have been brought from the mid 1950's to 1980 & since of course.

Coming from a musical family I did the obvious thing & became a Silversmith. I really enjoyed being part of the wonderful skills found in the Birmingham Jewelry Quarter, sadly pretty much lost now.

The recession of the late 70's saw me turn my hobby into a business & built it into a successful vintage car restoration business, from which I retired just over a year ago. With my new found time, I've been able to pick up my Session II, bought in the late 80's because it took my eye & the workmanship in it appealed to me. It was only recently I leaned about uncle Mat & realised why I had always been so pleased with my reasonably priced Guitar. I enjoy the blues these days, still only play for my amusement & to annoy the wife.

I have a Maton T1 which is an incredible electro acoustic & an Epiphone Sheraton which is well, alright, now of course I have a Prestige 250, Pantera X300 with a Pantera X390 on the way, as well as my pretty Session II.

Hi Everybody,

I'm Phil, from Melbourne, Australia. I was a member of the old forum but only just got around to finding the new one. I'm glad I did! I'm 42 years old (crikey, am I really?) and work as a research scientist for a company making anti-flu drugs. I've been playing guitar on and off since I was 5, but the first guitar I ever bought with my sweat stained savings was a red 1984 Westone Concord. She has served me well all these years and the only changes I have made have been to install new pickups (Fender Fat 50's) and add some matching white knobs. Though I own 10 other electric guitars, including some more expensive Fender and G&L instruments, I always gravitate to the Concord. Every detail of its playing response is imprinted on my brain, so much so that it feels like an extension of my hands.

I'm a big fan of MIJ guitars and Westones in particular. I quite fancy the idea of picking up a Thunder one day, I'm just waiting for the universe to present the opportunity . Westones of any description are hard to find in Australia, though I once saw an identical Concord to mine on Australian E-Bay that had the very next serial number. What are the chances?

I play mainly fingerstyle country and jazz these days but enjoy letting rip on some indie rock classics when the wife and kids aren't around to complain about the noise .

Thanks for reading. I'm off to have a browse of the old posts to see what I've been missing!

An official "howdy" to you Fish and Philby!
Fish, I'm envious of your Session. It's on my wish list...one day (sigh).
And Philby? You've got a lot of reading ahead my man! See you again about St. Swithin's Day!
Great to have you both here.

Great to see another AUSSIE, Cheers PHILBY.
Richie..