Leading Worship With Larrivee

[Fergy07]

Sorry, I went back and reread the source question and realized I had mis-quoted who the question was from, sorry MikeyMac...posted question on the second page...

I don't think the obscure monk music is so much by John Talbot, although I wasn't aware that you could buy his music arranged for guitar. I'll have to check that out as we do play alot of his stuff. Thanks for the info.

I think including the play list from what you played in church last week idea is a cool addition, and could almost become a new folder in it's own right on what did you play last week. Might be interesting to see what people did and how they did it (strum or finger style).

Andy

[Snowy]

I'm a member of a small care group that meets on Thursday nights for praise, worship, bible study, prayer, potluck, get-together, love fest.  Our teaching pastor leads the group and usually starts out with a few songs.

I took my new L-09R with me last night and asked him to use it instead of his own.  Reluctantly (he's partial to his own guitar - I'm not sure what it is).  Well, I want you to know, he enjoyed that Larry sooooo much - I felt guilty about going home with it!  He's a really good player, too, so it was sweet to hear someone who knows how to play it (unlike me)!

He told me to be sure to bring it again (anytime)>  heh heh

Blessings!

[jimi thing]

I took my new L-09R with me last night and asked him to use it instead of his own.  Reluctantly (he's partial to his own guitar - I'm not sure what it is).  Well, I want you to know, he enjoyed that Larry sooooo much - I felt guilty about going home with it!  He's a really good player, too, so it was sweet to hear someone who knows how to play it (unlike me)!

He told me to be sure to bring it again (anytime)>  heh heh

Blessings!

WE HAVE ANOTHER CONVERT!!!

jimi issues snowy a voucher for a new TOASTER!!

i get a simular reaction.....

after our first service the band jams a little while the coffee and donuts are consumed!

i get the "others" that come up to the stage and want to give my girl a whirl.... too funny

then you get the usual comment after they're done "wow, someday!"  :)

[Snowy]

Hmmm - ducktrapper -- might I be so bold? -- the beauty of what touches the folks in this thread is that we (and YOU) do have (and had representation)!  His name is Jesus.  Private message me for more info.   :P

No offense to anyone intended, please -- I'm just sharing.

[bri]

I've been leading on and off the past few years since college. Just led for the first time at my new church in MD last week with my DV-03 w/ IBeam active. Have gotten good comments on the sound ever since I got the guitar... it's hard to respond that it's all for God's glory without sounding trite.

Last week's set:

Invitation Fountain
How Great is Our God (C. Tomlin)
God of Wonders
Alas and did my Savior Bleed
O Lord my Heart Longs to Be

Next time, I'm going to try out a Martin D-15 spruce/rosewood w/Baggs M1 I just got. I think the only difference though will be to my own ears.

[ducktrapper]

Hmmm - ducktrapper -- might I be so bold? -- the beauty of what touches the folks in this thread is that we (and YOU) do have (and had representation)!  His name is Jesus.  Private message me for more info.   :P

No offense to anyone intended, please -- I'm just sharing.

You may. I'm just funning you. Somehow the term "worship leaders" makes me <shudder>. No offense intended here either. As for representation line, hey I'm Canadian!  :lol:  

[bing4sons]

Somehow the term "worship leaders" makes me <shudder>.

Well, you could say Music director, but worship is not about the music, although it's certainly a big part.

"Head Worship Participator"?  :P   "Worship Facilitator"?

[Snowy]

[/QUOTE]
You may. I'm just funning you. Somehow the term "worship leaders" makes me <shudder>. No offense intended here either. As for representation line, hey I'm Canadian!  :lol:[/QUOTE]
LOL -- hey, ducktrapper -- a Southerner.  Well, south of me anyhow.

[AZbowhunter]

Wow! What a great thread.  I play my Larrivee 12 string with two others, an Ibanez and a Yamaha every Suday night.  The three 12s sound great together.  We play many of the songs listed above in this thread.  What a great pleasure it is to serve Him doing something we love.

[SR]

No Larrivee yet. :D  So the Taylor will be up this Sunday as I'm going to be doing a special song one that my brother wrote. A few years back.  

[Trinity Guitars]

Hi, Jim Holler here from Trinity Guitras,
Yes I lead song in church with a Larrivee some times - L10 I also use a guitar (HD 28 stlye) that I built for myself about 15 years age . It is a Trinity.

Waging peace with music

[Trinity Guitars]

Hi, Jim Holler here from Trinity Guitras,
Yes I lead song in church with a Larrivee some times - L10 I als0 use a guitar (HD 28 stlye) that I built for myself about 15 years age . It is a Trinity.

Waging peace with music

[bing4sons]

Jim,

Are you still making guitars?

[jimi thing]

well we almost had a MURDER at church.....

one of the sound guys was tearing down the stage and take down some of my equipment.

he moved my guitar down to the floor with my stand, so i thought ok ..... i was just winding up my patch cord and folding my strap when i hear a crash....

this guy kid was pretending he was mary poppins .... swinging my amp like a suitcase and he clipped my D-60 and sent it crashing to the ground .

needless to say i am so P'd right now, but trying to forgive and have grace... my girl has a nasty scratch in the back ahhhhhhh.... not sure if there is any internal damage  :(

anyways.... has this happened to anyone else.

[Dark Paniel]

This is quite a thread....

but speakin of leading praise with a larrivee, this past weekend, I had the honor to see Bebo Norman in concert at Moody Bible Institute's founder's week.  As I walked into the sanctuary, from afar, i recognized a taylor dread from the six guitars on stage.. the rest were rather tough to distinguish.. then Bebo came onto stage and grabbed a guitar.. imediately I recognized that he was holding an L body and got crazy excited.  Then the camera focused in on his guitar and there on the jumbo screens, was a close-up of the larrivee.  I'm guessing it was an older model L-09.  It was a spruce top, rosewood body, gloss finish... but w/o the maple bindings(i think it was rosewood) and a rosewood headstock veneer and no fancy inlays.. it looked sooo classy.. well, the guitar sounded amazing.. and Bebo is just incredible.. it was an amazing blessing to see this man of faith in action...


-dp

[rockstar_not]

well we almost had a MURDER at church.....

one of the sound guys was tearing down the stage and take down some of my equipment.

he moved my guitar down to the floor with my stand, so i thought ok ..... i was just winding up my patch cord and folding my strap when i hear a crash....

this guy kid was pretending he was mary poppins .... swinging my amp like a suitcase and he clipped my D-60 and sent it crashing to the ground .

needless to say i am so P'd right now, but trying to forgive and have grace... my girl has a nasty scratch in the back ahhhhhhh.... not sure if there is any internal damage  :(

anyways.... has this happened to anyone else.

jimithing,

Hasn't happened to my Larry, but it did happen to my first electric guitar, a cheapo Peavey that I got for HS graduation.  A Bose 801 speaker cover knocked into her and put a nice big dent in the finish right on the front.

I can completely understand your near murderous thoughts.  Sounds like you are handling it o.k.

I know that some reading this thread may not understand what I'm about to say, but here is what put's me in the right frame of mind.  Every once in awhile, I say a prayer of dedication of my instruments to God's use and purposes.  I pray that whatever may befall them, whether on-stage damage, or theft, or whatnot, that His end is accomplished with my use of them.

It's helped me be alot less uptight about leaving Larry on the platform between services.  This isn't to say that I'm not up on the platform soon after our last service of the day to get Larry into his nice comfy case, but I worry much less about it than I used to.

My Larry was the first real quality instrument that I ever had and probably will have for a long time - even though it's only an 03 model, it still is the best piece of gear I own by far.

You might want to get an estimate on a repair from one of the reputable dealers on the forum and see if your church's insurance policy might cover the cost of repair.

-Scott

[Trinity Guitars]

Jim,

Are you still making guitars?

Yes I am still making guitars. Have a classical Eight string, Trinity bent top Pat. Pending, and a very cool quilted maple 1600 parlor. The parlor will be a steel string!. These are amazing little guitars. You can see the process of building these guitars at http://www.trinityguitars.com/CP.htm

[Trinity Guitars]

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this guy kid was pretending he was mary poppins .... swinging my amp like a suitcase and he clipped my D-60 and sent it crashing to the ground .

It was the night before Christmas and all throught the church.
There were children a runnen with out a care.....

One of them ran into one of these big balk music stands and sent it crashing into the top of my Trinity Guitar I had built for myself. The guitar flipped into the air did a back flip and landed on it top on the floor. There were wood chips in the path! It survived with a huge gouge in the top , now repaired but visable. This all happened abopuy 2 Mins. before I had to start playing to a packed church. I was a sad Chrismas eve for me and my guitar.  

[Caleb]

jim...

those trinity guitars look very nice.  great work!

btw, i lead worship with my larrivee dread each week.  i can't imagine a more balanced guitar than my larrivee.  a true value/quality based product for the working musician.

[bing4sons]

Very nice Jim!  I'd love to build a guitar someday.

I've been doing the music for the kids at our church for the last 4 or 5 years.  We now have a full band and do 3 services every Sunday.  A few years ago, before we built our own building, we were still doing 2 services.  After finishing the worship time at the 1st service with the kids, I went back over to the main service to catch the remainder of the service.

Whan I returned, the headstock of my Taylor had a gouge taken out.  The childrens minister we had at the time, had knocked over my guitar stand.  The guitar and stand fell off of the 1 ft high stage, directly onto the headstock.

The childrens minister said, "we can buy you a new one, if we need to".  I could tell she was thinking it probably cost a couple hundred dollars.  I said, "I don't think you know how much this cost".  

Anyway, while being sad that the guitar got knocked over, I was extremely grateful that their was NO damage to the neck.  I had the headstock sealed and don't even notice it today.  However, I make sure that my guitars are on a section of the stage, where they can't be easily knocked over.