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aldude
climber
Monument Manor
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When I need the CRUNCH : 68'SG w/mini Humbuckers & JCM2000 stack (left the other cabinet out - too towering!!)
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Always buy the best guitar you can't afford.
I've spent the last decade doing just that and believe great instruments inspire us to work harder at our music. Currently driving a 1935 D28, a much better guitar than I am a musician. Remember, it's not that life's so short but that we're dead for so long!
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Aldude, that is about as sweet as it gets! I'm still kickin myself for getting rid of my Guild SG copy in the late 70's. It was black like this one, they're now going for just under 2 grand, merde! I think I needed the money for skis or something.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Tuning it UP!
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D.Eubanks
climber
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Always buy the best you can't afford. Great instruments inspire us to work harder at our music.
That's a good one Chief.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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SWEET Swanson....hey you gonna come down for the Josh Gig?
Chief.....that's so dog damn sweet a '35 D brazillian...the sweet smell of brazillian, Oh God the stories that guitar must have!
Peace
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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good about splurging by telling me i did the i right thing
what the old lady don't know, won't hurt her. Tell her it's a used rental you bought.
Trouble is, I have a feeling you're gunna gush about it, seein how you're in love with it and all.
Maybe best just to come clean, and get good on it. The ladies love a rock star. g'naw mean?
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Chinchen
climber
Way out there....
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I want an SG baaaadly.
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Spike Flavis
Trad climber
Truckee California
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You did the right thing. You'll have to practice extra hard and maybe study with a teacher to justify it. I play upright bass and I always get my monies worth out of music, climbing, skiing and cycling gear. You'll get over the guilt soon enough. Enjoy. I'm a nurse and used to take care of cancer patients staring death in the face. The most common regret was working too much. Enjoy your new axe.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Spike, got to see and double bass player the other night...Esperanza Spalding, one of the BEST performances I've ever seen. She played at USC, Bovart Hall, great place to see concerts, small venue, built for sound and every seat is great. Sat 9th row dead center. She can play. Got our tickets back in November, when she won the Grammy it sold out immediately
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xfG-dJFbxc
Peace
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D.Eubanks
climber
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On the right is a D-28 75th Anniversary only made in 2009. Instead of Brazilian rosewood, they used Solid Madagascar back & sides, Adirondack spruce top and Waverly tuners.
The left is a CSN Special Edition Tribute guitar in The Memory of Gerry Tolman who was one their managers that was killed in a car accident in California on New Year's Eve, 2005. With a portion of the proceeds going to the Tolman estate to fund college for his two children.
On the headstock is the CSN intertwined logo designed by Phil Hartman. Inlays of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's personal logos comprise the position markers: Crosby's "schooner" at the 5th fret, Still's "Southern Cross" at the 7th through 9th frets, Nash's "winged heart" at the 12th and Neil Young's "broken arrow" at the 15th. A cat's eye on the 17th completes the markers. East Indian rosewood back & sides, Engelmann spruce top.
This was all Crosby, Stills and Nash's idea to do this project and was their design in the guitar.
Salad, they were way out of my price range. I just forced it and made it happen with no regrets.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Freakin NICE guitars Dana. LOVE the bridge on the CSN guitar, kinda a diamond belly bridge...never have seen one of those before, or am I seeing a lighting thingy? The inlay detail is really nice as well. Yer a LUCKY dude to have those in yer hands. Can't wait to come up and see your guitars.....uh I mean, see you!
Peace Brother
Ron
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Bump with the other guitar thread.
How appropriate to get #69!
Peace
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strangeday
Social climber
The O.C. baby!!
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Nice choice!! It's always better to get a little more guitar than you need. I used to work for Taylor in the early 2000, and larry Breedlove was my boss. Breedlove guitars are great, but I would recommend getting a good in case humidifier, depending on where you live. Breedlove guitars, like the larivee that I own, seem really susceptible to humidity changes, and the cracking asscociated with it. Treat her nice, and your kids, kids will still be strumming it!! Enjoy...
BTW: I'm still waiting on my prs mcarty. I made a deal with the wife years ago. I gave up my right to own a motorcycle( a ducati 996), for the right to by a prs and a Mesa boogie mkIV... Was hard to do, but sometimes you gotta deal with the devil to get what you want....
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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I'd take the PRS and Mesa over the Ducati anyday (but I already have a Harley, so...)
Almost pulled the trigger on several PRSs over the years. Love 'em. Looking for an older one though, probably a Custom 24
Wonder if any of you have played any JET guitars?
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gonamok
climber
dont make me come over there
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I have a '71 blonde ash strat with maple neck that Ive been playing for 40 years. I have refit every part of it over the years, and its like a part of me. The tone is exquisite and it plays as smooth as silk. I dont need another guitar, but wouldnt mind bagging a 1960's ES-335.
I go to guitar center and play the new Les Pauls and all these other $5,000+ guitars, and they sound and play like sh*t. They definately dont make em like they used to.
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gonamok
climber
dont make me come over there
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Locker, that gold Les Paul looks just like the first good guitar I ever owned - a brand spanking new '69 Les Paul DeLuxe in gold metal flake. I saved every penny I made bagging groceries one summer until I had $325.00 (the full price with hardshell case). I was one happy boy when I walked out of the music store with that baby.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Just another vote of encouragement to buy the "best" instrument you can afford. It's been said many times upthread, but well worth repeating: if you like playing the instrument, for whatever reason (tone, comfy feel, response, inspiration, whatever), then you will play it more, and you'll improve by leaps and bounds. Don't worry that you're not good enough for it. Technique is almost irrelevant on a really great sounding instrument, at least at first, but it will follow. Tone and playability are probably the most important for that. If you love just having the thing in your hands, and are happy as anything to just pluck a string and hear it go, well then that's a good sign. I don't think a guitar that simply looks cool, or that you've been lusting after in the shop window or a catalog, would give you the same sort of tactile and aural obsessiveness as one that feels and sounds great. The "best" instrument is the one that you can't put down. When I first upgraded to a decent banjo, I seriously could NOT put it down. That, in turn, made a world of difference for my playing, and the enjoyment I got out of it increased steeply for quite some time. It sounded amazing, and before long I sounded pretty good too, and then I could get more out of it, and then it sounded even more amazing, and around and around we went.
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