bigmike
Well-known member
Hey,
I'm almost 60. I've been in love with guitars since the mid-50's when my folks made me take accordian lessons. Get this, it's 1957 and I'm dragging my accordian past all these Gibsons and Fenders in the music store in Northern California. There really aren't very many rock and roll stations around yet (though some are playing SOME rock and roll with the other music on the air).
It wasn't until I was like 15 that I had my own job and disposable income and got my first guitars. My first electric an Ibanez I saw at a International Trade Show in Chicago's old McCormick Place (yeah, the one that burned down and was rebuilt).
Fast forward to 1980. I'm 33 and working for IBM in Palo Alto. Every couple of days I go into downtown Palo ALto on my lunch break to look in music stores for deals. One day I find this baby in Drapers Music - a 1959 Gretsch Double Anniversary - two tone green with Filtertrons, an ebony fingerboard and big Bigsby tailpiece... It's got a 2nd knob near where the master volume is on the cutaway and a not stock phase switch down near the neck pickup volulme knob. With original stock case, price out the door $300.00 !!!! It was great !! Had the best tone and that vintage mojo that is hard to describe and can only be felt... Many years later after some beauty broke up with me I sold it. Went walking into a Guitar Center and had a group of salesmen following that two-tone gray case to the counter like I was Britney Spears in cut off shorts... Got $1100.00 and a new Strat for it.
Obiviously that was a big blunder. Tell me: what guitars have you had and let go of that you wish you still had, if you have pictures please post them. Here's a pic of me and the guitar circa 1980...
(MODERATORS: I put up a similiar thread earlier today and it quickly disappeared. If this is out of line or not an appropriate topic for this board, please PM me, if it is in the wrong location please PM me also. MANY THANKS !!!!!!!
I'm almost 60. I've been in love with guitars since the mid-50's when my folks made me take accordian lessons. Get this, it's 1957 and I'm dragging my accordian past all these Gibsons and Fenders in the music store in Northern California. There really aren't very many rock and roll stations around yet (though some are playing SOME rock and roll with the other music on the air).
It wasn't until I was like 15 that I had my own job and disposable income and got my first guitars. My first electric an Ibanez I saw at a International Trade Show in Chicago's old McCormick Place (yeah, the one that burned down and was rebuilt).
Fast forward to 1980. I'm 33 and working for IBM in Palo Alto. Every couple of days I go into downtown Palo ALto on my lunch break to look in music stores for deals. One day I find this baby in Drapers Music - a 1959 Gretsch Double Anniversary - two tone green with Filtertrons, an ebony fingerboard and big Bigsby tailpiece... It's got a 2nd knob near where the master volume is on the cutaway and a not stock phase switch down near the neck pickup volulme knob. With original stock case, price out the door $300.00 !!!! It was great !! Had the best tone and that vintage mojo that is hard to describe and can only be felt... Many years later after some beauty broke up with me I sold it. Went walking into a Guitar Center and had a group of salesmen following that two-tone gray case to the counter like I was Britney Spears in cut off shorts... Got $1100.00 and a new Strat for it.
Obiviously that was a big blunder. Tell me: what guitars have you had and let go of that you wish you still had, if you have pictures please post them. Here's a pic of me and the guitar circa 1980...
(MODERATORS: I put up a similiar thread earlier today and it quickly disappeared. If this is out of line or not an appropriate topic for this board, please PM me, if it is in the wrong location please PM me also. MANY THANKS !!!!!!!