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The Guild story really reminds me of a guitar I own. Ten years ago as a teen I went into Wunjo Guitars on Denmark Street when I was there on holiday with my family, and played a 1920 Gibson L1 archtop. The originally black guitar was sanded down to bare wood and it had had a lot of work done over the years (also a fair crack on the back), but all of a sudden this very vintage instrument was within reach of a 16 year old who was looking for a companion and not per se a highly collectible museum piece. I left the store without it, but feeling deep down I had to come back. The day after that my parents told me that I should just call and if it was still there it was meant to be. To this day I'm very grateful it was meant to be, and I hauled it right back across the Channel.
Very nice story! I've missed out on so many guitars. The worst was my very first guitar, a nice korwan late 90s Epi LP with a really crazy flamed top, which I pawned when I need gas and food in college. I of course didnt have the money to pick it up by the daye and he sold it. Later the pawn shop got it again and called me, but by the time I got there that same day another employee had sold it. The guy who called just said "first come first serve" even though he'd agreed to set it aside for a few hours. Dick
Even with all the Gibsons and Fenders and others I've owned since, I still hate myself for losing that one.
Why was this not called "Spender and the Fender"? Great video Mary, thanks.
So my father once said “I could have retired 10 years earlier if it hadn’t been for my love of cars”. Well he’s still retired and has a lot of fantastic stories and memories. Buy that guitar, I know I do and will!
Back in the later '70s, I bought a 1968 (Hendrix-era) Strat - obscenely cheap, even for the period (back when a lot of old ones were still easy to find in neighborhood shops). Today, it's worth a ridiculous amount of money (a LOT more than my car is worth)! While it's unquestionably a wonderful guitar, I would never spend what it would cost today. Because what you're mostly buying is a sense of history and legacy. And the amount of top-quality equipment and guitars you could buy for that same amount would be considerable. Only if money is no issue should such a purchase ever be considered!
When you say “yes, yes I would” I feel utter joy. I fully understand. Life is short and there is nothing like playing an instrument that completes you.
Great vid Mary. Thanks for all you do for us. You're awesome. Much love from Australia
We all have instrument regrets / triumphs it's part of a musicians life. Cheers
Steal his wallet and you make him poor for a week, teach him how to play guitar and you will make him poor for his whole life :P
That start sounded amazing
looking well Mary. super fun vid
That Guild sounded just brilliant!
I bought myself a custom shop 1955 fender Stratocaster in taos turquoise & I took it to a good friend of mine who’s been a gigging musician for a long time & took one look at it, & it needed the smallest of adjustments, after making adjustments, he plugs it in & as he’s playing it, he says that he had a 55 strat back in the 70’s,after playing it for around 30 minutes,he says “let’s have a cuppa”,& over this cuppa he says it plays exactly the same as his 55. Even down to the tweed case.
Great Video Mary Thanks for Posting, I Love that Channel
I totally understand the heartbreak! Has happened to me on many an occasion! That Strat or that Guild would be so special! Sorry for you loss!
I have been playing for 60 years ... My first guitar was a 1954 Stratocaster; my second was a 1964. Most of my playing time has been on Stratocasters. My personal feeling is that the '56 Stratocaster is the archetypical Fender sound. And you should buy most anything for $1000 with a DeArmond on it!
There has to be a whole world of "The Ones That Got Away" - my personal story is about a Gibson 330 - dog ear P90s and trapeze tailpiece - which I failed to buy at £85.
If anyone has a time machine I'd like to borrow it.
Doug read my comment brother
I understand...my 330 story involves one that had humbuckers installed (the P90s were in the case). It played like a dream and sounded great. Would have been $200US in 1981 which would have still been a bargain.
Mine is the bill Murray Garfield guitar I saw on reverb
No doubt! 😲😎🤘🎸
Please pass that time machine to me when you're done, so I can get back my Gibson ES-125 with black P-90 that I bought for $250 and sold for about $350 a couple years later like an idiot and the Gibson ES-175D in near mint shape that I received as collateral for some contraband(!) and sold a year later for $450. These were both back in the early '80's and I'm still kicking myself. Both were great players with purrrfect necks and great tone. Oh well, I have some other nice ones. Like my '67 Guild T-100 Slim Jim that's identical to the one that slipped through Mary's fingers (the 2nd one, at 5:16). See my other comment for that love at first play and immediate purchase story.
Dear Mary, your talent and genuine enthusiasm for music, writing and playing is beyond where the particular instrument matters all that much. I’ve been at this a long time and have learned that while may be some exceptional vintage instruments out there, guitars today are designed and built better than ever! Vintage is great if you can afford it and it all works out, but it’s totally not necessary or essential. The musical ideas are way more important than the particular instrument!
My dad played a guild sunburst from the 70s to this year he just passed away, if it wasn't new when he got it it was slightly used and I just love it
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Hope you will do more of these!
That's a beautiful strat
Another great video to watch mary kedp it up for more God bless...
I’ve bought 3 guitars from CME…great store!
Come back to Chicago soon!!!
The spender wasn't spending and it was a bad ending
I liked this video and hope you do more of these in the future. If you end up getting one of those Guilds I expect a follow up video of it or any of these guitars.
I can remember it like it was yesterday, when back in the late 1970's (yes, Mary, way before you were born) I was at World of Music, a small local music store in Cupertino, CA (long gone now), where I had my first serious guitar lessons with Dean Kamei (later studio classical player/teacher in San Francisco) and Bruce Buckingham (later taught at GIT). I was just beyond a high school garage band guitar player, just starting to seriously get into jazz. I used to occasionally stop by to hang a bit and this one day I pulled down a thin f-hole arch top Guild off the high racks. The small white tag dangling off one of the tuning pegs said, T-100 $225. I sat down with it and within a moment I knew this guitar was not coming out of my hands and it was going home with me. I eventually brought myself off of the stool to Larry Sweet, the owner behind the cash register, and he picked it up to play it his last time with a big smile. Those old Guilds are just players with the sweetest necks. Back then you could pick up old Guilds and Gibsons so cheap compared to today. I was surprised to see the Slim Jim on Reverb for about a thousand dollars now, often T-100D's (with dual pickups). Earlier ones came with Guild's Franz P-90 type pickups - different from the "Mickey Mouse" DeArmond pickups like mine and the one in your video. I looked up the serial number in my Gruhn's Guide and it's an early 1967, around the end of February. It's been my "banger" for decades. To be honest I never treated it like a vintage collector's guitar since it's actually a lower line Guild and the finish is rubbed off a bit here and there (as they pretty much all are), but now there's a growing following and it's deserving more respect from me! Mary, hang in there. They come up occasionally. You'll find one. There are also people in the biz, as you probably know, that can find one for you. You might try Phil Emerson. He has a channel on YT. He used to own South Seas Guitars in Monterey. He found me my #1 baby, my 1968 Epiphone Howard Roberts (better than the later Gibson version). That was a few decades ago now, but he was a super cool guy and got me a good deal and a phenomenal guitar.
That Guild was beautiful sounding and with your voice singing against that tone quality oh my goodness
@MarySpender Greetings again from Marine City Michigan. I AGREE 10 FOLD that second GUILD you were playing was the star of you video!!!!!! What a great unique and incredible tone!!!!!! Never heard anything like that before. Wish you able to buy it and would have absolutely loved the music you would have made with it. "D"
The Guild you were playing was obviously inspirational, and the licks you were throwing down were really good - at least to me. It was taking you off into your bluesy side.
The only other one that took you there was a Washburn hollow body, that IIRC was someplace in Germany ...
The vintage market is Cabbage Patch Kids and Beanie Babies. Rap has been the dominant form of 'music' since the mid 80s. The generation that cared about the type of sounds vintage instruments produce will soon be gone and nothing exists to replace them.
Really interesting video, Mary! 😊
That 1966 Gild had fantastic tone.
I would’ve bought it in a heartbeat.
Mary Mary I totally understand about regrets of not purchaseing
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The Guild, Jazz box, something else!.....................🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😎✍🏼
I'm 65 (1956) was playing when there was no vintage market so you can't imagine the guitars I could have had cheap! Bought a 1973 Tele Custom cause was shiny and new instead of a 63' ES335 or a 58' strat, cause they were old!
In 1969 I bought a 1956 Fender Stratocaster for $130. I still have it today 05/04/2022. And I have the receipt in the original CASE.
Editor John with the Annual Pass T-shirt..! Nice, John..! (fellow RT enthusiast, here)
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Great video! The fretless looks awesome.
Yes, No, Maybe. .... it depends on whether I have the money and whether or not I will actually to put it to use as opposed it collecting sand dunes on my wall. My father's guitar hangs on my wall is already doing that. My Dad's old guitar is a beautiful Ibanez Semi Hollow LP-style guitar. The guild is exquisite. I would consider buying the guild if i had the $$$ as it is a 1966 and that is the year of my birth. The others not so much. I think I would buy the guild and put it to use.
Didn’t get to play it because it was in the window of the little shop by me, and I was a poor teenager who couldn’t afford it anyway (Just bought a new 60-watt Marshall amp about a month earlier, drained my savings), it was a Kramer, can’t recall the model name, but it was black with 3 mini-toggle switches (probably coil spilts for the bridge humbucker and the 2 rail pickups, it had 2 knobs and a 5 way switch too) and a Floyd Rose and it just looked so much cooler than the cheap strat copy I was playing back then. I occasionally do image searches and I can’t find it (there’s at least one model with 1 knob and 3 on-off pickup switches, but that’s not it).
Haha!! I’ve been in that little practice room. Sad to tell you that Dinkels bakery across the street from CME has closed down. 😕
One of my younger sister's boyfriends left a '58, that his uncle had given him, at our house, while he went into the military. I was somewhat excited. The dude didn't last three weeks before he was AWOL and back at our house to collect his 58 Strat. Damn it. I bought a Fender Lead I about a month later. 1983.
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The guy went on to earn a living with that strat, in LA.
If the vintage bubble suddenly pops I wonder how many will suddenly stop sounding magical.
My dear friend, Dr Roger Maltz (RIP), took me there back in the early 2000s. It was overwhelming for me. Fortunately, I didn't get to spend more than an hour. I would have bought that Guild if I had seen it then, no question. I'd probably buy all of them, if I had the money.
It's gonna keep going up. Ten years ago or thereabout, I was acquainted with a guy who owned a '62 Strat bought new, one owner. At the time (2013?) he claimed it was worth $20,000 and I would have believed every penny of it. Of course, he was incredibly protective as he should have been--never let it out of his presence. I had the good fortune to hear him play blues on it for a corporate party. (Sidelight: his bassist for the gig was someone who had played with *Stevie Ray Vaughan* back in the day when Stevie was more or less a guitar-hero nobody in Austin.)
Would you have bought that '56 Strat because of its vintage collectability or because of the way it played and sounded? Is there any point in a guitarist buying a guitar that they might be too afraid to play?
I've got a Revstar lefty coming from CME. I went to Chicago to see Nita Strauss in a small club and had a chance to play about $30,000 worth of lefties at CME and not once did they give me grief that I didn't buy one that day. That's why I'm buying my new Yamaha Revstar Standard from CME.
Hi, Mary!! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
Mary, I'd love to see a video series where you go to the lutherie school at Crimson and build your dream guitar.
I still have an old Trader publication listing musical instruments among the usual cars and couches. It’s dated 1980 and Charvels and Jackson’s are fetching thousands. Listed as well, a 1956 Fender Stratocaster, in VGC (Very Good Condition) for $450USD.
Every time I uncover that newspaper I ache inside. I had the cash.
Well,at least you didnt have it in your hand and still turn it down like I did.
I bought my 74 Strat in 1977 for just $275. I have had it ever since and I'll never let it go. I also bought a 68 SG around the same time for about the same price. But I didn't buy them because I thought they would be worth a lot of money one day. I bought them because they are fun guitars to play.
Guitars are like cars, you can watch 20 reviews telling you how brilliant it is and you convince yourself that its the one for you but when you actually try it its not quite as good as you hoped and the neck just doesn't feel comfortable or the driving position is not right. Then you happen across something that wasn't on your radar and it feels so right. Maybe because your expectations aren't pre set but the bond is instant. If you don't act on that bond and your head over rules you heart it is always regretted later. My biggest guitar store regret was in the eighties ... a Rosewood Tele (George Harrison ). Ive never forgotten how special that felt . I was in punk bands at the time so totally inappropriate but I looked in on it every week and was crestfallen when it sold!
My parents gave me my first electric guitar in about 1964 or 65. It was a sunburst fender stratocaster that they bought second hand. For $125 Canadian, or about $116 US back then!
It was great, though i didn't realize how great at the time. I never found out when it was built, but thought it was some Time in the late 50's. It looked exactly like the one Mary didn't buy.
When my band decided to go more acoustic, I traded it for a guild hollow body - fool that I was! I never realized I'd miss it as much as I did, or that it's value would likely surpass the full purchase price of the guild, which was maybe $300 at the time.
The fretless guitar was wild looking. Love it!
I love your vids Mary. The side look off camera, your trademark move very good
As much as I (would) enjoy a high end instrument, it's be interesting to hear you seeing what you can sound like with your old Pacifica (which is closer to my budget). I suspect you will still sound amazing.
I’ve got a huge collection of mostly UK guitar mags dating from about 1995 onwards looking through the classified ads there’s 60s Strats selling for 2.5 or 3 grand, Gibson Les Paul Juniors 50s models for 1500 quid Les Pauls from late 60s for less 2 grand, pre CBS Jaguars for around 1200 quid, there was even a 59 Les Paul standard in an actual dealers for 50 grand Ono a lot of money but if I knew now what I knew then I would have remortgaged my house to buy some of these. It’s only really the last 20 odd years that the vintage market exploded.
Luckily I do own a few vintage guitars now but never paid these ridiculously low sums for them
The metal guitar got me like 😃, the feel of that neck must be heaven
.. that Guild though .. yeah .. that one would have been going home with me if I'd had the jingle in my pocket .. easy sale/buy ..
Fretless? Welcome to my world; I play the violin. But I gotta say, you sound good on the smooth fingerboard.
BTW, I have an older Guild jazz guitar - they are one of the most incredible values out there - wonderfully made, great tone - and they are of amazing quality and built like tanks.
Fun video Mary... that fretless one is what I'd like to know more about. I've always thought a fretless guitar would be interesting, at the very least! 😎🤘🎸🐦
Shout out to your editor Jon (or John depending on how they spell their name) for being an 'Annual Pass' podcast fan/Rooster Teeth fan (the photo shows him in an Annual Pass t-shirt)
Haha good eyes 👀 😂
Back in 2006 I went with my uncle to buy an amp from our local store. The shop guy said to pick anything off the shelf to try the amp out. Picked up a 1976 explorer and used it to try out an MG100 combo.... if only I knew that the edge was going around snatching them up haha
Excellent video and great information. Sometimes you just need to go with your "gut". If it feels right and sounds great, there is always a way we can afford it although we may have to give something up later. Excellent and informative video!!
Hi Mary, since I started to play the guitar over 40 years ago I have passed on and missed out on various guitar's. Don't be too concerned about it . I came to the conclusion long ago that most guitars are generic creations that are not very well designed for individual musicians and their designs fall short of what I would describe myself as musical instruments. Allthough they may have some nostalgia and 💰 money reward
benifits. They will not make you a better 💔 person or player , that comes from within you and your passion and most of all your knowledge of the fretboard matrix your instrument must also have a good connection with your brain and have an ergonomic connexion. Best regards to you hope you discover you mojo. .John.
I remember watching them the first time the videos were published and I agree about the Guild... it was a steal at that price! I too have a similar story about a Fender Broadcaster (of all guitars) I'd rather forget.
Watching your heart break all over again for the Guild made my heart break by proxy. I know how that do, but luckily I was able to track down a similar model via reverb eventually (took me near on 10 years, but that's because it's just a stupid hard to find guitar).
Find that Guild, Mary. Find it, get it, and never let it go!
Mine was an amp. Vox AC30 with original celestion blues from 1960s. I had the chance to pay £90 for it, but they are heavy things and I had no car then.
If you ever get to the US again, Atomic Music just north of DC is insane. They have a huge inventory and some of the STRANGEST instruments I've ever run across. They're a used shop (pawn shop in reality) and their inventory changes daily. I missed a 12 string acoustic there a few years back; went back to buy it 2 days later and it was gone.
My 'daily driver' is a Yairi DY-76 12-string which is the best sounding and playing 12 string I've ever picked up. It's a hand-made Japanese equivalent to a high-end Martin, but I've never played its equal...
Is there a recorded version of which song you sang on the 1956 st show? I've listened to it many times, it's very good！
Get a fretless, you looked comfortable with it and it sounds good. Nice addition to the collection :)
The guitar I wish I had was a Taylor Dread made of Maple with blonde finish. I actually bought this guitar in 1991. It was great but only playable in the summer months. I live in the upper midwest and we have high 90s and RH at 60% in the summer. In the winter we have below zero and RH as low as 20%. I was told at the time that my guitar needed humidity in the winter. I tried using dampits and every other thing I could think of but the instrument would not stay hydrated in the winter. I hocked it since I couldn't play it or make it playable for someone else to buy it. Wish I kept it. There are much better hydration products available now. Always sort of bothered me that my Guild, my Alvarez Yairi, and my Martin Shenandoah played fine in the winter, but not that Taylor.
Always enjoy your videos. Slight twist to your question like desert island discs etc. If you could only take one guitar to a desert island (there is unlimited electricity on this island too so electrics allowed if you like), what would you take?
I have heard a few experts on vintage guitars and gear state that many Younger people in the market will not buy vintage. If that holds true in coming years when older players pass away many more may become available. GAS ( Guitar acquisition Syndrome ) as some call it has got many middle aged and older fellows like myself. When We pass on they will likely go up for sale. As a sometimes gigging not rich singer songwriter Myself I built My collection by buying Vintage that needed work at lower cost. Finding a good price is getting more and more challenging. Yourself and a few others I like on You tube make me think some might like seeing/hearing some of My vintage gear. More than a few Gibson Fender and others
I played a Guild "Slim Jim" a few times at a local guitar shop. It was selling for 2,000 CAD which I thought was a pretty good price. It had a different pickup than the one you were playing. Nice light hollow body guitar with a decent neck. I agree, they are very cool guitars and you should have bought it! :-) They are certainly still around, just not so common. I have a 70s Guild S100 with acorns carved into the wood and it is a great guitar to play. Clear pickguard and all the "G" patterns on the knobs made it extra awesome!
I own an original 58 Strat and a 61 refin and bought them both many years ago before
the prices soared . And yes they are great and I am a lucky guy to own them but I put together 3 parts guitars ,one with a 20 year old Dimarzio body flamed maple neck and a 50's rewound . 66 original an 70's strat pickup. total cost $3000. It sounds and plays great.
I'm hear to say you don,t need to spend 25 grand and put yourself in the poor house. It ain't what you play its how you play it.
I'm not into vintage guitars at all, but that Guild sounds gorgeous!
Wow, I just had a look at the guitar, it's a model I wouldn't pick up at a guitar sound, but the sounds...
Very seldom do I regret buying a guitar. If it happens, I sell it. But I am very happy with the the stable of guitars I have, including a Custom Shop '56 Strat ( not quite as cool as the one in your video but still wonderful). Please keep up your delightful creativity!
I had a stray copy as my first guitar as a teenager but I never really like it. I sold it and bought a Epiphone Les Paul. I really like the look of the tale and the Jaguar. John frusciante plays a 54 and s 56 I think?. You don't look any different Mary you certainly haven't aged.
I BORROW the money before someone else grabs a rare deal!!!
Let the Guild go completely and see how fast it comes back to you when you least expect it.
For me, there’s 3 acoustics I would’ve bought had I had the money for it. A Taylor, a Breedlove and a Preston Thompson. Ranging from 2700 to 4000. But I have the memory of playing them, and that’s okay. 👍🏼
I was offered a wood finish Les Paul in 1987, for £400. Super Strats were the big thing at the time and LP's were kind of, out of fashion. I was a big 'Page' fan, but I was 19 and pretty broke so didn't get it. Finally bought an LP (Gothic) in 2000.
I think that you would probably buy most if not all of the ones you take down from a wall and belt out a song on for a video because you are so passionate about who you are and what you do. The vids that show you really getting into the moment and focusing on your facial expressions you would undoubtedly buy if you could at that time. As for vintage guitars (anything really) I don't believe it to be an expansive or growing market insofar as pulling from other source demographics. Within the musical field (for instance) you will have buyers depending upon level just as in other fields but anybody else outside of that discipline might only do so for "idolizing" reasons or "gifting" etc. Usually, increased sales in markets such as those is only due to population increase who venture into said field as opposed to different demographic groups. Technically, it is how many vintage shops are created in the first place.
I'd love to talk to Norm at Norman's rare Guitars, or some other vintage experts. I saw the Vintage market take a dump during the horrible 2008-9 Financial collapse. Then prices slowly crept back up and THEN Covid hit and from my vantage point prices soared again. WEIRD.
Hi Mary
Off topic but pleased to see your music is on Tidal - no link made me wonder. Tidal pay much larger (10x plus) fees per stream
Also have you ever thought of doing a Cat Steven’s wild world cover as another aside you have around 200k more subscriptions than Cat/Yusef Steven’s. He did sell 60 million albums. The 1970s was a very different world. I think another wonderful idea would be my favourite singer song writers from pre 1950s and then each decade after. I think you would enjoy the research and maybe find some new inspiration from people you may not have listened to before. I am always surprised to find often they also wrote other favourite songs but never released them theirselves.
Joni Mitchell both sides now would also be a lovely cover.
The ones that got away? I began playing guitar in 1983. I was gifted from a friend a 74 strat. I traded it for a BC Rich warlock in 1986. I was an idiot
I have been debating about procuring a more high end custom acoustic guitar or a J200 Gibson. I have never played a J200 but lots of big time players use them. If you could review that ax, I would appreciate it!! Tx!
Buy them as you can, you live once but don't put yourself in a financial bind, stay flexible and visit a lot of stores trying them out. You tried one recently at Norms, how did it compare in play and price? Been a few years now. What do you think?
A bit of a bubble in the vintage market as prime guitars, 59s and 56s Fenders, are being purchased by Gen-X and Boomers who have had a terrific 13+ year run in the stock market. We shall see if this continues, but many think it will.
For you, the question is whether the specific instrument, significantly, elevates and inspires your playing. If so, it is a decision that requires little go-forward thought.
A guitar called. "Pad Max" sounds like a sanitary towel!
I’m in my later 70’s and don’t play guitar nor do I own a guitar now. I love listening to people who can play guitars though. I was wondering why the attraction to these older guitars compared to what can be bought today? Is it the same reason someone likes 60’s and 70’s cars or even older? I’m sure some of the newer guitars sound as good or possibly even better than some of the older guitars. I don’t think they can be compared to a Stradivarius violin which apparently wasn’t just the actual build quality it was also the finish and what it was made from. Just wondering.
My “the one that got away…” Around 2000 I was in Denmark Street, London over a lunchtime and saw a couple of Wal basses hanging on the wall. They had just come in and were being sold by Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet - including the maple topped one he used at Live Aid. It was even at a decent, non-celebrity price. I had a play, stuck it back on the wall and wandered back to work. That evening I mentioned it to my wife. She said “You should have bought it.” “Really?” “Yes, of course!” “What? Really really?” “Yes, go for it!” “OK, tomorrow I’ll pop back in.” I was busy all morning so went straight over at lunchtime. Of course, both had gone… :( My one big guitar (not) buying regret!
I thankfully have no regrets about buying or selling/giving away instruments. I have the 2 guitars that I drooled over. I bought a '57 custom champ amp and returned it stating that I couldn't justify having spent the amount I did on it. Do I regret it? Sometimes, but I know that they're still made, and that most of the coolness came from the marketing that I believed. I now understand after having spoken to a former Fender amp engineer that there's really nothing inherently special about a hand wired anything. We don't drive 1930s vehicles for reasons, and the new amps are just so much better technologically. I tried the ToneMaster amps and even the 4x10 amp that was insanely light for what it was and sounded great. We're connected to an idea of nostalgia and we let our ideas of an ideal past drive many of our purchasing decisions. I have a BassBreaker 15 which I bought from that engineer and it's a great amp. It can do just about any sound I want if I put the right pedal in front of it. I also have no use for anything louder as most people will rarely use the full 15 watts from most valve amps.
Most people go out and buy new gear because it's a lot more exciting to do that than it is to sit down for the amount of time required for them to work to earn enough for that new gear purchase and practice. I believe most of it is due to lack of inspiration and yes, the new gear will inspire them for a little while, but it's rarely what makes someone a better musician.
My one guitar regret was a 2015 Fender American Standard. It was not an attractive guitar, in my opinion. It was OD Green with a rosewood fret board, and off white knobs and pickguard. The volume and tone buttons were not aligned correctly on the guitar either. I know that's an easy fix, but it added some character. For me it was the ugly duckling in the store, but when I plugged it in and played it, it had a life that the others didn't seem to have. Went back a few weeks later, and it was already purchased.
I had a chance, back in 1968 or ‘69, 😊to buy an original Gibson firebird (three pickups, gold hardwear, factory white paint), along with a Gibson bass ( the 335-like semi hollow, sunburst, one pickup), and a fender piggyback bass an amp (black Rolex). They had been traded😮 in at an aviation service in exchange for flying lessons, and the owner of the place just wanted them out of the way. Prices? $150 for the Firebird (with case), $150 for the bass, and $200 for the amp-or $400 for the lot? By the time I’d mowed enough lawns to get the F’bird, the aviation guy had sold all three to a guy with $300 cash! Those were the days down in Mississippi.
I would like to hear you play, a decent Les Paul, in that bluesy, jazzy style! That could fit to your playing style! Really enjoy your Channel!👍🤘
That all-metal guitar, gave me an idea for what could become a interesting video, visiting luthier Rick Toone in NJ at the next US trip. He makes some really out of the box thinking high end guitars, including ones with an aluminium neck. Seems the fingerstyle playing and not being a traditional rock guitarist, would go well with Ricks trys to make the electric guitar ergonomically and technologically up to date. When Mary are into modern technology in cycling, why not also guitars.
Had a chance many, many years ago to buy my dream Strat, a '57 but I was poor. Now I'm doing alright but $25k+ is still outside my comfort zone. Just need to sell some things that I really don't want to sell or hit the lotto!
I would have killed for that Guild.
Hi, I bought in January a Mesa Mark V amp. I still haven’t received it. I cannot tell you how much I’m longing for it. Gaetano