looks like I'll have to borrow a camera.. although my pride and joy is the mid 90's Ibanez les Paul rip off (yeah the one they got sued for! for making an almost exact copy :) ) although it has active electronics and for my money (which there isn't much of) it was a helluv a deal, the thing that annoys the hell out of me though is a friend of mine was hard up for cash and sold his 1988 jcm800 Marshall 50 watt and Cab for 500$, if only I had had the money at the time... it's my dream amp, other than an Orange...drool drool. ah well, maybe next life.

I love guitars. I don't know the first thing about them, but I like them. I can play a little on my accoustic from the 1970s. Thats all I know.

I think my acoustic is around here somewhere...I know it's not in Philly...hmmm...

hey speaking of guitars and basseseses... if ANYONE comes across a Yamaha Motion B II in reasonable shape for sale, please let me know. they are impossible to find. it is a medium scale bass with a 32" neck and 24 frets. the sweetest sounds ever roll from the strings of this 4 string beauty.

Here is my baby; 1988 Yamaha FG-400A. Given to me by my dear departed Mom, so lots of sentimental value. I am in the process of getting a real bone nut and bridge done to replace the plastic ones, as I haven't played in a while and I broke the original nut off cleaning it. The two electrics are the ones used by Trey Anastasio and are custom-made hollowbodies AND I WANT THEM!!! Apparently they are virtually identical except the top wood is different...

My guitars are at diametrically opposite ends of the spectrum...Martin HD 28, Epiphone Les Paul Studio (with Roland synth pickup), and Dean Edge One Bass.

...the Martin is unreasonably expensive, the Epi is ridiculously cheap (although a really nice playing and sounding guitar), and the Dean somewhere at the low end of in-between.

Your acoustic is from the 1970's, or the songs are from the 1970's? :lol:

There are some *very* nice 70's vintage acoustics out there. They still made many of them in Japan back in those days, and there are some killer guitars to be had at very nice prices if one knows what to look for.

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not the actual guitar, but close enough. this is what my electric looks like. except i have a humbucking pickup installed from my heavy metal phase,and a steal your face sticker on that little round part on the top thingy where all the knobs are from my dead head days. same color, tho. it's an 87 or 89...i cant seem to pin that down. after seeing some of the prices on the ones at guitar center, i'm starting to wonder how much it's worth. it was something like $440 when i got it, and i saw one onlne for $1700. maybe that one was something special. mine's an american standard. i cant seem to find the guitar blue book online.

I wish I actually knew more about electrics than I do. I, for the life of me, do not know why I would want a $1,800.00 Strat American Standard over a $900.00 Strat American Standard.

Obviously, I'm not enough of a player to know the difference when playing them.

but that hd28 IS worth the extra thousand, isnt it? damn straight.

Well, acoustics are something that I *do* know something about...and yes, yes it is. Every penny.

It is the guitar I dreamed about owning for the first 34 years I played, and I've had it for the last four. I love it. It is the one thing that I will starve before selling.

the difference between a $5 cigar and a $25 cigar is minute. the difference between guitars over $1500 and those under $1000 is pretty extreme, imo. the action on this martin I got is very similar to my strat. nnice and low, and light. clean as raindrops, too. and when i bang on it, it gets loud without rattling itself. very impressive. my dad has the HD35, and i'd played that a good bit. maybe thats why it felt so familiar and right.

To my ears and hands, there are worlds of difference between a high end acoustic and a cheaper model. I've never really been able to discern that same difference in electrics. Oh, sure, there are neck profiles I am more comfortable playing (original Strat necks and Gibson SG necks come to mind most often), and there are even some playability points that are present in more expensive electrics that I can appreciate, but I've played the $900 "starter" American Standard Strats and I've played the $2k American Standards, and I just can't see it somehow.

All this means is that, when I go finally get that Strat, it will be a $900 one. Hell, I had a Mexican Strat for a couple of years, and it played great. Sounded like shit, but it played very nicely.

Enjoy that 35, LJ. Sounds like you cut a great deal. I bought my HD 28 brand new at MARS before they went bust, and I still feel like it was worth every penny (and no, no one charges full list for anything in guitars anymore...I don't even know why they bother to note it anywhere).

My next Fender is going to be a G&L. I tried to sell one of my strats on consignment, and the shop owner basically said that he would use it as a "bad example" in order to sell new G&L's because they looked so much nicer. Dang if he wasn't right. There's a story about Leo Fender starting G&L to compete with Fender, but I don't know the details (and can't be bothered to look em up). However, pics=1k words..