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Post by Martin John Butler on May 27, 2017 17:49:59 GMT -6
No time to listen to the Tull tracks now, but Ian Anderson used a small Martin on his classic tracks.
I had to sell my gorgeous Tele and vintage ES335 last summer to pay medical bills. I was left with a $125 Squire 51 I used for students. It's a Frankenstien with a Tele neck and a Strat-ish body. Took it to a great luthier, he took off the neck, worked on the frets, set it up, and $100 later my 51' is a monster. All I need is a new pickup in the front, the stock one's noisy.
I also took my own advice, and got a used Les Paul studio. The pickups are killer. I prefer necks with a binding, but the Studio reminds me of the late 50's, early 60's cheapo Gibsons, like the LP Junior's. They had no bindings but played great. So cheap can be quite good sometimes, but you have to cherry pick them.
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Post by Guitar on May 27, 2017 18:19:42 GMT -6
Really digging the Jethro Tull, right now.
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Post by Johnkenn on May 27, 2017 20:41:43 GMT -6
I'm really talking about acoustics...
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Post by Guitar on May 27, 2017 21:23:47 GMT -6
I agree. It's not that hard to make an electric instrument sound or play respectable.
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Post by Martin John Butler on May 27, 2017 22:11:40 GMT -6
I remember my first acoustic guitar. It was an F hole Harmony. I kicked it around for years and years. One day I noticed it was missing. I'd left it at my parents house, but it wasn't anywhere to be found. Months later, after the winter's ice and snow melted, there it was, it had been buried in snow all winter long in the backyard where I'd left it one day. That thing still played well for more than a year, and then it basically disintegrated. It was cool because it kind of sounded electric, even though it was an acoustic. The Gretsch Rancher sounded similar, but better.
This thread's reminding me how much I liked the Rancher for slide. I'll probably grab another one eventually.
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Post by Guitar on May 28, 2017 9:25:49 GMT -6
I had a super-cheap Blueridge guitar that I loaned to a friend. He was living in some tiny trailer or something. It was already developing bridge and neck problems, things coming unglued.
One day he called me up all apologetic, buttering me up, and told me this big story about how he had just stepped on it and smashed it to bits. I wasn't even mad, hahaha.
Another friend of mine found a "free" Martin D-28 in the back of a cheap used car his dad bought.
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Post by iamasound on May 29, 2017 5:44:08 GMT -6
My old red Framus parlor size kid guitar from the early 60's with a crack in the front, worthless machines, a bridge that needs to be filled in and re-slotted so that the strings don't get stuck and then give to pull it out of tune in the middle of the coolest lick I ever played, the one that always seems to rip up my middle finger skin under the nail because it has a flat non radius fingerboard and said finger thinks that it will be landing somewhere else, and the one that when eq'd just right that sounds novel and perfect when played with a glass slide...that one? I couldn't even give it away but never would because it is perfect in it's imperfection. I love this old guitar with the cute Disney dog sticker glued onto the headstock by some kid in maybe 1967, semi bowled back crazy little guitfiddle monster of a guitar.
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Post by lcr on May 29, 2017 7:23:44 GMT -6
Not sure if its been mentioned yet, but cheap guitars work really well for nashville tuning. I have a generic baby taylor copy that Ive used for years for this. I recently restrung it standard and the nut broke!
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Post by winetree on May 29, 2017 16:01:11 GMT -6
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Post by stratboy on May 31, 2017 6:37:46 GMT -6
I still have my first guitar, a Yamaha FG-110. I've had it for 45 years. Plywood top, so the bass sounds like cardboard and the treble lacks sparkle. It has a DeArmond pickup in the sound hole and is a great trashy-sounding guitar. It's right next to my Taylor, and I pick them both up about the same amount. Still fun to play! Look for those old Yamahas. FG-110 and 180. They would probably fill the bill for trashy sounding, good playing acoustic guitars.
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Post by veggieryan on May 31, 2017 11:21:34 GMT -6
I still have my first guitar, a Yamaha FG-110. I've had it for 45 years. Plywood top, so the bass sounds like cardboard and the treble lacks sparkle. It has a DeArmond pickup in the sound hole and is a great trashy-sounding guitar. It's right next to my Taylor, and I pick them both up about the same amount. Still fun to play! Look for those old Yamahas. FG-110 and 180. They would probably fill the bill for trashy sounding, good playing acoustic guitars. Agreed.... there is something magically trashy about those old red label Yamaha FG-180's etc... Elliott Smith did most of his recordings with one. At the end of the day they still sound like plywood but at least they are built lightly and braced lightly enough to bloom and the plywood has aged by now. Compared to my vintage acoustics they just can't hold a candle but they do blow away most of the modern cheap acoustics out there. I keep mine around for a beach/camp guitar and for that Elliott Smith sound for some songs. Now, Eastman does make some killer cheap guitars but you have to look at that gorgeous 3D rippled mahogany and know that some east Asian rainforest was freshly destroyed in a quasi-legal way and it just feels wrong.
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