Jonbouy
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 14:51:23
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Karyn
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The phrase "impluse buying" was originally coined with drummers in mind.
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I tried to get one today and the fishmonger said he was fresh out of impulses. I managed to buy a little body spray from Boots though which says 'Impulse' on it. Did I do good? I'm not that impressed really, it sounds just like my flea spray and nothing like a guitar. Maybe I'm not playing it right.
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 17:35:59
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I actually stopped buying guitars to collect vintage amps and vintage synths. Those do not hang from the walls well like the guitars do.
Oh
You also need some martins (2 here) and some taylors (3 here) and some odd and end other acoustics.
My pride and joys are my 56 strat (not a reissue), 52 ES295 and 64 Firebird VII. But I play my Mary Kaye reissue closet classic strat and my paisley tele and custom shop les paul and my SG about the most of anything. Except when I have to have the sound of a Gretsch or a Ricky.
Question from the uninformed - who is/was Mary Kaye? The only "Mary Kay" I know of is the lady who built the cosmetics empire (my wife sells MK from time to time). I'm assuming this is someone entirely different....?
http://wildwestguitars.com/fender/pages/mary_k.htm Some 50s singer/guitar player that Fender made a custom strat for. Many (including myself) believe it is the most attractive strat ever manufactured. See through blonde finish with gold hardware and a maple neck.  The 50s Mary Kayes are off the charts expensive. Mine is a custom shop Closet Classic (like a relic that wasn't abused). Maybe late 90s era. It is an awesome machine.
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 17:38:46
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Some people call me Maurice SPLAT Pro lifetime, ADK 6 core 3.6Ghz with 32 GB RAM, SSD 1TB system drive, 3 3TB regular drives for samples, recordings and misc. Behringer X Touch, UAD Apollo Quad. 2 UAD2 Quads PCI (i think - inside the box whatever that is), Console 1. More guitars (40??) and synths (hard and soft) than talent. Zendrum!!!
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Karyn
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 17:47:30
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Wow, you got a lot more in a trio than you do today...
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 18:26:45
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drewfx1
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Question from the uninformed - who is/was Mary Kaye? The only "Mary Kay" I know of is the lady who built the cosmetics empire (my wife sells MK from time to time). I'm assuming this is someone entirely different....?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kaye
As to the OP, you need at least one guitar for every pair of shoes she has.
Thanks much.
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 18:28:39
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space_cowboy
Russell.Whaley
space_cowboy
I actually stopped buying guitars to collect vintage amps and vintage synths. Those do not hang from the walls well like the guitars do.
Oh
You also need some martins (2 here) and some taylors (3 here) and some odd and end other acoustics.
My pride and joys are my 56 strat (not a reissue), 52 ES295 and 64 Firebird VII. But I play my Mary Kaye reissue closet classic strat and my paisley tele and custom shop les paul and my SG about the most of anything. Except when I have to have the sound of a Gretsch or a Ricky.
Question from the uninformed - who is/was Mary Kaye? The only "Mary Kay" I know of is the lady who built the cosmetics empire (my wife sells MK from time to time). I'm assuming this is someone entirely different....?
http://wildwestguitars.com/fender/pages/mary_k.htm
Some 50s singer/guitar player that Fender made a custom strat for. Many (including myself) believe it is the most attractive strat ever manufactured. See through blonde finish with gold hardware and a maple neck.
The 50s Mary Kayes are off the charts expensive. Mine is a custom shop Closet Classic (like a relic that wasn't abused). Maybe late 90s era. It is an awesome machine.
That is a gorgeous guitar.
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 19:07:55
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space_cowboy
Russell.Whaley
space_cowboy
I actually stopped buying guitars to collect vintage amps and vintage synths. Those do not hang from the walls well like the guitars do.
Oh
You also need some martins (2 here) and some taylors (3 here) and some odd and end other acoustics.
My pride and joys are my 56 strat (not a reissue), 52 ES295 and 64 Firebird VII. But I play my Mary Kaye reissue closet classic strat and my paisley tele and custom shop les paul and my SG about the most of anything. Except when I have to have the sound of a Gretsch or a Ricky.
Question from the uninformed - who is/was Mary Kaye? The only "Mary Kay" I know of is the lady who built the cosmetics empire (my wife sells MK from time to time). I'm assuming this is someone entirely different....?
http://wildwestguitars.com/fender/pages/mary_k.htm
Some 50s singer/guitar player that Fender made a custom strat for. Many (including myself) believe it is the most attractive strat ever manufactured. See through blonde finish with gold hardware and a maple neck.
The 50s Mary Kayes are off the charts expensive. Mine is a custom shop Closet Classic (like a relic that wasn't abused). Maybe late 90s era. It is an awesome machine.
That is a beautiful guitar.
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 19:22:09
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i wish i could a) afford and b) get the nod to buy just one nice guitar! i reckon if i sold my washburn, ibby and fender precision i could get almost enough to buy half a decent guitar...which half should i get?! even my ideal guitar is wrong - i want passive seymour duncans not actives! mid you just seen this very guitar for just £789...hmmm.... 
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jhughs
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 20:30:50
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Yikes – I should have known not to post this and then close my laptop. So much advice and humor I hardly know where to begin. I’m going to miss a lot of you (sorry in advance). First, I failed to mention that I HAVE purchased a bass, a Roland synth, an upright piano and a series of increasingly expensive violins. None of them for me. ;-( Marcos69 – You’re right. Nuff said. Spacey – Thanks for all the advice around Strats. I’m trying to figure out what the body on my 70’s era Start is because it weighs a hell of a lot more than my neighbor’s Strat. Karyn – You reminded me of something I saw a few years ago in a Guitar Center shop. It was a weekday evenening and there was this young woman who was all excited about the beautiful Les Paul she was buying her boyfriend for his birthday. Can you imagine? We need more significant others like that in the world!!!!! (Honestly, I half-hoped my family would’ve done something like that for me for my 50 th, but my wife knows how personal an instrument is….. but still.) Beagle – Cute avatar. No laser eyes. Hey, I’m heading to Austin. You reminded me, can you still get Bama pies in Texas? Bub – Brilliant! I need a rack that holds 6 guitars. Now the answer is obvious. Six… or more. Space_Cowboy – Cool. You’ve got the Steve Miller Wild Mountain Honey guitar. I saw him at Ravinia a couple years ago and he told us what he’d been offered for it. A few hundred thousand…. But he’s not selling. Well, I’m thinking I’ll start looking at these things and then maybe that lil’ ol’ Strat won’t look so bad. 
post edited by jhughs - 2011/01/24 20:33:07
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 21:26:08
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jhughs
Yikes – I should have known not to post this and then close my laptop.
So much advice and humor I hardly know where to begin. I’m going to miss a lot of you (sorry in advance).
First, I failed to mention that I HAVE purchased a bass, a Roland synth, an upright piano and a series of increasingly expensive violins. None of them for me. ;-(
Marcos69 – You’re right. Nuff said.
Spacey – Thanks for all the advice around Strats. I’m trying to figure out what the body on my 70’s era Start is because it weighs a hell of a lot more than my neighbor’s Strat.
Karyn – You reminded me of something I saw a few years ago in a Guitar Center shop. It was a weekday evenening and there was this young woman who was all excited about the beautiful Les Paul she was buying her boyfriend for his birthday. Can you imagine? We need more significant others like that in the world!!!!! (Honestly, I half-hoped my family would’ve done something like that for me for my 50th, but my wife knows how personal an instrument is….. but still.)
Beagle – Cute avatar. No laser eyes. Hey, I’m heading to Austin. You reminded me, can you still get Bama pies in Texas?
Bub – Brilliant! I need a rack that holds 6 guitars. Now the answer is obvious. Six… or more.
Space_Cowboy – Cool. You’ve got the Steve Miller Wild Mountain Honey guitar. I saw him at Ravinia a couple years ago and he told us what he’d been offered for it. A few hundred thousand…. But he’s not selling.
Well, I’m thinking I’ll start looking at these things and then maybe that lil’ ol’ Strat won’t look so bad.
Whoa what is the steve miller wild mountain honey guitar? Also, is that above a variation on a Chapmann Stick? I have one of those and have no idea what to do with it.
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Karyn
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 21:29:39
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Chap Stick is for dry, cracked lips.
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 22:20:04
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In this case, perhaps 10 of them. SInce there are 10 strings. Maybe I should get the beast back out and learn it. This is the chap stick I am talking about. I have not opened my case in maybe 5 years. You do not pick the thing! 
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 22:26:30
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Beagle – Cute avatar. No laser eyes. Hey, I’m heading to Austin. You reminded me, can you still get Bama pies in Texas? probably but I don't ever see them in the big cities - usually just on insterstate stops.
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 22:30:24
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Bama pies? Beagle are you from Bama? Is JHughs from Bama? I am an old LA boy myself (lower Alabama). 
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/24 22:34:53
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oh no no no! I'm not a Crimson!!! I'm Orange!
but they do sell those in truckstops in Tejas!
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/25 06:56:10
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OK, I said to myself I weren't gonna do it. But everyone is busting out the photos. Here's my wife's Ric 325v59:   
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/25 17:32:37
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Mike
I have a John Lennon model Ricky - Like yours but black and no Bigsby. My big ol fingers and that 3/4 scale fretboard do not play well together. Then again, my reach is about 12 octaves on that board. Hell the guitar is almost short enough to hit a whammy (if mine had one) with my left pinky while holding an A chord on the second fret.
But it sounds awesome - particularly through an AC30.
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/25 18:05:59
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Nice. That one is to small for me as well... it actually is my wife's. This one is my 25 and 1/2"...............record :-)    I have a friend who was the customer service department at Ric for a decade... he got to touch Mr Hall's Beatles signature album and everything... I asked him if it was cool to bolt a Bigsby on my 350... he said it will work fine... so someday I may do so. best regards, mike edit spelling
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jhughs
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/25 20:14:01
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I'm on the road so don't have proper time to respond but: 1) This is what I called the "Wild Mountain Honey" guitar. Steve said he found it in a bargain bin in Chicago. If you get a chance to watch "Steve Miller Band - Live from Chicago" he talks about it.  2) The image I posted was a Warr Guitar. Yes, it's like the Chapman Stick. 3) About the Bama pies. Sorry, I was born north of the Mason-Dixie line, but loved living in Dallas for seven years. All the becan references just remind me of the Bama pies. We don't don't have those up north..... so far as I know. :-(
post edited by jhughs - 2011/01/25 20:16:39
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Russell.Whaley
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/25 21:02:46
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I'm not sure I've seen them north of OKC. My wife was born in Birmingham AL and grew up in Montgomery... she's gotten me hooked on a number of Southern calories, Bama Pies among them. Fortunately (for my waistline, at least...), we don't have much of that stuff this far north. But there's always something else... 
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Re:How many guitars do I need?
2011/01/26 00:19:57
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jhughs
I'm on the road so don't have proper time to respond but:
1) This is what I called the "Wild Mountain Honey" guitar. Steve said he found it in a bargain bin in Chicago. If you get a chance to watch "Steve Miller Band - Live from Chicago" he talks about it. Hey I have one like that (but mine's a cheap Rogue STR-1). To me it's known as the "Close to the Edge guitar"  . Actually it's a copy of the famed Coral Electric Sitar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_sitar
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