Well I was talking guitars at work today with a friend and we came upon an interesting topic. He's gotten to do stage work for many different varied acts around town and we were talking about his crowning achievement, him meeting B.B. King a few years back. I told him how cool it would be to spend a few moments with a true guitar god like that and he said to me "I got to talk to him for about 2 minutes and I can barely remember what either him or I said because I couldn't stop looking at Lucille. I just wanted to grab it and play it for even 10 seconds." I got me thinking about my favorite players and their legendary guitars. Some of their guitars are almost as famous as they are. What would you rather do? Speak to a legend or play their guitar?

speak, to Angus and Kurt.... Angus cuz his guitars are just stock SGs (i think) and kurt because he would be a very interesting guy to have a conversation with

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Pixies

Oh, God.
That's a hard one.

I'd initially love to play Brian May's Red Special, but then there's the fear of me possibly damaging it in any way, shape, or form....dropping it, scratching it, bashing it into something accidentally, etc., etc.....



....I'd probably go with speaking with him.

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"If it's planned, it's boring." - Freddie Mercury

Lol I'd have to agree. I'd be pretty tongue tied meeting someone cool but still more confident in my speaking ability than my playing.

I would rather be able to bring my own guitar and just hang a day with Jeff Beck or Clapton and jam.

that would be cool.

Haha, I know!! Knowing me, as soon as I wrapped my hand around the Red Special's neck, any and all of my knowledge of the guitar would fly out of my head.

S'just how it is with me.

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"If it's planned, it's boring." - Freddie Mercury

I'd talk to the artist and shake their hand. While shaking their hand I'd hope that on some sort of telepathic level, some of their talent might transfer to me!!

I tried it a year ago on a guy who plays in a (very good) CCR cover band. It didn't work...

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MIM Std Tele, MIM HSS Strat, Homemade Mongrel Tele, Blues Jr, Champ600, coupla pedals...sweeeet!

Only serious guitar legend I ever met up close and shook his hand was Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown (I’ll give you kids a minute to Wikipedia him…
played with the incredibly great Freddie King, later with Professor Longhair…I‘ll wait while you look them up, too…)
…anywho…
It was at a small club venue. I met him, shook his hand, bought a t-shirt, button and cassette (yeah, cassette…it was a few years ago)
which he autographed for me. I shook his hand again and thanked him for his music.

Would I ask to play his guitar if I had the chance? Not really. I don’t like folks touchin’ my guitars, so I show the same respect towards them.
That said, it would be fun to let Eric Clapton play my Stratocaster, though.

Speak to the legend the guitar is nothing but a tool of the trade. It is the talent that is using the guitar that interest me.

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

I'd have to agree. I'd be much more interested in talking with somebody like Clapton, Paul McCartney, or Jimmy Page and hearing stories about life on the road. And hopefully getting some insight into their techniques and approaches to songwriting. Playing their main axes would be cool but I think the conversation would be much more interesting.

I'd rather talk to cobain than play his rig

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riley

This is a sweet topic haha good thinking!
Super hard to decide, as much as I'd kill to grab one of Adam Jones' custom silverbursts I think talking to him would be much cooler. Try and dig a little tone info out of his tinkered pedal boards, and hopefully it'd be true! haha

Culver City, CA 1996:
His axe wasn't handy so handshakes, small talk and a quick pic were the only options.



When I started my guitar journey several months ago, I remembered this night and hoped the touch of god would have rubbed off. It didn't.

-phil

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Then again, what do I know ... I've only been playin' for 6 months ... !

A Lady Bass Player offered me a dollar to play my bass, in front of the Lucky Number Grill on Halloween Night, I said no (She'd played it before in the control room at Studio Chicago), confessing the blues, or blue just for being blue.

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