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Post subject: What was the most memorable guitar you ever played?
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:35 am
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What was the most memorable guitar you ever played? Not necessarily owned or even coveted or evem thought was the best or most expensive, but the most memorable?

Here, it was a real James L. D'Aquisto carved-top. 'Knew a pro who was also a collector and oh, my. 'Must must be what a violinist experiences when they play a Stradivari or Guarneri.


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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:19 am
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The most memorable guitar would have to be a '63 Stratocaster with a hardtail bridge. It was everything a great guitar should be - it just said "play me", and rewarded in spades.
This Strat inspired me to play way beyond my ability. Played thtough a Marshall JTM 45 and a Fender Super Reverb linked together - the tone was simply amazing.


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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:26 pm
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Hello JSJH,

Abot 30 yrs ago the people at Sam Ash on
48th st. NYC were kind enough to let me play
a Gibson Citation.
That was quite a guitar.

Cheers.


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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:02 pm
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brand new american standard strat
tried it out in a music store, amazing guitar


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Gretsch 6119 Tennessee Rose. Very nice and versatile sounding guitar.

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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:18 pm
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I played a Gibson Les Paul that cost over $3500 on sale. Wasn't that great because probably it wasn't set up real well and had a high action, but I did like the light weight because it was chambered, which makes it a hollow body. I played a Beck. Loved it. Pickups are double coils and very mellow. Played a Hotrod '57 with the SCN neck/mid and a Dimarzio Stonezone humbucker in the bridge. That guitar plays very well for a humless, with the SCN and the Dimarzio really going together a lot better than the three SCNs on the Custom Shop Pro, which I also played. All great. I've got to tell you though, now that I've got it Hotrodded up, that my own Hotrod highway guitar is the greatest guitar I've ever played. It's got the three Custom Shop Texas Specials set up for a beautiful vintage tone with lots of edge when needed, the thin nitrocellulose, 22 good frets, low action, bridge saddles properly dialed in to match the 9.5 inch radius, five way switch . . . I can't believe it's so good.


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I'd have to say a mid 40's Gibson Super 400. A true work of art.

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A Butterscotch Telecaster with a Maple Neck that was in Midnight Music in Las Vegas. Being a Strat Man, and pretty broke at the time, I hesitated to buy it. Over night I changed my mind, decided to cut my trip short and put a down payment on it. It was gone by the time I got back to the store :(

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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:16 pm
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the most memorable for me and probaly always be the most memorable will be the only guitar i own(since im young and cant get guitars easyily) will be this Japanese guitar from either the late 60s or early 70s and it is a knock off of a stratocaster it wouldnt be that special if i had bought it but my older bro bought and gave it to me


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My guitar teachers 70s Telecaster...That was the planting of the seed for my Telecaster addiction...

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Post subject: Most memerable guitar
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:14 pm
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I got to play Mart Stuarts
Clarence White guitar!
I was hesitant but when Mart shoved it in my hands and said go on it wants to be payed
i hit a few quick chords and pulled the B bender
and said Thanks
SCARED THE Stuff outta me!!!
then i had to Open for him What a nice man


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Yeah--it's not a Fender but it was a Gibson 25/50 Anniversary Les Paul.
In a store--with no hope of affording it--but wow--whata guitars and what a sound.

According to a Les Paul site-
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he 25/50 model was issued to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Les Paul model (a year late, since 1977 was actually the 25th year), and the 50th anniversary of Les Paul's career in the music business.


The most memorable Fender?
A Strat that Paul Gilbert had previously played (it wasn't his--it was a music store's and he'd just done a clinic using it.) And not because he played it--but because it was nice.

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Post subject: Re: Most memerable guitar
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:13 pm
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kpmurphy62 wrote:
I got to play Mart Stuarts
Clarence White guitar!
I was hesitant but when Mart shoved it in my hands and said go on it wants to be payed
i hit a few quick chords and pulled the B bender
and said Thanks
SCARED THE Stuff outta me!!!
then i had to Open for him What a nice man


The Marty Stuart/Clarence White Tele?!? Woah! This is a topper! No way can I beat THAT.

If I could play my favorite guitarist's main guitar (I'm keeping that to myself, thanks, and yes the guitarist is still living and isn't hugely famous), then that would be something. But that would be a strictly personal thing.


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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:06 am
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Duane Allmans 1954 Strat when I was at the Hard Rock Cafe in London. Also played Jeff Becks Tele (or Esquire ) Jimi's flying V and a Strat made for SRV on a particular tour. Th young guys who gave us the tour of the vault kindly let me and a friend play them after a brief chat about various guitar heros (Clapton - Holly - Page - Jimi - etc). It was a few years ago when we visited London for the Clapton gig at the Royal Albert Hall. Robert Cray on support, who stopped outside to chat with us as he waited for the taxi.
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Believe it or not, for me it was a Fernandez at the 1992 NAMM show. I was the next scheduled player at the Fernandez booth (after I played at the ESP booth) and the factory rep just handed that axe to me to play for the next 30 minutes. I could kick myself for not remembering the model of the axe, but the thing really played itself. Not necessarily the greatest tone in the world, but to this day I still haven't played another axe that can even come close to the playability that it had (my Strat being the closest). Oh well I was a lot younger then and didn't pay as much attention to stuff like I now do...

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