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Post subject: Re: Guitars as gifts: have you ever given?
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:54 am
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I gave an electro to my neighbour's 10 year old. I offered an amp to go with it - but his mother shot me a look that meant, "Keep your noisy amps to yourself". Hee-hee! However, my ears tell me a small amp of some kind has now been aquired: I wonder if I've made a rod for my own back...? :lol:

"Turn that damn noise down!" Now that's the pot calling the kettle black. 8)

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Post subject: Re: Guitars as gifts: have you ever given?
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:08 am
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C, if the guitarist playing next to you seems too loud, you need to turn your own amp up...

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Post subject: Re: Guitars as gifts: have you ever given?
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:39 am
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I gave my 18 year old nephew a Squier Stagemaster and a little Marshall MG15 amp. The guitar is metallic purple with an black neck and reverse headstock. He really digs it.

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Post subject: Re: Guitars as gifts: have you ever given?
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:46 am
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Nobby1974 wrote:
C, if the guitarist playing next to you seems too loud, you need to turn your own amp up...

Mwaaahahaha - I like your style! :D

The lad and I could jam across the garden hedge - my, that would make us popular with the neighbours!

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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:15 am
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Bought my son a Fender blacktop last year for his birthday.


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Post subject: Re: Guitars as gifts: have you ever given?
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:14 am
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Best friend/Band mate turned 50 a few years back. (We've been in cahoots since 1978 and he's another one who's played all his life, from the time he was about 10 or 11)

His wife threw him a massive surprise bash for this 50th.

So I got the idea that with enough of people on board we could give him a Les Paul for his 50th B-day. Turns out, everyone loved the plan, and in the end we had enough ppl sign on to the idea that it was about 100 bucks a person, (all good friends/family members).

Our drummer, also a very good long time friend, had the electronic cavity cover engraved with everyone's name who participated.

We gave it to him at the party (which was at rented a hall where there was about 200 people in attendance)

Cathy (his wife) blindfolded him and sat him down in the middle of the room, and we put the axe in front of him, in the case with the lid up. The place was dead silent, and he was absolutely speechless.

I was also asked by his wife to arrange the music for the evening, so set up numerous jams and reunions with players who hadn't seen each other in years. It was an epic evening.

He still has the guitar too, (he's quite the horse trader, but that one is not eligible for sale)


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Post subject: Re: Guitars as gifts: have you ever given?
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 11:15 am
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Nobby1974 wrote:
Wow! Now that's giving! I like the idea of giving to a charity auction in particular. I'd love to give on of my CBGs for something like that - you have given me an idea!

I make a fairly decent living even though my lifestyle would never give people that impression. It's not as much as some (obviously) but more than the average Joe. It wasn't always so. I know what it's like to struggle and back when I was struggling there were people who gave me a leg up. I feel it's my moral obligation to do unto others as others have done unto me. I am selective about whom I donate to, though. I won't enable deadbeats and I don't give to charities which pay themselves first or fail to live up to thier promises.

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Post subject: Re: Guitars as gifts: have you ever given?
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 6:55 am
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A friend of mine has a young daughter who is musically inclined and is taking piano lessons. She really wanted to play guitar so her dad asked me if I could help him buy one. I had an old 3/4 scale Squier Mini in a closet. Pulled it out, cleaned it up and gave it to my friend for her. He gave it to her as a birthday present from me. She absolutely loved it! I received a wonderful thank you note and I get photos a couple times a week of her playing it.


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Post subject: Re: Guitars as gifts: have you ever given?
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:13 am
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My most long time closest friends of nearly 60 years now [whom stratmansteve met at lunch one time] was also the drummer in our band. I had a hardly used Squier acoustic which my wife had won in a raffle. When, on the occasion of an impromtu invitation to come by his daughter's house on the occasion of the birthday of one of his grandsons, I gave it as a gift.

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Post subject: Re: Guitars as gifts: have you ever given?
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:22 pm
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Last summer we had a reunion of my maternal grandparent's descendants and relatives. A vast majority of our family play an instrument and there are quite a few professional musicians who have had pretty successful recording careers.We had a big jam session after a sit-down meal for about 80-90 of us at the local church hall.While we were playing my mother's 1st cousin ushered up her 11 year old grandson who was carrying a very poorly made lefty acoustic guitar. The guys who were on stage at that time asked him what he played and he named a few songs which the guys knew as they also gave lessons when not gigging.When this little guy started playing,jaws began to drop,he was incredible-even on that P.O.S. guitar.He had only been playing less than 2 years yet there was only one instructor in the guitar school that he attended that could show him anything as he had surpassed the other teachers.

I made a few enquiries about whether or not he had an electric guitar and found out that he had a "Walmart Special" Strat copy and an even worse little amp.I had been saving up to buy a 360/12 or 325 Ric but after much soul searching I figured that this little guy was well worth investing in as he was destined to go places with such a gift and inate ability to outshine most others in such a short time.I went to my usual guitar store-Reid Music in Mt. Pearl,NL-and the guys gave me a great deal on a lovely,lefty Butterscotch Squier Affinity Tele and a Vox VT-20 amp.I took the 1 hr. drive to his community,picking up my cousin who organized the reunion on the way.When we walked into his house with the guitar and amp he lit up and told his mom that it was just like Christmas.

Since then his playing has progressed in leaps and bounds and his mother tells me that every day when he gets home from school he heads for his room to practice and keeps at it until supper time.After he finishes his homework he plays until bedtime and on weekends the guitar is still his main focus.

I had a very strong hunch that if I got him the proper gear to learn on that he would apply himself to it as I did when I was his age.Call it paying it forward or whatever but I feel that when talent like this is recognized in a young person,it is incumbent on other serious musicians to do what they can to nurture and further his proficiency.It feels great to know that I've made a difference in the life of this young talent who will most likely one day see his name in lights.

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Post subject: Re: Guitars as gifts: have you ever given?
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 11:56 pm
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I've been on both sides of guitars as gifts.

Both sides feel good.

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Post subject: Re: Guitars as gifts: have you ever given?
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 3:53 am
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These stories make me happy :D

It's all too easy to think that society is going to hell in a handbasket, but this stuff brings a lot of warmth back. I couldn't agree more about paying it forward and doing what you can to nurture talent - even the smallest things can make a big difference. Keep at it folks!

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