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Location: Flahdaw | What is the ONE guitar that you actually PLAYED, that you wish you owned? Not one you heard about, read about, thought about..... but that you actually PLAYED that you just can't get out of your brain? |
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Location: East Tennessee | Adamas 1680. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Toss up between the John Lennon Limited, the 1997 Collector and the 2005 Collector. When I started typing I had one. Now I'm up to 3 and just thought of another, so I'm going to stop. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Martin D-50 Koa Deluxe, NAMM, 2009. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Beal's D-28 |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yeah, that '39 D-28
Yes I know that I own it but it still kicks me hard everytime I play it. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | One of Ali's..... |
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Location: Jet City | Randy Rhoads' old Strat
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Location: Jet City | ...But then again, I've never played Beal's Martin |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by Beal:
Yeah, that '39 D-28
Yeah, that one. But there was a varnish braz Collings that kicked me real hard too. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yes, the D42B/A/v, that is right up there in the running.
I remember Temp saying I hate dreadnaughts but that one could make me like them again. |
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Location: Utah | #43 |
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Location: Caribou, ME | First time I ever flew was when I went to Bozeman to visit the Gibson factory in 2007. I ended up bringing back a new CJ-165 Rosewood as one of the drawings for our little gathering. There's a well stocked music store in Bozeman called Music Villa. There was a very new J-185, only a couple months old going by the serial number. It was all blonde and I drooled all over it. The action was flatter than a Les Paul and the maple shimmered in the light like it was fluid. When I strummed a chord the whole guitar shook.
I didn't have a credit card otherwise it would have come home with me. |
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Location: CA | Martin Eric Clapton model. I think it was OM28 or OO28 or something (never did understand their designations). Have played two of them at music stores but at $3,500 per, dream on. Both sounded magical tho. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | My '48 D-28... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Originally posted by Beal:
Yeah, that '39 D-28
Yeah, that one. But there was a varnish braz Collings that kicked me real hard too.
I also recall a Merrill that wasn't too shabby. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Went to Daddy's Junky Music once, and someone had ordered a kind of high-end acoustic Martin ($800 or so). Had a picture of ol' man Martin all over the front, so it turned out that the person who ordered it didn't want it because of the picture. What a sweet sound that thing had! Just couldn't justify it financially, but I REALLY wanted it. Not sure of the model. |
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Location: SW Washington | at the risk of bringing down the wrath of all my fellow Ovation lovers... a student of mine came in with a jumbo body cedar Taylor that had the most amazing sound I have ever heard... the first note I played on that thing melted me. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Interesting question ...
Yes, Bill's D28 is absolutely stunning. Although in practical terms hard for me to say its stunning enough to justify the price.
Keeping it more realistic (sub $20k) I would have to say that the Collings varnish CJ and my own Collings Braz Clarence White certinly stand out. Cliff's roundback #54 is no slouch either.
Jeff has/had a very nice Lowden cedar top that I really liked. Crap, I guess there's just too many possibilities and in the end I guess I'm pretty damn satisfied with what I already have. |
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Location: Ohio | A Guild all Maple 12 string that belonged to a friend. What a cannon! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Come to think of it, pretty much anything hanging along the double row in that Amelia basement. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Damon67:
Randy Rhoads' old Strat
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Location: Jet City | I was playing the solo to Revelation Mother Earth (Blizzard of Ozz album). I'm not responsible for any facial expressions that are made while playing (especially while attempting a RR solo) |
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