Jay
the fool on the hill
Last week I started selling off my guitars to buy one really good guitar, something that I can use for the next 30-40 years:
http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/msg/2508766341.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/msg/2508765677.html
Those are the remaining two out of five. I am amazed that I sold three in one week; a 1990's Hamer, a crappy Fernandes and a Dean Avalanche. I am going to take the money and use it towards a good guitar as mentioned.
I want something in the 500-1000 dollar range, so I went to guitar center and told a salesman as much. He handed me Gibson Les Pauls, Gibson SG's, Ibanez Artcores, Paul Reed Smith SE single and dual cutaways..my impressions of them:
Les Pauls: too heavy, too clunky, too uncomfortable.
Gibson SG: playing postion too far forward.
Ibanez AS93: too uncomfortable,
sound a bit muddy.
PRS SE24: I do not know what the hype is, it is okay to play.
Fender Telecaster: Ugh, please stab me in the eye. Weighs 2 million pounds and has a stupid sound.
And I tell the salesman all of this, too. He stands for a moment thinking, and comes back with a used, but mint guitar. A Fender Standard Stratocaster American. The first thing I play is the first few notes of Jimi Hendrix's "Red House," that eerie jangly noise, dig?
You know that scene in the first Harry Potter movie, where he is trying out all those wands, and when handed the perfect one there is all of this magical whooshing and the look of epiphany? THAT is what happened. It felt like I had been playing that guitar for 23 years.
That is why I have will never buy a guitar sight unseen. I do not care what others think of it, it has to feel good to me.
http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/msg/2508766341.html
http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/msg/2508765677.html
Those are the remaining two out of five. I am amazed that I sold three in one week; a 1990's Hamer, a crappy Fernandes and a Dean Avalanche. I am going to take the money and use it towards a good guitar as mentioned.
I want something in the 500-1000 dollar range, so I went to guitar center and told a salesman as much. He handed me Gibson Les Pauls, Gibson SG's, Ibanez Artcores, Paul Reed Smith SE single and dual cutaways..my impressions of them:
Les Pauls: too heavy, too clunky, too uncomfortable.
Gibson SG: playing postion too far forward.
Ibanez AS93: too uncomfortable,
sound a bit muddy.
PRS SE24: I do not know what the hype is, it is okay to play.
Fender Telecaster: Ugh, please stab me in the eye. Weighs 2 million pounds and has a stupid sound.
And I tell the salesman all of this, too. He stands for a moment thinking, and comes back with a used, but mint guitar. A Fender Standard Stratocaster American. The first thing I play is the first few notes of Jimi Hendrix's "Red House," that eerie jangly noise, dig?
You know that scene in the first Harry Potter movie, where he is trying out all those wands, and when handed the perfect one there is all of this magical whooshing and the look of epiphany? THAT is what happened. It felt like I had been playing that guitar for 23 years.
That is why I have will never buy a guitar sight unseen. I do not care what others think of it, it has to feel good to me.
They are coming back Monday to try and correct this.
for guitars.
