Hoss
Joyfulnoiseologist
Soooo...i'm driving by my favorite local shop and the sign says...now carrying Taylor guitars!!!!
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you say instant 12-string g.a.s.....!?
Soooo...i go in there and pick up a block of heaven with strings and start strumming away... :32: :32: :32: :32: ahhhhhhhhhh... :32:
my wife and daughter head off into one of the other rooms...knowing full well how long i might be... :smack: :laugh2: :smack:
suddenly my 6 year old daughter came back into the room where i was playing the taylor...she had the biggest, most excited face i think i had ever seen on her...
"Daddy, daddy!!! there's a red guitar in the other room and it's not hundreds it's just 50!!! i love it!!!"
my wife follows her and has a smile of her face as well...i put the taylor back on the wall and follow my ecstatic daughter into the used room and i see a small scale strat copy, maple/rosewood neck, with one humbucker at the bridge, one tone, one volume, and a black pickguard...my daughter is still smiling and now actually jumping in the air with stars in her eyes...i take it off the wall and it actually feels decent...
i plug it into a roland micro cube and start playing it...not bad and it's only $50 bucks...i didn't have fifty bucks on me and i told her if it was still here on friday, we'd buy it...but then came the look that every dad who ever lived dreads...the lip quiver...the big watery eyes...the whole works...
soooo i told her i would ask jeff (the owner) to hold it for us until friday so no one would buy it before then...she seemed happy with that...we walked up to his counter and he saw what i had in my hands and the still excited look on her face...i asked him to hold it until friday for me and he said no problem...however...he must have saw a little bit of something change in her expression...cause he came out from behind the counter and said...
"i tell ya what...just take it today and pay me for it friday..." she instantly lit right back up...he then said.."you'll need a strap for that"...so he threw in a fender strap and she was on cloud nine...so was i...so was my wife...and so was jeff...we all thanked him (not too many shops in this world left like his) and went home where she has been eagerly learning and having the time of her life...however...i'm gonna get her some professional lessons so she doesn't pick up my bad habits...LOL...
just thought i'd share...pics tomorrow to follow!!!
oh yeah...i'm already wondering what SD pup to put in there....!!!!!????
btw...she loves it loud and distorted...LOL!!!
later,
mike
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you say instant 12-string g.a.s.....!?
Soooo...i go in there and pick up a block of heaven with strings and start strumming away... :32: :32: :32: :32: ahhhhhhhhhh... :32:
my wife and daughter head off into one of the other rooms...knowing full well how long i might be... :smack: :laugh2: :smack:
suddenly my 6 year old daughter came back into the room where i was playing the taylor...she had the biggest, most excited face i think i had ever seen on her...
"Daddy, daddy!!! there's a red guitar in the other room and it's not hundreds it's just 50!!! i love it!!!"
my wife follows her and has a smile of her face as well...i put the taylor back on the wall and follow my ecstatic daughter into the used room and i see a small scale strat copy, maple/rosewood neck, with one humbucker at the bridge, one tone, one volume, and a black pickguard...my daughter is still smiling and now actually jumping in the air with stars in her eyes...i take it off the wall and it actually feels decent...
i plug it into a roland micro cube and start playing it...not bad and it's only $50 bucks...i didn't have fifty bucks on me and i told her if it was still here on friday, we'd buy it...but then came the look that every dad who ever lived dreads...the lip quiver...the big watery eyes...the whole works...
soooo i told her i would ask jeff (the owner) to hold it for us until friday so no one would buy it before then...she seemed happy with that...we walked up to his counter and he saw what i had in my hands and the still excited look on her face...i asked him to hold it until friday for me and he said no problem...however...he must have saw a little bit of something change in her expression...cause he came out from behind the counter and said...
"i tell ya what...just take it today and pay me for it friday..." she instantly lit right back up...he then said.."you'll need a strap for that"...so he threw in a fender strap and she was on cloud nine...so was i...so was my wife...and so was jeff...we all thanked him (not too many shops in this world left like his) and went home where she has been eagerly learning and having the time of her life...however...i'm gonna get her some professional lessons so she doesn't pick up my bad habits...LOL...
just thought i'd share...pics tomorrow to follow!!!
oh yeah...i'm already wondering what SD pup to put in there....!!!!!????
btw...she loves it loud and distorted...LOL!!!
later,
mike
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But he's eyeing my Seymour Duncan 62 RI strat like it's the equivalent of hush money.
i actually found out that it can produce clean sounds after 4 years :laugh2: that would take you to about 7 months ago XD
