Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

[ItsaBass]

I have been trying hard NOT to buy one of these for at least three or four months now. Something about it just keeps coming back to me, even though it is nothing like me, and LORD KNOWS I don't need SIX Strats. WTF, man? Why does this particular guitar that makes no sense for me keep calling my name? I keep trying to convince myself I should have at least one guitar with a Floyd...but that really makes no sense. I'd use it for two or three songs, and it ain't like people are hiring me as a studio musician to play face-melting dive bomb solos! So, NO. I DON'T need a guitar with a Floyd. I keep trying to convince myself that it would be cool to have a more rockin' Strat with heavier pickups...but really? I don't go to a Strat when I think "hard rockin'" anyhow...and besides, I think my MIM is going to be the one that I turn into a "harder" guitar. Something about super Strats and Floyds has always just plain rubbed me the wrong way...but this damned guitar, man. My mind keeps going back to it.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/gl-tribute-series-legacy-hb-electric-guitar--olive-drab

One thing that keeps making me say no: They do not look anything like this picture. They are not a nice medium forest green like that. They are a dead light green. It isn't even really true olive drab, like a Sherman tank, which would be totally cool. Just an ugly, boring green, like so:

Still, though. I wish I could just find one locally so I could know for sure and put this thing to bed. G&Ls are really a pain to shop for. So few dealers are out there, and even when you go to one, it is not as if they have the whole product line in the store.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

I can relate to this.

My nearest G&L dealer has had a Tribute ASAT Classic in stock for almost a year. Despite its Sphincter Brown finish, this guitar continues to attract my debit card like a magnet. For the right discount, I would probably snag it right now. Duncans straight in there. Darn the warranty.

 

[metalmachine]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

Dude u NEED that guitar now!

 

[stevie_bees]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

Do it!!! You know you really want to!

 

[JOLLY]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

I'm with you ItsaBass. I like the way they look in the stock Fender photos, but the "real life" pictures totally turn me off from them.

 

[blueman335]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

Just an ugly, boring green.

Yes, ugly boring GAS-killing green. Move on to something else.

 

[Kam]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

Ha-wow, that colour is ****ing terrible.

It kinda looks like they bought a really cool shade of green and then just watered it down to get more mileage out of it.

 

[JOLLY]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

At least they picked the right name for it. It is rather drab.

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

Move on to something else.

LOL. Aye, aye, Cap.

It comes in flat black too, and I've also seen them in gloss black.

It'd be cool if it really was olive drab, which is a matte green-brown. But it is just some weird gray-green-slightly-blue color. The color in the promo shot is *****in', though!

 

[JOLLY]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

This is interesting.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/G-L-LEGACY-...E-/310385244438?pt=Guitar&hash=item484466f916

 

[DankStar]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

Flat seems weird, but I hear you on how hard it is to find g&l's to test drive.

 

[d1dsj]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

Lovely guitars but that looks like some sort of under coat or primer?

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

Following on from post #2.

No prizes for guessing what happened when I popped into my nearest G&L dealer this morning. He matched the typical internet price for a Tribute ASAT Classic. I now own it.

The neck on the Tribute ASAT Classic is excellent. The hardware is American. The US-made pickups sound convincing - underslung bar magnets and all. They even resist RF hum surprisingly well. (Might leave them in for a while.) IMO, the only suspect areas are the selector switch, pots and jack socket.

ItsaBass. If you don't need a double locking vibrato system, don't pay for one. The regular G&L two-point fulcrum design is fine.

Finally, I think that I may have stumbled upon the best description of the paint colour in your photograph. Borrowed from the Frank Zappa song, "Let's Make The Water Turn Black" - Dysentery Green.

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

Congratulations! That sounds like a nice guitar.

If no Floyd, there would really be no point in the guitar for me. I already have four Strats and a Legacy Rustic, and while all four are different, they are all SSS. I only had two (an '85 MIJ and an '05 MIM), but then I inherited four more, and sold two of those.

I think I will wait for another one of the gloss black ones to turn up on E-Bay. I've only seen them there.

OTOH, if one of the matte ones comes up for a price I cannot refuse, I can always just scuff it up a bit and put a coat or two of nitro over it in whatever color I want. Dakota Red or Olympic White would be cool over the matte black. Or I could put Sherwood Green over one of the olive drab ones.

 

[TheLivingDead]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

I'd probably own one by now if the color was as advertised. I was super bummed when I saw the real color.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Damn this G&L Legacy G.A.S! It just won't subside.

Do not forget that the product catalogue photographs will have been taken using professional quality lighting equipment and, possibly, a polarising filter over the camera lens.

Some guitar finishes are designed to look their best under a high intensity light source. The rest of the time, they look disappointing. (I have a Dark Cherry Sunburst PRS that does precisely this.)