Most Embarrassing Guitar Crush
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MasterKtulu
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Although I used to have a guitar crush on Ibanez Jem's... A flashy pink one wasn't what I had in mind...
But back in 1995, a local drug dealer (mostly steroids) calls me up (I was 16 at the time and the only guitar player he knew, although I was never a client but we hung out with the same circles) and tells me that one of his client owed him some money that he didn't have, so he gave him his guitar instead. He wanted to know if he had been ripped off, so he stars telling me what the guitar looks like... He tells me it's an Ibanez and has a hole in the body like a grip for the fingers. I stop him in his track and asked him how much he wants for it. He tells me the guy owed him 400$ Canadian (Like 250$ US at the time) and is not looking to make a profit and is willing to sell it for the same amount he was owed. I immediately say that I'll take it, and he warns me that it's bright pink. I say at that price, I don't care what color it is. So that same day, I buy it and love how it plays and how it sounded and I had absolutely no regrets about buying it even if it was pink. I even gigged with it a few times and always love to see peoples reactions to seeing me (A tough looking punk with long hair) with a flashy pink guitar playing Thrash Metal.
Two of three months later, a good friend of mine and fellow guitar player comes to my house and brings tapes of SRV and Eric Clapton and it blows my mind. I had always been open to different musics but was always drawn to Metal. But the first time I hear SRV and Clapton my world was changed and was immediately submerged into the Blues for many year to come. That same day I knew I had to get rid of my Jem and get a Strat. My friend had already sold his RG and was looking for a new MIM Strat. the next day, I called all the Guitar stores I knew and asked if they had any strats for sale. One small shop I called, the owner (I guy I had known for the last 3 years) told me he didn't have any in his shop (being that Ibanez, Jackson & B.C.Rich guitars were still popular at the time in the black-hole where I grew up), but he had a 1991 Fender American Standard Strat at his house that he was willing to sell to me. I told him that as soon as I sold my Jem I would call him again to buy the Strat. He asks me what model it is and I tell him it's a pink 1989 Ibanez JEM777VSK. He tells me he's willing to do a trade for trade, cause he thinks it will be easier to sell a Jem in his shop than his Fender at what it's worth. I go to his house that night, play it, love it and we trade, and that's how I got my main Strat 15 years ago.
That's what it used to like after I put cream covers & knobs to it and before I installed a pair of humbuckers to it as it is now.
By the way, the shop owner who I traded my old Jem with had it hung up in his shop listed for 999$ (Canadian) for 3 years before someone bought it...
Although I used to have a guitar crush on Ibanez Jem's... A flashy pink one wasn't what I had in mind...
But back in 1995, a local drug dealer (mostly steroids) calls me up (I was 16 at the time and the only guitar player he knew, although I was never a client but we hung out with the same circles) and tells me that one of his client owed him some money that he didn't have, so he gave him his guitar instead. He wanted to know if he had been ripped off, so he stars telling me what the guitar looks like... He tells me it's an Ibanez and has a hole in the body like a grip for the fingers. I stop him in his track and asked him how much he wants for it. He tells me the guy owed him 400$ Canadian (Like 250$ US at the time) and is not looking to make a profit and is willing to sell it for the same amount he was owed. I immediately say that I'll take it, and he warns me that it's bright pink. I say at that price, I don't care what color it is. So that same day, I buy it and love how it plays and how it sounded and I had absolutely no regrets about buying it even if it was pink. I even gigged with it a few times and always love to see peoples reactions to seeing me (A tough looking punk with long hair) with a flashy pink guitar playing Thrash Metal.
Two of three months later, a good friend of mine and fellow guitar player comes to my house and brings tapes of SRV and Eric Clapton and it blows my mind. I had always been open to different musics but was always drawn to Metal. But the first time I hear SRV and Clapton my world was changed and was immediately submerged into the Blues for many year to come. That same day I knew I had to get rid of my Jem and get a Strat. My friend had already sold his RG and was looking for a new MIM Strat. the next day, I called all the Guitar stores I knew and asked if they had any strats for sale. One small shop I called, the owner (I guy I had known for the last 3 years) told me he didn't have any in his shop (being that Ibanez, Jackson & B.C.Rich guitars were still popular at the time in the black-hole where I grew up), but he had a 1991 Fender American Standard Strat at his house that he was willing to sell to me. I told him that as soon as I sold my Jem I would call him again to buy the Strat. He asks me what model it is and I tell him it's a pink 1989 Ibanez JEM777VSK. He tells me he's willing to do a trade for trade, cause he thinks it will be easier to sell a Jem in his shop than his Fender at what it's worth. I go to his house that night, play it, love it and we trade, and that's how I got my main Strat 15 years ago.
That's what it used to like after I put cream covers & knobs to it and before I installed a pair of humbuckers to it as it is now.
By the way, the shop owner who I traded my old Jem with had it hung up in his shop listed for 999$ (Canadian) for 3 years before someone bought it...
Re: Most Embarrassing Guitar Crush
Seriously? You'd hit a Hello Kitty guitar but you wouldn't hit that piece of Canadian blondie?
yes, and yess.
no on that last one
Seriously? You'd hit a Hello Kitty guitar but you wouldn't hit that piece of Canadian blondie?
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Skaforlifeologist
80's_Metal
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I used to think Warlocks were cool.....
I used to think Warlocks were cool.....
krankguitarist
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Jake
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I'm not sure if this is the exact same model, but this is the best photo I could find.....
I had a bad boy just like that on layaway when I was maybe 17 or 18. It was brown though. It was....around $400 or so? Anyways, about $300 into it, I saw they had a Schecter PT Elite on clearance for $300, so I took the money out and bought that instead. I'm infinitely glad I made that decision, as that's still one of my favorite guitars.
I'm not sure if this is the exact same model, but this is the best photo I could find.....
I had a bad boy just like that on layaway when I was maybe 17 or 18. It was brown though. It was....around $400 or so? Anyways, about $300 into it, I saw they had a Schecter PT Elite on clearance for $300, so I took the money out and bought that instead. I'm infinitely glad I made that decision, as that's still one of my favorite guitars.
GuitarGuy503
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AGREED. How could that thing be appealing to anyone (FOR 8K NO LESS?)? That is rediculously hidious.... :laugh2:
The Ibanez Destroyer is the only guitar in this thread that I'd care to touch.
AGREED. How could that thing be appealing to anyone (FOR 8K NO LESS?)? That is rediculously hidious.... :laugh2:
The Ibanez Destroyer is the only guitar in this thread that I'd care to touch.
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astrozombie
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astrozombie
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I'd make her scream!
The guitar. or both.
This one sort of forces you to use 90 degree angled cables all the time...unless you feel like smacking the cable with the Floyd bar when going into Steve Vai mode...design fail. I will say that the fact that the jack isn't in the lower wing like the cheaper Jacksons does make more sense when playing that sitting down though. Now THAT is a design fail.
I dunno. I always thought the Avril Lavigne Telecaster was Ska-tastic. It's such a rude boy guitar....I'd love to get my hands on one of those and change the neck...Maybe add something like a Phat Cat or something to keep it rocking. I also want a Joan Jett MM sig but that's not something I'm embarrased of at all. It's a pretty rocking guitar!
Unfortunately the guitar does NOT include the girl :smack:...is that a marketing fail or what!?
I'd make her scream!
The guitar. or both.
Stig
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I had a Washburn A-20 in about 1982, with a strat-type pickup arrangement. I regretted it almost immediately. It had a terrible neck shape, and an insatiable appetite for strings. And I never played metal in my life. Traded it for an equally embarrassing Ibanez Blazer, because I couldn't afford a real Strat.
I had a Washburn A-20 in about 1982, with a strat-type pickup arrangement. I regretted it almost immediately. It had a terrible neck shape, and an insatiable appetite for strings. And I never played metal in my life. Traded it for an equally embarrassing Ibanez Blazer, because I couldn't afford a real Strat.
ravendouglas
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no pic,but remeber the black ibanez destroyer played by phil collen of def lepard,in all the videos?i wanted one of those so bad.
no pic,but remeber the black ibanez destroyer played by phil collen of def lepard,in all the videos?i wanted one of those so bad.
jcthejester13
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I am so glad you got ever that. You are still a man, you are still a man, you are still a man.
I used to think Warlocks were cool.....
I am so glad you got ever that. You are still a man, you are still a man, you are still a man.
