Post Your Holy Grail - from 10 or 20 years ago
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Re: Post Your Holy Grail - from 10 or 20 years ago
I've been somewhat lucky that my tastes in guitars were way more mature than my style of playing.
So whilst I have always been into Les Paul's (the humbucker ones) my abilities and tastes now venture deeply into p90s, mini humbuckers, Tele and strats with vintage styling and so on.
I've been somewhat lucky that my tastes in guitars were way more mature than my style of playing.
So whilst I have always been into Les Paul's (the humbucker ones) my abilities and tastes now venture deeply into p90s, mini humbuckers, Tele and strats with vintage styling and so on.
Silence Kid
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Re: Post Your Holy Grail - from 10 or 20 years ago
I still just want a vintage Jaguar - ten years ago, twenty, etc.
My tastes have expanded in particular in the last decade, but it’s never not pivoted around that.
I still just want a vintage Jaguar - ten years ago, twenty, etc.
My tastes have expanded in particular in the last decade, but it’s never not pivoted around that.
Big Mike Blues
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Re: Post Your Holy Grail - from 10 or 20 years ago
david grissom's 1986 mapletop 'standard' 24 PRS.
Still the same except I own the best guitar I've ever played now. Thorn Artisan.
david grissom's 1986 mapletop 'standard' 24 PRS.
Still the same except I own the best guitar I've ever played now. Thorn Artisan.
NegativeEase
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Re: Post Your Holy Grail - from 10 or 20 years ago
1960 LP Special TV Yellow was and is my favorite feeling guitar ever back then, and now.
1960 LP Special TV Yellow was and is my favorite feeling guitar ever back then, and now.
Big Mike Blues
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Re: Post Your Holy Grail - from 10 or 20 years ago
|Played and sold a few in my MI store days. Not cheap, but KILLER guitars.
|Played and sold a few in my MI store days. Not cheap, but KILLER guitars.
Jacew
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Re: Post Your Holy Grail - from 10 or 20 years ago
20 years ago I didn't know a thing about guitars. Ten years ago I wanted sunburst vintage spec strat and 8 years ago bought one.
My tastes haven't really changed since (except realizing vintage singles are not the sound for me)... Just got surer about it.
20 years ago I didn't know a thing about guitars. Ten years ago I wanted sunburst vintage spec strat and 8 years ago bought one.
My tastes haven't really changed since (except realizing vintage singles are not the sound for me)... Just got surer about it.
Chistopher
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Ever since the became a thing, I've always lusted after some form of PRS or another. Not necessarily because they had wild or unique specs, just because they look great and are constructed with the best materials by the most skilled hands.
Ever since the became a thing, I've always lusted after some form of PRS or another. Not necessarily because they had wild or unique specs, just because they look great and are constructed with the best materials by the most skilled hands.
ibanezrocks
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Re: Post Your Holy Grail - from 10 or 20 years ago
When I started 18 years ago I was really into Ibanez guitars. RGs, JEMs, all of it. But for whatever reason my grail guitar was an SG Custom:
Then I got an SG Standard and got tired of the issues (tuning, neck joint flexing) and sold it. I'm honestly glad I never had the version with 3 humbuckers and a tailpiece I'd never use.
10 years ago my dream guitar was to have someone build me a neck-thru slightly-thicker SG with a better headstock.
I don't have a dream guitar anymore. I've resigned myself to the idea that my tastes will continue to change and prefer to enjoy the process of flipping gear and trying different stuff.
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When I started 18 years ago I was really into Ibanez guitars. RGs, JEMs, all of it. But for whatever reason my grail guitar was an SG Custom:
Then I got an SG Standard and got tired of the issues (tuning, neck joint flexing) and sold it. I'm honestly glad I never had the version with 3 humbuckers and a tailpiece I'd never use.
10 years ago my dream guitar was to have someone build me a neck-thru slightly-thicker SG with a better headstock.
I don't have a dream guitar anymore. I've resigned myself to the idea that my tastes will continue to change and prefer to enjoy the process of flipping gear and trying different stuff.
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Dave Locher
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Re: Post Your Holy Grail - from 10 or 20 years ago
My taste hasn't changed much in 20 years except back then I would only play Gibsons and now I have swung back to any brand as long as the guitar looks, feels, and sounds good.
But this specific one gets me in the gut, then & now:https://images.app.goo.gl/ojskQAFetgnMFaFm7
Although I wouldn't kick a black Rickenbacker 360 out of bed either!
My taste hasn't changed much in 20 years except back then I would only play Gibsons and now I have swung back to any brand as long as the guitar looks, feels, and sounds good.
But this specific one gets me in the gut, then & now:https://images.app.goo.gl/ojskQAFetgnMFaFm7
Although I wouldn't kick a black Rickenbacker 360 out of bed either!
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Lovegun
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Re: Post Your Holy Grail - from 10 or 20 years ago
That was one of my holy grail guitars too. Not because Reb Beach, but Gary Holt played one.
That was one of my holy grail guitars too. Not because Reb Beach, but Gary Holt played one.
Re: Post Your Holy Grail - from 10 or 20 years ago
20 years ago: Ibanez Jem 7V or somesuch variant.
I have no idea what I really wanted 10 years ago. I was experimenting with ESPs then. That or a truly custom built EBMM would've been my thing.
Now, it's this as far as electrics go: Gibson Johnny A model (though I'd prefer a hardtail).
20 years ago: Ibanez Jem 7V or somesuch variant.
I have no idea what I really wanted 10 years ago. I was experimenting with ESPs then. That or a truly custom built EBMM would've been my thing.
Now, it's this as far as electrics go: Gibson Johnny A model (though I'd prefer a hardtail).
ItsaBass
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Re: Post Your Holy Grail - from 10 or 20 years ago
20 years ago. Hmmm. 1999.
Probably a Foam Green Strat with a maple neck and tortoise guard, in a [naturally] worn nitro finish...before such things as "Relics" were all over the place, when factory nitro finishes were rare on Fenders, when very few people were out there doing "proper" old school finish work, and when the Internet was pretty new to me. In short, what I wanted was pretty far from possible to obtain.
Now? Although I am mostly a Fender player, my holy grail is the right '54 style Les Paul Custom. I would like to get one of the '72 reissue versions, or a a VOS Historic model.
Second in line would be a Gibson Barney Kessel Custom signature model.
20 years ago. Hmmm. 1999.
Probably a Foam Green Strat with a maple neck and tortoise guard, in a [naturally] worn nitro finish...before such things as "Relics" were all over the place, when factory nitro finishes were rare on Fenders, when very few people were out there doing "proper" old school finish work, and when the Internet was pretty new to me. In short, what I wanted was pretty far from possible to obtain.
Now? Although I am mostly a Fender player, my holy grail is the right '54 style Les Paul Custom. I would like to get one of the '72 reissue versions, or a a VOS Historic model.
Second in line would be a Gibson Barney Kessel Custom signature model.
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