Serious G(retsch)AS - makes me wish I was rich

[Matt42]

My band's drummer's dad owns a nice little music shop. He specializes in high end acoustic stuff (Collings, Prucha, Roy Noble, Bourgeois) but will often get some cool vintage stuff in. His store is where my g/f bought her 68 Bassman head.

Our drummer dropped some of our gear off in his shop after a gig over the 4th since my g/f and I were going camping and didn't want our PA with us. When I went to pick it up on Monday, he put this in my hands:

http://gregboyd.com/instrument_detail.html?instrument_key=1477

I wish I were rich...

 

[Diminished Triad]

Re: Serious G(retsch)AS - makes me wish I was rich

My band's drummer's dad owns a nice little music shop. He specializes in high end acoustic stuff (Collings, Prucha, Roy Noble, Bourgeois) but will often get some cool vintage stuff in. His store is where my g/f bought her 68 Bassman head.

Our drummer dropped some of our gear off in his shop after a gig over the 4th since my g/f and I were going camping and didn't want our PA with us. When I went to pick it up on Monday, he put this in my hands:

http://gregboyd.com/instrument_detail.html?instrument_key=1477

I wish I were rich...

How does it sound? Haven't ever played anything that expensive or even that big. Always wondered what that size does for tone and sound.
Looks impressive.

 

[erksin]

Re: Serious G(retsch)AS - makes me wish I was rich

It's been Cochran'd - I wonder what brand that staple P-90 is?

That's asking a lot of a modded guitar, IMO.

 

[Matt42]

Re: Serious G(retsch)AS - makes me wish I was rich

That's asking a lot of a modded guitar, IMO.

I thought so too. I'm not sure what an un-modded one is worth though.

It played great, I was surprised at how flat the radius on the neck felt. The fixed arm Bigsby would drive me crazy, but for an instrument that nice, I'd deal with it. It sounded really good too, though I didn't spend a ton of time plugged in.

It's far from the most expensive instrument I've played in there. His 64 Strat is $17,500. I prefer the 66 he has listed for $8,800. At various times I've played a $25,000 Nugget Mandolin, $30,000 40's or 50's Martin, and a $42,500 pre-war Gibson Banjo. Most of these have just been casually handed to me without any reference to what they are. He'll just say, "Here Matt, what do you think of this banjo?" then let me play it for a few minutes. Then he tells me how much they are worth, at which point I carefully hand them back. I know he recently sold a Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 for $215,000. I didn't get to play that one, :laughing:

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Serious G(retsch)AS - makes me wish I was rich

I've played some of the new ones, and they're really nice. I jones for awhile then make do with my good late 90's Dearmonds for that vibe.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guit...20dsw-chet-atkins-hollow-body-electric-guitar

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guit...ht-chet-atkins-tennessee-rose-electric-guitar

 

[erksin]

Re: Serious G(retsch)AS - makes me wish I was rich

How does it sound? Haven't ever played anything that expensive or even that big. Always wondered what that size does for tone and sound.
Looks impressive.

It sounds like this:

 

[philthis]

Re: Serious G(retsch)AS - makes me wish I was rich

I jonesed, made some trades, sold some stuff and came up with a White Falcon and weirdly enough, an all gold blues jr 3 with a celestion greenback. Now Im working 6,7,9,11, and 13th chords and jazz stuff. The guitar makes the differance. It just sounds good with this style of music. I will mod it with some power tron pickups and locking spertzels and a titanium tom bridge but really the tone is there for this style and it sounds amazing. These type of guitars have a vibe that cant be matched.

 

[brunogio]

Re: Serious G(retsch)AS - makes me wish I was rich

It's in very nice shape for the age. I don't think that you'll find many this nice around. I can't speak to the price but the pre 60's models are the most sought after usually because after that point there were changes in production methods, moves of the factory and so forth. This is the real deal as much as a 52 Tele or 59 burst.