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Post by whitefang on Jan 13, 2020 10:54:43 GMT -5
How about this guy's "stable"?
Whitefang
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Post by earleg on Jan 13, 2020 16:55:00 GMT -5
Great collection! When he showed the ES-355 I noticed the split parallelogram inlays. I've never seen a 355 with those only seen on the 345 model.
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Post by jbone on Jan 14, 2020 0:28:26 GMT -5
I have more harps than he's got guitars.
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Post by whitefang on Jan 14, 2020 11:06:31 GMT -5
Well then, maybe you should put in a call to the producers of "Collector's Call". Whitefang
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Post by jbone on Jan 28, 2020 0:33:28 GMT -5
I have met guys who have SETS of different harps. Like 6 or 8 sets, all keys. Different hohners, Suzukis, Lee Oskars, vintage, custom, etc etc. I have a mostly ragtag mismatched pile. I have and use one small set for acoustic and one larger more diverse set for amped. With a few chromatics I think I have about 30 in all.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2020 14:42:32 GMT -5
Great collection! When he showed the ES-355 I noticed the split parallelogram inlays. I've never seen a 355 with those only seen on the 345 model. In once had a 345, that was a good guitar, I bought from some hippy on the road who ran out of money for $300 I had to have the neck straightened out, Philip Petillo a luthier from Ocean NJ did that with heat somehow. Anyways back when I got it,they were retailing for a six hundred up to grand or so. I sold it shortly after because I was into Les Paul's at the time. Can't remember how much I got for it but it sold quickly.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2020 14:47:49 GMT -5
I think the most guitars I ever had at one time was about 6, I have only 3 now and need only one of the three, if any of my present guitars were worth any real money I would sell all, but my homemade strato/tele hybrid. But the rest were cheapees and they have no real monetary value, so keeping them is OK for now. I use one each third day to play a set of the three sets of backing tracks I have, always rotating so I never play the sets the same way with the guitar rotation, I switch the rotation every 3rd day so I only play set 1 with guitar 1 every 9th day.
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Post by jbone on Jan 31, 2020 15:14:41 GMT -5
I think Jo had 5 at one time, when we first hit the road in '17. Kay Trutone hollow body, Regal parlor guitar, Strat, and an Epi Les Paul, and also a gifted Epiphone Emperor. Things do change though. She sold off the Strat early on, later the Epi Les went, and the Emperor was not one of the choice Peerless-built ones and she never bonded with it really. She said it just did not play like the first Emperor she'd had. She kept it until late '18 and then a music store got a good deal on it. So at that point she had 2 guitars, the Kay and the Regal. I also had a Regal but it was a square neck, since I was planning to learn some lap slide. I let that one go in '17. With some struggle we got her the Gibson J15 in '18, and we recently sold off the Regal and changed the Kay into the slide set up axe. Then last week she got the D'Angelico. She now had 3 and we think that will do it.
Over 15 year she has had: Fender Concord acoustic with Strat neck, Danelectro DanoBlaster, sort of a Strat copy, a Fender Malibu acoustic, Kay 12 string electric, Kay acoustic, Gibson 12 string acoustic, a couple of Telecasters, 2 Epi Emperor Regents, the Regal, Kay Trutone, Gibson J15, Gibson ES335, and the D'Angelico.
So average 1 axe a year!
Harp wise, I have been very lucky. I have a friend who has sent me several harps, like over a dozen in recent years. Some were used "bargains" from Ebay or yard sales and not survivors, but most have been good playable harps. At the moment I can count 6 or 8 in my gig case. I have sent him a few harps as well, models I was not into any more. He's also gotten a copy of all our CD's as well. Generally I will wait for a sale on a model I like. I also have a repair guy or two now. All in all I'd estimate I have all I need. Spars of high mortality harps as well, and a separate set for busking and a bigger set for amped play. New brands keep coming out but I am fairly settled on what I prefer for the most part. The future may see another chromatic or some other specialty harp come in but my focus has shifted to keeping what I have in good shape.
There was a time I had probably 7 or 8 harp mics and 3 amps as well. I bought and sold a lot of amps trying to find the "right" amp. At one point I had the "holy grail" which was a replica '59 Bassman. And one or two others as well. Over recent years I have pared way down, to one amp and 3 or 4 harp mics. It's more than enough for what I do these days.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2020 19:46:58 GMT -5
At one point I had the "holy grail" which was a replica '59 Bassman. And one or two others as well. Over recent years I have pared way down, to one amp and 3 or 4 harp mics. It's more than enough for what I do these days. jbone My first amp was a late 50's blackface bassman with a 2-12 extension cabinet. That was one cool amp, wish I still had it.
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Post by jbone on Jan 31, 2020 22:02:01 GMT -5
DB, way back in the day, when Bush Jr. gave all us serfs a few extra bucks, Jo told me to take all of it and get a bigass amp. she was tired of me being drowned out every time I got on stage with other electric players. I looked up a guy I think in Maryland, Steve Clark of Sligo amps. We had a couple of phone conversations and I told him what I was looking for. Although it took all the econo stim $$, what came to me was an incredible amp. Components as close value and performance wise to what was in a '59 amp, point to point wired, a nice mix of speakers to break out early or late, excellent clean tone and scary dirty tone. And for a while there I was getting asked to turn down! Which I always did. The hard part besides lugging the thing around was, I was not getting any gigs with 3 or 4 piece bands. So it was a nice end table for a time but I had to face reality and let it go. I got about 2/3 what I'd spent to have it built and it went to another harp guy in Austin Tx., so that part was ok. I ended up with a little fishing boat too. While I miss the bigger band/venue scene, it was not going to work for me where I was. And these days I can't imagine hauling it around.
For about 16 years I've had one Silvertone 1482 or another. 12w, single 12", trem circuit, decent pre amp side, about 15 or 20 pounds. Perfect for the duo especially since we have one identical for Jo to use!
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Post by earleg on Feb 1, 2020 15:53:39 GMT -5
I still have around 20 guitars and 9 amps. I just accumulated over time and although sell some here and there to lessen the bunch end up buying replacements. I just enjoy different ones and types. It is a fascinating thing for me. Eventually I will have to cut the amount so if I pass away Mrs won't have to deal with selling a bunch off. I do get the "well, you only really need one" or "can only play one at a time" routine once in awhile, and sure, but you only live once so enjoy what you can within the limits of the law and your health. Jay Leno just needs one car but has many because he can and likes cars and trucks.. That same mentality could apply to only needing "just one" fishing rod, one rifle, one baseball bat or glove, or even one pair of shoes and on.
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Post by whitefang on Feb 2, 2020 10:42:31 GMT -5
Who knows..... We might get a chance to see y'all on an episode of "Hoarders". And due to the relative inexpense, my DVD collection is exceeded by my CD collection, which is only exceeded by my books. Whitefang
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Post by jbone on Feb 2, 2020 13:29:31 GMT -5
I have known a guy whose wife told him, the guitars go or I do! And he opened a guitar shop to sell some off. Fairly happy compromise, she got her house back and he got a business. There is little resale value with harps since once you play one it's pretty much yours. I have been known to accept a used one as a gift or even buy one cheap at a flea market. 91% alcohol cleanup has kept me from the cooties. In the 90's I was amassing a pretty good collection of books, I think I had over 600 at one point. I got good at building simple shelves. When I left home in the 70's I had 300+ LP's in storage and never got back to them. In the early 2000's I sold off over 200 CD's to keep a business afloat "one more month". Mistake. When we hit the road we had to sort through a lot of pictures in scrap books and pick out the best. These days our travels are recorded on the hard drive and our FB page at www.facebook.com/adiosinfinity/?ref=bookmarksWe try to get pics every place we visit.
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Post by whitefang on Feb 3, 2020 10:37:32 GMT -5
Yeah, if I lived on the road, I'd have WAY less junk cluttering up any space. In fact, much of the junk I DO have cluttering up the place is the stuff my Uncle John gave and sold( depending on what it was) when he and Aunt Helen decided to dump all their stuff, sell the house and buy a Winnebago and hit the road. They did that more than once. Gadabout for a few years, come back, get a house, settle for a few years and do it all over again. The last time was in the early '80's. They stopped by my house before they took off to say "so long" and that was the lasr time I saw them. They eventually settled in Boulder Colorado where they lived until they died. John had both an Army pension and a pension from Lincoln Park, MI as the former recreational director, so they didn't have to "busk" or do odd jobs to get along on their journeys. Whitefang
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