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Originally Posted by Marty Grass
Originally Posted by Marty Grass
Blues on an archtop is perfectly possible even if it's not a Lucille:
(both happen to be flat-backs btw).
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09-16-2024 05:24 AM
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Originally Posted by RJVB
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Originally Posted by nevershouldhavesoldit
It's his indoors...
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Originally Posted by RJVB
Originally Posted by RJVB
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Originally Posted by RJVB
At smaller venues, I sometimes brought my ES-175.
Even with our more modest instruments we needed someone to babysit the stage constantly.
Having said that, I know of some elites who bought a second ticket on their planes to keep their guitar next to them. That helped with security and temperature control.
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I think of that as practicality rather than versatility.
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Originally Posted by Marty Grass
The risk of damage seems to me to be about the same, except perhaps that the center block probably improves the survivability of a body blow by a little bit. Being knocked off a stand is as likely to break a neck or headstock on either one. I suppose that dropping the guitar on its jack with a plug in it is more likely to crack a fatter rim.
You’re certainly right about feedback, though.
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I have recently been researching L5’s and a lot of old threads from jazz guitar.be show up in the search engine results. When you look back from about 2012 to the Memphis shop closing in 2019, you can read about going into a (albeit major name) music store and playing every L4 / L5 they had in stock. You can also read about music store owners complaining that they had to take a couple L4s / L5s in their Gibson order if they wanted to get those Les Pauls and SGs. And then there was CME blowing out ES-175 ‘59 VOS guitars because they otherwise could not move them.
My points? We didn’t know how good we had it. And the handwriting was on the wall; hollow-body archtops guitars were already no longer a viable product for Gibson.
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Originally Posted by Betz
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Originally Posted by RJVB
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agreed, but they used invisible ink for the writing on the wall so most of us did not see. And yes, 2 grands for a 59 RI 175 was a smoking deal back then, congratulation
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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
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I've sold a total of 3 guitars, as well as I remember. One I bought as an investment to sell for profit, and that worked well. I don't expect to come across another deal like that. The other two I still regret, and I don't expect to sell another, even though my wife would be happier if I did. She puts her unwanted items into garage sales. I ain't doing that.
What are those guitar free standing guitar stands...
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