Don't get
me started on them..
This is exactly what is wrong with the music business, ie; vintage guitars at the moment. The whole GC takeover of music stores, has brought more music to the masses maybe, but at the expense of passing down any real knowledge to these kids coming up.
When I was trying to sell my Martin 00-28G the local guy called them and they turned down the guitar over the phone, stating it was in players condition, without even looking at pictures of it..
They are a joke and this whole rock star/investment banker/plastic surgeon investing in a vintage guitar for it's purposed increase in value is ridiculous.
I can say that my own bucket list will soon come true as Tom Witterock of Third Eye Music, in St. Louis has personally invited me by to play his famous 1959 Burst 'Gladys' and some of his other 15 1959 LP Sunbursts, this will be awesome, like the Holy Grail!! I had the experience of playing the 1958 Goldtop and carting it around the vintage Philly show for a few days, the one eventually bought by EJ for a lot less and he recorded with it then flipped it in Texas.
I had a overall somewhat miserable experience reliving the vintage guitar scene again after being involved slightly, mostly in British amps, in the late eighties early nineties, things are not what they used to be.
Have great memories though!!
yngwie308
