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As told in one of the many threads I am "blessed"
It all started with a GIBSON LES PAUL STUDIO in 1993. I had a friend who was a big man at the airport customs.
I paid that brandnew Studio 500$.
2 years later, I went with a friend to some great music shops, and we tried the higher class models.
Test - procedure: sitting on an amp, all knobs for tone, volume, distortion & clean in the same position.
There was 1 guitar over classing all the others, a PRS Custom 24, and 3 years later in another shop, there was a 6 month old PRS like brandnew, no scratches, nothing and half priced.
It was "my dream guitar", and indeed I earned more than enough as MD thanks to a few specialties:
1) I was well known for making capsules (in fact the pharmacy) to loose weight.
2) I had a laser (50.000$) and I could use it "therapeutical" AND "surgical (minor surgery), since I had the very first laser in my country and at least for 5 months, there was no competion at all, and I became a very skilled user.
3) I am also a "skilled" hypnotist (I don't practice this no longer, but I compare it with riding a bike: you never forget it.
Concerning point 1 & 2 I saw a lot of people, at least 75 patients every week and still growing with 100 patients a week ONLY for 1 & 2. Those people were no "fix" patients they came from everywhere, the record stands on 120km from my office. I GAMBLED and I WON. It is a tiny line, and my collueges here didn't dare to take that step. RESULT: AN ALMOST UNKNOWN JEALOUSY, and for me ??!!..... So, by taking that step, I was really succesful, and I didn't mention my patients: 30/day. I worked as a fool, neglecting all other things, like family, in particular my daughter I DIDN'T TAKE TIME TO SEE HER GROWING UP, my private life was a mess, and I compensated this by "running" away and buying guitars. Add a big dosis luck, like having the occasion to buy a Martin HD-28 for 600$, and a set of Fender Strat 1964, Gibson LP Custom 1968, from people who needed money, and didn't play no longer.
In fact I always had these brands, so it is more difficult to give my opinion. I am not ashamed about my collection, I was simply on the right time and the right moment.
I go a few times a year to a big guitar store, and I played on an few EPIPHONES, and the best guitar was the SG special, the cheapest.
- CAN YOU STILL CALL AN EPIPHONE AS A CHEAP GUITAR? Well, look at the price of a lot of Epiphones. A lot of them are in a price range between 600$ - 900$ now, can you call this cheap?
It is so difficult and I posted a lot topics with decent prices.
My BEST GUITAR EVER IS A DUESENBERG 49er, (they are more expensive ib the USA than in Europe). And as read A GUITAR IS AS GOOD AS HIS PLAYER. I am convinced that Jimmy Page would have an amazing sound too, if he played epiphone.
Last but not least: a lot depends on the amp you have.

FC CHORDIANS have beaten Manchester United (airlines)

HELLO dear DOLL, glad to hear from you, I don't know what's going on in my body.
We went to Dublin (my ex & me) for 5 days.
Great city, and great pubs, even so huge that we entered 3 different times in the same pub, concinced that we had discovered a new one. Some pubs have 3 main entrances in 3 DIFFERENT STREETS!! I never saw a phenomenon like this. We went to the GUINNESS brewery, not that special and since I don't drink...., my ex drunk quit a few guinness beers = a non stop dispute from her site. They told us too that the guinness there is only 4.5 °%, here it is stronger.
It is great to see or better hear from you doll.
I will try to "create" a poem.

beloved friends of Williams Phil
remember him, he didn't pay the bill
for his brandnew Gibson Les Paul Custom
Is this a reason for a kill
to put him in coffin on the bottom

Hi, Pix
I love the question, but did you know that FLEETWOOD MAC in their super- blues period had 3 different guitar players, speaking about the time they were huge as blues band, before they started to be a pop band with the album RUMOURS. I am a Fleetwood lover and it is amazing to see the transformation, 100% blues --> rock group --> pop. With the album "then play on" having really great songs like ""Rattlesnake Shake", "Fighting and Searching for Madge" and the epos "Oh Well", and beautiful ballads Closing My Eyes" and "Although The Sun Is Shining", and worse, I don't know how popular they were at that time, I only know they were huge in Belgium, the Netherlands, about the USA I am not sure, but they became more and more an all american band.
Here the 3 guitar players, they all played rhythm and lead or solo.
- Peter Green
- Danny Kirwan
- Jeremy Spencer, a famous British slide guitarist back then.

If you ask my dream band's players, my answer is easy:
1) 3 guitar players.
2) 3 singers, capable to sing close harmony (see Bee Gees, Beach Boys)
3) a great bass player
4) two drummers.

Isn't it so that the ES stands for Electric Spanish?

Yes indeed this is difficult. AND A GUITAR IS AS GOOD AS THE PLAYER!!!