Nice!  I hope you find many many hours of enjoyment playing it. 

Last guitar I got was an Ibby George Benson LGB30.

Yay PRS!

Nice!

I went from getting a cheap unknown $30 chorus to this crazy thing.  Just arrived.

^Looks like a lot of fun.

If you don't see me posting for a while...

Ken Parker, and his guitar, the Fly (still my favourite), poster child for underappreciated, innovative guitar:

https://reverb.com/news/the-difficulties-of-innovating-guitar-makers-and-the-burden-of-nostalgia?post_id=10211193383169904_10211193399610315#

to be fair, the fly is a guitar that favors particular styles of playing that aren't as generally appreciated as other styles.

I'm not sure what that style is.  The sigs were Adrian Belew and Vernon Reid.  A coworker of mine who also happens to play a Fly plays jazz.  I play weird instrumental covers of stuff.  That's about the entirety of my data set.  As  that same co-worker said, there are no bad Parker guitar players.  (Admittedly, he hadn't heard me play.  But I know what he means -- there's something about the guitar that makes me want to play better.)

I've always seen the parker fly as being a guitar for fusion, prog rock, or other similar technical fast styles.

Yeah, well, I know it looks high tech and technical and cold, but one of the reasons I love it so much is that it has a very organic, almost electro-acoustic sound to it, even when just using the straight humbucker pickups.  So I would argue that it "lends itself to a particular style of playing".  It's certainly a very "fast" neck, and would fit well with those types of players, but I think you'd be surprised at how old-timey guitar it can sound, so would fit with other styles as well.

The guitar is a rock instrument. Rock music is 100% nostalgia. There are certainly still good bands coming out, but the music they play and the structure of the groups playing it is derivative of what has come before. It would be recognizable as rock to anyone from about 1978 on in a way that Sgt. Pepper, or Never Mind the Bollocks would not have been recognizable as rock in 1958. So aside from the simple aesthetic argument that the lines and balance on a Strat, or a Telecaster, or a Les Paul are beautiful in a way the Fly simply isn't, if one is engaging in a nostalgic enterprise, it makes little sense to do so in a non-nostalgic way. That's why modern looking guitars don't catch on in a broad sense.

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selling.

need moar bitcoins!

OCD Guitars

Oh goddammit, want pink guitar.

That's no surprise, you straight guys are always wanting to finger the Pink.

What do you think "mitt-buffing" refers to?  

I've been playing my acoustic a lot lately.  I really like these new Nickel Bronze strings from D'Addario.

Anyone want some free electrics before the storms roll in tonight?




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Anyone want some free electrics before the storms roll in tonight?




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Sure. My kids are going to get older.

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Me! I'll grab em, would make nice classroom instruments. 

The Kramer is a vintage model with some oxidation on the pickups

The Squire looks pretty new.

2 hours ago, VPI said:

The Kramer is a vintage model with some oxidation on the pickups

The Squire looks pretty new.

Sweet! Seriously I'm happy to pick up. 

Looks like Chris is passing so the school kids can be rock stars.

Ryan, I think I will be seeing you this weekend so I can bring them then.


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2 hours ago, VPI said:

Looks like Chris is passing so the school kids can be rock stars.

Ryan, I think I will be seeing you this weekend so I can bring them then.


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Yay! Thank you! Good to hear you will be able to make it out this weekend, it's been awhile since I've hung out so I'm looking forward to reconnecting with everyone.