re: #4 makeitstop
Hey!
I was out in Colorado the last 13 days and got to visit Wildwood Guitars in Louisville. Small showroom, massive warehouse. 5 thousand high end guitars. Number 1 Fender Custom Shop online retailer.
So I went to specifically hold a guitar I had never held. A Gretsch Billy Bo Jupiter Thunderbird.
The gentleman who greeted me and my son, Lance, went and got one, handed it to me, let me go to a back room, asked how I liked my tone and spun the wheels on a Friedman head (check that out) with a Tone King cabinet to an approximate JCM Marshall sound.
I was totally disappointed. Too dark. I wasn’t going to wank, and so I just did my through the pups and tones rundown, and was let down.
Sometimes the picture is better than the real thang.
Super nice people.
Sat on the same stool Joe Bonamassa sat on.
Gained no residual skills.
Gave me and my son free T shirts.
I bought picks.
Held a few Les Pauls, just for old times sake.
Wanted to stay but I wasn’t buying anything and the phones never stopped ringing. Didn’t want to be “that guy”.
I think I’m finding out I’m a one guitar guy. It works. I know it. It’s dialed in on my board and amp. LEAVE IT ALONE.