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John Backlund

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  1. In the early 1970's I owned a 105 watt Univox tube amp with a cab full of eight 10 inch speakers. This was situated in the tiny living room of our one-bedroom rented house. I could barely play a barre chord at the time, but I'm more of a new age fingerpicker than any sort of rocker. This thing was the musical equivalent of shooting rabbits with an elephant gun. Photo of this monster later.
  2. In the early 1970's I owned a 105 watt Univox tube amp with a cab full of eight 10 inch speakers. This was situated in the tiny living room of our one-bedroom rented house. I could barely play a barre chord at the time, but I'm more of a new age fingerpicker than any sort of rocker. This thing was the musical equivalent of shooting rabbits with an elephant gun. Photo of this monster later.
  3. So are you saying that because he's successful he deserves to have his {censored} stolen? He paid his dues a long time ago and those guitars have more value than just money. There's a lot of sentimental value there as well. Stow your cheap shot, wannabe, holier-than-thou because I haven't had a decades long successful career BS. Its not like you're talking about someone whose daddy gave them all his {censored}. I'll second this.
  4. That is one of the coolest guitars I have ever seen.... You designed that??? That is freaking awesome... How come you don't have it if you designed it?? Just curious.... 'Just one of those things' is about all I can say about it. I have two guitars of my original design out of the four models that were produced, a single pickup JBD-100... and a natural Korina and red JBD-200... The one other model not shown is the offset JBD-800.
  5. I actually did get to play one of your guitars at a local shop. You, sir have a fine eye for design. Thank you! ....but You've apparently never seen some of the stringed turd designs I've come up with either. They're at the bottom of a drawer somewhere...I should burn them so that they can never 'leak' out and embarrass me at some future time.
  6. John you have some great designs, I remember looking at all your drawings way back when, the guitar turned out great. Correct me if I am wrong but didn't a guy from the board here bring it to fruition, Name of Bennett or something like that. They are built by Bruce Bennett in Chattanooga, TN., including the model I posted above. I have seen this guitar in person (I was at the Newport Guitar Festival, took the photo actually), but as far as I know, it's the only JBD-400 ever built. I'm not even sure where the guitar presently is...so it qualifies as a 'Guitar I'd like to try but can't find anywhere'.
  7. no... wish it was! I spend a lot of my time illustrating. Damn! Nice in every way, color, composition, the whole deal.
  8. No. My wiener is my biggest thing. And you have a lot of them!
  9. I 'participate' in making guitar music more often than any other activity I currently do, but thats probably because It's convenient more than anything else, I'm at home a lot, and have a little room with about six guitars hanging in it so it's always 'right there'. As far as my 'biggest interest' though, it may be a distant third or even fourth to things I would rather be involved in if there was the money to do them. When it gets down to it, music just isn't that big of a deal to me. My wife and I drove from Rapid City, SD. to Chattanooga last spring...and we never turned the radio on once, or put in a CD all the way there, or all the way back.
  10. You seem to have a lot of ideas, so why don't you do somethin' about it, huh? What would you have me do? Maybe find someone to form a company dedicated to manufacturing and marketing guitars of my design? I'll give it some thought.
  11. If my name was on a guitar, I'd like it to be a little different-looking from whats already out there.......maybe something that reminded people of an unholy union between an old GE toaster and a Plymouth Belvedere....and I'd want them to cover several marketing levels, one being a line of mid-high end American built models and another a less expensive import line....so I could afford a few myself.
  12. I always think "That Girl" when i see one of those guitars. I'm an old fart. I can see that too, but it's not just the 'hair', it's also the very realistic flat front.
  13. I don't think the Elvis leather-clad guitar is bad looking either, even though it's impractical as it can get, and defeats the musical purpose of an acoustic instrument entirely, but what the heck...it's Elvis, man! :cool: As far as the double pickguard guitars go, I am personally guilty of (for thirty years at least) wanting a Harmony Sovereign H1266. I Pretty much started out on guitars with a Harmony Sovereign H1260 Jumbo in the late 1960's, and have thus always lusted for the fancier variant ever since.
  14. These guitars are for Rhinestone Cowboy's stage guitars where an ounce of impression is worth more than a pound of performance. They are Grand Ol' Opry props to complement the glittered pageantry of that genre. Of which Elvis's entirely leather-clad acoustic stage guitar must have been the pinnacle of, I would assume. That thing must have sounded like it was made of lead...not that it mattered, being a prop and all.
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