Members knockwood Posted May 22, 2005 Members Posted May 22, 2005 http://www.goodallguitars.com/trdomlg.htm I have come to the conclusion that not being richjustplainsucks.
Members digitalsnipe Posted May 22, 2005 Members Posted May 22, 2005 I know what you mean. Just took delivery of my Goodall OM. In my dreams. I agree with Tioga. I work for a guy who just bought a Denali 2 weeks ago ($55K) and he's already ho-hum with it. Before that he was all stoked on it. Then again, I'd rather have the Goodall then anything else I can think of for that price. Ah, who am I kidding, being poor sucks.
Members knockwood Posted May 22, 2005 Author Members Posted May 22, 2005 It'd take a helluva lot for me to get ho-hum with a Goodall. I've had my Guild dread for two years. When I inherited it, the top was already cracked in at least three places... Still, I love the thing. I baby it like crazy - not because I imagine it's some kind of high-end masterpiece or anything, but because it's all I have - and I don't foresee taking it for granted in this lifetime. TM,I get your point & agree, and it makes a lot of sense in a relative world where all good players have crappy guitars and all crappy players have good guitars - which I'll admit happens often (I read recently that acoustic guitars retailing for $300 & under account for approx. 90% of worldwide sales). Still, relativity doesn't make being a good player and owning a great guitar mutually exclusive... Damn it, I want a suitcase full of cash.
Members digitalsnipe Posted May 22, 2005 Members Posted May 22, 2005 Like I said in another thread. I intend to be cremated and placed inside my Guild when I go. I bought the thing new in 1973 for $799.00 and now couldn't replace it for anywhere near that.
Members JasmineTea Posted May 27, 2005 Members Posted May 27, 2005 Originally posted by knockwood and it makes a lot of sense in a relative world where all good players have crappy guitars and all crappy players have good guitars - which I'll admit happens often So I'm at an open-mic, and a guy walks in wareing bibs, trying to look like a poor farmer. He pulls out what looks like a Martin OMC-28, he lets me check it out, FABulouse guitar, turns out he had it custom-made. He gets up to the mic and plays what he thinks is a funney version of Old MacDonald, a beer commercial spoof, and some other incomprehensible thing. He sucks. His meter is bad, his singing is bad, his family-line has'nt had an original bone in their colective body for at least 1000 years. But he sure had a nice guitar!
Members digitalsnipe Posted May 27, 2005 Members Posted May 27, 2005 I have tried and tried and tried but have never been able to buy class or experience. I just don't have the money.
Members knockwood Posted May 28, 2005 Author Members Posted May 28, 2005 I like the idea of being placed INSIDE my guitar when I'm dead... although my cremains would make things a little dusty and probably f**k up the tone a bit. But following your thought, maybe my remains can be compressed into a kind of HPL and I can actually BE a guitar... or two... Just slap a nice spruce top on my dead ass and play me! Talk about an instrument with soul...
Members JasmineTea Posted May 28, 2005 Members Posted May 28, 2005 Ah yes, it's friday.Someone just called and asked if I wanted to go out and get smashed.Mabey Ill just stay home and post about the effects of alcohol.
Members Preacher Will Posted May 28, 2005 Members Posted May 28, 2005 Originally posted by Tioga_Man Hey...now that's an idea. embedded in a graphite guitar. Someone with the wherewithall should offer to build "rainsong" like guitars out of your loved one. Man...what an idea. Just hope you're not on stage when the trumpet blows . . .
Members knockwood Posted May 28, 2005 Author Members Posted May 28, 2005 Originally posted by JasmineTea Mabey Ill just stay home and post about the effects of alcohol. Oh yes indeedy. Crazy as it sounds, I think maybe there's something to this dead dude HPL guitar idea... I don't think it's that morbid... Nutty? Sure. But kind of a neat way to stick around. I'd previously instructed my wife to have me stuffed by a taxidermist and stand me up in front of the mantel... The guitar thing might be a tad less creepy... What would you call a company that makes instruments (no reason to limit it to just guitars) out of dead folks? DeadwoodPlay MeSix Strings Under I kind of like that last one. Other ideas?
Members digitalsnipe Posted May 28, 2005 Members Posted May 28, 2005 Originally posted by knockwood Oh yes indeedy.Crazy as it sounds, I think maybe there's something to this dead dude HPL guitar idea... I don't think it's that morbid... Nutty? Sure. But kind of a neat way to stick around. I'd previously instructed my wife to have me stuffed by a taxidermist and stand me up in front of the mantel... The guitar thing might be a tad less creepy... What would you call a company that makes instruments (no reason to limit it to just guitars) out of dead folks?DeadwoodPlay MeSix Strings Under I kind of like that last one. Other ideas? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Soylent Strings? Who started this nonsense?
Members knockwood Posted May 28, 2005 Author Members Posted May 28, 2005 Originally posted by digitalsnipe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Who started this nonsense? I think you must own up to some complicity there. That thing about being cremated and chucked into your Guild. Got me thinking...
Members digitalsnipe Posted May 28, 2005 Members Posted May 28, 2005 ExitarAshstringerUrnaleleFretless (the verb)Deadnaught Okay, I fes' up.
Members JasmineTea Posted May 28, 2005 Members Posted May 28, 2005 I'd like my bones to be made into saddles, nuts, bridge-pins. Put my ashes at the foot of a young spruce tree.
Members JasmineTea Posted May 28, 2005 Members Posted May 28, 2005 I think it's time for a round of "Please Don't Bury Me" by John Prine. all together now...
Members JasmineTea Posted May 28, 2005 Members Posted May 28, 2005 actualy, I've written a song that i'd like to have inscribed on my tomb stone. any music-reading musicians passing by could read it and weep. (where did I leave that flask of Jim Beam...Ah, there it IS!)
Members digitalsnipe Posted May 28, 2005 Members Posted May 28, 2005 Originally posted by Tioga_Man What the hell is a Danali..a guitar? a car? a painting? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------It's a very well appointed Yukon.
Members JasmineTea Posted May 28, 2005 Members Posted May 28, 2005 Originally posted by digitalsnipe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------It's a very well appointed Yukon. I thought it was a pastry. What the hell is a Yukon? a motorboat? a jacket? snowmobile?
Members digitalsnipe Posted May 28, 2005 Members Posted May 28, 2005 Originally posted by Tioga_Man JT I don't know if you're serious. But just in case you're not and this is some private joke....What the hell is a Yukon? DS, you say a well appointed Yukon, and I have this picture of a well dressed man or woman from the Yukon region....a Mounty with lots of medals....and I'll add that I did some homework, searching Google with Denali...but without success at narrowing down what it is.I'll have an almond Denali, please. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ahem. TM and JT...your attention please. A Denali is not something served up with your favorite latte. That would be a Biali, which is like a Bagel on steroids. General Motors Corporation, producer of personal and commercial ground transportation vehicles, makes the Denali which is a high-end SUV. An analogy would be Martin's D-41 as compared to the rest of its product line.
Members JasmineTea Posted May 29, 2005 Members Posted May 29, 2005 An almond Daneli would realy be the {censored}, I saw a white Cadi/suv riding down the street today...Rule of thumb: the more expensive the car, the worse the driver.
Members knockwood Posted May 29, 2005 Author Members Posted May 29, 2005 This is all very confusing. First, how the hell do you get strings on that SUV? And precisely how much of an investment in cream cheese are we talking about to cover that behemoth?
Members JasmineTea Posted May 29, 2005 Members Posted May 29, 2005 Originally posted by knockwood This is all very confusing. First, how the hell do you get strings on that SUV? And precisely how much of an investment in cream cheese are we talking about to cover that behemoth? Hey, your pm-box is full, tried sending a msg, got the full pm thing.
Members digitalsnipe Posted May 29, 2005 Members Posted May 29, 2005 Originally posted by knockwood This is all very confusing. First, how the hell do you get strings on that SUV? And precisely how much of an investment in cream cheese are we talking about to cover that behemoth? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Confusing indeed. Maybe you should forward this thread to GM with a C/C to Kraft Foods and Martin's string division. Personally, I think anyone who buys such a vehicle immediately becomes adequately strung up. Now, the creamcheese cost issue...could that be the insurance and lack of items covered under the vehicle warranty? You do have an indirect way of describing the nuances of buying an new car.
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