currypowder

ultimate-guitar.com is OK. Since the tabs are user created, they can be a little inconsistent. I've found that I can usually find a reasonably correct tab for most of the songs that will at least get me in the vicinity, then can figure out or fill in the errors or missing pieces.

Detroit Rock City (Live) - Kiss Have Love Will Travel - The Sonics Baby Watch Your Back - Nellie McKay Zero - Smashing Pumpkins Shewango Way - Peter Frammpton Season of the Witch - Donavan Live With Me - Rolling Stones Let Them All Talk - Elvis Costello I'm in Love With a Girl - Big Star Mother Says - Joe Walsh

Now here's an LS-380 that (at least initially) is priced about right. The seller is well known over at the Tokai forum and I think he's well regarded. As far as I can tell, there are only 2 differences between the LS-380 and the LS-320; the pickups on the 380 are Rolph's instead of SD Seth Lovers and there is no fret edge binding on the 380. For the life of me I can't understand why Tokai would stop putting freedge binding on a guitar that is supposed to be historically accurate. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...p;rd=1&rd=1

Not trying to be a dick, but.... I could ship one, but I won't. I could ship one, but the guitar's fate would be the same - not delivered. Not a good situation for anybody. They are copies, and would be dealt with as copies by U.S. customs. How they know these things boggles my mind I mean, wouldn't that be a decent job for working musician who hasn't quite made the big time yet so they need a day job? "U.S. Customs Musical Instrument Inspector." The one I saw Saturday is bound for England. Repeat customer. He also has a Tokai 335 copy (new). I've purchased several guitars from Japan, some new, some used without incident. The 3 Tokais that I have now all came from US sellers, but I've not heard of anyone not receiving a guitar that was shipped from Japan because they were denied at customs. I'm not saying that it hasn't happened, just that I haven't heard of it. I wonder how often it happens.

While I think that particular auction is WAY overpriced, the top end Tokai's are as good as it gets. I would put my 2003 LS-320 (which was the top model at that time) up against any Gibson R9. Yeah, it was pricey, but it was less than half of what a simlar R9 (with Brazillain Rosewood Fretboad) would have cost.

I'm going to get on my soap box here. It's a little long, and not terribly interesting. So feel free to skip it. It's all just my opinion. I've never believed that any collectibles are good invetments (guitars, art, beanie babies, whatever). Instead, I characterize it as pure speculation. There is no inherent economic value to most collectibles. Sure, a few pieces may go way up in value for some reason, and some pieces may have historical value, which helps their market value. But in the end, they are just things. When someone buys a guitar strictly for investment purposes, he (or she, let's not be sexist here) is making a prediction that sometime in the future, there will be someone elst that will (for whatever reason) place a greater value on it and be able to pay that value. To me, to be an investment there needs to be some economic reason that income will be generated and/or the value will go up. When you invest in a business or a piece of a business (stock), you (hopefully) have good reason to believe that business will generate profits, pay dividends and go up in value (due to increases in profits). When you invest in a bond, you have good reason to beleive that you will get paid interest and get your money back at some point int he future. There is also an element of speculation in real investing, and it's easy to get caught up in it. But underneath it all there needs to be real economic value. This is a real long winded way to say that guitars are lousy investments. Yes, there are specific examples of guitars that have appreciated greatly, and it's easy to see looking backwards in time. But I guarantee you that for every example of a guitar that has wildly appreciated, I can find multiple examples of businesses and stocks that appreciated even more due to real economic growth. I bet I can also find multiple examples of guitars that depreciated greatly and are basically worthless. I would be willing to bet that if I could track the value of every guitar ever made from the point of purchase to now, that, on average, the value went down. But if you look at the value of every stock ever issued publically to now, on average, the value went up. I buy and "collect" guitars (if you can call 8-10 guitars a real collection) because I like them and like to play them. They are worth a lot to me personally, but not as an investment. As a possession, nothing more.

A friend just sent me this. Very nice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KWY6xlqz-A...ted&search=

Happy Birthday, David. 43 is a good age.

I have an Edwards Jimmy Page model and just put in an order for a new Edwards Goldtop w/ P90's. These Edwards LP copies are great guitars. I don't have a lot of experience with Gibsons. However, it would not surprise me to find that I enjoy the Edwards GT as much or more as my Gibson R6 and putting the R6 up for sale. A great feature of the Edwards, for me at least, is their weight. My JP model weighs a hair under 8 lbs. Most of the other ones I've seen for sale weigh under 9 lbs. They don't come up for sale too often from US sellers. Most times you need to deal with someone in Japan. Whoever buys this one won't be sorry. currypowder

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