Gino

Me, I own a 2011 New Hartford made Guild F 30 CE (mahagony with spruce top) which is a nice and well balanced sounding acoustic. Then, 2 years ago, I got myself a Fender Paramount PM-1 limited dreadnought, which is kinda like the poor man's D28: east Indian RW body, mahagony neck, ebony fretboard and Adirondack spuce top. Bought it for a little over 700 EUR over Amazon from Great Britiain by the time everybody was scared because of the (then) CITES regulations on rosewood. It's China-made, but it is a wonderful instrument that gets better sounding almost every day that delivers all the dreadnought goods - great bang for the buck - eeh EUR...

It really is Germany! The Beatles played in Hamburg long before they became a thing or The Thing and Elvis served in Germany...🤣

Changed the bridge on my '94 Tele standard for the Callaham 3-saddle compensated replacement and threw out the entire electronics in favour of a complete RS assembly and I ain't lookin' back!

Hof has always been the first place in the free world for us West-Berliners after passing through East German territory for like five hours... My wife and I like Frankonia (is that Franken in English??) very much and spent many weekends there. Good to know a Hamerite's wife is in charge there now!

Yes, a blessed and happy new year to all of you!!

Thomann still has them in stock: https://www.thomannmusic.com/dean_markley.html

Nice mixture - a little 60's beat music, a little Wishbone Ash (twin guitar lead work) and then some...

Yepp, Glenn - but his playing is only second to his voice - man, what a singer!! Got everything REZ and some of his solo stuff. And a great guy! Had the privilege to meet and greet at a REZ concert in Berlin shortly after the wall came down.

I heard a lot of so-called contemporary christian music in the 70's and 80's. There were quite a few string slingers that inspired me: Phil Keaggy - of course, though he's kinda semi-famous by now, and there was this sideman of Larry Norman, a guy called Jon Linn (he passed away many years ago in a car crash) who did some incredible stuff. Being a big Stones fan in the late 60's and 70's as well, Mick Taylor would make it to the list - yeah, I know, too well known...

Always wondered about those weird pickups. I remember from those early GP adds that they even sold them as spares...

Prayed for you - get well soon!!

R.I.P. Ginger. You gave rhythm to many of my days!

I'm afraid to state the obvious: guitar Has been bulid by our own BCRGreg...

Folks, that is an unreal amount of gear - wow !! Someone get those Mesa Maverick heads - one of the most underrated amps ever, IMHO... And then there's this gem: https://www.julienslive.com/m/lot-details/index/catalog/312/lot/122070?url=%2Fm%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F312%3Fpage%3D15 😁😁😁