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Here you go, as long as you don't mind having 'Wide-Range' humbucking pickups too: Vintera® II '70s Telecaster® Deluxe with Tremolo – Fender

I remember the MIJ versions that Fender put out about ten years ago, butterscotch blonde with an ash body. I don't see many of those anymore, except at stupid prices.

No affiliation. Is it a Offset Telecaster, or a Telemaster? I have never seen or heard of this version with the 'Maverick' trem, either: Used Limited Edition American Standard Offset Telecaster '16 – Dave's Guitar Shop

Do I hafta pick just one? 🤘 The Great Kat Discography: Vinyl, CDs, & More | Discogs

The guy does look a bit like Al Bundy, though.

That song was mentioned on Late Night With Stephen Colbert tonight in their Cybergasm show segment, along with a video featuring this latest breakthrough in Russian AI technology. Somehow, I'm not worried, I may be old but I'm still faster and steadier than one of those robots: Watch: Russia's AI robot falls seconds after being unveiled

Looks to me like somebody wanted one in Fender three-color sunburst...that was the last year that Hamer was in business before Fender shut it down, wasn't it?

I haven't heard about this 'Ascent' line before, looks like it's been around for about six months or so. I need to get out more (obviously ), but I did find this article about them: Heritage Ascent+ H-150 review: a lot of guitar for the money

Found this by accident this evening on YooToob, hadn't seen it before. No frills, plus Bun E. on the drums, but unfortunately no Hamer content:

I gotta wonder what the Fullerton Chamber Of Commerce, or Fullerton City Hall, or whoever was in charge of the city government was doing (or NOT doing) when all this stuff went into the dumpster. Reassembling Leo's office couldn't have been that difficult to save, for whatever they have in Fullerton that passes for a museum...besides, G&L had left the office for years just as Leo had last left it, so why not? Kinda reminds me of this Seinfeld episode:

Light? Perhaps. Soft? Yes, about the same Janka hardness rating as basswood and okoume. G&L may have done some things better than most, but making guitars out of that wood wasn't one of their best moves IMO, except for maybe the Japanese guitar market. https://www.wood-database.com/paulownia/

I do like a head-to-head comparison where 'booteek' doesn't necessarily justify the price difference...and that I can also afford an alternative reasonable facsimile thereof, instead of either just booteek and/or vintage:

Why the sale of Jim Irsay’s guitar collection is a sad moment in guitar history Yeah, whatever. And MTV's Ridiculousness was earth-shaking TV up until they cancelled it recently. NOT. Anybody remember 'The Chinery Collection' and what happened to it? Pretty much the same thing. I'm not gonna lament The Irsay Collection any more than i did that.

...though they DID find the ES-345 used in the second BTTF movie: Gibson finds Back to the Future Part Two ES-345 | Guitar World Anyway, since when would that stop a marketing campaign? Gibson & Epiphone Honor Back to the Future's 40th Anniversary! - Premier Guitar Gibson Back to the Future Collection For some reason, a certain quote from P.T. Barnum comes to mind....

If in doubt, buy an old US made Robin. If you can find one.

Stumbled upon this while web surfin' last night, hadn't heard anything about this RI here in The States yet...prices are in Euros on the Framus website below, so they ain't cheap: The legendary Hootenanny guitar - Played by John Lennon

If anybody thinks a 12-string is hard to keep in tune, try this one with the trem (no affiliation): Ventures 12-String '60s – Dave's Guitar Shop

A 12-string MIJ Epiphone acoustic was one of my first guitars back in the late '70s, but I've mostly had electric 12's off and on since then on an irregular basis, I kinda have a love/hate relationship with those. Lately, I've actually been thinking about stringing up one of my electrics to 'Nashville' (AKA 'High Strung') tuning; has anybody here done that, and if so, what did you think of the results?

'Borrowing licks' is one thing, but the title of your post ('sound like Jimi') made me think I'd have to get a Marshall stack (again)...and those days are far behind me, nowadays I don't want to drag around any sound gear heavier or bigger than an old-fashioned Noo Yawk phone book if I don't have to.

I think that the technical term for a photo like this is 'Exhibit A'. Talk about a crime scene!

I remember back in the late '70's/early'80's, practically everybody who was familiar with those LPs in transparent colors (Standards, Customs, etc.) with maple tops wished that Gibson would use two- piece maple tops (like '50's models) instead of those three-piece tops, me included. Hell, it didn't even have to be figured wood, plain two-piece maple tops woulda worked just fine. it didn't make sense to me or anybody I knew why Gibson didn't do that from an aesthetic viewpoint, I always thought a three-piece maple top looked mismatched; also, maple was probably the cheapest of any of the woods that Gibson used on LPs, too! Nowadays, Gibson probably charges a premium for 'vintage accuracy', for using three piece maple tops.

What's the point of having a limba body if you're just gonna cover it in black paint? They shoulda done it up in Butterscotch Blonde Transparent. Plus, how many pieces of limba did it take to make the body?

Article byline says it was written by 'Janelle Borg'. Maybe it was!

Sonny Curtis, member of the Crickets who wrote the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" theme song, dies at 88 - CBS News He started out as an early music partner of Buddy Holly in the 1950s, but was probably best known for his songwriting...and he wrote a lot of tunes that made it into the charts and got covered afterwards by others, too: If this song sounds familiar, it should; it was a big hit for Leo Sayer when he covered it in the '70's: He wrote and sang the Mary Tyler Moore theme song 'Love Is All Around', as mentioned in the news article above: