Simplified guitar taste as the years go by?

[Dutchman]

On 12/28/2024 at 12:16 PM, hamerhead said:

 I prefer 'players' to anything 'collector' or with a perfect finish.

I'm in the same boat. People came to hear your guitar, not look at it! 

[Brooks]

I usually go for less to mid blingy. Tried a few swiss-army-knife setups but they didn't last for too long.

I change gear up to fit whatever gig or project I'm into at the moment. SGs & Fenders (both w/ Kahlers) back in the 80s, LP then Hamers in the 90s for cover gigs. Duotone for ~15 years of acoustic gigs and most of Generic Hustles 6 year run. 2010s came the superstrats for Ded Mullet, the Rush tribute, and a few other hard rawk gigs. Been doing solo jazzy gigs for the last ~10 years w/ an assortment of hollows. Current fave is the semi blingy Ibby George Benson, runner up is more blingy Gibby ES359c. Partscaster semihollow w/ P90s to jam rawk at the house. Just got a $170 IYV hollow to leave at work.

 

 

 

Edited January 5 by Brooks
I'm wordy

[Brooks]

On 12/30/2024 at 12:01 AM, cmatthes said:

 

Was that the one Stike was playing in Wizard Sleeves/Ded Mullet?

[cmatthes]

51 minutes ago, Brooks said:

Was that the one Stike was playing in Wizard Sleeves/Ded Mullet?

It is indeed!  That was the night I drove down from DC to catch you guys and picked it up.  

[Biz Prof]

On 12/28/2024 at 8:13 AM, Steve Haynie said:

Big inlays have never been a selling point to me which is good because those PRS Dragons are so expensive. 

Remember the early '90s when those hideous PRS Dragons were listed at $20k in Vintage Guitar? Lmao at the suckers who bought those at a premium.

[HSB0531]

1 hour ago, Brooks said:

I usually go for less to mid blingy. Tried a few swiss-army-knife setups but they didn't last for too long.

I change gear up to fit whatever gig or project I'm into at the moment. SGs & Fenders (both w/ Kahlers) back in the 80s, LP then Hamers in the 90s for cover gigs. Duotone for ~15 years of acoustic gigs and most of Generic Hustles 6 year run. 2010s came the superstrats for Ded Mullet, the Rush tribute, and a few other hard rawk gigs. Been doing solo jazzy gigs for the last ~10 years w/ an assortment of hollows. Current fave is the semi blingy Ibby George Benson, runner up is more blingy Gibby ES359c. Partscaster semihollow w/ P90s to jam rawk at the house. Just got a $170 IYV hollow to leave at work.

 

 

 

Nice Trio

[crunchee]

On 1/2/2025 at 6:33 PM, tbonesullivan said:

I really wish Ibanez would break out the old logo more often. That style of bass is really popular now. "Vintage" is in. They make some great strat style guitars, but only a few signature models have a "noodle" style logo, and it's also not as stylized as the old 70s logo.

Ibanez brought out the retro-styled 'Jet King' series of guitars a few years ago, which had the old style Ibanez logo on the headstock.  They discontinued that model line back in the early 2010s:

Jet King series | Ibanez Wiki | Fandom

[tbonesullivan]

On 1/5/2025 at 11:58 PM, crunchee said:

Ibanez brought out the retro-styled 'Jet King' series of guitars a few years ago, which had the old style Ibanez logo on the headstock.  They discontinued that model line back in the early 2010s:

Jet King series | Ibanez Wiki | Fandom

Holy crap. I forgot about those even though I OWNED ONE. It was a nice guitar. I'm trying to remember why I didn't bond with it. I can say however that is was one of several guitars that really convinced me that I don't really like the sound of split humbuckers, except when it's combined with another split humbucker. My PRS can split both pickups, but I only like it when it's in the center position.

Edited January 7 by tbonesullivan