tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378453275872637320.post6527800378896684450..comments2023-03-30T04:08:45.468-04:00Comments on These Things Too: Guitars I've known....Stan Denskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15202688980275241342noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378453275872637320.post-49978358460512972552008-09-28T11:42:00.000-04:002008-09-28T11:42:00.000-04:00Vintage guitar prices have truly gone insane. The...Vintage guitar prices have truly gone insane. The Les Paul Juniors from the mid 50s that we bpught every week for $200-$300 are now hovering around $10,000. I remember when i first started getting George Gruhn's mailorder catalog seeing a pre-war D-45 for $12,000 and thinking "NO WAY is a guitar worth that!" That guitar sells for $250,000 today. In the 80s, at a jam session, as a joke I hid my friend's guitar in a closet. It was a 1959 Les Paul Standard that he bought for $2,000, later sold for $20,000 and is for sale today in a UK shop for $475,000.<BR/><BR/>eBay is a crap shoot. I bought one guitar from there I didn't mention in the blog, a Guild D-50. It developed a loose brace (and it's own fuzz tone) and I sold it "as is" for the same $400 I paid. I just won't ever buy another acoustic without playing it first. Two Martins of the same model made on the same DAY can sound radically different.Stan Denskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15202688980275241342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378453275872637320.post-59716652950446323502008-09-28T11:27:00.000-04:002008-09-28T11:27:00.000-04:00Great idea for a post - I have a 1965 Gibson LG1 w...Great idea for a post - I have a 1965 Gibson LG1 which is like a smaller J45. I got in on eBay 10 yrs ago for $450. It's in mint condition. The seller bought it new and never got into it and it basically sat under his bed for 35 years. eBay is always a crapshoot but that was one time where it paid off. I'm not sure you can still get deals like that on there anymore. It's a fantastic guitar - big sound from a small body and perfect for sitting on the couch and playing Dylan, Lennon/McCartney, Neil Young or John Lee Hooker.TCB Walshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09820274519912959018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378453275872637320.post-33856022325478680482008-09-27T13:02:00.000-04:002008-09-27T13:02:00.000-04:00I love the Glenn Miller story; Jerry Seinfeld tell...I love the Glenn Miller story; Jerry Seinfeld tells it in the documentary about stand up.<BR/><BR/>I wish I had the Martins back. I am getting a new Paul Reed Smith acoustic - not on the market yet but Ricky Scaggs has one I think. I have high hopes for it.Stan Denskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15202688980275241342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378453275872637320.post-74267457978318232712008-09-27T01:51:00.000-04:002008-09-27T01:51:00.000-04:00nice post-i remember playing some of those guitars...nice post-i remember playing some of those guitars you spoke of both in clarion and on a few new dylans home invasions in indy. i have a list of some of my ones that got away as well as a list of ones that would presumably get away once i buy them. am playing a new martin that i just got in the mail as i type this. can't wait for you to meet her. as an aside to the carnegie hall joke, one of my faves that i heard a while back:<BR/>so glenn miller and his orchestra were flying through a snowstorm in the midwest in the 40's. the plane was forced to land in a remote cornfield and the gang grabbed their gear and started hoofing it towards a light in the distance. freezing and soaking wet tired and hungry, they see that it is a beatiful old farmhouse with smoke coming out of the chimney and a warm glow about it. as they get closer and finally to the porch they look inside the big picture window onto the scene of a saturday evening post cover of a family all curled up kids playing games on the warm floor father with pipe mother with knitting etc, and glenn looks at his trumpet player and says "how can people live like that"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com