Lunch today - not too bad. I got in some decent bagels from Zabars so am having a ham with swiss chesse sandwich, potato salad my wife made, and a Granny Smith apple.
Re-Introducing Myself:
I am a geezer. Back when I wore a younger man clothes I started off as a folkie - playing Woody, Leadbelly and the usual suspects. I had a big thing for the blues back then as well and could not get enough Son House and, Skip James. About the only "rock & roll" I heard was the stuff my older cousins, who had been smitten by the Boby plague (Vee, Rydell, Vinton and the others) listened to. Then I saw the Beatles on the Sullivan show with those electric guitars. Man, I had to get me one of those. From then on I could not get enough Stones, Byrds, Kinks, and others while I backed into guys like Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
Thoughts on G&L:
Way back when life was pretty simple. I never heard of "tonewoods" and figured the quality of an electric guitar was determined by how many pickups and switches it had. I started off with the usual used Kays and Dan Electros and then moved up to even more used Fenders. My favorite guitar and the one that I played for decades was a 1958 Fender Tele. This leads me into G&Ls.
For me that Tele was the perfect guitar. When I wanted another electric, it made no sense trying to find something the same. I wanted a guitar I felt at home with but not one that was a carbon copy of a Tele. That was how I stumbled upon G&L. They looked like a Tele, were the same kind of shop project guitar, and, of course, had been made by the guy who made my Tele. So I started giving G&Ls a try. I owned a Broadcaster, two 1986 ASATs, even a Classic S (which remains the only guitar I have ever bought new). I really could not find anything I did not like about any of them - I just could not settle in with one. Then it happened. One day somebody put a G&L in my hands and everything clicked. That guitar was a 1st body style Interceptor. At first I hated the way the thing looked from the sickle headstock down to what I called the blood groove. But I could not get the sound of that guitar out of my head. I had owned a '67 Strat but this G&L just rang out with such authority - every note that came out of it was clear and stong.
My friends just about called an intervention on me when I first showed up with that guitar. But I loved that flippin' Interceptor so much I sold it and then bought it back. So its gotta be love. Here she be.
So here is my question. How long have ya'll been playing your favorite - your #1 G&L. Did you and that guitar hit it off right off the bat or did it take you a while to discover one another. And why is it this one that makes you say - This is my G&L. There are many like it but this one is mine.
Musical Hodgepdge
Has anyone out there found an interesting use for a musical instrument other than what it was designed for?
Here is my favorite - an answer to the age old question what do you to with an old clarinet you don't want.
-- Darwin
-- Darwin
