Lunch today - I decided to go with the first ever lunch report lunch and make a chicken sandwich. I had some leftover BBQ chicken in the fridge so sliced it up. I just put all the fixings in a bag because I am planning to nuke some Swiss cheese over the chicken. I will place the chicken now adored with the melted cheese on a croissant, add some mayo and banana peppers. Voila - a sandwich fit for a King and my homage to the first GbL Lunch Report. I will also be nibbling on my usual veggie selection. I brought a small thermos filled with coffee today- Sumatran.
One of our older and esteemed forum members brought up a good one yesterday when he mentioned he once sold a guitar a mere two weeks after he got his sweaty little hands on it. That has got to be a record. Can anybody out there beat it?
Another question - I have only ever bought one guitar new and that was my G&L Classic S. At first I bought used because I could not afford a new guitar. Yeah, like that did not work out well - I ended up with a 1958 Tele and a 1960 Esquire instead of a spanking brand new and shiny Fender. Today, I still do it because to be honest I am cheap.
So how about you guys - do you primarily buy new or used geetars?
Some G&L Thoughts
To me, G&L is much like its Fender kin in that they are shop project guitars. This ain't a slam , this is one of the things I love about them. Easier to fix and to mod to suit individual taste. This is part of the genius that was Leo Fender, George Fullertone and others who were there in the early days.
I also love G&L guitars because I am about as Old School as it gets. I don't want no guitar that tunes itself or is so tempermental you have a conniption fit trying to adjust it.
This brings us to amps. To be honest one of the biggest influences on me these days is weight. If I can't pick it up it ain't going home with me. But I do not really cotton to EQs, effects loops, or what have you. Heck, I object to master volume knobs. My present amp is a mid-1960s Silvertone Twin Twelve. A one trick pony amp with about the cheesiest vibrato known to man. But I like it.
So what's your poison? The basic plug me in and fiddle with the volume and tone knob amp or one with enough lots of knobs and switches to impress the guys at NASA.
My Back Pages in Amps. My first LR had a pic with the Silvertone in it but here are some others.
As always your pics are more than welcome.
1955 Fender Twin Amp (cab restoration by Greg Hopkins)
Titano Custom 260 - made by Estey/Mangnatone around 1962. The Maggie patented true pitch shift vibrato is worth the price of admission alone.
Another 1960s Maggie - a little M2 which I used primarily with an Oahu Tonemaster lap steel.
Catch ya'll tomrrow
, in all honesty it is pretty easy if you are patient. It rarely needs anything done to it though, usually I pick it up and play w/o tuning, as I don't need to tune it. I like my guitars simple to an extent. My bass has full blown active EQ and piezo on board though. 
. I am not much of a fiddler though, I do adjust it once or twice a week, but that is about it. I am not objected to master volumes, wait do you need me to say that one louder? I AM NOT.. you get the picture. Effects loops I like, especially when they are like the one on my amp and can be toggled off/bypassed by footswitch. They are a good place for ambient and modulation effects like chorus and echo, it doesn't get kerfuffled by the early gain stages and tone shaping. I don't really use Od/Dist pedals as my amp can do all those things in spades without them, I love me a wah wah pedal though.
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