General Music Chat

So has anyone else seen these new Gibsons with the "aged" mother of pearl on the fret markers. There is nothing natural looking about these things. The nacre is a deep uriny, jaundiced looking yellow that would be an absolute deal breaker for me ever purchasing one.

Yep. They're ugly, for sure!

Sorry....gonna hafta beg to differ.... I actually didn't realize that part of my new Paul till quite a few of my fans bought it to my attention describing how awesome it looks when reflected in the stage lights.... never had a negative comment on this LP yet

I think they sound better myself

Heres mine!



The above guitar has the snot green enlays, the one below is the same model guitar and has the pearl colored ones.




Really I dont care what they look like, so Dajax if you have one and dont want it anymore, just send it my way.

Strange deal last night at our gig, the guy didnt have the money to pay our price, so he gave me a guitar, I'll be back in a minute with a picture of it.

Here It Is

Im not familiar with these, but I played it for the full gig last night. It was won in a radio contest and the Band Switchfoot signed it. Ive never heard of them, anybody here familiar with them? I dont have time to even lok them up!

Really the groom at the wedding told me to keep it and use it, cause hes never learned to play it. He brings it out to gigs for me to play Nugent on, my friends name is Ted and we nicknamed him Uncle Ted a long time ago.

Anyone on here know what one of these is worth. When I look at Gibsons all I know about are Les Pauls, but this guitar sounds great, When I opened it up it would get some wild feedback effects going, but they were controllable, I love to push an amp and guitar right to the edge and this one is a lot of fun. The only thing is that I wear these huge belt buckles and I have worn the finish off the backs of most of my guitars.

I get on the Les Paul forum and guys actually pay to have their Les Pauls aged, I always tell them to send em to me for a month, heck I'll do it for FREE.




Heres the picture, and oh yeah there are a bunch of pictures of the gig on our mayspace for anyone that cares, we played on the patio of a Mexican Rest. Whenwe got there the employees didnt even know we were coming, by the end of the night we had them partying with us. Oh yeah tequilla shooters and yager bombs. One of the waiters called himself a Mexican Redneck all night and got up and sang La Bamba with us, or the closest I could come to it without hearing it in 15 years.

Our gigs all just turn into a hedonistic party no matter where we go, even this calm little Mexican rest. Its in the parking lot of one of those Super Walmarts and the traffic flows right past this place, we got some major exposure there and gave away around 400 cds.

Gibson made several hollow body models, ES 335 of course, the guitar Chuck Berry and BB King made famous, ES 135, ES 175, ES 137, 339, 150, 340, 345, 355...one of them was the Byrdland, preferred by Ted Nugent for many years.

New ones run in the $1100-1500 range and more. Older vintage axes can be worth $3000 or more. My mother just called last night to tell me about a 1957 strat and fender amp she saw on the Antiques Road Show TV show, they estimated it worth $50,000. A friend here has had a couple of beat up older Gibsons in his store with price tags well over $1000. It generally depends a lot on condition, from the looks of that one you probably wouldn't find it in a store for less than $1500, and over $2000 wouldn't surprise me at all. Some of the vintage ones can go for more than $5000.

Here's a link to a few Click Here

And a link to the history of the Byrdland Here

I've played a few 335's, a couple of thicker body guitars like that one, and now own a Cort Cl 1500 about that thick but a bit smaller body very simliar in shape to that one. I love it. Plays and sounds great, no problems with feedback at all, but I can easily get it to shift into feedback or overtones any time, if I get really close to the Super Reverb it will absolutely howl, but most of the time I just let it gradually shift into harmonic feedback and ease up on the volume pedal to fade it out. Very controllable...The 335/345 were probably the worst Gibsons for feedback problems, I'm not sure why but they will jump into feedback mode if you look at them wrong. BB King stuffed his 335 with cotton for years to keep feedback down, now he has a special Lucille model made for him that's actually a solid body guitar. By the way the ES345S is a stereo guitar, first one I ever saw was played by a guy in the late 60's with a band called Pot Liquor, popular in Louisiana at the time.

That one looks a lot like a 175 or a Byrdland, can't be sure wiothout a lot closer look at it.

I'm not a big fan of the artificially aged guitars, but some do look nice. Same shop mentioned above builds some aged strats and teles, they look good and a lot of people like them, but I'm giving my guitars a natural aged finish...the nicotine finish that comes from years and years of playing in smoky bars...most are only halfway there, just beginning to show a little discoloration, you don't even see it until you pull the pickguard...

Switchfoot is a Christian rock band that does emoish stuff...you need to play lots of Ozzy & Zappa & spill a lot of beer on it to remove that taint.

Good luck.

Switchfoot had a radio song called "meant to live" I love that track. The bridge is kind of "third eye blind" sounding. The verses sound nirvana influenced w/ the guitars. The vox are pure pop rock.

ES 335...<sigh>