I get tired of political/human crap, and from time to time just need to clean the scum out of my system. I sometimes just spend part of the day out with my dogs, and sometimes I spend it with my guitars.
Today, I am spending some time with an older guitar, playing it and just enjoying having it around.
My grandfather had some Les Paul & Mary Ford records that I loved listening to when I was about 4 or 5...I wanted to play electric guitar ever since then. I got my first guitar about 55 years ago, and have been a bar band musician off and on for many years starting at age 15. I play mostly electric guitars and bass, but am also interested in acoustic guitars, and I have a variety of each ...and I like almost any type of music as long as it has an interesting guitar part in it.
This morning, I have been playing one of my old Gibson SG Specials. According to the Serial Number, it was made on January 27, 1999 in Nashville, the 141st of about 220 guitars made that day. They say Gibson still uses a lot of hand work in making it's guitars, and each takes 3 or 4 weeks from planks to finished instrument. Here it is...
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The SG Special is a stripped down instrument, no frills...everything you need, and nothing extra, which appeals to me. This one has been around the block...it was a bar band guitar, spent years on the road and even more years as a recording studio guitar, It has dings, chips cracks and splits, and someone has installed a nickel cover over the neck pickup, leaving the bridge pickup open as it came from the factory.
(The cover takes some of the highs away and mellows out the tone, at least in theory...they also replaced the factory tuners with Grovers and I believe replaced the plastic nut with one made of bone.)
It's a beautiful, easy guitar to play, versatile and toneful. It is making my Friday a very good day.