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StarcasterMan
Got Rhythm
Joined: 05 Feb 2008
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| Thanks, but I'm looking for something a little more...standout-ish. Something easily recognizable but nothing too flashy,not like Prince's guitar. I also think used is the path is better for me because A. it's cheaper B. the guitar is probably brocken in, without that wierd new guitar string feel. What do you think about a used Les Paul or Firebird, preferably Gibson, but Epiphone is also nice. Oh, does Gibson even make the Firebirds anymore, 'cuz I didn't see it on thier website. |
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glw
Lover of Fine Antigua
Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 1162
Location: Oxfordshire, Uk
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Oh, when you said Starcaster I thought you meant one of these cool guitars:
not the recent cheap Strat knockoff that has the same name. |
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vitaminE
Got Rhythm
Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 86
Location: Gilbert Minnesota
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey, doesn't Rick Olack play a Fender Starcaster? Not enough knobs for my tastes. |
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Tim
Low Frequency Out
Joined: 14 Aug 2005
Posts: 1018
Location: At the back, behind the guitarist.
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| Said this sooo many times but I would always buy instruments second hand...more trying required and probably a longer wait but you know what you're going to end up with when you do try them and you avoid the initial plumet in value of most instruments. |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
Posts: 3316
Location: London, UK
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| there is no 'initial plummet' on an SG.. |
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1bassleft
Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 3828
Location: "Hit The North"
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| Used, I would definitely (and always have) hunt the Yamaha SG double-cutaways made in Japan in the 70s. Unfortunately, the chances of catching one for sub $600 are Butkus, at least on eBay. The classified ads are a hope. Also, a guitarist I worked with in the mid 80s to early 90s had an old Gibson Firebird and it was a beautiful looking and sounding instrument. Again, though, not something I'd expect to be selling for that sort of money. |
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Tim
Low Frequency Out
Joined: 14 Aug 2005
Posts: 1018
Location: At the back, behind the guitarist.
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| lee_UK wrote: | | there is no 'initial plummet' on an SG.. |
True...my drunken generalising...however I really wouldn't want a guitar that I was scared to scratch/buckel-rash/fill with whiskey etc etc...tho maybe says more about me  |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
Posts: 3316
Location: London, UK
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Has anyone mentioned Tokai? Burny? Greco? Orville? they do some great 70's and 80's Gibson copies and they will increase in value, i have a Tokai Reborn, it's a 1979 model, quite rare, i bought it on ebay 3 or 4 yrs ago for £427, ive seen the same guitar go on ebay 2 months back for nearly a thousand.
It sounds and looks like a Gibson too. |
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1bassleft
Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 3828
Location: "Hit The North"
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| Quote: | | look around for the Japanese made Yamahas and Tokais |
Yup, I said it. IIRC, the Tokai "Love Rock" sells for less in the US than in Britain at the moment, as Japanese 70s copies are not so picked up on over there just yet. |
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StarcasterMan
Got Rhythm
Joined: 05 Feb 2008
Posts: 56
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| OK... but you guys didn't answer my question... what do you guys think of the Epiphone Firebirds? |
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