Just want to express my glee...

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Cyrokk

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I got a belated father's day present today..

An Epiphone Basher BB, Flame Maple Top...

I've been hanging around Fenders and Kramers.. I forgot how sweet these Les Paul types resonate... and the tones.. my god.. the tones...

Yeah ok.. you damn purists.. "It's not a real Les Paul".. but I don't care.. if it walks like a duck.. and quacks like a duck..

One problem though.. how do I remove the smile from my face?

Cy
 
Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...may be a buzzard in disguise...I give it a year before shit starts falling off....Ill take it off your hands for 60% of your cost and save you years of enjoyment..I mean agony.....
 
well then this buzzard is a damn good piece of ass...

I needed a cigarette after I played the guitar bridge to Tool's Schism.. goddam thought I was playing Adam Jones guitar...

However.. if you are interested in broken gear I got a Portajohn.. uh.. I mean Porta03 with two burnt out tracks on it.. and tell you what.. I'll knock it down from my original asking price.. I'll sell it to you for $2800.. :D
 
I've got some vintage guitar strings for ya... cheap... $700.
String cases: $50 each.
Classic pick: $200 (cheap)
Buying it from me: priceless
 
heh.. maybe we should go into business together.. we could wear the plaid Herb Tarlic suits and sell gear out of McDonalds Parking Lots...
 
Either that or walk down the street with a trenchcoat full of goods.

"Psssst... Hey buddie... Wanna buy an 'an?' "
 
Don't lose the smile.

I'd smile if I could play the guitar bridge to Tool's "Schism".
Then I'd need a big drink...

Good luck and have much loud fun!
F/M
 
BBB:

I think the pick is over priced. I've seen them on Ebay for only $99.00 each. Must have been a dealer, huh? Who else could afford to do that?
 
Hey.....if it sounds and plays good,go for it.I'm sure people laughed at David Lindley when he first hit the stage with all those Danelectros and Teiscos,yet the "Tone Record" speaks for itself.And---anyone remember the Frankenstein that J. J. Cale used to play? It was a Harmony thinline electric,with no back,and about 5 different pickups in it.........Peter Frampton offered to buy it,but it wasn't for sale!
Bottom line.........yeh,some of the copies will have things fall apart on them,but hey....everything breaks in it's own time.You get what you pay for. :rolleyes:
I'll give you $125 and a vintage guitar cloth (with plenty of miles left on it) for the pick and the strings.
 
I have no experience with the new, non-USA Epiphones.

Looking at them in a catalog, however, they seem to have some really nice-looking remakes of classics, like the Zephyr and the WildKat Ltd. These look like the classic American Epis I remember form the olden days, which were pretty much Gibson semi-copies even then.

Are these any good, really? Who makes them and where? Everyone disses them on alt.guitar, but people usually don't have much reasoning behind these rants.

Funny, but if you want a "real" Les Paul Standard with soapbars, you apparently have to get it from Epiphone, as I see no version of it among all the crazy junk Gibson is making with "Les Paul" on it these days. Weird...
 
We used to take the Les Paul Deluxes (back in the 70s when they were plentiful) and put P-90s in place of the minibuckers---it was a perfect fit,because the route was the same size.Of course,some of us (and by "us" I'm not referring to...uh...ahem...me)routed these poor guitars and stuck DiMarzios in them,which were the new kids on the block.P-90 soapbars make any guitar sound good--------I have a mid 60s double cut Melody Maker that is going under the knife to get a couple of these pups put in.Kinda like an anorexic Les Paul Special.
 
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