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RAMI
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HAHAHA! Yes! Those guys are great.
OLD Sesame Street is still one of my favorite shows. If I'm flipping channels and it's on, I watch it and laugh my ass off. Better than any sit-com other than Seinfeld.
OLD Sesame Street is still one of my favorite shows. If I'm flipping channels and it's on, I watch it and laugh my ass off. Better than any sit-com other than Seinfeld.
Yup. I swear they made that show for kids.....and their junkie parents. That show can be enjoyed no matter which drugs you're on. I haven't seen it lately, but the episodes from the 70's - early 80's are fantastic.
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
and Fraggle Rock is also an awesome kid's show.
At least one great song every episode.
About 10 years ago i got into it heavy and got up every morning to tape it ..... I have all 87 episodes on VHS!
Seeker of Rock
The One and Only
Two guitars that had tuners I thought sucked were an '82 Stratocaster (tiny little buttons with some fancy beveling and if they weren't moved in awhile they would 'pop' from their position until you got them moving) and a '65 Harmony Rocket that had open tuners that weren't very smooth for some reason. I remember putting 3-in-1 oil on the Harmony's tuners, but didn't help much. The kidney shaped Grovers have always felt really nice and smooth, easy to turn.
CoolCat
Well-known member
I'm seeing Gibson SG standards with HScase for $800 on CL.GIBSON SG STANDARD
Gibson SG special at $500 with HSCase
Gibson SG black no case $500
Gibson SG Black
Gibson SG special at $500 with HSCase
Gibson SG black no case $500
Gibson SG Black
David O'Donnell
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Epiphone has a wide variety when it comes to quality. You have to do your research. I've seen SG & LP models that were bolt-on garbage and I've seen custom shop & materbuilt models that shame the Gibsons in value. My Epi 175VR is every bit as good as it's Gibby counterpart at a tenth the price.
I haven't read through this whole "probably been said thousand times" thread, but the real truth of the matter is (if no one else has said it) Every guitar, independent of the name on the peg head, is different. There are some crap Gibsons and superb Epi's - Play 'em and then make your choice based on playability, feel and sound - not brand name. C'mon Rami you've been around long enough to know this yourself!
Richard Monroe
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Well, my read on it is that the OP should start with a cheap, well made, SG, and learn how to play it. Then, when he has the chops, he should pick up a bunch of red SG's and play them, until he finds one that he has of trouble putting down. If it's a Gibson, fine. If it's an Epi, fine. You shouldn't shop for expensive guitars until you can play a guitar. Impatient? Want to speed up the process? Take guitar lessons. You're right about this, K. Road- Guitars are made (mostly) by humans, out of (mostly) wood. When you are looking for a cheap guitar, you are looking for the one that some guy made right, by accident. Or- one made by a poor SOB who should be a high paid master luthier, but instead is stuck making cheap copies in the Philippines.
Either way, anybody can buy a good $5000 guitar. The bitch is, it can still be the wrong guitar. I never could play my SG Supreme very well, because of the squared off frets, the long scale, and the lack of a pickguard, which would have been a custom job. They don't even make an aftermarket pickguard for it. In other words, I had bought a lead guitarist's guitar for a rhythm guitarist. Slash and Pete Townsend simply need different guitars. I wound up settling for an American made telecaster, an Epi Les Paul, and an Epi Casino. I can do whatever I need to with one of those guitars. And- as you get better at playing, you may find your taste changes. When I was a beginner, I wanted a Gibson Hummingbird. When I finally could afford one, 40 or so years later, I found the sunburst color and engraved pickguard garish, and preferred Taylors and Breedloves. Get a playable guitar and learn to play it. Do that, and you'll know the answer to the question you asked. There are a fair number of left-handed SG's out there:
Epiphone G-400 PRO Left-Handed Electric Guitar | Musician's Friend
It is an act of mastery to buy a really good cheap guitar. Most of them are messed up in some way, but the ones that aren't make the search worth the trouble.
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RAMI
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acidrock
GO PACKERS!
But,but,but,a Gibson L/H with P90s.....
Gibson Limited Run SG Special '60s Tribute Left-Handed Electric Guitar | Musician's Friend
just to keep the drama going.
Gibson Limited Run SG Special '60s Tribute Left-Handed Electric Guitar | Musician's Friend
just to keep the drama going.
Hi RAMI,
I bought an Epiphone G 400 a few months ago, and have been extremely happy with it.
Yes, the pickups are not quite as powerful as a Les Paul's, the neck does not have any binding (as the Gibson SG does), and I am not very impressed by the night, but I think that is the best value-for-money guitar that I have ever played, or owned.
I recently bought a Strat, after trying a Squier Strat copy (Squier Classic Vibe 60s), thinking that that might be the way to go, and I have to say that, while the Squier CV 60s is good value for money, the G 400 exceeds that.
Even though, as another poster quite rightly pointed out, each guitar is different, I read a lot of reviews of the Epiphone G 400, and 99.9% of them were uniformly, and extremely, positive, and my experience is borne this out, too.
Good luck with your decision.