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    Posted: January 24 2005 at 05:38

Many people have guitars that they a perfectly happy with and would continue to use until the end of their days without so much as a whiff of complaint but late at night, when you are tucked up in bed and sleep engulfs you. What guitar do you dream of having?


For me it's The Model One by Luthier Rick Turner. A diminutive guitar used chiefly by Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac which posesses the voice of an angel and the heart of a devil.

I want one!!





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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2005 at 23:14
Originally posted by sigod sigod wrote:

Many people have guitars that they a perfectly happy with and would continue to use until the end of their days without so much as a whiff of complaint but late at night, when you are tucked up in bed and sleep engulfs you. What guitar do you dream of having?


For me it's The Model One by Luthier Rick Turner. A diminutive guitar used chiefly by Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac which posesses the voice of an angel and the heart of a devil.

I want one!!


I wouldn't mind having one of these [or both]:

1. This new Gibson Digital -
http://www.gibson.com/products/magic/digitalguitar.html

2. A special Gibson called "The Les Paul".  They were made from about  1975 to 1978. Only a few were made.  I cannot seem to locate any images of one on the web, but they don't look like any other Les Paul - lots of exotic woods used for materials.  On the inside of the The Steve Howe Album CD, there's a photo of Steve playing one...
Also, I've run across a few "Vintage Gibson Guitar" books at Barnes & Noble with photos of these rare machines.
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Points: 675 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2005 at 15:04
"The Woman Sound" guitar Todd Rundgren got from Eric Clapton.  It's the rainbowy painted one Eric played in Cream
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Points: 5243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2005 at 15:52

It's an SG, right?

 

I really like the Parker Fly customs, not the NiteFly. One piece of molded composite. I've played about ten different ones and they all feel and sound the same, great!  
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i'd love to have Jimmy Page's original Telecaster (from Jeff Beck) that he used on Zeppelin1: I love it so much that i bought myself a Tele of my own, but its just not the same..:

 So beautifull.....awww
something pretentious
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Originally posted by danbo danbo wrote:

I really like the Parker Fly customs, not the NiteFly. One piece of molded composite. I've played about ten different ones and they all feel and sound the same, great!  



A Parker like the one this gentleman is playing Danbo?

 
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Points: 5243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2005 at 12:49

Exactly...... Hell, I'll take Adrian's whole package, mate!

Roine Stolt plays Parker Flys too. An incredible axe, Eugene!

Have you tried one?  
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Points: 5243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2005 at 12:51

I would mind havin' one of these:

Carvin AH Fatboy.
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Points: 5243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2005 at 12:54

 

What about on-o-these?

Danelectro Convertable. The perfect couch guitar.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2005 at 14:41

My dream guitar is a Cream colored Gibson ES-355 with Vibrola Tailpiece. Like the kind used by Alex Lifeson. If I couldn't have that it would be Steve Howe's Gibson ES-175.

 

 
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Check out some of the ones on http://www.lmentryimports.co.uk

I don't know what they sound like, but they definitely look cool
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Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

Check out some of the ones on http://www.lmentryimports.co.uk

I don't know what they sound like, but they definitely look cool

That Ritter Fretless almost makes me wanna change to four strings.

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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2005 at 20:52
Definately a Les Paul Black Beauty with gold hardware, that guitar makes me want to weep. If not that, then an Ernie Music Man, either the Steve Morse or the John Petrucci model.
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Originally posted by danbo danbo wrote:

Exactly...... Hell, I'll take Adrian's whole package, mate!

Roine Stolt plays Parker Flys too. An incredible axe, Eugene!

Have you tried one?  



No but it's on my list of 'must plays'.
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Originally posted by the musical box the musical box wrote:

 So beautifull.....awww



I'd never seen it close up. That is a hell of a guitar but the again, I've always thought that the telecaster was one of the high water marks of guitar design. For years I lusted after famous Andy Summers Tele for the same reason.
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Points: 363 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2005 at 15:42

Mine would be having a pair of custom made SG clone (cherry red) but with a major difference, it would be a neck-through-body as opposed to the normal glued-in neck that Gibson normally uses, this would be FAR more stable!

Additional stuff would be a set of Seymour Duncan '59's on one, and a set of P-90 single coils in theother and an abalone inlay of an Owl's face in the pegheads of both.
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Originally posted by sigod sigod wrote:

... which posesses the voice of an angel and the heart of a devil.

 

I heard that quote before...

"... I don't remember if it was a stratocaster or a telecaster, but I remember it had the voice of an angel and the heart of a horny thing..."

Jim Steinman, if I'm not wrong... or is just a coincidence?
Please forgive me for my crappy english!
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Er... I was slighty wrong, the complete monolog is:
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I remember everything!
I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday.
I was barely 17 and I once killed a boy with a fender guitar.
I don't remember if it was a Telecaster or a Stratocaster,but i do remember
that it had a heart of chrome and a voice like a horny angel.
I don't remember if it was a Telecaster or a Stratocaster, but I do remember
that it wasn't at all easy.
It required the perfect combination of the right powerchords and the precise angle
from which to strike.
The guitar bled for about a week afterwards and the blood was
ooh...
dark and rich like wild berries.
The blood of the guitar was Chuck Berry red!
The guitar bled for about a week afterwards and it rung out beautifully ,
and I was able to play notes that I had never even heard before.
So I took my guitar and I smashed it against the wall!!
I smashed it against the floor!!
I smashed it against the body of a varsity cheerleader!!
I smashed it against the hood of a car
I smashed it agianst a 1981-Harley Davidson...
The Harley howled in pain, the guitar howled in heat!
I ran up the stairs to my parents bedroom
Mommy and Daddy were sleeping in the moonlight
slowly I opened the door creeping in the shadows right up to the foot of the bed
I raised my guitar high above my head and just as I was
about to bring the guitar crashing down upon the center of the bed
my father woke up screaming:
"stop...wait a minute..stop it,boy"
"what do you think you're doing???
That's no way to treat an expensive musical instrument"
And I said "god damn it, daddy!!!
You know I love you....."
"BUT YOU GOT A HELL OF A LOT TO LEARN ABOUT ROCK AND ROLL!!!!!"
Please forgive me for my crappy english!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2005 at 17:13

Brian Setzer uses these guitars:

1938 D'Angelico Excel (left side of photo)
1940 D'Angelico New Yorker (right side of photo)
 

he's not prog but he has some mighty fine guitars on that page
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I'm really happy with my current guitar, a 1994 Hofner Nightingale, it's the ES-335 model in front :



i don't have much on my wish list, but this combination of a rick and a AC-30 would be great :
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