There are a lot of people around here who have totally crapped-out old Teles and Strats and stuff they bought new, or used in 1965 or 1972 or something. They think it's just funny. It's not like there's strangers cruising the bars looking for stuff or anything, the only time we play for anybody new is if they got lost. I have a friend who keeps a 1959 Gretsch White Falcon under the bed in a spare room, I told him he should get new slats for that bed because John Frusciante paid $80,000 for one and the bed collapses sometimes. The problem is, it's a real, totally- P.O.S.-sounding AND playing P.O.S., so it's hard to take it seriously. Remember how horrible Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young used to sound when they played those things?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqe49_9uvxI
Yeah, like that, only maybe even worse. It absolutely CANNOT be tuned, the strings fall off the bridge saddles all the time, if you raise the action high enough to even get close to cutting out buzzy-the-bee crap you can't even play it except for slide but it has absolutely no sustain so it's like... $4.79 polyethylene plastic nylon-string ukulele slide. Got $80,000? :icon_scratch:
I'm sorry, that was mean. Boy did those guys ever suck huh. As it turned out "cocaine" was NOT the graduate course for which "LSD" was the undergraduate prep course. Around 5:15 is when they're, like, "getting down." Jesus. The really bizarre part is, however, about that 1974 CSNY nonsense being billed under "Sunshine Daydream?" Because on August 27, 1972 a REAL band did some very serious meta-molecular re-arrangement of the nature of being:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftQ0A7SMFuU
That is, unquestionably, exactly how you're supposed to do it. CSN (only) did do "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" GREAT at Woodstock - in 1969 - and around 2004 the whole circus could tear UP "Eight Miles High."
So, $80,000? :icon_scratch: Of my two own "got-aways" one was a late 70's quilted-maple B.C. Rich Mockingbird. SOLID QUILTED MAPLE.... You see the solid KOA ones a lot, but it's almost like I hallucinated it, except I DIDN'T. There must've only been... one? Two or something? Frick. What's something like that worth? And the other one, a Travis Bean TB1000, they run around $5,000 nowadays.