Your guitar wish list as a kid

[diezelduder]

umm idk, i was more into car dreams a la ferrari porsche and the like

i thought marshall was the shit when i started cause i didn't know anything then my dad told me about mesa, and i felt somewhat enlightened, then i wanted randall stuff, cause of dimebag, but i was actually a bass player for a while and desperately wanted the biggest ampeg rig i could imagine, and drew rigs in class all the time, all well, that never happened, poop on me

i just remember them being said to be "heavy", not just in a figurative sense,

anyway, the guy from hawaii in the above looks like a mofo with all that stuff, i want it!

thanks for your time,

 

[Zachman]

umm idk, i was more into car dreams a la ferrari porsche and the like

i thought marshall was the shit when i started cause i didn't know anything then my dad told me about mesa, and i felt somewhat enlightened, then i wanted randall stuff, cause of dimebag, but i was actually a bass player for a while and desperately wanted the biggest ampeg rig i could imagine, and drew rigs in class all the time, all well, that never happened, poop on me

i just remember them being said to be "heavy", not just in a figurative sense,

anyway, the guy from hawaii in the above looks like a mofo with all that stuff, i want it!

thanks for your time,

I too have always been a Ferrari, Porsche Lamborghini nut ever since the movie Canon Ball Run, came out.

This stuff definitely didn't happen over night. It took YEARS. Back in 1991, I had to sell nearly all my stuff to fund a child custody battle. It wasn't until around 1999, was I able to start building it back. I finally designed and commissioned Bob Bradshaw to build this rig in 2006, with gear I had been strategically accumulating over the years, and running in previous rig versions.

 

[diezelduder]

^^^
my god, that's cool stuff man,

yeah umm a bradshaw rig would be nice, but i'd take a ferrari over that, maybe?

i just want a really easy way to be able to switch everything with midi

and it seems it's hard to switch say more than 2 amps via the midi, unless i'm messing something

thing is, i don't need and or deserve what i have now, so more amps is crazy talk

i am playing with people at least, not shows but that should be coming down the line

shit man i do want that mark series ? idk thanks for showing the pics and all

 

[Zachman]

^^^
my god, that's cool stuff man,

yeah umm a bradshaw rig would be nice, but i'd take a ferrari over that, maybe?

i just want a really easy way to be able to switch everything with midi

and it seems it's hard to switch say more than 2 amps via the midi, unless i'm messing something

thing is, i don't need and or deserve what i have now, so more amps is crazy talk

i am playing with people at least, not shows but that should be coming down the line

shit man i do want that mark series ? idk thanks for showing the pics and all

Thanks...I went the other way, and got the Bradshaw rig instead of the Ferrari. It (The rig) earns me money. I still hope to get the Ferrari one day. I did have a pretty nice Porsche 928, for nearly 4 years, as my everyday driver. I actually miss that car.

You can switch everything via MIDI. That's what I'm doing w/ 4 amps and going w/d/w. It's not so much difficult as it is just a process requiring specific gear to route, switch, and control everything.

This is the control pedal board for everything:

Controlled via a CAE Custom Audio Switcher, Amp Selector, and Dual Stereo 5 channel Mixer:

 

[charveldan]

In 1979' it was whatever EVH had, but i didn't have a clue at the time.

 

[Zachman]

In 1979' it was whatever EVH had, but i didn't have a clue at the time.

Yup... No internet-- divulging secrets back then.

 

[Heritage Softail]

There was a red SG copy and little POS amp that went along with it in the Sears wishbook. I bagged groceries for a few months and bought it and a Univox Super Fuzz, the old orange and electric blue rubber coated one......

 

[dfrattaroli]

I just wanted a Les Paul and a Marshall half-stack. I used to get this catalog in the mail back in '79 or '80. It had a yellow cover and was spiral bound. I don't remember the name. But it was printed on standard paper (not magazine quality) and all black and white pictures. It had electrics, amps, some pedals but also accordions, trumpets, banjos and shit like that. I LOVED that catalog. I'd lust after the pics of the Marshalls in it all day. The prices seemed astronomical to me then.

 

[Death by Uberschall]

Let me add, ANYTHING CARVIN!!!

I just remembered how I sent off for one of their catalogs back in the 80's. I must have read that thing from cover to cover 100's of times drooling over that stuff.

 

[somata]

I don't recall really lusting over anything amp-wise as a teen, but guitar-wise I wanted 2 guitars more than anything:

A PRS like Chris Haskett from the Rollins Band

and

An ESP Horizon like Page Hamilton from Helmet


Hell, I still want those guitars...

 

[Elric]

When I first started playing it would have been any real Jackson guitar with an honest to God put your eye out pointy headstock. I thought the "Rhoads" style V was pure sex but would have opted for a Superstratish model with a custom graphic. This switched to PRS circa 1988 after playing one and being utterly blown away by it. I now have a Custom 24.

For amps, I was clueless. I would've just said "A Marshall stack, dude!". Several years later when I started to pay attention to amplification for reals, that would have switched to ADA MP-1+tube power amp setup which is now, in fact, my main rig.

 

[Devin]

For me it was the Starfield Cabriolet.....

Fast forward about 20 years and I finally got one - a handmade custom shop model at that

I didn't even know that electric guitars had to be plugged in to amps when I was a lil kid

 

[MOAAH]

Same as it is today.
58 to 60 Gibson LPC, three pickup Black Beauty model.
57 to 61 Strat, so I could beat on it and grow up to be the next Rory Gallagher.
But when I was a kid, ya didn't have to mortgage the house to afford one.

 

[guitarslinger]

Jackson USA Kelly

Marty Friedman is still my hero.

 

[Zachman]

Jackson USA Kelly

Marty Friedman is still my hero.

I used to hang w/ him at his parent's house, here in Hawaii, when I was a kid. Nice guy

 

[CharFace]

1992ish

wish list:

Jackson Dinky Reverse w/pile of skulls graphic

Marshall JCM800 half-stack

Tubescreamer

what I had:

Orpheum plastic hollow-body LP "copy"

Crate 15W combo

Boss Heavy Metal pedal