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Topic: How many gigs have you done with your main guitar? |
Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 29 Jul 2008 3:42 am |
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I worked out last night that I have done close on 8000 gigs with my Pro 111 ShoBud since 1975. She is still looking great and playing well. I have put some new Coop bell cranks on recently, and replaced some of the levers with some of his shiny ones. None of the parts needed replacing because they were worn.
I expect there are many of you out there who can easily beat this with guitars that are much older. Apart from a stripped leg socket once that was replaced with a helicoil, she has never let me down. It's great that you can rely on your main guitar. If you look after them, your pedal steels will last a long time.
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Show Pro D10 - amber (8+6), MSA D10 Legend XL Signature - redburst (9+6), Sho-Bud Pro 111 Custom (8+6), Emmons black Push-Pull D10 (8+5), Zum D10 (8x8), Hudson pedal resonator. Telonics TCA-500, Webb 614-E, |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 29 Jul 2008 5:16 am
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I bought the green one in 1979, and the white one in '80 or '81. I alternated between the two of them all through my gigging years. (They are set up identically.)
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 29 Jul 2008 7:26 am
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Roger Edgington
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 29 Jul 2008 9:42 pm
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| I would guess around 1000 on my 10 year old Zum. It still looks and plays like new. I play it hard and keep it clean and lubricated. |
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Micky Byrne
From:
United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 30 Jul 2008 2:38 am
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Hiya Ken, I got my 'Bud in 1977 after the brain washing from people like yourself Ron Mawn and the late John Edmed about how good 'Buds were. Of course you guys were totally correct and it was a good move when I got mine. My band with Julie probably did a similar ammount of gigs as you did with "Redwood" and those bands there after. Apart from that house fire which I guess was an act of GOD, I never "EVER" had any problems with that guitar. It's just a double raise and single lower, with the tear drop levers same as your Pro 3. I had the other bits made up to that weird uni tuning written in Scotty's magazine in 1981. It still works flawlessly even after the "ressurection" after the fire. I wonder if most of the modern guitars will have the same longetivity with so many gigs behind them. Guess time will tell 
Micky Byrne United Kingdom www.micky-byrne.co.uk |
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Jon Jaffe
From:
Austin, Texas
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Posted 30 Jul 2008 7:40 am
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1983 Blue Kline. I have used this continously with brief spurts of other guitars to try.
Like my Laquer Kline.
About 1200 weekenders. since 1983 |
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Michael Douchette
From:
Gallatin, TN (deceased)
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Posted 30 Jul 2008 8:12 am
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Goodness, I've never thought about it. Since 1980? Jeez... there was 7 straight years of 200 days a year with Tammy... then Dan Seals... Nashville Palace... all the sessions over the years... I have no clue. A lot, I know... Boy, have I put that Franklin through a lot. And it just keeps rockin'... I've had Paul look at it one time...
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Robert Pastore
From:
Florida, USA
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Posted 30 Jul 2008 8:47 am
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hmmm, let's see.
So far my "main" guitar is my only guitar, and it's a Carter Starter that I borrowed from someone who couldn't get the hang of it.
I would have to put the number at 7. but i may have forgotten one or two  |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 30 Jul 2008 1:39 pm
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Well over 4,000 fur shure!
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