if you had the money, whose guitar would you buy??

personally, I'd buy santana's because the wood is gorgeous, as the abalone inlays.. and goshhhhh what a sound!!!

any amount of money? well then...here goes my list
(i hope santa reads this....)


Rick Nielsen's "uncle dick"
"the guy from Cheap Trick's Hamer guitar that is a double neck and the necks are the little legs..and the body is like a body....(the guitar looks like him)
LOL

or how bout the

1949 Fender "Broadcaster" prototype.....
prototype for the fender broadcaster which later became known at the "Telecaster"......
if you can find a pic of it..you can see the early beginnings of the telecaster..except it had 3 on a side tuners........looks weird...
sold to a private collector in for $375,000....wowweee

or maybe....

one of only 91 D-45's from Martin made from 1933 thru 1942....
(pre WWII)..production stopped during the war due to material shorages...Production didn't start back up till 1968....
(weird, huh?)anyway...the guitar has...
German Spruce for the top, straight grain, quarternsawn Brazilian rosewood for the back and sides....
?$150,000?

or maybe...

one of about 22 '58-'59 Gibson explorers.....
Korina wood.....rare rare rare
?? $75,000 ??

or...

Jimi's '68 Fender Strat?
serial number 240981?
purchased from Sotheby's auction house in London for
$338,580...... resold in 1993....now at the
Experience Music Project in Seattle?
(so it says...here...since i've never been there...dont know bout that?)

or maybe
Slash's '59 Les paul...once owned by Joe Perry and Duane Allman?.....
..."I asked him to send me a photo, because I knew exactly what that guiutar looked like. When I got the photo, there was no mistaking it. There were really big grooves around the volume knob and near the pickguard. I called the guy back and bought it from him for $1,800. I took it into the studio and played it on four or five songs on teh "use your illusion" albums, mostly blues stuff"......
quote from a guitar magazine from Slash
:)

or maybe
Yngwie's "Duck"....his '72 strat....
...."this puppy's been through a lot. The headstock has broken off at least six times, and I used to put my cigarettes out on it all the time. I'm not very kind to my instruments"....
quote from a guitar mag...from Yngwie....
:)

or SRV's "number one fender strat"...made from a '59 sunburst body.....'63 neck fitted with large frets....left handed bridge unit installed


quite a selection, huh....
if some of those guitars could talk..
well they can "talk" but you know what i mean..


:)
-G

I'd buy a record company myself and if I had enough Id buy the '59 LP.

And jarviss, Slash gave the '59 Les Paul back on Joe's 60th Birthday.

Page's Telecaster and Double Neck
Rhoads's Les Paul
Malmsteen's Strat
Vai's Jem

the list goes on...

dang!
i'm gettin old!!

;)

that was nice of him....
that guitar's had quite a history
:)

Zakks bullseye lespaul.
Eddies red & white 5150 kramer.
Mick Mars mirror Kramer.
And have every guitar company build me two coustoms.
yea! that's the ticket.

petrucci's musicman
satriani's chromeboy
never tried a les paul but wouldn't mind having one

Those guitars play like no other and the sound is awesome and the versatilit is next to none. I can pull any tone out of mine. I love so much Iam getting another one. I had two steve vai guitars jems and there is no comparrison. jpm blows them away

jarviss: on harmony centeral in the guitar critic posts
there was a guy who claimed he had one of those broadcasters, and he said he got his one from a garage sale, for 35$ and the woman who sold him the guitar told him that she had it for almost 50 years.
Thats realy incredible, i mean even if the electronics completley sucks, the guitar still worth more than most of us will ever have :)

anyway i'd realy like to get the SRV number 1 strat, ritchie blackmore's ES which he had played before he got his strat, the buddy guy strat and thats all i guess