The Official Guitar Thread

Ok, here is a guitar related story that I think only guitar players will get.

I've posted pics of my "lawsuit guitar," the thing I would give away if someone asked me to give away my best thing, a 1978 F375s Takamine (Feb 13, it sez). Acoustic guitar is my true home.

So I get a phone call recently from the dude who, we learned guitar together as kids. We jammed in parent's basement parties. We figured out songs, etc. Good stuff! He had this really excellent Gibson. Not sure what model. Diff sound from mine, it was absolutely a fine dreadnaught style specimen. I remember, it was much more expensive than mine was.

And you know how things go. My guitar kicks ass, his did, and if we brought them to parties everyone wanted to "hey can I check that out?"

That guitar got me laid. Not sure about my old friend. I think mainly it was he had a daddy card in his wallet. (Daddy card -- parents tired of giving you cash, just buy you a credit card to use)

About 15 years or so ago, he told me it was stolen. He called me up, said he had been beaten up and some black dude stole it. I was heartbroken. Lots of people were, since he still played for a living (it's easy with an even bigger dead-daddy card, ie, inheritance).

He has been trying to "make amends" for being a fuckwad, I guess, so as I say, he calls me recently and said, "I still have the Gibson, I just did it to get attention. I made the whole story up, and it sucked because I had to never play the Gibson in public anymore. I'm sorry."

That's it. That's the story. You guys can fill in how you would react to that. I'll let you guys guess how I did.