i deleted the thread cause it wasnt supposed to be there and i rewrote part of it to convey what i was thinking, sorry guys.
So today i decided i was gonna downgrade strings from 10's to 9s. I had
two packs of 10s that i figured, hell theyll let me just switch em for
the other guage. Easy right? then i think i need a setup so i call
Crossroads music in Monrovia (mom and pop store) to see if theyll set
it up cause they are nicer. I call only to find out that its gone out
of business. Which pisses me off cause they carried Orange amps and are
based a mile and a half from my house.
Sooo i say **** it and i go to GC. i walk in and get cleared cleared
through the door with my purchases and the dumb **** there decides to
give me a hard time with the exchange, that 30 days return bull****.
and then my mom walks in. idk where the hell she came from, i guess she
heard me say i was going today. she says wahts the problem, i explain
and she winks, takes the strings from me and says go play.
So i go and seek out my Les Paul. any Les Paul will do. all of a sudden i hear a strange and disgusting sound-
and im thinking what the **** is that? so i walk over...and there is
that dumb hardxcore kid everyone hates, playing hardcore at a billion watts on a BEAUTIFUL White Les
Paul custom....in drop ****ing C...on a ****ing Line 6 spider. the epitome of disrespect in GC. he went around picking up a bunch of different guitars and tuning them to C. i have no problem with him playing that at GC on whatever amp he chooses, its just that he should do it at a reasonable volume, and tune the guitars back up. i walk away. i dont wanna pick a fight. i just wanna find some guitars
and try them out. i walk over and for the first time in my life, i see
a real Dave Mustaine signature Dean. Deth is like my second favorite
band (Zepp being the first). so i go and try it out and it handles
beautifully. i play at a reason volume too. definetely something to get one day. I put it down and
pick up a PRS. plays wonderfully. i cant remember what it was, it was
that dark grey/black one.
So by this time my mom comes back...and there she is with my new
strings. Im standing there thinking WOW howd you do it!
apparently...she played the dumb blonde trick, "oh i got him the wrong
strings, i dont have my receipt can i exchange them," and there was a
line and they did it. they just overrode it.
I start showing my mom the various guitars and trying to teach her
something (you know for fun right?) and i was like, i want this one but
its too expensive so i want this one instead.Then she says "shut up and
tell me what YOU want. if you had to have a wishlist, what would be on
it." Keep in mind my 18th birthday is coming up.
So i go around and i pick up a Gibby Les Paul Studio in white. i say
this is what i want. i explain to her that i need to be there to try it
out and she starts laughing and says "then its not a surprise NOT THAT
IM GETTING YOU ONE." So i walk over and show her the other Les Paul
that i want, a Les Paul Standard in Heritage Sunburst. Shes like "ytou
want the most expensive guitar here dont you?" and heres the part where
things got interesting.
Another sales dude comes up and asks whats up and i say i need a Les
Paul without the price tag. he proceeds to show me that Les Paul
Mahogany, the $700 one. and obviously, its not a Standard. it lacks
binding and other ascetic perks. its still got Burstbuckers, and i
didnt know that at the time. at the time, i though that he was just
trying to sell me a piece of **** like when they sell you MG's and
Spiders.
Then we had to leave
All in all, an eventful but typical day at Guitar Center-bad clerks,
good clerks, faggots on Spiders going CHUG CHUG and the feel of fresh
strings on your guitar at teh end of the day.
why would u tell ur mom "this is what i want, but it's too expensive, so i want this one instead."? if u want something, get it. don't be satisfied with a cheap alternative. and when she asks you "You want the most expensive guitar here don't you?", show her the vault and tell her, "now it looks cheap huh? *wink*"
and Crossroads have been out of business for a while.
I'm getting a PRS Swamp Ash Special. I'm not sure if you've ever played a Maple neck and if you have a preference or not, but my dad has two guitars with maple necks and a Les Paul Custom from the '80s, and I can genuinly say that the Maple necks are more comfortable to play on. But obviously the Les Paul sounds Godly (though one of the guitars with a maple neck, a thinline Telecaster reissue also from the '80s, sounds amazing as well).
But those PRS guitars man... I played one a year ago, I think a Custom 22, and it was like heaven in my hands. It responded so well. The neck wasn't too thick, not too thin. I wasn't really obsessed with tone, yet, so I don't recall how it sounded. But it played like nothing I've ever felt. You would be right to buy one of those. They're the same quality as a modern day Les Paul without the excessive (though still large) price tag.
Good read, BTW your mom sounds really cool especially if she plans to buy you a Gibson LP. The Vintage Mahogany one surprised me as well, my guitar teacher uses one to gig with instead of his standard and says it's great. If you ever go back try it might be worth a look especially at the price tag.
Or you could look into the Epiphone Elitists, Japanese Les Paul copies and the likes which are supposedly comparable if not just as good as a Gibson at a better price.
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I wouldn't doubt that Epiphone's are close to equal if not equal to the Gibsons that they replicate. They're an offbrand that Gibson owns, and are pretty much the official brand to replicate Gibbys.
There's this Zeppelin tribute band called Zoso that owns two doublenecks for Stairway to Heaven/The Song Remains the Same, and they much have two seperate rigs for their shows. One of the double necks is a Gibby, the other is an Epi. The guitarist ("Jimmy") claimed that the Gibby played better, but the Epiphone "sounds better than the fucking Gibson."
And believe me when I say that those Japanese, when asked to build something, do a great job. My dad's Thinline reissue Tele is a Jap, and it plays better than his Les Paul in many ways.
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I figured that out. I'll take a Japanese guitar any day, as I love how well crafted my dad's Telecaster is. They're much better than Korean and Mexican built guitars, and really pretty close in quality to American built guitars from what I've seen. But then my dad's got this Strat that I hate the tone on (atleast, through my Marshall ), but the neck plays so smooth... That's American made. It's a Maple fretboard, and it's a big part of why I love maple fretboards
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and when she asks you "You want the most expensive guitar here don't you?", show her the vault and tell her, "now it looks cheap huh? *wink*"
