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Monday, February 11, 2008

Famous Models

So if I buy and enjoy playing another famous musician's guitar... does that mean I'm a loser? A lot of well-known musicians will not admit entertaining thoughts of playing ANOTHER guitarists model... it does help when that other guitarist is a dead one though. Chet Atkins died in 2001... meanwhile, George Harrison in the early days of the Beatles ('63- '64) played a Chet Atkins 'Tennessean' guitar, during the British Invasion...it obviously didn't matter to him. If a guitar sounds so great you can't put it down...then the name 'don't matter'....though it might be tough to be Ronnie Wood... playing a Keith Richard's Tele....