If anyone has ever read Poe, I recall it was his stories that would always have a line like..."Dear Reader... I am now about to recount to you a most amazing story about a Mr "A___". This 'literary device' was used to make the story being told more believable, as if it was necessary to protect someone's identity. Yesterday I met with a very well known lead guitarist, indeed a "Mr A__". It seems musicians do indeed love everything Guitar, including those little Caps, Pots and wires that go into making them sound so great... Mr A__ agreed ... nobody really knows what special 'Ingredient X' makes one guitar sound great, and another sound like a log with strings. We both agreed that those amazingly perfect collector-grade guitars we always see for sale (the ones where you have to remove all your metal items...just like at the airport... before you play them) generally sound like those logs I just mentioned. The reason why many of those 'Collector grade' guitars are indeed so perfect is that some musician bought it, and then put it away in a closet where it belonged. It wasn't 'one of the good ones'. Mr K__ (Mr A__'s tech) recounted the story of an original 1950's Flying V, in perfect condition... that he had been shown, that sounded like it should be put under the bed. There are the Collector guitars worth tons of money, and then there are Player guitars... messed with, tweaked, dropped and scratched... that sound great... and also cost much less. So what do you want?
