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Lordathestrings
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Lordathestrings
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07/18/2004 1:56 am
Originally Posted by: Dr_simon50 Years old (nearly as old as Lordathestrings!!!) !...
I'll have you know, sir, that I resemble that remark! ;)

I sometimes think of my blue & rosewood MIJ '62 RI - the one I took the tremolo out of, and locked the bridge onto a massive brass block that I pressed into the tremolo well. On the other hand, if I hadn't sold it, I would have been homeless.

And my clearest memory of that thing is the way the case always smelled like chocolate!

I made my choice back then - I still have my Brand X heavily modified 1984 Yamaha SBG1000 (I sold the Strat instead), and another one just like it, I bought a couple of years ago that I call The Stalker. It was The Stocker for about three months, until I reworked the electronics on it. If I had somehow kept, or re-acquired the Strat, I probably would have seriously modified it, too. These days, I'm contemplating one those Broad... er Telecaster axes - thoroughly customised, of course.

Ahhh.... Lotsa great memories... [u]No[/u] regrets. :)
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