It isn't that I don't have a nominal favorite guitar - I always say it's the McCarty Singlecut built by the PS team. In an ideal world, it's my ideal guitar in every way. In practice, I'm all over the place.
I'm a guitar philanderer. Whichever PRS I'm playing on any given day is Queen For A Day.
I should buy each one a washing machine or a new car (those of you who watched that goofy game show as children will get the joke).
Today I was playing my Special Semi Hollow. I always liked it a lot, but until very recently it wasn't tops on the hit parade of PRSes I own. A change of string types, adjusting my picking technique a little, and setting up my amps more to compliment the tone of the guitar changed that, and today I thought, "I need no guitar but this!"
You know the old 50s line, "Why Miss Jones, you're beautiful without your glasses!" And she pulls the pins out of her hair, shakes her head, and indeed, yes, she has metamorphosed into a gorgeous model. What a fool you were for not noticing her before!
Kinda happened with the Special. It's sitting in the studio right now, while the amps warm up for another go.
The other day I played my McSC, and thought the same thing. I played my CU24 and would have said it, too. The PS20, yep. Played it a few days ago and thought it'd be my desert island guitar. Don't even get me started on the 594 Soapbar, it's stellar.
This of course is why I often think, "I should get down to only one guitar." It's also why I often think, "I need all these guitars!"
Thus am I paralyzed by the back and forth. I could get down to one. But I can't get down to one!
I realize this is a good problem to have in some ways, Dear Abby, but at the same time, part of me yearns for monogamy. One guitar to concentrate my efforts on.
--- Sleepless in Detroit
I'm a guitar philanderer. Whichever PRS I'm playing on any given day is Queen For A Day.
I should buy each one a washing machine or a new car (those of you who watched that goofy game show as children will get the joke).
Today I was playing my Special Semi Hollow. I always liked it a lot, but until very recently it wasn't tops on the hit parade of PRSes I own. A change of string types, adjusting my picking technique a little, and setting up my amps more to compliment the tone of the guitar changed that, and today I thought, "I need no guitar but this!"
You know the old 50s line, "Why Miss Jones, you're beautiful without your glasses!" And she pulls the pins out of her hair, shakes her head, and indeed, yes, she has metamorphosed into a gorgeous model. What a fool you were for not noticing her before!
Kinda happened with the Special. It's sitting in the studio right now, while the amps warm up for another go.
The other day I played my McSC, and thought the same thing. I played my CU24 and would have said it, too. The PS20, yep. Played it a few days ago and thought it'd be my desert island guitar. Don't even get me started on the 594 Soapbar, it's stellar.
This of course is why I often think, "I should get down to only one guitar." It's also why I often think, "I need all these guitars!"
Thus am I paralyzed by the back and forth. I could get down to one. But I can't get down to one!
I realize this is a good problem to have in some ways, Dear Abby, but at the same time, part of me yearns for monogamy. One guitar to concentrate my efforts on.
--- Sleepless in Detroit
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