sergiodeblanc
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I don’t get many “furniture/dentist guitar” comments directed my way any more, but in the early days (90s) I did. I wasted a lot of time explaining and justifying to people who just felt like being morons to amuse themselves.
At some point in the 90s I started saying, “Hey, this is what I play. Want to compare session fee and broadcast royalty checks?”
I realize that response was kind of silly, but it did put a lid on the snarky comments. And I was doing a hell of a lot of national ad sessions with my PRSes, so I wasn’t BSing.
I’ll also add that I never got that kind of comment from the pro session players I knew. Just the wannabes.
I never heard the dentist thing until I got on the internet, and I’ve been playing a PRS since 1993.
Exactly one time I had a producer suggest my Les Paul over my PRS, and that was before I even plugged anything in. Once I did, and we A/Bed tones he was fine with my CE. Coincidentally, he started working on a Disturbed record as a Second Engineer half way through our project.... Guess what guitars Dan was using then.