What Guitar Are You Playing At This Very Moment...

Dave Lewis said:
What’s this bottom right?
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I can’t tell, there are a lot of things in there.It’s plugged in to a HX Stomp behind the guitar, to the right is the UA Volt 476 , those are sitting on a plastic container. On the table the black box is part of charger for the laptop. There is also a Novation Launchkey 37 keyboard.
Oops , you asking in the above photo. lol
 
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Epiphone Miranda
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PhilA said:
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My Charvel Marco Sfogli Signature Pro-Mod. Purchased for its beauty and playability not because it’s a signature model.
A very beautiful looking and playing instrument imo.
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Dude I love this. Not because of the Hypersonic shit, not because of the Synergy shit, not because of the sick pedalboard shit or the battened wall shit or your cool chair pad shit or even the (really cool) patched synth shit but because you have a fuckin purple Charvel with EMGs.

My man!
 
Steinmetzify said:
Dude I love this. Not because of the Hypersonic shit, not because of the Synergy shit, not because of the sick pedalboard shit or the battened wall shit or your cool chair pad shit or even the (really cool) patched synth shit but because you have a fuckin purple Charvel with EMGs.

My man!
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Thank you for noticing all my fun toys 😎
I fuckin love synths almost as much as I love guitars.
Seriously though if anyone see’s one of these signatures in a shop, forget it’s a signature and try it then love it.
 
PhilA said:
Thank you for noticing all my fun toys 😎
I fuckin love synths almost as much as I love guitars.
Seriously though if anyone see’s one of these signatures in a shop, forget it’s a signature and try it then love it.
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Brother I’m on Reverb right now cause I want that shit.

Thanks for cluing me in. Appreciate ya!
 
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My Gibson archtop on stage in repose, waiting for the weekly jazz jam session to begin. It's an ES-125TD from as far as I can tell 1962. It was marketed at the time as a student entry level guitar, but held up quite well over the years. I've had it over a decade. The TD stands for Thin Double, referring to the thinline body and double P-90s. I happened upon it in a Tokyo guitar shop that had a floor of vintage American guitars, and amazingly there were several ES-125s. After playing them, I decided on this one, I think it was the light weight and the thin body, which felt very comfortable. It was my first guitar with P-90s, having been used to the humbuckers founds on most archtops. I found that the tonal variety of the two pickups in conjunction sounded better to my ears. I usually start playing on the neck pickup to get things rolling, but then switch it to the middle position and use the bridge P-90 as a kind of a tone shaping device. Behind the guitar is the venue's backline Roland JC-120. I don't use a pick, having switched to thumb and fingers several years ago. The ES-125 is strung with Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Swing 11s, the somewhat darker tone of which (especially when having been played for some time) seem to become balanced by the more on-the-bright side P-90s and JC-120.

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The above photo of the ES-125 in action was taken about an hour into the session. The second guitarist had just arrived and we agreed to do a few tunes together. Along with me and the other guitarist, and the bass, drums and piano on stage, there were others waiting to play, including another drummer and pianist, who rotated with those on stage. Last week, there were horns on stage, and a vocalist. That's what I like about this session, there are different people every week.

For those that are curious, this venue is one of several within an hour drive of where I live here in Japan where I can play live jazz out. This is a "live house" that is also a cafe / bar with a light meal menu. Its main function is to host small live music events, including concerts, this weekly jazz jam session, a bluegrass night, vocal night, opens mics for singer songwriters, and other music events.
 
EOengineer said:
At some point I’ll get a NGD thread up with details and more pics. I got lucky with that much character in a factory plain top though. It’s a very nice guitar.
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I will get a Les Paul one day, I haven’t had one since an Epiphone in my early days. I hope mine comes with a top as nice as that!
 
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