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Thanks Cytania, I had about 15 years ago a GIBSON LES PAUL STUDIO, in 1996!! At that time, entering a music store, they started to "enlarge" their collection. Before, even in the 80-ties, you had only a few brands like GIBSON and FENDER. I know there were topics about WHY a Gibson or Fender, my answer is simple: OVEREXPOSURE. MTV Europe started, videoclips and guess: Gibson & Fender. I wasn't that interested in acoustics, but I had and still have a YAMAHA FG-300, price end 70-ties: 300$. I loved to play that Yamaha, and kept dreaming about Electrics. So 17 years later, a Gibson LP Studio (for 500$ via airport customs, a high ranked friend, also for my) Marshall Valvestate. I was "settled". Too much work, in 1996 a Martin HD-28 (700$) from a person needing instant cash (he asked me first if I could loan the money, but I was too much ripped-of, and I wasn't an ATM machine. This was always a HUGE problem, the fact that I helped, treated 35% of my patients, asking (example) 20$ in stead of 30$, the same price they got back from our social security. (I calculated the never received money = enough to buy a house cash). I had my "specialities" Laser & Loosing weight + anti-cellulitis machine, worked a lot (75h/week). Finally I started to play more and more, and my way to check an electric was sitting on an amp, volume, tone identical, and trying a few guitars. The sound is absorbed by your a**= you could feel the guitar. BEST choice (we were 3 people) and unanimous= PRS, a VERY EXPENSIVE out of category guitar, about 5500$ IN EUROPE!! But some months later, same guitar, other store, 3 months old 2750$ got for my studio 1200$, and HAPPY I was. But here is it more about acoustics. If you look to the higher price range, MARTIN, GIBSON, TAYLOR use for some guitars the SAME WOOD, what is so DIFFERENT: NECK: important or not, bracings maybe. About machines to analyse the sound, I think it is an "oscilloscope" to analyse the sound waves, but I'm not sure..
Thanks cyt, you are a very nice person, in who I trust a lot.

WOW, Jesus. I found a link Southpaw, and opening that site!!?? You hear a song performed by "I don't know who" but that song is touching me real deep.
THE MOVIE IS AVAILABLE ON DVD, and the SOUNDTRACK on CD: on Amazon.com for $8.99.
This is "no" money, you can listen to the 13 tracks, amazing. Thanks for the tip SOUTHPAW

VILLAGE PEOPLE, in a CULTURE CLUB with a PET BOYS

Alvee thanks for your comment. It's always so difficult to discuss about guitars. AGREE, I should be the last to discuss about this, having a pretty nice collection, 50% luck, 25% coincidence and 25% a must-have-it.
Just like you told, I knew what an acoustic guitar was and an electric. I surfed, compared days and days, and still too difficult.
- What about other "holy grails"? A Gretsch WHITE PENGUIN (origin 50-ties), sold on eBay, 56 bids for about 175.000$ IS THIS REAL, it looks surrealistic, but so is a STRADIVARIUS too. a 1958-1960 Gibson LP Standard, estimated price > 150.000$, while a custom, the top of the line goes 50.000-75.000$ Acoustics in high price class: same woods, resulting in a difficult to hear the difference situation. The sky isn't the limit. I ask myself many times the question, why keeping my US 1964 Fender? A piece of wood with strings. AND,yet I can't kep distance from them.

Mommy! Mommy! When I grow up I want to be a guitar player!"
"Now Johnny, you can't do both!"

What's the difference between a dead snake in the road and a dead drummer in the road?
Skid marks in front of the snake.

What's the range of a tuba?
About twenty yards, if you have a good arm.

What's the difference between a bull and an orchestra?
The bull has the horns in the front and the asshole in the back.

Good places for the Blues:

a. the highway
b. the jailhouse
c. an empty bed

I found some information, googling: Ovation 1121-4 model
A link to an Ovation website: http://www.ovationgallery.com/collector … adeer.htm.

483               1121 -4        Natural
F-172           1121
I 'll try to get more information.

Like OLDNEWBIE  sais, we are indeed "old" men. I was born in 1955.
And GEOAGUIAR, I do agree with you. At first, I had another name for this topic.
It is a fact IF YOU HAVE THE MONEY, and I really feel sorry because I start from my guitars.
A very good guitar player will play great on an 100$ guitar, just go back in time, let's say the Twenties. Blues = Afro-American origin, with roots in AFRICA. An afro-american was able to play great stuff on a "throw-away" guitar, in a matter of speaking. Of course you are not a better player having a 3000$ guitar. But every single person playing guitar, want a not too expensive decent guitars. There are a lot of topics about this. My point is: playing alone, and you will develop skills, style. BUT that same player in a band will play a lot better. Second point: if you buy an expensive guitar, with your own money, you just try to work harder, more to buy your "dream guitar" you will be MORE motivated because YOU SAVED A LOT OF MONEY to buy that guitar. I know a lot of people having an Epiphone, and if they play with friends having a Gibson, it is VERY DIFFICULT TO RESIST a guitar like Gibson. The problem is the money, and for that my apologies, I worked 75 hours as a Doc, I had a good "business"and I loved guitars.
Go to a music store, around Christmas, New Year and the store is over crowded by fathers, mothers and their son to buy him a guitar, or a "starterskit". (my personal favourite is an Epiphone SG Special, the cheapest, but it really sounds great). My point was, if you really work hard or more, like an extra job, this is also different here than in the USA, to buy your dream guitar, skipping other models, it means (to me) that when you finally hold your guitar in your arms, and you play, that you will play better BECAUSE YOU SAVED FOR THIS GUITAR, you will play more, because you have your "dream guitar" and you are more motivated.
Seeing young people playing a squier, you can see in their eyes how bad they want a real fender. That's my theory, and this can lead to nice discussions.

After Midnight: the JJ CALE song? This should be not that difficult.
About artists: I go often on youtube, and in 75% I find what I want.
BTW: what style do you like and play?
Acoustic lover or Electric? Both?

That's the point. They present it as if it is SO SIMPLE, even my BOSS 600, I found a translation,
250 pages long. I HATE MANUALS, and, this is my nature, everything I'm hating or not interested, causes a lot of trouble and problems.
I even don't like to read books, and if I read: 200  pages = 2 hours, perfectly knowing and even reproducing that book. I am a "diagonal reader" who is very impatient. Of course I miss the "essence" of a lot of things, like having a floorboard, I use maybe 20% of the capacity. I am NOT in the mood since some weeks to play guitar. Since New Year, I don't play electric. Acoustic, slowly learning some finger picking, and playing maybe 15 minutes a day. The strange thing is, that I play a lot better comparing it with the play-time. Has somebody an explanation about this mysterious fact?