I bought a black marlin jasmine guitar about 18 years ago. Not sure what cheap and crappy actually means but I've used it live with no ill effects, I've used it for live and studio recording with minor issues, and for many years it was my guitar of `choice. Being slim-bodied it's a great little rock n roll guitar and does rhythm really well. I was just reading from way back that it doesn't handle heavy strings - total arse - it works equally well with lites or heavies and yes you get some fret buzz but so what!! Can't stand pristine recordings - long live tape hum and fret buzz. Anyway some of my best songs were written on it. I took it out of retirement two years ago when me and a friend started rehearsing for acoustic gigs and it was nice to hear it again. Right now I'm stuck on a purple Lindo electro acoustic - dirt cheap, fret buzz included, but actually quite nice to play and only bought cos it was purple!! The guitar snobs will have a field day but hey put a crap guitar in the hands of Hendrix and it would have sounded brilliant. It's only rock and roll but we like it. Fact is a black strat style electro acoustic grabs the attention.
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