Need help on deciding new 12 string

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:05 am

Yes, it's an original Flameglo.

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:16 am

Not to move this thread totally off course, but what ELSE do you drive these days??

tony_carey · Post by **tony_carey** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:18 am

The 381 does seem to have the 'love, hate' ingrediant. I know where everyone is coming from here. I once said that the 381 would never make it's way to my door, as I found the German carve....wait for it....UGLY! There, I said it!

However, I have been using a 12 string version for a while now (not mine) & I must admit, that it is beginning to grow on me in a BIG way, so much so, that I am now actively considering changing my mind on owning one. They are very comfortable to play, the 12 string sounds great & I am more & more coming to think of them as a very beautiful gtr.

The one I'm using is MG & I've only ever seen MG (The UK isn't known for its abundance of 381's!). If it were in FG, I'd probably be in financial trouble right now...

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:46 pm

Tony: You are getting old, creaky, and conservative, no doubt.

Melissa, it's the only SAAB convertible in these parts with a Rickenbacker TRC screwed to the body just below the right-hand taillight.

Some kids pulled up alongside in traffic and asked me what a "Rickenbacker" was. I told them that it's the best darned guitar made today.

They lowered their eyes in respect...squidly Stratobrats...grumble...

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:53 pm

Paul, now that sounds like a true curmudgeon talking!

How can anyone live in California and not know what a Rickenbacker is?

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:59 pm

These kids were not living in the State of California, they were in the State of Permanent Perplexity.

BTW, do your boys wear baseball caps with the visor over one ear?

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:08 pm

Not usually, Paul, why do you ask?

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:57 pm

It's the style here...young men have moved beyond the backwards baseball cap into all sorts of outré non-Euclidian dihedral angles.

I think it started in San Diego with Jason Mraz and his Take It Easy Boys...

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:13 pm

Are you telling us you're not "hip" and "tuned in", daddy-o??

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:23 pm

I guess my boys are free to wear their hats any way they want.... I just hope they never get into facial/body piercings.....

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:32 pm

The current fad here in SF (MUCH WEIRDER town than LA, where I lived for 24 years) is to pierce your earlobes and insert big rings into them, so it looks like you've got a porthole in your earlobe. The real hardcore piercers go up in size gradually until they can use their lobes to open beer bottles...

Hey, Aitch! Whatta great idea!

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:53 pm

Ewwwww.... I'm glad that fad hasn't caught on here, yet! I'm okay with earrings, but that sounds a little too strange for me!

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:06 pm

Why not just buy a bottle opener earring? Erk! Body piercing..... erk! Earrings OK, but anything else..... erk!

ERK!!!

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:11 pm

Lots of Ewwwws and ERKssss tonight...

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:26 pm

How far this thread has drifted from helping somebody choose a 12-string!

BTW, is Peter going to speak up about that Elvis guitar he's been afraid to admit to?