Whats a guitar outside of your normal flavor that you'd love to have?

If I ever get around to finishing it, I have a '58 style Korina Explorer that I started building. So I'm covered for that route, as well as the non-reverse Thunderbird bass.

What I would really like is an ES-335, 345, or 355. Been saving some spare overtime money. I'll be able to add to the fund again next paycheck. I'm just biding my time, waiting for the right one to come along. Even if it's a Heritage or Collings, as long as it's used, plays and sounds sweet, and the price is right. Hopefully come February or March, I can start the hunt with an honest effort.
 
SG John said:
If I ever get around to finishing it, I have a '58 style Korina Explorer that I started building. So I'm covered for that route, as well as the non-reverse Thunderbird bass.

What I would really like is an ES-335, 345, or 355. Been saving some spare overtime money. I'll be able to add to the fund again next paycheck. I'm just biding my time, waiting for the right one to come along. Even if it's a Heritage or Collings, as long as it's used, plays and sounds sweet, and the price is right. Hopefully come February or March, I can start the hunt with an honest effort.
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Very cool! I think the 345 gets overlooked between the basic 335 and the loaded 355. It has neat features the other two lack like the varitone switch and stereophonic jacks. The BB King Lucille kinda married the 345 and 355 and added the TP6 tailpiece, while chambering the body instead of open f holes.

I love all 4 variants really
 
Clockworkmike said:
Very cool! I think the 345 gets overlooked between the basic 335 and the loaded 355. It has neat features the other two lack like the varitone switch and stereophonic jacks. The BB King Lucille kinda married the 345 and 355 and added the TP6 tailpiece, while chambering the body instead of open f holes.

I love all 4 variants really
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The 345 would be my first choice. I keep looking them up on eBay and reverb to see how the prices are running.
 
Clockworkmike said:
Very cool! I think the 345 gets overlooked between the basic 335 and the loaded 355. It has neat features the other two lack like the varitone switch and stereophonic jacks. The BB King Lucille kinda married the 345 and 355 and added the TP6 tailpiece, while chambering the body instead of open f holes.

I love all 4 variants really
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I love those TP-6's. Shame they are so damn expensive.
 
Just googled to see what I could find quickly on Geddy's Rick

Another prominent instrument of Lee's is a black Rickenbacker 4001, which he used for live and studio work from 1975 to 1984. In 2007 and 2008, Lee used this bass for the song "A Passage to Bangkok" on the Snakes & Arrows Tour.

And some interesting info on Geddy and Precisions

Repost: Geddy Lee’s weird bass is a Precision!

Today I read an article from Guitar Player, from 1980, where Geddy Lee solved a question I’ve had for years, about what kind of bass was featured in a number of pictures. See the bass immediately to his right? It looks like a teardrop. I’ve seen color pictures; it’s sort of a light blue...
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chilipeppermaniac said:
Just googled to see what I could find quickly on Geddy's Rick

Another prominent instrument of Lee's is a black Rickenbacker 4001, which he used for live and studio work from 1975 to 1984. In 2007 and 2008, Lee used this bass for the song "A Passage to Bangkok" on the Snakes & Arrows Tour.
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Geddy's wildest Ricks are his double neck bass/guitars

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chilipeppermaniac said:
This may be true, Bdon, but Ged had a P as far back as 1974 too if I recollect.

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My bad... You are correct! I thought that you were referring specifically to the Jazz bass. I remember reading of its origins, and that he had been using the Ric at the time. I forgot about the P bass that eventually got carved in to another shape. :cool: :cheers:
 
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Geddy Lee using a P bass LIVE???

I came across a YouTube video, that was audio only if memory serves, of Geddy using what sounded clearly like a P bass in a live setting: his tone was...
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According to Geddy, his first proper bass was a '68 Fender Precision, which he played exclusively early on:
It was used on both the Fly By Night and All The World's a Stage tours. For the latter, it had been heavily modified into this mess (which Geddy fully recognizes as a mistake):

That Mess is what Bdon mentioned the P got carved into.
 
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What are some of the basses Geddy Lee (Rush) uses?

Answer (1 of 4): Geddy's "number one" bass is a 1972 black Fender Jazz he bought in a pawn shop in Kalamazoo Michigan, in either December 1975, April 1977 or December 1977, for $200. It first appeared on Permanent Waves, recorded in the fall of 1979, and was played on Tom Sawyer (Moving Pictures)...
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At Geddy’s immediate right hand side....that was a P bass.
 
Hey Bdon, in that St Catherines clip I posted, I was reading one comment by a fella who says he was at the show. Here is what Ian Davis said.
"LOL...I was at this concert!! At 30 seconds there is a fellow in the bright red shirt. His name was Al Smolack and was in Grade 10 at the time. (Sadly, he passed away a number of years ago in New Zealand.) I'm not sure how involved he was in getting "Canadian Bandstand" to put this show on at Secord, but he was amazingly adamant in saying that this new band was going places and we were all fools not to agree with that. (Rush and another called Abraham's Children were at our highschool.. It was a "competition" of sorts. Abraham's Children won.) "

He mentioned AL Smolak and says he had recently ( back when he commented I guess) passed away in New Zealand.

I looked AL up, here is what I found. ALAN SMOLAK Obituary (2004) - The Globe and Mail

11, 2004 ...'What a long strange trip it's been'... Smo left the stage for the last time at his home in Raglan N.Z. after a short, yet defiant rage against cancer. Al is survived by his partner Rachel Titchner (N.Z.), his mother Shirley, brother David and predeceased by his father Jim, all of St. Catharines, Ont. Born and raised in St. Catharines and a graduate of McMaster, Al was a paragon of fun who tripped the light fantastic for over four decades on a career path whose continuum and patterning even Rubik would struggle with. From his early days as a G.M. security guard, to co-founder and lead 'axe' for the plangent Forgotten Rebels, to corporate tax partner with Coopers Lybrand in Toronto and Melbourne as a GST specialist and then into private practice at Gang of Four in Melbourne, he rounded out most recently as restaurateur and promoter of all vibes culinary and auditory in Raglan N.Z. Al's extant legacy was a most amusing and delicate balance of corporate sensibilities and Bohemian irreverence. While there may not be a second set for this Renaissance man, all those who knew and loved him will have a lengthy encore in their mind's eye of fond remembrances and anecdotes. Much of Al's spirit can be aptly summed up by quoting one of his favourite writers. In the words of H.S. Thompson, 'When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.'
 
I am having issues thinkjng about this thread.
Guitars I'd love to have, there are still lots left.

But, outside my normal flavor is the hard part. Teles are outside my normal likes, and I don't want one either.

I have hollow bodies, I would like a Dean ML, I would take a Hamer something, a flying V.... but those are all within my normal comfort level. I like pointy guitars.
Possibly some other hollow body thing of some sort.
 
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