Jump to content
Hamer Fan Club Message Center

They don't make (insert here) like they used to


polara

Recommended Posts

Posted

Cheap guitars are 10 times better. I'm amazed at how good some of the guitars under $200 sound these daze. When I think of my first box, a piece-of-shit Harmony in the early '60s, I'm kind of amazed I kept playing.

Posted

breast implants are getting better

Posted

weed is stronger.

Yes indeed, the weed we had when I was young, wasn't worth shit...

Now : :):D

Of course I never inhale...

+1

I never inhale either. :D

Posted

+1 on cheap guitars...for beginners. The ones I first plunked on, while US-made (and are now time-warp machines for aging Boomes) were highly inferior to what a neophyte can start out on these days, and as has always been the case, if the newbie doesn't go any further than that first guitar, no big $ lost. Silvertone/Danelectros and Kay plank-like solidbodies conjure up some nostalgia, but as an inherent instrument (made to be played), a Chinese-made Squier Strat is vastly superior.

And Robin guitars are "better", even though their quality has always been excellent. Formerly imported (but decent mfrs.---Chushin, ESP and Tokai), they're now made in Texas and are, IMO, the best value in smaller-manufactured, handcrafted instruments on the planet.

Posted

"the thought that 73 strats are considered "vintage" and going for well over the $250 (max) I would ever pay for one.... Hell in the 80's you couldn't give them away.... now I see them in the $2k range.... THAT is funny!! If I take a crap today and save it for 25 years will it have "mojo" ... or will it still be a piece of shit? .....

I'd say even most of todays Mexi strats are made better than 90% of 70's strats..."

Peso I am so there with ya. I had a 79 strat new off the shelf and I played maybe 20-30 of them before I found a good one. To consider them vintage now is a joke to me. Fenders stuff now seems real consistant compared to then.

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

×
×
  • Create New...