Your 7 dream guitars...

Just 7! Its tough, but heres mine...

(Colour is included aswell)


Fender Stratocaster 1963 (wouldnt mind the amp either)



Gibson ES-335 (Tobacco Sunburst)



Maton BB1200



Godin Montreal



Fender Jazzmaster (Surf Green, Vintage)



Rickenbacker 620 (black)



Motorave Belaire (Black Silver)


Right. What are yours???

For I am a multiinstrumentalist thumper I can only say, my thought of heaven would be a huge music shop where you can try out all instruments without the feeling you have to buy them afterwards...
maybe my dream instrument could be a 3/4 violin with frets, a 3/4 bassguitar and a very cheap keyboard which can record noises like a Fairlight CMI
(3/4 means, that it is smaller than a normal one: 3/4 against 4/4 beeing the normal)

Ooh! Guitar porn, me favourite! Some cool axes up there Leo, here's my seven:


'52 Tele. Beautiful functional workhorse.


'54 Les Paul Goldtop. I once played one of these, I didn't want to hand it back!


The daddy of all electric guitars. '59 Les Paul Standard. Worth Megabucks!


'66 Rickenbacker 360 12 string. Mid 60's jangle heaven, made the year I was born, which only makes me want it more!


Martin 000-17 slothead. My next guitar purchase. I love these little 12 fret join Martins.


'78 Telecaster Deluxe. Who is that fat bastard?
(that's me and my pride and joy, by the way)

One of them's gone missing!



Clapton's '56 Strat.

WOW! thats cool. I prefer early 60's strats though because they justs seem to have something about them

I was tempted to put a Rickenbacker 360 in there, but chose a 620 because I just prefer it somehow.

I think you can probably tell that I'm very much a hollowbody man

Leo wrote:

WOW! thats cool. I prefer early 60's strats though because they justs seem to have something about them

I was tempted to put a Rickenbacker 360 in there, but chose a 620 because I just prefer it somehow.

I think you can probably tell that I'm very much a hollowbody man

Aye, noticed you like the hollowbodies, those 335's are beautiful instruments. I used to work with a lad who had one just like the one in your picture.
Your 60's Strat is way cool as well, have you ever played anything like that? had a go of one in a guitar shop in Newcastle years ago and it was a dream to play, certainly the most comfortable guitar I've ever played, not too heavy, perfectly shaped and balanced, with a neck to die for....
I'm drooling now.....
By the way, I'll see if I can find another picture of my guitar as I've noticed that Hotlinking is not allowed from my old band's website.

ahhh right

well. ive played a "60's" strat before... not sure exactly on the year. and i have to agree. a strat will always be the most comfortable guitar ever. and the best ever.

as for the es-335. well; thats my dream! played on one identical to the one in the pic, and i fell in love! that is infact the fastest neck ive ever played on. outstanding! - from a hollowbody aswell

I play a Burns Marquee in greenburst; like the bloke from supergrass'. Its pretty cool to be fair; but definitely a poor man's strat. still, i love it

Talking of trying out gear... I played an old jazzmaster through a fender twin reverb. I literally came all in my pants!!!!! it was the nicest thing since sliced bread cut with only the finest of bread slicing apparatus!

Here's that pic of me and my tele again

thats pretty cool. i always wanted one of those...

changed my tune a little now, not really a tele fan any more... ive seen the light of the strat

In megalomaniac moments I dream of this one:

(http://www.woodviolins.com )
But because I am a lousy violinist I can only afford a used one of this for practising without making the neighbors insane

("Harley Benton" E-Violin new for 130 Euros)
And when I play bass I have a cheaper no name version of that one

(my one was ca. 500 DM, that's ca. 250 Euro)
though my ex-bro-in-law would recommend me some kind of this...

(the one and only Warwick Bass...)
But he's a semi-professional musician and I am just a multiinstrumentalist thumper with too small hands and too small bank account...
And sometimes I dream of THAT one

(the famous Fairlight CMI, wot the f... is that? Watch that... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON8lVgJxMQA )
But I can only afford some stuff like this...

But at least I have a very old beautiful "Kripschinski"-piano from art nouveau-times...
(got no photo of it and could not find pictures in the web...)

some of that stuff look great TL

ive learned almost every piano part i can play on one of those casios

Some great eclectic stuff there TL.
And I'm so envious of your art nouveau piano - I'd love something like that. Sadly I haven't got the room for a piano, a little Yamaha keyboard much like your Casio is the best I can do.

well i pretty much enjoy the sounds i can get from garage band on general midi

i can EQ every piano sound etc and choose from loads of sounds

to be fair, garage band is good

but id love something likw what you have in that picture TL






(sos but im a bit drunk)

Im a tele man, bloody love them, but in an ideal world would like a 335 on the point of buying a Dot with a bigsby but even that has me with a devil on one shoulder saying " go on go on buy it" and an angel on the other saying " is it sensible you already own about six guitars" the balance keeps shifting but the angel is winning at the moment, I bloody love guitars

Could i post my 7 dream men, cause i can[t play and don't really care....!!!

Go ahead!!!!! (Only if i'm one of them kidding, of course )

bluefield wrote:

Im a tele man, bloody love them, but in an ideal world would like a 335 on the point of buying a Dot with a bigsby but even that has me with a devil on one shoulder saying " go on go on buy it" and an angel on the other saying " is it sensible you already own about six guitars" the balance keeps shifting but the angel is winning at the moment, I bloody love guitars

a man after my own heart!

My Tele Deluxe is a weirdo mind you, it's more like a Les Paul than a Tele. Double Humbuckers, two volume, two tone controls and it weighs a fucking ton! The headstock is '70's Strat type, basically the only two things Tele like are the body shape and the neck, but even that is chunky for a Tele.

They brought out a Mexican version of it a couple of years back and I had a shot on one. Nowt like mine, though I was tempted to buy it just for spare parts!

Grant wrote:

Go ahead!!!!! (Only if i'm one of them kidding, of course )

You're young enough to go to the school i work in!!!!

I'm not going to list my dream men, honest...... You have to find my blog for that!

Shut up!

I'm very mature for my age

No, i'm really not
and i'm still at school, it's just a matter of my location that i'm not in yours I doo love it here, though
As in my school, not the forum, though it is rather lovely as well

Ha ha ha! I'm very immature, i still can't believe i work with kids!

I think immature people relate better to kids than mature ones do. Only one of the teachers i like is mature

We had a disco today (I work in a special school) It was an immense amount of fun!
Care free dancing ftw!

Wow! sounds like sooooooo much fun