O/T - Blue Guitars

addo · Unread post by **addo** » 03 Feb 2010, 20:44

I was interested to note that three Forum users including myself, more or less owned the same guitar.

Pic is from when it was new; rather grainy scan of a photo.

Is it yet another "quirk" of Citroën owners?

Toby_HDi · Unread post by **Toby_HDi** » 03 Feb 2010, 20:48

Mine's black

I've also had a BC Rich Warlock and a Les Paul in the past

addo · Unread post by **addo** » 03 Feb 2010, 20:54

Toby_HDi wrote:Mine's black...

Jim might have to ban you for non-compliance. Sure it wasn't really dark blue?

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 05 Feb 2010, 14:15

addo wrote:
Toby_HDi wrote:Mine's black...
Jim might have to ban you for non-compliance. Sure it wasn't really dark blue?

As long as it's a Strat, I'm happy..

I sure do have a blue one. Lake Placid Blue. a '62 reissue.

All painted Strats in the vintage days used acrylic car paints as they were cheaply and easily available - hence the colour names. Hank Marvin of the Shadows used a Candy Apple Red one..

My Strat plays through a '68 blackface Fender Champ. I just wish I could play the damm thing...

Unread post by **myglaren** » 05 Feb 2010, 16:20

Cowboy Junkies Blue Guitar.

Not as good as the studio version unfortunately.

ellevie · Unread post by **ellevie** » 05 Feb 2010, 17:21

myglaren wrote:Cowboy Junkies Blue Guitar.

Cowboy Junkies Blue Moon---I really like this.

Unread post by **myglaren** » 05 Feb 2010, 17:40

Yeah but that's OT squared

Shining Moon has a lot going for it too, as with almost anything the CJ's are involved with.
IMO Michael Timmins is one hell of a musician and Margo is absolutely unique.

Bea's Song tears me to pieces.

Sl4yer · Unread post by **Sl4yer** » 05 Feb 2010, 23:37

My guitar is a black Les Paul copy that I paid £35 when I was a student in 1992! It stays in tune OK, although the electrics are knackered (and always were). I plan to rewire it as a project to teach myself soldering, but the parts are half the price of a new (really cool!) guitar. And I don't play that much anyway. Well, can't!

James

lexi · Unread post by **lexi** » 10 Feb 2010, 12:14

Cowboy Junkies Blue Guitar.

As a bit of a music nut I must say I have never gave this band a listen.

That track reminds me Quicksilver Messenger Service with John Cippolina on guitar. Yes very nice will check them out. That is the kind of Venue I love.

XantiaDaveEire · Unread post by **XantiaDaveEire** » 11 Feb 2010, 15:39

If i had as many cars as i do guitars id be in trouble

I had 9 but had to give 1 away..who needs 9 anyway when you can only play 1 at a time

But boys will be boys

I prefer vintage guitars and currently have:Two Harmony H950s a 1959 and a 1964 model,sunburst strat,Harmony stratotone h44

few other classical guitars and an epiphone les paul juinor and another strat copy

trooper30 · Unread post by **trooper30** » 14 Feb 2010, 11:13

Well i have to say Im a Gibson man through and through.

Have had Strats in the past and a few Jacksons (floating bridge, nightmare) but I alway end up playing me Les Paul.
I dont work my Les Paul but I have a Epiphone black beauty which has 3 humbuckers and for 8 years its been worked every week, thrown round stages, droped of vans, used as a hammer, had a few beers and the action and sound are still as good as the first day i pluged it in.

lexi · Unread post by **lexi** » 14 Feb 2010, 18:10

Is Les Paul not quite a heavy guitar to play all night with?

addo · Unread post by **addo** » 14 Feb 2010, 21:57

Nine or ten pounds; a chiropractor's delight.

Blue ones are unusual; most people are happy dislocating their necks with the standard colours.

I was more interested overall, in the links between people's inclination to creativity (whether DIY repairs or music) and (admittedly stereotyped) mental profiles by colour preferences...

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 14 Feb 2010, 22:10

addo wrote: I was more interested overall, in the links between people's inclination to creativity (whether DIY repairs or music) and (admittedly stereotyped) mental profiles by colour preferences...

So what have you come up with then Adam? What can you deduce from those of us with blue Strats?

Seriously interested. Just another piece of information about me, blue is one of my favourite colours....

addo · Unread post by **addo** » 14 Feb 2010, 22:21

I haven't come up with anything major, really; more about wondering how many of us think in the same direction.

But - the blue guitar owners do seem to have that willingness to dig into a task and follow it through!