What’s in your man drawer?

The Sun ^ | 20 May 2008 | MICHAEL McINTYRE

[dayglored]

> I saw a Stratocaster at Guitar Center in NYC, that they were trying to sell for $75,000. It must have been one of the very first run of Stratocasters that Fender put out.

Wow, that's outta hand.

Granted, I'm a Gibson man; I don't quite get the fascination with the Strat line. They're fine guitars, but they don't turn me on as a player.

Some years ago, when I decided to have a Strat-style guitar with the classic triple-single-coil pickup layout, I had one custom built (black walnut body, Modulus Graphite neck, Bartolini stacked-single-coil pickups). I love that guitar, but friends who play Strats tell me it's nothing like theirs.

I've played guitar for close to 45 years, and I'll bet I've only picked up and played a real Strat twice. Just never saw the appeal, since I could get the sound I wanted more easily from other models.

To each their own. But I sure wouldn't pay $75 grand for one.

[wastedyears]

http://www.stratcollector.com/newsdesk/archives/000337.html

This might explain a bit.

[wastedyears]

I’ll be fine with an American Series, left-handed, Seymour Duncan Distortion humbuckers in the bridge and neck positions, with a Floyd Rose tremolo.

[dayglored]

> http://www.stratcollector.com/newsdesk/archives/000337.html This might explain a bit.

Yep, it does.

I have a bass-playing buddy who is a lifelong collector (guitars, amps, vinyl LPs, magazines) whose collection was worth at least a million bucks, right up until his house caught fire. Yes, they were insured. But geez, he never got around to playing probably half of 'em. They just sat and made money for him.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. He's a lot better off than I am. ;-)

[dayglored]

> I’ll be fine with an American Series, left-handed, Seymour Duncan Distortion humbuckers in the bridge and neck positions, with a Floyd Rose tremolo.

Ni-i-i-ice.

Sounds like a hell of a rocker. 'Course, those Seymour Duncans can play some mean Country too. ;-)

[envisio]

I don’t even have the words to describe how utterly ridiculous articles like this are.

Or how ridiculous are the men that let it happen.

I bought my house, I pay for my house, I put whatever I want wherever I want inside my own house.

I am a grown man and I will not shrivel up and be glad that Mrs Envisio “lets” me have a drawer to put my stuff.

...ain’t gonna happen in my house.