I had that for a while, but I started to play in a band and it could not do the job anymore, so I traded it in for an Ibanez Les Paul Custom copy with a beautiful sunburst top. It was a dream come true to finally own a Les Paul. My earliest guitar hero was Ace Frehley and he played a Les Paul so I had always liked the look of that guitar. And it was an Ibanez, one of the best "copyists" in the 70“s.
I regret it to this day, but I sold my beloved Ibanez a few years later. It was traded in for a black Squier strat with one humbucker and one volume control only. Just like Van Halens Kramer. I bought that one new in 1988. It was a good guitar and I had it for about three years.
In 1990 I started to work in the merchant fleet and I went ashore to look for a cool guitar in Antwerp, Belgium. I wanted to get a Les Paul again and I found a Standard in a little music shop. It was a black one. It was gorgeous and I decided to buy it the next time I came back to Antwerp. I got the big pile of money ( it costed 37000 Francs) and went to the shop when I got back. But it was sold. I was devastated! But the shopkeeper saw my distress and got me another one the same evening.
I have still got it and it is a great guitar. Look at it in the gallery page (link at bottom of this page).
Gibson Les Paul
A year later I went to Dallas on a vacation and of course I went looking for a guitar. I found a music store in Sunnyvale and they had a few Paul Reed Smith (PRS) guitars. I had never seen one before in real life, only in magazines, and I always thought it looked cool. So I left the store with a grey black PRS Custom. I“ve still got it, it is a closet classic!
PRS Custom
A few years later I went back to Dallas and this time I was going for a stratocaster. I ended up with a white American Standard bought at Guitar Center.
The strat is still in my possession.
Fender Stratocaster
I also had a ES-335 copy for a while, a red Vester, but I sold it for some reason. That is another guitar that I regret that I sold, because it was very fine. Copy does not always mean crap.
Recently, just a few months ago, I discovered that I wanted a Telecaster. The days when I could buy a PRS or Gibson are over, at least for the time being, so I started to look for a copy that wasn“t too bad. I read about a brand called Falcon in the superb Swedish guitar-magazine Fuzz and decided to get one. I went to the local music store and ordered a white Falcon Telecaster. I got it a couple of days later and it looked alright.
I had to move the control plate though because it was assembled wrong, but apart from that it was fine. I changed the bridge pickup too for a Swedish pickup, the T-bear TVL“53. The guitar sounds great now. I should have bought a Tele
a long time ago, it is a very nice guitar.
Fender Telecaster
My amp is an old Acoustic with an Electro-Voice cabinet and I use an Ibanez Tube Screamer for distortion.
TAKE A LOOK AT MY GUITARS !
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