How many guitars do you have?  

LOL he is definitely addicted and he plays them all very well. Thank you for your response.

It is the same thing for me. I just bought a new guitar and I had already watching at other ones...

The Fender Squiers are great guitars, I am learning on one of my partners at the moment. He has around 17 Boss pedals, plus a 12 hit pedal board, Marshall Head, 2 4 x 12 speakers, Mesa Boogie Triaxis and a Mesa Boogie 20:20 and we have another Marshall amp in the garage plus a Marshall bass amp. I joked with him when we went to see Iron Maiden that his set up was almost as big :-)

Oh my God, how much gear! Squier is better for not so heavy genres (blues-rock). When it comes to hard & heavy, my Stagg guitar is better.

I know the one guitar he really wants is a Gretsch White Falcon, however they are so expensive but so beautiful.

Oh yes that´s a absolutly beautiful guitar but the price is to high for my money purse. Also the Gibson guitars are very expencive here in germany. I will never buy one it´s to much money in my opinion just for a guitar.

We have to watch the budget too, I always said that if money were not an issue then I would get him his beloved Gretsch.

Yes i bet you would do that, what about your guy what kind of style is he in???

He's into the goth rock genre, The Cure, The Mission, Sisters of Mercy, but also early Pink Floyd.

Gothic rock a yes, like some also. What about own compositoins does he play some own songs in his group???

Jay writes a lot of the material, often influenced by The Cure and the Mission. He has also written a lot of songs which he can't really put into any particular genre, more what he was feeling at the time. He wrote a song for me a little while ago which he called *Solstice Goddess* which is influenced by Wayne Hussey of the Mission

Well that´s really great to hear, so is he a professional musician, does he earn enough for living or does he have to also do a regular job?

Jay works in a call centre for a day job. He would love to be a professional musician but the bills have to be paid hun :-)

I mkae my partner do the dusting in that room hun, besides, he knows how to care for his gear better than I do. He has a lot of the gear under covers though, that helps.

The 50 watt Peavey's are pretty good aren't they.

Most of my partner's gear is in the spare room now, it has turned from a guest bedroom into a music room/studio as he has his recording gear set up in there. He's thinking of selling a few of his collection of pedals on eBay, do they fetch much these days though?

I get where you are coming from with the fitting into a small car though, the last gig we did was pretty difficult as I had to fit a lot of gear into my car since the old van gave up on us before Xmas.

Thanks for responding hun

Yeah.. it´s a Peavey classic 50´s, i like that small thing it´s the best amp i bought over all these years, i just got new tubes for it and i´m really pleased with it´s sound. I don´t need heavy distortion and it has a real nice clean sound. Also it has not much controlls on it and that´s what i like, only what´s needed.

I also owned i big Marshall stack but it was one of these valve state models not bad but not the best ones i only bought it because the seller made a good price, it was second hand. But your man has nice guitars as i see, specialy the Strat looks beautiful i love them in white colour, mine is a Strat european 50´s player, as far as i know they only made 250 sold in europe. It´s a great guitar like the ones made in the 50´s but with some new adds on it like Texas Special pick ups, staggerd mechanics, i put in a photo so you can see it, it´s also vintage white but with golden pickguard.

Thanks for your comment and wooohhhh... best response your to kind. bye Mike

We have a Marshall full stack downstairs in the garage, it only comes out for gigs now.

Nice looking guitar you have there hun.

As i expierenced through the years my opinion is, it´s not necessary to have huge amps and speakers on stage it just get´s far to loud and a small amp with 50 watt blown over a good pa-system sounds awesome enough, i got sick of allways carrying that heavy stuff on stage.

Jay finds that the stack is too big these days, unless we are playing at one of the bigger venues. I think we may well be getting rid of it soon though, in favour of smaller gear.

Yes i guess so, so which small amplifier does he prefer? does he have a favourite brand?

I guess Marshall, Fender and Mesa Boogie are the front runners

Hi there, haven´t been online the last weeks so just stoping by to have a see on your topic. Very nice Telecaster on that pic, i must say i never was found of the Les Paul model. On Gibson guitars i like their Firebird and the SG model but i don´t have one of these guitars.

ps. Do you remember that guitar Carlos Santana played in the mid 70´s i think it´s a Yamaha guitar i forgot the models name maybe you know it or your hubby, that´s also a great guitar i tryed it years ago in a store but didn´t have the money to buy it. cheers

He played Gibson L6 and then the Yamaha SG2000

LOL

Yes exactly the Yamaha SG 2000 now i remember the nameas i read it, that´s a great guitar in my opinion. I think that Carlos had the best sound in playing that one, i sure no that it´s the player him self who creates the sound on his guitar but still i prefer the period where that was his main guitar and not the PRS guitars.

Cool. I must admit we do like the Fenders, I have been using Jay's Fender Jazz Bass for a short while, getting the feel of it. Thanks for your comments

Sounds like you have all you guys need to make beautiful music - lol. Thank you for your comment

Collecting guitars can be a very expensive hobby hun, but brings a lot of pleasure. Thank you for your comments

Jay used to have a Fender 12 string electro-acoustic, he sold it last year when he bought his Martin 12 string. LOL I get where you are coming from with the costs too hun.

He also had an assortment of higher-end equipment--gads, if he had held onto a few more years, we'd have been quite ok! This is his old guitar; I bought 4 or 5 from him after he left, as well as our daughter's old sax (which I bought for her, then was reimbursed and bought back again). He's had 1000's in equipment (lots of amps, including some rare ones). He's quite knowledgeable but could not translate that into a job to support his family!