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  1. New member here, joined a few weeks back when I just got a new '15 SG Special, now I have 4 Gibson Electrics and one acoustic - My Gibson Acoustic is an Advanced Jumbo that I bought used from Elderly Instruments in Lansing MI. about six years ago now. I have a Martin D-15 all Mahogany Dred as well. I sold off a Taylor 710 Dred to get the funds to buy the Gibson Advanced Jumbo. When I had a chance to play the Taylor and the Gibson back to back, there was no question in my mind which guitar I had to claim for my big voiced Dred. I play acoustic with a vocalist who used to be the singer in the 10 piece Horn band I'm in - that band was mostly blues rock based music, the singer just didn't want to do amplified music any more. We do covers of early Stones acoustic, Black Crowes acoustic, Little Feat, Dylan, Geo. Harrison, mostly songs that were not in hit single rotation on the radio. I use the Gibson AJ for open tuning and slide work, and the Martin for std. tuning stuff. When I played the AJ, I heard the classic Spruce/Rosewood guitar that I had been hearing in my head for so long - way back in my youth I had a Guild D-40. I loved the tone of that guitar but had to sell it in order to pay rent my last semester in college - it took a while to replace it but I think I did ok. I'm still in the bigger electric Horn R&B band and we have a female singer now, but I love doing open mic nights with my old singer from the big band; covering those songs you didn't hear all the time on the radio - if you owned the album, you will have heard these songs. We have a blast. I was in advertising for over 20 years, an Agency Producer. My clients were all Fortune 500 Domestic Big 3 Auto companies, some banks, insurance co's and the US Navy. I'm freelancing now, have done an Indie feature film as VFX & Audio Post Supervisor, and bounced around my market between trad and digital agencies as a freelance producer. Music is the first love, producing pays the bills.
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