jimmiJAMM Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 I recently purchased an 1978 Standard. It was dusty, smelled a bit moldy but in excellent condition. I buffed it up and it looks brand new but the thing is, I haven't really played it much as I have an '07 which I play regularly. So last night I plugged it in, slapped on my headphones and began to play. Within minutes I literally felt like it was playing itself. Like I was merely a vessel through which this instrument's soul was being channeled. My hands and fingers took on an otherworldly sense of purpose and being that was at once mine and yet not. No kidding, it was amazing!! Has anyone else experienced this somewhat paranormal phenomenon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddairy Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 I see your points. But I don't believe in mojo, and that's only because it's not going to make me a better player myself. I've owned countless amounts of guitars old and new. None ever spoke to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbomb76 Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 I think mojo is in the player's fingers, not the instrument. I think, like with "stank", mojo can sorta' rub-off on an instrument, but inherently it's the player that's got it or not, not the instrument. H-Bomb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
80LPC Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 It's like a recognition of something that is outside your frame of reference. A machine like a vintage car or motorcycle can have this sort of effect. You see the evidence of use by previous owners - a record of events from previous times. It makes you think. The original owner has changed, or maybe even departed, but there is the guitar - just the same. And there you are, leaving your marks that might have someone thinking in the future 'what happened there' ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 I think, when it comes to the "instrument", yes. Case in point. My 1933 Gibson A-00 Mandolin I bought from Gruhns last summer. Scotty Stoneman was, without question, one of, if not THE greatist fiddle player of all time. He owned this mandolin. For those of you who don't know, a mandolin and a fiddle are tuned the same. He was also a baddaass banjo player. This thing rings tone like no other acoustic instrument I've ever heard. I'm positive it has nothing to do with the fact that he owned it, and played it. But........ Do ya think, maybe, as a great musician, ............ HE bought it because it was special? Duh...... So I guess, it depends on what you're calling "Mojo". Best of luck. Great topic. Murph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 I think' date=' when it comes to the "instrument", yes. Case in point. My 1933 Gibson A-00 Mandolin I bought from Gruhns last summer. Scotty Stoneman was, without question, one of, if not THE greatist fiddle player of all time. He owned this mandolin. For those of you who don't know, a mandolin and a fiddle are tuned the same. He was also a baddaass banjo player. This thing rings tone like no other acoustic instrument I've ever heard. I'm positive it has nothing to do with the fact that he owned it, and played it. But........ Do ya think, maybe, as a great musician, ............ HE bought it because it was special? Duh...... So I guess, it depends on what you're calling "Mojo". Best of luck. Great topic. Murph.[/quote'] Wow nice post Murph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpdeluxe Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 Mojo = pixie dust. Ya gotta believe. If you are a believer, it makes you vulnerable to paying premium prices for ordinary axes based on mojo. If you're not a believer, it makes you work harder to become a better musician. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 Mojo = pixie dust. Ya gotta believe. If you are a believer' date=' it makes you vulnerable to paying premium prices for ordinary axes based on mojo. If you're not a believer, it makes you work harder to become a better musician.[/quote'] See, I think you missed the idea...... I'm talking about a really "sweet" super "special" instrument. Not a "normal axe". They are, in fact, wood and there are most certainly "good ones", and duds. Murph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 Wow nice post Murph. dem00n, if you keep pissin' me off, I'm gonna buy you a beer someday......... (when you're legal) Murph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minimoog Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 .....went down to Mississippi got me a mojo hand baby.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmiJAMM Posted February 28, 2009 Author Share Posted February 28, 2009 ...Mr. Mojo Risin Gotta keep on risin' Risin', risin'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar slinger Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 To me, players have mojo, not instruments. BUT, I'm a believer that different instruments inspires you (the player) in different ways. And that's how your guitar can help you with mojo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddairy Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 I think sentimental things can be attached to guitars. But, I'll still stick with my initial response which, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SG dude Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 i'm going to say that it is probably phsycological but hey!! what isn't??????? insaneness rules!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickey Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Nah,that's a crocka crap. There are good guitars, and there are OK guitars, & there are bad guitars--I went through prolly 100 or so guitars to find the ones I have now, which I'd never sell. I think you need to stop drinking the bongwater! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max2343 Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Yo Neo. Experienced Paranormal Phenomenon while playing the guitar. Well brother, I'm Experienced and I Experience Phenomenon while playing some guitars a few times a week. Some take me their, always. Some Guitars ring-out so true, that only those I find myself playing when, I'M IN THE ZONE. SO YEA, HELL YA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmiJAMM Posted March 1, 2009 Author Share Posted March 1, 2009 That's what I'm talkin' about. I wasn't saying this apparent "mojo" was making me or any other guitar player better or worse. If you suck, you're gonna suck playing Jimi's Woodstock Fender. I get that. I just happen to believe that these unseen forces exist and I for one have experienced them. Mind over matter, psychosomatic, post-hypnotic suggestion, bong water? Perhaps but I definitely feel something special when I hit on my vintage friend and my fingers run with careless abandon and occasionally with the devil across the freeboard like a gazelle on Red Bull blazing across the African Sahara. Moses had a staff, as do most shamans and sorcerers. I'm fairly certain they were all made of wood. A once-living piece of wood that, when in the right hands, can assist his owner in powerful ways. A symbiotic relationship. I'm not saying I'm gonna part the Red Sea with my vintage guitars but there's a definitely correlation between its energy and mine that logic may never explain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max2343 Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Hell-ya and it just feels so event-ful, so Damn moving. So damn good. Almost kind-like awaking from a dream that changes your life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max2343 Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Some may laugh and may never really be open enough to Experience, an Experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddairy Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Did you pay more for your Vintage SG? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundaddy Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 "Mojo" is total BS. People who use that word to talk about guitars very rarely have any idea what they're talking about, they think it's cool or something. Or they read about it on the internet and consider themselves knowledgeable (a little knowledge is a dangerous thing). I'm from New Orleans and have been to W. Africa and I've studied, witnessed, and participated in lots of stuff I won't get into here... There was a big discussion on it in the acoustic forum a while back: http://forums.gibson.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=10145 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmiJAMM Posted March 2, 2009 Author Share Posted March 2, 2009 "Mojo" is total BS. Maybe u just aint tuned in, brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubert Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Check the silver thing hanging from the headstock of the Tele. I got it at an antiques fair about 20 years ago and I believe it to be a Mojo hand. Seriously, this thing has a hand made of some sort of hide and has five fingers and a thumb. A jeweller friend of mine checked it out and said that the silver was very old "Spanish" silver. It is pictured on my 1965 Tele which everyone who plays it says has a certain mojo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmiJAMM Posted March 3, 2009 Author Share Posted March 3, 2009 Man, Stubert, that's some bad-*** funky adornment you got there! "Im a fleabit peanut monkey, all my friends are junkies... that's not really true." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundaddy Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I'm tuned in, lil daddy... did you check out that thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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