Rev. Tim Tom's Banner

[Cabarone]

Anybody watch The Middle? There's a character on there, a youth pastor named Rev. Tim Tom, who is always helping folks w/their problems w/a song...he plays a small-body Banner but I'm not so smart to identify it...

[zombywoof]

Never watched the show but it would have to be an  LG-2.

Edited November 19, 2019 by zombywoof

[uncle fester]

LOL - love the show, Rev Tim Tom is awesome!  I never noticed he was playing a banner before, he's even cooler than I thought.

[jt]

Hmm. Haven't seen this program. But, alas, Rev. Tim seems not to have a direct line to the Diety: his guitar is but a reissue.  🙂

[Cabarone]

3 hours ago, jt said:

Hmm. Haven't seen this program. But, alas, Rev. Tim seems not to have a direct line to the Diety: his guitar is but a reissue.  🙂

Well he IS "just" a youth pastor...

[Holiday Hoser]

I don't like how he is eyeing that teen girl )%

[uncle fester]

16 hours ago, jt said:

Hmm. Haven't seen this program. But, alas, Rev. Tim seems not to have a direct line to the Diety: his guitar is but a reissue.  🙂

Is it a re-issue for sure, looks like some age worn wear on the front a bit...  ?

[jt]

39 minutes ago, billroy fineman said:

Is it a re-issue for sure, looks like some age worn wear on the front a bit...  ?

Well, as my kids still say, i’m More often wrong than right. But, the logo looks to be straight across the headstock, as Gibson is wont to do with reissues, rather that an angle, as on the originals.

[uncle fester]

52 minutes ago, jt said:

Well, as my kids still say, i’m More often wrong than right. But, the logo looks to be straight across the headstock, as Gibson is wont to do with reissues, rather that an angle, as on the originals.

thank you, learn something new every day - i did not know that about the logos

[j45nick]

7 hours ago, jt said:

Well, as my kids still say, i’m More often wrong than right. But, the logo looks to be straight across the headstock, as Gibson is wont to do with reissues, rather that an angle, as on the originals.

I only have one modern Gibson with the banner logo  (Fuller's 1943 SJ), but on that one, the angle of the banner logo is exactly the same as the angle of the Gibson logo.

[Dave F]

7 hours ago, jt said:

Well, as my kids still say, i’m More often wrong than right. But, the logo looks to be straight across the headstock, as Gibson is wont to do with reissues, rather that an angle, as on the originals.

 

[j45nick]

10 minutes ago, Dave F said:

 

 

 

The modern one on the right is totally different from the one I have.  Mine is much more like the vintage one on the left, with the Gibson logo at a fairly steep angle, and the banner fallowing that angle.

My L-OO Legend, unlike most, has the gold script logo (no banner), at an angle like the angle of the "Gibson" on your real banner.

[J-1854Me]

On 11/19/2019 at 3:57 PM, jt said:

Hmm. Haven't seen this program. But, alas, Rev. Tim seems not to have a direct line to the Diety: his guitar is but a reissue.  🙂

 

I really need to go on a diety too....  :-)

Fred

[j45nick]

9 minutes ago, J-1854Me said:

 

I really need to go on a diety too....  🙂

Fred

A deity on a diety?

[uncle fester]

11 hours ago, J-1854Me said:

I really need to go on a diety too....  🙂

I've been on a diety about six months now - feeling very enlightened...  about 25 lbs so.

[RevLG2Tom]

Hi Folks. I can definitively solve this great mystery. 🙂  My name is Paul. I played the good Rev. on The Middle. Thanks for all the interest in my guitar and the nice comments. That is in fact my beloved vintage LG2 that I am playing on all but one of the episodes of The Middle that I appeared in. There was one episode where I used a Taylor. I also wrote all the songs for the character using that same LG2. I bought the guitar at Matt Uminov's on Bleeker St. back in the late 80's. I overheard the salesman telling a guy that Bob Dylan had been in a few days before and "almost bought this beautiful LG2". Whether or not that was true I don't know but it sure got my attention. I had to try it. It was love at first strum. It has been with me ever since. Thanks Bob for not buying it! It's not a re-issue and all that wear (on both the guitar and me) is well earned from hard gigging and TV testifyin'! 🙂

So JT, maybe the Rev does have a direct line to the diety! LOL.

[gearbasher]

Not to take away from Paul AKA Rev. Tim, but on the other end of the spectrum, Ted Danson's character (a reformed demon on "The Good Place") is trying to learn to play guitar. Of course it's a Gibson.

 

[scriv58]

To Paul Hipp RevLG2Tom: looked you up on Wikipedia and YouTube and it seems that you have had an interesting life. My favorite clip is “jesus never had a midlife crisis” it needs more lyrics! Congrats on the banner LG2.

[jt]

10 hours ago, RevLG2Tom said:

Hi Folks. I can definitively solve this great mystery. 🙂  My name is Paul. I played the good Rev. on The Middle. Thanks for all the interest in my guitar and the nice comments. That is in fact my beloved vintage LG2 that I am playing on all but one of the episodes of The Middle that I appeared in. There was one episode where I used a Taylor. I also wrote all the songs for the character using that same LG2. I bought the guitar at Matt Uminov's on Bleeker St. back in the late 80's. I overheard the salesman telling a guy that Bob Dylan had been in a few days before and "almost bought this beautiful LG2". Whether or not that was true I don't know but it sure got my attention. I had to try it. It was love at first strum. It has been with me ever since. Thanks Bob for not buying it! It's not a re-issue and all that wear (on both the guitar and me) is well earned from hard gigging and TV testifyin'! 🙂

So JT, maybe the Rev does have a direct line to the diety! LOL.

Tom,

Other than mistaking a vintage LG-2 for a modern LG-2 and misspelling "deity," I think that I did pretty well! 🙂

Thank you so much for posting.

In honor of my error, I'd love to send you a signed copy of my book, Kalamazoo Gals, that discusses the WWII-era, Banner Gibsons and the women who made them. (Yeah, I should have known better!) Just send me a message.

Again, thank you!