Growing up in the sixties...

[MorrisrownSal]

Gasman that is awesome. Play it in health man….

beauty.

[Gasman]

Thanks Sal - hope you are doing well. 

[PrairieSchooner]

Here's a J-45 story: must have been '67 or so.  I was in college on the cheap and had never owned a good guitar.   I was in Hays Music, Hays, Kansas.  They had a red J-45 and I was in love.  Played it a bit, sighed, and hung it back on the wall.  There were several other folks milling around so I think someone else played it after me but I'm not sure.  Anyway there was a crash.  The hanger (one of those wire pegboard thingies) had come out of the wall and the guitar fell to the floor severely bashing in the lower bout.  The store people of course wanted to know who was the last person to hang it up, but nobody owned it, including me.   Later the guitar was back on the wall with the worst repair job you've ever seen - just kinda pushed back into shape and sort of glued.  Never did know what they priced it at (I was afraid to pick it up again!) and I always wondered what happened to it.    

[DanvillRob]

27 minutes ago, PrairieSchooner said:

Here's a J-45 story: must have been '67 or so.  I was in college on the cheap and had never owned a good guitar.   I was in Hays Music, Hays, Kansas.  They had a red J-45 and I was in love.  Played it a bit, sighed, and hung it back on the wall.  There were several other folks milling around so I think someone else played it after me but I'm not sure.  Anyway there was a crash.  The hanger (one of those wire pegboard thingies) had come out of the wall and the guitar fell to the floor severely bashing in the lower bout.  The store people of course wanted to know who was the last person to hang it up, but nobody owned it, including me.   Later the guitar was back on the wall with the worst repair job you've ever seen - just kinda pushed back into shape and sort of glued.  Never did know what they priced it at (I was afraid to pick it up again!) and I always wondered what happened to it.    

I wonder what they would have done if someone had fessed up to hanging it back on the wall?   I doubt they could prove that the guy was careless, so what liability would he have?

[PrairieSchooner]

1 hour ago, DanvillRob said:

I wonder what they would have done if someone had fessed up to hanging it back on the wall?   I doubt they could prove that the guy was careless, so what liability would he have?

I don't know.  Probably pretty easy to bluff a naive college kid into thinking he had to pay for it.  As I recall the price was more than a year's tuition.

[DanvillRob]

8 minutes ago, PrairieSchooner said:

I don't know.  Probably pretty easy to bluff a naive college kid into thinking he had to pay for it.  As I recall the price was more than a year's tuition.

Yeah....maybe....I went to college AFTER I got home from 'Nam....so wasn't naive at all....but I would have felt HORRIBLE had I broken that guitar!   I never take a guitar down off the wall at Guitar Center..... I just don't like to touch them, or play in that environment.... but I did take guitars off the wall at the music store I worked at.....but then, I was a kid.

 

[PrairieSchooner]

You know how that pegboard stuff works; if you hit one of those hooks wrong from the bottom the prong pops out of the hole.  Could have been that way for a long time and just decided to take that moment to give way.  Was a lousy system for hanging guitars.  And yeah, I felt awful, whether I did it or not.

[BluesKing777]

 

A pawn shop that had lots of guitars when I was a kid had a big sign : "Lovely to touch, lovely to hold, but if you break it, consider it SOLD".

 

Yikes!

 

 

BluesKing777.

 

 

 

[Murph]

10 hours ago, BluesKing777 said:

 

A pawn shop that had lots of guitars when I was a kid had a big sign : "Lovely to touch, lovely to hold, but if you break it, consider it SOLD".

I remember those. And another one.

"YOU BREAK IT, YOU BOUGHT IT!"

[gearbasher]

21 hours ago, PrairieSchooner said:

Here's a J-45 story: must have been '67 or so.  I was in college on the cheap and had never owned a good guitar.   I was in Hays Music, Hays, Kansas.  They had a red J-45 and I was in love.  Played it a bit, sighed, and hung it back on the wall.  There were several other folks milling around so I think someone else played it after me but I'm not sure.  Anyway there was a crash.  The hanger (one of those wire pegboard thingies) had come out of the wall and the guitar fell to the floor severely bashing in the lower bout.  The store people of course wanted to know who was the last person to hang it up, but nobody owned it, including me.   Later the guitar was back on the wall with the worst repair job you've ever seen - just kinda pushed back into shape and sort of glued.  Never did know what they priced it at (I was afraid to pick it up again!) and I always wondered what happened to it.    

I don't want to derail this thread, but Hayes, Kansas reminded me of a story. My brother-in-law and I were driving out to Vegas from NYC. We decide to stop at a steak house in Hayes. Now picture us: I had a full beard, hair in a ponytail that was down to my waist, and wearing a torn denim jacket and torn jeans. My brother-in law was/is a dark skinned Sicilian, 6" 3" and had his hair in an afro. We walked in and everyone is clean-cut, blonde haired and blue eyed . It's a Saturday night and the place is packed. When they saw us, the entire restaurant went silent. You could have heard a pin drop. We laugh about that to this day.

Edited May 19, 2022 by gearbasher

[AexCA]

On 5/18/2022 at 6:04 PM, PrairieSchooner said:

Here's a J-45 story: must have been '67 or so.  I was in college on the cheap and had never owned a good guitar.   I was in Hays Music, Hays, Kansas.  They had a red J-45 and I was in love.  Played it a bit, sighed, and hung it back on the wall.  There were several other folks milling around so I think someone else played it after me but I'm not sure.  Anyway there was a crash.  The hanger (one of those wire pegboard thingies) had come out of the wall and the guitar fell to the floor severely bashing in the lower bout.  The store people of course wanted to know who was the last person to hang it up, but nobody owned it, including me.   Later the guitar was back on the wall with the worst repair job you've ever seen - just kinda pushed back into shape and sort of glued.  Never did know what they priced it at (I was afraid to pick it up again!) and I always wondered what happened to it.    

I'm in college now and my guitars aren't expensive either. It's normal for students to feel guilty about damaging an expensive guitar, which is why I don't want to use vintage instruments just yet.

[fortyearspickn]

Yep.  I brought my LG1, purchased new a yea+ earlier, to college.  Roomie was mad about something, not paying attention and opened his drop down desk top which fell on it, leaving a minor dent.  Tight quarters in a single wide. 

Welcome AexCa ! 

[Murph]

1 hour ago, AexCA said:

I'm in college now and my guitars aren't expensive either. It's normal for students to feel guilty about damaging an expensive guitar, which is why I don't want to use vintage instruments just yet.

 

Just buy a new modern Gibson.

When you're my age, it'll be vintage....

[Boyd]

 A quick look at Sweetwater shows the cheapest Gibson Acoustic is one of the "Studio" models at $1000. The entry price for regular Gibson acoustics is $2600. I think @AexCA is very sensible and doing just fine all by himself without any "advice" from us old farts. 😁

Edited May 29, 2022 by Boyd

[Murph]

4 minutes ago, Boyd said:

 A quick look at Sweetwater shows the cheapest Gibson Acoustic is one of the "Studio" models at $1000. The entry price for regular Gibson acoustics is $2600. I think @AexCA is very sensible and doing just fine all by himself without any "advice" from us old farts. 😁

 

Party pooper....

[Boyd]

Fifty years from now, he can start another thread, "growing up in the twenties".... if our generation hasn't completely destroyed the world before then. 😱

[gearbasher]

3 hours ago, Boyd said:

Fifty years from now, he can start another thread, "growing up in the twenties".... if our generation hasn't completely destroyed the world before then. 😱

It's not our generation destroying the world. We should have raised our children the way our parents raised us.

[Holiday Hoser]

So right gearbasher My A$$ still hurts!

Edited May 31, 2022 by Holiday Hoser

[fortyearspickn]

I read somewhere that The Greatest Generation owed their greatness to their parents and grandparents for how they were raised.  There's no denying that the Baby Boomers have screwed the pooch.  Dr. Spock, Walter Cronkite, had more influence on us in the media than Billy Graham and Fulton J.Sheen.  

[PrairieSchooner]

On 5/29/2022 at 7:08 AM, Murph said:

 

Just buy a new modern Gibson.

When you're my age, it'll be vintage....

Back in the day owning a 40 year-old Martin was strong medicine.  So I bought a new one in 1978, and now I have one 😀

[Sgt. Pepper]

5 hours ago, fortyearspickn said:

I read somewhere that The Greatest Generation owed their greatness to their parents and grandparents for how they were raised.  There's no denying that the Baby Boomers have screwed the pooch.  Dr. Spock, Walter Cronkite, had more influence on us in the media than Billy Graham and Fulton J.Sheen.  

And lord help with us when the I Can't Look Away From My Cell Phone/Slacker/I Don't Want To Work/Let's Go Out And Riot In Portland Generation is in DC running stuff.

Basically my kids.

Edited May 31, 2022 by Sgt. Pepper

[gearbasher]

2 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:

And lord help with when the I Can't Look Away From My Cell Phone/Slacker/I Don't Want To Work/Let's Go Out And Riot In Portland Generation is in DC running stuff.

Basically my kids.

I think they are already there. Or, at least voting in their people.

When I was growing up, every body I knew had a job when they were in their teens (I started working in a family owned establishment when I was 10 and when I asked if I can get paid. My father would say: "Do you eat?"). Now, I don't see any kids working. 

Edited May 31, 2022 by gearbasher

[Sgt. Pepper]

12 minutes ago, gearbasher said:

I think they are already there. Or, at least voting in their people.

When I was growing up, every body I knew had a job when they were in there teens (I started working in a family owned establishment when I was 10 and when I asked if I can get paid. My father would say: "Do you eat?"). Now, I don't see any kids working. 

Most, but not all of the politicians in the House and Senate  and the POTUS  are old crotchety men and women, who have been career politicians for far to long. There are a few younger-ish ones like those, and I'll use the term "women" loosely, who call themselves "The Squad", and have a Socialist agenda. My kids are 22 and 24, and are voting age, but I don't thing they can run for office at that age. 

Edited May 31, 2022 by Sgt. Pepper

[Mr. Gibson]

1 hour ago, gearbasher said:

I think they are already there. Or, at least voting in their people.

When I was growing up, every body I knew had a job when they were in there teens (I started working in a family owned establishment when I was 10 and when I asked if I can get paid. My father would say: "Do you eat?"). Now, I don't see any kids working. 

We made life too easy for them. I’d be in jail if I raised mine like I was raised.

[Dave F]

19 minutes ago, Mr. Gibson said:

We made life too easy for them. I’d be in jail if I raised mine like I was raised.

My Mom and Dad would had been on the 11:00 news for all the child abuse that went on in our house, but raising six wild boys could not had been easy.