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Any musicians or failed musicians on here ?
When I was a teenager, I followed the Shadows, especially Hank Marvin, and I Imported a brand new US Stratocaster direct from the Fender factory in California in approx 1962 ,it was finished in Sunburst with ,unusually for the time, a maple fingerboard . I think that it cost me £164, Plus carriage , and i do remember that it took around 5-6 weeks for delivery . I had a very well used Vox amp via the Exchange & Mart, to go with it. A chap from Gamlin’s music shop in Cardiff had the Strat. set up for me.
I also had a new Jumbo 12 string acoustic , paying £25 in 1967, followed by a new Squier Strat;. made in Japan in red with a rosewood fingerboard+a Fender practice amp.which I still have.
Didn’t really play much for the next 25years, until the 1990`s when I had a brain storm and bought a new USA Fender Strat Ultra Plus in Sonic Blue , with a maple fingerboard ,but about 18 years back, Parkinson’s took my fingers and my ability to play , so I sold it , but at twice the price I paid for it, so all was not lost?
Then just before Covid struck, the wife bought me a Timberland electro- acoustic jumbo , which i still have , but is basically unused ) and as a therapy and improved meds, 4 of us old Parky guys , for the last 3 months or so, are learning or relearning to play ,( we are known as ‘ the Ol Guits’) and the therapy appears to be working, so I now have a Hofner Shorty travel guitar which I take with me almost everywhere , and my favourite of all time, a new Custom made heavy Relic Stratocaster hand build by Swirl guitars Liverpool, which i play, attempt to play ,every day!
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I wonder how much a 1962 Fender Stratocaster would be worth now?
There are a couple for sale at around £29-30,000. Relic’s from the Fender Custom Shop are running between $ 6 & 12,000.
Three of my four sons are good guitarists. I got up this morning and my ‘number three son’ was sat at the breakfast table playing acoustic guitar beautifully.
My only claim to musical competence is that I’m known as ‘Granddad’ Karaoke. I love to sing and I used to be fairly good at it. We have a number of musicians and previously ‘pro’ performers in the family, so our karaoke nights tend to be exhilarating. In my opinion of course, lol.
I used to play in a band and in the 1970’s was earning £80 a week from it which was good money then and a lot more than I earned from my full time job at the time. I’ve still got my guitars and have collected more with my favourite out of the 10 I’ve got being my Gibson Les Paul which I imported directly from the States. I used to also have a Fender Strat but could never get on with it so sold it and have regretted it since. I’m now in the process of building an electric guitar which is strat shape but I’m looking to use better pickups etc than the Fender ones. My amplifier when I was in the band was a Hiwatt 200 which wasn’t suited to playing at home, so I sold it and I now have a Line 6 modelling amp which is ok but not a patch on the Hiwatt. I think at some point I’ll get round to getting a Marshall valve amp as I already have a Marshall speaker cabinet.
This is the ‘Relic ‘ strat. spec, and it plays better than any other i have played , and sounds really good, but it is very heavy !
I am having a Telecaster shaped guitar made by Swirl. The body of which will be in paulownia, extremely lightweight, wood ending up weighing less than the Shorty ,which I will sell – the Tele will be finished in Sonic Blue with a Pearl pick board and a maple fingerboard!
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