Re: Kleins and Riveras

[David White <dwhite@arbortext.com>]

I also have a PRS CE which is an excellent guitar. I regularly weird out 
on the
thing pretty heavily and it stays in tune/balance. I've had it for 3+years 
i think
and after the initial honeymoon, I've always kinda felt emptyness. It's 
never really
inspired much in me. A lot of the time I select it over my powder blue 
resoncast
Ibanez Talman because "I should."  Glad to hear others have had the same 
experience.
Maybe I'll stop thinking about it and just go for the love (and the 
talman.)

d/-\\/e
"no tag line, but I can spell my name with some non-letters as if carved in
stone...wait... this is tag line isn't it."

tbajus wrote:

> Marzzz@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Not to mention that this list seems to be the single greatest 
>aggregation of
> > Klein Electric Guitar owners in the universe! What is it with Kleins 
>and
> > Looping anyway? Is it all DT's fault? Should we all go out and buy 
>Rivera Amps
> > next (BIG GRIN!)?
>
> Funny you should mention it-  when I bought a new amp last year, it was
> a fight betweem a Mesa Maverick and a Rivera 1x12 combo.  I wound up
> getting the Mesa, which, mind you, I love, but as I drag that 75lb
> monster 2x12, I think of the R112, one speaker, small housing, weighs
> like, five ounces.  Perfect for the old cab ride.  Sigh.
>
> I hear that MESA is offering a hot air balloon as an option on the new
> line...
>
> You know, it is odd, but I have noticed, IMHO, that there is certainly a
> law of diminishing returns on guitars.  While I can lust (and I do,
> believe me) over a $2000.00 amp, I just don't get that excited over
> really well made guitars.
>
> I'm the redneck that Kim was makin' fun of- I like that durn
> tele-machine of mine.
>
> I guess the case in point for me is the aforementioned PRS, so nicely
> replaced by Bonnie and the good folks over at PRS.  My CE-b was the best
> feeling, intellegently designed, comfortable guitar I have ever played.
> It stayed in tune, the string sound and volume were really well balanced
> (hate those g-strings that jump out at you when you play 'em).  You
> could hear every note in every chord, purple, distorted, whatever.
>
> The thing had no life, what-so-ever.  I got rid of it because it was
> sitting around lonely, because I was playing this piece of crap '63ish
> beltsanded jaguar that won't stay in tune, has an action four inches off
> the fretboard to avoid fretting out when you bend.  The strings pop out
> of the saddles when you play too hard (which for me is always).
>
> Damn thing's got more voodoo than you can shake a stick at.  Oh well.
> My tele's not so bad either.
>
> I have no problem dropping a coupla G's on a Matchless or a couple of
> old deluxes  though.
>
> Trev