I'm interested in the 'regular' model. IE the 'affordable' one of the two.
Love John's clean tones.
I don't care who it is playing it . . . but to have a guitar with that fake wear on it, while being able to afford the real thing, and/or any creative-refin, tells me something about the player's idea of stage versus sound, and their ideas about originality.
Somehow it seems perfect for a player who (though his original Pop stuff is fine) feels the need to resuscitate a form that is so thoroughly DRENCHED in the image of 'honesty' based on its roots in the African-American experience of hardships and travail, and a form so thoroughly ripped off by white culture for that very 'authenticity', a form so far removed from the 'authenticity' thought to have been its original source that the very idea of that originality is now a caricature, a caricature that can go right up on the shelf with the symbolic bottle of Jack Daniels and a 'Hot' BBQ Sauce . .. and throw in the occasional Harley emblem - somehow it seems so perfect that his attempt to associate himself with that supposed 'authentic' genre culminates in a fake where the whole reason for the fakeness is its look of authenticity.
And no, I am not a hater . . . I am a -not even in the same worlder
I love the blues. I like it when it when it really is an expression of person/place . . . after all it always had been a form that adapted to its time/place, except in the realms of 'the blooz' where its become a caricature. (and Mayer seems to be sort of buying in to that whole image)Blues is easy to learn, hard to master, and fun to play.
I don't think most of us are putting much thought into it past that.
I think we know what the question is here and im not disputing anyone's image or music. To be honest i think the custom shop relics or nos or closet classic whatever model...are pretty cool for working musicians who cant afford a real 60s or 50s strat. HOWEVER...the discussion here is ..is JMs guitar relic or original and the answer is a relic. Some would say whats the big deal? Personally I dont give a damn if the guy is playing a squier he bought off ebay relic'd by a 14 year old the thing i see wrong with this is the CS's plans of making a masterbuilt and cs model of this guitar. Dont get me wrong JM is a quality musician and im not putting his music down but seriously guys/gals...seriously? If you pay for even the cs non masterbuilt version I think youd be making a big mistake...your buying a replica of a guitar JM has owned for around 2 or 3 years that the CS built him ..DOES THAT SOUND DUMB OR IS IT JUST ME? how bout this way....A replica of a damn guitar built in 2005 (or somewhere around there) ....DUMB AS HELL. If you watch the video of JM on you tube talking about how itll give people a chance to own a quality guitar heres my advice. Take your money, buy a CS Relic ,NOS, or Closet classic (which will be the same price if not cheaper than the non masterbuilt JM) ..play the **** out of it and you will have your own model you played and wore down making the beautiful thing we humans call music. If you think the JM relic strat idea is cool and want one thats up to you obviously but expect to have a few people come up to you after a gig and say hey thats John Mayers strat you got there..lol..id feel great if someone said that to me. (assuming you play out)(which if your spending the money on a CS i hope you are lol)
I don't care who it is playing it . . . but to have a guitar with that fake wear on it, while being able to afford the real thing, and/or any creative-refin, tells me something about the player's idea of stage versus sound, and their ideas about originality.
Somehow it seems perfect for a player who (though his original Pop stuff is fine) feels the need to resuscitate a form that is so thoroughly DRENCHED in the image of 'honesty' based on its roots in the African-American experience of hardships and travail, and a form so thoroughly ripped off by white culture for that very 'authenticity', a form so far removed from the 'authenticity' thought to have been its original source that the very idea of that originality is now a caricature, a caricature that can go right up on the shelf with the symbolic bottle of Jack Daniels and a 'Hot' BBQ Sauce . .. and throw in the occasional Harley emblem - somehow it seems so perfect that his attempt to associate himself with that supposed 'authentic' genre culminates in a fake where the whole reason for the fakeness is its look of authenticity.
And no, I am not a hater . . . I am a -not even in the same worlder