Your Main Guitar

[telefanboy]

Hey guys..

Would you use your Custom Shop guitar as your main instrument in your cover band?.. Your Gibson R7, R8, R9, R0.. or you Fender Custom Shop Tele or Strat... you don’t get paranoid having such an expensive instrument in a bar full of drunk people?.. hahaha!.. anyway, if you do use your expensive guitar for your weekly gigs.. wich one you use.. share a photo..

 

[Sam Sherry]

My bi-weekly summer gig is outdoors so I use the laminated guitar:

Ca. 1984 Fender D'Aquisto Elite

 

[RRfireblade]

I'll use anything I own. $1k - $10k. Just don't leave anything out or laying around.

 

[customguitars87]

Hey guys..

Would you use your Custom Shop guitar as your main instrument in your cover band?.. Your Gibson R7, R8, R9, R0.. or you Fender Custom Shop Tele or Strat... you don’t get paranoid having such an expensive instrument in a bar full of drunk people?.. hahaha!.. anyway, if you do use your expensive guitar for your weekly gigs.. wich one you use.. share a photo..

I don't worry about it at all, yes people drink in a bar but no one is going to jump on stage and drop kick your guitar while you're playing. If you have basic awareness of what's going on around you it's perfectly fine.

There's even less risk for me with my #1 guitar, since it's headless and thus it is way easier to avoid smashing it into any of your other band members' instruments if you're on a particularly small stage .

 

[Jazzandmore]

My bi-weekly summer gig is outdoors so I use the laminated guitar:

Ca. 1984 Fender D'Aquisto Elite

Sam,

I know you are a professional bassist and your jazz resume is insane. It’s funny you are one of the very few at that level who participate here on TGP under your own name.

How the heck do you play bass and guitar? Seriously at what age and how many hours a day did you practice to get to that level on upright bass, and have time to mess with guitar as well?

 

[Dashface]

Playing at my regular cover band gig (we are the house band for the two most popular tourist bars in town - usually play about 50 shows a year there) I will play anything I have. Some of them are terribly expensive custom shop pieces. I really enjoy playing my R4 Custom, pictured here:

I also enjoy playing various expensive custom Teles, such as this custom shop beaut here:

Or my current fav flashy stage guitar, this rather expensive and blingy FSR Gretsch:

...My point is, yes. I’ll play my guitars at bar gigs. That’s what I own them for.

And don’t even get me started about my Floyd act - I bring about $100k of equipment across the continent twice a year with that group... Just be careful-ish and enjoy the things you own.

 

[derekd]

My bi-weekly summer gig is outdoors so I use the laminated guitar:

Ca. 1984 Fender D'Aquisto Elite

Wow.

You don't see these guys every day. Very nice.

 

[Strummerfan]

Mine isn't a custom shop, but it's a plus deluxe Strat in a crimson burst and I used to gig with it regularly back in the day.

 

[Strummerfan]

My bi-weekly summer gig is outdoors so I use the laminated guitar:

Ca. 1984 Fender D'Aquisto Elite

That is a drop dead gorgeous guitar.

 

[DutchBluesLawyer]

No problems with a relic'd custom shop Strat

 

[macmax77]

Hey guys..

Would you use your Custom Shop guitar as your main instrument in your cover band?.. Your Gibson R7, R8, R9, R0.. or you Fender Custom Shop Tele or Strat... you don’t get paranoid having such an expensive instrument in a bar full of drunk people?.. hahaha!.. anyway, if you do use your expensive guitar for your weekly gigs.. wich one you use.. share a photo..

I always have Luigi, Vito and my friends at the bar. No one dares even looking at me badly.

 

[telefanboy]

Playing at my regular cover band gig (we are the house band for the two most popular tourist bars in town - usually play about 50 shows a year there) I will play anything I have. Some of them are terribly expensive custom shop pieces. I really enjoy playing my R4 Custom, pictured here:

I also enjoy playing various expensive custom Teles, such as this custom shop beaut here:

Or my current fav flashy stage guitar, this rather expensive and blingy FSR Gretsch:

...My point is, yes. I’ll play my guitars at bar gigs. That’s what I own them for.

And don’t even get me started about my Floyd act - I bring about $100k of equipment across the continent twice a year with that group... Just be careful-ish and enjoy the things you own.

Wow those beauties.. thanks for sharing

 

[ldizzle]

Yep, I bring the good ones!
CS gibson, suhr, gretsch, several custom one-offs made for me - you name it. I want to play the good ones! Just tools or paint brushes; they're made to be played.

 

[dancareaga]

My two main guitars are custom Suhr classics. I bought them to play them, I couldn't spend that kind of money just to hang it on my wall and pluck the strings every few days.
Nothing wrong with that, it's just not me.

I got this one in January of 2020 and played it on my next gig the following week and a guy jumped up on stage and grabbed me around my neck almost pulling me off the end of the platform.
(He had told me during the previous break that REALLY liked my playing and I was mid solo so I guess he was excited! and exceptionally inebriated!)
LOL
That would have done some serious damage but
Thats the gig! I guess.




The thing I am SUPER careful about is loading In and Out, I bring both my Suhrs a Helix and either my PT-100 or Bogner XTC 20th.
Super easy for any one thing to be walked away with.

 

[Mtt02263]

My main guitar is an R0 and I don't play out, but if I was going to I'd use my '92 Les Paul Studio. It's a great guitar in its own right and it would carry a lot less mental baggage.

 

[telefanboy]

Well Im gonna take my R9 out tonight.. Like Idizzle said.. they are ment to be played.. I like that.. enjoy life while you can

 

[AuntieDiluvian]

All of my instruments get gigged, including my R0.

 

[weedzzz]

I’m of the mindset that guitars are to be used. I wouldn’t buy a guitar if I wasn’t comfortable taking it anywhere and gigging with it. I just make sure I take care of it.

Then again, I’m not overly precious about gear.

 

[21Hemispheres12]

I gigged out with my G0 for a few years but once I start gigging again my Custom 22 Semi Hollow special will be my main guitar.

 

[BlueHeaven]

I only play at church now so we don't run into too many drunk people but I'd bring whatever I wanted even if I was playing in clubs. I would just make sure I took breaks near the stage. The guitars in regular rotation are a Tele (not custom shop), a Gretsch Jet G6228 BT, and a MIM Strat so nothing real expensive.