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WOW Unplayed EVH BEAUTY!
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ernie1966
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You missed another unplayed purple EVH auction by the same guy last week. It went for over 5,000! I have one of them sitting in it's box in it's case, untouched, unplayed, not a fingerprint on it. Seieng the price they are going for makes me want to sell, sell, sell! I must resist the urge!!!
Raz
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Well I'm not really looking, I thought that perhaps someone here would enjoy it...and it doesn't surprise me that you have one 'unplayed', I mean if I had 50 guitars, I guarantee several will go 'unplayed'! 
Just teasing ern!
Just teasing ern!
brentrocks
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that was how my EVH was when i got it. (unplayed, not a scratch)
i didn't get all the case candy though! those kind of guitars are few and far between! i feel very luck to have found mine and only paid $1800!
that red one has a funky top, unique!
someone is gonna get a good one!!
i didn't get all the case candy though! those kind of guitars are few and far between! i feel very luck to have found mine and only paid $1800!
that red one has a funky top, unique!
someone is gonna get a good one!!
ernie1966
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spkirby said:No offense Ernie, but thats a waste of a great guitar...
I hear ya, but the reason I bought it was for my collection and I was hoping it would appreciate in value, and it has. If I end up ever selling it and making a few grand, goody for me.
Raz
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Well its not quite as bad as those Charvels that were recently up for sale, the ones Ed played recently...16,000 and up 
slukather
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spkirby said:No offense Ernie, but thats a waste of a great guitar...
I never understood why people buy guitars as collectables, well l mean by just putting in a glass case on the wall, guitars are ment to be played, as well as admired, no offense ernie1966.
Scott.
ernie1966
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slukather said:
None taken. I find a certain beauty in guitars. I have the ones I play and the ones I collect. Guitars get beat up over years of use, unless you baby them, which I was never one to do. When I was gigging, I used to jump around like crazy. I have three or four guitars that got bashed and marked up when colliding with my bass player or drum kit. So I ended up having two catagories of guitars, playin' and collectin'.
OrangeChannel
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Raz said:Well its not quite as bad as those Charvels that were recently up for sale, the ones Ed played recently...16,000 and up
Problem being, and I've naysayed that whole trip the entire time....to me those Charvels don't represent a bit of history since they're new, and played for one Van Hagar song a nite (humans being) and then cash cowed out....crap I tell you!
slukather
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ernie1966 said:
Well l've got guitars that have been in there cases for a few years, like a custom guitar l used for like 10 years, l just used this one main guitar, until it was time to retire the old girl, l pull her out every now and then, it's a nice sounding guitar, all the gigging, cigerette burns, stratched, dints etc that it's recieved. I have 2 Wolfgangs that are packed away, and a couple of others, the only guitars l have unpacked are my ernie ball guitars.
ernie1966 said:
I know what you are talking about, l've collided with bass players, singers, tripped on my effects pedals/cables/drum kit (luckly it wasn't live when those happened).
Scott.
jazzbo jim
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I think I'm going to cry......
SteveB
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ernie1966 said:
Man, that brought back a memory. Once I climbed high atop the PA system (which was large enough to play an arena), and just as I jumped down, my singer came dangerously close to getting squashed like a bug. I think that was around 1986. I loved that PA system.. it took a 23-foot long box truck to haul the whole thing.
I haven't really collided into things with my guitars, but I did maim one or two by smashing the headstock into one of my drummer's cymbals (to 'play' said cymbal) when I was really getting into it. You end up with a little indentation on the edge of the headstock.
slukather
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SteveB said:
hehe, theres nothing like overkill is there? hehe.
There should be a thread about embrassing gig stories. I think alot of people on here will have a few.
Scott.
phatduckk
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a few years ago my lead guitarist and I got into a fight on stage. We were playing the last song and during a pause i pushed him, then he kicked me, then i kicked back ... we're still playing mind you. Then i see him going for another kick and i jumped off stage to avoid it. he came after me ... we're both still playing. then people in the pit pushed us to the floor ... we stopped playing ... and then there was a dog pile and the show ended.
we stood up a few minutes later and gave eachother a cool hug. it was a gig to remember
we stood up a few minutes later and gave eachother a cool hug. it was a gig to remember
slukather
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phatduckk said:a few years ago my lead guitarist and I got into a fight on stage. We were playing the last song and during a pause i pushed him, then he kicked me, then i kicked back ... we're still playing mind you. Then i see him going for another kick and i jumped off stage to avoid it. he came after me ... we're both still playing. then people in the pit pushed us to the floor ... we stopped playing ... and then there was a dog pile and the show ended.
we stood up a few minutes later and gave eachother a cool hug. it was a gig to remember
I think we have a winner for the "Best Story Ever".
Thats was a fu%king funny story man.
Scott.
Eddie Van Halen
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Words cannot describe the beauty of that guitar, whoever ends up with it is lucky
Gig Story
About 20 years ago, I was in a band doing original punk stuff. We were playing at a club in San Pedro Ca. called Dancing Waters. There was a working waterfall behind the stage. If you have ever been to Disneyland on the Pirates of the Caribian ride you know how this place smelled.
Some a-hole in the audience kept asking us(a punk band) to play a Journey song. After the 5th or so time he asked, I told him to do something sexually impossible. He said something about my band and it was on. I took my Les Paul off and swung it at him, but missed, then jumped off the stage and went after him. I was asked to leave the band that night. I am somewhat more mellow now.
About 20 years ago, I was in a band doing original punk stuff. We were playing at a club in San Pedro Ca. called Dancing Waters. There was a working waterfall behind the stage. If you have ever been to Disneyland on the Pirates of the Caribian ride you know how this place smelled.
Some a-hole in the audience kept asking us(a punk band) to play a Journey song. After the 5th or so time he asked, I told him to do something sexually impossible. He said something about my band and it was on. I took my Les Paul off and swung it at him, but missed, then jumped off the stage and went after him. I was asked to leave the band that night. I am somewhat more mellow now.
Raz
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Ah-ha, and for this reason I left the theft of my "Bah Humbucker" phrase, well enough alone...see what I'm sayin...(insert frightened smiley here)jongitarz said:
