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[jb_abides]

yeah would be nice to see and hear them onstage, but eventually the historical importance outweighs their utility. always wanted to give king tut's chariot a spin around the block too

 

[JazzMuzak]

Per article posted above, The Met curator discussed plans to allow guitars to go into the hands of guitarists. Although not the general public, in a walk up and play manner. Presumably as we've seen guitars loaned out to 'worthy' players for special occasions, etc. in a supervised fashion.

Museums have done this with Stradivari violins and other antique instruments for decades. A lot of people on the forum in the past ~25 years have speculated that eventually Bursts would be much the same, and we've been seeing a lot of that in recent years. I think it's very cool, personally.

 

[Stone]

As much as the idea of collecting and curating all these guitars is laudable, guitars, at the end of the day, are meant to be played. And by played I mean not just for a special occasion or a show (which can still be pretty rad), but properly played where they inspire the player to bring out new music out of them. And that's something you mostly can't do with just two, three hours performing. Maybe I'm biased considering myself more of a songwriter than a guitarist, I'm sure a lot of folks differ there.

Anyway, that aside, I'm properly SALIVATING to see what that collection's all about!

 

[JReeves]

and chariots are meant to be driven over the skulls of your enemies!!

 

[goldtop0]

and chariots are meant to be driven over the skulls of your enemies!!

Luckily for us the Romans weren't into guitars...........or were they

 

[jb_abides]

Luckily for us the Romans weren't into guitars...........or were they

Some thing familiar...



Playgoers, I bid you welcome
The theater is a temple
And we are here to worship the gods of comedy and tragedy
Tonight, I am pleased to announce a comedy
We shall employ every device we know
In our desire to divert you
Something familiar
Something peculiar
Something for everyone
A comedy tonight!
Something appealing
Something appalling
Something for everyone
A comedy tonight!
Nothing with kings, nothing with crowns
Bring on the lovers, liars and clowns!
Old situations
New complications
Nothing portentous or polite
Tragedy tomorrow
Comedy tonight!
Something convulsive (Ah!)
Something repulsive (Ew!)
Something for everyone
A comedy tonight!
Something aesthetic
Something frenetic
Something for everyone
A comedy tonight!
Nothing with gods
Nothing with fate
Weighty affairs will just have to wait
Nothing that's formal
Nothing that's normal
No recitations to recite
Open up the curtain
Comedy tonight!
Something erratic
Something dramatic
Something for everyone
A comedy tonight!
Frenzy and frolic
Strictly symbolic
Something for everyone
A comedy tonight!
Now, the entire company!
Something familiar
Something peculiar
Something for everybody
Comedy tonight!
Something that's gawdy
Something that's bawdy
Something for everybody
Comedy tonight!
Nothing that's grim
Nothing that's Greek
She plays Medea later this week
Stunning surprises
Cunning disguises
Hundreds of actors out of sight
Pantaloons and tunics
Courtesans and eunuchs
Funerals and chases
Baritones and basses
Panderers
Philanderers
Cupidity
Timidity
Mistakes
Fakes
Rhymes
Mimes
Tumblers, grumblers, bumblers, fumblers
No royal curse
No Trojan horse
And a happy ending, of course!
Goodness and badness
Man in his madness
This time it all turns out all right
Tragedy tomorrow
Comedy tonight!
One, two, three!

 

[goldtop0]

Geez jb, that's quite the recitation
Gotta love it with Ustinov and Crawford, brings back memories of yesteryear............happens quite a lot these days.

 

[jb_abides]

Geez jb, that's quite the recitation
Gotta love it with Ustinov and Crawford, brings back memories of yesteryear............happens quite a lot these days.

Blame it on

 

[goldtop0]

So good to remember these old movies and great actors, something happened on the way........to the future, that doesn't happen today

 

[tad0684]

Just noting, it doesn't say anything about him donating his entire Burst collection. Just the ones curated for the purpose of telling the story of American guitars. Unless I missed that part, I wouldn't go thinking you're going to see every 58,59, 60 he has.

 

[DANELECTRO]

Here's the photo that was posted back in 2003:

 

[garywright]

I might see Beano..to the left somewhat of the one on the right +/- while being just below the top of the one kind of near the bottom

 

[jb_abides]

Beano appears if you state and squint long enough.

 

[JazzMuzak]

I've heard before that the burst with the mandolin headstock is actually the Andy Summers burst that Clapton used on Fresh Cream. Always wondered if that was true.

 

[garywright]

interesting..as many times as I’ve seen that pic I’ve never noticed the odd headstock

 

[goldtop0]

I've heard before that the burst with the mandolin headstock is actually the Andy Summers burst that Clapton used on Fresh Cream. Always wondered if that was true.

Drew Berlin as I recall had that one for a little while, a headstock break and the 'obvious' repair.
It wasn't like that when EC used it back in the day.

 

[MattD1960]

30 different Bursts in that photo, and at the time it was rumored he may have had 10X that amount. i am hopeful we end up seeing a large portion of the bursts he currently owns when the collection goes up for display

 

[Redhod]

What the feelings here about one guy hogging all those bursts?

 

[Cody]

He’s not hogging anything. The bursts were for sale, and he bought them.

 

[jb_abides]

He’s not hogging anything. The bursts were for sale, and he bought them.

Exactly.