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February 14th, 2010, 04:26 PM
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Tele-Meister
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Age: 28
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I almost traded one for a bass once.
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When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. --C.S. Lewis |
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February 14th, 2010, 04:28 PM
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Tele-Holic
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: AZ
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Quote:
 Now why would anyone do that?
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Maybe someday someone will invent an Autotune for guitar solos so I don't even have to play the right notes. Then, in spite of my mediocre playing, I will become one of the most famous people to ever play guitar, much like an Autotune singer... 
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February 14th, 2010, 04:31 PM
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Tele-Meister
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Luxembourg
Age: 37
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Yes, long story attached which I'll not bother with, but a great 'life lesson' came free with it...
The previous time was to fund a new pc to finish my degree. So once justifiable and once for a different 'education'. |
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February 14th, 2010, 04:37 PM
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Tele-Holic
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Whidbey Island, WA
Age: 63
Posts: 613
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Oh Yeah.....
Made a deal last summer with a contractor. He built a beautiful external deck/staircase for my barn in exchange for an acoustic guitar (Guild), guitar lessons (for him and/or his family designees) and cash. We're both very satisfied with that arrangement.  Ed |
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February 14th, 2010, 04:38 PM
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Tele-Afflicted
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Nashville
Age: 54
Posts: 1,490
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Yea,, I traded an Ibanez Flying V for a Colt 45 model A1911S.
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www.myspace.com/redtele2 http://www.reverbnation.com/#/redtele If the music business was easy, then smart people would do it. |
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February 14th, 2010, 04:46 PM
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 ps--- Whoa, Donnie... must be something about them Ibanez V's
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The Hard Way and now... The Prairie Oysters "A bad day playing guitar beats the best day shovelling concrete."--Me. |
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February 14th, 2010, 04:51 PM
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Friend of Leo's
Join Date: May 2007
Location: An Australian in London.
Age: 38
Posts: 4,240
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I traded a tele for an Xbox 360 a few years ago.
A friend needed a guitar and didn't have money to pay for one, had a bit of a gaming addiction that he wanted to get a handle on and I had a spare Mexican telecaster.
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http://www.jamesrichmond.com Death-bed wish: Whatever happens, please don't let my wife sell my guitars for what I told her I paid for them. |
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February 14th, 2010, 05:09 PM
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Tele-Afflicted
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Pontiac Mi.
Age: 81
Posts: 1,443
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I've traded guitars and amps several times for wheels and vice-versa..I love hoss swappin'...
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Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body,but rather to skid in broadside,thoroughly used up,totally worn out,and loudly proclaiming:"WOW,what a ride!"
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February 14th, 2010, 05:12 PM
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Friend of Leo's
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Rupert's Land
Age: 49
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Well, I bought my uncle's Gretsch Synchromatic from him, then swapped it back for his '65 Ford truck, then missed the guitar too much and bought it from him again. Still have the guitar, truck's long gone...
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Resistance is useless; impedance isn't going to help much either! -Higgy |
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February 14th, 2010, 06:19 PM
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Tele-Meister
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: The World Famous San Diego Z00
Age: 90
Posts: 237
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I remember
reading in the Heritage forum one of the factory ladies used one she made for a down payment on a mustang (car).
A friend in highschool traded one of his Fenders for a dirt bike (moto). |
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February 14th, 2010, 06:37 PM
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Telefied
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Bakersfield Ca.
Age: 59
Posts: 21,685
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I bought a 57 P bass for $800 at Norms rare guitars in 1978.
MY friend bought an RD400 Yamaha for $800 in 78. He rode his bike with me for a few months I also had a 78 RD400. He is a bass player and was playing for Haggard at the time so he ended up with my Bass and I ended up with his RD400. Even trade we shook hands. He still has the bass.
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I'm so blind my seeing eye dog needs glasses. |
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February 14th, 2010, 09:22 PM
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I once traded a nearly new Harmony flattop guitar, a leather jacket, and $200 cash for a 1961 Renault Dauphine that I wanted to drive home to Minnesota from New Mexico because I was sick of hitch-hiking and being miserable...this was in 1969.
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February 14th, 2010, 10:21 PM
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One of the dumbest decisions of my life. I built a strat using a BEAUTIFUL hand selected ash body and maple neck from USACG. All US electronics. I got talked into vintage noiseless pickups, didn't know any better. The guitar sounded a little dull to me. I wasn't playing at the time, so I traded it off for a 1964 winchester model 94 (yeah, one year too new to be worth much of anything). Realizing my mistake later, I traded the rifle for a MIM standard strat. Now, in my defense, that strat was really something special, and got me back into playing in a big way. I nearly played the frets of of it, sold it for a song, and bought a JV signature strat. Went through a few tele's, and then got rid of them all to get my '62 (which is still in layaway waiting for tax refund money to get in the bank account). I've learned my lesson, and this one is staying with me for life.
The parts-caster along with my acoustics: 
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February 15th, 2010, 12:42 PM
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I traded a D-18 for tires one very broke winter.
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All the labor although it be brick on brick, stitch on stitch and earn to urn, a presence on the lift, what this great ole nation was built on boy. "all the labor" the gourds |
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February 15th, 2010, 12:57 PM
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Friend of Leo's
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: SE PA
Age: 42
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I haven't, but a good friend traded a dbl-floor-tom set of Blue Vista-lites (acrylic drums) for a new front end for his camaro sometime in the mid eighties...wishes he could have THAT back, though I'm kinda glad he doesn't have those things, to be honest!
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February 15th, 2010, 01:16 PM
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Tele-Meister
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Calera, Alabama
Age: 57
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Never a guitar for a non-musical item, however, I traded a Hammond C-3 and Leslie for a 1973 Nova Hatchback with new engine/transmission. What a car! It got tore up in a wreck though, some woman lost control in the rain, and tore the whole driver's side off the thing.
I sold my drumset one time, cash and partial trade...trade was a Remington .308 semi-auto rifle, which I absolutely hated, and traded for a semi-auto 12 gauge and $150 cash (to me). Wish I had the drums now...great drum set..Premier, and about 12 cymbals...mostly Zildjians...and mostly Pearl double-braced stands, and complete hard-fiber cases for everything! Still have the shotgun. I traded the roto-toms from that drumset for a .380 Backup which I also still have. I sold a CB drumset one time to get cash to buy a motorcycle. Got a Yamaha 850 Special...what a great bike that was too. Drumset wasn't bad either, it really sounded good for the price. That's all I can remember right now, sure there's more...LOL! |
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February 15th, 2010, 05:44 PM
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Tele-Afflicted
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Virginia Beach, Va.
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I traded a............
gold top Les Paul Deluxe which was a factory 2nd (it had the number 2 stamped on the back of the headstock) for a Smith & Wesson snub nose style 38 caliber revolver with a nice shoulder holster. I only paid $499 for the guitar with a hardshell case around 1979 or so. I'd had some threats on my life due to a hook up with a chick at the club I was working who happened to be married but never told me. Anyway, after I got the gun I started wearing sport coats to my gigs everynight and always had the pistola with me but nothing ever happed.
Also aroung 1973 I had a Blanton single neck pedal steel which was originally a ten string but was converted to an eleven string. I traded it straight across for a 1958 Volkswagen Beetle which I wish I still had but then again, I wish I still had the steel..........JH in Va.
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February 15th, 2010, 05:49 PM
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Tele-Holic
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Northern California &/or Northern Jersey
Age: 24
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a friend traded his van for a guitar, he went from driving aimlessly around the country to climbing trees and singing, good dude.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - Dalai Lama F Six Army 
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February 15th, 2010, 05:51 PM
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Tele-Afflicted
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Virginia
Age: 44
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Elwood Blues traded the original (unseen) Blues Mobile for a microphone.
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February 15th, 2010, 05:58 PM
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About 30 years ago, I traded an old Fender Pro Reverb amp ago for a big toolbox. Then traded the toolbox for a black powder rifle. Then traded the rifle for the amp. Then gave the amp to my brother. A few years ago when he got divorced his (ex) wife stole it and sold it to a hock shop...we have not seen it since....
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February 15th, 2010, 07:09 PM
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not a guitar, but my last amp cost me an afternoon of painting disney princesses' on the previous amp-owner's 4 year old daughter's bedroom wall.
well worth it.
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