The House is On Fire And...

[Frisco 57]

In another thread Fiesta Red said, "If the house is on fire, I’m grabbing my hecho-en-Mexico pinstriped Telecaster."

This made me think. It would be a horrible decision to make but if the house was in fact on fire and you could only grab ONE musical thing, what would it be?

 

[brookdalebill]

Hmmm.
My livelihood depends on my B bender Cabronita.
My James Goodall RCJC is the best/nicest/finest acoustic guitar I’ve ever owned.
My Gretsch Chet is the best sounding electric guitar I ever owned.
OK, the Goodall.
I’ll never find another acoustic that suits me better.
Electric guitars, even great ones, are easier to replace.

This one.
Pictured here at our One Lane Bridge gig at Linda’s Fine Foods, with my (great) singing sister, Margaret.

 

[Hodgo88]

My '78 Artist. I've only had this guitar for a month, and I never want to lose it.

 

[Frisco 57]

...only one!? Well, I guess...

 

[Chester P Squier]

It might be rather difficult and time consuming to push my spinet out the door, so it would have to be the MIM Tele. Except mine is Tidepool Blue.

 

[P Thought]

I'd try to quit dithering over guitars and squeeze my big butt out the window

 

[VintageSG]

My NAS box, or one of the backups of it.
It has my CD collection ripped to it. Ain't losing that.

Guitar-wise, my Danelectro.

 

[Frisco 57]

I'd try to quit dithering over guitars and squeeze my big butt out the window

Well I guess your "big butt" could maybe qualify as a "musical thing."

 

[kuch]

No doubt it would be my 000-28 EC

 

[d barham]

Tough call. Probably this one.

 

[douellette]

It would be a terrible call to make, but it would ultimately have to be my 1957 Gibson ES-225TD.

 

[Pops_Caster]

Probably the White Falcon.

 

[maxvintage]

Saving a guitar would be low on my priority list. Starting from scratch could be fun

 

[John Backlund]

I'd just grab the cats and let everything else go. I doubt if I would take any guitar if time was really pressing.

 

[archetype]

If the flames weren't near me, I'd make us an espresso, each, then hustle my wife outside. If it was on the same path and handy, I'd grab my '98 James Burton Standard Tele.

 

[Dave Hicks]

Maybe my Flatiron mandolin, as it's the instrument that I've owned the longest - and they don't make em inny more.

 

[Toto'sDad]

I'd try to quit dithering over guitars and squeeze my big butt out the window

Me and you both! I don't want to be "that guy" in the story who burned up when the house collapsed on him while he was trying to rescue his

 

[trandy9850]

I'd just grab the cats and let everything else go. I doubt if I would take any guitar if time was really pressing.

Wife and cats first …more if I’m able.

 

[brookdalebill]

I'd just grab the cats and let everything else go. I doubt if I would take any guitar if time was really pressing.

Amen!
First things first!

 

[Toto'sDad]

Wife and cats first …more if I’m able.

My wife would come first, well actually she'd be out the door in front of me, running like the Wabash Cannonball Express! She isn't attached to anything enough to make it a problem for her. She's a practical woman!