Friday night I received that awesome Carl Perkins 45 from an old friend.
Today, my family (my wife, her mother, and all five of her sisters) presented me with this old Alvarez 5045G.
Backstory- I love, and I mean LOVE, older MIJ Alvarez guitars. I just do.
I grew up with them. I first learned to play on my dad’s 70’s J200 knockoff. My first “real” acoustic guitar was a ‘90 Yairi, and my first decent day job was selling Alvarez guitars right out of high school. I have a soft spot for these boxes.
Anyhow, a couple months back I stumbled onto this guy at the local GC when I stopped in for strings. I could tell it had a really hard life, but I fell in love with it instantly. Straight neck, plays like lightning, sounds huge. I’m guessing it’s around 30 years old. Probably early/mid 90’s. Part of the “Professional Series” of that era. It was $300, and I just didn’t have the cash.
I kept watching the website for the next couple weeks to make sure it was still there, and was trying to raise the dough without having to trade or sell anything else, cause I really don’t currently own any gear I want to part with. I must’ve driven my poor wife about nuts talking about it.
Finally decided “screw it, I’ll just sell an amp. I have seven.” But I checked the website one last time and it was gone. Called to make sure, but no joy. It had been sold. I chalked it up to “just wasn’t meant to be”, and hoped it found a good home.
You should have seen my face when the family presented it to me this afternoon. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I opened the case. Shocked would be quite the understatement.
I was actually kinda half panicking when they brought the case out because I could see how excited they all looked, but none of them really know anything about guitars and I’m super picky. My brain was burning up thinking “what did these crazy people do, and how do I act like it’s the best thing in the world even if it’s a hard miss?”
I never thought in a million years it would be the old Alvarez I was stalking. That was the furthest thing from my mind. They got me good.
Today, my family (my wife, her mother, and all five of her sisters) presented me with this old Alvarez 5045G.
Backstory- I love, and I mean LOVE, older MIJ Alvarez guitars. I just do.
I grew up with them. I first learned to play on my dad’s 70’s J200 knockoff. My first “real” acoustic guitar was a ‘90 Yairi, and my first decent day job was selling Alvarez guitars right out of high school. I have a soft spot for these boxes.
Anyhow, a couple months back I stumbled onto this guy at the local GC when I stopped in for strings. I could tell it had a really hard life, but I fell in love with it instantly. Straight neck, plays like lightning, sounds huge. I’m guessing it’s around 30 years old. Probably early/mid 90’s. Part of the “Professional Series” of that era. It was $300, and I just didn’t have the cash.
I kept watching the website for the next couple weeks to make sure it was still there, and was trying to raise the dough without having to trade or sell anything else, cause I really don’t currently own any gear I want to part with. I must’ve driven my poor wife about nuts talking about it.
Finally decided “screw it, I’ll just sell an amp. I have seven.” But I checked the website one last time and it was gone. Called to make sure, but no joy. It had been sold. I chalked it up to “just wasn’t meant to be”, and hoped it found a good home.
You should have seen my face when the family presented it to me this afternoon. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I opened the case. Shocked would be quite the understatement.
I was actually kinda half panicking when they brought the case out because I could see how excited they all looked, but none of them really know anything about guitars and I’m super picky. My brain was burning up thinking “what did these crazy people do, and how do I act like it’s the best thing in the world even if it’s a hard miss?”
I never thought in a million years it would be the old Alvarez I was stalking. That was the furthest thing from my mind. They got me good.
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