by cosmo » Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:24 pm
About the Bigsby being an addition.....I remember I had a 1969 gold top Les Paul guitar that I drilled into the front of it to put a bigsby on it. I must have been out of my mind. AnywAY, the thing was so heavy I ended up trading it for a 60's stratocaster and I think a vibrolux amp, both of which I still have, but need some rehabilitation at this point. I like the stratocaster and the amp, but I miss my gold top les paul a lot, and I swear to God I saw Niel Young playing it on a video on youtube,...my Les Paul with the bigsby. I feel awful about trading it away like i did, but I guess I feel lucky to have something instead, instead of my friend who had a gibson byrdland, i think it was, who got it stolen from his house in the bad part of town. The most awful thing about the story though was that he didn't have a phone in his house, and when he went down the street to call the cops about the theft, they took the rest of his equipment, which included a couple of other rare and valuable guitars and other valuable stuff. When he came back his room was empty of all his stuff. How is that for a sad story?