Are YOU a guitar contrarian???

[Brian Krashpad]

I guess I'm a cork-sniffer... I have to have tubes.. and humbuckers, especially after I made the switch to LP... lol

In general, for guitar at this point I'm a tube guy. I do have a Super Champ XD which has tubes but part of the signal chain is solid state, as I understand it (which is, not very well at all). For bass, I have both tube and solid state, and find the differences not nearly as important.

I do not have to have humbuckers, at all. In fact, on the guitar side, the last 6 or 7 guitars I've picked up have been single coil of one type or another, or splittable buckers (Strat-type, lipsticks, DeArmond 2000, low-output toasters, P-90's, etc.). Which is not to say I don't have HB guitars, or don't like them. I own a batch and love playing them as well. It's just that I now have a range of HB's that I like (not interested in super-high output or actives), so I'm honestly not in the HB market any more.

I don't care about name on headstock one way or the other. Is the guitar a good one at a good price? Does it add something different to what I already have? That's all I really care about. I tend to concentrate on stuff that pops up locally, so my dollars stay at home, and so I have a chance to play before buying.

I'm pretty much at capacity guitar-wise though. Not really looking to buy anything in particular. Which is good, because I'm flat as a floogie.

[tot_Ou_tard]

Which is good, because I'm flat as a floogie.

The flat foot floogie with the floy floy,
The flat foot floogie with the floy floy,
The flat foot floogie with the floy floy,
Floy doy, floy doy, floy doy, floy doy.

When you're feeling low down,
And don't know what to do,
Have yourself a hoedown
Here's the dance to do

The flat foot floogie with the floy floy,
The flat foot floogie with the floy floy,
The flat foot floogie with the floy floy,
Floy doy, floy doy, floy doy, floy doy.

[Brian Krashpad]

The flat foot floogie with the floy floy,
The flat foot floogie with the floy floy,
The flat foot floogie with the floy floy,
Floy doy, floy doy, floy doy, floy doy.

When you're feeling low down,
And don't know what to do,
Have yourself a hoedown
Here's the dance to do

The flat foot floogie with the floy floy,
The flat foot floogie with the floy floy,
The flat foot floogie with the floy floy,
Floy doy, floy doy, floy doy, floy doy.

The only reason I know the saying "flat as a floogie" is that I heard Curly say it in a Three Stooges short once. Have no idea what a floogie is or was.