Warren and Iago on a Guitar Quest for Iago!

[warren0728]

well iago and i got together today! Here is a brief rundown of the events of the day. As promised i took some pics and instead of clogging up the forum with them, i have them posted on the web (address at the end of this message). Iago doesn't really have internet access at the hotel....maybe he will at his friends....but i am sure he will add to my rundown of our adventure when he can.

I picked iago up at his hotel a little after 10:00am. What a nice guy!

Our first stop was Sam Ash. We played a lot of guitars there. The first one iago played was a MIJ fender mustang. I believe it is a 69 remake. A really cool guitar, you can get lots of different sounds out of that thing!

We also played a number of teles and strats. I have bought a number of instruments (guitars, piano, percussion, etc. from this store and our salesman (Wally) is a really nice guy. He remembered me from some of my other purchases. A no-pressure kinda guy...he let us do our thing without being bothered.

NEXT STOP was Guitar Center....we played a lot of guitars there to....iago played more epis than fenders at GC including a dual neck epi (12 string on top and 6 string on bottom). We played an epi lp gold top among others including sg's and more. I played a nashville edition tele with texmex pickups that i liked alot! Really nice sounds from that guitar (another non usa guitar).

WE WERE GETTING HUNGRY so i took iago to a little barbque shack (one of my favorites) that has a really good all you can eat soulfood buffet. We feasted on southern specialties such as lima beans, string beans, greens, potato casserole, rice, fried okra and baked chicken, fried chicken and sliced pork! Good stuff!

THEN WE WERE OFF to our third music store of the day. A local shop, Ron's Musick Shack. We played a lot of teles and strats at Ron's including an Eric Clapton model and a few other specialty strats and teles. Ron sold the Candy Tangerine American Deluxe tele with the s-1 switching so i didn't get to play that one

When all was said and done, iago decided that the guitar that he really wanted was the first guitar he played that day...the fender mustang. So we went back to Sam Ash and iago chose the beautiful blue one he originally played. I really liked this guitar too and think he made a good choice.

We had a really nice day. I dropped him off a little after 5:00pm....we are hoping to get together at my house before he leaves for brasil (he is going to friends in pinellas park tonight) to have a little jam session and as iago said...a nice home cooked meal!

One thing we did realize from our day of playing guitars....some of the most expensive ones were our least favorite playing guitars and some of the less expensive ones were liked by both of us more than the expensive ones. Like iago said...you need to try the guitars with your eyes closed so you don't get caught up in more money = a better guitar, it's not necessarily true!

OK....here is the link to the pictures.

http://homepage.mac.com/warren0728/PhotoAlbum16.html

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