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@papamark, congratulations on the new Martin. I am looking at something very similar right now at a local shop. Similar?!? Maybe identical! A 000 Custom shop Sunburst. I'm a little ways off so I hope you will post again after you have a little experience with it. Enjoy it a long time! Beautiful guitar.

David Gilmour's Guitar Auction

The only way is too try them. since this thread was about the PRS SE here are the different dimensions for PRS necks. But you had mentioned Epiphone LP. Maybe they have something similar? @Dan Brown has an Epiphone LP. Hopefully he will chime in. Let us know about your shopping experiences.

BTW, I can not confirm nor deny if it was Doug that had the winning bid🤣

The auction was today and to say that it was a success is an understatement! The Black Strat sold for $3,900,000! I didn't mistype that! 3.9 Million dollars!!!! Its case sold for $175,000! The entire auction brought in $21.5 million.

Happy anniversary and birthday and NGD and NAD, Mike! One of the guys hat I jam with on Wednesday nights has a Thinline Tele. He loves it. Enjoy them!

@Old Guy, as you know we had the thread on this exhibit here. But this is fun to have the video first hand from one of our members that was actually there. Thank you. Ron

Looks like a fun time was had, @CapM!!

@Twalumba, ^^^ Exactly what Doug said. Memorize the shapes, but do not try and play them perfectly at this point. Don't spend more than two weeks in session 1. Again, as Doug said, " there will be lots of time to play those chords in the coming Sessions ".

Twalumba, welcome to you and best of luck with the L&M Guitar course and your guitar learning journey. I'm going to make another post but you are our 1,700th member! Please post here often and keep us up to date on your progress. And, as @NeilES335 suggested, ask questions any time you have one or just reach out if you get frustrated. And, yes, join us for Tuesday night Live Lessons if it works for your schedule. I started my guitar learning journey with a Yamaha Pacifica as well. Santa brought it a few years ago. What a great underrated guitar it is. And, lastly, I have to ask, what part of Iowa are you in, neighbor? 😉

Great advice, @Old Guy. As I have declared on here many times, I am a huge Santana fan. I have also become a huge PRS supporter. So it shouldn't take a great deal of logic to reason what my next guitar will be. The only question that should remain is why I haven't added a PRS Santana to my stable yet. (I don't have an answer for that). But earlier this year I was in Chicago. And, in addition to spoiling grand kids, part of my mission while there was to shop for a PRS Santana. I had a week there and visited just about every guitar store in the city. I knew ahead of time there was only one PRS Santana in the entire huge city of Chicago. But it was fun shopping and I reserved the last part of my trip to Chicago Music Exchange that had it listed on their website. I I knew I wouldn't be purchasing it. You are familiar with PRS and so understand the product line. It was a PRS "Private Stock" Santana so way over my budget! But I could play it and then wait for a "core" Santana to come in. Or have my local store order one. So the second to the last day I went to CME. And I tried it. And I was devastated. Just like you described the neck of the Richie Kotzen Telecaster, the neck was huge. The neck on the Santana felt like a tree trunk! Not that I would have bought that particular guitar anyway. But again, like you and the Richie Kotzen Telecaster, my heart was set on a PRS Santana. But I have now come to accept that's not going to happen.

@Old Guy, I am going to have to check him out. I had never heard of him but a couple guys on another forum were raving about him. And Truefire just brought him onboard just releasing a new course, Blues Speak. They just released it within the last couple weeks. Of course, just because he is a great player doesn't mean he can teach. But I will be interested in looking at it. And definitely I'm going to listen to him. Thanks for the recommendation.

My thread so I guess I should start. I've been a Robin Trower fan since Procol Harum and Too Rolling Stoned. I have always felt that after James Dewar, who was bassist and vocalist in Trower's power trio, passed away the band just wasn't the same. Robin Trower just released his newest album, Coming Closer To The Day. On the new album Trower performs all the instruments except drums. He also does the vocals and it is passable. This is "I Want To Take You With Me". It has some fairly some classic Robin Trower Strat work. I hope you enjoy it.

So you found some new guitar music you really enjoy? Share it with us here. And when I say "new" I don't mean newly released. I mean newly discovered. New to you! Found a deep cut from a 1972 Jeff Beck album that you hadn't heard before and you really like it? Share it here. If it's new to you it very likely will be new to a lot of us. Just please keep it something we most likely haven't heard. No chart toppers. There will be few restrictions here, beyond the usual ones: Keep it family friendly. Don't try and sneak in something political. And, of course, it must be guitar centric. It matters not what genre it is, blues, country, jazz? And it doesn't matter what type of guitar, electric or acoustic? And it can be a new artist we should be on the watch for. Or it can be, like my example above, a cut that we most likely haven't heard from an artist we all know. Just share here something you think we would enjoy. Maybe include a few lines about how you discovered it and/or what you find interesting/enjoyable about it.

What's not to love? Like all PRS guitars it's gorgeous and sounds great. I suspect it is wonderfully playable and that the craftsmanship is excellent. Even the SE guitars from PRS are amazing as I understand.

I didn't know that! Thanks, Doug.

Wow, @Kbore, what a beautiful outcome to this project. Like many that have posted here I am very impressed with your craftsmanship. Thank you for showing us this.

Great to have you back here, @JayKayWright. Keep posting and letting us know what you are up to.

And I watched it over the week-end. And it was exciting, at least entertaining. Interestingly, the documentary crew interviewed both Robert Johnson's son and grandson. It was an educational, enjoyable hour spent. I recommend it.

So @HYA, we haven't heard from you. How are you doing with that B7 chord? We need progress reports😉 Actually what prompted me to write this is I thought about this thread last night. I was at my weekly jam and one of the guys said "Let's do 'Nights in White Satin'". And, of course, guess what's in "Nights in White Satin"! So you are going to encounter the B7 in the wild. And giving this thread a little more consideration, you aren't to the Blues session, session 13, yet. When you do, you're going to learn about the "blues progression" or the I-IV-V chord progression. Even if blues isn't your first choice for music, most modern music is based on this I-IV-V. And one of the most popular, "guitar friendly" keys is the E. @Wim VD1 touched on this above. The 5 chord in E is B. And the 7th chords are frequently used in blues, rock, country, etc. For learning most chords, for me, it was getting the string to ring out that I was fretting. But for me, with the B7, it was getting the strings next to where I was fretting to ring. I don't know about you or anyone else but my problem, primarily, was the open B string, the second string. My third finger on the G (3rd) string, the A note, kept muting the B string. It just took a lot of practice and significant amounts of cursing. I hope you're making progress with the B7. Let us know.

Now on Netflix. The ReMastered Documentary: Devil at the Crossroads. The Robert Johnson Documentary. I haven't watched it yet so I can not recommend it. I'm just giving you a heads up. But I'm sure going to watch it. Probably tomorrow night.

Another sweet guitar, Ben. Congratulations. I looked at a Blues Hawk at a pawn shop a couple years ago. Wonderful tone. I found the varitone circuit and 5 way switching really interesting. Enjoy it!

Congrats on the new amp and thanks for telling us about it. It sounds really useful. Enjoy

Anyone needing a Strat Style Case? This is a pretty sweet deal! The Musician's Friend Stupid Deal of the Day is for a Tweed Strat Style Deluxe Hardcase for only $60! the ad says they are normally $100; I thought they would normally be more than that. But still almost half off. And sorry I didn't post this earlier. Only 14 hours left.