Well, you can fault me huge for nostalgia...
I bought the Jetta for nostalgic reasons, I obviously bought the bug for that too. I model trains from a bygone era (the 80s) I have an extensive CD, record and magazine collection, and today I bought an exact copy of a guitar I purchased in 1993, a Samick 660 in midnight blue. It was such an awesome guitar, and was pretty much the most I could afford at the time, when my dream guitar was Chris DeGarmo's Warhol ESP custom....something that commands 5 figures today. Its a made in Korea electric, which is not top of the line, but I could close my eyes and imagine ESP quality. It was a great guitar for a number of years, but I stopped playing in my late 20s so I traded it for some storage time for one of my cars in a friend's garage. Fast forward a few years after that and I asked him if he'd sell me the 660 back and he informed me his house was broken into and long gone. It kinda made me sad.
So, with the onset of Covid, I jumped back into playing guitar again. The ex wife is long gone, so I put the amp in the living room, pedals and guitar/stand next to the couch so I could not forget about them in cases under the stairs. But I longed for that blue 660...
Do you remember the movie 'The Velvetine Rabbit?" The old story of the no longer loved, stuffed animal tossed to the curb and yearns to come to life? Well, there's no devine intervention here, but I do tend to personify things like this and have had many used cars and musical items 'talk to me' to be saved.
And here she is. She's a bit beat up, and I'll be sending it to my Luthier this week for a deep cleaning and once over...but she has such low action with no buzz and man it feels great! She'll be right at home with Shecter and Kramer...
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