"How I discovered my LTD"
"How I discovered my LTD"
just to get this straight? you sold a Gibson... (not an Epiphone?) SG and Gibson Explorer.... retired your Les Paul ..... for a LTD?
Yeah, but it was for more than just getting the Vipers. I also had to get some extra money for repairs on my Jeep and to help the missus out with bills, too. The SG (Faded Special) and Explorer were Gibsons (NOT Epis) but weren't in great shape to begin with anyway. I bought them both second hand years ago and were beat to shit when I acquired them. As far as retiring the LP, she's already had the neck broken twice and plus, she's also starting to get pretty banged up so I am going to get her restored. That was my first LP and will never get rid of her.
hmm, I don't really know how I discovered ESP/LTD. When I started playing electric guitar, I first had a Samick semi-electric hollow body jazz type guitar which was really big. A while later I had some unknown brand strat which was alright. Then I had a Squier Tele for a while..
When I had been playing for a while I always wanted a Jackson Kelly cuz I liked the shape, so I bought one but then hardly played it cuz I didn't like the neck (Ke3). I also had an Ibanez RG550 and later a JEM55 and some other stuff. Eventually in late 2004, I bought a blue LTD EX351 from Ebay, which was my first LTD. Since then I've had a load of different LTD's en ESP's.
grew up with a jackson kelly...put down the guitar when i turned 18 for some reason....turned into a rap/techno poser for a few years....found my roots again and decided to start a band....the guitarist I ended up with had just gotten an alexi-600 and it just blew me away...starting getting fetishes for an MX or KH-2 which I stared at for years in all the metallica posters/pics....got an m-1000.... 23 esps/ltds and counting have come and gone...and the rest is history
I started out on Ibanez. Before then, ESP/LTD had been a guitar company that I had never been able to play let alone own one. There were maybe two or three instances where I almost owned one, but it wound up never happening at the last minute. My wife and I got married this past winter and decided to gift ourselves. Been checking out the eclipse series, so I picked up a vintage black EC-1000. It's been my favorite guitar, by far. Now I have the ESP bug, I'm constantly hoping for a 24 fret EX that I won't have to sell a kidney to get from the custom shop(if they even do it for that matter).
just to get this straight? you sold a Gibson... (not an Epiphone?) SG and Gibson Explorer.... retired your Les Paul ..... for a LTD?
1996 - Fender Squier
1997 - Epiphone explorer
2004 - Gave up playing for four years.
2008 - Friend gave me his new Epiphone Les Paul for being his best man at his wedding-- loved it and started playing again.
2009 - Bought a LTD Ex, black with red lightning from EBay, EMG actives etc --- Loved it. Picked up a Marshall Half stack as a result of that purchase :D
2011 - Bought an ESP Kamikaze ---- almost as good as sex!.
All I want now is an MX-250 and I can die happy.