Guitar Orgy!!!

Steveareno

Nice collection (mild understatement)! If I had my pick (no pun intended) I'd go for Selmer 763. No doubt about it, GJ guitars are the best type of acoustic guitars. The first time I played one, it was like coming home. It was the sound I had heard occasionally on recordings, but didn't know any better. Discovered the guitars before I found this great website, but knew immediately what they were. Thanks for posting.
Swang on,

Bones

Dang Paul and Michael, you guys are killing me!

How about you guys move out to Santa Barbara and we'll hang out!

Passacaglia

You're killing me, Bones - born and bred Venturan, had no idea you were from Santa Barbara! I'm probably dating myself, but Isla Vista, La Placa, Joe's (Italian place? - just remember gargantuan meatballs, serviceable sauce, noodles, a frenzied love, then), and a billion memories, from childhood through a miscreant teen (thought we were cool - used to do beat improv at Joe's, and got a bit of a weird, cult following). Probably long gone, by now. But loved your town, buddy.

Paul

Jazzaferri

My wife went to school in Switzerland. Somehow that explains Raclette although wr have to improvise on the cheese. Tonight we used an aged danish havarti that is fairly close.

A few decades ago we went to Lausanne for her school reunion. I bought a 20kg wheel of raclette cheese and brought it back as my carryon. Pretty fruity airplane ride. :shock:

Passacaglia

Jazzaferri wrote:

My wife went to school in Switzerland. Somehow that explains Raclette although wr have to improvise on the cheese. Tonight we used an aged danish havarti that is fairly close.

A few decades ago we went to Lausanne for her school reunion. I bought a 20kg wheel of raclette cheese and brought it back as my carryon. Pretty fruity airplane ride. :shock:

Hahah, that's awesome, Jay. And perfectly, reasonably devoted to the things that matter.

Bones

Hey Paul,

Wow, small world. Come on back!

As far as I know Joe's is still there although we don't dine out much these days (food snobs, pretty much shop at the local farmer's markets for all the artisan meats/veggies and catch my own fish so.....).

Man I wish some of you guys would move here. There is literally NO ONE that plays this stuff in SB anymore. The place is wide open for a GJ band.

Passacaglia

I use to swim around the Ventura pier, regularly, and fish there. Also dove the channel islands, used to be part of a "nursery" program for lobster and abalone, trying to restore some of the depletions that had been taking place over decades. Had a pet at the center named That'sa. He was a moray eel.

I am so jealous of your seafood! When I had our restaurant, I had it flown in from Maine and other New England waters, mostly, but I badly miss the West Coast!

OK - sorry for the hijack, Michael....between Bones and Tele295, some serious mélancolie du temps qui passe.....la jeunesse!...

Mitch

So that's were all the french guitars go...

Could you please post a video where you play one or some of them so that we can ear the sound?
Should be great

Michael Bauer

Mitch--

Unfortunately, the guitars aren't together now, so that would be impossible. There are video clips of four of mine out there from Django in June and Patrus 53. I'll see if I can find links for you and post them here.

Michael

Mitch

Ok Thank you Michael,

I will search your name on Patrick's website.
I didn't expect to listen to all of them anyway, but just a few would be very interesting!

Michel