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Today's Birthday
Funny Guitar-centric Gig Story
Campusfive
Los Angeles, CA✭✭✭✭
So, I get a call for a client who's planning his 30th birthday party. He's doing a speakeasy/gangster theme, and hires my 30's-40's swing band, which is of course is not exactly the perfect match but whatever. Later, I find out the venue is a warehouse where the client's dad "stores his cars."
So I show up, and the warehouse is in an unassuming little industrial park. I walk in, and I'm greeted by several Rolls Royce's from the 1930's, among other amazing cars. It was pretty amazing - it looked like a really great car museum. Not being a car guy, I was impressed, but didn't really think much more about it.
The wanted to show where to stash cases and stuff, so he takes me to a back room and this is what I find.
So, that was just two of the walls in the room....
Among the collection of Super 400's was a 1939 Super 400 "P", and oh that's a D'Aquisto New Yorker there also. Oh, and on the other wall, that's a 1934 D'Angelico. Bear in mind these don't show the other walls, with the series of L-5's and the other D'Angelico - a late 30's Excel.
So, I chat up the guy's dad before we started playing, and he offered to show me the collection, and said I could play anything I wanted. He said I could even take any of the guitars out of this secured back room and play them on this gig. So... I went for the gusto:
So I played the whole last set on the '34 D'A. Pretty awesome.
Then the dad tells me I should come by the house sometime, because that's where most of the collection is....
He mentioned one of the only things he doesn't have is a Selmer. Too bad.
Pretty much the best gig surprise I've ever gotten.
So I show up, and the warehouse is in an unassuming little industrial park. I walk in, and I'm greeted by several Rolls Royce's from the 1930's, among other amazing cars. It was pretty amazing - it looked like a really great car museum. Not being a car guy, I was impressed, but didn't really think much more about it.
The wanted to show where to stash cases and stuff, so he takes me to a back room and this is what I find.
So, that was just two of the walls in the room....
Among the collection of Super 400's was a 1939 Super 400 "P", and oh that's a D'Aquisto New Yorker there also. Oh, and on the other wall, that's a 1934 D'Angelico. Bear in mind these don't show the other walls, with the series of L-5's and the other D'Angelico - a late 30's Excel.
So, I chat up the guy's dad before we started playing, and he offered to show me the collection, and said I could play anything I wanted. He said I could even take any of the guitars out of this secured back room and play them on this gig. So... I went for the gusto:
So I played the whole last set on the '34 D'A. Pretty awesome.
Then the dad tells me I should come by the house sometime, because that's where most of the collection is....
He mentioned one of the only things he doesn't have is a Selmer. Too bad.
Pretty much the best gig surprise I've ever gotten.
Comments
So, I'm curious - no one knows where the two missing D'Angelico Selmers wound up... did he have one? It would have been up there with the '34 D'Angelico you chose as they were made in that year. You might have played your last set on Al Casey's old Jazzbox. Sublime. I trust it sounded good
http://www.archtop.com/ac_34selmer_da.html
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