grandamlam
01-21-2004, 01:51 PM
Hi,
I was doing some research on various things after a 5-6 year hiatus from music and stumbled onto this forum. Great idea. I like the forum. Thanks for hosting it.
About the only thing I have left from my days in music is a TA Grand Am Lam that I bought in (I believe it was) ~1989 at "Studio Sound" ---a shop that used to be on Sunset strip in Hollywood (almost directly across from Gtr. Ctr.) I paid something like $1500. for it, brand new. (Have times changed or what? ;) )
It's been a great axe, and has withstood lots of touring abuse from LA to all over Europe. I've had the neck replaced (smashed the original neck --birdseye maple-- into a giant bass cabinet during a studio freak-out in Amsterdam). It still plays beautifully. The one thing I'm not crazy about is the Kahler tremelo that it has. It's one of those with the locking mechanism in the back of the body (I forget what it's called and I'm at work away from the guitar). When I got the neck replaced by Bruce Campbell (formerly worked at TA) we disabled the locking mechanism. But the bridge unit is starting to show its age. And I'm not really doing all the wang bar gymnastics I did in my GIT days. So, very long story short, I've been doing some research on what's new and improved in the world of guitars. I'm not even sure if I can do anything with this axe to bring it up to date. Will have to contact TA directly about it.
I'm really glad to see TA guitars are still popular. I've loved every one of his guitars I've met. As an aside, TA Guitars hooked my band up with some really awesome discounts for some of their units with imperfections (or concept units) when we were stuck in Holland and needed some new axes and couldn't find anything decent for under $2-3000., which we didn't have. I think we got 3 of them (sorry, forget the models) for like ~$900. each. Was a terrific hookup. Sadly I only kept my original guitar from that deal. Would have loved to keep one of the others. Anyway, quality stuff.Just saying hi in my normal verbose way. ...looking forward to delving more into these forums to learn what you guys are up to.
Cheers,
Dave
I was doing some research on various things after a 5-6 year hiatus from music and stumbled onto this forum. Great idea. I like the forum. Thanks for hosting it.
About the only thing I have left from my days in music is a TA Grand Am Lam that I bought in (I believe it was) ~1989 at "Studio Sound" ---a shop that used to be on Sunset strip in Hollywood (almost directly across from Gtr. Ctr.) I paid something like $1500. for it, brand new. (Have times changed or what? ;) )
It's been a great axe, and has withstood lots of touring abuse from LA to all over Europe. I've had the neck replaced (smashed the original neck --birdseye maple-- into a giant bass cabinet during a studio freak-out in Amsterdam). It still plays beautifully. The one thing I'm not crazy about is the Kahler tremelo that it has. It's one of those with the locking mechanism in the back of the body (I forget what it's called and I'm at work away from the guitar). When I got the neck replaced by Bruce Campbell (formerly worked at TA) we disabled the locking mechanism. But the bridge unit is starting to show its age. And I'm not really doing all the wang bar gymnastics I did in my GIT days. So, very long story short, I've been doing some research on what's new and improved in the world of guitars. I'm not even sure if I can do anything with this axe to bring it up to date. Will have to contact TA directly about it.
I'm really glad to see TA guitars are still popular. I've loved every one of his guitars I've met. As an aside, TA Guitars hooked my band up with some really awesome discounts for some of their units with imperfections (or concept units) when we were stuck in Holland and needed some new axes and couldn't find anything decent for under $2-3000., which we didn't have. I think we got 3 of them (sorry, forget the models) for like ~$900. each. Was a terrific hookup. Sadly I only kept my original guitar from that deal. Would have loved to keep one of the others. Anyway, quality stuff.Just saying hi in my normal verbose way. ...looking forward to delving more into these forums to learn what you guys are up to.
Cheers,
Dave