"Matthew Keyser" (teisco15)
07/03/2016 at 20:47 • Filed to: None
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"Matthew Keyser" (teisco15)
07/03/2016 at 20:47 • Filed to: None | 6
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This is not a racecar. It is a very clean old Porsche 911 i spotted at a grocery story today.
I live in a fairly quiet neighborhood in a small midwestern town. If I’m honest, the most entertaining thing to happen in my neighborhood in the past 10 years was when a house burned down. Today, however, was a bit more exciting.
One of my neighbors came home today with a modified stock car on his trailer, and boy was his wife pissed.
She began yelling almost immediately and while I was trying to catch the story, I also was trying not to be too obvious. As such, I do not have any photographs of the car, or the angry wife, or the husband who was enduring human equivalent of a dog getting its snout shoved into a pile of its own waste.
He remained positive for the first few minutes, trying to win her over. “Maybe she’ll warm to the idea” he probably thought.
This is, however, the man who tried to surprise his wife by bringing a racecar home.
Needless to say, she did not warm to the idea and his calm demeanor and trying to reason with her changed to pleading, and eventually escalated into a shouting match in their front yard.
Here’s an abbreviated version of the argument:
Husband: I really like it.
Wife: But it’s stupid!
Husband: But I really like it!
Wife: But it’s really stupid!
Wife: *Pointing at how stupid it is*
Wife: Look at how stupid it is!
After a while, the discussion became more heated and more personal. I stopped listening at this point because I tune out any conversation that doesn’t have to do with automobiles or vintage guitars.
I figured that this argument had two possible outcomes:
She begrudgingly lets him keep the car and it sits unused in front of their house between the immobile pontoon boat and school bus they never use.
She eventually convinces him to return the racecar and from that point on she has immeasurable amounts of ammunition in future arguments
What actually happened was neither of these things because after a few minutes of not paying attention to the yelling, I heard the unmistakable sound of a large V8 burbling to life.
He started the racecar, backed it off the trailer, and drove away .
It’s worth mentioning that not only did he drive away, he was gone for a while. This is a man with some serious stones.
I was no longer home by the time he returned but both the trailer and the racecar are nowhere to be seen, and it’s fairly safe to say he won’t hear the end of that one for a while.
I honestly cannot tell if I feel bad for the guy. I was proud of him for buying something that he wanted, but the way he went about presenting it to his significant other was nothing short of disastrous.
If I think about it I’ll have to go out later tonight and take a picture of him sleeping between the immobile pontoon beat and the unused school bus where his racecar should be.
LongbowMkII
> Matthew Keyser
07/03/2016 at 20:54 |
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This is a good story.
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> Matthew Keyser
07/03/2016 at 21:02 |
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Tim (Fractal Footwork)
> Matthew Keyser
07/03/2016 at 21:06 |
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Vintage guitars? Can we talk about vintage guitars?
There hasn't been a good guitar design to appear since the 70s besides Gibson’s Johnny A.
What guitars do you have?
What guitars do you aspire to own?
shop-teacher
> Matthew Keyser
07/03/2016 at 21:08 |
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That is exciting!
We’d need more backstory to know who was really in the wrong. Given the pontoon boat and the school bus, I gonna guess it’s him ... But race car!
Conan
> Matthew Keyser
07/03/2016 at 21:13 |
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Poor guy. He’s living that Patrick Dempsey life!
Sneaky Pete
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
07/03/2016 at 21:35 |
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Guess you’re not a fan of PRS...
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Matthew Keyser
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
07/03/2016 at 21:50 |
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I’ve got a decent sized collection for someone of my age. My mom says I have way too many. 22 as of right now. Mostly newer stuff cause I don’t have the funds to buy all the awesome vintage stuff I lust after.
I’ve got a few Strats, a Joe Bonamassa Les Paul, a 2015 Les Paul Junior, few Teles, a Nighthawk, a PRS, a Taylor acoustic.
I know I could technically sell off some of the newer stuff I have and afford something cool and old but I haven’t been able to bring myself to do such a thing.
Here’s some of the collection.
As far as things I aspire to own: a lot.
I like old Gibsons primarily and won’t be remotely satisfied with my collection until I have something with a real set of PAF’s in my possession. Right now with the way the vintage guitar market is it’s hard to touch anything from the “golden era” in the ‘50s and ‘60s.
‘58, ‘59, and ‘60 Les Paul standards are in the stratosphere right now, but I can’t help but spend all of my time reading about them and wanting them.
I basically have a soft spot for anything Gibson made except the SG and the“Les Paul” that was really an SG
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Matthew Keyser
> shop-teacher
07/03/2016 at 21:51 |
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They’re relatively new to the neighborhood but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that it is definitely him.
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Tim (Fractal Footwork)
> Sneaky Pete
07/03/2016 at 21:59 |
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Not so much, but I’ve seen a small hollow body floating around thats caught my eye
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Tim (Fractal Footwork)
> Matthew Keyser
07/03/2016 at 22:14 |
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I have 4: blonde Road Worn Fender Telecaster (black guard now), honeyburst Gibson LP 50s Tribue with p90s, Sunburst Gibson 335 with P90s (yes, a 335), and a sunburst J45.
I consider myself a Gibson man, but I keep going back to my tele. The stripped neck is an absolute joy, and it plays like nothing else. Hate the tele’s sound coming through my Marshall when overdriven.
Thinking about selling my 335. Its really close to the dream guitar I thought I always wanted, but I struggle to bond with it for some reason.
I've also owned an Epiphone Sheraton II in the past; great guitar.
I don’t know much about pickups, but love p90s. Any idea what to replace my bridge pickup on my tele to make it sound less thin, and not aesthetically look out of place?
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Matthew Keyser
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
07/03/2016 at 22:25 |
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I have a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails on the bridge of my one Tele. It’s a very very small humbucker that fits in a single coil opening. It takes away some of the high end twang and makes it more mid-rangey.
I love the single p90 in my Junior. It’s so versatile once you get used to playing with the volume and tone knobs.
I have a Epiphone WildKat currently. It’s really cool, looks great, has P90's and a Bigsby and all that stuff, but like with your 335, I haven’t fallen in love with it. My problem really is that it doesn’t have humbuckers. It doesn’t quite have the sound that I think it should have and that sucks cause I really wish I liked it more.
I’m actually looking at a Sheraton as something to take to college. My HS had one and I played it every day for 4 years in jazz band. Really good guitar for not a lot of money.
I was a diehard Fender guy until recently when I got the JB Les Paul with a big fat 1959 spec neck and the warmest tone. I love the pickups in that guitar, they’re BurstBucker 1 and 2 and they’re so faithful to PAF’s that they actually have the Patent Applied For sticker on the back side.
On a side note, how do you like the roadworn? I like what I've played of them. They feel genuine but the guitars that I have that look like they've been played look like that because they have been played. Hard. each Nick and scratch has a story behind it and I take a little pride in that. Maybe that's just me. I'm just wondering if that's something you've thought about.
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Sneaky Pete
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
07/03/2016 at 22:26 |
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I love the older non-superflameburledmapledragonfire top 24s, very nice guitars. Play great too.
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Sneaky Pete
> Matthew Keyser
07/03/2016 at 22:30 |
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Have you played around with any of Gibson’s reissues?
I have an Edwards copy of what I believe to be a ‘59, but with hotter pups. Love it.
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Tim (Fractal Footwork)
> Matthew Keyser
07/03/2016 at 22:45 |
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I’ve thought about it, but I don’t tour everyday to get those sorts of dings and scratches, and I’m not sure how to get checking on my guitars before I’m too old to play anymore.
And for the price, it’s a feeling you won’t get anywhere else. I eventually want a Nash though. But I’m going to keep modding mine to make it more personable; I’ve changed the bridge to brass and added a blackguard (that was gloss and I scratched up with steel wool) to make it look like a nocaster.
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Matthew Keyser
> Sneaky Pete
07/03/2016 at 22:56 |
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I have played with them and I’d be tempted by one of the collectors choice outfits if I had $10k sitting around.
Gibson has really really upped their quality in the past few years, but they still aren’t all that consistent. Gibson’s never really have been. Good ones are really really good, but there are some bad ones. I could never buy a Gibson without playing it first. That said, when I first played the Les Paul Junior that I have now in a Guitar Center that was out of state, I went to my local store and asked them to bring in the LP Jr. That was on the showroom floor in Kalamazoo and they brought it in and it sits proudly in my arsenal.
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Matthew Keyser
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
07/03/2016 at 22:59 |
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Making an early black guard Tele. I like it.
The only guitar that I have that has majorly been modded started out as a $100 Squier Bullet Strat. I did a roadworn treatment on it, put a set of TexMex pickups in it, and it now has a left handed maple neck that has been aged to match the rest of the guitar. It a heavy relic and it sounds and plays great.
Mitch Moen
> Matthew Keyser
07/04/2016 at 01:55 |
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...School bus. Part 2 should be really good.