Didn't listen to the whole thing. I got a lesson back in the day when I was doing furniture work for a friend of Joni Mitchell's and his boyfriend was a guitar player and I knew he played on several recordings and played with her. I found this all out over time and then one day when Chris was there (feeling all full of myself because I had my Guild D65S!!) and I said, "Chris, what guitar do you play? Something really magical?" And he said, "Well, I guess.... it's a Yamaha and it gets the job done." I said, "Okay, any other guitars you play?" "Nope, just the Yamaha. So, you're going to shorten the sofa on this end and then extend the arm on the other and make it fit in here, right?" Uh huh.... that's what I'm gonna do.
On one of the times in Joni's house when I repaired a couple of her kitchen chairs and did some rehab on them, I was wandering around and saw a guitar in one of those fluffy box things, you know? That you set them down in and it holds them? Anyway, I pulled it out all excited thinking OMG!! What am I gonna get in Joni's house from a guitar??
It was in standard tuning!!! I thought, WTF??
Maybe it was a "guest" guitar.... I have no idea. Anyway, the best guitar is the one that you have that you love. Sometimes, it's a Yamaha. They sure make some nice ones......